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Interesting thing I found the other day:

> In 2006 Slichter said that payola was how his band Semisonic turned their song "Closing Time" into a hit. Slichter stated: "It cost something close to $700,000 to $800,000 to get 'Closing Time' on the air."[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Slichter

Damn near a mil to push that song up the charts, in the 1990s, and it wasn't even a crap song. I think of that track as iconic of the late-90s, I was surprised they had to run payola at all.

There is some weird inversion going on here.

First, I can't find a reason why anyone would laud banning this app. It seems like it's done A LOT for the creator economy, more than Snapchat or Instagram did for anyone before TikTok took off.

Second, I'm surprised at the amount of China-hate I'm seeing in here, and elsewhere, over this app. So far, they don't appear to have actually committed any crimes, it's a lot of posturing about what they could do. Meanwhile, things that were actually a threat (the "weather balloons" over DoD installations) were hand-waved away by TPTB and allowed to traverse pretty much the whole country before any action was taken.

Huh??

I discussed this with a friend pretty recently. I wondered whether I was getting "older" because I couldn't find anything I liked about the current rappy-pop or soft, high-pitched chic-pop that you hear over loudspeakers at the grocery store, gym, etc. It's grating to listen to, majority of the stuff I can't even determine what the melody is supposed to be.

Then I realized that I'm listening to new alt/indie stuff that I didn't know about three years ago, and that it's probably not me. It's probably just that this mass-music for the masses is indeed awful.

The only reason I have an Apple Watch today is because I 1) broke my iPhone when the waterproof case I had failed, and 2) sale on amazon pushing it below $200. If the watch waterproofing fails, it's a lot less catastrophic than an iPhone would be.

I only use the watch when surfing or doing mountain biking. It's still not all that great of a device, and not much (in a practical sense) has changed since 2015. Limited functionality and what is there is frustrating to use, especially while in action.

> Many universities have tremendous endowments and should be in a position to offer financing to their students.

This is exactly why every time my university comes calling for donations, I decline. Sorry, but I'm not making a donation that you'll use to rebuild a stadium when you're setting your students up to graduate with six-figure debt. Figure your priorities out, whether you want to educate students or play tone-deaf real estate developer.

I'm using something called "Sharpmind - Brain Formula" by Solaray. I don't have an hard-evidence that the ingredients are working against this particular issue, but I can say that it has made me feel a lot better/more present in my mind than I ever was post-infection. I have recommended it to a few others, one of which who has actually tried it and seems to feel similar to me about its effects.

I had this, but not too badly.

I started taking a brain-support supplement and it has made a dramatic improvement. Kind of like my senses, reflexes, energy have all been enhanced basically back to what they were before I got infected with this crap.

Edit - I'll just say what I'm taking. It's called "Sharpmind - Brain Formula" by Solaray. I don't have any hard evidence, but I started feeling pretty close to the "before times" after a few days of taking it. ymmv

More like a content blocker. The websites can ask, but there's not guarantee the user will accept. Really no different than browsers asking to show popups beforehand.

Again, this should have been a >browser feature< instead of a website feature. I trust Safari and Firefox WAY MORE than I trust the website's owners to actually block cookies and protect privacy, as well as implement this in a better UX.

The proper way to have done this would have been to go to the W3C or WHATWG and proposed an extension to HTML for sites to define an opt-in manifest or something similar.

I never really went there but wasn't that site like 98% clickbait? Is there any value in keeping that journalism around?

> Do not attempt to “create software” for macOS. They don’t want you to. If you want to run your own programs, install Linux and suffer like you’re supposed to.

Yeah, I'm starting to understand that more and more. I'm not a big fan of the PWA SPA-approach, but given what's going on I'm going to have to change my tune.

Selecting the "Add to Dock..." option in Safari for YouTube Music has been kind of eye-opening. It works really well.

I'm not sure what they're thinking here. Are native desktop apps done and over? It kind of seems like that's what they want based on behavior.

I still have prime, but only to keep shipping costs down. I don't use any of the other junk.

I second the used media. That's a great way to very affordably build your collection.

> It baffles me.

Plenty of us would, if we could.

My own personal situation on why I don't have kids - to have kids, I'd have to find someone to have kids with. Dating is completed screwed, and that's not for lack of trying on my end. It's an absolute shshow out there. It's like no one could be bothered to get themselves out of bed to follow through on plans to meet up. I'm not sure if it's suburbanization, or if it's everyone is feeling overworked, or... what...

Nearly all of my male friends are noticing the same things. Locale, age, career... no change of circumstances seem to change the really poor outcomes. It's like the options on today's menu are: be solo and happy with it, or go do the passport bro thing.

I keep saying this. At some point, some very smart people are going to figure out how expensive React is to build and maintain, and it’s going to change the conversation.

Yeah I'm not thrilled. This means I have to re-build some of my servers on Lightsail to pick a IPv6 only stack, it looks.

I recently inquired about joining the Coast Guard (Reserves). I like their mission, I like that they help domestically especially with things like disaster relief and environmental issues, and sea-worthy things are in my wheelhouse. I reached out in THREE ways online and never got a callback.

I called my local office. The recruiter I talked to seemed to generally not care at all, I drove 90% of the conversation. Couldn't tell me what "rates" (jobs) the CG has and what would be applicable to my background. I'm stunned, I'm thinking this is literally your job to know this kind of a thing. The recruiter told me that I should go look at the jobs/rates on their website. Yep - go look at their website - which was offline for about at least week (or maybe still offline - I stopped checking).

This recruiter didn't offer to follow up, which would have been difficult because they also didn't bother to get any of my contact information, or even ask my name. My military friends absolutely could not believe this.

Of course, it could have been this particular military recruiter. Although I was also ignored in other channels, too. I'm thinking -

1 - Your branch is in DIRE need of people, both active and reserve. TEN cutters are being pulled from service, and nearly 30 boat stations are being closed. 2 - If you're this incompetent during the recruiting processes, what would service in your branch actually look like?

Not a great experience/impression. I may try again later (find a different recruiting office), but if this is how recruiting is being done, it's no wonder why they can't find warm bodies.

Okay. That's it. I've f'n had it with search sucking. Reading these comments is just demoralizing. We don't have to live like this, and we won't.

Stay tuned here on HN.

tbh I'd buy your toaster if you made it

This is just a side note, but my Instagram feed has become basically entirely irrelevant. It's just reel after reel from people promoting themselves or some product. The network feels increasingly like a rapid-paced HSN/home shopping network or similar.

Do I look at it daily? Yes, I do. But I'd say that 95% of the content I see on it is junk, very few of my peers are posting their lives on there.

As for blue-line Facebook, it's so slow it's borderline unusable. I'm not sure what happened (ReactJS maybe?), but the performance is a fraction of what it was ten years ago.

> The future is probably smaller networks where users self-select into them based on affiliations, much like web forums.

Yeah it's like everyone got drunk on connection and is slowly rediscovering peace in disconnecting. I'd wager you're right about this.

This is where I'm at, too. The overhead of getting a mobile app up and distributed is extremely heavy and distracting.

I have taken a look at hyperview and tried it out. That's probably the only way I'll ever do another mobile app.

I can get behind this sentiment for something like haiku os. I actually make an annual contribution to because they’ve been clear about using it to pay developers/contributors.

The fact that the ceo of Mozilla gets paid handsomely doesn’t inconvenience me, but it makes it harder for me to justify donating to or supporting them like I would for haiku.

Remember last week when we were all supposed to be switching to Firefox to advocate for them?

In 2024, please switch to Firefox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38806270

IIRC, didn't they layoff the rust engineers who did all that work on quantum?

In 2022, I switched from Firefox to Safari and haven't looked back. In 2024, I'll be staying put.

Either I just don't go to them, or I have really good luck, because none of the sites I visit are "broken."

> Mozilla makes 100% of its money from advertising. Safari and Edge are the browsers built by companies that don't make money from advertising. This argument is just completely wrong.

Yeah I never got that argument. It's not like it's any secret that Mozilla survives on handouts from Google.

Safari really is unique in that it's subsidized by iPhone and Mac sales instead of ads and is still using its own rendering engine.

I gave my old tv away and bought a used 1080p projector, and have an AppleTV hooked up to it. When I turn the projector off, it all goes away/clears the room. The center point of my living room then became the coffee table, and I rearranged seating around that.

It feels so modern, and I love it.

As for content itself, ads and subscribing to multiple services aren’t necessary. You can get almost any title you’re looking for through your local library or inter-library loan. Curation is usually better than what you see on Netflix or any other streaming service.

Brightline in Florida just started service between Orlando and Miami, with plans to expand to Tampa.

It's really disappointing to see how Apple went from championing open standards in the early days of Mac OS X, especially with regard to communication protocols, to this.

I want a premium messaging experience on my iPhone, regardless of what the other party has. I do not want compressed images and videos, and as an end-user, it's bullisht that I have to figure out how to do that using 3rd party apps.

I'm with the boomers tbqh

I just started using HTMX.

It replaced a small volume of VueJS code that I wrote to facilitate a few XHR interactions. Pagination and filtering and search-as-you-type interactions are all so much more pleasant now. Logic is de-duplicated, since it can all live on the server.

I'm a fan.