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New comment by rafaeltorres in "macOS needs its grid back"

rafaeltorres — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:52:10 +0000

I think this behavior can be changed in System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Automatically Rearrange Spaces based on most recent use (turn it off)

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Digg is gone again"

rafaeltorres — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:02:31 +0000

or sell

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

rafaeltorres — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:58:17 +0000

Wonder if it may have something to do with longer commute times, which is not discussed in the article, i.e. a trip that used to take n minutes a few years ago may now take double due to congestion, leading to more impatient drivers. At least in my city (Miami) all people talk about is how untenable the commute times have become.

New comment by rafaeltorres in "iPhone Air"

rafaeltorres — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:24:19 +0000

That would be the iPhone Pro

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Why I don't discuss politics with friends"

rafaeltorres — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:37:33 +0000

> saying that independent thought leads to one being "moderate" in the way that most people think of that word, is straight up wrong

Agreed. Independent thought usually leads to one being moderate when that person is already living a comfortable life.

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Sequoia is both more and less generous to Intel Macs, depending on the model"

rafaeltorres — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:15 +0000

Walmart sells a new MacBook Air M1 for $699: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39718716

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Ask HN: How are platforms like Buffer and Hootsuite allowed to exist?"

rafaeltorres — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:41:03 +0000

Meta provides direct API access for publishing content to Facebook pages [0] and, more recently, to Instagram accounts [1]. Any third party company can apply for access and use these apis as long as they comply with Meta's terms of service and data security requirements, which have become stricter in the last few years (for each individual api permission you must submit documentation and evidence of how your app will use the permissions, and must provide a way for Facebook to log in to your app and test the functionality).

LinkedIn provides similar access, as well as Twitter, and other social networks.

There are literally hundreds of companies that provide functionality similar to Buffer and Hootsuite, including scheduling for future publishing which is not forbidden at all. (Source: I run one of these services.)

The confusion may arise because until 2021 it wasn't possible to publish directly to Instagram. Before that only some big players like Hootsuite and Buffer had direct access to the publishing api, and some less than reputable companies used unsanctioned hacks to schedule Instagram content. But in 2021 Instagram opened their publishing api to other third party apps.

[0] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/publishing/

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/co...

New comment by rafaeltorres in "I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”"

rafaeltorres — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 23:42:28 +0000

Yeah, this makes sense to me.

Imagine in the Dunning-Kruger chart the second plot (perceived ability) was a horizontal line at 70, which is not true but not far off from the real results. Now imagine I told you "did you know that, regardless of their actual score, everyone thought they got a 70?" That's a surprising fact.

The 5by5 Podcast Network Is No More

rafaeltorres — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 04:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/1493327085829595137

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30342686

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for everyone"

rafaeltorres — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:42:07 +0000

Just a note: the colorful frog pictured on the website (https://coqui.ai/) is not a coqui. Coquis are usually brown and tiny. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Coqui_Fr...

New comment by rafaeltorres in "'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude"

rafaeltorres — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:07:22 +0000

I found it interesting that you framed "people not wanting to do things by themselves" as the opposite of grit. What if it's just an issue of loneliness? I can see how even the most resilient individuals may want someone to talk / relate to if they feel lonely, and this desire be completely independent from their drive and competitiveness.

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Micro SaaS Ideas You'll Want to Steal"

rafaeltorres — Tue, 21 May 2019 02:17:03 +0000

Interestingly, there’s a whole underground industry of services that provide this functionality by having banks of automated Android phones (not sure if physical or virtualized) to post on behalf of the user through the mobile Instagram app. Problem is you have to give them your direct Instagram credentials, and you run the risk of Instagram detecting this and banning your account (has happened.)

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Micro SaaS Ideas You'll Want to Steal"

rafaeltorres — Tue, 21 May 2019 00:46:45 +0000

Direct Instagram publishing through the Graph API is reserved only for certain Facebook premium marketing partners. Facebook did this through a beta program over a year ago then stopped handing access to other organizations. They may offer it in the future bit it's closed for the moment.

The Risk of thinking of your job as a higher calling

rafaeltorres — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 20:00:07 +0000

Article URL: https://qz.com/work/1528263/the-risk-of-thinking-of-your-job-as-a-higher-calling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18982146

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Facebook will prevent changing headlines and images on shared links

rafaeltorres — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:28:07 +0000

Article URL: http://mashable.com/2017/06/28/facebook-modify-link-details-fake-news/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14666981

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rafaeltorres in "The LHC “nightmare scenario” has come true"

rafaeltorres — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 17:21:15 +0000

Here's what I read on each paragraph:

1p: The mathematics that allow physicists to reconstruct the structure of matter is fascinating.

2p: The standard model, though ugly, is still undefeated (with examples).

3p: The LHC hasn't led to the discovery of new particles, and physicists are in denial (with examples and a link).

4p: There is a worrying trend about the failure to learn from failure.

5p: The trust in naturalness/beauty/simplicity to guide the search for a unified model is not working.

6p: Turns out "naturalness" is philosophical, not scientific.

7p: Physicists are opportunistic, so they'll try to justify a larger collider to try to discover new particles.

8p: The nightmare scenario: no new particles discovered with the LHC, so physicists have no guidance to continue.

9p: We've been doing it wrong with the use of naturalness as guidance. You can't trust the judgement of scientists when their future funding depends on continuing working in this direction.

So paragraphs 1 through 7 do offer a good background to support his thesis that "naturalness as guidance" is wrongheaded, which is the real point of the article. If you only read the last paragraphs his thesis sounds shaky and arbitrary.

New comment by rafaeltorres in "Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)"

rafaeltorres — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:47:23 +0000

Agreed, not insignificant. Some context if you haven't read the details about Lovecreft's racism: http://www.racialicious.com/2014/05/28/the-n-word-through-th...

How Flipboard Chose Form Over Function for Their Web Version

rafaeltorres — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:04:59 +0000

Article URL: http://farukat.es/journal/2015/02/708-how-flipboard-chose-form-over-function-their-web-version

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9034843

Points: 3

# Comments: 0