skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some observed effects may be real, but the alleged association isn't real until proven.

Simply, too many people have had Covid to be able to squarely blame prior Covid infection for everything weird that's happening to everyone health-wise.

Maybe those people would have developed those symptoms anyway. A pandemic broke out and so, like millions of others, they got it, and now their inevitable predicament (those weird symptoms) get blamed on that, which may be wrong.

All sorts of people had all sorts of weird health issues; and now all sorts of people with weird health issues also have a Covid-19 history, because it's common to have one.

If Covid were a rare disease, it would be different. Say that only 100 people in the United States got Covid-19 in a particular year, and then 79 of them had weird symptoms months and months later. That would strongly indicate there is something there.

Look, we all have to die. From now on, whenever someone dies (spontaneously, not accidentally), do we blame it on Covid-19, if they ever had it?

A: Did you hear? Bob died last week. Heart attack. Just turned 69.

B: Yikes, I just remembered something: didn't he have Covid-19 back in 2021 when he was, what, ... 43?

A and B, in unison: OMG, long Covid!

B: Caught up with him.

A: Got him in the end, wow.
Yes, everyone who has the feature turned on is pooling their resources together to create a common utility that everyone with the feature benefits from. I fail to see how this is an issue. This is not like Apple exfiltrating data from your phone back to them that can incriminate you like the CSAM debacle that's still unresolved, this is a tool that has a quite easy to understand benefit for those that are using it. I pool the resources of using some of my battery and data and in return I get access to a giant mesh network that helps in locating my devices. If I don't want to participate in this network, I can turn it off.

I get that a lot of people seem to have the issue with it being opt-out rather than opt-in. I think that this sort of feature needs to be opt-out because it better aligns with human behavior.
> You don't budget your wage increases (which would've happened in Q4 last year) based on transitory economic conditions.

Wage increases are as transitory as inflation numbers. If the inflation per year is 3% then 7% then 3%, you don't skip the 7% just because it was an outlier.
No it doesn't. It says something about network effects and the psychology of opt-in vs opt-out.
The sibling comment says it more in depth, succinctly:

You don't own your own money.

This is somewhat true in practice with credit, checking accounts - only large entities are allowed to even make purchases such as cars, houses anymore (practically - check or cash is a not often practiced option).

When I have possessions, I can say they are either under my power or entrusted to someone else - any good finance advice is to diversify as much as possible. If all money pratically becomes some virtual 'fake' money, that's not possible - I don't have possessions at that point, I'm a literal slave of the state - given some basic pittance which is dictated how and what I must spend it on.

A lot of people end up paying for similar things, cost of living, subscriptions - to some extent we are slaves to society already, but we aren't required to be. If I sacrifice something unnecessary, I can trade for something else. Being given what amounts to fancy foodstamps is just not the same thing - without a lot unpaid social work I cannot turn those foodstamps into a car, or save up for my son's college, pay for a class at a local Uni, or support doctor's without borders through equipment donations.

Only one person gets to decide that in the painted picture - the govt. If viewed as another sort of interest-less bond, maybe they can make a certain type of sense, but only in the same way I might put 20 bucks on a nintendo or xbox account.

The "innovations" don't sound that great in practice, and mostly sound limiting.
Why do you go out of your way to protect medical information? If the government cared enough to get your medical information illegally, couldn't they just get it from your doctors? And if they did decide you were an "enemy", what good would knowing your medical information do?
The title is rather inaccurate, a better and less attention seeking title would be:

"Apple AirTags draining battery of your Apple devices close by".

And then you can talk about Apple AirTags draining your Apple devices, e.g. in order to locate the Apple device of someone else your devices will use of a lot of battery in the process.

My hunch is that users want to be able to locate their lost Apple device at all times and AirTags improve that capability.

But most users will not pay the price of increased battery drain to help others locate their Apple device.

So Apple decides to make the feature opt-out, otherwise very few would actually enable the feature.
This is exactly why I’ve more or less stopped using it. Twitter seems to have become not useful.
The explanation of a digital currency, when you get past the paranoia about an increase in tracking you[1], sounds exactly like a "narrow bank". But the Fed has always been against those, because they think customer banks will be too poorly capitalized if everyone uses a government bank directly. That seems like the best reason we wouldn't get one.

A good reason to have them would be that it'd be really easy for the government to pay you, for instance if we had a UBI or one of those things everyone on here loves. Right now they're surprisingly bad at it. A lot of government agencies have to pay people with prepaid debit cards, and there's people who never got their stimulus checks still.

[1] mainly unjustified because they're already tracking you in regular bank accounts so it can't even be any worse…
Regardless, it is probably moot now. The impact of oil and embargo will have wide-ranging inflationary effects.
Things have definitely gotten bad (I visit downtown every weekend and live in Ballard), but the same thing has happened in other cities as well for similar reasons. So on the one hand, people saying “it’s nothing” are wrong, but people say “Seattle is dead” are also incorrect. These problems can be solved, well, managed, with a bit of a swing to the right (from the far left, which is happening now).

I remember Seattle from the late 70s (as a preschooler), the 80s, and the 90s. I even worked at 3rd and Pine McDonald’s in 1994, and it was pretty bad back then, except the retail and office crowd kept things from getting bad until about 7PM each night (I often closed). The new thing now is (a) laws not enforced at all and (b) downtown was completely drained of office workers. Both of those can be fixed.
Its so ridiculous I feel I've wasted my time writing how ridiculous it is.
Agreed. The only reason why government want CBDCs is convenience. They can already seize whatever bank account they like, it doesn't give them any more powers. It's just easier than having 50 different systems to have one unified system.
It kinda sucks that effective teams that takes decades to build aren't valued higher in the corporate world.
My point is that generally speaking, people are very one-sided on matters like this. When employee compensation grew enormously (probably 2x or more) over the last 10 years, no one complained that it was too high compared to inflation. Now inflation is increasing, and people complain that their yearly raise didn't keep up. This in a field where even average engineer have comps of many hundreds of thousands a year.
Thank you for this reply. Apologies if any of this is short, I’m tired and going to bed quickly but wanted to acknowledge this before I forget.

> I started out with an aspergers diagnosis, that became disused in medical circles, and is now considered offensive in some circles. Then I was an autistic person, that became offensive in some circles, and got redefined to person with autism, which also became offensive in some circles. There is literally no non-offensive way to refer to my own disability presently. I have seen various other redefinition of slurs, euphemisms, and medical terms being changed around due to influences from various groups and half the time these groups are a minority of disabled people of some sort.

I’m sensitive to this too (as noted below I’m also autistic). We also have the misfortune of being something which the diagnostic criteria defines as external to us, so we get little say in even who we are or what we experience. That’s all the more reason to be skeptical when we feel someone is speaking for us.

> First, out of curiosity and practical interest, which disability?

Also autistic, and ADHD. Chronic pain and fatigue that I don’t even know what’s going on.

> Views on these matters tend to cluster and I'm not savvy on every disability communities views. If I'm making software for such a community, I will not use the word disable.

I really feel like I should re-emphasize that I was expressing my own feelings regarding the specific words. There are many disabled people who don’t like using the term “disabled” as a software state, and I’ll just say that you should be able to find that information if you’re looking for it. My personal negative reaction to the “disable” action is more a trauma response to verbs that conjure abuse. That is definitely more personal to intersecting experiences for me.

> Second, My post(s) were consciously written with the possibility I was talking to a disabled person in mind.

I see that now but to be honest it really didn’t feel that way at first. In hindsight I think I responded to you the same way. I appreciate that we came to this point though.

> You had already influenced people on HN before I made my post, you already had the ball rolling.

Maybe but I doubt that I influenced them much, other than making a bunch of people mad at me. All of these conversations have been going on well before this. My comment was clearly taken as suggesting language use, but I really sincerely was just saying how I personally react to the language. It’s a real challenge for me to always remember that expressing an opinion might be taken as a directive, and I forgot that in this instance.

> Disable/disabled are good BECAUSE they evoke disability[…]

There’s a lot in your last paragraph that I want to engage but I’m honestly too tired to do so tonight. I wanted to make this effort to respond. If you want to keep talking I’m here for it, but HN doesn’t make days old threads easy to find. But I’m easy to find around the net. Take care. And thank you again for a good genuine response to this. It made my day to see it.
>Their only edge is the '!' syntax which I haven't yet bothered to find an independent solution for.

I simply mimic that bang behavior using my browser's ability to add custom searches. It's a slight pain to set up on a fresh install because of all the extra addresses I manually plug in but once done, I'm not necessarily tied to any search engine. If you're in Chromium you can right-click on the address bar and see the option to select "manage search engines." From there just start editing commands and changing things from ":yt" to "!yt" like we're used to. yt being a YouTube search.

Your usage might be vastly different than mine but I found myself using sipmle things like !yt (youtube) or !hn (hackernews search) for the most part. Hardly anything beyond that and a few specific Wikis.

For what it's worth, Brave's search engine also uses that ! bang feature though I'm not sure to what extent compared to DuckDuckGo.
apple is a disease....having bought an M1...I feel like I am now sick...it's Been a general failure.....
Typically banks just give government what they want, no questions asked. The ability to do business is far more important than a few angry customers
It's a mix of competition and spending a lifetime perfecting your craft. There's just a different standard of quality when it comes to food in Paris, especially bread.
For the Arduino route I'd heavily recommend the Adafruit Bluefruit boards over the official Arduino BLE boards. Some of the Bluefruit boards are based on the nRF52 and therefore support OTA. The BLE implementation on the official Arduino boards (for example Nano 33 BLE) is okay but IMO Adafruit is doing a better job there.
Dutch crunch is a very popular bread for sandwiches in the SF Bay area.
I have a bookmark of their mobile web app on my phone’s home screen now. Works great as a replacement if you don’t mind losing features like push notifications and the ability to speak in Spaces! It also has the benefit of tweet drafts syncing from your other web browsers.
I worked at McStabby’s in 1994. Most of my coworkers were street smart Filipinos (and a few Pacific Islanders and Vietnamese), it was actually a lot of fun working with them. But we had our window broken by the night crowd every week or so, after 7PM half our customers had the unshowered and/or drunk smell. Always an off duty cop at the store also.
Very interesting perspective, thanks for sharing! I'm curious about the hit you mention? Could you expand a bit on what consequences you are experiencing?
Got a 4% raise here.

AFAIK, none of the big tech companies are doing comp adjustments based on inflation. They never did, they never purported to, and they never will. From my observations, employees are particularly antsy about this comp cycle because most stocks are down anywhere from 25 to 75% from recent highs and people want to see some sort of "silver lining" to compensate.

For my company, equity refresh grants were priced to the stock price average for February, meaning a higher number of actual stocks than if the stock had been higher (though to be fair, there were additional drops in most stock prices in March)

The "exceed expectations" stuff is mostly fluff. You know how you don't want to be an asshole to your close coworkers? That sums up performance appraisal forms. Your manager isn't the one setting raise budgets and because of the current high attrition in the industry, they don't want to piss anyone off, so dividing their pot equally among reports is the "safe" option. I'm willing to bet most bay area tech people here at L5/L6 levels got somewhere around $7k-10k raises regardless of previous comp.

There is however an extra "secret" compensation pot that not many people are privy to: performance bonuses. That one can be a 6 digit number equity grant on top of regular TC, and are given to people that a company really doesn't want to lose. My personal impression is that the heuristics for whether you get this bonus are not related to perf appraisal at all, but rather they're related to having made significant contributions to your boss' boss' boss' OKRs.

IMHO, if you're staff level (~500k TC) or above and you didn't know about what I just said, moving is kinda risky. To put it in context, according to levels.fyi, less than 10% of the engineering workforce at big tech is at that level or above. When interviewing, you're typically competing to be better than 50% of the people at that level, according most companies' hiring criteria. This means you realistically need to have a high degree of confidence that you're top ~5% material and that your not getting a perf bonus was in fact unfair due to an objective reason (rather than "I think I'm awesome because my boss said so in perf appraisal").

For L5 (~400k TC), the odds are a bit more forgiving, though not that much (you need to be top ~15%, give or take some). I have conducted a few hundred interviews for Senior SWE positions and the stats for job offer acceptance rate hovers around 1 in 10, which more or less corroborates. FWIW.
Paper currency would still exist. CBDC is strictly a replacement for digital money
The better question is, “why would you want to?”

Greed and money are always the answers to these pseudo-righteous questions. Greed and money.
Semaglutide is available as other, cheaper brand names. For example, Ozempic has similar dosages (I think 1.5mg and 3.0mg), and compounding pharmacies might be able to make you semaglutide doses that get even closer to Wegovy's. There's also Rybelsus, the oral semaglutide pill. (I'm not a doctor or in the medical/pharmaceutical industry, so please consult your doctor and pharmacist, they often know crafty ways to get insurance to cover things. Also, don't be afraid to work with your employer's HR, they can often administratively include things as an exception.)
You have better chances of resolving issues within a company, but the mechanics are exactly as you describe.

Being someone who likes to solve these problems, I'm aware that cost sometimes require you to walk away from solving a problem.
Then how did US intelligence pick up on invasion plans weeks before?
> or the official client

With https://github.com/haoict/twitter-no-ads and https://repo.packix.com/package/com.alwayslatesttimelinetwit...
Could it be suggested that banning end-to-end encryption may put citizens, businesses,institutions & infrastructure at risk from hostile nations (Russia in this instance), who may seek this as a potential attack vector?

Therefore we position EARN-IT as a national security threat over individual privacy.
or....how we messed up COVID data and election data for giggles....
All Atari has is nostalgia, MobyGames is very popular in retro circles and $1.5M is pretty much pocket change.

:(
I was also thinking about the same. I work in Germany, non FAANG, so the salaries are lower. I started one year ago.

With the very high inflation numbers, I can't stop thinking that I learned a lot of things, I'm more effective, yet, I get paid less and less. Due to churn and team growth, I also count as one of the people who have been here "long enough" to have context of different things.

My salary today, adjusted for inflation, is significantly lower than when I started.

The company is okay, I work from home most of the time, I go to the office maybe one a month? The main reason I plan to stay until the end of the year is that I got a 50 day holiday (that I'm not sure I could get anywhere else, most places in Germany offer in the range of 25-30). We also have a 10% time for self improvement (learn anything you want).

Lots of people ask about inflation and salary, and they want a raise. The company is delaying discussions about compensations, but I assume we won't get even inflation rate increase.

This forces me to re-evaluate whether I can afford to stay any longer, as other companies offer a better salary.

My current plan is to use some part of the holidays, and the company's self improvement time this year to upskill and leave at the end of the year if I can't get my salary back to market rate.
Disgusting? Really?

I can understand being underwhelmed by soft white bread, but calling it disgusting seems a bit extreme.
Maybe it is because of the beta, but I don't like to create an account to use search.
oh man you're right. I thought that green signage denoted a county road, like you see in the side by side the 237 being green, and the 101 being white. Now I'm curious where that tabulation was I saw years ago that detailed the differences in the sign shape color and appearance.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/CA-237,+Milpitas,+CA/@37.4...
If a central bank starts giving out loans it is called a state bank. It is no different from a regular bank and there can be many different state banks in a country.
The purpose of money is to trick farmers into producing food for everyone else so nobody starves. Any system where that happens is working acceptably. The inflationary fiat system is better at it than the gold standard - you'll recall there was a great depression and people were unhappy about it.

The luxury space communism idea where everyone just gets infinite money unfortunately has no evidence it'd work, because the farmers wouldn't believe you. The earlier systems, historical communism and feudalism, worked without money because you'd just have the farmers killed if they complained, but obviously that was problematic.
Thanks for reminding. Sent 0.026 btc to EFF.
The key is the presence of discerning customers who have high expectations.
So I tried these search engines. They're fun to try but kinda remind me of search before Google.

I'm frustrated with Google search results lately, they don't reach far enough back and are diluted with all sorts of crud.

But these alternative search engines kinda just remind me of why people started using Google. When I use them, I don't get spam, but I don't really get things I'm interested in either. It's like they don't understand what I'm really interested in and I either get no hits, or get hits on things that are just completely unrelated. It's like old-school chat software or something, complete with all the computer misunderstandings and whatnot.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a lot of competition in search. I use DDG a lot. But I'm surprised at how positive people's comments are about these alt search engines, because to me they have problems on the opposite end of the spectrum. To me, what Google returns is a pretty good understanding of what I want, but corrupted by manipulative spam; the other ones generally return no spam, but also not at all what I want.
> FYI, matrices transform between vectors within a vector space.

Square ones do, but m x n ones represent linear maps from an n-dimensional to m-dimensional vector space (over the/a field containing the elements of the matrix).
I'd definitely rather have access to NYC delis/bodegas than Japanese 711s.
"It was a dark and stormy night."

A perfect opening line. Followed by a long paragraph beating the same topic to death. And who remembers the rest-of-the-story.
Can be solved? Sure, it’s theoretically possible.

Will be solved? Lol. Not in the next twenty years, if ever.

90% of the population gives each other reach arounds for banning plastic straws and calling people living on the streets “unhoused neighbors”

They could do something useful, but damn, doing nothing and bragging about it feels sooooooo good.
Some VPN providers actually provides a virtual network address, so I guess it still counts as a network (albeit an isolated one).

I think a better description is: those companies are using a small set of VPN features to run proxy business.

BTW: In Android OS, if you want to intercept and redirect network traffic, you must(I guess??) use a component called android.net.VpnService(1) introduced in Android 4. Maybe this is what inspired those companies to name their product a VPN. Just a guess of course, but the timing is roughly a match.

1: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnServi...
Do you know how to access GT2 settings? I can't seem to find it after installing the script and confirming it works.
You have a good plan.

Complaints on comp and attrition, I've seen literally in every large-ish company I or my friends have worked at.
It's a lot of politics.

Since your at a FAANG, learn a lot, build network, and that shiny company name on your resume will help you move later when the time comes.
This might be the most low effort whataboutism I’ve read in a while. I’m not sure if you even tried to be relevant with your examples. Please put more effort into your comments.
> Also never met such mean people.

You think this has anything to do with putting in the bare minimum?
There’s probably better tools, but I use Keynote and Figma. With a bit of creativity, simple animation effects like “wipe” and “magic move” can go a long way.

Figma only does the equivalent of “magic move,” but it’s better than Keynote’s. I’ve used it to make sophisticated animations. See my Yow! presentation “Evolutionary Design Animated” for an example.

Prior to making that presentation, I looked at a variety of 2D animation tools, but they were meant for artistic animation and had so much power and flexibility that Figma was easier and faster.
U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles