skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can make a YouTube replacement now. They just own search for video and provide a consistent interface. Hosting and delivering and playing video files is a solved problem.
hugged to death ATM.
From a user utility / user-friendliness / product quality point of view, all of them have already declined, and will likely continue to do so. At the same time all of them will likely continue to grow, although with diminishing returns.
Focus Mode on iOS keeps getting better and better. I use it aggressively to limit all kinds of things, not just social media. It gets annoying when I need to legitimately open a locked app, but the benefits have been extremely worthwhile.
They can be noisy when there's a kid just shooting for half the day. If you're outside of the noise shot and you have good insulation, then it's probably fine.
different strokes for different folks. I like to use my staging area as "I want to save this" until I get to a logical stopping point in my work. Then I commit it with its descriptive message. This way I can diff/reset against master while making progress, and show a nice clean progression of my work for who reviews it.

also, sometimes I just lump the whole thing into a PR because there arent more than one logical unit.
Well, I can add my datapoint. Even before the pandemic, my company changed from hiring in the US to hiring from India, Mexico, the UK, then the US in that order. WFH accelerated this significantly.
San Francisco has the second highest overdose rate in the US behind Harris County. Please be more careful when sharing information.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/san-francisco-drug...
The candidate should've come to the interview with a 1 millimeter long red tie, and when the boss started blabbering about "attention to details", the candidate should've handed him a loupe.
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Signal and Matrix/Element do this.
changedetection.io supports filters and triggers which all can result in a notification to a JSON call or anyone of the existing hundreds of other services (email, discord, etc)
"Joe Rogan questions big tech..."

The same Rogan with a Spotify deal? He...is big tech.
The Catholic Soul of Tolkien's Middle Earth
Ironically, it's easier to make a Zoom call from a PC than a real phone call (from PC).
> Once the ecosystem has been built there is enough biodiversity that pests problems are minimal.

Famous last words.
Amazon, Apple, and Google are each well-entrenched and also have a good bit of cash and patents available to pivot or crush competitors if necessary. Plus if broken up (e.g. by gov't antitrust regs, etc.) each would have multiple sustainable businesses that could survive independently of the main company.

Netflix will buy/be bought. Much like cell phone carriers, ISPs, and CATV companies, consolidation will leave only a few heavy hitters. Netflix would be a nice addition to Peacock or Paramount+ and would give each a sense of legitimacy.

Meanwhile, Facebook has made many enemies on all sides; they're synonymous with tracking users, fake news, and old folks. I can't think of anyone who doesn't use Facebook somewhat begrudgingly. Also, does anyone actually like FB/Meta? Or Zuckerberg, the defacto face of the company? Facebook is one or two gaffes away from where Myspace is today.
Has to be Netflix as I really don't know what their core competency is right now. They produce some content but they sell subs via content from others. They don't have a larger business to fund the slide into the abyss, IMO.
Wealthy people can also avoid the cheap crappy fentanyl that is in mass circulation right now. Fentanyl is a huge problem for the unhoused here in Seattle, many of them are probably beyond rehabilitation and will require lots of help for the rest of their lives, it is really sad.
They're both crimes against film.
Agreed, I bet every auto manufacturer on the planet hates this decision though. The software platform will become more valuable as cars become more electric and self-driven in an economy where attention shifts from the road to the screens in the car.
These days their websites are much more prominent than their print editions, and it's what people read online and link to on Facebook and social media. They are not stuck in the past. The Globe and Mail is widely regarded as Canada's newspaper of record, and even they endorse Conservatives.
It should be noted, of course, that Vinay Prasad is a hematologist and oncologist (not a specialist in infectious disease) most well known as of late for comparing US public health restrictions to Nazi Germany [1]. Needless to say, he's not exactly representative of medical consensus.

[1]: https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20211008_4/
Python Gist to get the top 3 of French county based on Covid incidence rate
I love Hammerspoon so much.
Half into a house and half into a Roth IRA.
Most people consume CBC very differently. I mostly listen to the radio and the content is pretty good and has great local news coverage. I don't think I know anyone else who follows CBC closely but I do think its overall seen as a trusted source of news.

Personally, when I think of the recent content from CBC I remmeber reading more about climate change and reconcilation with our native history. Both of Which I think are fairly important to be informed of. But I do wish they do more investigative work.
Nothing changed in these versions though. If you have HBO, you've been getting the same version.

The video changes based on the service you use
Talking about "trust the science" but then deleting the scientists channels that don't agree with the official political narrative. Sounds like censorship
Did he enter "inventor of <X>" in the area where you are supposed to enter labels of areas of interest?

That's not a good sign.

Seems like he was involved in the research, but he's not the one out of the hundreds of scientists involved that generally get given that title by others, so has to enter it himself in inappropriate places to ensure it shows up in his profile.
I frequently append site:reddit.com to searches for a niche search term these days. I think a lot of people who would have blogged or commented on blogs are posting there instead.
Both Reid Hastings and Marc Zuckerberg are very capable business leaders.

It will be interesting to see in what direction Netflix decides to expand or if they will just stay in the movie and series business. I feel like they should have bought CrunchyRoll instead of Sony, that's a missed opportunity imo. But since they're trying some game experiments they might decide to buy some game developers? Or a big music streaming company, that would almost fit better with their business?

Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram are very sticky. I don't see them disappearing anytime soon. Facebook has a massive image problem though, so who knows how that affects their VR attempts?
Self-hosting is the only safest bet, or share a real server somewhere with some friends, or however you like
I mean they’ll just visually gauge what you are in that case. Interviewing is in no way objective
This has always really mystified me.

So many 4:3 shows are rendered unwatchable by these companies, most of which fancy themselves as having a cutting-edge tech stack.

You’re telling me no one at Netflix can build a toggle option allowing the user to select the aspect ratio?
How would this end up in court in front of police? The point is its not hard to lie to a courier service.

Fedex is the #1 drug distributor...
Not in the first film. The green tint was added in the 2 and 3rd movies and retroactively applied to the first.
People act as if this is a new thing. We’ve been doing this for decades. Hence the People’s Front of Judea gag in Life of Brian.
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There is more than one solution and multiple solutions simpler than what you propose. Plurality voting would allow for representation of even the smallest minorities and allow for allocation of resources proportional to the severity and number of people affected by a particular social issue.
Comparing the number of available beds with the number of unsheltered homeless people does not disprove parent's argument that there is a bed for everyone who wants a bed.

A better question would be -- what the average shelter utilization?
I was trying to decide which of these I am hoping will decline, but realized the answer is actually all of them - even the one I work for.

Netflix is the only one I consider "innocent" however their market segment as a whole deserves a kicking for pushing us back towards the cable TV model.

I have historically been very anti Apple but the M1 is impressive, as is their attitude to privacy. Not such a good look on the working culture front though.

Google and Amazon are both toxic to some extent, while being so good as to be indispensable to a majority of their customers. For Google that is B2C, for Amazon (and Microsoft, who deserve inclusion here), that is B2B. On balance I expect stasis for all 3.

Having Facebook decline all the way out of existence would give me hope for humanity, but I don't see it happening.
> A priori it seems astoundingly unlikely to me that rent prices are causing people to become homeless at the margins.... There's a huge gap in means between someone who just barely can't afford rent in SF and someone who lives on the street in SF.

Citizens at the margins who can't find a place don't go directly to the streets - they crash with family, then friends, then live in their car (until they can't afford to move it). Most homeless in SF are invisible. Getting this cohort into an apartment is mostly dependent on having affordable apartments.
No. There are more cases in vaccinated people per 100000 numbers.
While I understand the sentiment, I think to some degree putting a pronoun down is for the benefit of those conversing with you, so they don't have to wonder or get it wrong.

In lieu of this, and because I don't really care what pronoun is used for me, I sometimes just put "any" if it's an option to denote that I don't care.
Sweater Curse
Yes because the shelter is disproportionately (vs on any random street) full of mentally ill, illness (hepatitis, TB, you name it), parasites (bed bugs. etc), and unreasonable rules. I used to do day labor while homeless in places like North Dakota during the oil boom; homelessness sleeping in a ditch under a tarp is 1000x better than listening to someone tell me I can't have a beer with my snack before sleeping or droning on about jesus.

For a person of sane mind without drug addiction setting up your own shelter (tent, whatever) is trivially easy to do and vastly superior to organized shelter. It doesn't take much ingenuity to find a secluded spot no one will find; for instance even in crowded in chicago I'd just climb onto an abandoned building and sleep on the roof.
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[lifts eyebrow] Fascinating...

...possibly even anti-fragile.
Getting paid while having low expectations sounds wonderful, actually. Perfect time to work on pet peeves or professional devlopment.
If someone wants to tell me pronouns they want to be referred to, sure, I’ll try to remember as long as they’re not asking for something extreme, but honestly I’m not that good with even names so… best effort.

I would rather not give out pronouns and don’t really care how people refer to me though “they” in forums when my username is my real name does come off as a bit strange… though again, this is a trivial annoyance.
Career wise, you if it gets know you'll likely never be trusted again.

Legally, since you wrote SWE, then you should look up "Trolöshet mot huvudman"
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trol%C3%B6shet_mot_huvudman

If you have signed any NDA's or contracts, you should have read through them as it specifically says you are not allowed to work for any competitor or do competitive freelance work. If you ahve any side businesses they generally ahve to be approved by the Business Ethics department of the company legal team, and approved by your manager as not intruding in to your daily workload or competing with your job.

So you'd be pretty much fucked if they find out. At best you are fired. At worst you are looking at a legal suit, possibly even criminal suit if they decided to say that you stole company confidential information and provided to the other company.

Once that is done, it doesn't matter if they win or not, you'll be paying through the nose legal fees, and no one will ever hire you again in the business.

but hey if you can get away with it, there is money to be earned.

Though on a personal level, consider your mental health as well. How long are you able to keep up the charade?
How will the stress affect you long term?
> I had a mentor once tell me that when developers take more than one full time contract at the same time, the only thing they have is two unhappy clients.

All of my employee reviews have been stellar to meets expectations. I'm not even trying to be the best or even a good employee, just trying to get my work done.

> Anymore more than that, you are just scamming the people paying you in my opinion.

I've had a few people say something like this but I don't understand the logic of it. I get all my work done on time, and receive good reviews. I'm not expected to work a set number of hours. In fact, if things were flipped my employers would gladly have me do extra work for no extra money, I'm simply completing 40 hours of work in 10-15.

> Also, it's a small world out there, tarnished reputations have a hard time finding good work.

Nobody knows... so far :D

> I don't know if it could be classified as criminal fraud or not, but you should be careful.

I've asked a lawyer and the answer was "No, but maybe?" So a grey area I guess.
How does Covid-19 spread in air? R-CCS Simulations
About as much as the death of Betty White did.

But really it (identity politics) does touch us all in any workplace since HR in every organization aggressively enforces compliance.
I have been tempted to enter "bun/bunself" and show up with rabbit ears. That has made its way into the "real and valid" category.
Maybe the Teams product manager...? It certainly puts you off Skype!
YouTube takes down Joe Rogan interview with Dr Robert Malone
That's only 1/4 of the gap. You gotta tell us the whole story if you want help spinning it.
>by specifying pronouns if they are obvious (99% of the time)

Except they aren't obvious 99% of the time. They aren't even "obvious" like 60% of the time. They aren't even "obvious 99% of the time" for cis-straight (non-LGBTQ) folks.

"Hi, Sam Shepard will be on the call with you today, and will be joined by Alex VanBeckran and Kegan Marton" -- are these folks hoping to be addressed as men, or women, or non-binary? There's no way to tell, and it's kind of disrespectful to be wrong.

> It’s also a form of control in redefining the obvious.

Form of control? What on earth? It's literally just a tiny amount of human dignity. It's basically no different than being asked to address someone as "Mr. / Ms. / Mrs. / Mx." from decades prior.

> Nope, sorry, you need to consciously be aware of my preferred pronouns at all times.

It takes literally almost no extra effort, you just file it along with their name (or phone number, or timezone, etc). If you are thinking that hard about it, your probably doing it wrong.
Thanks! I did not notice that in the past
FB search seems to have gotten worse and worse. Unless I can remember the specific Group where I saw something, it's very unlikely that I can find it again. And they know which posts I've been highly engaged on...
I'm surprised you are the only person who mentioned this but yea YouTube Premium exists which is ad-free YouTube subscription service.

https://nitter.net/mwseibel/status/1477709354014887938#m:

"What would a paid version of Google Search results look like - where Google can just try to give me the best possible results and not be worried about generating revenue?"

Micheal Google sort of already does this, like tailspin2019 and I said YouTube Premium exists[1][2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/premium

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Premium
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I don't think so. Avoiding loss of trust is medical governance 101.[1]

"The agency organised a fake hepatitis vaccination campaign in Abottabad, Pakistan, in a bid to obtain DNA from the children of Bin Laden, to confirm the presence of the family in a compound and sanction the rollout of a risky and extensive operation. Release of this information has had a disastrous effect on worldwide eradication of infectious diseases, especially polio."

1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
AFAIK it is part of some legal requirement, and the political inertia is against change in this case. Imagine yourself as a hypothetical japanese politician/lawmaker. You most likely don't want to be know as "that guy who fought for uncensoring private parts in adult media".
The author of this substack has a Twitter account too, where this same article is promoted and discussed:

https://twitter.com/TaraRHenley

This same article is also under active discussion on two subreddits:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/rv9kvx/tara...

https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/rv9l8v/tara_henley_...
I don't know about everyone else but I've been using non-gendered pronouns my entire life. I was taught words like "they" and "them" in first or second grade. At this point I just assume anyone bothered by this is the actual narcissist.
Yeah, those abolishinists and civil rights protesters were very unpopular. These "woke extremists" are not sympathetic to how most people around me feel about them.
> They very reliably rise to the front page

They very reliably rise to the front page because this issue is endemic in the tech industry and yet people are afraid to speak out in public.

This has always been the problem with HN's stance on "this isn't a forum for political debate" or whatever. It's a way of status-quo enforcement by selectively ignoring how political tech has become these days. It's also diminishing the role HN (used to?) play in conversations within the tech industry. If everyone should go to Reddit to discuss fundamental concerns with working in tech, then why wouldn't people just replace HN with an RSS feed.
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Also, congrats on the new gig Dustin.
More importantly this uses the devkitPro/libnx homebrew toolchain, while the OP project uses the official SDK (the "complicated legal reasons" behind the absence of code probably being an NDA signature).
I literally dont give a shit what you call me.

People who hem and haw about getting pronouns wrong blow my mind of how weird this has all become
I think if Meta creates a lightweight, 4K AR or VR glasses specifically for remote presence/sharing, then longterm they have a chance.

But right now, Oculus is simply too bulky and too low-res for any sort of meaningful digital work.

I think what Spatial.io has done with the Halo Lens looks promising.

https://youtu.be/AtRDBnUEXjk?t=16
Tend to agree.

And, yes, there are people who get really hostile with these kinds of conversations (HN is a decent-sized community, so not surprising, and it's not always the same people in every discussion so I'd like to avoid any broad brush interpretation of this remark), but I think HN is one of the last places where it is possible, online, to have difficult discussions about challenging issues. That's an incredibly important, although possibly (originally) unintended, role.

On a personal note, I value hearing different perspectives, and often come away from HN discussions feeling like I've learned something, so I am against squelching it.