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> the thought process of corporate PR flacks has sunk into the brains of normal people

I think it's the opposite: Saying that poeple are powerless, and entirely dependant on corporations, is the thought process and message of the corporations. We are just helpless subjects of the aristocracy.

> It’s pathetic

It's sad that people add these words, which rationally only indicate a lack of argument, and practically tell us nothing and inflame discussion on the Internet - where it hardly needs to be inflamed.
EBV is typically activated by other stress. Hence "not a problem" for younger, healthier people. Until something unpredictable happens, like covid.

One kind of long-covid is activated EBV by covid (there are other kinds).

VZV (typo in my earlier post) hides in nerve cells waiting for immune weakness to attack (ie. shingles) Wildly high number of people have it dormant.
That does make sense, but isn’t that what container orchestration services do for you?
this and a sane pipeline for publishing apps.
This. The market is just a bunch of random ppl and robots who are have different motivations and opinions. Some are long term oriented, some just wanna make a quick buck. It’s just a chaotic casino.
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you are right. sorry for my style. I don't like your communication style. only this.
Poll: Where do you live?
I read a tweet that referred to HN as "Silicon Valley", which struck me as odd because I suspect most HN users, like me, are located elsewhere. This piqued my curiosity about where HN users are located, so if you don't mind me asking, where do you live?

Edit: Sorry about the randomized ordering (I forgot HN does that for polls). Thanks ahead of time for using cmd+f or the equivalent to find and vote for your state or country. Also, each US state is included as "US: {state name}".
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The regulations may not have existed at the time these companies established themselves, but could have evolved over time. It's a known practice of larger corporations to promote regulations that take them little effort to adhere to. However, those same regulations raise the bar for startups to gain entry and compete in an industry. Ironically enough, it's the regulations themselves that become anti-competitive.

This isn't true for regulations categorically, to be sure- the established companies can wield lobbying power for particular regulations to pass. That makes them look good in the public eye, the government wins for adding "oversight", but the actual competitive landscape becomes more encumbered, not less.
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I agree completely with this comment under the article:

> I really don’t like the idea of downvotes, just makes it easier to make sure there’s only one train of thought under a tweet. So if a tweet is aimed at a certain subsection of people, the replies will all be full of upvoted replies agreeing with it while all dissent is downvoted.

Followers of a user will downvote to silence opposing opinions in the replies, pigeonholing the reply section into a bunch of posts that agree with the original poster.
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> Without external restraints, any sufficiently large company will focus on eliminating competition either through pricing them out of the market or just outright buying them.

The counterargument is that this only happens in markets with high barriers to entry, which in turn are mostly caused by regulatory barriers.

For example, the government makes permanent spectrum auctions, so if all the holders of spectrum merge together, no new competitors can enter. Suppose instead they held a new auction every year or every month for use of the spectrum in a given region until the next auction. Then mergers wouldn't prevent competitors from entering; a new competitor goes to the next auction, places a bid and can get spectrum to launch a competing provider.

It's clear that this theory is sometimes true -- that regulatory barriers can do this. Whether it's always the cause is hard to say and depends mostly on how you define what "regulatory barriers" means. But consider the consequences either way.

If there are regulatory barriers causing monopolies, you have to break them up. If there are some other things causing monopolies, you have to break them up. Monopolies are bad. And breaking them up, if they are caused by regulatory barriers, can hamper the entities lobbying to keep the regulatory barriers.

The question is what comes after. You don't want them to just reform again, right? Antitrust is a necessary evil, but still an evil -- still means you had a monopoly for long enough to have to bust it up. So if it's mostly or entirely regulatory capture which is causing them, we still need to address that. And then we don't need antitrust enforcement as often.

But we still need it whenever a monopoly/oligopoly forms. That's just not a thing that can remain.
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Why would we not have ability? Is it not in the same area where implants typically are? Could try in primates potentially too
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> why do we need to steer everyone into STEM?

We don't want to steer _everyone_ into STEM. But we could be doing a better job of prepping students and giving them the tools they need to enable them to go into STEM if they so choose.
Had a similar experience where I tried to switch to another team. But wasn't able to move because I missed expectations the prior year or something along those lines. Was never put on pip, but I left 2 months later. Team had horrible 50%+ attrition that year.
But again, no one is asking for a stove that leaks methane. They may be asking for gas cooking (though inductive cooktops are a reasonable alternative), but no consumer said "Give me a stove that leaks natural gas into my house every time I use it (and even when I don't)".
Agreed. Unfortunately, Contact Info that Threema gave to Apple has your phone number.

Threema COULD turn that privacy feature around themselves, but … no: it’s a business model. n
(multicall = things like busybox which look at argv[0] to determine what program they should act like)
Yes, and speaking of CI there's also linting and formatting code. In large code bases with certain languages it can take a substantial amount of time to do this step (tens of seconds).

Being able to zip through linting, formatting, building, running, testing and pushing a binary / Docker image in 1 minute vs 10 minutes is a massive win -- especially when amplified over a number of developers.
I don't see how this solves anything.

If you ban downvoting, you just get upvoting of troll content instead.

In my experience, essentially every political subreddit is full of complete and utter nonsense for this reason. There's some great stuff on the site if you're into woodworking or robotics or whatever, but the country/city/political subreddits are like "Hypernormalization" in website form.

It gets even worse because eventually those subreddits get captured by moderators that stoke the flames even further. I'd be surprised if most of it wasn't state actor troll farm stuff.
I totally agree with that, but couldn't the favicons still support the same browser caching mechanisms as the HTML document? If I can refresh the page and get a new HTML response, surely I should at the same time get a new favicon if a new one exists.
Yes, although it would be trivial for Twitter to ignore or downweight downvotes from new accounts. It would be interesting if one of the main reasons for adding opaque downvotes is to give users the feeling that they had expressed an opinion without giving that expression any weight whatsoever. I guess this would be called 'downvote shadow-banning'.
>If anything, this kind of stuff should be viewed as games, because that's all this is. Supply/demand of labor mixed in with a few political and psychological things. The manager is not even close to being an asshole, he is just playing the game like all the employees are.

Firing people and putting them on PIP is just a game because amazon is such a great company to have on your resume? It's just a game because his livelihood is not effected?

What universe do you live in?

Let me tell you about how the world works. If you fire people for trying to transfer teams. If you lie and make up stories about performance because someone tried to transfer teams. You're an ass hole through and through. No one is being hated here. Just being called out, and people are expressing their extreme dislike for such behavior.

I can't believe you called it a game. This must be how ass hole managers justify their actions to themselves. It's like a bully in school calling it all a game because the person being bullied still has parents that feed him. Let's be real. It's not a game. Not. at. all.
That was such an annoying thing about Facebook. Not only would it show a lot of the same crap again and again, but most of what I wanted to see would only appear in my feed hours or days after everyone else saw it, meaning that any comments I might leave would never be seen by anyone. I quickly realized that my comments would never be seen (i.e. upvoted or replied to) if the post was more than a few hours old.

No, Facebook, I'm not going to sit there obsessively refreshing the page and scrolling through dozens of pages of content just for a shot at others noticing my existence in your little play-world.

Perhaps I'm not the kind of user Facebook wants. They probably reached the same conclusion as scam artists; make your platform unappealing to the users who won't continually lead to profit, but give it the right qualities so those who don't know any better keep falling into the trap and stay there.
Isn't low pressure sodium vapor a dead technology?
More echo chambers that we don’t need and no one is asking for.
Should they be squashing instead?
What the next generation of CAR-T cells could look like
Nope. It's simply respecting the laws and being an adult.

No other country just lets you walk in, I'd love to just walk into Japan and be a citizen without learning the language or anything, but I'd be doing myself and their country a disservice.

Do you honestly think the immigrants who did all that shit want to see people cut the system? I'll give you a hint, no they don't.

Illegal immigration causes family hardship, deaths from the journey, 33% chance of rape for girls, human trafficking, cartel violence / funding, gang proliferation, etc.

Supporting that enables those things to continue. You aren't being compassionate, you're being childish.
He got so many things right in the old Java enterprise times that it would be impossible to compete with his own reputation.

Also by choosing to work less and stay small he limited his own power of influence, which is not a big deal actually in real life.
Downvotes are tiny murders.
> Maybe you could take your existing machines and distill them into their essential features so that you can talk about them without referring to the original contexts at all. But then you’ll see analogies between those abstractions and try to extract their features and suddenly you’ll wake up and find that you’ve invented category theory after which you won’t be able to communicate with normal people at all except to tell them how great category theory is and how important it is that they learn category theory. Not recommended.

My favorite line. I'm a huge fan of category theory.
> You as an end user are not party to the agreement that Apple has with the developers

In the end this will be a political decision. I vote.

> Your understanding of what constitutes a de-facto monopoly is broken.

The monopoly argument may work in the US, but not in the EU. Apple may be up to nasty stuff that legislators should act against, but they’re certainly not a monopolist.
Spiritually similar to something else from another former Mozillian:

<https://github.com/rginda/axiom>

And then of course there's Fabrice Bellard's vfsync.org, which grew out of his JSLinux project.
The problem with Cambridge Analytica is that the wrong people benefited.

https://medium.com/@PatrickRuffini/the-medias-double-standar...
Well, consolidation didn't happen for decades, then it happened rapidly after the law was changed, so that's pretty clear evidence to me.

I don't think you could accuse Matt Stoller of being in the pocket of any industry, and here's a similar take from him: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/too-big-to-sail-how-a-leg...
Why do seat belt laws exist?
Other programs are shown:

Python #2 1.34s PCRE2
Go #5 3.80s PCRE
Java #3 5.34s
Java #6 5.39s
Java #1 8.49s
Python #1 9.25s "standard library"
Go #4 15.60s PCRE
Go #3 26.86s "standard library"
Go #1 27.01s "standard library"
I love your work and your site, thank you.
"He is using an analogy like a drunk uses a lamp-post, for support instead of illumination."
I never downvote, it focuses on the negativity and is a waste of life.

Upvote only, it rewards the best opinions and analysis.

The problem is, botnets and astroturfing use downvotes to manipulate conversations, perceived word of mouth and ultimately the algorithms.

For instance, since Youtube has removed downvotes from visibility, my recommended videos are more in line with what I want. I think the downvote was a massive tool for shaping the algorithms and recommended videos that becomes something that isn't organic.

I downvote only the downvote. Down with the downvote!
I wasn't suggesting that, I was just responding to the parent comment. Voting for the green party can actually cause anti-environmental outcomes (in my jurisdiction).
Part of the problem I think is that none of the JS frameworks became a clear winner in the full stack batteries included framework niche. For Ruby the clear winner is Rails. For Python it's Django. For C# it's .NET.
What is it for Node then - I keep getting many names - Nest/Next/Adonis/Blitz/Sails? And lately Redwood? And probably more I'm missing out?
It would have been better for Node if there were 1-2 frameworks with huge momentum behind them then 6-8 frameworks that none of them caught a lot of mindshare.
Eh, that's not been my experience at Fred Meyer. The produce section is open, with aisles, and while the organic and non-organic versions of a particular item are not usually next to each other (I could guess why), they're not hidden nor difficult to find. Sometimes the organic is farther back, sometimes up front, you just have to use your eyes -- it's all in plain view.
> And teachers work 3/4 of the year

This is a common misconception.

Teachers teach students in the classroom as part of regular instruction for 3/4 of the year. The vast, vast majority of teachers do a lot of work both during the summer and on evenings and weekends to prepare for that teaching, including lesson planning, grading, teaching summer school, supervising extracurriculars, and even coaching school sports in many cases.

And any teacher getting hired now (or, in fact, within the last few decades) doesn't get what you'd think of as an "unassailable pension", at least not in most places. I think that NY State would generally be considered to be one of the more teacher-friendly places, and the last of the "Tier I" retirees here—those whose pensions cover basically their full final salary—are already either retiring or on their way to it.

The idea that teachers are overpaid is bullshit propaganda.
An imperfect but generally good model of the brain is the basic/reptilian portion still in control by default, but with the higher reasoning able to act as an override.

This is why it takes effort to do something like ignore pain, say no to candy bars, etc.
Ads are evil. To work, they play upon human insecurity. In many cases, they create desires or perceived needs that weren't there before, making them wasteful in addition to scammy/conniving. Because they're successfully evil - the tricks work - they often leave a residue on people: beyond just never being able to forget a jingle from a cereal ad you heard when you were 8, a lifetime of very frequent exposure to advertising trains us to suspend our criticality, or hinders us from developing it in the first place. So it leaves people dumber, too, more pliable and dependent. Hilarious in a country like the US, whose national mythos is so obsessive about personal liberty and rugged self-reliance.

We have a family friend, retired now, who had a successful career in marketing and strategy in multi-billion dollar transnational companies. I once asked (probably naively) why [maker of extremely popular product at the time] ran so little advertising. The friend told me "they have a good product. They don't need to spend money haranguing people into buying it or spreading the word about because it's actually good. Word of mouth is free".
> As for setting fire to Harry Potter books, if it were transwomen burning them to protest Rowling's TERFery, would that be talked about differently?

Yes, as it should be. There's quite a large difference between taking an action in protest of discrimination, and taking that same action in support of silly religious fairy tales.

Even if you are a religious person and a believer, burning books that disagree with your doctrine is just reactionary nonsense. Have a little more faith in your, er, faith. I would hope it could stand strong even in the presence of a book you disagree with. If not, maybe you should reconsider your beliefs.
I am in several Twitter antivaxxer "bubbles", mainly so that I can argue against them. Any time I post any cogent argument against their _constant_ stream of misinformation, I get heavily "ratioed" by people who can barely spell or put a sentence together. Similarly, in other more scientific bubbles, anyone who posts a dumb antivaxxer argument gets ratioed and ridiculed as well.

I don't think this downvoting is going to do anything to combat misinformation.
Ask HN: How can I become a competent Network Engineer?
I wish to become a professional network engineer (in particular: telecommunications). I’ve been doing intermediate level programming and sysadmin projects since I was a teenager (23 now) but I stil feel like a total noob. I enrolled in university to get my bachelors in “Network Engineering and Cybersecurity” but the field is so extremely vast and complex that I fear this course alone won’t be nearly enough. I am asking for suggestions on how I can learn, from the ground up, how to go from level 1 to a master network engineer. Can you please give me any project ideas, books, links, or advice that will help me? Thankyou for reading.
Is there a such thing as "the ruby way"?
I hardly think Chalmers (and others) forgot to define what the problem is. It's more likely you haven't read and/or understood them.
How many of those security flaws are mitigated by App Store curation, and how many of those flaws are already being let through?

At this point we are both asking each other to prove negatives now, as productive as that is. I think we can both agree to disagree.
Based on my experience bringing this up in person and online to various Reddit mods (which usually get pretty upset about the question) the main problem with brigading is that the side that victimizes itself as getting brigaded doesn't enjoy the experience. They operate under the theory that most people on online communities just want to discover other people with whom they would get along, and do it in a safe manner kinda isolated from people with whom they would not get along.

The problem is when your online community decides political propaganda or marketing stuff is ok because you agree to participate in a "cultural battle", so you will need to make splitting decisions like who's the brigands and who's being brigaded.
This comment is ridiculous. You've shifted this from "too many options for everything" to "any options at all". Also, how are these things framework specific? The API vs templates argument also applies for Rails. Choosing an authentication method also applies to Rails. Choosing rendered emails via SMTP vs Sendgrid - also applies to Rails. And so on. You can't mix business requirements with "tooling choices".
The futuristic jetpack never quite took off – but one man did, over and over
> someone that keeps the lights or TV on while he is not using them is also at fault but it is not possible to catch the person that is doing this

Punishment is not the only, and in fact one of the worst, means of changing behavior. You can also educate people, who despite the current devotion to cynicism, generally will do the right thing. Lots of people turn the lights off.

> I am curious if this happens somewhere in US and if there are results or is too socialist to ever happen?

How do you define socialist? There are many regulations and fines in the US. Climate change has been politicized by one party here in order to, afaict, make it to inflammatory to agree on any action.
Super happy to hear this. Got my 7yo daughter a snap circuits kit for xmas, and she's pretty curious and so far has enjoyed following the initial setups.
So a good analogy is like not finding the perfect partner life, but eventually settling with someone because they tick most of the boxes.

:)
What Is π?
The real world story is that marketing in one channel is a little worse now... I don't feel like that justifies the existence of data-mining to show ads.
I love this! Tailwind has been a genuine revelation for me; moving away from CSS and provind styles that "just work" is fantastic. CSS in email was the last area I had to use regular-old CSS.
I read through your talking points on Lightning and for the record I agree for the most part with all of them. Lightning is a newish technology and like most of the cryptocurrency space, the UX is not great. However, I didn’t see any talking points in your list that could not be addressed by building solutions to improve UX. In fact, I am working on solutions for many of these issues and I encourage others to do the same.

It’s similar to how Linux on the desktop isn’t as easy as simply buying a Mac. There is real value in alternative solutions such as Bitcoin and Linux even though it may be harder to use these technologies today.
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Increasingly there isn't as banks, always looking to cut costs, pare back the number of branches they have, the number of staff at those branches, and make the phone experience worse in order to drive customers to their websites.