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kar5pt··on Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware
So why exactly can't they do an OS update with the new signing keys? OEMs put out OS updates all the time. Plus if they don't want to do that, they could update their individual apps to use the v3 signing schema. They've had 6 years to figure this out.
kar5pt··on Ask HN: What do you want in a habit tracker?
1. Sync with other apps I already use. MyFitnessPal is the biggest example. Todo list apps or workout apps are another. I'm already entering data in these apps, so entering it again in a habit tracker is extra work.

2. Tracking negative habits. I want to tracker whether I refrained from doing something bad as frequently as I want to track doing something good.

3. As automated as possible. The biggest problem with habit trackers is if I'm too lazy to do the habit, I'm also too lazy to enter that in the tracker, so I end up with skewed data.

kar5pt··on DoorDash to Slash 1,250 Jobs to Pare Back Rising Costs
If you buy dashpass, the extras fees aren't that bad.
kar5pt··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
Are you concerned with the privacy implications of uploading every detail of your life to a cloud server?
kar5pt··on Ask HN: What’s the unspoken situation with substance abuse by tech workers?
Anti-depressants don't wane like that. They stay in your bloodstream at fairly steady levels all day.
kar5pt··on How can we cut soaring demand for meat? Try a hybrid burger
We're talking about living things that feel pain and have drastic impact on the environment, not numbers on a chart.
kar5pt··on School Took Away Smartphones. The Kids Don’t Mind
This should be at the top. I was wondering how the school managed to enforce this.
kar5pt··on School Took Away Smartphones. The Kids Don’t Mind
Article is paywalled. How did the school manage to enforce this? When I was in high-school, phones were "banned", and we just got around it by putting the phone on silent and keeping it in your pocket.
kar5pt··on The Weight of the Evidence: Diets do not work (2015)
You're not going to change your metabolism much by building muscle. You really have to eat less or do a significant amount of cardio if you want to lose weight.
kar5pt··on Americans are becoming less productive, and it's a risk to the economy
Why would you view schools and reddit as conclusive data on how hard young people are working?
kar5pt··on Why read Dostoevsky? A programmer's perspective
Is there anything in this argument that can't be equally applied to religion? _"Some truth can be captured by the scientific method. But not all. Some deep truths about human nature require instead the reflection provoked by [prayer, religious experience, etc]"_

Maybe there's value in literature, but I don't know if "truth" is the right word for it. I find when people find "truth" in literature, they're mostly using fictional anecdotes to support their preconceived notions about human nature and/or morality. They interpret the books in ways that support what they already think is true.

kar5pt··on You will ask many, many questions
This has not been true anywhere I've worked at. There's usually tons of tribal knowledge, internal tooling/software, external software thats just rarely used, and code base quirks. None of which you'll find on google/stack overflow.
kar5pt··on The Scourge of Rent Control
High rents are the incentive to build more housing. What we need is federal legislation reigning in local district's abilities to block new housing from being built. Owning a home shouldn't give you the right to stop other people from building their's.
kar5pt··on The Scourge of Rent Control
You do realize trickle down economics and avoiding rent controls are completely different things right? If you're using the failure of trickle down theory to argue for rent control, you don't know what trickle down theory is.
kar5pt··on The Penguin Random House trial
Yes, there's tons of spiritual leaders that could convince a publisher to spend that much on publishing.
kar5pt··on You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord
Many racists don't identify as racist.
kar5pt··on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
I'm not Indian but my understanding is that you can typically tell someone's caste by their last name. I'd also imagine there'd be a host of cultural information that would be hard to fake, like knowing certain prayers or rituals. Brahmin's are vegetarian, so you'd have to only eat vegetarian at the office to pretend to be one. I even had a friend who told me his sub-caste had their own secret language they spoke.
kar5pt··on Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
I envy you. It takes me an hour or more unless I've already stayed up way too late.
kar5pt··on Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
Am I crazy or did they get rid of this setting? I remember they used to have a way to set your status to "not looking", but I've been looking recently and can't find it.
kar5pt··on The West needs to grow up
I would think "wokeness" is too vague to study scientifically. That term has been used as a catch-all for many different things.
kar5pt··on The richer people get, the more meat they eat
Do you have evidence of this? It seems false on its face. https://intellectualtakeout.org/2018/09/is-the-world-really-...
kar5pt··on Mark Zuckerberg ‘visibly frustrated’ over worker’s vacation question
This is correct. It was pre-recorded.
kar5pt··on Rent in NYC without paying broker fees
Maybe. What exactly are you asking for? It looks like you're charging money for this, are you asking for a co-founder? An employee? Someone to contract the app out to?
kar5pt··on Rent in NYC without paying broker fees
Do you have an android or web version?
kar5pt··on Rent in NYC without paying broker fees
Can you provide any examples of "leftist activists" opposing building non-luxury housing?
kar5pt··on After weight-loss surgery, a year of joys and disappointments (2016)
It's also 80% of the effort.
kar5pt··on The case for bad coffee (2015)
Where do you live that has unharvested coffee bushes in the middle of the city?
kar5pt··on Google Chromebook outlawed in Danish public schools
Article is in Danish. Anyone know why they were banned?
kar5pt··on Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: the corporation
I don't think she's claiming that there's anything wrong with "white buddhism". In fact, she seems to explicitly deny that view

>I want to clarify, by the way, that I’m not necessarily critical of American Buddhist entrepreneurs. The problem is if you mistake this white American Buddhism for all Buddhism, or claim that this is the “right” or “only” way to practice Buddhism.

The idea that American Buddhism has been divided between Asian immigrants and white converts has been mainstream in buddhist studies for at least a decade or two now (and anyone who practices Buddhism in the US will see this divide immediately). This isn't anything Chen came up with on her own.

kar5pt··on The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans
These "downsides" are mostly the pseudo-scientific imaginings of feminists and redpill conservatives. There's very little evidence that porn harms anyone so long as it features consenting adults - despite internet forums incessantly repeating the opposite. It's a classic case of people believing something because they heard it repeated over and over.
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