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100% agree with this, seems weird to call an engineer “smart” for triggering an API that allows any input but can’t handle it. I also kind of doubt it was an engineer testing vs so…

Even still, it's not as much information and doesn't excuse deleting creators work without any warning.

Not earlier commenter but their username is a reference to “ableton live” which is music production software. Not “able to live” which is just a one letter difference

It’s less that they’re flailing and more that it’s become some sort of lord of the flies culture with senior leaders directly competing with each other to try to take their bite of…

As a heavy EC2 user who hasn't used ECS, the behavior makes perfect sense as ECS is running on EC2 but unless I sat and thought about it my first instinct would be that AWS would m…

It's a reasonable take from the author, but the argument that you shouldn't use a tool you don't understand cuts both ways. Avoiding powerful tools can be just as much of a trap as…

A lot of what drives feed algorithms are interactions rather than just follows. I imagine it’s one reason why X/Twitter made likes private as they want people to like things for th…

I think most folks would disagree that the other commenter is on the "extreme" end of the privacy spectrum. It's very context specific. Some ISPs are state specific or even town sp…

While I'm pro right to be forgotten, and do believe HN should allow an account delete. But HN's ethos is to inspire discussion and readability of it. Lack of a delete seems to be b…

You can assuming you do it within their timelimits: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#editde...

I am not a lawyer, but GDPR compliance looks like it doesn't quite apply due to not necessarily being targeted at European citizens https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/

Not sure how I’m demanding, just pointing out some differences between how different groups tackle this

This is one of the great parts of America, personal liberties. But simultaneously one of the downsides of the individual > whole scheme, sometimes sacrifices hurt the individual bu…

I understand your sentiment and I’m sure you’re well meaning. But Asian Americans are one of the most diverse groups, it’s a huge part of the world and part of the problem is peopl…

Part of the problem is Asians don’t vote as a block, so who will protect them? If for a group of people, votes are split, who will look out for their needs?

It’s not just about top notch students it’s about all of them. If the top can’t make it, who can? It’s also about pushing down one race unfairly

Yeah I want to double down on this, This reads like a personal goodbye that somehow got published here.... probably not for the world

For book suggestions I would suggest the old classic: “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Talks about active listening, and remembering things about others. As for generally …

>is Dropbox too big to be acquired (by Facebook)? Facebook is big enough to acquire almost any company they want > Can this mean that they are going to? Put aside whether or not it…

Great article, covering something we should probably keep in mind. Higher education is often a needless gatekeeper for keeping those with generational wealth wealthy Often a subtex…

Not sure if you're missing the point of the poster above. Poster is more likely asking whether the education gained in college is actually useful vs the doors opened by having that…