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

How bizarre. He's attempting to troll you by leaving a negative comment on a different person's post?

The logic is supposed be that "someone else did the same thing as I did, so what I did was correct and your criticism is therefore wrong".

It's on me for randomly checking comments to see if people are acting in bad faith. Sometimes, they are.


Sean has said so explicitly in multiple videos, including the "deep dive" video for today's update.

Many people observe reality, where the workers end up being the ones held accountable for the CEO's decisions, not the CEO.


Workers are not legally or financially accountable for any of that. That is the whole point of a "job". I think you are confused.


When the worker loses their jobs over bad executive decisions, they sure feel like they were pretty harshly financially penalized for those decisions.


And they can get a new job? Or should people be in the same job all their life?


Neither are CEOs in our present society


Are you confusing CEOs with founders, shareholders, etc.? Chief Executive Officer is, in fact, a "job."


Many people observe a limited subset of reality. It's highly visible when a company hits a crisis and people lose their jobs; it's much more common, but much less visible, for a CEO to get an after-hours call about a brewing problem which they must immediately work to smooth over.


It’s amazing how many people on this website harp on about nobody noticing their hard work, nobody caring unless the server is down, etc, and not being able to conceive of the remote chance of this same phenomenon applying to other roles in an organisation.


You truly don't see the difference between those two examples?


I'm not quite sure why you ask that? I'm not arguing that these two very different examples are the same, I'm explaining more concretely what it means to say that a CEO's job is to "to be responsible to the business".


And you don't see being laid off due to the business's failure as being "responsible to the business"?


I do. It’s on the CEO’s shoulders the other 95% of the time. (Which again, I agree is not some horrible deal, it’s much more fun to be a CEO who’s stressed with too many calls than a blue collar worker who’s stressed about feeding their family.)


Not very? Why would a TOS-violating feature like this be included as a default feature of an OS?


It's really incredible how so many of the people that in one thread will talk about workers rights will also come out to bat for some tech company's TOS.

Whatever your worldview is it's definitely not about freedom over authoritarianism.


God forbid an operating system existed for its users, not the system.


It is not difficult to understand why you are being downvoted. You are insisting that your own personal observations are the absolute truth, and rejecting everyone else's.


An open platform could be as simple as hosting their own website. You don’t need to be in a “bubble” to know about websites.


“As simple as hosting their own website” is contradictory for a majority of the people using the internet.


The context of the thread is public institutions.

I promise you, most public institutions are capable of hosting a web site or running a bluesky account


They choose not to because no one uses them. To get views for political purposes you have to use social media like blue sky and the fediverse


Why should public institutions be trying to get views for political purposes? Isn't that directly contrary to the intended role of public institutions in a democracy?


Because they want to win the next election? Corruption basically.


Bingo. It's not the "institutions" doing it, it's whichever elected officials we're trusting to run it at the time abusing their positions.


We are talking about organizations here who are communicating with the public.


Go ask your mom why she never posts on her own website, but does on closed platform social media. Her answer will be the same as all the people outside of the tech bubble you're in.


My mum used to blog on her own website daily, and she's not tech savvy at all


Who bought the domain for her, and went through the hoops (usually modifying DNS records) to verify it with the blog provider?


I obviously don't know about that person's mom, but a lot of hosting platforms and blog providers will do that for you if you don't want to do it yourself.


Wordpress, I believe


This is not a conversation about mothers. The root of this thread was referring to "accessibility of public-facing government communications."


> My tolerance for people posting to X without also posting to an open platform is over.

> Public institutions especially.

> There's zero excuse, none.

Maybe it wasn't their intent, but they clearly wrote it as a more general statement, with an additional and specific intolerance to public institutions, which is also how others interpreted it.


We don't need to "guess." When somebody shows you who he is, believe him.


Oh I sure do believe him. I just don't think it means one should be able to make up things regarding what he said on television.

As an aside: it's really sad to see how hard it is for people to comprehand complexities. One can be all for Palestinian state, against the war, think of Ben Gvir and Hamas as a similar evil, dedicate decades to mutual work towards peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and yet get some random internet dude saying things like "why are you defending him are you racist too!?!?!?!?" when all you're trying to do is to hold on to the simple facts in this conflict.


For what it is worth, I agree with you. So there is at least one other person out there who would like statements to remain factual. When the entire topic is already so emotionally charged, it seems even more important to attempt to just stick to being factual.


Seconded. The "personality" it tries to add is trite and tiresome and everybody immediately sees it for what it is, especially for a case like this where there's only so many ways to say "this is the default desktop color of an operating system." Not only that, but it's confusing - is "Windows Classic blue" a real thing, or just an attempt at a cute phrase? Just label the colors and be done with it.


It's actually not so easy to pick a speaking name for each color, since many colors are used in different OSs. I tried to use neutral and standard color names were they exist. Things like Windows Classic blue are probably always description-slop, though.

Another user suggested to use media quotes etc. on OSs, which I think is actually a pretty good idea. I might swap the LLM generated placeholders for something like that.


Understandable, and "Windows Classic blue" might not be useless if it had a function - let the user filter down to the OSes that shared a given color, so that the reason for it being named such is more clear.


You can see all OSs using the same color on the details page. It's the "known uses" box below the preview. Click on "View all x palettes" to see the full list.

Is that what you meant?


Why do you even need the text? Just show the color, year and the name of the OS.


In many cases, there is some additional information I want to add, like which themes the colors were used as background color in, or which palette they come from if there are several different.

I also discovered a lot about the different OSs while researching the colors and I think it's a nice nod towards the museum character of the site to add fun/nerd facts when I stumble upon them.

But true, in many cases there is no need for text - I just removed the tagline which didn't add anything useful.


This mirrors my experience. Vibe-coding one-off, low-risk apps, it's been fantastic. Trying to take the same approach when implementing features in massive legacy codebases has been an utter nightmare.


Exactly, and in most companies engineers have to implement feature in an existing codebase and hardly get to work on a completely greenfield projects. In my experience most of the time LLM take a quick dirty shortcuts to implement thing in a legacy codebase. It work, but not efficient and would collapse under heavy load, especially DB query implementations


I'm pretty sensitive to slop and didn't get it from this one. This blog's existed since 2009.


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

Search: