heavensteeth

I'm surprised by the amount of heckling this post received almost immediately! And a lack of constructive input.

I for one enjoyed the article and understand what you're getting at.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383220

> Then it forces me to thumbs down the music, which also isn't what I want to do, because I have no idea what effect it's having on my recommendations.

I feel this. Social media algorithms can be so complex and opaque now that I have to consciously consider what repercussions my interactions have. I have so little idea what interactions affect recommendations on e.g. Instagram that it almost feels random.

That's Go.

This is exactly my gripe unfortunately, it feels like needless fragility. IIRC the author has said they believe it wouldn't be too difficult to patch QBE to work as a library, but from what I've seen the code is somewhat terse and eccentric.

Most social media has been has been utterly untenable forever, but Twitter and Discord are the most troublesome in my experience. It's so hard to create and use a new account on those sites without the rigmarole of captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> verify email (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> verify phone number (due to suspicious activity). Then, want to follow someone, or join a guild? Hmm.. your account reputation is too low. Try again in a week?

I don't know how people do it. I can only figure it's my fault for running Linux or Firefox or not Signing in with Google™, upsetting the data harvesting overlords.

His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.

I struggle to believe you don't understand what they mean. There is many a homophobe in the world. GP isn't saying homophobia is good, simply that espousing a pro-LGBT viewpoint may upset people. Maybe they deserve to be upset, but that doesn't change that it may become your problem.

The author doesn't like HN.

Given the list of non-university .edu domains is static (or even decreasing assuming some expire), couldn't you keep a list of those instead?

The first thing I checked was how hashing is implemented and two things stand out to me:

1. Input must be valid UTF-8. 2. stdin is read to EOF instead of being read incrementally

Neither are ideal and can make ut unfit for a fair few use cases.

Did you vibe code this by any chance? It's clearly insecure.

Oh, yes, you did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44656840

I found a pretty cool 80kb docker image that is just a copy of busybox httpd, which makes creating a docker image out of static files very simple.[0]

[0] https://github.com/lipanski/docker-static-website

I tried Podman on my messing around VPS but quickly reverted to rootless Docker.

The straw that broke the camels back was a bug in `podman compose` that funnily enough was fixed two hours ago[1]; if `service1` has a `depends_on` on `service2`, bringing down `service1` will unconditionally bring down `service2`, even if other services also depend on it. So if two separate services depend on a database, killing one of them will kill the database too.

Another incompatibility with Docker I experienced was raised in 2020 and fixed a few months ago[2]; you couldn't pass URLs to `build:` to automatically pull and build images. The patch for this turned out to be a few lines long.

I'm sure Podman will be great once all of these bugs are ironed out, but for me, it's not quite there yet.

[1]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/pull/1283

[2]: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues/127

> even if cash is legal tender and they, by law, _have_ to accept cash

this is not true as it is not what "legal tender" means. Legal tender is something that the government must accept as payment, not private enterprise.

> Businesses don’t have to accept cash.[0]

> There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services.[1]

[0]: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic...

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me.

> Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape.

> In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex crime, child sexual abuse. Under Communism, arrests for child sex abuse averaged 2,000 a year. After porn became legal, the figure dropped by more than half to fewer than 1,000. More porn, fewer sex crimes.

The country's entire foundation shifted from underneath it; an empire collapsed around it. How could they possibly isolate the legalisation of pornography specifically as the cause of decreased rape? Why not the legalisation of private enterprise? Is it not feasible that living in a repressive, controlled, surveilled society caused men unrest?

Perhaps the studies cited went into more detail, but "Lots of rape in 1985, less rape in 2005. Porn was legalised between then, ergo porn caused this." does NOT convince me.

> Taking an extra two hours per passenger on average, that’s 1.725 billion hours, or $83 billion cost to the economy just for extra time wasted for domestic passengers.

That seems really wrong to me?

1. Business flyers are getting paid for the day, wherever they are. Whether they spend an extra hour in the office or at an airport is orthogonal to them getting paid. They may be producing less output which in turn decreases GDP, but that's its own can of worms and also not what this is trying to calculate anyway.

2. Leisure flyers, naturally, fly when either their business is closed or they've taken time off. So again, whether they leave at 2AM or 4AM, they're not getting paid for that day.

I don't think the layman would end up with any more money in their pocket were they to leave 2 hours later for their flights.

Mass appeal has mass appeal, apparently.

> - Signal: how can you believe it is not controlled once it becomes the mandatory app in the US Gov.

cryptography?

personally i havent watched tv or listened to the radio on my own accord in many years because there are too many ads. i like the idea of not being able to choose the content im engaging in but it feels like 70% ads and 30% content

Right, it's only natural; they MitM 20% of the internet.

Similarly, I struggle to believe they're not providing much of the data they collect to the CIA.

That article reeks of AI generation. The "author" also uses an AI generated profile picture. I struggle to trust anything this page says.

I ask in complete earnest: is that your honest reaction to seeing it, or did you hype it up for your comment? Personally very little could evoke that kind of reaction from me. Maybe a little, "oh, that's an interesting thing to be turned on by" but for the most part, who cares?

Whether or not you agree with Kent on this, you have to commend that he tends to be very active in discussing issues with the community in a fairly open, calm, and thought out way (at least from what I've seen).

Comparatively, I find subtweeting him from the sanctity of Mastodon, with a few insults and backhanded complements thrown in for good measure, a bit low.

SponsorBlock doesn't send video IDs to the server.

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer/issues/25

I'm not surprised by the data recovery company story, it feels like I only hear bad things about that industry. I remember something similar happened with LinusTechTips.

> I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

- Blaise Pascal

im also unfortunately immediately weary of pretty, punctuated prose now. when something is thrown together with and features quips, slang, and informalities it makes it feel a lot more human.

I've referenced this a few times working with Win32, it really saved my ass. I don't remember being able to find many other simple matter-of-fact C Win32 documentation.

Win32 is weird and ugly and annoying at times, but I kind of love it. I just wish I actually used Windows so that I could play with it more; unfortunately Linux has no way to create simple lightweight applications like Windows does.

Pretty reductive. The author even lists pros and cons for every alternative, as if every option is a shade of gray except email+password.

I'm not going to force users of my service to create a Google account, I'm not going to let Google decide whether a user's account should be banned on _my service_; and I'm not going to oblige users to sign using webauthn.

Recently I've had Google return results lacking search terms I've put in quotes (and then clicked "Show results for xxx instead" when it tries to 'correct' me). I have no idea how I'm supposed to make my desire any clearer.