skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Id say you could make a subscription model for it. Periodic scrubbings, simple notifications of privacy policy changes, haveibeenpwnd integration, general advice, phone app permission monitoring etc.

Id say $100 / month would be a good starting price. Id only pay $10 a month though plenty of people would pay more. Hell you could have tiers up to thousands of dollars a month as theres a sure to be a correlation between your income level and how much you value your privacy.
Matthew Walker, professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley focusing on sleep, would like to say something about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j9xCC_VtQA

Text writeups of similar talks:

https://podcastnotes.org/2018/12/05/sleep-2/

https://podcastnotes.org/2018/04/29/why-we-sleep/

(Paraphrasing, but the percent of people who can get by on under 6 hours of sleep rounded to a whole percent is 0)
Especially YoY, which people forget. AMD currently seems to be pulling that off though, thus the big hype.
I read Worm and hated it. So here's a strong anti-recommendation for anyone who's considering reading it.

For reference, Worm is divided into 30 arcs, of roughly 50,000 words each. I divide this into a few major sections.

Arcs 1-3: Taylor (the main character) gains her superpowers, learns to use them, and joins a team. She struggles a bit with hiding her new powers from her family. This is the only part of the story I thought was any good. By the end of this section, Taylor completes her metamorphosis from awkward teenageer into standardized rationalfic protagonist, and generally stops being an interesting character.

Arcs 4-20: Taylor and her team do typical cape stuff, mostly fighting various superpowered opponents, finding allies, and building influence in their home city. This was tolerable until I realized that the author is constitutionally incapable of letting his protagonists take any kind of meaningful loss. This section is a million words long and has no substantial consequences.

Arcs 21-27: I may have gotten the exact cutoff wrong, but somewhere around arc 20, there's an event that looks like it's going to cause a major shift in the story. Unfortunately, those major changes generally fail to materialize. This section is more of the same, though a bit more tolerable due to the novelty of having a bunch of new characters running around.

Arcs 28-29: Again, I'm probably off by an arc or two, but around arc 27, there's another big event. This time, there are some big changes to the story, but they're largely for the worse. All logic goes out the window, and the consequences of the big event are almost entirely ignored, in favor of buildup for the big finale.

Arc 30: This is hands-down the worst ending I have ever read in any piece of fiction. The climactic fight scene is largely told, not shown, and the author utterly fails at conveying the intended epic scale. The worst part of all, I'll omit due to spoilers, but in short, certain details of the battle make the previous 6,000 pages look like a complete and total waste of the reader's time.

There were two reasons I stuck with Worm for the full 1,600,000 words, in spite of its main plotline being dreadfully repetitive and boring. First, the interlude chapters, which explore backstories of side characters and the nature of superpowers, I thought were generally decent. And second, I was expecting all of Taylor's team's politicking and base-building to pay off eventually. (I had previously read Austraeoh, where I slogged through the million words of books 2-4, and it was worth it due to the excellent book 6.) But I was utterly wrong on the second point, and the first alone is not sufficient to make Worm worth reading.
Checking Your Work – “Sum Saves Lives”
An Indian leader said today (or yesterday, I’m on a transatlantic flight) that Brahmin are born superior.
I rarely charge in my garage because my power outlet is technically commons. It would be nice to have a fully charged car every day, but it is hardly a hinderance. Superchargers are fast, and shopping malls have them.
Heck, the notch does not bug me. Just give me an X in the 5/SE size and I would be set!
I think it didn’t make the cut at the last minute. The code has been in the betas for a while and there have been a bunch of “rumor” articles about it. Usually when there are that many rumors they’ve been seeded by Apple PR.
Been using it for a year after switching from JIRA. Better in every conceivable way. Better UI, quicker loading. Just all around better app.
The article said he decided to quit THIS MONTH! Does that really justify an article on Sept 10th?

Edit: it seems like that was a typo in the article if he says he was off for a whole year. Pretty big typo, though.
As a European I feel the same. Even €839 for the base model is going to be too expensive for most people.

It seems like they are really trying to carve out a new luxury market for their devices, the equivalent of luxury car brands like Mercedes. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, but I struggle to see how this will play out long term for their ecosystem.

It's not the same as cars or Android, where there are other manufacturers with budget models. And before anyone mentions it, no, continuing to sell the iPhone 8 doesn't count. It's still a €500 phone. Compare that to Xiaomi Redmi and Samsung A and J models which you can get for under €200.
Interesting, I thought I'd tried that before and it didn't work because it wasn't near a reader. I'll try again, thanks!

I'd argue that it's still a slightly more complicated interaction than with TouchID, though, requiring a bit more mental preparation, perhaps.

As for TouchID: Yes, that's how it works. It's a more fluid action because typically you'll have added your thumb as the fingerprint, and it's easy to hold the phone with your thumb on the home button while holding it near the reader.
> "If the Ariane V code was written in C and the value simply overflowed, nothing negative would have happened"

So... what you're saying is that the language not recognising an exception conditional has occurred is a better outcome in mission critical applications?
"wasn't necessary", "It was an oversight", "Which was uncaught"... With these phrases you've already pointed out that the developers had improperly implemented the application.
Good summary. I would add the bandwidth equality, which is akin to the Uncertainty Principle in physics, that shows a function cannot be be both time and frequency bounded.
I would give my left arm for an e-ink phone that had Google Assistant or Siri for navigation, and worked with Android Auto / Carplay, an awesome email client, some chat apps, and a good keyboard.

It'd be much easier to use my phone for what I want to use my phone for -- productivity and being connected (and occasionally looking things up online). Instead, my phone successfully hypnotizes me with it's bright colors and videos. More and more, I find myself using my phone not because I actually want to, but because it sneak attacked me with some notification that sucked me into doing something that's just wasting my time.

Also, with e-ink, the battery should last at least a couple of days. And, to your point, you could use it under any lighting conditions -- at least I can with my Kindle Paperwhite.
>"wealthy and influential"

To me that would qualify as elite. Not sure how much local nobility there was in the area, but certainly the folks leading were the local elites IMO.
Hey @vosper, thanks for your feedback!

To clarify, what we mean by simplicity is making databases as simple to work with as using an API. An example of this is native GraphQL support within FaunaDB.

We're continuing to make our database concepts like Collections easier to use and understand. I've made a note to clarify the blog post you are referencing.

Collections come from a NoSQL approach, and allow users to change what's stored in data records over time. We see this as a convenient way to store data, without having to worry about specifying a schema upfront that may change over time.
That Amazon's bullshit. His story is all too common.

He should have just written a book called "The No-Hour Work Week" basically the same thing.
The Ominous Power of ‘Sharpiegate’
I wonder what you think of Brick (2005)
Xcode 11 GM Confirms Apple's Work on AR Headset
In MWI, all Worlds are physically real and may interfere with each other.
Or instead of handing over your second factor authentication to a startup web service, you could buy a Yubikey, leave it on your keyring or plugged into your laptop and just touch it.

Some Yubikey models also store the secrets that generate the frustrating 6 character TOTP codes. A pairing a Yubikey with a desktop app, you can copy/paste the codes instead of the error-prone process of manually re-typing them.
It affected production enough to get some user complaints.
iPhone 6s user here. Why would I ever change phone? It still works perfectly well.
I've written code exactly like that and realised that it just kicks the can down the road: you're still allocating memory from a fixed block, it's just now the malloc is written by you, with more bugs, and you still need to deal with variable allocation delays and running out of memory. The real issue is if you don't know at compile-time what resources you'll need at run-time. For some problems that can be an intractable problem for making a safe product, including, to my knowledge, everything that runs on a rich OS.
This is brilliant! BRB gonna set that up right now.

2FA is one of those things that is nice when you want it but a huge PITA when it’s forced on you.
I heard about that. That the team responsible tried to pass it off as their own. However, according to the CEO of mattermost, Uber has made extensive alterations.
Sort of misses one of the biggest points of the Apple watch, it’s health features oriented around heart rate monitoring. I actually had no interest in this bauble until I realized it could seriously help me with my workouts.
It lets your post appear on https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
I was trying to be indulgent and go with the PRO line.
I hate people. Getting rid of social media was amazing. No more people!
> The Amazon Business Prime Amex offers 5% AWS cashback. It’s great.

Is there an equivalent for Azure?
I am very much a cynic. Show me references to data and let's do the math. This is HN after all.

I look forward to this exercise. I have a family of Trump supporters and I get percentages and perceptions like these from them in debate but have trouble getting them to point to those things as products of solid unbiased sources of statistical analyses.
David Pogue's review of the original iPhone mentioned "the HUGE 3.5-inch screen" (his emphasis).

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/some-hands-on-time...
I mean it’s really no different than a password manager that stores both your password and your OTP key.
Intel Security Updates
I used Autosleep for a bit. I reached out to their support on some things I considered bugs / wanting to have a hybrid mode where I can sleep without it on, but also work without it on (I work in an area I can't wear my watch - and you already input a time window when you sleep). Autosleep assumes I'm sleeping during work. This broke AutoSleep's usage for me unless I wore my watch while sleeping. While that's fine, I'm sure it's a pretty unique problem I have, their support was condescending and rude. It was the standard first you don't know what you're talking about, here's how to run our app to the "why would you want to do that?" mentality. I won't use their products again, not that they care.
If a distant person can solve the problem with the help of the instructions, then this is probably the key to success.
How would you even know everyone and their criminal histories at a party you are invited to?
Developing Supportability for a Public Cloud
Case in point: I have the more expensive X (because it is less big as the only reason) and I don’t know which model that is. First time I didn’t know what to buy in the store and probably my only tech gadget that I don’t even know the name of.
Apple hasn't really been on the bleeding edge for a while now. Android phones had bigger screens, wireless charging, quick charging, NFC payment years before the iPhone had those features.

Apple strengths are in integration, design and marketing. Like mentioned, other phones had NFC payments way before the iPhone, but I'd say mobile phone payment really took off when Apple Pay came out. That's the power of marketing and influence at work.
What is a reasonable idea when your adversary is the user?

How do you give a person secret knowledge that they need to provide you to authenticate but can’t provide to something else?
"“Why do I take photos?”"

This is a good question, and imo an underrated answer is to use them for digital journaling. I use an app called Journey which lets you make entries and attach photos to them, and this justifies taking photos to sort of help spur memories of fun events and such.
Main complaint with Facebook is how rigid the friendships are. There are people I'm friends with on Facebook that I haven't spoken to in ten years. But it feels weird to delete them. For some reason it feels natural to add everyone you know, even if you've only ever spoken to them for a single evening. To put it another way the edges of the Facebook friend graph don't have weights where the IRL graph does.
I have also been doing it this way, until someone told me that you can show your face to phone first and then put it next to the reader. Try it next time, I hope it will save you some seconds.
This is like one of those mirror funhouses that you think will be fun, then turns into a nightmare after about 8 minutes.
I browsed the responses to the parent comment looking to see if anyone had presented this angle.

The first iPhone at "everyone had"[1] came out a little over 11 years ago.

I'd hazard a guess most people who were in their ~mid 20's back in 2008 is now in their ~mid 30's, and have probably lost a lot interest in "new and shiny thing".

I'm swiftly approaching 40, and what gets me excited has changed dramatically in the past decade.

We'll see how long the line up is on release day, that'll give as an indicator of how out of touch us old folk are.

1. iPhone 3G available in 22 countries for as compared the original iPhone available in only 7 countries, according to the Wikipedia articles for each
3D Touch was a horrible interface mechanism.
Is there still a hackerspace or two out there? Always liked the idea of working remote out in New Mexico
Check out Font Squirrel and DaFont. They are my go to font sites I use outside of Google Fonts.
Once upon a time I liked Jira, and most of the products shipped by Atlassian.

While Jira has large admin overhead, it can be configured to make things simple for users. And I still think most hatred of Jira ought to be directed at management for imposing bureaucracy and control through the tool, instead of the tool itself (I see this first hand as my current gig has grown from “startup” to “enterprise” in a few short years).

But Atlassian has made a lot of questionable product decisions over the last many years, mostly in terms of UI/UX. What were once very much developer-centric interfaces are now geared to general enterprise product management. Somehow it’s becoming _less_ functional over time with each major revision.
Amen. The SE is the ideal size for me because, with an Otter Box case, it fits in a shirt vest pocket or a jeans front pocket although I prefer the shirt pocket. I'd love it if they'd make a new one in the exact same size. I know I will try to keep this one going as long as I can but would buy a new one immediately were it to be offered. I should have bought the last of the old ones that Apple was closing out for cheap. Darn me for not.
> When Ruby or node broke compat, they just said "move or die". People moved.

Unless I'm missing something, this is a pretty disingenuous comparison. Ruby and Node breaking changes have been fairly small, Python 3 was anything but.
>she flew in a few days later I tried to meet her in the bar, and that's when I found out my first crazy thing about America - I wasn't allowed in the bar.

It's usually based on receipts, and certain bars that are majority alcohol 21+, a restaurant that happens to serve drinks is any age. Pub type places really can vary depending on the state/county/city/township. But yeah exclusively alcohol bars will almost always be 21+.

I'm surprised this is surprising, I saw several 21 or even 25+ bars in Europe. But they were mostly aimed at turning away groups of rowdy backpackers, if you went in for a quiet pint nobody pressed if you were 22 or 20.
Sticking to Safari, I guess.
> iOS lockin is very powerful

Loved the smaller form factor and switched to Pixel when the phones got bigger and more expensive.

But I didn't feel the software lockin — I was using Google maps, mail, cal, docs, etc., plus Spotify etc., etc., and that became easier when I switched to the Pixel, less fighting with the OS.

Have others found the switch difficult?
Not any more. New JIRA is more opinionated, less functional, slower and generally missing features while also being less intuitive. Your experts are no longer needed because there's nothing you can change. It's way worse than it used to be and the bar was already really low.
I can't figure out what's great about iMessage. Is it just what I get when I send a text message to someone who also has an iPhone, and it uses a blue bubble to show it's encrypted?

In practice, I have maybe one friend who regularly uses text messaging. Everybody in my neck of the woods uses Hangouts, Messenger, Threema, etc.
SE size but all-screen like the X would be perfect I think. Up to Apple whether they call it the iPhone SEX.

There's nothing current and SE size in the Android world either (except at slow feature-phone level).

Even better, release two new phones, one in SE size but all screen so the screen's bigger, and one with SE screen size but all screen but the phone's smaller.

By my calculations you could fit a 5" screen on an "SE X". A size comparison: https://i.imgur.com/OKZiWrN.png
The cloud version is extremely slow. It is buggy. Prior to the recent UI update, it was unintuitive. The new UI is better but still not great. Ironically, their UI update makes Jira more like Clubhouse.
Because it's baity. We have enough trouble keeping people from going on generic ideological tangents as it is.

The policy is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Sorry but I don't quite understand what the problem here is. Is it about a different character set? Or encoding? Or glygh rendering? The article keeps using "font".
I don't really care if it costs $1, it's still ridiculous that people today strap two supercomputers to their wrist so their wife on a business trip in Beijing can tell them over live high-def video to feed the cat.
We've been working on an open source alternative over at http://getoutline.com – it should check a lot of your boxes!
>Or instead of handing over your second factor authentication to a startup web service, you could buy a Yubikey

...assuming the service in question accepts yubikeys, or even TOTPs. I've seen plenty of services (mostly financial) that only allow sms or voice calls.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20934375 and marked it off-topic.
Kinda makes you wonder when somebody will release a DLSR body with minimal controls, no screen, and an iPhone mount.
>Nobody is telling you that you specifically are the problem.

You are either blissfully unaware of the existence of semi-mainstream news/gossip/propaganda sources like Vox, Salon, Huffington Post and countless others, or you conveniently pretending not to.

>The problem is that as a white male, what is called "western society" was built with you as the presumed default,

Do you have the same problem with Asian people being the presumed default in every Asian country, Latino people being the presumed default in every South American country, Black people being the presumed default in every African country, an so on and so forth? If you choose to answer this question, please refrain from cultural relativism.
True, but I don't see that as a real advantage. No matter how I unlock it, I need to take off my gloves to do anything with the phone, anyway.
Having lived under a terrible bureaucracy that rolled out Duo to everything but make sure to set it up so that every. single. auth. required entering credentials and 2FA and expired all sessions every 12 hours I would have paid anything to get around it.

Services like Duo and Okta are enabling your least favorite IT admin to put users in ‘S’SO hell.
Put it this way, if the standard theory of why capitalism beat Soviet communism is that competition created better products etc. none of that requires that the goal of firms is to create better than market average returns to shareholders rather than the goal of firms being a) earn sufficient profit to continue to exist b) benefit consumers c) benefit employees d) benefit shareholders. Yes shareholder would prefer to invest in companies that prioritize them over all else, but why should we the public not say “that’s not an acceptable charter. We don’t want feudalism to happen again, so we are not allowing firms to prioritize shareholders over consumers.”
TPMs built into managed devices; USB hardware tokens for others.
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Group chats all ready are:

You can take your hands off completely, even go and do something else, read a book, write an email, book some flights, and the chat will drive itself ... somewhere.
The xz2c was a step down in many ways from the xz1c. Just off the top of my head, no headphone jack (I use mine almost daily), back-mounted fingerprint sensor (that's not how I use my phone), fatter and bigger, less battery life, and front-facing selfie camera is not wide angle.
I live near Sydney University ( not my alma-mater ). In a rather serendipitous turn, one day on my way home from the shops I was walking past one of the USYD buildings and there was a giant stack of library books that had thrown out onto the sidewalk as rubbish to be collected by the council.
It turns out they were old science faculty books that were no longer prescribed material. I started looking through them and found several books on Safety-critical software development in Ada, several books on hardware design and several others on software development. I took them all home, at first thinking the Ada ones would just be some archaic novelty. When I got a chance to read them I was amazed. I was expecting something akin to COBOL from the language. Instead I found a language that was extremely well designed for its domain. I'd already done a bit of embedded and operating system development, and I could immediately see how Ada would benefit a developer in these areas. Even representation clauses alone are such a huge convenience for low-level programming.
I haven't looked back since. I was actually in the process of preparing a bare-bones example of operating system development in Ada, if this post had been three days later I'd have been able to link the finished product here right now.
Should we change the constitution for you?
Google has a chat app?

What's it called this week?
To be fair, I think you can get the “competition” phenomenon anywhere. I always read people’s blogs about programming and internships and feel like no matter how much I do, I’ll always be behind. So it’s possible that it’s not a social media-only thing.
This is an absolutely incorrect and unrealistic estimation for the majority of the people waiting tables. I started writing up a long thing calculating this out and stopped myself. I am going to assume you are commenting in good faith, so I'll just state the correct information would be extremely quick for you to research with a few google searches..