skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another reason people might not report bugs is there can be an attitude of hostility towards reporting bugs by open source maintainers whose priorities don’t align with helping their users.

It’s exceedingly common for open source maintainers to reply on bug threads with disingenuous reasons and mental gymnastics to avoid calling a bug a bug, and try to pass it off as an obscurely defined feature request or grumble that whatever use case is hitting the bug “shouldn’t” be supported or would require structural changes to the design (which is what caused the bug) that make it the user’s fault for wanting something that would require scrambling someone else’s arbitrary design choices.

A big example from my recent memory is bugs with various cloud storage APIs that result from blob storage not behaving like a real file system, but user semantics still relying on path delimiters that group things into a hierarchy of directories.

People get disinfranchised because you’ll be given some parochial, nonsense dismissal saying that the backend being undifferentiated blobs somehow means the user shouldn’t rely on filesystem-like abstractions, instead of the library maintainers just doing the work and adding indexing and making the API functions automatically deal with delimiters & key prefixes so that it “just works” like a set of folders to the user (who doesn’t and shouldn’t care about an unrelated implementation detail like blob storage).

This is just an example, but illustrates a wider point. You often feel like what’s the point of reporting this bug? I’ll just be given some empty dismissive answer about how it won’t get solved and I should philosophically refactor my entire use case from first principles so as to not need what I need.
I've found that the CloudFlare VPN bug reporter is the most user-friendly.

Click on the bug icon. It takes a screenshot. You can then choose not to send the screenshot and add information about the problem before you send the report.

I still haven't been able to get the CloudFlare VPN to work, but they're at least super nice and very responsive to bug reports.

Safari used to have a bug icon. It really should have one again.
iPods and OS Macs
I have snuck in user studies at every place I’ve worked, just by watching coworkers fat finger things or hit the wrong button or twist in the wind.

You have to learn to really watch people when they’re using your team’s code. It’s so much clearer than listening to them bitch about the three things that triggered them.
You can already sleep in an aircraft, train, bus or car as long as someone else is driving the vehicle. I don't see how that is innovative.
The problem is how you define those terms: “spying” has a strong value judgement and opinions vary widely, as does the threshold for what people believe constitutes informed consent.
Oh good a clueless HN member who has nothing insightful to say has left a comment.

Do you see how that's not only negative and dismissive for no good reason but also informs others a little bit about yourself?

You'd do well to read a bit of Sivers' blog to understand what it means to say something worth the reader's/listener's while.
Gradual Move to TypeScript. Running JavaScript and TypeScript Side-by-Side
This isn't stackoverflow. Get someone else to do your homework.
The article says:

"Afirman que usan una base de datos de 10 millones de dominios sacadas directamente de Alexa, pero cuando vas a la fuente no existe. Alexa solo proporcionan 1 millón."

Translation:

They [W3techs] say they use a database of 10 million domains taken directly from Alexa, but when you inspect the source, it doesn't exist. Alexa provides only 1 million.
There’s a difference between being the dominant player in an industry and having a monopoly. Consumers overwhelmingly prefer Google because it’s the best search engine, period. The second that changes, users will switch to something else.

Remember that AOL, Yahoo, and MySpace “monopolized” the internet not that long ago. There were hysterical articles in the mid 2000s speculating on whether or not these companies had a “cyber monopoly”. I doubt you think those companies are still the dominant players on the internet...
Save a nice amount and retire early.
This used to be an issue with Airbnb, but I believe they fixed/changed that a year or two ago. The one line item they leave out of the total price on the search results is "Occupancy taxes and fees", which I can understand.
This is the best experiment. I can now live happy knowing rats have learned how to drive a small rat car to deal with stress. It’s no wonder, it looks like a lot of fun for them
I realize that perhaps calling a multinational corp 'evil' isn't the most nuanced. However, there is a sliding scale. I don't think it's unfair to say that BP and Oracle are more evil, in general, than Apple and Ford.

Apple does some stuff I hate, and Ford really likes selling gas-guzzling F150s, but neither company tends to be overtly malicious in their decisions. Whereas Oracle actively chooses to continue with their hostile sales model; most of their users hate having to deal with the company (the customers are normally upper management that doesn't have to use the software).

I chose to use the word 'evil' mainly due to Google's former slogan. I really think that despite the best intentions of many of the employees Google is starting to slide towards the evil end of the scale.
Fonts are among the last things I want it to encapsulate, I'm kind of a content-formatting separation extremist. In fact I often convert epub books to fb2 just to make my PocketBook use the default font for better readability (perhaps there is a switch somewhere but couldn't find it).

As for the pictures - I'm comfortable with them being Base64-encoded and encapsulated at the end of the FB2 file.

EPUB indeed is more feature reach but from my point of view that is all bloat and unnecessary complexity.

I haven't seen a single ebook which could actually benefit from EPUB features. Whatever features rich typesetting worth saving is rarely published this way anyway, they just use PDF (which is sad but true).
Realworld measurements of structured-lattices and supersingular isogenies in TLS
Appreciate your honesty. I think it is important to note that nature's benefit and our benefit overlap significantly. We do damage to nature and in turn do more damage to ourselves and our own future capability. Probably best to work within the complex model that is keeping us alive then ripping apart only to realize we've destroyed our only form of sustenance. Just my cents.
A Game created by a 17 year old programmer
In a shop or used? 1788kn watch + 2452kn iphone 6s = 635$ usd. Average net salary is about 750$ usd.

I think this is the cheapest new:
https://edigital.hr/apple-i-dodaci/iphone-c18325?filter%5Bse...

And watch

https://edigital.hr/apple-i-dodaci/watch-c29547?filter%5Bsea...
Emotion recognition is China’s new surveillance craze
Check out his github page

https://github.com/tristangoossens/snake-go
It's a command line tool that renders to raster or vector formats, you don't need to run a server.
Did you click?
Why does this say opinion when it is fact.

The opinion part is that we should have year-round DST.
Yes, that's the way market economies work. One of your jobs as a consumer is to recognize when your interests and a company's no longer align and be willing to walk.
It’s usually a hassle. You have to be very clear about what you were doing, what your environment is, what the expected result was, what actually happened, and how to reproduce it. And even your comment doesn’t link directly to the page, so googling is yet another step.

Steps add up. I just think the process shouldn’t be so expensive. Goodwill is nice, but people aren’t getting paid for it. (If only someone could figure out how to convert bug reports into money. It’s possible; bug bounties tend to be limited to security, but they’re successful in general.)
meditation is a skill and a conditioning process.
It is very similar to stretching in association with athletic activity and develops in response to repetetive sessions.

master the art of the whole body daydream
Cultural reasons. Legal reasons. And sometimes (rarely) the changes you might make to these basic infrastructure tools are of a proprietary nature. It's frustrating at times, but mostly it comes down to whether management or the legal department thinks you should be allowed to contribute back.
FYI, if you google mitm check you should see a link to this site. A service provided by the caddy server devs.
https://mitm.watch/
That link is cool, I wasn't aware the CIA has a literal VC firm!

Still, I'm skeptical. The link doesn't really say In-Q-Tel influenced Google directly, I especially don't see evidence for influence during Google's early years.

It appears Keyhole (a company G acquired in 2005, who's software became Google Earth) was funded in part by intelligence money. Google went public in 2004, so they were already beholden to public shareholders by the time of that acquisition.

Besides, Keyhole just made good mapping software. DARPA funds lots of robotics labs, but I wouldn't say Berkeley and CMU are any more a part of the US intelligence apparatus than I am as a tax payer. Some work they do has utility to the gov, so the gov funded it. That doesn't make their efforts direct intelligence work.
As a consultant I found that you don't even have to follow the hierarchy. You know you won't be at a company forever so just ignore those who are likely to obstruct and skip the hierarchy.
And once you have backing from higher up there is little lower levels can do to obstruct your invoices.

But my experience is from Sweden so maybe it only works in Scandinavia.
The article says that they also look for "wp-admin" et al in robots.txt
What You Need to Know About Barcelona Travel
Two other possible reasons, both having to do with how users view software developers:

(1) They are naive enough to believe programmers have a better understanding of their code than they really do. It never even occurred to them that it would be possible that you don't know. Surely people who make software know what's going on with it! How complicated can it get where you wouldn't know that? (But we programmers know otherwise.)

(2) At the opposite end of the spectrum, they are cynical enough to believe that you could fix it but just don't want to.

Basically, there is a story they have written in their mind (as is human nature) about why it's not fixed, and the correct answer about why is ignorance, but they may have assumed another reason.
I think your missing a few keys here...

> how they embarked on bold new marketing initiatives their bosses disapproved of

The point is not to ASK and have it disapproved, the point is to simply do it without asking. These sorts of "cowboy" activities are normally low to no budget items that have outsized (noticeable) impact.

> People like me don't get "asked to leave", we get fired.

Outside of personal vendettas and genuine incompetence it is hard to get fired.

> Plus, the activities of people like me are more closely tracked, and we are going to be noticed and corrected much earlier for going off script.

Yes, this is true, to an extent. The way you make your way up is not by just being a cog but by showing a fair degree of initiative and NOT rocking the boat.

Want to get promoted, judicious use of refactoring, and automation are the keys to getting noticed. If you're spending a small amount of time having a big impact people will notice. If you write some utility that takes a low grade complaint out of a team meeting your boss is going to notice it. These sorts of activities beget more freedom and more leeway for future endeavors.

You don't bet the company as a jr programer but you can have an impact within your team.
Can I ask HN for help. Almost have my dad switched off chrome but he keeps heading back to use the built in voice search. Last I checked it wasn't built into Firefox. Is there a privacy minded voice search assistance he can use. We don't even mind paying for a program. Just insure what to use that will also be better then google in terms of privacy. Thanks
Do you really think that there’s a significant public value for someone to be able to “use toys” in the same place where people are actively fighting a raging fire near an inhabited area?

I think there’s a lot of value to things which can be done with drones but that’s about the worst area to make this argument: it’s limited in both space and time, and there’s a direct risk to human lives.
The risk is being just one more step removed from the solution. It's hard for a consultant to punch though political problems because they are outsiders. So you can suggest a solution but the guy who needs to implement it still has to get permission from his boss's boss.
Show HN: Self-Validating Email Aliases for Postfix
Somehow it rubs me the wrong when people philosophize about “leadership”. I think we have way too many leaders or people who want to be leaders and give a lot of respect to these people but neglect the people who are doing the actual work.
Derek Sivers is like a hacker friend you never met who takes your mind to the places it needs to visit.
> “These sorts of problems are mostly difficult precisely because we don't know the risk/reward tradeoff.”

If you don’t know this trade-off, then you don’t have a decision problem.

Basically what you’re saying here doesn’t add up at all. Issues where an ML model is used but people want more “explainability” are places where we absolutely do know the risk / reward characteristics, and we’re specifically trying to measure more of the relationship between the internals of the decision process and those components of the risk / reward characteristics (for purposes of political arguments over who controls the process, dressed up as if they are scientific inquiry instead of politics).

If you did not even know what objective you are pursuing at all, you would not be using an ML model, and likely could not even identify what type of decision process you even need yet.
CSL develop platform for scalable testing of autonomous vehicle safety
On my home network, I get the green OK page on my desktop computer on Brave but I get the red `Likely MITM` on my iPhone with latest iOS.

How should I conclude?
I like to think of frequency as the quantum of a pattern.
Today I used a couple of times "Qwant" (no clue what it means and no clue why "lite"): https://lite.qwant.com

They were always technical searches. In all cases the first result was perfect, but the highlighting of the searched keywords in the result never worked too well so far)
Location: Russia (available worldwide, at least UTC+0 – UTC+14; English proficiency is conversational).

Remote: Yes, I’ve been working remotely with a time zone difference of 4–7 hours for more than 3 years already. I cover at least UTC+0 – UTC+14 with close communication. For the UTC+0 time zone, I have an overlap of the entire working day.

Willing to relocate: Yes, if needed.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Node.js, Webpack, Flow, TypeScript, Babel, AST modification, HTML, CSS, SASS, LESS, Jest, Docker; also product analytics, back end and DevOps experience (learn more on my CV).

Résumé/CV: https://artkravchenko.com

Email: contact@artkravchenko.com

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A front end & Node.js developer who is passionate about solving challenging business and engineering problems and providing delightful UX and DX, optimizing performance and designing infrastructure. An open-source contributor.

Recently built a front end side of platform selling in 18 countries and cooperating with service providers from 42 countries.

Increased conversions up to 12x, decreased bounce rate up to 11x, optimized performance metrics up to 6x.

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Email: contact@artkravchenko.com

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Cool! I see the documentation mentions:

> ... during development its scope and features have been extended to cover use cases where IP is generally applied

I understand the point is having minimal requirements, but how do you interoperate w/ IP?
Foone's is easily one of the most interesting and weird accounts to follow on Twitter.

Check out this thread starting with a response on the toxicity of Rhodium and prepare for one hell of a ride!

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1190340638899724288
No, they are fearmongering. Yes, the rate of heart attacks rises for a few days after the change ... but the overall rate if you look at a week or two is no different. That is, the change might stress people into death who would have otherwise died a few days later anyway.

Reporting that it leads to an increased death count is simply false: it is a small rise followed by an equal volume small dip, with no net difference if you look at a larger window.
Location: Russia (available worldwide, at least UTC+0 – UTC+14; English proficiency is conversational).

Remote: Yes, I’ve been working remotely with a time zone difference of 4–7 hours for more than 3 years already. I cover at least UTC+0 – UTC+14 with close communication. For the UTC+0 time zone, I have an overlap of the entire working day.

Willing to relocate: Yes, if needed.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Node.js, Webpack, Flow, TypeScript, Babel, AST modification, CSS, SASS, Jest, Docker; also product analytics, back end and DevOps experience (learn more on my CV).

Résumé/CV: https://artkravchenko.com

Email: contact@artkravchenko.com

_____

A front end & Node.js developer who is passionate about solving challenging business and engineering problems and providing delightful UX and DX, optimizing performance and designing infrastructure. An open-source contributor.

Recently built a front end side of platform selling in 18 countries and cooperating with service providers from 42 countries.

Increased conversions up to 12x, decreased bounce rate up to 11x, optimized performance metrics up to 6x.

_____

Website: https://artkravchenko.com

Email: contact@artkravchenko.com

GitHub: https://github.com/artkravchenko

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/artkravchenkocom

Telegram: https://t.me/artkravchenko
I tend to assume anyone who reports a bug is likely about the 10th person to experience the issue if it’s a big issue. Probably 100th or more if it’s a more minor bug. You can sometimes see this for yourself if you have logs that report 404/500 or other error and compare it to the bug reports you get - of course often with open source you don’t have that info.

As a user it’s more effort than it’s worth to report bugs and when you do people argue that it’s not a bug or take a year to fix it, which is then only in some dev version you won’t see for years. This includes stuff I pay for like Spotify.
I remember a phrase that goes with this but cannot remember the origin: "actions taken without orders are not actions taken against orders".
What's rippling?

Abiguious Google results.
There's an example of dynamically scoped variables that will be familiar to almost everybody: environment variables, which are passed dynamically across program invocations.
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Freepbx being more hacker-friendly, with pros and cons...
> "This post is for paying subscribers."
This is why client & server side telemetry is so valuable.

People on this forum like to get all up in arms about it, but having it makes for a much higher quality end user experience, as you can see all the problems people run into. Not just errors, but bad ux flows, That cause people to bail etc. It’s really been invaluable for all the products I’ve worked on in the last 10 years.

Because yeah, most people won’t tell you.
Show HN: A reproducibility-focused polyglot notebook
Elon Musk Bids Twitter Farewell
From what we know about software platforms - it's a winner takes all/most business.

Wordpress isn't there(but 34% is huge).

Why is that ?
AccuWeather tried it.
ASNs IPs – Bots or Users?
I'm seeing an increased amount of traffic coming onto my website via ASN Networks using different IPs.

AS7029 - Windstream Communications
AS5650 - Frontier Communications
AS7922 - Comcast Cable Communications

Are IPs from ASN networks always bots crawling through content? Or possible they could be true users?

Curious to know if I should be excluding from my "conversion pixel" on GA?
I just got an 11 Pro for the camera. A lot improved but it’s not a panacea. Blurry photos are still likely in the evening. Photos straight into the sun actually worsened because of the HDR (that I can’t disable anymore), making the sun and nearby clouds look like they have a “shadow”
Neat! I was going through this during a few years after I had just gotten a handed down ZX81 from a relative some time around 1984, at the age of 7 or so. I still remember that this relative sold the computer to my parents for 400 SEK (~$40). Pretty good "investment" in my career, I've gotta say.

(They also, while not being super well paid as municipal workers also sprung for two more computers for me - one 8086 PC in ~89 and one 80486 PC in ~93. So thankful. These things were so expensive back then, probably at least 1.5x a monthly salary after taxes.)
Why to use ‘python -m pip’
There's also https://www.startpage.com/
> Consider CORS

Chrome has "--disable-web-security" command-line flag which disables CORS. They may start locking it to be only usable with "--user-data-dir" (see Chromium bug #327804) but that's a clear failsafe, not a limitation.

Firefox doesn't support anything like this. You don't have any control over its behavior, even if you may need this for some unconventional reason.
Most of the top 10,000,000 websites are the internet presence of businesses that sells things in the real world.
Try a Tor hidden service, configured with the low-latency/lower-privacy settings. It is slower than many of the other solutions, but very reliable and very simple.
As someone who has had to build systems that account for the transient geopolitical complexities of time zones, it is pretty obvious we should all be on UTC.
It's actually more like two hours. In the east of CET you have Niš, Serbia, which has daylight hours of 06:08 - 16:23. In the west you have Pontevedra, Spain with daylight hours of 08:02 - 18:26. Both cities are close to the same latitude.