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This presumes that the metrics they optimize for are intended to represent usefulness to actual users and not, say, ad revenue. Even if they do intend to optimize for usefulness, this doesn't mean that they have metrics that accurately represent that.

I also think you're underestimating average users. Anecdotally I've heard my parents complain repeatedly about the incoherent, auto-generated, affiliate link spam that plagues product searches.

In terms of cultural differences, the blue/white collar divide is definitely massive. I believe the parent comment is looking at it in more economic terms, where the worker/employer distinction is more meaningful.

I've gotten in the habit of reading for 30min-1hr before bed recently and It's been helping a lot, especially when I'm not in a good place mentally. It adds a nice buffer between whatever I was doing in the evening and bedtime. When I don't read I tend to end up lying awake in bed for an hour or two, ruminating on whatever the stressor of the day was (or worse, picking up my phone again to distract myself). Reading gives my mind something else to focus on while I wind down, and I usually find myself starting to drift off naturally after 30-45m.

It does indeed seem likely, but the evidence we have at this point is circumstantial. Until we have concrete evidence, stating it as fact is premature.

If you send a hash, the hash itself effectively becomes the password. If the server is compromised or the hash is intercepted, the attacker has everything they need to authenticate as you.

With private/public key pairs, the same scenario would result in the attacker only obtaining your public key, which is useless without the private key.

> You are aware a catalytic converter is a wear part that is a component of the exhaust system, right?

Not op but I didn't realize it was a wear part, and I would imagine that most people don't either given how long they last on modern vehicles.

Your explanation is helpful, but the tone of this comment is needlessly aggressive. The goal here should be to help each other learn, not shoot each other down.

Amazon isn't exactly well known for their high hiring standards.

I've found Hugo to be a good option.

https://gohugo.io/

I don't think it's a negative in absolute terms, it's just an argument against loyalty to a company. Loyalty is a two way street, and is defined by how people treat each other when times are tough.

It is common for companies to expect "loyalty" in the form of working extra hours when the company is in a tight spot or settling for meager raises rather than switching companies while at the same time laying people off at the first sign of trouble. In such an environment, an employee offering loyalty to a company when none is offered in return is setting themselves up to be taken advantage of.

It'd be interesting to see how much of the interest in the no-OS option is due to Linux vs people choosing to buy a Windows key cheaper elsewhere.

Let's be clear here, the "system" in question is just exploitative management. If management knows a worker will be taking their leave they can either hire to make up for it or adjust their productivity expectations for a few months. If they don't, that's not the fault of the person taking the leave that they're entitled to as part of their compensation package.

One of the most common arguments I see repeated here when unions come up is the idea (not sure if it can be backed by evidence or not) that unions protect underperformers and stifle top performers. Combine this with the fact that most Americans believe they're above average intelligence [0] and you end up where a situation where most people believe that they personally would be worse off under a union.

I suspect that the HN demographic (and I include myself in this) is particularly prone to this sense of illusory superiority [1]. We're a demographic that is more likely than most to have grown up constantly receiving external validation that we're exceptional via good performance in school, getting into elite universities, occupying extremely high paying jobs, and so on.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029792/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

I definitely agree that his comments there were irresponsible and harmful but framing it as him making a suggestion that people try the things he's describing doesn't seem like an accurate representation of what he said.

This is critical. Public policy cannot and should not be based purely on science. Science can give us hints as to how me might be able to optimize for certain things, but it can't tell us what things to optimize for. That's a question of values.

This is a great point, and one that I wish was more widely understood. In my anecdotal experience at least the latter group by far outnumbers the former, and treating the "good faith but poorly informed" group as you would the bad faith group is nearly always counterproductive.

> Just imagine the politician of your nightmares being in control of the regulations.

Even the worst politician is (ostensibly) accountable to the people. Corporations are not.

Worth noting that Waterfox was acquired by System1, an advertising company. While I've seen no evidence that this has affected the browser itself yet, I'd be a bit concerned about the incentives this creates.

https://system1.com/press/system1-welcomes-waterfox

> If these were caveman times and those people were drinking from a different stream, we would tell them not to drink from it.

Fortunately our understanding of statistics has advanced somewhat since the time of the caveman.

When Chicago did the same, they saw an increase in the rate of returns.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/30/20940677/chicag...

If someone wants to steal a book, why would they come back and pay the fine? The only people who would pay the fine are the ones who want to continue checking out books, so preventing them from doing so if they have a late book is incentive enough.

This is a pragmatic move by the libraries. The reality of fines is that they don't prevent bad actors from stealing books. All they accomplish is disincentivizing those who miss their due date (whether intentionally or not) from bringing the book back.

Chicago did a similar thing a couple years back and actually saw an increase in returns.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/30/20940677/chicag...

I think it depends on what mental health support means. If it means helping pay for therapy and managers making accommodations and being genuinely supportive of people when they're having a hard time, that's fantastic.

Unfortunately at many companies it just means a presentation from HR every couple of months that boils down to "10 strategies to cope with the burnout we're causing". Meanwhile the people with actual power to change things keep pushing the same "aggressive" deadlines and refusing to provide the support/resources necessary to meet them in a healthy and sustainable way.

> Or more philosophically speaking, whose fault is it that people living under democratic rules don't challenge the efficacy of their governments? Or, perhaps more importantly, why?

Because, in the US at least, average people have very little actual influence over government policy relative to the influence enjoyed by business interests and the capital class.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

> Collaboration is done better in person. I believe anyone who disagrees with that is actually only disagreeing for selfish reasons (i.e., they want to continue WFH), or they go through mental gymnastics to justify it in their head.

Please consider that your experience is not always representative of everybody else's experience. Just because someone doesn't feel the same way as you doesn't mean they're lying to themself or others.

It's not a question of trust, vulnerabilities can happen to anyone. Even if the devs at Microsoft were perfect (they aren't), all it takes is an rce in one of the libraries vscode depends on. (Like Chromium, which has happened before [0])

[0] https://www.electronjs.org/blog/chromium-rce-vulnerability

Waveshare has one. Haven't used it personally but it seems to suit your needs. Though at ~$50 you're probably better off just getting a Pi 4B + PoE hat.

https://www.waveshare.com/compute-module-4-poe-board.htm

> But it's good only for 20-30 minutes, then it's soaked from the moisture in your breath and no longer does its job.

The study linked in GP seems to directly refute this.

"Overall protection factors calculated per type of mask were stable over time, and did not change statistically significant with prolonged wearing."

The quote from the CDC makes no claims about efficacy, only that supply is limited and healthcare workers should be given priority.

> I tend to far more blunt with my comments probably because I just get a kick out working up the zealots on both sides.

HN is not the place for that sort of thing.

Of course. But I'd must rather a company do the right thing for the wrong reasons than just do the wrong thing.

Besides, corporate "values" are flimsy and change at the drop of a hat. Profit is the only incentive that remains constant. I find it much easier to trust a company who does a good thing because it benefits their bottom line than one who does something just because the current leadership decides to do it out of the goodness of their heart.

> instead of complaining about surveillance in intelligence, which likely doesn't relate to you, why not complain about "normal" civil liberties in a criminal law context

Because some of us believe privacy to be a human right and aren't willing to accept violations of other's rights even if we might happen to benefit from it in the short term?

Also, it absolutely does apply to us. The biggest revelation of Snowden's leaks was that the NSA was collecting data on all of us, not just people for whom they had probable cause. Just because that data hasn't been used against you or me yet doesn't mean it never will.

Big fan of Arq! Been using it to backup to my NAS + Wasabi + Google Drive for the last year or so and it's been rock solid.

https://www.duplicati.com/ is a solid FOSS option as well though I've found it to be a much less polished experience than Arq.