nathanlied (u/nathanlied)

nathanlied commented on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites haaretz.com/israel-news/2... · Posted by u/ahmetcadirci25

pphysch · 2 months ago

A state named "Israel" is not a prerequisite for Jewish people to live peacefully anywhere. In fact, it appears to be the opposite, based on historical fact. There are also Jewish communities that live peacefully with dignity in Iran.

nathanlied · 2 months ago

There are Jewish communities within Iran, yes. But peacefully?

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2025-06-27/ty-... (archive: https://archive.is/0qEg9)

One could blame this crackdown on Israel, sure. But that absolves the countries perpetuating persecution of Jews from their own share of responsibility in it. After all, when the American Government interned all those Japanese-Americans - did we blame Japan for it, or did we rightfully blame the American government?

I do not seek to defend Israel's actions against the Palestinian people, but to say that the Jews live "peacefully and with dignity" in places where they often are scapegoated, persecuted, and killed out of hand is not the way. Look at what happened to the Jewish populations of the region between the 40s and now, and you will see a grim picture of persecution, killings, and exodus.

nathanlied commented on Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office twitter.com/EthanEvansVP/... · Posted by u/kappi

willhslade · 6 months ago

I appreciate the pushback.

Fine, if it isn't the real reason, what is the real reason? Why can't any executives, at any organization, proffer a reason that makes sense?

nathanlied · 6 months ago

Frankly? I think this is a whole mix of things. There isn't a "real" reason, there's a smorgasbord of them.

Why do "FAANG"s RTO? Because they're massive people-movers, and cities that host them likely hold C-level meetings to pressure RTO so that people spend more money. More on transport, more on food, more on coffee, more consumption = more taxes = more movement = growing value to office spaces = win for the cities. Not to mention that managers at these corporations are pretty wealthy themselves, and likely hold investments that would depreciate were WFH to continue in any great scale.

Why do smaller companies RTO? Because what works for FAANGs surely works for them, too. Literally. I've seen multiple managers push for RTO because the big tech leaders are doing it. Add that a certain 'magical' belief that RTO means more productivity and an enriching 'office culture' where new profitable ideas brew - they're all only human, after all, and are as prone to magical thinking without any concrete evidence as we all are - and you've got perfectly good reasons. And mostly irrational from a business PoV.

Is this the case for literally everyone pushing for RTO? Of course not, I'm sure there are legitimate reasons there, but most of the justifications I've heard, as a huge advocate for WFH who always seeks to understand pro-RTO management, have little basis on evidence that it is something good for the business.

nathanlied commented on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe? · Posted by u/julianpye

alanfranz · 7 months ago

Will this really happen? Or will the US prevent Europe from doing that by saying “then defend from Russia all by yourself?”

nathanlied · 7 months ago

This is already the expectation from our leaders. It is the belief of a good % of EU leaders that, if Russia were to push into Poland and the Baltic states, and Article 5 was invoked, the US would not respond. Or at least not without some Versailles Treaty-level extortion, as they're trying to do with Ukraine.

nathanlied commented on Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube surasshu.com/blocklist-fo... · Posted by u/jsheard

GuinansEyebrows · 7 months ago

The AI does not possess those attributes. It’s behaving as told. It has no experience. It has no senses. It has no thoughts or ability to reason. It has no motivation.

nathanlied · 7 months ago

Could we not - for the sake of argument here - surmise that, since these AIs need prompts, and usually a few rounds of refinement, and then a selection for uploading to (in this case) YouTube, that the -human- in charge of prompting/refinement/uploading has a point of view, an opinion, an aesthetic preference, emotions?

After all, there are artists that collate "samples" from other artists and produce music from all those different samples. They did not play any instrument, they merely arranged and modified these samples into a product that they presumably find pleasing.

nathanlied commented on Preliminary Post Incident Review crowdstrike.com/blog/falc... · Posted by u/cavilatrest

squirrel · a year ago

There’s only one sentence that matters:

"Provide customers with greater control over the delivery of Rapid Response Content updates by allowing granular selection of when and where these updates are deployed."

This is where they admit that:

1. They deployed changes to their software directly to customer production machines; 2. They didn’t allow their clients any opportunity to test those changes before they took effect; and 3. This was cosmically stupid and they’re going to stop doing that.

Software that does 1. and 2. has absolutely no place in critical infrastructure like hospitals and emergency services. I predict we’ll see other vendors removing similar bonehead “features” very very quietly over the next few months.

nathanlied · a year ago

>I predict we’ll see other vendors removing similar bonehead “features” very very quietly over the next few months.

If indeed this happens, I'd hail this event as a victory overall; but industry experience tells me that most of those companies will say "it'd never happen with us, we're a lot more careful", and keep doing what they're doing.

nathanlied commented on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/colinhb

brandensilva · 2 years ago

I mostly agree with you but from the sounds of the news across the pond it seems like the EU government, as well as our own, wants to eliminate encryption, VPNs or add back doors into systems to some degree.

There are obvious reasons to do so to combat crime but at the expense of privacy, freedom, and anonymity.

And I've quite been happy to see Apple stand up against such government control but fear the trend this will set.

nathanlied · 2 years ago

>the EU government, as well as our own, wants to eliminate encryption, VPNs or add back doors into systems to some degree.

This is a continuous concern - some sectors of the EU indeed want to do that. So far, they've been mostly unsuccessful in getting their agenda through, either because other politicians have more influence, or due to listening to public protest/complaints. Still, that's no different than other healthy democracies - the people must vote, both in national elections (EU heads of state propose the European Commission's president to the Parliament), and European elections (who elect said Parliament) in order to keep reasonable people at the helm as much as possible.

nathanlied commented on The 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers engadget.com/inside-the-a... · Posted by u/Timothee

dylan604 · 2 years ago

YT ads are different from other ads on websites though. They are not running additional code. They are just different bits of video. The ads that run code, absofuckinglutely block them all and banish them to the void they belong. If I'm wrong with this assumption, please enlighten me on what they are doing

nathanlied · 2 years ago

I believe "code" here is being used in the sense that you retrieve YouTube (the website - made of code) with the intent of watching X video. But you don't want some parts of YouTube's code (the bits that display ads) to run on your machine.

One could argue that you should, indeed, have the right to block whatever parts of YouTube's 'code' from running on your machine. Currently, this is the case.

nathanlied commented on A curated list of uBlock origin filters letsblock.it/filters... · Posted by u/spacebuffer

TekMol · 2 years ago

I wonder if uBlock origin has overshot the mark.

It even blocks self-hosted analytics scripts from the same domain. By default.

I don't see how that is a good thing. It just makes the lives of people who run websites harder. When I visit a website, I have some sympathy towards the person who runs it.

Disabling scripts which talk to self-hosted analytics software makes it hard to figure out how users use a website. Especially when the site is using a CDN. So people enable tracking on the CDN level. Which means now CloudFlare, Amazon etc store that data again. Lose-lose for everybody.

nathanlied · 2 years ago

It is an unfortunate reality of how the Internet is built.

There's quite a few people like you, that are fine with self-hosted analytics, either because you believe the principles of the websites you visit, or because you've done so-called "good" analytics, and so disable that kind of blocking, hoping your trust won't be abused.

Problem is, some of us don't believe those principles hold, and/or have seen people doing vacuum-style analytics. I've listened to conversations of otherwise well-intentioned devs who are otherwise anti-ads and anti-unnecessary data collection ask for more data to be collected in analytics because "we might need it". Leaves a very sour taste in my mouth. So I block it all - what I can, of course. If they find ways around it that I can't block, at least I've done my best.

nathanlied commented on Add opt-in transparent telemetry to Go toolchain github.com/golang/go/issu... · Posted by u/gus_leonel

davidw · 2 years ago

When did logging and reporting become "telemetry"?

nathanlied · 2 years ago

When was it not? Telemetry - the act of collecting logs/"metrics" and reporting them back to a remote (tele) station - how could this not be considered telemetry?

nathanlied commented on The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed devever.net/~hl/imx8... · Posted by u/pabs3

michaelt · 2 years ago

So should I be voting Democrat or Republican to get that? /s

nathanlied · 2 years ago

You should vote to join the EU, maybe it'll work!