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My one consolation is that this might eventually drive away more users. Facebook is ripe for a market disruption.

The US is falling irreparably behind. I suspect I won't see a recovery in my lifetime anymore.

My guess is most readers of Hacker News are going to be very aware of all myriad of ways that they are being tracked on their devices. That being said, this is a pretty good "satirical" piece. Satirical in quotes because really is satire even a thing anymore?

One of the "yea no kidding" outcomes of science, that is still neat to have quantified in some way.

That's great news, hopefully it doesn't get reversed again in a few days. What an absolute clown show of a government. If we can claw our way out of this fascism there needs to be a real reckoning. Truth and goodness can not flourish without justice.

NFTs really are the beanie babies for tech bros.

Zuck and his ilk are ghouls.

One thing we've done at our company is limit the interviews to a max of 3 times. 1. Initial (phone or in-person). 2. In-person longer interview with some "can you solve problems" questions 3. Final interview to make sure of culture fit

Anything that exceeds 4 interviews is unnecessary. I am unconvinced that it is beneficial to anyone.

Isn't everything being commodified...

Europe would be wise to start investing heavily in its own communications tech.

Duolingo is at best a fancy substitute for flashcards. It really fails at language acquisition, but might help a little in word memory.

exiv2 is a fantastic command line tool to do this. Lightening fast.

Every one of those pennies was essentially stolen from the American people.

These are good insights for small-SaaS. I especially like not using intrusive analytics - they are simply unnecessary and unhelpful. With a small SaaS business you will hear from your users, a they will tell you their pain points. Tracking them and trying to model out of a web of interactions what you should do is missing the forest for the trees.

Boycotting large American corps is the right thing to do here. I would say though, support your local businesses as much as possible, and while that likely will buoy some seedy someone down the supply chain... well as they say, there's no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just do as much as you can to help the right people.

And what if they don't? Without hard consequences issued by the judge - consequences that actually take place, this will be another big step toward fascism. The guard rails are failing.

Showing no response towards these tariffs will not be rewarded. It's going to be interpreted as a sign of weakness. Australia is making a bad bet here.

> [A] generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all?

Adam Neely has some things worth listening to when it comes to the idea of "what is jazz"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zOvCLwcL8

The Democrats absolutely need to shake off their milquetoast leadership and get some people in willing to fight the good fight.

It seems like the negative effects are already manifesting, while the positive ones lag far behind.

Aside from any other reasons this is happening, I personally like a slower release schedule for major releases. I don't think speed running updates which often enough breaks compatibility and forces constant vigilance for plugin writers and web developers is very manageable.

We've known for a while that many if not most scientific journals are not great at peer reviews. A lot of junk gets through. Adding AI might be a good first step to catch major errors, but I suspect that what we really need is more rigorous requirements for publication.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

This isn't jaded, this is a realistic conclusion to draw based on everything we have witnessed and are experiencing. This is almost certainly happening.

So is the idea here, that you block access to the YouTube website directly, but allow watching through approved channels on https://maekitsafe.com?

If so, I'd like to see some detailed instructions for users on how they can actively block YouTube.com while still allowing embed to play on your site. I think that may trip a lot of non-tech people up.

Agreed. About 12 years ago, when I was starting up a company, I went through a few different interviews with VCs. In addition to being severely unimpressed with them, it just didn't seem worth the effort. The amount of money they were willing to put in, in ratio to the effort that their growth requirements would take seemed borderline abusive.

I suppose if you are creating something that requires massive amounts of capital to get started, it may be a viable choice. But anything else that can grow on its own and be profitable, your odds of succeeding are higher without VC money.

This does indeed sound Kafkaesque. I haven't had to go through an interview process in many years now, and I'm not looking forward to it if I have to in the future. It does seem like the entire tech space has been invaded by MBAs who need to justify their positions by setting up these - often unnecessary - multi-tiered interviews. If it takes more than 3 interviews to hire someone, I think you're doing it wrong.

Treating the symptoms is easier and cheaper. And let's be real, the money would rather treat symptoms than the cause. Convincing monied interests to stop advertising is not a realistic thing. This would have to be done through legislation and force. And I agree it should be done.

I love traveling, but rarely alone, and always with a purpose. I find aimless traveling just for the sake of saying I've been somewhere more exhausting than exhilarating. If I'm going to the Netherlands it's to visit some ancestral villages. If I'm going to Japan it's because I have a deep fascination with Kabuki and Noh. But I too love having a place to call home, with people in my community who are familiar with me.

A succinct book which is a good primer for thinking through things is "Rulebook for Arguments" by Anthony Weston. Quick to get through and understandable.