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avree··on How a 'Refund Fraud' Gang Stole $700k from Amazon
This website's automatic "subscribe" popup/prompt, which appeared in the center of the screen, covered all content, and had "404" in the middle of it, made me think I had clicked a broken link. Awful design.
avree··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
Sam Bankman-Fried was tried in the US, where we don't have barristers. You may find yourself less confused if you brush up on the basics of the American legal system.
avree··on Kotlin multiplatform is stable and production-ready
At my last company, we tried using it in production, and shipped for over a year from it. The biggest issue we ran into is that you don't find many iOS/Swift devs who like using it - the company is now swapping off KMP back to Swift for iOS.
avree··on Client harassed by The Type founders for using Proxima Nova font on website
They're not at all the same font. If your job was creating fonts, you'd notice the differences.
avree··on More than 50,000 startups in the U.S. are at risk of high capital shortage
This article would be easier to believe if their two examples weren't laughable Web3/Crypto products. It's also a bit change they're comparing 2016 and 2020 values - funding dropping to 2020 levels doesn't really seem like major cause for alarm, to me.
avree··on Show HN: Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine
Looks really cool. Congrats on the launch. Typo in the readme, btw, "enteprise-level" instead of "enterprise-level"
avree··on Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration
Goes to show the sad state of web UI design. Most of these sites are barely two steps removed from default bootstrap.
avree··on Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash
Huh? Cruise were given street permits long ago.
avree··on Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash
A human driver killed a 4-year girl and her mother this week. How many 4-year olds has Cruise killed?

My point is that picking false equivalencies and anecdotal evidence doesn't work, in both directions.

avree··on Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults
Yes, because generally speaking if you are not in Education, Employment, or Training, you are spinning your wheels.
avree··on Show HN: Lottielab – Create product animations in the browser easily
Respectfully: who cares? When I go to Vercel (or any React project), I don't wonder if the company is from Meta.

Lottie is open source, it's been spun off from Airbnb (https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/continuing-our-support...), and while I agree that the questions at the end of your post are valid, I don't think putting more "about them" is how to answer them - afaik where your 'data' is going has nothing to do with where the founders worked/lived.

avree··on Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar
"Hard mints are hard candies or boiled sweets flavored with mint. Examples of hard mints include starlight mints, also known as pinwheel mints, white, circular, with red or green rays emitting from the middle; candy canes; humbugs; and brand name mints such as Altoids and Ice Breakers."
avree··on Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
It was built, and then disabled, as Porsche wasn't comfortable with Google's policies around data collection from Android Auto. You can pretty easily figure out how to turn it back on.
avree··on Waymo puts the brakes on self-driving trucks program
I was on the founding team of a transportation company. Personal transit is projected to be a much larger industry than what you are calling "transportation" which is actually "freight/commercial logistics", and is already growing faster.
avree··on CEO Announcement to the Netlify Team
There's something particularly gross about using cutesy terms like "Netlifolk" for your employees when you're firing them.
avree··on Ask HN: Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names?
Other examples of Stubhub e-mails include "fieldmilestone" and "rolodexinfo". I believe that Stubhub is using old domains, probably from some list that their registrar is providing them. Sometimes, there are blocks of patterns, such as the color/etc. one - but they're probably doing this to avoid getting spam-filtered by people's mail clients, not to try to hide from Ticketmaster or anything else, and I doubt the naming is something they are defining.
avree··on Raytheon asks retirees for help making new Stinger anti-air missiles
The thing you are speculating on is answered in the very first sentence of the article: "Nations like the United States and other NATO allies have given Ukraine their Stingers, putting the venerable human-portable surface-to-air missile to use against Soviet-designed aircraft, as it was originally designed to do. "
avree··on The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews
Blind company reviews are way more trustworthy because they have a way to verify that you're a current employee with your email.
avree··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Reddit's API is free for my use cases. From their documentation: "Our API allows free access to moderators and developers creating these tools for non-commercial use cases."
avree··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
I moderate several subreddits and have written my own apps/bots that perform various functions, such as updating CSS flair based on a remote set of changing assets, monitoring posts, etc.

I am quite okay with the planned API costs, timeline, and communication. How were you affected by the changes? I read the Apollo guy's posts, but the reality is that he had built a very, very profitable business serving Reddit's content to the masses.

avree··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
I understand that you folks are upset that the market has shifted and advertisers and investors are no longer able to prop up companies running at a loss anymore.

Twitter is charging for their API, Reddit is charging for their API, and people don't like change. I'm not sure where I've had "sarcasm or the presumption of stupidity" but that was certainly a strange section to add to your comment.

avree··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Is it terrible? I know everyone says it is, but for example on iOS it has a 4.8 rating over 2.8M reviews. Apollo, the really popular 3rd party client, has a 4.7 rating over 170K reviews.

So, clearly someone likes the Reddit app, right? Those millions of 5 star reviews are definitely not fake/bought.

avree··on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated
Discord has lower API limits and zero "3rd party apps" so the fact that it's the recommended darling child of people fleeing reddit because of "low API limits" and "them taking away 3rd party apps" makes zero sense.

The "Lemmy" thing is even worse; a complete mess. For example, /r/aww has two different links, with different content, etc. And yes, I understand how the "fediverse" works, it just makes no sense in the context that most consumers want their media in.

avree··on Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React
I don't mean this snarkily, but have you ever used a transactional email service? Literally all of them support frontend, I'd much rather use something like React than "Handlebars" (which Sendgrid requires https://docs.sendgrid.com/ui/sending-email/how-to-send-an-em...)
avree··on Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale
I mean, Guinness tastes 'better' in Ireland because it's more popular, similar to how Miller on draft tastes 'better' in America - not because Miller makes it close to the bar, but because drinks that sell faster are fresher, sit in lines less, etc.
avree··on Official Apple Design Resources for Figma – iOS 17 and iPadOS 17
Yes, they have had these assets available for 5+ years https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

Figma is new.

avree··on Official Apple Design Resources for Figma – iOS 17 and iPadOS 17
This is very, very not true.

https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/

I ran a design agency 6 years ago and we used the official Apple Resources. The Teehan+Lax stuff and designers making it themselves was all pre-flat design, during the skeuomorphic age. Joey's stuff is because they didn't have the iOS13-16 resources for Figma.

avree··on Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point
“San Francisco has had what felt like an endless, year-after-year boom,” says Aaron Peskin, president of the Board of Supervisors, the city council. “And now the bubble really burst.”

Years of policies that hurt honest people, entrenched landlords and those already here, and made it difficult for new families and groups to come to the city are why the good times are ending. People like Peskin burst the bubble.

avree··on A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge
"A frequently cited rule-of-thumb in transportation engineering is that tunnel construction costs two to three times as much as bridges, and that simple rule of thumb explains why there are so many more bridges than tunnels in operation today."

What gives you your understanding? Mine is from multiple sources at the top of Google for the query "price of tunnel versus price of bridge"

avree··on AI Incident Database
It's a bit hard to take any of the aggregate stats seriously when they bucket anything from "AI made a mistake and killed someone" to "AI-Generated-Text-Detection Tools Reported for High Error Rates" into the same "incident count".
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