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This is an absolute requirement for all of my smart home devices. Not only in case of an outage but also in case the manufacturer decides to stop supporting my device in the future. My Roomba, litter box, washer/dryer, outlets, lights, and all the rest will keep working even if their internet functionality fails. I would like all of those devices to keep working for at least a decade, and I'd be surprised of all the manufacturers keep supporting that old of tech.
At least he admits there's a problem. I guess that's progress?
Your child doesn't wear a mask to protect your child, they wear a mask to protect others. While they may not feel very strong effects from the virus, they can pass it on to other who will.

FWIW our district is considering removing the mask mandate at school as soon as we reach 80% vax rate among the students, so hopefully your nightmare of making your child wear a piece of cloth will end soon.
An expression like a*x+b can be written that way directly. It's only when you need to take advantage of some folds do you really start using newtypes. And in Haskell you'd usually just do a coerce on an entire collection of them.
Have you been to any thread which mentions say China, India or several other topics?

You will see a lot of toxicity and you can find several deleted or heavily downvoted comments.

As even HN front page and commenr section is algorithmic. Vote brigading happens here as well for posts and comments.
A Bell Canada data centre in the 70s was ≈¾ female,at least according to the fe/male ratio of bathrooms.

The temperature was fine for the ladies, but too warm for the mostly male programmers. It's hard to develop code when the heat and limited circulation is soporific.
That's not far from London, a pretty dense city as they go, but also one that just about, technically speaking, counts as a forest thanks to the number of trees [1]. I live in one of the densest boroughs of London, on a main road, and I've got ample access to parks and green space.

[1] https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/did-you-know-tha...
The Economist used to be somewhat boring, but at least it had honest reporting about parts of the world you don't read much about. Good for you, in other words.

In the new world of the web, they seem to be trying too hard to amplify conventional opinions. Chasing clicks, in other words. Long after a trend has started up and enough people have heard of it (moving out of expensive areas, in this case), they jump on it.
It is not necessarily the case that one gives up good med care in rural America.

I live in a suburb of an 8000 person city (town?) and med care is top notch. I do believe that anywhere one chooses to live there are compromises. Those compromises, if you do your homework, are up to you.

We have zero violent crime, and no fear of our neighbors. However, there are raccoons.

Restaurants exist, but they are exceptionally mediocre. We have grocery stores, however, and one learns to cook.

A car is indeed a necessity. The terrain is hilly and a bike riding is exhausting.

Children are free roaming. Bicycle gangs of laughing children invade day napping.

The unstated pressure to maintain one's lawn is intense, ridiculous and mildly fascist. I comply grudgingly.

One has fish and game on speed dial in the event wild animals misbehave.

Strangers may wave at you from their cars if you are walking. It is unsettling.

There is a smaller pool of craftsmen and tradesmen to fix your shit and they will stick it to you.

People would rather talk about weather than politics. It is difficult to identify those who deserve to be politically shunned, so one must instead judge their diligence regarding lawn care.

One can lead a life of quiet desperation, or enjoyment, in either the city or the country.
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I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is any different than networks being concerned about the ratings of each show, or Hollywood about projected return on budget when creating projects.
Exactly. Running 'the world's largest vaccine information campaign' rings hollow when it's really a mitigation effort.
That's akin to saying that the Valdez tragedy and subsequent clean-up made Exxon the top environmentalists of '89.
Supposedly they were working on detuning this effect.
The 14 minute train is from Route 128 in Westwood, MA to Back Bay, in Boston’s downtown. I give myself ~15 minutes (for traffic buffer) to drive and park, take the 14 minute train, then it’s a 5 minute walk to work. I’ve done it in 30 minutes seat to seat.
I am actually working on a book for exactly this - I consult with start up founders all the time on their marketing and there is a TON of misinformation for them to deal with on top of the fear talked about here and a host of other issues.

There are plenty of generic marketing books, but mine is focused specifically on startup founders. For example: almost every digital marketing book out there will say you need a blog for SEO reasons, the reality is you shouldn't bother with that until you are further along with your business most of the time (and I'll go into detail on the why in the book).

A startup founder has super limited time and money, so talking about the optimal set up (tweet X number of times, Post X number of blog posts) may not be helpful when there are things that take up way less time that may be far more valuable. Eg. knowing exactly where your perfect customer hangs out can be more valuable, especially so your tweets or blog posts don't just disappear into the nether.
I wonder if you could just try putting your videos elsewhere? Vimeo? Self-host?
> extreme weather is so common

Threats of extreme weather are common, but the number of storms that are truly deadly or cause destruction of this magnitude can be a bit over-hyped.

The truth is most people get notifications about warnings and then nothing happens and over time they shrug it off or don't take it seriously.
Isn't this the same point as "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"?

While that statement is objectively true, the fact remains that Facebook amplifies and benefits from sensational posts.

They are in a position to moderate the worst impacts of mis-information and yet consistently appear to be falling short.

While I agree that parts of society is to blame for the online toxicity online, FB (and other social media companies) are certainly in position to do a better job of managing some of the worst impacts such as vaccine hesitancy and political mis-information.

Infact they appear to be reluctant to act on it, since sensational posts and controversial topics appear to encourage attention.
"We can't save human lives by not forcing them to come into work at the threat of firing and loss of livelihood because we might accidentally save a life that wasn't in danger if we let employees make that risk assessment for themselves by giving them the option to choose."

As far as the manager knows its none of their fucking business because the employee should be the one who makes that call about their personal safety, not their manager, and said employee can't freely make that call if they face reprisal or loss of promotion for doing so.
Pasting a comment from myself ... [0]

> This video (link below) has been marked as having a song when there is absolutely no fragment of the song in the video.

> The video was used for Forever Young by Youth Group. But this is the original footage, from Australian TV, from 1976. Waaay before even the original Forever Young, by Alphaville in 1984.

>I went to record a complaint but you have to be the owner, so I threw it in the too hard basket.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nod5q7OHAF4

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910465
For me, the COVID has really opened my eyes to how little I need walkability. My preferences completely flipped from "I want walkscore 75+ and ideally 90+" to "I want walkscore to be <15"

I used to be very pro-transit and walking (didn't even learn to drive till 30), and even as I was not walking as much just before COVID, I reflexively remained so. When most things closed nearby (so we went out less and finally discovered food delivery), I realized I don't really need to walk places - I don't miss them. With spotty reopenings, when some places were indoors and some outdoor-only in bad weather, we drove to go out and turns out it's much better (unless you plan to drink a lot). With more grocery shopping, walking to groceries was out of the question and turns out, even in a dense city, driving for the same amount of time to get groceries is so much more convenient. Etc.

I can see benefits of a park nearby, but that's about it... and then again, in overall less walkable areas parks are less crowded, larger, and also cleaner/nicer.

EDIT: reading other comments I guess I can see benefits for kids, although only with more old-style parenting. I could take a subway by myself when I was 10 or so, and walk around everywhere obviously, so that gives a lot of independence you cannot have in suburbs.
Just 11-days ago CNN reported that Facebook sold ads comparing vaccine to the Holocaust...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/tech/facebook-vaccine-holocau...

Hmmm - were is that meme of Gene Wilder from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory grinning maniacly while saying something along the lines of; "Oh yes, please tell me more..."
> The problem is that Facebook is giving the village idiot a megaphone

While you're not wrong that it's giving the idiot a megaphone, it's missing the greater picture. it's giving _everyone_ a megaphone. The real question is why can't people discern the difference between the idiot and the non-idiot?

I'd also note that a big issue now is trust -- trust in "elites" (technocrats, wealthy, those in positions of power) has been declining for a long time. i think people are not so much seeking out the village idiot, but massively discounting "experts".

A list of things that come to mind which have broken trust: 60's saw hippies which wanted to break norms of their parents/grandparents, 70s saw vietnam war, breaking gold standard, 80s greed is good, iran contra etc, 90s tough on crime policies, y2k fears, 00s - iraq/afghanistan, 9/11 attacks, governmental data dragnet, manning/snowden/asange, Covid statements which did not pan out as planned...

People have good reasons to be skeptical of elites, but I think anti-corruption work is more important than trying to silence the idiot.
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Using video chat with same relatives, multiple times a day. It is getting to the point where it might be (or not!) worth installing custom software in our appliances, and tune settings in an API, if that would improve video and audio quality for our particular setups. Any experience with this approach?
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The main goal has been to make small teams that want to just get to work have the ability to go back in time without getting in their way .
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The reality is that a lot of developers like to build just for the sake of building.

This can lead to the "if you build it, they will come" mentality.

Or worse, "we'll build it and we don't care if they come (and if they do come, they'd better RTFM!)" mentality.

A huge amount of developers just want to be shielded from any kind of customer interaction, and I'm not talking about call center support.
If you're optimizing for time spent in the interaction, which is what FB does - then probably the punch in the face will cause you to stay on the scene for longer, whether to yell at the person, fight back, when you call the cops, etc.

The "hi" is returned with a "hi" back and you both continue walking.
And people decide to use Facebook. I am not trying to defend it, but blaming it 100% on Facebook is not fair. Even if their algorithms were perfect to amplify misinformation, there still needs to be enough people reading and sharing content for it to have an effect.

A solution could be paying for Facebook, where both the number of people and incentives would change.
I think judgement may not be the right word. Perhaps discernment would be a better fit.

They share similar concepts but judgement is more final, definitive, decisive in nature whereas discernment is comparatively flexible.
True, but the financial incentives of many (most?) companies doesn't align with public benefits (see pollution, plastics, diet etc.) Why is social media singled out in our demands for them to act morally good, instead of just profitable?
They are simply too big now, and there is this dumb idea about promoting one path of success across many different types of creators.

A plumber that wants to promote their business and it's reliability should not be required to make funny scripted videos using the "OhNo song" just to get views.

A doctor that pops pimples should not be required to make funny or gross scripted videos using the "OhNo song" just to get views.

A musician that want's to promote their music as well should not be required to make funny scripted videos using the "OhNo song" just to get views, especially because that song is probably not their own, and it has nothing to do with their music.

None of those "creators" should be required to pay to promote/boost their originally produced content either (especially when they're primarily promoting "OhNo by Creeper", but somehow that's become a widely accepted thing as well... It's all dumb, and pretty much a modern-day pyramid scheme.

If you spend most of your time working on designing thumbnails and writing scripts, finding daily trending hash tags, and in shooting and editing videos according to success advice, you're simply not working on improving your "bread and butter". As trends become coveted goals, the overall quality of content declines as well, and it burdens attention spans of viewers overall (just look at how many videos now over-use jump cuts, overly excited and sensationalized dialogue, and zoom effects)... :\

This is what also encourages content theft as an easy route to getting views and likes that ultimately do nothing good for most people... It's popularity without profit for anyone but the platform.

People get frustrated only after years of trying to climb the mountain and finding out there is nothing at the top, the platform loses it's foothold, and then is replaced by something new... Rinse and repeat... Friendster, Myspace, Mp3.Com, Napster, etc... :\
Deepest reason — there is no incentive to make it simple, nobody is going to pay for that.

Even the opposite is true — the more complicated technology is — the more services around it you can sell.

K8s is another example of this pattern (i usually get a lot of dislikes for this statement, which ironically proves the point, because people usually react more to uncomfortable truth).
> You guys gave them a megaphone, how do you expect society to behave?!

Considering most of humanity is... challenged when it comes to thinking critically, this should have been an entirely forseeable outcome. I agree it's society's fault, but Facebook is part of society. They watched how their tool was being usde by these people, and ENHANCED the reach of those messages because it was good for Facebook. Facebook is the microcosm of the object of it's blame. Idiocy writ large in recursion.
It is hard to parse what you are talking about. Banning all overnight work outside of hospitals?

What does creating tech have to do with a factory that chooses to continue operating overnight? And what difference would it have made if the people were sleeping at home and a tornado rolled through their neighborhood?
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Facebook is made of people, it's us. We created it, we operate it and we can make it better or cancel it all together. It's just on us.
Also, when it comes down to it I think that, aside from the cited exec, most o people would prefer that we dismantle Facebook rather than society.
I think the megaphone is thus more of a metaphor than it is an analogy. Or at least, like most analogies, it breaks down under even the lightest pressure. For it to be an analogy, it'd have to be a megaphone manufacturer that also brings the audience together. Maybe Facebook is the megaphone AND the village square AND then some.
"The negative social and environmental impact of a suburban lifestyle is unsustainable." That's a problem with a limited imagination. Cars are becoming electric. There are things called towns that exist in suburbia and can be reached easily by bike or walking.
Figma also wins on Auto-layout and variants.

Especially helpful on UI library teams.
re: b) - I think thats a feature not a bug
They can get a warrant to make a forced entry if they have probable cause to believe you are watching TV without a licence.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-administering-the-li...

(odd that licensing is with an S but licence in British is with a C)
Doesn't GNUstep have a theming engine now? Do you think the current maintainers would accept a new theme if we were to make a more modern one?
What happened to the Shuttle simulator at NASA Ames? NASA has a huge Vertical Motion Simulator (60 feet vertically, 40 feet horizontally) at Ames, with interchangeable cabs. They had a Shuttle cab for that.

Keeping the cockpit lights on is about as far as it usually goes. The Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos has some aircraft where the cockpit lights are lit, but that's all. The Museum of Flight in Seattle used to try to keep some of their planes in flyable condition, but as the Boeing retirees die off, that's become harder.
My own primary account was recently "incorrectly removed for impersonation" by "one of our systems," just weeks after I had to send a picture of myself with a handwritten magic code to an anonymous facebook.com email address to regain access to the account after they changed my password from beneath me. I've also got a desirable account name, but I think the main reason was talking too much smack about zuck. I mean, surely facebook and half its staff are going to be sued into oblivion for knowingly and willfully designing a system to crush girls' dreams -- they must have figured out they were doing that the instant they spun up an analytics team.
Blood clots shooting into the brain also are not fun.

Anti-platelets and blood thinners can help in that regard to prevent clotting in the first place.

Generally an aspirin a day will help more than hurt, consult your doctor ofc.
Unicorn.

Somewhat off topic, and speaking of unicorns: http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2011/07/the-craigslist-r...
I'm in the same boat. Tho I feel the route for solofounders to market themselves is twitter and that is one of the biggest obstacles for me to actually do it.

Don't really know if SEO is really that important for solodevs or small products anymore.

When you sell a product, you try to present it as something real, with support, hoping customers don't realize this is just a 1 person operation. The expectations are different. SEO is different.

But when your clients are not on the twitterverse, things get complicated.

I resonate with the article, and I'm stuck on this most of the time.
Saved for a personal constant reminder. Thanks!
The original example MUST be corrected for the same reason that folks who post naive code snippets adding SQL strings together with user input must be corrected.

It is not a matter of taste and it is not a matter of metric versus imperial screwdrivers. Someone will copy this code and it will end up being an attack vector where it will have consequences.

I imagine you're rolling your eyes and have flipped the bozo bit but please bear with me.

Think of the teachable moment this presents! The author of the original piece goes back and annotates their original answer along the lines of, "you might solve it this way but there are some gotchas with it - let me show you what could go wrong."

As an industry we absolutely need to circle back with improvements so that those who come after us can build on a more solid foundation.
This is a topic that came up in the wonderful Maria Ressa's Nobel Peace Prize speech. She argued that an international coalition of governments needs to combat disinformation on social media by saying what information is the "truth", a word that came up often in her speech.

I don't think this will work at all. Ignoring the implications of government interference in private corporations, do we trust governments to be arbiters of truth?

I certainly don't, and I'm sure John Locke would have agreed. In the case of the US, the government itself was the source of much skepticism concerning COVID, and masks!
Capitalism and the free market have already been in use and the single cause of the all environmental problems.
Likely scenario is that the interaction stops the moment you are floored by being punched in the face. You may stay on the scene longer, but the perpetuator would likely take off.

Also answering to hi and a smile with a hi and smile _could_ in fact be the right way to optimize for time spent in this interaction because it has low probability but very high impact outcomes as far as time spent goes (dating/marriage).
> why can't people discern the difference between the idiot and the non-idiot?

Because it's not idiots that are the problem, it's bad-faith actors, and they're very good at manipulating people. In the past they'd have to do that 1:1, now they can do it at scale.
“The NRA say that ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people’. I think the gun helps. Just standing and shouting BANG! That’s not gonna kill too many people.”
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While it is always possible that a whole army of experts would miss something so obvious as the existence of spring loaded locking fittings (aka banjonet bulbs), the safe assumption is that they thought of it and rejected it for valid reasons. Vibration is a very nasty problem.
>And in America we are all one unexpected medical expense away from bankruptcy.

How do subsidies help then?

And people like you are a fantastic political talking point for why the social safety net routinely gets defunded.
Personally i think Amazon will prove to be undervalued and Apple will prove to be over valued.