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peterlkon Monthlong denial-of-service against PyPI

What incentive would anyone have to do this? Show of force? Frustration about a specific package?

Simple was an online bank. They had no physical branches and charged very low fees. Personally, I think they're one of the best banks around, and I'm very disappointed to hear that they're shutting down.

peterlkon Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology

Not OP, but I feel similarly. I'm going to go get the vaccine as soon as I can because what's the alternative? I want to go to concerts and travel again. If I don't get the vaccine my choices are: 1) not care and probably get COVID-19, which has a chance of developing the same autoimmune issues that have been discussed 2) hide in my room for another unspecified length of time.

It is at this point that I remind myself of all the other dangerous things that I do: driving, motorcycling, rock climbing, skiing, etc.

The risk of long term side effects is worth the benefit of spinning up the global economy again.

peterlkon Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?

Yes, this is exactly what I mean.

I feel your pain for writing. This morning, I accidentally deleted all my notes from yesterday and could not recover them from my phone because there is no undo (!!? How can phones still not have an undo?) in my note-taking app. I had to get up and recover the version from my desktop because I wasn't signed in to dropbox on my phone.

peterlkon How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss

I wonder if the "I'm feeling lucky" has stayed around because it's a good training heuristic for Google Home (and maybe other services?) even if very few people actually use it. I'm genuinely curious why they've kept it around.