How many is "many"? Looks like the only affected apps were those which provided a different means to access Twitter without ads. This feels like a storm in a teacup with the majority of developers on the API being unaffected.
> Looks like the only affected apps were those which provided a different means to access Twitter without ads.
I'd be happy to pay some sort of subscription to the API in order to keep using the third party client. Not sure why this isn't a thing. I'd much rather pay a fe bucks per month for API access than "Twitter Blue" or whatever.
As for the apps: while it's an asshat move, I'd be really careful about building anything commercial on top of anyone else's project without any guarantees about the service even existing tomorrow.
While I do agree that Twitter was pretty exceptional in allowing these clients to exist, as usual it’s about just doing it silently and not giving any rationale. At least have the courage to admit what you’ve done!
While that's clearly the right choice for professional social media manager type apps which might pay some monthly fee, it's very strange that in so many years they've never created two tiers of API feeds, with an ad-filled one for normal third party apps.
It affected the most popular apps, and it was done without any warning or even communication after the fact. Storm in a teacup? It shows what anybody using the API will have to put up with going forward.
The issue is that people have noticed problems accessing the APIs and they are speculating that Twitter is preparing a change to API access which would put more restrictions in place.
The young will be expected pick up the tab for the old, despite owning none of the assets.
It would not be a surprise if there are policies announced to further tax the young to give 'Granny' more free money off her bills (the existing winter fuel allowance is not means tested), and further free transport round major cities (over 60s travel London free). Then there's the echoes of the lockdown nightmare, mass punishment of the young so the old could feel safer.
The response to any complaints about this generational vampirism is always of course; "you'll be old one day". Inheritance is rare to appear, all too often you hear that Granny has given it all to the local cat sanctuary. Patience is running thin and apathy is higher than ever.
If you're young, this country actively punishes and steals from you, then tells you to stop complaining. Finding hope in anyone under 60 is a tough task.
We already see indirect youth tax in the USA in the form of social security - millennials will never see the benefits from their life-long contributions that the current retired age group is seeing. As it is currently benefits will decline 22% in 2034, and even further by the time millennials hit 65+.
In the UK national insurance is 13.5% from the employee and 15.5% from the employer…
And all you get is £170 a week pension if you are lucky.
So the social security equivalent in the UK comes to about 28% of the salary of most UK workers.
It does only kick in if you are paid more than £240 a week for the employee part and £170 for the employer part, and does taper off for the employee to 3.5% for income above £4300 a month but for all intents and purposes this hold true for most workers.
Spotify's insistence that it display Podcasts on the Home Screen is very frustrating, these are shows (often political) I've no intention of ever listening to or wanting to know even exist & there's no means of hiding them or telling Spotify I'm not interested. A quick online search shows many others equally frustrated by this "feature".
I wouldn't mind so much if the product was free, but I'm paying and don't appreciate having extreme political content thrust toward me each time I open the App.
> Spotify's insistence that it display Podcasts on the Home Screen is very frustrating.
100%. In the top 7 Rows, the 1st,3rd, 5th rows are Spotify displaying me podcasts about things I don't care about. I use Spotify to just listen to music but its frustrating to see top rows just filled with podcasts. I thought of giving a random podcast a chance, big mistake. Now it just displays me shows related to it and I cannot even turn it off in settings. I don't understand this aggressive push by spotify on promoting Podcasts.
That's kind of the opposite of personalization right? It's the 'cold start' where they've put the popular podcasts in your face.
But I get the general point you're making that they put every feature on the home screen as a feed rather than you having to explicitly go to a podcasts section. I suppose feed UIs like that should have a 'less like this' feature where it generally learns you're not into podcasts
This looks promising, is there a pre-fleshed demo of the end result? I tried the blog but there's some message about cannibalising your own content. Funny but unhelpful!
The cruel workaround that's playing counter to this is to diminish the person's life and freedoms until they take it out of desperation, and if they still don't give in; forsake the pretence of choice and mandate it anyway.
I was not disputing that. I was disputing that it’s a “cruel workaround” to eg require that people who work with the public get a vaccination to keep their job. Those who choose not to get to vaccinated are not entitled to force their presence on private individuals and to a certain extent the public.
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but vaccinated people are also vectors. The vaccines don't reliably prevent infection or transmission.
Yes but so what? Since the virus is now endemic and can't be eradicated, all of us will be exposed multiple times throughout our lives no matter what we do or how many people are vaccinated. Vaccination provides good protection against severe symptoms, but over the long run it won't prevent others from being exposed.
Excellent stuff and a nice break from the "rewrite it all in in my tasty-flavour-lang" approaches to doing this that crop up often on HN (not that those aren't impressive on a technical level!). This ties in nicely with the recent discussions here over the need for more specialised search engines.
Are you able to give any insight into how this works behind the scenes, is it all manually input?
I'm currently crawling the sources which publish schema.org definitions of their recipes, or the actual html itself. Basically doing whatever google does to create their recipe cards.
Everything gets thrown into a Postgres database with a vanilla FTS implementation.
Can you expand on what those "advantages" are exactly? You've mentioned them twice on this thread now. How can an electricity dependent VR toy benefit someone in poor and likely cramped living conditions?
I'd reckon the majority of users, you see this all over the internet where there's ability to vote or 'like' something; Twitter, Youtube, Facebook etc - the vote will usually outweigh the comment count.
On HN the culture of 'nothing good to say?; say nothing' is fairly baked in so will create this effect even more so.
