skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because (at least in the US) the “optics” of a “KN95 as the only safe choice” message would be that the past encouragement of the cloth varieties as reasonably effective was wrong.

It would further decrease the credibility of the government/CDC/Fauci because it would be perhaps the (fourth or fifth?) shifting mask advisory that we have seen in the last 18 months.
Posting anti-vax material isn't illegal. If they find actual illegal material like promoting violence or insurrection, then great because that's a punishable crime.
It's funny how someone always posts about these incidents on HN, considering this is a rather mundane event.
What's special about Aaron Winborn is not that he died.

We are all going to die.

Aaron Winborn lived.
> Every generation has to move further away (or make more than others) if a city is growing

I mean... maybe to some extent, but ultimately not really. Growing cities becoming unaffordable is a result of our choices. We can make different choices.

https://medium.com/land-buildings-identity-and-values/what-i...
Is there actually controversy here, or is it some twitter rage-baiting?

I see no news articles about it, it was more than 40 years ago (the speaker has been relegated to a rightholder, no longer making film), and it was stopped in the spitballing stage of the (bad) idea. Does anyone care?
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> none of those people you're interacting with have any agency over those brands or IPs

But they can with NFTs. This metaverse is currently being built on Ethereum.
No serious engineering team would use this and if github have decided to do it, then count me out.

Github has the best part of 10 critical outages every month. It's a surprise when it doesn't go down.
There is 600 forks on github.
This is exactly the same playbook China used to Han-ify (Sinicize) Tibet and Xinjiang. I feel very sad that the people of all these areas are powerless to stop their culture, way of life, and right to self-determination disappear. To a lesser extent, I also see elements of the same - attempts to to police culture, thought, speech, and dissent - appearing elsewhere in the world. While the approaches may be softer and more decentralized (like deplatforming), they are nevertheless problematic. I also see increasing parallels to the loyalty pledges mentioned in the article - for example diversity pledges or corporate trainings that force people to admit their racial guilt, like a struggle session from Mao's cultural revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session) but without the physical violence.

We need to value individual freedoms and protect them at every turn to retain free societies. As for China, protecting and returning self-governance to Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan is an important human rights battle that the rest of the world needs to more actively engage on. Right now, it seems like everyone is on the sidelines letting all of it happen.
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> You'd have to earn between $350k and $700k/year for your dollars to have the same asset buying power as $130k/year in 1996.

This is absurd. There has certainly been inflation, but the value of the stock market (and dollar supply) are not directly relevant to a person's buying power.

The residential real estate price rise is a real factor, but even that is offset by the fact that most people buy homes with mortgages and mortgage rates are so much lower today (7.8% in 1996 vs ~3% now). I can't find the numbers now, but as I understand it the median home is more affordable now for the median income than it was in 1996 (again mostly due to cheap mortgages).

To come at this from another angle: in 1996, $130k was not in the top quintile of earners. Today, the top quintile starts at ~$250k[1]. People earning $350k-$700k are well into the top quintile of earners and likely into the top 10% or beyond; they are much richer than someone earning $130k in 1996.

Summary: $130k is still a relatively solid income (top 25% of earners), but $350k-$700k today is not the equivalent of $130k in 1996.

1 - https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44705.pdf
This horrible obsession with exponential growth. It's not enough to maintain a core team of engineers and pass on those savings on the price in order to gain more customers.
For non-cached content, sure?

All you have to do is exhaust enough database fetching and rendering on the backend for non-cached content and even amazon goes down (ie. black friday downtime).

It would take an impressive amount of resources but who knows what blackhatters are selling these days.
Hopefully it also starts us on a path of treating death as a problem to solve, so we can die on our own terms instead of being forced to do so by a cruel reality.

https://www.sens.org/

https://www.lifespan.io/

https://www.buckinstitute.org/
No the democrats shut mine down and are taxing us for them anyway
Handling tens of subscriptions for all kinds of services and content is getting ridiculous.

Yes there's much more and in better quality today but you almost need a Personal Assistant now just to sub/unsub various services while the terms and catalog is constantly getting worse.

I had netflix and 10+ other subscriptions but recently just decided to close all of them and just torrent when i need to and drop the rest - no more having to use my already strained mental capacity to find stuff, switch services, unsub, sub, miss subtitles in local languages or in english etc. Way too much content was removed and seemingly disappeared sometimes mid season.

I'll still support indie projects, podcasts, smaller creators etc. but big business can get their shit together.

Imagine having 150 subscriptions as a family in the future "smart city" dystopia ranging from media to food to transport etc with a million pages of terms - i want less choices, less terms, better curation and don't want to use my life "handling" a personal technocracy.
> no risk
They're collective in that they're strongly monocultural.
> those apps will be a regression in terms of actual consumer experience

Current conditions protect and fortify established companies to behave as bad actors. It's impossible to compete as a new product when you're permanently separated from your customers by predatory platforms.
They'd have to also block BIN ranges often used for virtual cards (e.g. those used by Brex, Wise, privacy.com) and ranges commonly used for prepaid cards. Otherwise it's still easy to bypass.

One thing which supports your view: Spotify uses card billing address, and has large international pricing differences, but I don't hear much about people bypassing it by getting someone in the Philippines to pay for their account.
Food containing lots of sugar and no fibre is a good example of what people call “ultra-processed” food. Eating fructose without fibre is pretty bad.
GitHub isn't the only one using pull requests, Stash and Gitlab does too. Pull requests have just become standard workflow without it ever being part of git.
With respect, I disagree with your conclusion about a SwiftUI version causing hassle for customers. Every time I use an Electron app, I get the distinct feeling that its developers are prioritizing their experience over my own. We the users subsidize faster development cycles with wasted CPU and memory, laggy interfaces, and strange, non-native UX.
I assume you won't change your views until some sort of personal tragedy happens. That's a shame. I'm imagining you as the gentleman being intubated on the ventilator with the "Don't Fauci My Florida" novelty T-shirt. I can't respect or level with that my dude. I'm sorry. GL HF
I wish this were true -- but it isn't. Partly because Java and scripting frameworks can easily get memory bound instead of CPU bound. I've worked for several large enterprises running externally accessible services in the cloud (and this is true of my current employer). Of course, all of our services have at least 2 "tasks" or instances to help with fault tolerance, yet most of them do, in fact, auto-scale up to more instances during a day based on either RAM or CPU load. (for the curious, apps which read from message queues tend to get CPU bound while web services in Java or a scripting language tend to get memory bound) If you must run 3 instances instead of 2, that is 50% more instance costs for that time period, etc.

Moving a service from Java 11 to rust brought the memory load down sufficiently that we didn't need to autoscale at all. Some other service might autoscale, but to fewer max instances. And this adds up multiplied by days by services.
A Masters in CS is easier than the Bachelors.
It was quarantined not banned.
I can't help but wonder why Netflix cares this deeply. Are their contractual obligations that incredibly stringent?
I'm not a fan of Trump, and I think most of the election claims are frivolous, but I do think the closed-source nature of the voting systems and centralized nature used to collect vote counts is alarming. I think it is a case of one side that had the power to bring transparency to the voting process is crying foul, while the other side is using every opportunity to say look... this non-transparent voting process is totally secure. In either case, the people end up being fools for allowing democracy to be ran by crooks on both sides always pointing fingers in the opposite direction.
For a while I worked for a company that provided a component used by some streaming services on the server side. I never knew how common this was, and how much of it was just because of the weird position we were in, but we'd get some story like "exec at $big.firm has a child that used a VPN to get out of region content, they demand we fix it"

There were other cases like this where it was less about expending the effort to make some contract happy, and doing so to make it look like we were doing so for the sole purpose of making it appear that it was the case to specific executives. Not their team, but them, specifically.
"OK, but why now" can be rude in certain contexts, especially sensitive ones like this, but the ellipses push it over the edge into "definitely has a rude tone" (which maybe they did not intend, but I'm only explaining what creates a rude tone in the written word).
Yeah, people who funded/ supported development of content need to die off because they like to recoup their investment in certain ways.
This is the exact experience I had. I was moving from Lastpass after they sold out. I used the migration as a point in time to clean up my vault and have enjoyed a completely clean password manager ever since. Bitwarden has slowly been adding the features I wanted when I had left Lastpass - and at this point it just works for my workflow.

While I understand subscriptions can add value, I don't understand the forced model. Clearly 1Password has a subset of customers that don't want what they're forcing on customers. Maybe it's that they're positioning to sell the company and moving to 100% subscription boosts the bottom line valuation. But in the majority of cases the customer is not always delighted by this move. Sales organizations love to claim "it's what the customer wants", "it's more affordable", among other half-truths - when the reality is it's a much more consistent revenue stream that disconnects customers voting with dollars from continual enhancement of the product such that the customer is incented to upgrade.
You realize you are advocating thought policing here, right?
This puts control at the level of software, which can be updated and changed if necessary, making it more flexible. It also means that if are no subscribers, the firmware can be updated to stop pulling the data and sending it to the data center.

Is this a contributor to why companies resist releasing open source drivers?
the bill also includes sideloading software explicitly no?
This reminds me of the Last Lecture by Professor Andy Pausch. It is a lecture that will really hit you in the feels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7zzQpvoYcQ

It is also an excellent book.
To be fair giving this info is not helpful if you're bad at the game itself. I've tried using it but I'm still only top 65%. Once you get to the level below pro players, there's so few people that you remember everybody's usernames or remember who plays on tuesday nights and will remember their playstyle / champions to ban.
Cue the flood of “let’s hope it stays this way” comments.
On the other side, I use the 1Password app extensively and make heavy use of all the different categories (secure notes, Windows MSDN licenses, etc). I’m extremely disappointed to see this turn into yet another sub-native browser-in-a-window experience.
Except it's a software company releasing an open source software project?
You'd need to use logged in accounts to get uncached content, so wouldn't you be burning through a lot of accounts to do it? Seems like something you could only do once in awhile. Doesn't seem worth it for a simple quarantining of a sub.
The same that's happening with Facebook and Tik Tok - the new guys built a better product and that was it. In a sense, it's how life works - the winner takes it all. But that's only true in a 100% free-for-all society, whereas most countries have found that some level of regulation is better than none. To take this a level further, consider the fact that many European countries impose tariffs on US-made cars, making them substantially more expensive to buy in Europe than in the US. A way around that, obviously, is to manufacture them in Europe. Is there something to be said about asking a company that's about to kick Facebook's ass, to use a US-based hosting infrastructure for their US traffic?
My uncle died of ALS. I find it less scary than Alzheimer's disease but still a truly awful way to go. He wasted away. He was unable to really sleep because every time he fell asleep he would have a subconscious reaction to the breathing machine that triggered panic and woke him up. So he was pumped full of benzos in order to keep his anxiety lower, which made him quite out of it. He was in a medicare-accepting full time care facility which was extremely dirty, smelly, and full of workers who honestly didn't give a fuck, and they expressed this in many overt and subtle ways. The only comfort he got was from his family who visited every day to speak and read to him. He was 78 years old, so at least my uncle had a much fuller life than Aaron, as dying of that at 46 is a pure tragedy.
In southern California, a starter home goes for $800k or more. Which means it will be a jumbo loan, which means you will likely need the full 20% down. So around $160k plus $3,500 a month. ($1,000 of which is for property taxes and insurance).

Just for the down payment, that's 73 years worth of avacado toast at a slice a day. Millennials must be eating so much avacado toast.

And that's for a house that was built in the 80s and the boomers selling it paid $75k and whose property taxes are still capped at a max growth rate of 2% a year.
> You can see it on Android today.

Are there any good third-party Android stores? My (dated) experience is that it's only Amazon and hundreds of pirate sites.
Not a social media per se, but a decentralized hosting platform that will distribute decentralized apps securely, where one will privately host its own data and metadata on a home node.

https://holochain.org/

Apps in development (hApps) includes Acorn (for teams), Elemental chat (first actually available and functional distributed hApp), Snap mail, Junto, and more coming.
This. Of course, you can mitigate the danger by choosing an appropriate job. I did four years as a Grunt and fortunately didnt sustain any injuries, but I've been in a truck and watched the guy in front of me lose three limbs. I've watched a friend who was next to me on patrol take a few rounds and die while we tried to get him out of there, and I've seen a truck roll over in a shit trench and the gunner drown in feces. Fast forward 11 years, 10 people from my company have committed suicide.

So, for anyone just chasing DoD pensions and GI bill benefits, make sure you end up as a lithographer or some shit.
Given what I would consider the eternal preciousness of a human, and the fleeting insignificance of computer software, I found it strange he opened with "I am a developer for Drupal." For example, why did he place that before his being a father?

I think people too often miss the significance of their own existence, independent of their relatively brief tasks and accomplishments. I certainly do not mean to belittle or speak poorly of anyone's accomplishments, but the importance of simply being is so significant and people so rarely appreciate that significance.
Thank you for this. It's basically a better-articulated version of the gut response I had to that recent Zuckerberg interview about his thoughts on the metaverse.
Indeed it's not.

... and ironically, the liberals are far more individualistic, and conservatives, collectivist, at least as anthropologists use the term.

A big part of the rationale for limited government is family and church support support networks.
Not just boys, not just Japanese... I did this with ants long before the Pokémon franchise was created.
> Err, we have a media which is in a symbiotic relationship with the government.

I agree. We should defund the ABC and SBS.
Because Google would have more dedicated to the software/sales/datacenters/etc for Google One/Drive/Photos.

They need to compete with what the competition is doing.
1. Don't move into management because of any external pressure because you "ought to". Also don't do it just because you are tired of writing code. Do it when you feel like you have more to offer by building and leading teams and delivering through your people than with your individual delivery. Ideally, get a chance to try it on an interim basis at a company you already have trust in. There is a LOT of stuff about management that is invisible - it's not just telling your reports what to do. Managing upwards is a terrible irritating part of the job, and you can easily become the manager you yourself would hate if you are not careful.

2. I think career progression and satisfaction is all about balancing and trading off playing to your strengths, then focusing on your weaknesses.

If you only play to your strengths, you won't grow in breadth enough. You can become a top subject matter expert, but your utility will be limited to that domain.

If you only focus on your weaknesses, you will become well rounded, but not good at anything, and you won't stand out from the pack in any way.

Only you know which of these two you more need today. Good luck with the decision :)

3. Someone else already mentioned - it's not your job to determine if you are qualified for a position. The company hiring you is. If the work is interesting to you, and they're making you an offer, and you didn't lie - then you are qualified. Learning and stretching yourself would be part of the job.

4. Nothing I say above will fix a foundational anxiety like "what if i'm not good enough and get fired". What helps me with this class of extreme worry is to consider the worst case scenario, visualize it, and recognize that ultimately it's not that bad.

So what if you get fired? Again, assuming you didn't misrepresent yourself, the company would be just as guilty of the mismatch in fit as you. You won't be blacklisted. They might even be willing to give you a referral. But if not, you got 3 offers once. You can get 3 offers again after you get fired. The worst case scenario isn't that awful.
I am beginning to wonder if this was the plan all along. Back in 2013 via the Snowden leaks, it was revealed Apple was associated with the NSA domestic surveillance program, PRISM. It appears they (NSA and Apple, et al) pulled out due to the level of negative PR.

After 8 years, the intelligence community and tech companies figured out they could sell their surveillance through a thinly veiled effort to “protect X group” (in this case it was children).
>cost is your life.

Doesn't ring true for me. Some of my favorite things to do are free or very cheap. Biking around town or on local trails, taking the dog for a walk, changing the oil in the car - yes, really.

I love to travel, too, but you can go amazing places for hundreds or a couple thousand dollars. You don't have to spend much to have an amazing life and go amazing places.

It frustrates me to see my peers who earn far more than me feel stressed about money and feel that they have to do very expensive things or else they're not living, but what can you say?
Do Android apps really need to use these?
So, I still haven't figured out what test is used to differentiate between Delta and the original coronavirus. Is there such a test?
Can someone tell me how Reddit is down so much compared to other sites. It seems like it is down for an hour every other week.
Very frequently. Way more than should be acceptable for the 19th most visited site on the net.
> they're referring to the time when that was on their site and people overwhelmingly chose the subscription

No, it's still misleading. People like me, who already had a working version at the time the subscription was rolled out, simply chose to do nothing or switch to a competing service. People who didn't want subscriptions saw the writing on the wall and started migrating to other products.

To suggest that their userbase wanted to voluntarily give up their paid-for software that was working just fine and swap it out for a subscription service just to get feature parity is silly. As you said, they made it clear that subscription was the way of the future and that anyone who didn't want a subscription product should look elsewhere, so we did. Let's not act surprised when their only remaining customers were those who wanted a subscription version.

> It's in the release notes, it was on the site, and it was in the forums. I think they may have even emailed it to people at one point (I've been a user since v3)

I don't see where anyone was claiming it was done in secret. It has been discussed at every step of the way on social sites like HN for years.

The secret part is that they've gone to great lengths to bury the standalone version 7 link on their website, and now they're claiming that not many people buy it. Of course they don't, because it's virtually impossible to find or even know that it exists unless someone passes you the link.
He also wrote this book for his children before his passing.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Did-Daddy-Aaron-Winborn/dp/1533...
SRE is just a name for a group that Google created to fit its own purposes. It was never supposed to be some panacea. SRE is just a collection of "production support" responsibilities with authority over a product owner and some software development.

> SREs tend to grow out of the software teams and are the people responsible for the pager, metrics, SLOs, hacking up turing computable YAML, memorizing the whole CNCF landscape, and yelling at Kubernetes.

Yeah, that's exactly what they were created for...
So a competitor to google docs / office?
Here’s one. Focuses on sailing.

The Annapolis Book of Seamanship

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Annapolis-Book-of...
The party that insists voter IDs are racist, is the same party championing mandatory ID to shop, work, and participate in society.
Thank you for posting Aaron's story.
I would rather we change our view on death. Death has always been a constant since life became a thing. Even the mightiest stars in the skies are destined to die one day.

After you die, your consciousness fades, and so do all your desires and regrets.

To me, death is the ultimate respite.