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> I hate losing settings and having to fiddle with everything all over again.

> I remember, back in pre-windows XP days, me and some of my friends would spend ages going through the appearance options and customisimg pretty much everything. Even later, I knew of people who had a meticulous desktop ordering or spent substantial amount of time ordering favourite icons in the browser.

> All that was great fun until the first time, the settings were lost. Maybe you had to reinstall the OS (or got a new PC) or maybe the program updated and simply erased the settings. In any case, trying to redo everything you had arranged before looked to be an enormous amount of work and not fun at all. So after the second time, this happened, we gave up and accepted the standard.

I was like this, and felt exactly the same. When I discovered the magic of unix windows managers, it felt like a miracle. Suddenly, I could adjust every frivolous detail to my liking, and _have it reproducable_ in a version control somewhere. When my laptop broke, I just reintroduced my package list, inserted the config and it was just like the old one! I think it's a shame so relatively few people will ever reap the benefits of a customized system over the fear of losing it randomly to a hardware failure.
The bookmarks would have the same title that a search engine uses, so I'm not sure why it would be more difficult. Could you provide an example?
Insider leak seems more likely to me.
As someone who has created a bookmarking app tailored to my needs only (and used only by me apparently), i m not sure i agree with the spirit

And the author seems to forget about pinterest
There used to be a lisp dialect called "pyramid" partially to make the "pyramid scheme" joke.

https://www.michaelburge.us/2017/11/28/write-your-next-ether...
Weird article to be honest.
> Having a therapy budget being normalized like this is worrying to me...

Why does it worry you? What should people spend their money on if not on things which makes them feel better? Why do you you care what one calls this part of their discretionary spending?

> are you all right? like, collectively.

This might be new to you but there is nothing “collective” about individual comments. You are reacting to one specific uterance from one specific individual. If you think there is a “HN groupthink” that collectively thinks this just a model in your head. A not so usefull one.
Wait.. are you saying that the conditional was actually:

if (isSignatureValid == isSignatureFromGuardian)

As variable names, “validSignature” and “signatureFromGuardian” sound like they’re storing the literal signature values, but from your description these are actually holding boolean results _describing_ the signatures, and not the signatures themselves?

Geez, if you name variables that it’d be amazingly easy to make a mistakes like what you describe, and then just read straight over them when you’re reviewing the code.
Yes that is so true, the extension I made for Chrome changes the new tab page of your browser to all the links you saved.

I did it because even I used to bookmark stuff but then forgets all about it. So having it sticking out to your face every time when you open a new tab will at least make you go out and read it.
> But it's quite easy to measure what settings almost no one is using, and to axe those.

The chance is high that the "almost no one" group is actually the ones that use your app the most. Casual users won't care much about some setting five layers deep in the menu, but the ones who are dedicated enough to actually find it will care.

The constant "optimization" by taking features away that "no one" uses is what drives so many users away from installing updates. Please stop that bullshit. I'd like to not fear updates again.
Anyone have a code I can join in?
Of often they'll be unaware the setting exists or even more likely be unaware that the setting even _might_ exist (and therefore don't even think to Google it).

Though often still theyll be afraid to look around at settings for fear of breaking things.
> "Another problem is when the one's you don't want to hear, are spreading propaganda supporting a want-to-be-dictaor. And then eventually they succeed, because those who didn't like the dictator, just ignored them (let them spread the propaganda unhindered). -- What's the likelihood that the US is still a democracy in 30 years."

Is a two party system backed by billions, elaborate social media timelines (from experts of sociology, psychology, K street, and NGOs) even close to a democracy at this point in time?

Regards of which hand you consider the correct one, we have deeply flawed versions of the world being marketed and sold at unprecedented scale and scope.

Imagine if you worked for a company and every 4 years workers voted to keep or replace them. What if the companies main customer had a controlling vote?

/rant
The slip is only 0 when free rolling by definition of the rolling radius.

You also have the rolling radius depend on load (car mass) and tire pressure.

I don't say I know it is impossible, but it feels like there is way to much noise.
Why would Google ever implement decent bookmarks aka local search for all your data? They need to track you for their business.
This is what I see when I click on your link:

> The payments feature on App is not available in this country.
This is really cool, just found something I'm going to use in a project because of this!
Economists do this a lot.

Turns out Dvorak wasn't any better than Qwerty say keyboard ergonomic experts, oh no actually it's free market economists who think the market is never wrong and Qwerty is an annoyingly popular contradiction.

Betmax wasn't higher quality than VHS say analog video quality experts, oh no it's free market economists who think the market is never wrong and Betamax/VHS is an annoyingly popular counterexample.

Recycling doesn't actually help the planet say ecology experts, oh no wait it's those free market economists who don't believe the market is ever wrong and recycling is a popular counterpoint.

And so on..
Sorry but tobacco gets to Europe just after Columbus reaches America, and gets consumed in Europe by then.

And the indians of America consumed it much earlier.

Just to clarify.
Hi there.

Please tell me how because my 5 man IT department apparently can’t find the button and googling is failing me too.
100% agree that bookmarks need a better solution. Whoever does it will change the game.

I'm a bookmarks hoarder. If I encounter a useful site, I bookmark it.

I have about 20,000 bookmarks on Chrome now.

Someone on HN once described bookmarks as a "knowledge graph". That's an apt description for what they do for me.

I've long given-up trying to neatly organize my bookmarks in folders. Now I use lots of keywords (as pseudo-tags) while saving a bookmark, with the hope that I'll be able to use the correct keywords later when looking for the bookmark.

I would, however, like save them neatly in folders.

In case someone from the Chrome team is reading this, some features that would really change the game for us bookmark hoarders are:

1. bookmarks search: allow us to search exclusively within a folder.

2. bookmarks search: option to search only folder names.

3. when saving a bookmark, give us a search box we can use to search folder names, and then quickly identify and pick a folder to save the bookmark in.

4. tags for bookmark (similar to tags in Gmail).
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Pinterest indeed! Though specifically for visuals!
Impossible to prevent children from ingesting microplastics
AFAIK none of the APIs provide comment votes; you can only get the votes on your own comments, and only by scraping the web page :(
I find it normal that people are attached to something like an editor, or a font.

I started to administer unix machines early 90's. Vi had always been a shitshow for me and I loved the editor joe. Then pico. Then nano. Then graphical ones. Today vscode.

I am amazed how people use vi and the speed they get from it (honestly). When I ssh or docker exec, I am happy to know i, a and :q! in vi.

What I do not like, though, is someone telling me that my editor is wrong and theirs is the right one.

Someone showing me their editor/font/ whatever useful software is a godsend. I learned so much from these people.
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> given enough time the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place

And the hilarious thing is that they see the absence of this regulation as a feature and don't even recognize just to what extent they are reinventing the wheel.

My favorite example is kleros.io, a "decentralized arbitration service". There's an app "Kleros Court". Can't wait for the "Kleros Supreme Court" version, for appeal processes and such.
It's a lot but it is the total consumption so it includes all stuff that was sold not necessarily consumed. Fast food sells massive portion that people regularly throw away half full, auto-refills, expired stuff, hell just think of all the coke+menthol videos.

I find the coffee at 46 gallons stranger. 570ml a day of coffee? What's even more wtf is that in Central Europe during and after the war coffee was very expensive/difficult to get so people were drinking coffee substitutes (chicory root for example) while people in the US drank half liter a day.
Thanks. I admit i just wikipedia-ed these quickly
It does? Those drivers remove a small portion of the autopilot miles driven, but a large portion of the challenging/dangerous miles. The result are stats with a low accident per mile ratio.
You just have to try it.

It's a bit distressing the number of negative commenters indicating that they don't even want to try something that's the #1 digital in the world. It's like saying 'I don't want to see what TV is because I already don't like the radio'.

TikTok is nothing like Instagram at all, which is mostly oriented towards imagery.

It definitely is a bit like Vine, but the longer segments allow for a lot more creativity, moreover, I think the number of people with smartphones and 'decent cameras and willing to make content' is just considerably bigger than it was previously.

I watch cat rescue videos, and then the 'day after follow up' appears in my feed the next day, I find it intriguing.

It's certainly not for everyone, but it's definitely something that anyone working in tech should try out, so they get a grasp of what is happening in the world.
In addition to the other posts, you also don't know it's really 0.1%. Users may have disabled telemetry - and often, those are specifically the power users that are making the most use of customisation.

> but takes up 5% of the real estate

How would you even manage to do that? Menus are a thing. A setting might as well be hidden in a dialog somewhere if it's reasonably clear how do get to it (e.g. through a well thought-out menu or dialog structure).

Not everything has to be explained through random popup messages that show up at the worst possible time.
I understand the author’s stance, but it’s probably mostly motivated by the fact that he runs a web publishing service (mataora.blog) where you can potentially write in any script, making it hard to support good multi-script typography without loading webfonts conditionally[0] (also, except for the Noto family, there are almost no universal, good-looking options.)

Thanks to variable fonts, you can nowadays get a full typographic palette (including small-caps, italics, all weights from 100 to 900) on a 300KB budget, sometimes less. The article sports an image that’s 170KB, so it’s a question of priorities I guess.

[0] modern browsers actually got good at this, using unicode ranges: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%40font-fac...
My problem with bookmarking has always been that they quickly become just as unwieldy as not having things bookmarked, so finding a bookmarked item becomes really difficult. Plus I forget what I have bookmarked so when I want to read a thing again I don’t think to check the bookmarks. So I’ve largely stopped using them and just use it as a giant “to browse through again eventually” list instead.
If you generate the rays the linear way instead, you don't even need any correction.

Generate two points which represent the left and right edges of the screen - you'd put them in at say 45 degrees left and right of the forward vector of the player. Then to generate the direction vector for each column of the screen, just interpolate linearly between those two points, and find the vector from the player to that intermediate point.
> I can't think of a program that isn't an IDE that has taken this approach, though.

There aren't many, but on the other side... IDE developers are dog-fooding their product. They want customizability, they know other developers will want that customizability, and they get their wishes granted.
"Will I need to reference this website later on?": Bookmark it

That's my only criterion.
> What they _should_ have done is debatable, but developing some sense of ethics might have helped.

I don't see how you could do that. Even recognizing a blind spot like that is extremely difficult and then changing that company DNA is near impossible, it might be even harder than pushing for more innovation.

Both are the same problem though: changing culture. That is only possible with a drastic change at the top, which didn't happen.

Zuck would have had to have a personal epiphany for that to happen because he's un-fireable.
Unless you're omniscient owner of said chain who just been robbed. Then decentrzlization wont stop you from reverting said event.
I see what you mean but this string of social network website all have this "come together to do nothing but comment" basis. And that's probably why they spin into data hoarding nothingness, because there was no evolved purpose in the first place.

I'd have a hart time comparing HN, deviantart and a few other places with facebook and instagram..
All student drivers particularly at the beginning are "dangerous drivers" because they aren't drivers but they're asked to drive. In their first half of driving school most students would probably cause an accident within minutes if not for the instructor. I live on a quiet street where most driving schools take their students due to the almost non-existing traffic. I can't count how many times I see the instructor having to intervene to avoid a crash even at simple things like keeping a straight line or a right turn (too tight or too wide).
Everyone in the DeFi space knows Wormhole (which is on Solana) is not decentralised because Solana is banked, run, and paid for by VCs.

Yet another out of touch comment on HackerNews -- a place where people should be doing even a modicum of research instead of making things up.
He didn't need to since the actual attack happened on Solanas side. The Ethereum transaction was completely legit.
Let’s not pretend stupid while writing comments in US company’s new page.
>Before Firefox went multi-process it handled package updates just fine

No, the problem was just less common and things randomly stopped working or crashed instead of getting the warning page.

In theory you can design the browser so it keeps all files open and passes down the handles, but I imagine it's a mess to do that in practice, especially as Firefox is still somewhat configurable.
Pretty fun!

I think some game mechanics could be adjusted though - most games I've played ended up with no-one guessing the word, and the winner being the person who made the fewest guesses.
I'd actually argue that HN is one of the better forums in terms of percentage of commenters who have read the linked article
After a quick skimming of both dark and non-dark pattern games, seems that most of the dark pattern ones are free with in-app purchases, while the non-dark pattern games are priced at a couple dollars, sometimes with zero in app purchases.

Different revenue models.
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I think Instagram and WhatsApp were the only very expensive ones. They did buy (and kill) a lot more

https://www.techwyse.com/blog/infographics/facebook-acquisit...

EDIT: and Oculus, too
Apparently it is how it used to work though for some settings, which is bad enough, and still sends partial hashes in some cases which can leak some information. Even just making any connections to Google (or another provider) without the user explicitly visiting a Google website is a privacy issue that Firefox should resolve.

It also does not adress the problem with making Google the gatekeeper deciding what you can and cannot download - and don't tell me its just a warning, its set up in such a way that regular users will often not even know that they can bypass it.
I pay for Pinboard. I have 5K bookmarks and daily add about 1-10 new ones. I will never read most of them. But when push comes to shove, I can easily find that BioTech article that generated a lot of discussion on HN because I tagged it as "hn" and "biotech". And if that article disappears from the web, Pinboard should still have a cached version. So now I can bookmark an article close tab #231 and fall asleep peacefully.
> a wall of text to parse. This suggests, that it isn’t a necessity or preferable for comprehension.

No, that suggests that those platforms understand the limitations of the medium and try to work around them - with mixed results. They still have to use a modicum of text, they just build other stuff around it to reinforce meaning.

Your critique would be valid if these platforms were not using any text whatsoever - which might well happen at some point, in the distant future, but definitely is not the case now.
Not sure I'd consider a "CTO" to be the "lead dev". Definitely not in a bigger org.
You have profile, you publish content, people leave comments, you can message anyone. It is a social network. Don’t confuse its format for YouTube because that’s now how the youth is using it
Yet, todo lists are about keep tracking of items you will tick off. They are no meant to be perpetual. Bookmarks can be. I have bookmarked intranet systems for that exact reason.
But a billion people got massively upgraded end to end encrypted communications.

It's not clear what, if any, benefit that has had. But it's going to be something
I can recall the layout of the text, although I can't be certain about the names from so long ago. It was pretty enjoyable for such a basic game.

I imagine that it was also the parent of the trader text game where instead of being in a static city you have your ship that you increase in size, travel between cities and trade as well as buy/sell guns for defense.
No one says that bridges are DeFi or decentralized. Only people who don't understand what they're talking about sum up everything under one term and then complain that their definition doesn't fit.
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Ha, I knew I would get called out on that. To be honest, in my specific case, I doubt it, I've removed some pretty pointless legacy settings which only had minor cosmetic effects. I know this stuff is in the eye of the beholder, but sometimes there genuinely are settings that someone asked for a decade ago that no one else really wanted, or possibly wasn't even what the person asking meant. But the way this usually works on our app is that the setting is just removed for anyone who has it set to the default value at that moment, so people who previously changed it won't have their stuff messed with.
Squashfs instead! There was another post about this recently, replace tar with squashfs solves a bunch of problems. Is arguably harder to create and had a smaller ecosystem than tar, but capability wise it would be great.
No you're right, a wheeled chair would not be really useful, would it
That's simply wrong. Stop copying random stuff from Twitter.

Several others here have explained how the attack actually happened.
Software shouldn't have bugs, got it. It should be written by bug-free programmers that foresee every possible failure mode (that they can never imagine happening, because they won't write bugs themselves).
The announcers/narrators/players are unusually entertaining and I laughed quite a bit in the first 15 minutes. Thanks for sharing.
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I have heard that reason. It fals apart when you take your own Keep Cup (etc) and it's still a problem. The problem with having an amazing coffee culture is that you end up with a bunch of coffee shops that think they know better than the customer.

If they want to run their businesses like that, that's fine. No objection. I'm sure they'll find plenty of customers. It might even be me depending on how desperate I am. But it's accepting that it's not going to work for a segment of their potential market.

Another example is cash-only/card-only, the former of which I now find much more obnoxious. That's a decision they're allowed to take, but it removes a segment of customers (it's different to the "Google knowing better" in the original post). I will likely not go back to a place that's cash only, because I don't usually carry cash any more.

Depending on the country you can walk into an office supply store and walk out with a cheap terminal (Square, SumUp, etc) that will allow you to take payments so it's nowhere near the "6 weeks wait and a merchant bank account" that it was when card payments were in their early years. Which means it's just lazy. It's lazy and it's pushing that laziness onto your customers, who have to go to the ATM.

Disclaimer: This varies country to country. In germany it's much more common to have to pay cash, because they have some long term, anti-tracking hang-up that go back to the cold war (at least that's my understanding).
It has a "FIND GAME" option if you'd like to play with random people.
Sounds like something todoist should well be able to handle: https://todoist.com/
They have been around for years but they really focus on being just 1 thing, a good to-do list manager. Sharing lists/tasks amongst people is as far down the collaboration rabbit hole as they went.

If your use case is really just groceries there is even an app just for sharing shopping lists with others (some friends use it and like it, personally for me it felt overkill): https://www.getbring.com/en/home
I think so as well. They have Kremlin propaganda, but almost every other channel has government propaganda as well. Of course that is the good kind of propaganda.

It isn't too relevant because TV broadcasting becomes less relevant, but it still leaves a bad taste. Maybe just an impotent political move because of the tension, although I think that makes it even worse.
You know what I mean. At $500/month it’s definitely not for most of the world.
20,000? And pseudo-tags system has scaled to accommodate them?

I converted some to "Web Apps" (Linux Mint)
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Why am I able to get competitive on anything? ^^
Agreed. Each stamp print is a small reward and seeing more and more of the beautifully designed prints appear in your booklet feels great. I started hiking the trail in 2019 with my dog - we both have separate collection booklets - and I hope when we finally complete the trail, he too can get his own badge.
First thing I thought about too.

Metaverse is not a utopia but a dystopia!

edit: typo
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The hacker gang, which is thought to be based in Gaza – a center of conflict and tension between Israel and Palestine –targets organizations all over the world, but currently appears to be focusing on groups involved in Palestinian politics.