Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | Garvi's commentslogin

> what VW did is absurdly negligible

You're both completely right, while you're completely wrong.


I'd be curious as to how one would define this "non-harmful" media? Seems like the linchpin to our future.


Look at mastodon. Absolutely nobody and nothing influences what you see except you. The only things you see are posts from people you follow, in chronological order. Emphasis on people, as opposed to AI generated celebrities selling boner pills to kids or whatever the hell is going on these days


Non-harmful means whatever the government wants it to mean.


That's a common problem. It's electrical noise in your signal. The only way I know how to completely eliminate it is using external DA/AD converters and connecting them to the PC using optical wires. We used MADI cards back in the studio back in the day.


you can do a lot with just good power filtering and maybe a ferrule on the USB cable to cut the high frequency stuff before it even gets to device. I'd imagine powered USB hub might help too.

I wonder if there is a market for motherboard targetting musicians that just have extra power filtering on USB power.

There are also just USB devices that have just plugs + some LC filter that might help, for example https://oshwlab.com/wagiminator/usb-power-filter


If people working for Google had a conscience, they would be working to break the system from within. At this point it's leaving the confines of anti-consumerism and entering into a gray area of basic human rights abuse. It's clearly a cartel market with the other big players (Apple and others to a lesser extend) that needed to be broken 10 years ago(if it were possible).

It reminds me a bit of the book "The Constant Soldier", depicting Auschwitz guards and staff enjoying their carefree holiday at a nearby lake resort, before going back to burning people. Might seem like hyperbole, but I think we're rushing towards an ugly plutocracy.


Going full on Godwin today?

People working for Google are not Nazis and people using Android phones are not like Auschwitz prisoners. That's a really terrible analogy.


Replace "despite" with "because of" and you'll get a clearer picture. The US is looted. China is holding on because they've managed to reign in their billionaires and their greed towards their own population. The US commoditized it's own population a long time ago, with the whole world watching and shaking it's head. Life expectancy is a good indicator for this.


Living in the information age was supposed to mean we'll be better informed. Reading the opinions in this thread just shatters any hope for humanity.


The funny thing is, both sides can read your comment and assume you’re talking about the other side having the "wrong" opinion. It’s the kind of platitude that doesn’t really add anything, it just signals that you see yourself as being above "the wrong side", whichever side that happens to be.


I projected my distaste for rampant partisanship into the comment. So far I've only seen one comment which is informative and on topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537006


I'm not sure who is down-voting this comment. Seems pretty accurate to me.


> you see yourself as being above "the wrong side", whichever side that happens to be

The actually sad thing is, it's pretty damn obvious.


Why do people have this weird idea that humans reliably pick the correct answer, even given infinite information?

Humans are incapable of being rational, it's not how our brains function. We can, with great effort, emulate what we think rational thought would be like.

Human brains regularly lie to themselves because it is cheaper or easier than actually processing input.

You know that fun retort: "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?", and how it's always trotted out as this supposed retort to someone suggesting you ignore obvious info, but our eyes are lying to us constantly. There are tons of ways your eyes cheat, or lie, or outright ignore reality in favor of some internal model. This isn't even limited to optical illusions!

And the same is true of all sensory input we have. There are auditory illusions and ways your ears lie to you. There are things like phantom limbs that demonstrate your brain will ignore explicit and clear reality for no reason.

Humans are emotional creatures, like all biological creatures. Humans make choices emotionally

Do you think the most emotionally charged information will always be truthful?

The outcome we are experiencing was obvious, but people ignored it because that sort of implies that information needs to be filtered or curated and that makes people nervous.


> Reading the opinions in this thread just shatters any hope for humanity.

the fact that you are able to read opinions that don't match yours is for me a positive. better to have it imho than to only see what one agrees with at all times.

now whether the discourse is healthy or not is up to the rest.


I was using Manjaro i3 X11 for 3 years. A few months back I switched to Arch Hyprland Wayland and so far I am very happy with it. I use it for programming, video editing and gaming. No major inconveniences.


aaand we're censored.


This will break and fracture the web. Unfortunately many here have much to lose by criticizing google. I have just spent 8 hours today updating my apps on the google play store, answering business emails on my google email account and updating customer tracking data on google analytics and updating their google ads.

If they decide to make an example out of me, to teach the rest of you how to behave, I am screwed. I guess that's the "freedom" you US based folks are talking about. This has already been affecting the discourse on sites like HN for a while.


If you get creative and find a way to sell yourself into slavery despite us making that nominally illegal there's very little we can do to help you.


Many Germans feel the fact their Kancler took Blackrock money all those years he was on their supervisory board, makes him too compromised to still be working in their best interest. This expansion is to make sure they don't act on it.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: