skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost everyone I know between 30 and 40 dropped Facebook. Not completely, I'd guess the majority still have their accounts. Just no one uses it.

My survey isn't very data heavy, but from the people I know, it's mostly older people and the people who stayed in my hometown that still use it.
I agree but if that was in the world of consumer electronic it would have been frowned for repairability.
One thing I heard from a guy working on chip for a big German car company was that they used to have a decades old contract with a major Taiwanese chip manufacturer which had extremely good terms for the Germans. In particular with terms to delivery times, and fees for late deliveries, and price. This deal had apparently been used as a framework for the purchase of not just the then used chips, but pretty much all latter ones too. In retrospect the deal seems to have been at the very least partially politically motivated by Taiwan, but the chip manufacturer could not cancel the framework agreement without significant penalties. There was however an option for the car manufacturer to cancel quite freely, and when the news of the pandemic hit, they did. It seems like no one in the department quite understood just how extremely good the conditions had become over the decades, and after they canceled it, and decided they wanted the same deal back... Well lets just say they are at the back of the line despite paying substantially more than they used too.
Where I worked that I participated in the board design process, we'd get "lifetime buys" of chips on a many year cycle anyway for design stability reasons. Who cares if the microcontroller is using a couple more watts than it could be from aggressively respinning if it's sitting next to a 500w motor?
That will get worse yet most likely. Younger people no longer produce public text to the extent they did prior to the the smartphone heavy era. Supply of that blog style content will continue to dwindle as the producers age out. I'm sure there's a stability point it may reach, of course, because some tiny percentage of people will always want to write long-form.

Younger people TikTok, they Instagram, they chat in private conversations with eachother, they occasionally post short messages in walled gardens like Facebook, they YouTube, they listen to music, they watch Netflix & Co. That's what they do. They do not persistently write LiveJournals, Tumblrs, blogs. That pre video/audio-focused era is over and it's not coming back (even if there's occasionally a bubbling up of hipster fakery centered around how cool it is to write text).
I don't think it's the media's job to fix societal problems - just to accurately reflect them. But if CBC is only interviewing white male CEOs, they're not accurately reflecting anything.
You can still get do what you want if you commit every 60 seconds (or whatever). It's just about postponing any and all cleanup activity until you're ready to shared it with reviewers/the world.

(... but of course, by all means do what works for you. Just be aware that you might be missing out on something because you're artificially constraining your workflow.)
Agreed. What made netflix successful initially was their access to IP. That's going away fast as every IP producer is pushing for their own paid streaming service (which sucks, btw).

With big heavyweights like Disney that own a huge percentage of content having their own services, netflix is really going to struggle being anything more than niche media providers (anime) and their own inhouse media.

If they are lucky, they'll be an HBO style platform. However, the quality of their in-house content has left a lot to be desired. Some is good, but a lot is garbage.

That netflix has technical chops isn't going to be a saving grace. Rather, it will mean engineers from netflix will likely be able to secure jobs at other streaming providers.
Great example! Easy to understand, and clearly away from any "conspiratorial" answer.

Just to tack onto it...

> Once you get started again, you crank up capacity to 110/day - it takes you 900 days - almost 2.5 years - to recover that original shutdown deficit, without accounting for any of the increased demand for your product.

This is best-case scenario. Likely is that a few % of your workforce will have been out sick with covid (or even passed away), and a few % of your workforce may have quit to care for family, or quit for better pay elsewhere, etc. So your "work extra hard to hit 110/day" is more likely "work extra hard to stay at 100% or even 90%". Especially limiting if you need to buy parts for your output that may be delayed due to others who are behind.
I just finished listening to JRE #1747, and it was the most eye opening piece of media I've ever seen on Covid. If I could recommend only one piece of samizdat on the subject it would be this. It pairs well with the Malone interview. Dr. McCullough is certainly not crippled by false modesty, but he appears to have earned that. He is arguably a, if not the, world leading expert on treating the disease. That doesn't mean he should be believed, but it does mean that he shouldn't be dismissed.

https://rumble.com/vqt3p6-jre-1747-dr.-peter-mccullough.html
I find identity politics to be fascinating and scary. Essentially, it is a grouping of many individual fringe concepts/movements that form a large political power and is backed by masses of well-meaning people who are sold stories and imagery of oppressor vs oppressed. IMO it is a large distraction which draws a lot of attention and money from more pressing issues occurring in the world. I fail to see where identity politics have helped in any non-superficial way and the level of division it has caused in society will be hard to reverse.
That is just one of three reasons I listed. I'm not sure why you'd focus on that exclusively, it seems a bit silly to me.

What's being asked of you is a common courtesy. Anyone that refuses this courtesy that takes so little when specifically asked for it is taking actions that speak for themselves.

You're being asked something as simple as "how do you prefer to be addressed" and you've scoured the area for all the loose dust and detritus you can find to make yourself a mountain to die on. Is it really worth it? Perhaps there are other aspects to recent culture shift that are slightly less defensible that are better targets?
they're not taking the moral high ground

you're taking the low ground, and they're at sea level
> When you steam The Matrix, you don't know which version you're going to get, and that stinks.

You know which version you get, ironically, if you pirate the film from the private torrent tracker networks out there.

Fuck Big IP! Pirate your favorite film today!
MAGMA is my favourite string currently.
I heard an interesting theory the other day: blog viability declined because Google killed Reader. Which indirectly ends up poisoning Google's biggest well, since blogs are an important source of relevant cross-domain links.

I'm somewhat skeptical, it seems a little too poetic to blame Google's ultimate downfall on a decision that was notably hated at the time. But it's plausible. If you want it to be a conspiracy theory, you can posit that killing off independent blogs was the intent, to convince bloggers to migrate to Google Plus.
> By not identifying the distribution of various discriminated-against groups, they are rendered invisible, or nonexistant when it comes to policy making. THis is fine if you are in the majority, because that is the de facto policy making consideration, but not so good if you are not represented.

It's not a majority/minority concern. The concern is whether people are counting you in order to help you or hurt you. Jews aren't so vigorously opposed to Jew-counting because they're a majority.
Future hurricanes will roam over more of the Earth, study predicts
Curious, what were you trying to source, and in what volumes?
Why would you compare heart complications to deaths?

Compare heart complications to heart complications. They are higher in COVID than the vaccine for any age group.
The proliferation of ignorant idiots in politics is pretty universal problem. It is not any better ten timezones from Seattle...

Genuinely smart people are usually satisfied with their own line of work, or realize that politicians and their families in the age of (a)social networks are subject to constant barrage of unhinged hate messaging and threats emanating from the Internet. So they think twice before even entering the race for any public office.

We would probably be better off with sortition (basically, drawing lots and choosing random people to serve in legislatures).
I don't agree with either of you.

Google gives you links to other sites, which may or may not be publishers. Section 230 is meaningless in this regard. They don't need it.

You have no right to be "given the full list" by anyone. Why do people keep demanding this? Make your own service and quit complaining.

Some sites allow users to post content for other users to see. Section 230 allows them to filter and moderate without liability, and it allows them to make mistakes without liability too.

A publisher is choosing what a user sees on their site in a manner that is different than filtering and moderation. What's different about it? Well, that's what needs to be clarified. I contend that most of the big sites are clearly publishers while enjoying Section 230 protections. They don't deserve it, and if we let them keep doing this, sites that do deserve protection are likely to lose it.
That's a coincidence. If you had tried to post a comment at that moment instead, you'd have gotten the same message.
A couple of years ago I did a "Terminal Video Series" segment that also highlights the runtime overhead of 12 other languages, C of course actually one of the best ones: https://2ton.com.au/videos/tvs_part1/
Disney owns/co-owns ESPN, Hulu, ABC, Fox, A&E, The History Channel, Lifetime, Vice, 20th Century Fox, 21st Century Fox, Touchstone, Lucasfilm, Searchlight, National Geographic, FX, FXX... the list goes on.
It's one of several major moments throughout the pandemic
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Surprising article on HN. I, living in Romania, have never heard of her since 1989. It was a figure immediately forgotten. It was that fake.
I generally do not read/watch/listen to the CBC. I got tired of their NPR-ish comofortable liberalism which always drifted into conservatism a long time ago. Sure, there were occasional nods to the idea that not all was happy in our settler colonial land, but in general it was smug "we're all nice" and "aren't Americans crazy?!".

Our local outpost plays hideous CanCon music in the mornings and repeats the same low-information density press releases disguised as news. There is little that is combative or thought provoking and lot of self-congratulation.

I have been especially un-impressed with their lack of willingness to address the abuse of power by the RCMP at the Fairy Creek protests including the detention of one of their own videographers; their supine acceptance of the insane tar sands projects; their lack of aggression in pursuing the Trudeau administrations failure to address the horrendous mistreatment of autochthonous people people and communities.

These days I mostly read The Tyee¹ and listen to Canadaland²

1. https://thetyee.ca/
2. https://www.canadaland.com/

That said, the author of the original article lost me when she trotted out the silly line about transgender Filipinos.
Netflix still offers their DVD service.
What are Facebook products?

And which ones are worthwhile?

The only thing I could think of without cheating and using Google is the Oculus line. I'm not personally convinced there's a huge VR market, but there could be, and Facebook probably has the best product for this market. They aren't competing against the other megacorps listed in that particular market though, so I can't evaluate if they execute faster/better than others.

I know Apple executes pretty well on products, and at a rate that far exceeds my own upgrade cycle.
Not that long ago. 2 years.
front page headline above the fold in the pre-millenial Hunter Gatherer Times,

> This is happening to every industry. Sickening

the article goes on to say:

There is an obvious consolidation and massive wealth transfer still ongoing. There are people among us settling down on plots of land and growing more food than they can eat themselves, putting both hunters and gatherers out of work. Some of those unemployed hunters and gatherers are now sitting around and making more mocassins than their families can wear, and trading them with the farmers. Since there is already too much food and footwear, still others are reduced to making purely decorative clay objects and toys and trading them for food and footwear! And what about our shamans? There's this guy Moses who's got all the rules carved in stone for easy reference instead of oral story telling. All in the name of productivity and efficiency, alien ideas in our lands. These are scary times!
Breaking Points recently did a segment on this, if you're into this format of presentation:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3v7G9EDovQ
I was in college in the 90s and we called it PC. It was a thing, but it was mostly confined to campuses and adjacent places.
(was food actually better a hundred years ago? Doubt).

It absolutely was, but of course there was less of it. Have you ever had real farm fresh eggs from a free range chicken? It's a completely different thing from those white shells with bright yellow yolks you get at the grocery store. Same goes for vegetables. Ever had a home grown tomato? Those things are worth their weight in gold. The grocery store version is really just a bunch of water in the shape of a tomato.
2-D performance from 3-D semiconductor particles
I was looking at the careers page, but it was the same as the home page. This was Firefox / desktop, and the same on Chrome / Android.
Aren't you trying to maximize returns for yourself when you take issue with companies hiring employees outside of your immediate vicinity?

As one of those remote workers, in my opinion you'd be better off campaigning against location-based pay rather than remote work.
Interesting, thanks, I had not heard/seen that before.
Interesting. I've always thought it was the word from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095348/
I share a similar opinion. Everything and every group's voice should be heard at some point but not in a more divisive manner and to the detriment of attention to the immediate problems that affect us all in the most serious ways: housing, healthcare, wages, political corruption, conflicts of interest, and so on. We're in very bad shape and a risk major collapse. If we continue down this path we'll see homelessness and and inequality rise to catastrophic levels. What we really need at this point more than anything is some form of unity.
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There will be no introspection about this. Ordinarily, the theory that “maybe Sweden had the right approach to X” would get serious consideration from serious people. But politics has completely broken the objectivity of the global professional class. Sweden’s approach can’t be right because it overlaps too much with what conservatives are saying. There will never be a serious analysis of whether variance in covid death rates can be explained mainly by age, obesity, population weighted density, and a few other factors unrelated to lockdowns and masking measures.

This should be really distressing to everyone, because we really do need experts. The people who are protesting mask mandates may be right, but for the same reason as broken clocks are sometimes correct. We need good experts who place their professions above politics and political considerations. We need experts who aren’t afraid to take positions just because the “bad people” take the same position. We don’t have that right now.

Anecdote: I was having a conversation with a public health expert and mentioned that Fauci was overly cautious and not very good at his job. He said I “sounded like a Trumper.” That’s the knee jerk response in the circles where I travel (blue states, highly educated professionals). These are smart people who have a lot of intellectual horsepower. But smart people can get caught up in groupthink. And they’ve been sucked into this groupthink that makes them constitutionally incapable of seriously considering a position that would result in them agreeing with Donald Trump about anything.
Ask HN: Feelings about Zoho. Go
Would love to hear what your feelings are about Zoho as an alternative to, say, Google. Some criteria that would be interesting to me would be:

1. General take

2. Is it any less creepy than surveillance capitalist giants?

3. How does Zoho stand up against some of the more independent, pro-privacy platforms you're into?

4. Anything else you wanna share...
So if you are "she" and someone calls you "he" out of ignorance and you correct the person, and he says "Oh, I'm sorry for my mistake" can that not be the end of it? Is that such a terrible thing to have to deal with?

I'll call you whatever you like, but if you look like and dress like a man, or your name in the company directory is "Jim," I'll use "he" if I haven't been told otherwise, and I'll think you're a bit weird if you make a big deal over it.

One place where the "pronouns in the signature" can be helpful is if your name is foreign. I work with a group of international folks and if I haven't met the person, I don't always know if a person's name is a male or female name. So then I end up referring to them by name all the time, which can be a little awkward in an otherwise informal written email.
I recently stayed somewhere with cable and relatives were watching content for the holidays. I was reminded of just how obnoxious having 30+ minutes of ads for 1.5 hours of content is. I’d rather just not have any content.
I don't think anyone on this site will argue that the culture at Blizzard was good or normal, in fact most engineers working in the Bay will tell you that the culture at their company is extreme in the opposite direction. I've worked in FAANG for the last 5 years in the Bay and can tell you that in my experience I could not even fathom how a culture like Blizzard was allowed to exist, my everyday experience has just been so extremely different. For example _all_ (and I mean literally every single one) corporate communication from the company to employees has to do with diversity/inclusion issues for at least 50% of its content.That's every newsletter, every speech, all the internal organizations communications, even things that are supposed to be technical in nature. Women and minority candidates are already given a more lenient interview experience as well as an abundance of communication that they are valued and welcome. And I'm not saying this is a bad thing, it's just that most peoples' lived experience working in this industry is nothing like Blizzard's.

I think what you see on this site mostly is more of a moderate "hey can we chill out a little?" sort of response rather than an extremist alt right type of thing, though it may come across differently depending on how frustrated that person is. And yeah it can be frustrating to always feel like you are being lumped in with the group of oppressors and or bigots no matter what you do.

TL;DR I don't think most people are racist or evil.
That's easy, you only have to invent a time-machine first. You weren't actually "out of work" if you instead did extensive charity work.

I'm in a similar position as OP: 2-year gap due to burnout and deep depression. I couldn't do anything beyond not killing myself, I was unable to get anything new into my brain, I touched no projects, I had burned all bridges and basically all my technical and social skills atrophied during the pandemic.

I'm no liar though, I wouldn't dare to pad my CV with stuff which I haven't actually done. I wouldn't even lie in an interview, only that I don't get any interviews at all, which I assume is because of the obvious red flag of the employment gap.

Only my savings kept my afloat until today.
Studies repeatedly have shown that micronutrients do not get replenished in monoculture crops, resulting in a measurable decrease in nutrition available in food grown in that soil. So, yes, food was actually better a hundred years ago.
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I love Instagram as well as Pinterest. Two unpopular things on HN. There is no service out there to curate visual culture like these two. Want to build a image collection of vintage receipts!? You got it. These two platforms are truly amazing for this kind of a thing. Also ads on IG are something I'd actually want.