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p49kon Ask HN: Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?

You could also do some sort of “Tell HN: this is why I moved from tech to law and back” post, although it does seem like the site penalizes those sort of posts so it might not be very visible either.

p49kon Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

Only in a world where facts don't exist and truth is just a matter of opinion are conspiracy theorists and grifters simply people you disagree with.

And in any case, it doesn't have any bearing on the fact that Rogan claims to be some kind of innocent, open-minded guy who wants to talk to all kinds of people, when in fact he has clearly chosen a side on most issues and treats guests differenly in order to push people to that side.

p49kon Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

I corrected it to "the person with the correct info" - it doesn't affect the point of what I wrote. I dislike Rogan because in listening to him, this is almost all he ever does: let conspiracy theorists and grifters speak on his show with no resistance (often even encouraging them), while providing this type of resistance to people with competence, then pretending he's some kind of neutral party providing a level playing field.

p49kon Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

Exactly. Here's a prime example: Rogan incorrectly stated on his show (as fact, not as his opinion or belief) that children who receive the vaccine have a 4-5x higher risk of getting myocarditis.

His guest, who has the correct info, claims that children have a much higher risk from getting myocarditis from COVID than getting it from the vaccine.

Rogan says "I don't think that's true, no no no, I don't think that's true. Let's look that up"

They look it up, Rogan is definitely in the wrong. The risk is 8x higher from COVID than the vaccine.

Does Rogan admit he's wrong? No, he states:

- "Well, that's not what I read before." - "And anyway, where are we reading these things?" and then rambles nonsense.

This is a pretty transparent way of signaling to his audience that even in the face of actual data, you should just find some justification to believe the stupid conspiracy-level thing you want to keep believing.

https://twitter.com/FullContactMTWF/status/14816386894154629...

p49kon JRE Missing (Rogan episodes removed by Spotify)

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

From the guidelines.

p49kon Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list

United is the one who created the issue and got violent.

They are the ones that should have let him fly and dealt with the issue separately without creating a new incident if they felt he was in the wrong.

p49kon GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

It is not in any way trivial to self-host video these days.

In the past when video was a novelty and no one had any real expectation of performance or quality, it didn’t matter much because expectations were low.

But so much work has been done since on reliability/performance/network efficiency and very few products can provide that. Without that work, people will think your player is broken, you will waste mobile traffic, etc. Even Reddit can’t get it right and they are a top 10 website.

p49kon Did I just lose half a million dollars?

You’re using a different definition of the word invalid.

Obviously the person you replied to meant invalid in the sense of “not intended to receive funds”

It would have been a competent design decision for a system to require some type of initial registration of intent to receive funds for an address in order for a transaction to post.

p49kon Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (2018)

Because the whole point of the article is that a task force dedicated to finding policies that disproportionately affected one gender was the one that discovered the problem. It otherwise may have never been found.

The point being that such task forces are beneficial and policy changes addressing such imbalances often end up benefiting everyone.

p49kon Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech platforms

It's not happening as much with Android because Google has a vested interest in making it easy for people to be tracked, so it has fewer restrictions on doing so. The "Ask not to track me across apps" feature on Apple is what this is mainly about for Facebook.

But yes, there have been such cases. Epic successfully forced a massive number of Android users to sideload Fortnite to get around Google's policies, and Google wasn't happy and tried to undermine that attempt.

p49kon Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?

The first “trick” you linked to was a bug in a library that they already open sourced before the issue was raised. Pretty clear that it wasn’t nefarious or intentional and shows they didn’t in fact copy the clipboard contents.

p49kon About the security content of iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1

Background: https://trevorspiniolas.com/doorlock/doorlock.html

p49kon Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

> She claimed that the Delta variant would end the pandemic

No she didn't - the article you're referring to is below, and what she said was more nuanced. It's also a reasonable analysis from the perspective of the time it was written (May 2021):

https://www.theinsight.org/p/we-need-to-get-real-about-how-t...

p49kon Renault Zoe NCAP crash rating: zero stars [pdf]

Here's a 1-star electric vehicle for comparison:

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/66949/euroncap-2021-dacia-spr...

p49kon Renault Zoe NCAP crash rating: zero stars [pdf]

Tesla Model 3: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/55749/euroncap-2019-tesla-mod...

BMW iX: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/67239/euroncap-2021-bmw-ix-da...

Jaguar I-Pace: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/63559/euroncap-2018-jaguar-i-...

Nissan Leaf: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/62961/euroncap-2018-nissan-le...

VW ID3: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/64338/euroncap-2020-vw-id3-da...

VW ID4: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/64335/euroncap-2021-vw-id4-da...

Hyundai Ioniq 5: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/67127/euroncap-2021-hyundai-i...

Ford Mustang Mach-e: 5 stars

https://cdn.euroncap.com/media/65695/euroncap-2021-ford-must...

p49kon Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

> Grandma gifts you a photo of her and her partner.

Which is a contrived example that conveniently sidesteps the two most relevant factors: the personal/intimate nature of the communication and the consequences of sharing it against the person’s will during a timeframe in which it would have an effect on the person's life.

p49kon Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

Yes, that's exactly what I said. The feature is designed to address the "somewhat bad friend" case, not the "terrible friend" case. Both of those kinds of people exist in the world.

Reducing the chance of something that you didn't want shared from being shared by a factor of X% is better than nothing. Try to step out of black-and-white thinking for a minute. Just because something is not perfect doesn't mean it's useless.

p49kon Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

Yes and some people are somewhat bad friends, and will share them, but not if there's a small barrier to overcome, as it's not worth the effort.

And people are terrible friends and will take the time/effort to bypass any measures necessary to share the photo.

The feature is designed to address the "somewhat bad" case, not to be perfect.

p49kon Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

There is an enormous difference between a tie rack (or any commodity, including digital ones) and a letter or photo of a personal nature. There is nuance in this situation that has to be understood and recognized in order to evaluate why the feature exists and if it provides value.

p49kon Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

Your analogy is not relevant at all to the situation.

It's completely reasonable for someone to give you a letter or photo of a personal nature and ask you not to share it (or simply expect you to understand that it's not to be shared). In the physical realm, the honor system comes into effect. In the digital realm, there's nothing wrong with adding an imperfect layer of accountability/protection to greatly reduce the chance that it becomes shared.

p49kon Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

This just goes back to what the original person said about "Building walls in physical world is also very stupid hehe"

It's entirely reasonable to create a system designed to allow people to share things once, and indicate to others that they don't want it spread any further. It's reasonable to design software which attempts to honor such requests by introducing friction, making it 95% effective despite knowing that 5% of people will be able/willing to work around it.

Most people are "path of least resistance" and are too lazy to work around something like this, which is exactly the point. Pretty much every person using such a system is aware that the recipient could just take a picture of the phone with a camera.

Perfect is the enemy of the good.

p49kon WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”

I specifically and carefully made sure I opted out of this sharing in 2016, and when I requested my data years later, I was marked as "opted in". I don't trust that Facebook honestly honored or correctly tracked this option for anyone.

p49kon The Next ‘Lab Leak’

NYT and others were reluctant to talk about the lab leak theory because Trump put them in an impossible position by constantly stirring up racial tensions regarding COVID. His actions led to real violence against Asian Americans and promoting the lab leak would have furthered it.

We could have easily been able to have an open conversation about the lab leak possibility if we had proper leadership at the time.

The first thing Bush did after 9/11 was go on TV and essentially say to everyone: “hey, don’t be racist towards Muslim Americans because of this attack; they are fellow Americans and have nothing to do with this” and it was largely effective.

(Not that I'm praising Bush as a president, but this specific act was an instance of good leadership)

p49kon Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?

Neither does Flask and similar, and they are the ones who arbitrarily picked an already-registered port and didn’t bother registering their own.

p49kon Doubling the PinePhone storage speed with a soldering iron

From the article:

> PinePhone 1.2 pmOS CE (convergence package) with 32GB SanDisk eMMC: before 55MB/s, after 125MB/s

> PinePhone 1.0 Braveheart edition with 16GB Kimtigo eMMC: before: 80MB/s, after 110MB/s

p49kon Latvia bans unvaccinated lawmakers from voting, docks pay

> have they?

Yes, they certainly have.

Look at the ratio of cases to deaths in the data from countries where people generally believe in science and are accurately measuring data: Canada, Germany, Israel, France, etc.

Look at Portugal, with the highest vaccination rate in Europe and see how there are 3-6 deaths/day despite a resurgence in cases.

The US has a low vaccination rate, and is in complete disarray regarding COVID (in many cases simply due to the fact that each state has its own policies/problems), but most modern countries are carefully balancing policy to keep ICUs at a manageable rate.

p49kon Latvia bans unvaccinated lawmakers from voting, docks pay

I agree with you that people who have proven to already have antibodies should not be required to get a vaccine. That is a compromise that probably would have already happened if there wasn't a constant stream of insanity from antivaxxers clouding the ability to have normal, nuanced discussions about policy. Instead, the front lines of debate are on 5G causing COVID, microchips, space lasers, and comparisons of vaccine mandates to the holocaust.

But the data showing that mass-vaccination has reduced deaths and kept ICUs from overflowing is so blatantly obvious that you have to be exercising willful ignorance to not accept it. It's basically flat-earth level of denialism. You can see the direct correlation between vaccination rates and deaths/ICU intakes by looking at the data.

p49kon Latvia bans unvaccinated lawmakers from voting, docks pay

> Compared to a virus with a 99+% survival rate

The virus wouldn’t have a high survival rate if we didn’t have these measures. Otherwise hospitals would be completely overrun, which would not only increase death rates directly related to COVID but also those of people with any other illness who rely on hospital care to survive.

You can’t have it both ways: if you’re against the measures then you have to accept what that would mean.

p49kon Ask HN: How can I make wired Airpods Pro?

If you buy a good pair of IEMs and buy Comply foam tips, it will block outside noise better than the AirPods. You can go a step further by visiting an audiologist, having impressions made of your ear canals and ordering a custom set of IEMs for a perfect fit.

p49kon Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use Android

They would have a stronger argument if their products were actually secure, yet we see regularly how nonresponsive and even combative Apple is with security researchers and how journalists and activists are constantly hacked due to zero-days. They have $200B in the bank, they could throw a few at building a respected security org that could eclipse efforts like Project Zero.