AnonHP

This is from 2003 (December, so it's about 21 years ago). Is it still relevant?

> It is the thing that keeps me from going vegetarian. Even with going off meat, I would still harm the livestock by consuming dairy.

You could go vegan.

> But there is _no_ version of a carnivore or meat-eating omnivore that does not involve killing and savagery

Absolute statements are not useful in this context. Vultures are obligate scavengers who eat the flesh of already dead animals as a practice. The dead animal could be due to death from natural causes (diseases, old age, injury, poisoning, starvation) or hunting by other animals. So there are some versions.

Also, as a couple of examples, the animal world is not one that has consent to sexual intercourse or empathy in killing an offspring who’s not their own. So your (or our) morals cannot be absolute for one purpose (killing an animal to eat the flesh) while being considerate for other aspects. In other words, we don’t gain much by pointing to the non-human world as a justification or excuse for our actions.

Needs (2020) in the title

> because nobody needs the features brought by the much bigger price tag

That sounds like a very bold claim, yet it reflects nothing from the real world. You may not need something, but that doesn’t mean others don’t or must not.

Technically, nobody needs anything beyond food, water, shelter and companionship (even the last one is arguable). Allow everybody to only buy the cheapest of foods and the most basic shelters. Then declare that anything else is a want. That just doesn’t make sense.

Nobody needs social media or HN or to be commenting on HN either, but here we are.

I’m getting a 404 error for the FAQ link in the footer. It seems like this is similar to FreeTube [1] (which is YouTube only though, whereas Grayjay supports multiple platforms). Does Grayjay allow downloading videos (and if yes, does it also allow choosing the quality/format)?

[1]: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

If anyone from tailscale see this comment, one important thing missing on this page is a link to the documentation. The video does explain things, but including the link to the documentation for reference and further learning would be quite useful.

Needs (2018) in the submission title.

It would be helpful to others if “Dr K” was expanded and the podcast name, YouTube channel name and the title of the book are mentioned.

I recall this being mentioned before and I thought I’d take a look. One thing missing on this site is a clear pricing page and pricing link in the menu and/or footer. Only the license page mentions that it is not free and that a paid license is required.

photomatt, if you’re reading this, you need to step away from all things WordPress and let someone else lead it. Focus on the lawsuit at hand and spend time away from the internet as much as possible. These kind of knee jerk and extremely petty actions don’t add any value to whatever you think your moral or legal position is. On the contrary, you (and you alone) are making things far worse for yourself.

Apple has been talking more about AR and discounting VR (like Meta’s grocery shopping and other “metaverse”) for many years now. Past keynote addresses as well as interviews with Tim Cook show that Apple didn’t consider VR alone as a game changer.

So far, it looks like Meta changed its view from VR-only and got into AR (with the new glasses). Apple is still pushing AR (with some VR).

Will Apple change its mind? Perhaps. That’s a good thing for companies to do in the face of new evidence/reception from the market.

Historical Japanese text, written vertically, is read top to bottom and right to left (like in those prints). On the other hand, more modern text (including what’s more common now) is read left to right when written horizontally. There are some more variations on directionality.

Nevertheless, the picture does look and convey a different impression when flipped.

> It's amazing I don't have to learn Android to get something up and running at this speed with Skip

Any thoughts on how you would debug issues on Android that don’t show up on iOS?

> Think about the large pause that happens when you switch wifi networks while using video chat. That’s exactly this issue.

I’m a bit lost. Under what circumstances do people even switch WiFi networks while using video chat and how common is this?

What I’d like is a prioritization of fixing the long neglected UI and UX. Start with fixing accessibility (vision, motor, etc.) first.

Dark mode can come after that (some may want dark mode all the time, some may want it to obey system settings, some may want a simple toggle on every screen).

> And it is so damn easy to use it's amazing to me the whole world doesn't use it.

Perhaps many of them are locked into “the cloud” and “serverless”, by default choosing the proprietary solutions offered by these providers on their platforms?

On a desktop browser, I pound the Escape key repeatedly to stop the loading. Many a times it works. But some sites have sneaky JavaScript loaded quite early and that starts doing some nasty stuff.

> And if a passkey were somehow stolen and added to a bad actor’s device, it would become useless because the thief wouldn’t have access to the true owner’s biometrics.

I’m not sure if the author really understands passkeys well, because this statement seems either illogical or false (depending on which platform, device and passkey app one is using).

> This was 50,000 years ago, they were Homo Sapiens, we are 200,000 years old.

I don’t know enough about the migration of human species and subspecies. Was this concluded in the article that they were Home Sapiens and not Neanderthals or Denisovans (or interbred between these and Homo Sapiens)? The latter two were around 50,000 years ago.

This is partly sarcastic.

Why not join YC instead and push through on UI changes? HN fails badly on accessibility (small fonts, small buttons, very close to each other, etc). Or just wait for the people working on HN to get older so they encounter the real issues firsthand and decide to make some changes?

From the FAQ:

> Are there any restrictions on the types of events I can create?

> Radius is open to a wide range of events, from small community gatherings to large-scale conferences. However, we do have guidelines to ensure all events meet our community standards and are appropriate for our audience.

The guidelines are neither linked from this answer nor are present in the Terms page. I’m not sure how a potential user would decide if their content is acceptable or brig group will suddenly vanish due to these unseen guidelines.

I couldn’t see anything about content moderation and related policies either.

> Who pays for the costs of private cloud compute, is it free of charge for the iPhone owner (at least until they turn it into a subscription)?

My guess is that this is similar to how iOS upgrades are “free”, how Apple Maps is free, how iMessage is free, how iCloud Mail is free, etc. To a good extent, it’s all paid for by the price paid by the customer for the hardware.

I’d also wager that there will be a paid service/subscription that will get baked into iCloud+ at some point in time (maybe a year from now). This will offer a lot more and Apple will try to attract more customers into its paid services net.

I have this happening once in a while. I know you didn’t mean to single out iPhone 15, but this issue seems to occur in any device with iOS 17 (and all its minor releases till date). I have had to restart my phone several times because of the Files app not responding.

Does anybody else wonder how our world would've been if Sam had chosen YC and instead left OpenAI?

The details in the article describe saddles from Specialized that solve the problem for women. It also says that men prefer and are able to use the same saddles (Mimic and Mirror), which is why Specialized doesn’t make women’s and men’s saddles separately anymore.

The larger problem is that most bicycles still seem to be sold with sub-par and harmful saddles. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of competition and innovation here for the mass market. One could buy a bicycle costing several hundred (or even a few thousand) dollars or euros with a lighter body, fancy brakes, suspension and so on, but you’d still get sub-par saddles.

As a non-cyclist, I’m curious to know if there’s even any kind of standardization to fit saddles to any bicycle…or is it that most common bicycles cannot have these custom or other better saddles fitted at all?

zz centers the screen on the current line. Use ZZ to save the file and quit. Use ZQ to not save but quit.

I didn’t understand why you put a sad face/frowny at the end of your last sentence. IMO, granting the freedom for people to choose to die (with checks and balances) is a good thing. I’m sure there will always be debates on whether the approval for one person was correct or wrong. The discomfort that most people have about other people dying cannot be easily alleviated.

Having ten years of therapy and then spending three and a half years to get approval for euthanasia…I can only empathize without knowing the depth of her suffering. Based on the description of her experience, some laws related to privacy of the individual choosing euthanasia may be helpful. Not surprised, but it did sound atrocious that many people around the world — who didn’t know her — believed and decided that they know better about what she ought to do.

> Phone numbers cannot be re-used

> Old phone numbers are recycled and get reassigned to other people.

Minor nitpick. It’s not that old phone numbers are recycled and reassigned but those that are disconnected/unused.

The duration before recycling varies by country, carrier and the carrier’s ever-changing policies.