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by lapcat 10mo ago
How exactly does this reply relate to my comment?
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by lapcat 10mo ago
The original article is paywalled: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec7388 > The study also found that relatively subtle changes to the content of users’ feeds can significantly reduce political ani
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Like... scrolling down the page? Anyway, forbidding pages from loading secondary content would break millions of sites, including the most visited sites in the world. That would be equivalent to completely redesigning HTML/JS.
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by lapcat 10mo ago
The old-style popup windows have a specific API window.open() that can be blocked. What the author calls popups are mostly just HTML <div> elements, perhaps using CSS properties such as position and/or z-index, so there's no
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Two things I find very strange about the criticisms of sortition, as opposed to elections: 1) There are very few prerequisites for electoral candidates, mostly just age minimums (with no maximums). In some but not all cases there's a r
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Who exactly would you say is maintaining party discipline? In 2012, Mitt Romney was at least nominally the leader of the Republican party as their Presidential nominee. Nowadays, Donald Trump is clearly attempting to maintain party discipli
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> If you own stocks instead of a house because of its superior productive capability that return you a profit, you already understand this intuitively, in fact I think you understand it more or less completely. If you define the producti
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> so many humans are terrible at their jobs Is there any empirical evidence that librarians are terrible at their jobs? The reason is not the supposed fallibility of humans but rather the supposed infallibility of technology. Nontechni
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426505
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> The key here is ownership of things that facilitate the production of goods and services. I think this is so vague as to be useless. Does ownership of cash not facilitate the production of goods and services? The cash certainly gets sp
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Most billionaires are billionaires are on paper, by owning capital. By owning stock. I'm not sure that "on paper" is a particularly interesting qualifier. I'm not a billionaire, but most of my wealth, such as it is,
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by lapcat 10mo ago
I'm confused by your argument. The proposed wealth tax is on billionaires. That's fewer than 200 people in California. You're obviously not one of them, and never were one of them, so it wouldn't raise your taxes. And it
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by lapcat 10mo ago
This should not be a "Show HN" submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with." "Off topic: blog posts" Moreover
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Privilege isn't just about wealth. Which poor people exactly do you consider privileged, and why? > The point is that although anyone can ignore the news, the news won't necessarily ignore them! What can they do about the
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by lapcat 10mo ago
It's definitely privileged to take a trip to the Galapagos, but I don't think it's privileged to ignore the news. A lot of poor people ignore the news. They may be too busy, or they may feel powerless to change anything. I th
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Yes, IMO Tiger was actually peak Mac UI. As soon as Apple released iPhone, the Mac took a back seat.
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Shouldn't this be a Show HN post? And how many of these self-promoting fake HN mockups do we need from the same person? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by lapcat 10mo ago
The Apple release schedule is unremitting. We know that bugs are reported to Apple by developers, and we know that reported bugs get ignored for years, or forever. I suspect that every Apple engineer has a mountain of bugs in their queue. I
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Jobs did not run on a fixed annual schedule like Tim Cook does. Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7 all took over 12 months to develop, sometimes much more, and 10.5 was famously delayed out to 30 months. Jobs may have pushed engineer
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Without LLMs, this would have never been feasible because of dev time and/or costs. This implies that the ultimate payoff will be quite small, doesn't it? I would think that a "golden age" requires gold, so to speak
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by lapcat 10mo ago
As an indie software developer myself, I think that the most difficult part of the business is not writing the software but rather finding potential customers. That's why I have few worries about LLM slop. "If you build it, they w
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by lapcat 10mo ago
How much of this navel-gazing junk do we need? See also, from the same author: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 (10 days ago) Show HN: Hacker N
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> At minimum, a credential manager distributed for wide use should encrypt exported/copied keys with a user selected secret or user generated key. It feels like this stated minimum is not your actual minimum. Consider for example a
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> You're quoting the first post of a long discussion "You absolutely should be preventing users from being able to copy a private key!" is the 8th post in the discussion. Do you stand by these words, or are you now repudia
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Care to cite this statement? Yes, literally from you : "Passkeys should never be allowed to be exported in clear text." https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407 Also, "You
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by lapcat 10mo ago
This is merely the exchange format between credential providers, which is encrypted and gatekeeped by the credential providers. None of this is exported to users.
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by lapcat 10mo ago
Yes. User freedom is not all-or-nothing. There are degrees, and the tech companies are coming up with fiendish new ways to lock away your data from you. So in the case of passkeys, you can technically move your data between vendors, though
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by lapcat 10mo ago
You're repeating yourself and also way too many pedantic comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304159
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> All of the 3rd party credential managers I’ve used that support passkeys work with safari I've already addressed this pedantry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304137
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> So don't use software that forces lock-in (Safari)? Sounds like a you problem. No, this is a passkeys problem. Safari does not force lock-in of passwords. Why in the world would I want to ditch my web browser just to use passkeys?

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