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I appreciate the need for them to do what's right for their business, and that the HN crowd is probably not representative of their broader customer base.

With that said, they've lost a customer here. I would prefer not to pay a subscription, but I might have (though if you do the math, I've had paid upgrades frequently enough I'm not sure they'd have made more money off me with a subscription).

The sticking point is the lack of local vaults and removing the native app. Very disappointing.

The reason I used 1Password to start with and not KeePass was because it was Mac native. It is so deeply depressing to have faster and more efficient computers year-on-year and have all that efficiency wasted by moving to Electron apps. It sounds absurd to say, but there's a real ecological cost to less efficient apps too; it really does add up in aggregate.

The lack of local vault is the ultimate deal breaker, not because I think 1Password are untrustworthy, but because I'm reassured that I don't _need_ to trust them in the same way with a local vault as I need to if they're hosting the vault themselves.

I think what's most disheartening about this is that the customers who dislike this the most are also likely the customers who've been with them the longest and helped them build their business. I know I've been using 1Password since v2.

Given that password management is so central to our daily productivity, jobs, personal lives, I'm not surprised people have some very strong opinions about this. I hope the 1Password management read these threads, but I doubt it.

I will stick with 1Password 7 for as long as I'm able.

The person you're responding to is asking themselves questions about the decisions they're making, the impact of those decisions, and if they can make better decisions to reduce the harm they might be causing. Is this so bad?

I agree, for what it's worth. You're not alone with this.

Of course, there are many individual life circumstances that mean a car is an absolute necessity, but for many people it's a choice, whether they acknowledge they've made that choice or not. This is especially true for people who are more affluent.

Seems like there's a lot of potential in code-based games, not just for learning but for a creative outlet. Wish the contrast was a bit higher on this one though!

I think you slightly misread the article. His sadness was for those people who wanted to hear the cuckoos (for example, birdwatchers) but could not because they were in a hurry, or did not have the patience or the time to listen.

This is in the UK where there exists something of a social safety net. For example, I very much doubt he pays for his sister's carers (speaking from experience), and he will have healthcare available for himself if he needs it. So he may not feel the need to consider an exit plan.

> Books aren't fruit.

Books may not be, but:

“I have a theory that plays go off, like fruit,” Tom Stoppard

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/tom-sto...

There's something to be said about fiction tapping into a zeitgeist, and how fleeting that is. Even if the fiction remains relevant and interesting, it can still lose the emotional resonance it had when it was first released.

I share your skepticism about the "arrow of progress" however, so don't interpret this as an argument against what you're saying, just offering a counterpoint. Many classics have left me cold on reading them, even ones that I recognize are structurally excellent.

Hypothetically, you could imagine that a long voyage might need a decent Netflix library, and that new media production might not be feasible en route -- perhaps this would help maintain a common language?

Sincere question: why do we assume people in the past were so filthy?

I'm sure there are notable examples of unhygienic cities or buildings (I've read about a few) but in general one suspects there may be a tendency to exaggerate the "uncivilized" nature of people from the past. Romans clearly put a lot of values in their baths, for example, which suggests a people who value cleanliness.

Uninformed on this, so interested to hear a perspective!

It's likely expensive because of the synthesis and quality control not because of the raw ingredients (not that they're necessarily cheap either).

> I don't know if that's because matter moves as a wave at the atomic level or if that's just an artifact from the camera.

Artifact of the imaging, note the time scale of the movie, it's much longer than any quantum oscillation. Each individual image of the movie is taken eons apart from the perspective of the crystal.

This is a fair question.

Any test has a certain percentage of false positives and false negatives -- in fact, you can likely tune your ratio of false positives to false negatives depending on what your priority is. On a community level, the statistics from testing are essential for monitoring the spread of a disease, but on an individual level a test can still give an incorrect result, so shouldn't be the only factor when making decisions.

For an individual, if they have a negative test AND no symptoms AND no contacts with known COVID-positive individuals, then they can proceed as-if they don't have COVID and take standard precautions. However, if they do have symptoms, then that might mean further testing is required.

For anyone interested about testing, this graphic is essential:

https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-020-02...

It shows the difference in test efficacy for different tests (rapid antigen, PCR, antibody tests) as a function of time from symptom onset.

Rapid antigen tests only have a narrow window of efficacy. If they come back positive, you likely have COVID, but if they come back negative you could still have COVID and could still be contagious.

This is also why many countries are requiring PCR tests prior to entry, because they are more effective than rapid antigen tests, although can also give false negatives, especially early after exposure.

That's a fair point, there's some more good discussion on this here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03519-3

For the broader point, regardless whether or not someone is more likely to have a common cold or COVID given the same group of symptoms, I think the point stands that if someone has symptoms consistent with COVID they should proceed as-if they have COVID -- especially given the current case rate in US.

Thanks for sharing your story, it's useful to hear anecdotes. I also want to emphasize I was making a general comment and not intending a personal criticism.

The points raised by bigiain and mxcrossb are well-made, "cold-like" symptoms are COVID symptoms, the loss of taste and smell only occurs in some cases. CDC has a full list of coronavirus symptoms[1].

I fear that many are flying, socializing etc. when they are actually symptomatic (e.g. headache, sore throat) because they consider these minor symptoms, or perhaps they can just "hope for the best", but the severity of the symptom doesn't change whether or not someone is symptomatic.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/s...

I'm glad the OP made the correct decision in this case and hope they get well soon.

> the assumption I had a minor cold > the loss of smell was total

Since there does seem to be a messaging problem about the reliability of testing, I think it's worth emphasizing: if someone has symptoms of COVID, they should proceed as-if they have COVID. CDC guidance[1] is to isolate if you have a positive test OR if you have symptoms.

To do otherwise is to gamble with the health and lives of the people they meet, and the people those people meet, and so on. It may prove almost impossible to show who caught COVID from whom, but that doesn't mean that ignoring guidance won't lead to deaths. A statistical death is still the death of a real person, even if we can't put a name to them.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/is...

Does anyone know the latest on the Swift-Python bridge from the TensorFlow team[0]? Is this still in development or usable for iOS apps?

[0] https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/tutorials/python_interopera...

Thanks!

> On Monday, the CMO cited the chief minister’s advice against large gatherings to say they didn’t have “infrastructure to screen and hand out masks to 5 lakh people”.

For anyone interested, I did some quick math and it seems like it'd be about two tablespoons of hand sanitizer per person (500k people / 4000 litres).

They're an effective diagnostic, faster than testing for the virus directly. At least they seem to be effective at these fever clinics. NYTimes Daily podcast had a good explanation of how these fever clinics work.

I wouldn't say it's terrible. There's a distinction between Dash itself (very general/customizable framework) and Plotly charts (agreed, some chart types are poorly documented).

Dash >= 1.0 has been pretty stable and well-documented without many breaking changes imo.

That's a very narrow lens with which to look at it. It matters a great deal when your friends, co-workers and communities would be affected by policies like this. Historically, the UK has benefitted immensely from its immigrant population.

Sure. I don't think points-based systems are in-and-of-themselves unreasonable, in that there are good-faith arguments to be made in their favour. It's the undercurrent of meanness and xenophobia behind the policies that's more frightening to me.

It's difficult to comment on this one policy without contextualizing what's happened to Britain as a whole over the last few years, and a lot of it has been pretty ugly.

UK citizen here. "High-skilled" worker, left the UK. Policies like this do not make me want to return.

It is only correct and right that all these bronzes are returned.

The moral argument aside, I don't think the 'safety' argument holds either. For example, an artifact might be 'safest' if it's enclosed in a concrete box at the center of a mountain, but that would be of no use to anyone if it can't be seen. Artifacts like these belong to the people who created them, are most relevant to those people and their descendants, and therefore it is to them that they should be most accessible. For the average person in Nigeria, these artifacts might as well not exist if they're in the British Museum or elsewhere, since they will never be able to see them.

Finally, if the British Museum truly have been good stewards of these artifacts, their rightful owners might decide to loan some of them back, but that is wholly their determination and their choice to make.

> Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup sold for $11.7 Million.

Does money define art?

Brown's standard patter starts with him saying he performs a mix of "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship." He is very good at what he does. I suspect most of his tricks are of the more traditional magic variety (misdirection and showmanship) but dressed up as if they're psychology and mentalism, but that's ok.

More than this, he seems to be a good person, and has a deep disdain for people who use similar techniques in fraudulent ways to take advantage of vulnerable people rather than to entertain, and has worked to educate people.

'Inferno' would be nice for this, also perceptually uniform, and has the benefit that space is still black.

> I've also seen a few PhDs at my last company end up as systems engineers which is incredibly depressing because they could have been employed in that same role if they stopped at a bachelors.

It’s only depressing if they feel like they didn’t get anything out of their PhD :)

Discussion here [0], also recommend this lecture[1]. I'm personally not a fan, but I like that people talk about it :) Dogma isn't good for anyone!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198025

[1] http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/PWT/lectures/bohm7.pdf

Are Ubiquiti decent? It looks like they have a consumer line (AmpliFi).

Cost is not a primary concern, within reason. Wanting a consumer focused router is more about wanting to minimize set-up time and maintainence. Frankly, I’m not sure I have the time or trust myself to set up OpenWRT correctly/make sure it’s updating regularly/I’m installing the correct version etc.