I do like how in some MacOS examples we see icons for some of the more important or commonly used menu items, but not the others in the same list. The absence of icons has meaning ("it's likely not what you want")

Sibling post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193412

> I’ve noticed how fashionable it is in the US in particular, to distrust the government

No that's actually a sign of a third-world country. It's definitely shifting towards that in the US but is not as bad as Pakistan, for example. Yet.

Security almost always brings inconvenience (to everyone involved, including end users). That is part of its cost.

What security issue is actually being solved here though?

IIRC, there's a time/recency factor. If we assume that most people don't browse /newest (without commenting on should, I suspect this is true), then that seems like a reasonable way to help surface things; enough upvotes to indicate interest means a story gets a chance at the front page.

Do you think that was a hiring manager specific preference or an overall HR policy thing? Shitty nonetheless.

It was before matching so I am guessing overall HR policy.

That doesn’t make sense. In 2024, you could choose any location while matching. You just wouldn’t get any matches if there was no one hiring in that location (or if your profile wasn’t suitable to any, etc.). Your recruiter was being stupid or failing to communicate effectively.

No desire because you don't need them to optimize anything for yourself, or ?

So far the agentic stuff seems focused on shopping. Online shopping is remarkably seamless and optimized for me so the potential productivity gain is not enticing.

I’ve encountered a number of errors dealing with LLMs so would be wary of the results.

I also think there’d be an incentive to enshittify by having vendors pay to get preferential prioritization from the LLM. This could result in worse products being delivered for higher prices.

Have you had issues with LLM agents or when chatting to them one-on-one?

> So far the agentic stuff seems focused on shopping.

Where are you getting this impression?

I think they are referring to public market investors vs private investors. Meaning, their stock valuation.

it's rare to see someone circle back with a retraction, even on HN. Kudos

I don't see his linked comment as blocking progress. Both of those questions are very valid and something I'd expect from a good core maintainer.

Disclaimer: I don't have any additional context.

There are other examples. He single-handedly prevented quote tweets from being implemented in Mastodon because "they lead to toxicity", disregarding the benefits of quote tweets and the barrage of feedback supporting it.

Meanwhile, Bluesky implemented QTs in a perfect way: you can detach your post from quotes or prevent quoting entirely if you want, but the feature is there.

This was also the largely held opinion of the community at a time. I don't know if we can blame him on that. The opinion started changing once the community grew bigger after the twitter migration and after Bluesky implemented it in a more sensitive way.

For anyone reading, quote tweets are now available on Mastodon.

The context for those who wonder what "single-handedly" means: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99662106175542726

He was right!

So, was he wrong implementing it?