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hyperhopper··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
You two are nitpicking over "ads" vs "ads exchange" without saying it or talking about it meaningfully
hyperhopper··on test, [, and [[ (2020)
You'd be surprised how much of the world runs on cobol and Fortran.

Doesn't mean those are good or even okay or that people should choose to use them.

hyperhopper··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
The more and more I see the way complex share structures are used, the more I think they should be outlawed
hyperhopper··on The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains
For 1. There was a full writeup posted on HN about this a year or two ago. The answer is pretty much that the tube is far deeper than any other competing system and also is below things that can't be disturbed for ventilation shafts.

It's getting like 1-2 degrees hotter each year

hyperhopper··on Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
If you go to bed late, wake up early, need to charge for a few minutes at a party, etc, android slow charge at best doesn't work, and at worst works against you.

I have no idea how setting charging settings on our mobile computing devices is something that is not supported in 2023

hyperhopper··on Volunteer.gov: Discover volunteer opportunities around the country
Which part are you confused about? I like to have a lock on my door.
hyperhopper··on Volunteer.gov: Discover volunteer opportunities around the country
As somebody that's enjoyed many months living exclusively in hostels:

You're out of your mind. Homes should be a standard. That's like, one of the basic human wants/needs as an organism. And having the privacy of your own space is essential to the human psyche.

hyperhopper··on Hackers know everything is securities fraud
Instead of insulting people, give the context
hyperhopper··on Microsoft will allow uninstalling Edge, Bing, and disable ads to comply with Act
Even aside from the hostility, it just lacks in usability. Every month I find myself frustrated at something it can't do.

Most recently: you cannot even change where notifications get displayed or their behavior.

What??? Why am I forced to have them in a place where they interfere with the input box for many sites that I use? In my arch install I have them in the center middle with a hotkey to dismiss one or all. And that's just a basic setup.

hyperhopper··on Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022
1. Are you saying something is wrong with amateurs making 20%?

2. If an amateur could do it, hedge funds, HFT firms, etc have definitely been doing it for longer than them and have taken away and arbitrage opportunities.

3. It very likely might be that the one month lead that the politicians have make their trades profitable, while anybody copying them will be unprofitable due to those same politicians decisions

hyperhopper··on Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022
Why in the world would somebody be complaining about the first one? Obviously the second one is a long standing, often talked about issue and is what they mean. Don't play dumb.
hyperhopper··on Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI
Please don't comment without reading the article. The article clearly states it is not a real website intended to actually connect killers with clients.
hyperhopper··on Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games
Sad that it's only simpler games. Like when I really need an app or paper it's for something like 18xx games. At this level 80% of the games id do in my head and the rest are just as easy with the calculator app
hyperhopper··on Show HN: Scorecard.gg – minimalist scoring tool for your favorite board games
Doesn't look to be updated for modern android versions
hyperhopper··on I couldn’t move for a postdoc and shouldn’t have been penalized for it
1. The requirements are fucked 2. The author knew the requirements were fucked, but now is acting surprised that that's the case
hyperhopper··on Confusing Git Terminology
See also: Git Koans

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

hyperhopper··on The mortgage market is so bad lenders want ex-employees to give back bonuses
Contracts I've signed stipulate that the bonus can only be owed back if fired for cause.
hyperhopper··on Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are safer than humans
If you live in an environment with inclement weather and awkward roads, everybody can't just choose to not drive there, but wayno can.

It's a question of their dataset not being comparable, not their individual driving decisions being better on a day to day basis

hyperhopper··on Toyota adopts the North American charging standard
Tesla got preferential treatment from a government entity and benefitted from public funds.

Also the government subsided them by effectively paying a portion of every Tesla sale price for a long while.

hyperhopper··on My Google Play Developer account has been terminated
As a lowly person who only worked for Google for ~5years:

How in the world did that get approved?? Why was age of code not one of the first things bright up in one of the many design reviews that this went through. Utterly shocking.

hyperhopper··on Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions
I'm using at least 4-5 browsers a day, can't imagine having to take manual steps between those.
hyperhopper··on Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Commerce
Not the sole purpose of creating political pressure: there is also the benefit to business of showing a customer a lower price and psychology easing them into spending more.
hyperhopper··on "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming
The two together are key. There are many subreddits which had a great culture but mods went underwater when the sub hit ~100k, the point where every sub becomes closer to the norm. And obviously you can't just pay a mod to create something special, it takes two.
hyperhopper··on YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content
While I agree with the idea of your comment:

Whose turf is the Internet?

hyperhopper··on AI accurately predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance
~61% is what that sounds like.

Even lower it you take the f1 score...

hyperhopper··on Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
The first part of all the shit that's bad, is to have a phase where it's good first.

"It's good for now" is just the typical path to it becoming shit.

hyperhopper··on Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
The same thing that happened with Netflix. Everybody loved it when it started, now things come in and out of the catalog, quality has gone down, prices have gone up ads have been added, and you need to subscribe to 10 other services as well.

Why are people acting like gamepass is a good thing

hyperhopper··on Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)
Cops don't have to be in cars
hyperhopper··on Railroad "Time Zones" of the United States (1868)
The organization will grow outside of that time zone. And then migration will be infeasible and you'll be stuck with 2 timezones for everything.

See: Google

hyperhopper··on Railroad "Time Zones" of the United States (1868)
This only matters in inter-timezone communication, which I'd wager is less than 0.0001% of communication. Let's not optimize for edge cases
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