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> It's self-defeating IMO - the developer goodwill they gain with the projects you mentioned is immediately lost any time they pull stunts like this.

That's something they will never ever get. I could be convinced that VSCode is a great tool or that the azure cloud is a worthwhile alternative to AWS or the Google Cloud...

And then I remember it's microsoft, a giant software company so shady i refuse to run any of their software on my devices because every day theres a new dark UI pattern, a new advert injected somewhere, a new abuse of trust. Why would I EVER recomend any of their software to a customer of mine if I deeply distrust them and expect them to try to fuck me over some way or another any way they can.
Some napkin math:

According to Wikipedia, the population of Waterford County is 116,176.
With an infection rate of 405.7 per 100,000, that means ~471.3 total infections at present.
At 99.7% vaccinated, that leaves 348.528 unvaccinated.

So that could mean all of the unvaccinated got infected + 122.772 breakthrough infections, which would mean the vaccine is approximately 99.895% effective at preventing infection based on these numbers.
Governments have realized that an uneducated populace is easier to control. Or maybe that is too cynical a view for HN?
Who cares? I think these are non controversial statements: (1) if you’re vaccinated, common sense suggests you’d be more likely to go back to normal as compared to pre-vax (increasing chances of getting covid), (2) the vaccine never prevented people from getting covid, (3) the vaccine may have lowered transmission of the early virus but has little effect on transmission of delta, (4) this article only matters if it shows an ineffectiveness in outcomes as compared to non-vaccinated folks.
Five people died and a cop was murdered
Probably the one that Bloomberg lied about, and never retracted.
The part that really pains on this, is it is a common pattern in our entire industry. :(
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I won't hold my breath when it comes to proper component-level repair, but I'd also argue that component-level repair is already possible (with manuals from grey-area sources).

This is good news for at least being able to order legitimate "consumable" parts such as batteries which are difficult (or dangerous) to obtain unofficially, or easily-broken parts such as screens.
Lot more peaceful than some last year... Or seemingly this year...
It wouldn't be a problem if Microsoft only used that protocol handler for an "Open in Edge" button. The problem is they use it pretty much everywhere. Search the web from the start menu? That's a Microsoft Edge link. Click a link in the settings app? It's a Microsoft Edge link. They're effectively just using the handler as a way to bypass the user's choice of default browser, which is why Firefox had to implement this work-around in the first place.
The lack of self-awareness in this screed is remarkable. Stay woke and better than the 'other' oh enlightened one.
I'm starting to hate these articles because they never, ever contain the information needed to deduct anything.

- Who got Covid (vaccinated or not?)?

- How sick are they (did they just test positive, are they in they hospital, ICU)?

Starting to feel like these essential questions are completely ignored on purpose. Well, just like the last dozen times an article like this has popped up, this "statistic" doesn't contain enough information to be relevant at all. It's just click bait crap.
I kept envisioning one could warranty repairs if you could videorecord oneself doing the whole repair process - from unboxing the part to replacing it. No idea if there's a practical business idea in this.
And he doesn’t swear, so you can show it to curious kids without worrying about expanding their vocabulary in ways you didn’t intend.
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I tried to cancel my NYT subscription a few weeks ago after my heavily discounted rate went up to normal, and the second web page in the process offered to cut the price by half, which was acceptable to me. Although it is still a pain to cancel, the no-haggle rate reductions are nice.
The 5% of the population figure is an error.

The article also gives a much more realistic two-week incidence rate of 404 per 100,000 population, which is about 0.2% of the population per week.
no its the fact that component level repair isn't really provided by most OEMs. It was never offered on any of my past laptops
Maintaining inventory makes “cost” a weird concept. And I can’t think of any regulation requiring anyone to provide something at “cost” that works well.
LOL. Forgery and a lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_conspiracy_theories
As impressive as nukes are, they're nothing compared to the energy of the van allen belt.
> But there is a pretty easy explanation for

If you ever find youself typing a sentence that starts with this, please stop and hit the backspace button until it's gone. You are most likely going to to say something that is completely wrong or misses 90% of the actual reasons something happens.
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There was a class action lawsuit against LA Fitness about sending letters to cancel. I guess they finally allowed it to be done in person but had you jump through hoops to find a manager. They “lost” my letter a couple times until I sent it certified.
Is this legal? I assume if they wanted to (which admittedly is unlikely) they could send you to collections for not paying for the renewal that you agreed to when you subscribed.
and dozens of lawsuits and right to repair laws. this wouldn't have been a problem if the republic answered to citizens and not corporations
I wonder if there's a metric for code reviews measuring mean-time-to-grok (MTTG).
I've successfully cancelled my NYT sub online before. It's a little tucked away but it exists. I remember when I first subscribed that wasn't possible - because a few months in they sent me an email basically talking about how awesome their new "online subscription self management system" is.
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In fairness, I don't think I was ever a heavy user quite like you describe but if I take another language that I knew well and now dip into every so often - like C - I'm going again in 5 minutes. I don't find that with regex. I do try ... I think it's cool but it just slides straight out.
Breakthrough infections are not exactly rare.

A study of almost 800k US veterans showed efficacy drops from ~90% to ~50% after 6 months, depending on vaccine; all the way down to 13% for J&J.

They're still effective for preventing death, but that looks to wane too.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021110...
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>get the whole world access to the internet

Starlink is yet another printing press, a tool to control information. It can be wielded for good and bad, just like any other technology, and it will be for both. Has the internet made the world happier? Better? By whose definition? It's certainly made many wealthier, but it's also destabilized countries, facilitated genocide, spread misinformation like nothing before. Just like any other communications technology.

The worship of tech as savior in silicon valley and its followers never ceases to amaze me. Tech is inert; has no intrinsic moral value at all.
Finnish University Appoints Former MythBuster Hyneman as Professor of Practice
There are now cheap backlight+better LCD mods for the GBC, though. Backlight LCD >>>> ambient light LCD.
would there be some kind of risk of you getting diluted or stripped of your equity because you left early and the next time they raise more money they screw you?
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This article shows some of the hallmarks of modern writing that simply irk me. The article begins with a long personal anecdote that has only the most tangential of connections to the premise. You could slice away about half the article and lack nothing. Not entertainment, not information - nothing.

It also raises questions related to the author's new book, but gives very little information. It is an extended ad.
Depends on whether you're taking matters into your own hands or relying on vague/imaginary authority figures to make everything all right FOR you.

'Hopium' is the antithesis of fascism. There will not be the Great Leader to whom you can devote yourself in perfect faith. There's just us. And that's gonna be enough.
The big motor companies HATED this because it cost them so much money to pay manufacturers to make 10 year old parts.

Maybe that's why some parts haven't changed in several decades. IMHO that's a good thing.
Looks like they just did, some 40 minutes ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-goes-full-stack...
Yep, I had this experience with The Economist as well.

It was very difficult to cancel and it was by phone only.
In addition to using older technology, it's also possible that the Kindle makes different tradeoffs in terms of speed/contrast/ghosting/resolution. Personally, when reading, refresh speed is the property that I care least about among those four. I'd be surprised if engineers couldn't improve refresh speed when designing a panel for a laptop instead of an ebook reader.
> They had to set Sarcasm Generator all the way to 11 to write this.

Except the M1 Air did improve battery repairs, and the M1X Pro. Apple Watch Series 6 has fewer finicky seals. The only move in the wrong direction has been locking parts, and it looks like this is the fix right here?

It's sure weird the quality of the of comment you can get away with if you're bashing something unpopular around here...
To be clear, I don't agree with it, but it is how the current account market in the UK operates.

More information here: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03...

And a Supreme Court decision here: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2009-0070-judgme...
The definition of vaccine by some authorities changes according to evidently non-medical requirements. I'm not making a point. This is an observation.

https://www.citizensjournal.us/the-cdc-suddenly-changes-the-...

It's generally recognized that the mRNA vaccine prevents neither infection nor tranmission of Covid-19. It does confer a certain benefit in terms of the severity of the disease if contracted. It's not an undiluted benefit as is indicated by the UK data (for instance) which documents significant numbers of deaths for fully vaccinated people.

See Table 2 in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Viral loads can be the same for the vaccinated and unvaccinated. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.29.21262798v...

If this is a reproducible result, would it not render any vaccine passport pretty much meaningless in terms of public health?
I've argued this in another post recently, but I almost feel that we need a new word that means "so gross a misrepresentation that your average person would have a completely different view of the reality of the situation."

I feel like (especially on the Internet) it's pretty easy to deliberately mislead, and then when people call out a statement as BS, it turns into this game of "But see, screens are parts, a screwdriver is a tool!" Yes, I understand Apple is not technically lying here, but they are deliberately misrepresenting the repairability of their products.

It's almost like that game kids play of "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you" when they sit half an inch from their siblings to annoy them.
Unseeing through the product lens is like tape on finger. It just sticks.
LA Fitness?

I had to print and send them a letter. Or talk to the manager. Who is only there a few days a week. And no one knows when.

Obligatory:

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
This is my home town. I think the 99.7% figure has been overstated. My understanding is that it has been calculated as:

(vaccinations carried out in waterford) / (population of waterford)

Waterford is a regional hub for the south east of Ireland. There are many vaccinations for people who reside outside of Waterford carried out in Waterford, including from counties kilkenny, tipperary and carlow.
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According to UK statistics breakthrough cases are not rare - the majority of newly infected are now those previously vaccinated, per capita even.

As for reduction of adverse symptoms it's unknown since deaths of vaccinated vs unvaccinated within 30 days of COVID is tracked, but not how many deaths occur within 30 days of vaccination for comparison.
Yup, the same rules apply to building inspectors. You better hope you get the good one because they can twist codes around on a whim and they are always right.
If it's handled by Google Workspace, it's easy to add additional "Send as" addresses.
This is really exciting stuff, they're so close to a one stop shop for DevOps, monitoring, serverless backend, file storage, data store and frontend asset serving.

I feel it's now within reach to migrate one of my side projects, except Redis and Postgres which I'll have to keep on AWS for now.

It seems they're building a fully integrated developer experience that abstracts so much complexity away from deployment, security and otherwise.

I have to imagine database and other solutions like pub/sub will be coming at some point in the future, too.

(disclosure: long $NET)
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(I work at Netlify)

The most exciting thing in this announcement for me is the $1 million committed to open source project sponsorship. More companies that rely on OSS should use some of their funding like this.
If you provided a pseudonym, how would they associate it with you?
This can go really close to antitrust laws - I am not sure if the risk is worth it.
I don’t see a lot of disruption heading in the direction of local high skilled technicians doing sophisticated component level repair. If anything I see the exact opposite. Unless we have some regulation forcing companies to account for cost of disposing of devices, they are going to keep making devices more disposable.
> What a vaccine does - it primes one's immune system, so it fight the virus way more efficient.

My understanding is that it does not really fight the virus (viral load stays the same), but that it does prime the immune system so as not react too violently. In other words it prevents a cytokine storm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
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Vulnerabilities in GitHub NPM packages could allow threat actors to publish
More detail here: https://news.sky.com/story/visa-to-hike-interchange-fees-for...

But a curious note from that article: "The move to increase interchange fees will bring it into line with MasterCard, its rival payments group, which announced a similar move in January."

So why is Amazon restricting customers with Visa and not MasterCard?

Can't be the UK-EU Post-Brexit policy alone.
Microsoft is a fractal of infighting and groups at war with each other.

Cloud Services are cool, and Windows are the weird ones. But within Windows there's the kernel team who are cool and customer-focused, and the User layer as the weird ones. Go another level deeper and you have fights between C++ and .Net, or historically the crusade for COM+. Or the transition to UWP, which clearly at most half the Windows UI team got behind.

Obligatory web comic: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...
Think real hard
I agree. Regex for me is particularly slippery - I haven't needed to code 68000 assembler since 2002 but I had a play with an emulator last month and slipped back into it. There's something about the syntax that my brain just can't hold onto.
Not sure when you thought it was easier? 20 years ago you would definitely be using FTP. Get a cheap web host, FTP onto it. Job done. If you manage the domain separately that's pretty much the same job as always too.
The thing the WSJ doesn’t get is this: I wouldn’t had subscribed to them if I didn’t reside in California and didn’t have my special “California cancel” button.
Hey there - I'm the PM for Pages! Super excited about this release today. We also announced our support for GitLab and partnerships with several CMSes! Happy to answer any questions.
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Bepo is already a keyboard standard for that.
Fauci admits to lying about masks and explains why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLXttHlUgK8

Maybe you think Fauci changed his mind based on new evidence on mask effectiveness, but he literally says he advised against masks due to a fear of PPE shortages, and not due to changing evidence. So either way he lied: either he lied about mask effectiveness thus spreading health misinformation, or he lied about why he advised against wearing masks thus undermining public trust in his advice.

Fauci admits to moving the goalposts on vaccination rates and explains it's because of his "gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks":

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...

I could dissect these even further and point out numerous other instances, but these are egregious enough to undermine public trust IMO. Public health officials should not be deceiving the public, they should be above reproach.
Amen - Thanks Louis!
A fun read though. I think it resonated with men because I have lately already been thinking about my own diet and eating habits.

Edit: after googling, no doubt this is marketing for a new book: https://eatlikeahuman.com
Maybe Mastercard made a deal with Amazon and Visa isn’t budging
I'm sorry sir, but the Cancel button is only available on the Advanced plans. Please upgrade to cancel (and allow 30 days for changes to occur).
Similar with New Scientist, needed to phone during office hours and was on hold a while, which would put me off subscribing again in future¹ though in fairness they were very quick to follow my cancel request, not hard sell on staying, etc, once I got through.

[1] of course that is now a moot point as they've been bought by DMGT and I refuse to give any money at all to those in any way responsible for, or benefiting from, the Daily Fail.
I think the hypocrisy of allowing call to cancel and not doing anything about to stop it WHILE suing apple (which DOES make click to cancel a reality for subscriptions) was probably a bit too glaring.

The reason people go for the walled gardens is because the govt, which would be the natural control point, has dropped the ball totally in terms of online scams and crap.

And no, I'm not talking about going after google for the umpteenth time for some random thing - but the straight crap / lies / scams (impossible to cancel online subscriptions, bogus tech support installing back doors etc).
>it'd have very variable quality outcomes compared to module swaps, and they're putting their name to the quality of the repair

That's a deflection. Apple _chooses_ to put their name on those 3rd party repairs.
For people like Bill Gates, I guess they can make a special build, just for him!
iFixit plunges 10% on news of Apple..
Lear history of US. People will colonize and after that a government will be made to rule everything.
Wow, Netlify does so many things and I'm over here just using it to host statics from different builders.
I'm all for pushing for more right-to-repair, but I'm not sure pushing for facilitating component level repair that require soldering is the right way to go.

Those kinds of repairs are incredibly difficult (I've done some myself). There are very few people I would trust to do it right, and it's hard to know which repair shop to trust. If Apple put out manuals and components for those kinds of repairs, I can imagine the number of botched repairs skyrocketing, and the resale value of the phones diminishing significantly.

I think there's a balance to strike: you want easy repairs to keep phones going for a long time, but you also want people buying used phones to not worry about getting a frankensteined phone that will last 2 weeks before dying. Only by having high trust in the second hand market do you actually get phones that get used for years and years rather than staying in a drawer or getting trashed when people buy new ones.

I would even support having ID-tags on all components and having them bound to the phone, as long as anyone can buy original replaceable components from Apple at a fair price, and that anyone can do the binding procedure themselves.. including moving components from one phone to another. You should be able to see the history of all the components in the phone, so you have some idea if a third party repair shop just moved an ID chip from an old original battery to a new unoriginal one, or used a really old original battery.

I've experienced several times that screens and batteries you get at third party repair shops die/break much faster than the ones that come with the phone. Why is that? Is it really better to use brand new electronics that will be trash in a few months, just to extend the life a bit?

If you're going to replace the battery and screen, you better be damn sure that the phones lasts 2-3 years or more, because you're buying brand new parts, constituting a large fraction of the rare and expensive materials used by the phone.. so it's not that much better than just buying an entirely new phone where all components could easily last 5 years if you treat them well.
I'm with you - if I'm doing a quick find/replace in VSCode then I can usually muddle a way through but anything more complex leaves me somewhat at a loss.
It's interesting how the news cycle goes. Today on the HN homepage:

Netlify Raises $105M (netlify.com)

Netlify Acquires OneGraph (netlify.com)

Cloudflare Pages Goes Full Stack (cloudflare.com)

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out..
LSC!
It's a move in the right direction but I can't help but feel that this is an example of a massive corporation getting ahead of regulation with a watered down version of right-to-repair than Apple suddenly having a genuine change of heart...

That said, my sincere hope is that this move doesn't dampen enthusiasm amongst people considering switching from Macbooks to Framework laptops. We desperately need a computer manufacturer that puts repairability at the core of their design process and Framework has made such a high quality start that it even with their first attempt it doesn't feel like a compromise!

If you care about really owning your device and being able to repair it take a close look at the caveats Apple may include in the actual details of this programme versus with Framework.
Through what mechanism?
Ask HN: What are you using for web analytics?
What are people using for web analytics nowadays? I'm wondering what the best options are for sites (business and personal), applications (web and otherwise)? Privacy implications?
Why not respond to my long comment in this thread, where I defend this abstract? Your sentence---"It's intensely obscurantist"---is forceful-sounding but it has no argument.

I also cannot say whether this paper is deliberately obscure, because I am not a literature professor and I don't know who the audience is. But, I tried to give some arguments for why the abstract looks reasonable. Are you a literature professor?
Windows market share is the lowest it's ever been. Haven't used windows myself since March 2020 and nothing is making me want to change that.