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Facebook is able to realize outsize cross-web tracking benefits by having you logged in as long as possible. Few other companies are able to realize comparable benefits because they don't have the same ad-serving aspirations coupled with "Login with Facebook" reach.

Google is comparable, but it's too risky for them to have so many magic links hanging around in customer inboxes, because Google identities tend to be tied to far more sensitive 3rd party applications. Which is not to say that there are no sensitive applications with "Login with Facebook", but I'll argue there are fewer.

> how do we square that with this interpretation producing results that are squarely at odds with the intent of the founders

Jesus christ. Don't you feel at all obligated to provide support for the thing you're "pretty sure" about before asking people to accept it at face value? Based on your surety? It's hard to tell if this is basic rage-baiting with the absurdity of your claim sans support, or if you truly believe that wild claims don't require any, because enough people's reactionary vibes align with yours.

I love linux. It's been my primary OS nearly my whole life. It's not the year of linux.

Those who disable watch history probably know this, but others probably don't -- when you disable watch history your "subscriptions" page effectively becomes your home page. And on your subscriptions page, shorts cannot be removed like on the actual home page. So if you disable watch history, you implicitly must enable shorts.

Like a relative commentor said -- a product manager on the "Shorts" team is doing a helluva job boosting their team's stats.

Comments of this quality are getting frustrating.

The grand parent post clearly stated it is the poster's "rule of thumb". By definition they are aware that the rules are [likely] "not mutually exclusive". Starting with "these are not mutually exclusive", is what makes this comment so unnecessary. Don't be proud of having listed exceptions to someone's rule of thumb.

Had you started with, "I like that; these are a few exceptions I've observed to your rules that I find interesting", that would be a productive way to start a conversation.

But starting with "these are not mutually exclusive" makes you seem like an ass for having pointed at an exception to something that by definition has exceptions.

It's right in the posting guidelines [1.]

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not only is not "incredibly arbitrary" for lobsters to respond in kind to Brave's specific, targeted action against lobsters -- it's not arbitrary whatsoever.

This is why Brave was blocked [1.]. I'd have felt the same way, and people are entitled to their grudges. I think the grudge is reasonable.

[1.] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45#issue...

The classiest person I ever knew placed me before him on a paper just to be nice. Not only was he responsible for getting the grants funding our research, but the heft of both the theoretical and paper authorship work. I'm no longer in R&D and/or academia, but at that point I decided to do the same for someone if I ever have the opportunity to write a noteworthy paper with someone who is my junior.

At 12 floors, the Champlain Towers South in Surfside would generally not be considered a skyscraper.

It's not an unreasonable question.

Though when reworded, it sounds less palatable if you have people-oriented business morals.

"Why would they delight their customers when they can delight themselves?"

I like to do right by customers, and if we can both win, it's better than just me winning. Customers know when they're not winning, which decreases goodwill and your business' future prospects.

Previous thread of HN users' personal blogs [1].

HN users are interested in very diverse topics.

Someone put together an OPML feed of all of them, but I can't seem to find it.

[edit]

Found the OPML [2]

[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

[2.] https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs

Google ~13 years ago dealt with a much less complicated search landscape where

1. Its own products weren't (as much) part of the search result quality problem. Today Google has hungry product managers from Ads, Youtube, and various AI products convincing higher-ups that their product deserves higher placement. That placement used to be sacrosanct.

2. The daily volume of AI-generated garbage content 13 years ago was probably a rounding error in today's volume

So Google was operating in a different landscape than Kagi of today. They had to do a lot less to achieve the quality they had.

I disagree that that Kagi "isn't anywhere near as good as Google was ~13 years ago". It's near. For me personally, it's better because I'm never served first-party ads.

>> Raccoon has a particularly obnoxious fanbase

> Anti-Raccooners are an even more obnoxious fanbase

Let's say that's true. When raccoon is lonely, sitting on the toilet, noticing that not enough people are mentioning it, it fires off a provocative tweet to get the internet masses talking about it. Sometimes for days at a time.

When I'm lonely, sitting on the toilet, noticing that not enough people are talking about me, you'll never know about it. Along with the majority of every other person annoyed by raccoon's endless antics.

The difference is reach.

The real "mind virus" is the fragility of mind required for people to be so damn bothered that people unlike themselves exist. This essay is as much an example of that fragility as those who cannot find any merit in critiques of "wokeness's" loudest proponents. A world where those on the end of the political spectrum better understand each other is something worth working towards. This essay doesn't get us closer to that world, nor does lording one's perceived moral superiority over others. Maybe it's time to reset.

A good portion of the comments here are people talking past each other, with seemingly no interest in mutual understanding. We've gotten so very lazy about disagreement. Its harder and more useful form involves conceding that your counterparty probably has a point, even if very small. And if you can't see it, you might not be trying.

The clock begins counting down to Datadog figuring out how to charge per node, cpu, container, RAM (KB), and unicode characters indexed.

> Can you scan a check from your web browser?

Yes

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...

> this hobbyist toy. Linux is fundamentally not ready for anyone who has needs more than a Chromebook

Wow, piss right off you to you, too.

Linux is ready for me, and has been for decades. By your logic, I need nothing but a Chromebook.

Linux is imperfect, like you, but it's never been an ass.

For what it's worth Google's index suggests kick.co/bench was indexed/last updated: Oct 16, 2024.

> We know this news is abrupt and may cause disruption, so we’re committed to helping Bench customers navigate through the transition.

No, you're not. The minimum for commitment is a longer notice.

"The" reason is not what I'm speculating on, because I don't think a singular reason is likely to exists.

There is likely a mix of reasons -- of which NPE avoidance is almost certainly one. And hiring/talent management is almost always another, when making technology choices. Particularly when choices are coupled with a blog post on the company's tech blog.

In addition to what @phyrex already pointed out, without any Java in the code base, they probably hope to hire from a different cohort of job seekers.

Younger developers are far less likely to know Java today than Kotlin, since Kotlin has been the lingua franca for Android development for quite some time. Mobile developers skew younger, and younger developers skew cheaper.

With Java out of the code base they can hire "Kotlin developers" wanting to work in a "modern code base".

I'm not suggesting there's something malevolent about this, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't a goal.

Click to cancel does not mean exactly what the name implies. It means cancellation must be as easy as signup [1]. In your example, signup is not a click away, so the cancellation process need not be. It’s a very reasonable position.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/...

The idea isn't about "benefit of the doubt", it's about having an accurate world view. If you attribute to malice every action of monoploies, you have an inaccurate world view. It's a world view you're of course entitled to, but that doesn't make it a good one to have.

Ironically one of the reasons I abandoned Linode for Hetzner was because I assumed Akamai would ruin it. I still have stuff on Linode and I don't think Akamai ruined it.

With that said, Hetzner's prices are still cheaper and I've never had issues with their service, but I feel gaslit by this announcement.

MTB would be most welcome :)

To reduce "the boring revolution" to a React aversion is a bit dismissive.

"Boring" is malleable. If your team is full of React experts, React is boring.

If your team is full of backend-oriented engineers who rarely deal with the frontend, React is much less boring.

"Boring" is also not binary; it is continuous. The mix of technologies in your stack culminate in some arbitrary measure of boringness. This measure can also be thought of as the degree to which teams choose cutting/bleeding edge technologies. If the mix is mostly cutting/bleeding edge, it's very likely that production support is not boring, and problems operating the stack in production are not boring.

Choosing boring technology is also not a panacea that solves every team's problems. Although doing so likely mitigates them.

Nitter tweet link: https://nitter.privacydev.net/CodeFryingPan/status/184083133...

I'm saying it as if the cryptocurrency industry has a deservedly poor security and privacy reputation that I don't want anywhere near my browser.

The team's affinity for cryptocurrency projects drives me away personally. If you aren't aware, the Brave team have a "rewards" program where you "earn" their BAT token for viewing ads: https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

I use scare quotes around rewards and earn because those are my trigger words for projects I should walk away from.

I've been using Plane (https://github.com/makeplane/plane), also available as a hosted solution (https://plane.so).