My understanding is that: - they assume jobseeker/spammers through those bots contact anyone being active in the HN "who wants to be hired" - one should show empathy for them because they are also in need for a job, and not complain about those dishonest methods

Being in (important) need for a job doesn't make it any more legit to blindly spam others - especially those in the same boat.

Maybe not, but it does mean that the request for empathy in this post is completely backwards. It's a minor annoyance for the poster, and life or death for the sender. I get spam to tell me about promotions for Australian McDonalds locations I've never been to (I live in the US, have never been to Australia, and never intend to go). Surely he can muster enough empathy to click delete on this along with the 40k other messages he is getting from automated, venture-backed spam outfits.

That sounds great but I can't find any information about it. Do you have a link, please?

It depends what are your expectations.

I thought it was fine, until a competitive player, friend of mine who has a machine comparable to mine saw the game running on mine and noticed a lot of stuttering and framerate loss. I don't believe it is a machine performance issue (Threadripper Pro 3XXX with a 3080p), and I was running a pretty standard Gnome Fedora 43 with NVIDIA drivers.

So if you are into competitive gaming, I guess it is debatable.

I started giving a try to Zen (based on firefox) a few days ago. I like it especially while heavily relying on a tiling window manager.

Agree with sibling comment as someone who used Zen for many months, maybe as long as a year or two. It constantly breaks and often stays broken in small but fundamentally important ways, to the point that I just switched back to FF last week and am glad to be off the roller coaster. Before Zen I had tried Arc and left for a lot of the same reasons.

For all of the (valid) criticism against FF, it's still the best available browser that's not just an experiment IMHO.

Edit to add: part of the switch back is that FF now supports, to some degree, all the features I was using Zen for: vertical tabs (needs customization but works well enough), custom search "engines" (ie, shortcuts), split view, not-Chrome

I daily drove Zen for months. The design and implementation are overall fantastic. Unfortunately it still has chronic performance issues, gobbling up CPU randomly - and they don't seem to be too focused on despite it being a commonly reported issue.

I don't want to burn out my battery quicker than usual, so I was forced to switch off. I'm currently trying Orion instead and have been loving it - aside from several poorly implemented websites just not working on it. And the Cloudflare false positives, but that's as much or more an issue on Zen.

So Artificial General Intelligence and Cascading Style Sheets are not joining forces?

If there's ever a singularity as a result of AGI, it will likely look at CSS and decide that extermination is simply too good for the human race.

Always have been :)

A tool might not be the best tool to build itself, doesn't mean it is not good. You don't use a screwdriver to craft screwdrivers. Doesn't mean screwdrivers are inherently bad

Despite the lack of transparency, is this so bad? Players are being given a game in exchange for collectively building a database.

It's the lack of transparency that is bad. PokemonGo did not make it clear it was taking (and uploading) pictures.

You could argue that "of course it must be for AR", but that isn't clear at all. The camera shows a live image before I take a photo, and I wouldn't expect a photo to be captured and sent if I didn't press the (virtual) shutter.

There are probably some cheap phones that do precisely that, and I'd be just as annoyed at them and raise the same concerns.

It isn't recording surreptitiously. The data was collected as part of an optional feature which is a very intentional process where you start a scan and then move around the object being scanned to get data from multiple angles, and then click to upload the data to Niantic. The uploading is called out specifically as a separate step (at least early on it was common for uploads to fail, so it had the option to save the scan to upload later when you had better signal). There is nothing secret about the fact that Niantic is collecting this data.

The lack of transparency is about how Niantic is using the data, selling it to third parties for purposes unrelated to the game. And I agree with the parent that this is a fair trade for a free game, especially since that part is optional, but more transparency would be better.

I recall there being a pretty obvious notice when they first ask if you want to participate. Whether people read it is another thing.

The article doesn’t say when this collection happens but there is some part of the game the involves photographing specific landmarks which does involve pressing a shutter. I’m guessing that’s where this comes from but would be great to hear from a better source.

tl;dr use an autocomplete dropdown

They have been receiving a lot of hate on Reddit for a few weeks, since they started mass canceling Pro accounts. What seemed to be initially an attempt at preventing illegitimate accounts (aka those using coupons from grey market for instance) escalated into wavesof random accounts suspensions just for not having a credit card set, including legit ones that came as a package with ISP, bank accounts, etc.

Not only have there been those cancellations, but they’ve also been cutting back features in a lot of areas, especially in the Pro tier, and doing it pretty drastically without any notice. Honestly, I think that might be the bigger issue, particularly since many of the affected users are paying customers, and quite a few of them paid for a full year upfront.

Yes, this is a very poor way of handling the issue. It's not like those 1 year vouchers have been stollen from them, they have been handing those out like candies and now they realized it wasn't profitable, they back off without any consideration for their customers.

It's been pointed out on Reddit that this move was not even legal in most EU because they have not been able to point out which of their ToC has been infringed (their official motive for cancellation). I am tired of companies behaving like cowboys...

Oh, so I wasn't the only one to lose my pro subscription all of sudden. I thought it was weird because it was supposed to expire this summer, not now.