This seems obvious though; a lot of people assert that Covid isn't "that serious" - if it affected a larger swath of the population with more consistently negative outcomes, of course they would have taken it more seriously and responded more in line with that. I feel like that was their entire point?
Is nursing home suicide a common thing? It's not something I've ever heard of before (and not something I would have any personal connection to). A couple minutes of googling seems to imply that nursing home rates are actually lower than general population, but maybe I'm not finding the right studies?
I started to write up a whole thing, but your hn history and linked twitter shows you're very openly rabidly anti-google. That's fine, and in general I'd even mostly agree with you. I draw the line at suggesting government raids of private companies, though. That won't ever be a good idea.
I can't get behind this. Suggesting that corporations be raided by the government is not a good idea.
To my knowledge, Google has not denied any information requests they've received (or been subpoenaed for), and actively work with law enforcement in circumstances required of them. If we get to a point where they stand in contempt of court ordered information requests, perhaps this becomes appropriate, but let's not jump straight there because they're a big (huge) company. Many, if not most companies have private information that only they would know about their company and don't have the expectation of turning it over, I don't think scale changes that.
Did anyone else read this as "Adobe Photoshop comes preloaded on Macs with Apple Silicon?" If I recall correctly, this was the case 15 (?) years back, I thought perhaps as a marketing gimmick, they were trying it again. Seems it would be a benefit to both of them - Apple can sell more hardware and Adobe can try to drive more people to purchase subscriptions with their app preloaded.
Three years ago, I was sent as a consultant to help a struggling small, local health insurance agency. They had a three man team, the lead had been there for fifteen or twenty years (built their system). He assured me on the first day that they didn't really have any bugs and that the system was pretty stable.
We were called in to help them because their management (and users) were aware they were underwater with the amount of bug fixes, live production data changes they made to keep things working, and impossibility of adding anything new to the system without tipping something else over.
It seems the attitude that "there's no chance we have any bugs" is pretty prevalent anywhere I've ever been, along with the usual mix of "how did this ever work" which I still always find pretty shocking to run across.
It seems like you are (were) a good candidate for a more comprehensive service for sure. Perhaps a better wording would have been "it's pretty simple as a resident and (W-2) employee," which encompasses the majority of those filing, and who probably don't need a service like TurboTax or an accountant.
I don't entirely understand this, but am I gathering that it's holding money for a "bet," similar to paying into a horsetrack and then going back to collect if your horse wins? Or is it an escrow where, during the time the money is held, it "generates profit" (invested elsewhere?) and then pays a return to those who contributed later?
fwiw - I don't have a yearn account, and am consequently unable to view your yearn link.
It's fully managed (meaning Amazon maintains it?) application deployment service (so, like CodeDeploy?) for container and serverless (again, CodeDeploy?). It allows you to connect and coordinate (?) all the different tools. I use AWS, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, Terraform, CloudWatch, etc. I don't understand from these two sentences where this falls into this, or if it's somehow meant to sit on top of it, etc. Like the GP, I came to this thread to see an explanation of what this actually means.
For what it's worth, I don't mean to make a link between fleets and misinformation. Kind of the opposite - it is so totally unrelated that it feels tone deaf
This seems tone-deaf to me. While the world is screaming about either censorship or misinformation issues with Twitter, they're launching a service to make ephemeral tweets ala Snapchat or Instagram stories. I guess they've got to keep developing something, but it feels like a weird time to launch this.
You are probably right that Hacker News isn't the best forum for policing discussion. In fact, the "off-topic" region of the guidelines would indicate this as well imo. But people have upvoted it to the front page, so there must be some interest at least. Best bet is probably to flag and move on.
I think GP had it stated correctly: if you want honest opinions, look at four star reviews. Five/one star extremes tend to read overly emphatic and aren't as likely to include both positives and negatives, so as a consumer (and perhaps as a platform hoping to show "good" reviews), these more moderate reviews will likely give a more accurate picture of the product, and thus could get priority for display. That said... as soon as you do that, obviously you're going to see four stars getting gamed as well.
A similarly shady/slimy local SEO vendor here called iNET encourages their clients to do the same thing - for instance, a siding company they work with says to their customers, "we'll give you $200 off if you leave us good Google reviews." Unfortunately, this works exceedingly well, as evidenced by their disproportionate mountain of five star reviews.
Per the article, your total size is something like 230kb, so more than half your size is in fonts? I'm sure I'm in the minority here in that I don't like loading external fonts, but couldn't system fonts be good enough, or using the default of the site you're hosted within?
To add to this, is cutting load time to one second (or half a second) going to impact the efficacy of the chatbox compared with doubling, tripling that load time?
Certainly there's an upper limit I, as a user, would wait to interact with someone, but load time seems like a pretty non-limiting factor. Since presumably something has pushed me to click this button, I'm going to have to type something into the box that will take more than five seconds to type, and then wait for (hopefully?) a real person to respond, or else play with the chatbot to find the right keywords to redirect me to a real person.
With that, I don't think waiting three to five seconds would hugely impact my experience in the scheme of the conversation that's going to follow it. However - since this is a 3rd party add on to my site, I would certainly appreciate it having a smaller footprint. Can't argue with that.
Here's an even easier one, Apple had them as early as 2006! But then pulled them, even though everyone loved them... and now are reintroducing it as new
There's also the consideration to be made that you knowingly had been selling bullhorns to the nazi in the past, and are continuing to sell bullhorns to other folks of questionable beliefs
This is also not new, this reminds me of the early days of eBay with user ratings impacting your ability to buy / sell goods (especially as a new account).
Porting to a typed language helped prevent type errors in a typeless language. Who woulda thunk?
I am currently also working on a project written in a JS backend that's slowly porting to TS, for the same reasons, but I still would prefer to go back to C# and take it a level further. I just don't enjoy the TypeScript language all that much.
Hmm, fair enough. This is ~what I was thinking, making inference from their flow through the site. I have seen that book on the desk of design folks I've worked with, but I've not looked through it... not a bad idea though. Thanks.
Genuine question, how would you find that users are struggling to find pricing using an analytics tool? How would you set that up / what would you look for to identify that? Something like scrolling around / back and forth implying they're struggling to find data or something?
Serious question -- isn't the lifetime of solar panels (or ancillary equipment) significantly less than 30 years? A quick Google looks like 15 years ish? I have never owned a home (or lived in one with solar), so I'm not sure of the actual typical mileage.
> he should send a cease and desist letter to every store stocking these
He's just a regular guy. I don't think he's going to be able to pull that off.
I think you're probably lashing out a bit hard at something that was probably unintentional. They should absolutely pull it back now that they know they've infringed, but (as pointed out in the comments) there a quick reverse search reveals many mirrors of the image. The person who pulled it may have even gotten it off a site that offered "free use," though they didn't actually own the image.
As far as 10x punishment and them using IP systems for a profit? 10x what measurement? And when has Netflix used IP for profit? I wasn't able to find any relevant cases from a quick search.