enlyth

EU really dropped the ball on this one, this should've been a browser setting you set once.

It was completely obvious from day one that companies would dark pattern the hell out of this to make people default to accepting.

Yeah, I use Mint on my laptop (not my main PC), but it's a bit rough around the edges. I spent an hour trying to get the fingerprint reader to work, having to compile the driver myself, and it's still a bit buggy sometimes.

Bluetooth also randomly bugs out, mouse or airpods refuse to connect for no reason. Touchpad a bit wonky, pinch zoom doesn't work out of the box, I assume it's some setting somewhere but can't be bothered.

Discord can't update itself, I have to download and install it from a file each update.

Little things that add up to hours and hours of your time wasted.

About 70% of the world's people using computers, or anyone that wants to play PC games, so yeah, literally no one

Not deleted, just suddenly demoted to the 4th page. It's that broken HN algorithm that randomly messes up the front page for no reason.

Is that even a Shaggy defense? The whole point of the Shaggy defense was that it's saying it wasn't you despite overwhelming evidence ("She even caught me on camera - it wasn't me")

But in this scenario, there is basically zero evidence it was you

> Our software could have radically accelerated and improved the Alexa experience basically overnight

By improve the Alexa experience, do you mean make it more useful for users or help it shift more chineseware for Amazon? Because as a user, I will never order anything without seeing a picture and reading reviews, voice shopping is dead on arrival

If it's the former, I imagine it's Alexa hooked up to some gimmicky LLM, and I don't see where the actual profit comes from, I would have laughed and left the room too

Ant Design is honestly excellent, we've used it at work for a few smaller React projects and it felt so much better than most of the other alternatives like Material UI

It's very batteries included, you don't even need to use any external form handling library

Regarding the zero knowledge proof, there'd be a chance that the two random ones you reveal are the same color, if three weren't enough.

So by doing this over and over again, if the two you choose are always different colors, you approach a 100% certainty that it's legit.

You never really get a 100% proof but the more times you repeat the closer you are to being sure. At 99.999999% after repeating this enough times, you'd most likely be satisfied.

The term "invasive species" never made sense to me. It just means something can evolutionary outcompete other things, because it is better at utilizing that environment.

Basically putting a label on things we don't like.

I'm not an ML engineer and the only reason I know that the wireless protocol exists is because in every HN article, there's a comment repeating the same complaint

IMHO one of the worst things about the current state of the web, especially if you're browsing on a device like an iPhone which doesn't have uBlock Origin.

It used to be, you open a website, you can view the content. Now it's more like you open a website, get an overlay popup, take 30 seconds to solve the dark pattern logic puzzle of disabling tracking, then you view the content. Every. Single. Time.

> How many people prefer the faked shuffle way?

I am one of those people who prefer the fake shuffle. I like how it kind of shuffles but still "knows" what I want to listen to. There is a decade's worth of music in my Liked Songs and my taste has changed over time, so I don't want to listen to most of that music at a given moment, but I still want to keep it there for archival/nostalgia purposes

The thing I find funny about WizzAir/Ryanair is that because they have bundled the larger cabin bags with their priority boarding, when you show up, about 90% of the people are in the so called priority boarding queue.

If everyone has priority, no one has priority.

That still feels like a chore, opening some text file, copying the right command, opening a terminal, messing around with input and output file paths..

I don't like interacting with command line parameters in general, it feels clunky to me, but I don't think there's a point in arguing about it since it is more of a personal preference

That's such a clunky workflow and takes so long, sometimes you want to drag and drop a file, tick a couple of checkboxes and click a button

This depends on where you live, in some countries I believe they don't even exist, but I can speak for the UK where interest only mortgages are meant for landlords, you basically get a mortgage with a minimum of 25% deposit, none of the principle is paid off at any point, you rent out the property and collect the difference between your interest payment and the premium the tenant is paying.

They are normally inaccessible to people who don't already own their own property, even more so by the nature of the higher than usual deposit required, so it's an investment vehicle for already well off people to leverage more money into property and extract money from tenants

It puts upwards pressure on housing prices because you don't just get the family that wants to own a home or the occasional landlord who wants to own and rent out a second holiday house, it's a purely synthetic financial product that lets you take a house out of the market and arbitrage on the difference between your interest payments and the tenant's rent

It is not uncommon for people like this to own tens or hundreds of properties in their portfolio this way, and these are the people crying first and loudest when interest rates go up because their rental yields can no longer cover the interest only payments on the houses they "own". Whatever happened to being on the hook for bad investment decisions? They think they should get special treatment because they're providing a so called service to the tenants

I'm in the negative for my opinion but I'll still bite.

People don't live in houses on interest only mortgages, they use them as leveraged investment vehicles to speculate, rent out, and then roll them into even more leverage as time goes on.

I have nothing against classic mortgages where you pay the principle off, I have one myself, but I will maintain my opinion that interest only mortgages shouldn't exist despite the unpopularity.

Among other things, I think interest only mortgages are a completely degenerate financial product that shouldn't exist, the only purpose is so someone can leverage themselves to the tits on housing

I have never heard of Takis and I assume most people outside of the US haven't either

A local restaurant where I live has a dish (chili pepper squid) where they add a generous amount of saffron to it, and I always wondered how they can keep the cost so low.

Now when I looked at the pictures on the website you linked, it definitely looks like the fake stuff.

I believe the main advantage of the A100 is the memory bandwidth. Computationally the 4090 has a higher clock speed and more CUDA cores, so in that way it is faster.

So for this specific application it really depends on where the bottleneck is

I don't think it's that considerable, I made a script to defeat it with vision in only a few minutes:

https://gist.github.com/enlyth/a177e4102b0da37a73587e15dbd68...

This could be further optimized to not scan the whole screen, and faking some human like mouse movements shouldn't be that hard too

What's amazing is that the human brain does it all on the equivalent of like 20 watts of power. That's basically a couple of LED light bulbs.

It's a useful distinction to have though, as a user I expect a toggle to take effect immediately, but with a checkbox I don't, it is usually used for a "dirty" state that has to be confirmed by a submit action

There are situations were either behaviour is preferable to the other

But then as the parent poster mentioned, what's the point of the whole canary concept

Feels like it would be worth it, at least eventually. Time is worth so much more than money

It's getting genuinely difficult these days with everything walled behind Cloudflare, various anti-bot protections and increasingly creative CAPTCHAs

Interesting, I've never seen a bus with seat belts