johncena33

Please stop spreading disinformation. Mitchell got fired for leaking company documents to outsiders. When people spread obvious lies, that makes me thing they don't have anything substantial to begin with. that's why they need to resort to lying.

HN is a very pro-Amazon place. Regardless of what Amazon does, at least one of the top 3 comments is always justifying Amazon's actions.

Do you need a static ip address for it?

HN is on the fore-front of this Google bashing. Just look at this comment on another HN thread about "buy now, pay later". Here's the comment [1] which justifies MS actions:

> Maintaining browsers has become a significant undertaking, so complex that only well-funded corporate interests can afford to keep one patched and up-to-date with the latest web standards. It surpassed operating system complexity. It surpassed pretty much everything else too. So we can forget about it ever being truly "free" (and free from ads) unless we simplify the web somehow. I also don't think we're going to go back in time and start cutting features out of browsers. So that isn't going to happen

Google develops Chromium and Google gets constantly bashed for selling ads. MS modifies Chromium and adds their own branding and sell ads. MS is just trying to cover their development cost.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29354937

As a brown immigrant man, most of the sublte form of racisms I face come from previleged white women. My hypothesis is unchecked narrative of victimization is enabling racism. Most of these women don't probably think they are doing anything wrong to begin with since it's women empowerment.

Twitter is THE social media I am not able to use without letting it affect my mental health. Anytime I logged into Twitter, I came out more angry, bitter and outraged. It's like the whole platform is built around hot takes, dunking, bullying, and outrage. It always baffles me how mainstream media never utters a word how toxic Twitter is.

You can still take vaccines, wear masks, and practice distancing. At some point your well-being becomes solely your responsbility, not everyone else's. We can debate on where that point lies. Just because your fear of COVID is the trendiest political cause doesn't necessarily mean other people's quality of lives don't matter. Life is about trade-off, not about virtue-signalling.

I know 2 young perfectly physically healthy people personally whose mental health deteoriorated to the point that they became suicidal. So forgive me if I take offense at your comment.

The irony is Google is the evil corp. who is stalking users is to make more money. And when MS does it, it's because MS is just trying to make money for the service they are providing. Even when MS's browser is based on the work done by Google.

Yes, despite of all the cover-ups and lyings China is never responsible. And everyone else is responsible for pandemic.

I don't think your message will register here. The OG commenter spent the whole comment bashing Google, and the comment doesn't even mention Apple. That should tell you something. If Google stops Apple from doing so as the OG commenter wants them to, there'd be dozens of hot takes how Google is abusing its platform to prevent Apple from advertising. And the same group of people would be outraged at Google again.

HN has been slowly becoming Twitter. It's hot takes, dunkings, and outrages. It started with and mostly limited to Google bashing (as the current aricle is). Unfortunately it's going to spread. HN is on its path to become another toxic internet forum or social media.

It doesn't have to be Apple. There would be dozens of articles on HN front news and HN crowd would complain year after years about it.

Well, it wouldn't be HN if people couldn't post angry rants about Google. 10% of HN is just a group of same people complaining about Google again and again. Anytime I see a link about Google, I know there wouldn't be any insightful discussion. Just same people complaining endlessly about the same things. I wish mods would do a better job moderating this relentless tirades.

If this is the case with US, I wonder how bad it is in Canada. Canada housing market is flooded with foreign dirty money and the govt. doesn't seem to be interested into doing anything about it. Because it benefits existing house owners.

As an immigrant in Canada, I always thought Canada is the entry door in the West for China. Canada's biggest city Toronto not only has a huge amount of Chinese population, a vast majority of them are new wealthy immigrants. Urban white Canadians also tend to be pro-China under woke ideology umbrella.

The whole lab leak debate had been deliberately tarred as conspiracy theory and is still being suppressed by mainstream media. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2003 [2] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656

As much as I don't like social media and Zuck in general, I think social media get a lot of undeserved blame. The biggest culture shock I had coming to North America, how materialistic, exhibitionistic and keeping-up-with-the-joneses the whole culture is. Sure, social media has made it worse. Before you can broadcast your fancy car to your neighbors, but cannot broadcast your fancy dinner to the whole world. With social media it's possible to broadcast not only the fancy dinner also glamorized miniscule details of your life.

So, the social media has made things worse. But the culture of materialism and obsession with status was there well before social media has come into the picture.

> It's that he did it first.

By that logic Kim Kardashian is also a great artist. Because she is the first to popularize idea of being famous for being famous. As long as people, who claim Pollock is a great artist, also admit that Kim Kardashian is a great artist, I am good with the argument.

Actually I find it way more comprehensible than the posted link. The posted link seems to prioritize form over functionality.

Just out of curiosity, what's the percentage of users outside of devs do you think care about this feature?

> Then I read the first comment on this HN thread, which is directly comparing this to Toronto.

> [...] Reminds me of learning a new language, where beginners try to formulate thoughts in their native tongue and produce a direct translation, whereas those who are fluent can skip that step completely.

Immigrant brown man living in Toronto here. I don't have any dating life. Because dating a brown man is stigmatized, thanks to racism and media representation. My upper-middle class white therapist couldn't believe that I am at the bottom tier in the dating market.

So it's not just some language or cultural barrier. People have hard times understanding the predicaments of people from lower socio-economic strata even when they live in the same city and speak same language.

I've been programming in Python professionally for more than five years. I consider myself quite a good programmer. I still don't have good grasp on Python's import system. Does anyone else have similar experience?

It's really good point. I usually use this analogy in the context of unit tests. Everyone understands that the review process for a nuclear power generation site shouldn't be same as foot-bridge over a stream on a trail. However, this basic common sense is missing in all these clean code, TDD, unit tests etc. conversation.

I've seen a startup where the front-end is a very simple web-site (just some basic forms, charts and tables). But the team follows all the clean-code, TDD, unit test and whatever latest buzzword you can think of. It takes one front end developer to sort a list alphabetically more than a day, which probably takes a decent developer less than 10 minutes to finish. IMO, the whole clean-code seminars/books industrial complex if responsbile for the amount of time, effort and money wasted following these clean code trends without any real business value.

> My impression is more experienced developers test their code more often.

Java percentage is unit test is so high most probably because it's an enterprise language. And the whole unit test craze started with Java and jUnit.

> Dr Anderson also co-authored this withdrawn preprint, originally posted August 2020. Before it was withdrawn in March 2021, it had been cited by the China-WHO joint study & other Chinese scientists as evidence for frozen food #PopsicleOrigins of Covid-19.

- Alina Chen tweet [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1409338975274274820

Yes, he knew. Here's the presentation he did on gain of function research back in January 2018 [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/ydeigin/status/1400321255824371714

Fauci definitely knew about funding gain of function research. [1] Whether he was aware of funding going to WIV, that's a different question.

[1] https://twitter.com/ydeigin/status/1400321255824371714

I have very similar experience as the author. I come from a small town in a poor country. On top of it's culturally inappropriate to brag about oneself. My first years living in a big city in North America was very hard on me. Everyone is at the center of the universe. Everyone is just too cool, too savvy and so high opinion about themselves to be friend with someone like me.

After couple of years, now I can see through the BS and the whole high self-esteem culture behind it. North America is a very unique culture where having a (often unrealistic) high opinion about oneself is seen as virtue. Immigrants like me, who are not familar with North American cultural schtick, can easily fall for the whole high self-esteem ruse.

> The initial cluster was found at Wuhan, because there's a lab there

Citation needed. This seems hand-wavy at best. As a matter of fact, people were uncertain about disease itself [1]. I havent seen any article yet that asserts the fact that Wuhan cluster was detected because of the lab. Furthermore, Wuhan lab is a research lab. It's not some diagnostic lab that people go there to get tested for new variant of SARS viruses.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50984025