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Probably stuff in your own history takes precedence?

It does matter to me, I hate it when slimy sales tactics are the norm. I’m saying the boiling frog idea does not really apply here. It is essentially a spam issue.

This seems logically incoherent to me. Maybe I’m reading it wrong. But anyway here’s my version:

Avoid making mistakes that harm others. Be aware that you will make some anyway, and you won’t always recognise them as mistakes at the time. (If you take pride in having a spotless record, you’re liable to deceive yourself.) And when, on reflection, you realise you have harmed someone by mistake, figure out what you can do to 1) fix the harm and 2) prevent it happening again. And then tell them this plan in a way that commits you to it. That’s an apology. This way you make fewer and fewer harmful mistakes over time. The idea that someone can just “avoid mistakes in the first place” to avoid needing to apologise is dangerously lacking in humility, in my opinion.

He didn’t say his original transgressions were bad enough to make him a colossal douchebag. He said refusing to apologise for them turned him into one.

I think this logic should be reserved for the cases where it really matters, like the erosion of freedom of speech. Potentially permanent changes.

This is just slimy sales tactics. The level of ‘acceptable to most people’ swings back and forth. It’s not a slippery slope.

Maybe they do that once? They definitely don’t do it every time you open Chrome. That would be ridiculous.

Seems unlikely every marketing email Visa sent during this outage was sent from an actual, valid email address with an inbox. Isn’t that pretty unusual for marketing emails? They’re usually from something like no-spam@domain.

I think your summary of the debate around puberty blockers is a bit selective, and your stat “more than 99% will not change their mind” doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the true figure, sadly.

But what does any of this have to do with my question? Are you really suggesting that attempts to regulate the prescription of puberty blockers in children are a veiled attack on trans people? And you’re saying this to defend the claim that trans people are regularly being ‘told’ they shouldn’t exist?

> people telling you that you shouldn't exist

Who does this? I'm asking because I have seen this notion expressed hundreds of times, but in 100% of cases, there is no example given that even remotely justifies this hyperbole.

This is something that took me years to grok about Twitter. Each tweet creates a forum that is solely moderated by the tweeter. Mod powers include blocking people (which removes all their replies from the forum and from any other forum you create in future, as well as blocks them from seeing your tweets), and locking the whole forum (making it read-only except for named people).

No, I'm not judging them, I just said my view of them took a tumble. When I feel tricked, I lose trust in whoever tricked me. And negative trust is often lasting. It's hard to gain trust and very easy to lose it.

BUT: I didn't read the whole article. I read kogepathic's comment first, which gave away the twist and framed the headline as clickbait, and I went along with that. But I now see it's as you say. Lesson learned.

I definitely don't think that writing an intriguing headline and delivering on it with a satisfying story counts as clickbait. Clickbait is something that fails to deliver at all, not something that delivers in a way you didn’t expect.

My sentiment towards the EFF just took a big tumble, probably permanently. Tricking and cheating people has costs as well as benefits.

EDIT: I've had my faith restored. Added reply to a comment below.

I also think “Why blame anyone?”, but not because there’s no problem. Just because it doesn’t make sense to blame individuals for market movements.

Markets are powered by billions of instances of “what someone wants” but that doesn’t mean the resulting market movements are always a good indicator of what everyone wants as an environment. Sometimes aggregate human activity results in a crappy experience for most participants. “The market has spoken” is a glib, ideological phrase that can be used to dismiss any discussion about ways we could steer and improve markets to make them do a better job at facilitating human happiness and flourishing.

I know you were joking. I meant my comment in a lighthearted way too. Maybe I should use more emoticons :)

HN != a single, heavily downvoted comment on HN

The comment you’re replying to is about app stores, not messaging.

But there isn't just a correlation. There's also a fascinating idea: better grip strength might help prevent a common cause of death in old age: falls. I've never made that connection before, but it seems very reasonable now I think of it, and compelling in its implications. That's good enough for me to want to discuss it, maybe even to motivate me to work on my grip strength.

If someone ever brings me evidence that having stronger grip does not help you avoid falls, then (a) that would be surprising and interesting, and (b) I wouldn't feel like a fool for having improved my grip strength anyway.

Empirically proving causation is often difficult or impossible. It's irrational to expect every potentially useful idea to meet that high bar before taking it into consideration. If someone is trying to sell me something, or if the idea goes against common sense, I'll demand proof, but that's not the case here.

Hacker News’ automatic removal of “How” from article titles can really change the meaning. The modified title looks like a strong, scientific claim. So we end up with lots of obvious ‘Science 101’ comments about correlation vs causation etc.

With “How” in the title, it comes across as what it is: a light popsci/lifestyle piece that should be taken with a grain of salt, but might still contain interesting food for thought/discussion.

Not sure how this observation affects the point that the name “doesn't bring to mind serious investigative journalism”.

How come the latest cutting edge tech demos showcasing photorealism are barely more ‘realistic’ than a PS4 video game cutscene from a few years ago? There wasn’t any part of the demo video where the guy looked or moved like a human.

I mainly meant CI/CD builds. Or any future build on a new machine.

Ha, I found the same thing. It’s very buggy right now. But I think there’s still an important grain of truth in the idea that it “just works”. OK it’s buggy, so it doesn’t always work. But when it does, it just works. It’s all or nothing. That’s why people prefer Apple stuff and are willing to overlook bugs. Their competitor’s products come with caveats that go way beyond “it’s got a few bugs we haven’t ironed out yet”.

Not sure that “CDNs aren’t supposed to go down” is a very reassuring point, nor one that Deno’s authors would make in its defence.

Deno’s vendoring approach isn’t like a stopgap in case third party servers go down. It’s the ’right’ way in Deno, and is another brilliant fix to Node’s approach.

Node always makes you go through a formal step to install a dependency - and then you’re still reliant on npm’s CDN being online during your builds anyway. The only way to break that build time dependency is to use a clunky, nonstandard hack to check in your node_modules, like yarn 2.0 or pnpm, which then takes you right off Node’s “golden path” (such as it is) and creates loads of incompatibilities.

Deno’s approach is the best of both worlds.

1. With Deno you can import direct from a URL with no formal install step, which is great for prototyping. The caching engine makes it fast without a need for every little toy project to have to have a giant node_modules folder.

2. Vendoring your scripts provides a dead easy, golden-path way to make your project completely non-dependent on third party during build, ie gives you same advantage as using Yarn 2 or pnpm in Node, but as a first class citizen of the runtime, so it’s efficient and standardised and will therefore not have tons of ecosystem incompatibilities.

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154

Nice work. I just posted it to a group of friends and they’re all playing it and posting their scores.

I don’t know if this is true. But to everyone dismissing the idea that a military would ever use Google Maps to co-ordinate, you may have missed some news stories about what a shitshow the first few days of the Russian invasion has been. Major breakdown of their digital systems and lots of improvisation.

My guess is it's some complex neurological response triggered by 'knowing' (or being sufficiently convinced) that one is surrounded by bright outdoor sunlight, rather than a physiological response powered by the light absorbed by the retina. What matters is the brain's estimate of the current lux value, which would take pupil size into account. This is just a guess.

For me the issue is whether the magic is fully acknowledged and explained by the project, bringing me in on the details of the compromise.

I tried to get into MobX years ago but found it impossible to get along with. I don’t know what it’s like now, but the documentation back then failed to explain the magic. It was just like “Hey, look how convenient this is, just follow our instructions and you’ll be fine (and don’t think about how it works)”.

Then some time later React came out with hooks, and they took the time to introduce the concept carefully, to explain how it’s actually really weird and non-idiomatic and principle-breaking but leads to all these ergonomic benefits, just make sure you understand the weirdness and keep it contained. They give you the information you need to change it in your head from ‘magic’ to ‘smart compromise’.

Why?

> The big players who started with Ruby during the peak of its 2008~ hype curve are having serious scaling pains and are looking to other more performant languages as a way out.

Interesting, how do you know about this? I was under the impression GitHub were still mostly happy with Rails.