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Almost every Show/Launch HN post that has a slightly abrasive comment (which is not the same thing as negative or nonconstructive) gets a few comments in the same vein from the "people are negative" to the "people are toxic" kinds, which honestly speaking appears way more smug to me.

Although I party agree with you in terms of tone, positivity for positivity's sake is also bad, if not worse. I saw the previous comment as constructive, although I might not phrase it like that myself, but to each their way. OP posted as Luanch HN to get feedback, not just praise. Previous commentator was not being negative or critical with no reason. Aggressive and baseless anti-toxicity is as bad as real toxic behavior. You're free to "love loving" things, but you can't make others conform to your lifestyle.

Suggestion: don't do marketing gimmick like "psst. want to know a secret?" it's very clickbaity and makes me (probably unreasonably) aloof to the whole thing.

I commend the attempt at coming up with a "better" browser, but like others have said, this is too expensive. One time purchase expensive is ok as long as I own a copy of that version forever, but subscription and cloud crap, I'm out. I like the idea of keyboard first and workspaces (haven't tested yet, but hopefully something almost as good as savestate on a VM), but these are things that make me want to try it at least, but not at this price.

Edit: just realized it's only mac OS? Can't use Linux makes me even more out. Good luck though, I don't know who your target market, but it's not people to whom "the browser is a primary tool", but only a minor subset of them.

From that report I just wanted to show that shortly before the 2020 election, the Gallup poll showed that confidence in the mass media has continued to decline among Republicans and independent voters, to 10% and 36%, respectively. Among Democratic voters, confidence rose to 73%.

Then you have other other polls from Gallup, like this one showing that six in 10 in US see partisan bias in news media. From the report:

> Americans Believe News Media Favors Democrats

Gallup asked those who perceive political bias in the news media to say which party the news media favors. Almost two-thirds (64%) of those who believe the media favors a political party say it is the Democratic Party. Only about a third as many (22%) believe the media favors Republicans.

> This is not new. Americans who perceive media bias have always said the direction of that bias leaned in favor of the Democrats, although the percentage holding that view has varied. The gap was smaller in 2003 and 1995, but was more similar to today's attitudes in 2000.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/207794/six-partisan-bias-news-m...

The negativity is not about the effort, it's about who's doing it and what sort of bias they have.

> Using 2016 as an example doesn’t invalidate that goal or imply bias.

It actually does:

> Republicans' trust has not recovered since then, while Democrats' has risen sharply. In fact, Democrats' trust over the past four years has been among the highest Gallup has measured for any party in the past two decades. This year, the result is a record 63-percentage-point gap in trust among the political party groups.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrus...

Indeed. Jacques Ellul discusses this at length in his book "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" [1]. Whenever I reread this book I feel it's more and more relevant than before.

> "But modern propaganda has long disdained the ridiculous lies of past and outmoded forms of propaganda. It operates instead with many different kinds of truth— half-truth, limited truth, truth out of context. Even Goebbels always insisted that Wehrmacht communiqués be as accurate as possible."

1: https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_201512

Absolutely. This is somewhat similar to terms like "scientific creationism". It has nothing to do with science. From what I read in the article, this "news literacy" is more like pseudo-literacy, and similar to "scientific creationism", it lacks empirical support and cannot be meaningfully tested.

> No. No. No. No. No.

This kind of attitude turns people away from wanting to engage with you, even if your idea has merit.

> There's absolutely no reason to say things like "hysterical fixation on cases". Bringing cases down means LESS LIVES LOST and less HEALTH lost.

It's naive to think that some people want more lives lost. That's the goal of everyone. In the same way, you're asking people to understand your perspective, try to keep an open mind, and understand the perspective of others. Even if you're correct, the only way to help is to understand the root of why some people are hesitant.

I'm obviously pro vaccines (in general) and are vaccinated for covid, but I'm also pro informed decision making, which from my perspective is very lacking (in some contexts) and very simplistic (summarized into TikTok-style videos and "cute" guitar songs) in others. There is of course valuable information out there but it's very difficult to find and is mostly lost in the ocean of influencer-driven media, turning science into MTV style top 10 countdowns. I happen to very rarely watch TV or news related to Covid from any source other than Sweden's official organizations, and I'm very happy with their information. I also noticed that it's very different in cadence from what I usually read people trying to say anywhere [1] (contrary to generic Swedish media for example, which follows the American example mostly). I believe this is one of the main reasons we have 40% fully vaccinated and ~60% with at least one shot). And there's no noticeable animosity or friction between vaccinated or unvaccinated people. There are also very few masks going around (mostly older people and 1 out of 100 young people I see).

From what I understand, scientists doing the research are working very hard on this, and they are still not 100% clear on all the details. It's naive to dismiss side-effects no matter how rare they are, and even more dangerous to dismiss fears of people. When you say "everyone must get vaccinated whether they understand or not" you're not aiding those people who are hesitant (regardless of why). Just the other day I watched a supercut of different "officials" some saying people can "top-off" with a second jab from another kind of vaccine while others saying that it's extremely wrong to do so. Similar to how the whole mask thing changed over time (and even now again with the new variants). This is all to say that difference of opinion and understanding is not only expected, but it's inevitable. You can't eliminate it, you can only face it and discuss it openly.

1: https://www.1177.se/Stockholm/sjukdomar--besvar/lungor-och-l...

There was a Show HN a few weeks ago [1] about a script that used Nordigen.

This is from Nordigen's information handling section in TOS, just so people understand what's going to happen with their financial data (I also recommend reading full TOS).

> 2.3. As the Services also allow User to upload Information and/or obtain Account Information and personal data therein, User further acknowledges and agrees that by uploading or entering any Information for the Services and by using the Services, User grants Nordigen permission to make anonymized data based on personal and non-personal data collected from User or through User's use of the Services, and combine such anonymized data with that of other Users in order to make anonymized aggregate data. Nordigen may use the anonymized data and anonymized aggregate data for various business purposes and legitimate interests of Nordigen, including but not limited to improving the Services, developing and improving other Nordigen products and services, and distributing or licensing such data to third parties with whom Nordigen has a business relationship.

1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769266

I don't really think there's enough reason for recommendation algorithms to be publicly reviewable, in many cases the algorithm itself is the most important asset of the product, and in a competitive business environment, you can't really force them to disclose it.

What would be ideal is to think of an incentive for these companies to give users an option to disable the use of their algorithm, aka natural flow. That's unfortunately not the trend things are moving, and even services that still have something like that employ dark-patterns to throw user back into their "controlled" timeline (Twitter for example reverts you back "Home" after a few days with a tiny message that is barely noticeable.)

I'm even willing to pay for a feature that "turns off" the algorithm, unfortunately that would never happen because it'd entail these companies admitting that they design their algos not for the benefit of the user but for stickiness and the dreaded "engagement", which shouldn't be a problem in itself, but then it'd quickly become obvious when they're acting sanctimonious.

That was my point, I don't know why everyone got what I said as anti capitalist rant.

The only reason I would trust a therapist with my personal life details is because of doctor patient confidentiality and there's absolutely no digital record of our conversation.

I think trusting any app or online service with such details is absolutely wrong with zero room for budging, and arguing that "well, maybe this company is okay" is naive to say the least.

How will they virtually walk out?

Biden, Obama and Clinton were against same sex marriage until they "supposedly" switched. You can't judge a person based on what's reported on them. Have you read or talked to Brendan about why he thinks and why he thinks it? Being against same sex marriage does not necessarily mean he thinks same sex couple are lesser people or that he's greater than them, it means he has an opinion, people with means and opinions use their means to argue for their opinion, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Your idea of equality are skewed by popular mainstream media. We should not strive for equality because life is not equal, but we should strive for fairness. If you want equality between me and an NBA basketball player you'll have to break their legs or something because I can't play basketball if my life depended on it, so there, that's an example of life's natural inequality, which is fair.

Fairness means equality of opportunity, not the equality of outcome. Arguing for the equality of outcome is tyrannical and pure evil.

They're sharing on your "platform". The only reason for you to do this is because it's profitable to you for some reason, hence, you're capitalizing on people's pains.

Support groups help in real life, not over some app where a faceless entity's purpose of existence is to extract your money.

> the shame and guilt associated with this makes it very traumatic for some people.

It's laughable that you think the solution to a problem like this is to share one's own vulnerabilities with a faceless private company.

You can raise them well. Porn is not the issue, replacing reallife with porn is.

Considering how difficult it is to verify information +200 years old and how likely it is that theories based on some information would fall apart if one piece turns out to be a fake or a lie, I wonder how much we actually know about history, or more like, what's the amount of lies we believe and live by everyday thinking it's undeniable truth because a group of "experts" thought it is.

What does that mean?

Mobile Safari still has a bug in web audio when connecting an analyser node with a mediaelement (where freq array is blank all the time) that's been reported afaik since 2015 if not earlier.

Mobile safari might not be the IE of the modern day, but the lack of support for core standards and focus on random shitty features (like hiding full urls in address bar) is akin to how M$ managed IE.

Considering "Manage your preferences here" button doesn't work I have very low expectations for how you're handling privacy.

> “We are experiencing a technical problem where some customers may have been incorrectly charged twice. We are currently working to resolve this issue. Customers who may have been affected will of course be reimbursed ", writes Filippa Bolz, communications manager at Klarna, in an email to the newspaper.

> According to Klarna, it can take up to three banking days before customers receive money that has been withdrawn incorrectly.

Stop writing on Medium.

> Similarly, first Excel document I try to open in it gives this error: Warning loading {document}: The data could not be loaded completely because the maximum number of columns per sheet was exceeded.

That's not exactly a fair assessment exercise. I'm not sure what format is the original excel file, but xlsb is a proprietary format.

My experience with Writer is wonderful. Have not had any issues and I know many people who use it daily with no issues.

Try to balance a picture and a couple of paragraphs in M$ Word in a long document and then come back to me on how that "high-quality" software handles it.

> there's just no way we can honestly tell people it's as high-quality as MS Office

Apparently, like many others in this entire thread, you've totally missed the point. I wasn't saying it's "as" high quality as M$ word (although I disagree with the usage of the word high quality here) but just that it is high quality by itself. This is known as an irrelevant conclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant_conclusion

My sentiment exactly. It felt like there is something interesting that could be done with a piece of software like that on mobile (I used it mostly while out on runs or walking).

I remember thinking that there will surely be a fedirated/self-hosted version spun up in no time and then we'll see if the idea really takes off.

> There is a fairly high chance that beta iOS would smoke even Debian stable out of the window in term of stability for end users.

You could not have chosen a worse example distro to throw in your flawed presumption. Debian is one of the most rigorously tested and sought after distros specifically for its stability.

There's nothing wrong in you preferring to use Windows or Mac. But throwing unsubstantiated claims around is foolish.

I don't know what to tell you other than you probably haven't used any recent version of these software. I know many people who are not tech-savvy and use OpenOffice, Gimp or Blender daily. They're both reliable and function (in some aspects) on par with the commercially available stuff.

The careers of many people (not just technical) who work in a business relying on the technology these days would not exist in the same way without open source and free software (that whatever product or software you are currently to make those comments relies on).

There's nothing wrong with criticism, but to give simplistic arguments (if they can be called arguments event) and say that it's "low quality" or "will not work" is just absolutely incorrect. But when it gets defended you call it "attacks the ego of many people"? That's just ridicules.

That's a poor argument. Usually this happens to "tech savvy" people when they like to tinker with their system on daily basis and use bleeding edge software (since you have unlimited customizability, unlike the competition), you're bound to have issues. Normal users can just use an LTS release and (for the average user) they won't even be able to tell the difference.

Talk to anyone who installs beta iOS versions and ask them how much crap they have to deal with.

I assume you're defining high-quality as easy-to use? If so, then that definition is lacking at best.