skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had someone contact me after a few years had passed to give this type of feedback. It felt great. The world needs more weirdos.
Can somebody explain to me how is this useful?
Is it used for anything?

Or is it pure theoretical concept with interesting emerging properties.
I guess this is the tool, from OPs submission history: https://m3u-editor.com/
I agree. In fact I think it's quite a nice high-level illustration of the pros and cons of tech debt.

It amazes me the number of people who think metaphors and analogies are literal copies of the concept they're approximating and thus proceed to nitpick those comparisons.
"rude" is perhaps too strong of a word. I've added a clarification to the article since a lot of folks seem to be getting hung up on this. I also responded to this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098281
The '+30' button is all that I ever use, which makes me think dials are probably better. A dial would be simpler, one quick turn instead of several button presses. I can't say I was previously annoyed with my microwave, but now I don't think I'll look at it the same again.
This made me wonder, what are the benefits of this kind of technology?

Suppose you had a way to know all this stuff about people; what could you do with it that would actually be good?

China has a social credit score system and apparently they justify it on the grounds of preventing bad behaviour of various types (fraud, crime, etc). It would be interesting to think more about this and how we might be able to maximize the benefits and minimise the downsides.
Total agreement. I suppose some very rich folk prefer to keep their exciting frontier-busting activities a secret but if the news that gets through is anything to go by, most of them seem to let today's unheard-of opportunities for advancing the prospects for life on this planet go by the wayside. I've nothing against luxury consumption because someone's got a job somewhere, making & selling that stuff but is that all they got rich for?
My impression is that human languages are more expressive - There is more than one way to do it.

# For a bank,
if ($authorised) {
allow_entry();
}

# vs. a shop:
allow_entry() unless $person->is_smelly();

The language lends itself to how you may normally say it in English, emphasizing the common case. That isn't to say all the syntactic noise is justified, but I guess one's noise is other's attempt at being more expressive.
What if the "throttle down" part of the process doesn't engage for some reason? Is the fuel injection into the engine failsafe?
"Expressive power" is a two-edged sword, usually coming with some significant side effects in terms of your ability to reason about your code under varying circumstances. In the embedded world it's often more important to know strict bounds on processing time and memory usage. And when you're dealing with safety critical systems, it's critical to be able to reason explicitly about every aspect of your code.

In the PLC / industrial automation world there's the added consideration that your code will probably need to be maintained (or at least navigated and understood) by people with limited software skills. And given that systems tend to be "wide, not deep" (as in, hundreds or thousands of mostly-independent inputs that only interact via very simple logic), usually ladder logic or function block diagrams are the preferred way to implement these sorts of systems. Even Structured Text is considered a bit too technical by most people.
It's an IPTV playlist management tool: m3u-editor.com

Posted it on HN a while back as well, but interestingly it is one of my least successful HN posts.
Yes, it does. It's commonly done for things like this/events and almost certainly what Tiffany did here.

(PDF) - http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_informatio...
>And the UX is pretty good. The computer controls can almost be used by memory, they're very close to hand and well laid out. The nav is so-so but the in-dash lane view makes it sane for big cities.

But the software is awful. It's not poorly designed, necessarily, but it's buggy as hell.

Interesting. I have a 2015 BMW 3 Series with professional I-Drive and I still find it one of the best systems available.
London: probably 25 miles for £1.50 (https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/how-far-can-you-go-with-...) or one of the rare £1 EasyBus tickets from Paddington to Luton which would cover around 37 miles.

The second one is not really public transportation though, and we're getting dangerously close to the £15 Ryanair flights territory.
I had "seasonal fruit" for dessert tonight in Taiwan, and it was a bowl of small tomatoes. They are also a staple in fruit salad here. Yay for botany!
> I kind of feel like a bit of a weirdo

It might be a bit weird indeed, but I'm sure none of the people at the receiving side find it weird.

When I get such emails, I feel good and think "what a nice person".

I'm sure "nice person" outweighs "weirdo" in this case.
International crime could get you extradited for 'free'?
...or are using your work without you or them knowing. E.g., just the other day I added the fst crate as a dependency to do longest prefix searches on a set of word/continuation pieces [1]. Similarly, we use fst in a word lemmatization tool that is used to lemmatize billions of tokens.

Thanks for the awesome crates!

[1] https://github.com/stickeritis/wordpieces/blob/7abbfb893ec20...
It doesn't seem like you have messed up your life. If you have made it that far in the humanities, then I think you're the type that can figure out how to keep going.
You are assuming that he didn't know that and that it isn't a bug in the system.
Analogies create a false sense of meaning. Nothing new is gained other than an isomorphism. There is no logical transfer of new information because the analogy only works if you already understand both concepts. Additionally, analogies may over simplify concepts but usually people are too enamored by the isomorphism to really see it.

Think about this famous analogy: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

I clearly know about how life and a box of chocolates can be random at times. This is dead obvious information to the point of pointlessness. Yet in church or in meetings you see people nod their heads in agreement as if something insightful was said. Here's reality: Nothing insightful was said, the person who was comparing life to a box of chocolates is literally mentally retarded.

Analogies are used to manipulate, not to inform.
There's nothing to discuss. It's a non-story.

"Jewelery store employs lots of people with guns to keep it's stock safe."

Unless you want to discuss how guns do/don't actually make things safer.
This is intentional on Netgear's part, and does not in any way degrade security compared to the alternative (an untrusted cert or no HTTPS). It is neither a bug nor a security issue.
Not to mention states without income tax fund themselves somehow. There are other taxes which partially offset the lack of state income tax.
Well I am in Germany, round-trip should not be a problem -.-
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I eat tomatoes like apples (with salt, I'm not a monster). No kink-shaming please.
Yes, but he also claimed to be willing to implement E2E encryption in Messenger (the whole "the future is private" narrative that he tried to push last year).

Plus, merging 4 messaging app of this size probably takes some time. This doesn't say anything about today's WhatsApp IMO.
I think we should add a new stat for C-level execs on financial websites, in addition to compensation and tenure and whatnot we should have a "body count" number listed.

Maybe add this to crunchbase as well?
I was reading this article and the quotes are from this one. Plenty of articles glamorize the lives and career of such people before the verdict is in. Probably because nobody will sue them for a praise.

You took the old HN rule of “don’t tell people have you even read the article” and took it a step further by asking me if I read a completely different article in the series.
Sounds no worse than the factory Wireless CarPlay on my 2019 F56 Cooper S. It's infuriatingly laggy and buggy. Best bit was that when I ordered the car is was a near £2k option to add it because you had to buy the upgraded Nav option, which I didn't want. I've used it once and although it's fine, it isn't as good as Waze for traffic.

Just give me CarPlay, I'll still spend that £2k but on things I need like a electrically heated front screen, or better seats.
The article was frustrating to read. Most of it is unrelated to the move and instead talks about things Tiffany's did recently.

100% a paid ad.
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I wanted to thank my teacher who taught our little class Greek in Gymnasium high school, thank him for his stories about Plato, Euripides and Homer and Hector saying goodbye to his son before battle. Unfortunately I heard he died 10 years later. So many more people I lost contact with or had died. Gratitude!
Pun - A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word.

When we say "a strawberry is not a berry" we're playing on the different meanings of the word berry. It's not a humourous pun, but I would still call it a pun.

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pun
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Oddly, I think that's a regional thing. Here in Belgium, every microwave I ever used had a dial (digital or mechanical) and most models in the stores are dial based
I took a class in undergrad that was similar. I think the average score on the final was 35 / 100. Of course the grades were on a curve and nobody got less than a B as long as you made an honest effort on the homework, but that class was definitely a blow to the ego for a lot of smart kids (myself included).
He's complaining his electric car, that doesn't have engine oil, is telling him to get his engine oil changed.
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This is great, being able to download historic OS X releases. I wish that were possible for all releases up to the current one. How Apple implements planned obsolescence by making older releases unavailable really sucks.
Nice! Congrats!

Pricing is pretty cheap imo, why don't you try doubling prices? You might double income just like that..
The articles are linked together though, and are on the same website.
Have a look at https://fibery.io
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I sometimes use a container ship example. Management makes decisions about steering course and that is possible when you have small cargo. If you decided to pile up 1 kilometer tall stack of containers and didn't bother laying some of them down at the port then you'll have damn hard time steering the ship. You have to make sure it doesn't topple over completely by that point.
IMO analogies and metaphors can absolutely help build trust across groups which may not yet really understand each other's domains.

They can be highly successful, but from your comment it sounds like you've dealt with managers or clients who simply want to "win the conversation". In that case I can understand why you'd prefer to take care of the necessary remediation more covertly.

Doesn't mean others won't benefit from apt metaphors though - bad collaboration partners sounds the issue here, not figurative techniques per se.
Perceptions about other people from their online comments are so susceptible to projection that it's important to practice suspending judgment. Tiny packets of text give us so little information about each other that they leave a lot of empty space for interpretation. We fill in those degrees of freedom from our imagination, based on our own prior experiences, which were in place long before that other person showed up.

Sometimes we fill the picture in favorably, but if there's anything in a comment that rubs us the wrong way—anything activating—then the picture we create is not a nice one. Since a forum like HN gets millions of posts a year, there are inevitably plenty of hooks to snag us in this way. If you stop and think about what that means experientially, it's sort of shocking: it means that we are surrounded by our own demons. Since everyone else is having the same experience, a forum like this is a community of people who feel surrounded by their own demons, not realizing that we are mostly creating them for ourselves. This is why disagreements degenerate so quickly, even though each party is sure that they're the one in good faith. It's also why you'll regularly see generalizations about how awful the community is, posted by users who participate in it every day. It's surprising that it can function at all.

By "demons" I just mean a composite of our own past painful experiences, which is the store we draw on when connecting the dots about someone else in a defensive way. This phenomenon isn't only online; it happens everywhere that people don't know each other well. But online, we know each other so little that there are more dots to connect.
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What? No. While those are meant to be reserved, nothing stops you from configuring your resolver to answer for them.
Not sure if these books are unknown or fallen out of favor, but I've never spoken to anyone else who's read them without me passing them on first:

Travels - Michael Crichton - a number of useful life lessons I'm only just catching up on

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Travels-Vintage-Departures-Michael-...

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ragged-Trousered-Philanthropists-Wo...

Ishmael
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ishmael-Novel-Book-1-ebook/dp/B000S...

Another thought, Robert Heinlein doesn't seem well known in the UK these days but I think he might be better thought of in the UK although may be considered dated and sexist. I often see him quoted on here.
SpaceX above and beyond with its successful voluntary in-flight abort test. I wonder if Boeing will be doing a similar test?
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I feel funny doing it too, but I found it's better to get comfortable with who I am than to worry about it. I'm usually on the delivering end of reaching out to thank people from the past, but a few years ago one of my old managers reached out to me to thank me, and to buy me lunch, gratitude for something I'd shown him that had helped him. I felt like 10 million dollars.
> Best bit was that when I ordered the car is was a near £2k option to add it because you had to buy the upgraded Nav option, which I didn't want.

That is exceptionally common across a variety of manufacturers.
The first article talks about Messenger only, not WhatsApp, and the second article claims the opposite of what you're insinuating, namely that they want to introduce E2EE across their apps:

> "The first reason I'm excited is moving more to end to end encryption by default in our products. People like this in WhatsApp. I think it's the direction we should be going in. I think there's an opportunity ... to have encryption work in a consistent way across the things that we're doing."

What they certainly analyse and presumably monetise is the metadata.
True, I am assuming that. Other replies seem to point that way, but I am waiting for confirmation.
> Fallback to HTTP reachable via port 80 on the private IP for the server.

How, exactly, is that better than using a common cert? What threat do you propose that applies to HTTPS with a shared cert, and not to HTTP?
Having been a teacher (and designed a course with a group of other teachers) and now being a software developer, I find the similarities superficial.
Job opportunities not on par with Boston, but rents fast approaching... I would've loved to stay in ME/NH after graduation, but it just wasn't realistic.
The constants themselves would perhaps be useful but they're non-computable so we can't find out what they are anyway.

The idea is useful yes.
I have a similar problem with a Carlinkit box I installed myself. I do get a new firmware update from the person I purchased my unit. But the quality is certainly not top-notch. it works. With a recent fw update mine also freezes completely. I would reboot it a few times by long-pressing the physical back button. Pretty annoying when you rely on working navigation on the high way. I've contacted the support guy and he promised a new firmware is on its way. Fingers crossed :D

Now I can't imagine not having Carplay in my car :)

A little bit off-topic; while I installed the carlinkit myself I think I broke something. Now my car clock (the internal one shown on the speedometer screen) cannot be set anymore. And recently I notcied the PDC (pressure detection system of the tires) are complaining all the time.

Will have the car checked by mechanics soon. Not sure the defects I'm experiencing are related to my own doings or just unlucky.
Just like every wikipedia page. I don’t see your point that because some other article says something, my point about this article is invalid.

Let’s agree that some episodes in a series are worse than others and the one linked above is that one, if you say all the others don’t have this issue, and I happened to be exactly the one linked in this post.
Cheap indeed it is, but I guess that matches the target audience. IPTV is relatively cheap, and the service my tool offers is really a bonus and not a must.

More importantly, I don't think I would pay more than I am currently charging my users, so I think it's just fair. Also, I prefer a whole lot of small payments than a couple of big ones, and for now that seems to be going in the right direction.
I’m surprised this is news to anyone. Context always matters. Is the conventional wisdom that there is Not two dichotomies for produce: culinary and botanical?
Language Integrated Query (LINQ) of C#

LINQ is actually enabled through a number of language features, but most importantly is perhaps the ability to "cast" an expression as an "expression tree" (an AST), allowing code to inspect the expression, extract, change, rebuild and finally compile. This is what enables a library such as Entity Framework to do accept in-language queries, extract clauses and generate efficient SQL where clauses, cross joins etc.
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Haven't heard of this much - but what a great idea. There is no downside I can see and you could make someone really happy to hear from you!
It's different when its done as retaliation for a lawsuit. The courts look less than favourably upon that, in general.
I have a 2019 MINI Cooper S with Professional iDrive, I can confirm it is buggy.

It's the best system, but it's still awful.
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AFAIK CA can't issue certificate for more than two years. So if you've bought the device two years after it was manufactured, you're getting error and it's even worse than HTTP for user.
I was referring to the people who smuggled him out.
You should study open source software (like the Signal app or the Matrix network). Furthermore, study "trusted builds" and trusted hardware -- attempts to proof that certain lines of codes are really running on a system. Then we can talk again about encryption...
Former kernel developer here.

SoftIce was one of those "magical software" that made things possible. Before, you would need two computers connected via a serial port to do actual kernel debugging.

When VMWare arrived, SoftIce was becoming less useful, because a virtual machine offers better isolation and you can quickly revert to a previous state. When doing, for example, file system development, trashing a computer would not be rare.

By then, I know my setup was VMWare machines + MSFT WinDbg. Also, I could stop my VM and inspect the VM with a hex editor. Potent combo.

In parallel, during that time, I suspect the cost of developing SoftIce exploded: more updates from MSFT, a lot of security features that would prevent SoftIce from working, new features from the CPU like hardware protection of the RAM, etc.

Last, the most significant user base of SoftIce was broke hackers who would use it to crack protections. Unsurprisingly, those guys didn't have a license.

Awesome product, but makes sense it faded out.
That's awesome. Your comments are spot on.

1. The very definition of confidence is exposing your true self to the world and being OK with how it is received.
2. Knowing what good/bad are. Yes, that helped you become confident. You began to have better 'taste' and you had the confidence to know AND admit which side of it you fell on.
Congrats, these micro (or nano ;) business success stories are the most inspiring.
Sorry, by “put off” I meant the empirical reports not aligning with any physical explanation has annoyed me. I like to use ANC.
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>Banning stuff will allow us to go after and punish the non-honest ones.

In a perfect World yes, we do not live in a perfect World and it is not so simple as many things testifies, drugs - they are banned - see how that works.

>Banning stuff will make honest people do it less and therefore present less opportunities for non-honest actors to steal this valuable data (e.g. through security lapses).

Reducing things and banning them to cater for the lowest denominator - Look at the history of things banned and tell me that that saw a reduction in crime as it don't - again....drugs.

> There are no silver bullets, we cannot solve complex issues in one master stroke.

Totally agree - but a poor stoke can do more harm than doing nothing, not advocating nothing but back to my first point if something appears broken then you fix it.

But I'll raise another issue with an analogy - if the internet was cars - would we allow people to drive without having a test. Yes cars can kill, but not like the internet is incapable of doing them same as we have seen. The internet and offerings have evolved and there are not restrictions beyond age (an artificial hurdle) that stop you doing what you like, oh and laws which are less clear in the quagmire of the internet as it is not in one country and country laws vary.

So unless you ban it everywhere, you are akin to sweeping it under the carper in one location and allowing free reign in others.

Let us remember that more crime has been committed and fraud via the telephone than via the use of facial recognition and old types of fraud - whilst banned/illegal - still prevail.

How did that ban on spam work out again - oh right, you got people who think, well its not in my spam folder so its not spam - this African Prince with loads of money must be legit as rules to block spam and this is not spam - that much I know and tada....a little knowledge driving on the internet strikes again.

Yes - no silver bullet - single solution, but banning things often works as a bad solution due to numerous factors - including human nature as many Number #1 music record that got banned from airplay will attest.
It's beautiful and also a very important piece of Romanesque architecture. It's probably the greatest example of circular bell tower. I'm sure that if it was not leaning, it would be still very appreciated, maybe not by the postcard turists but surely not considered "like several other towers".
Have you thought about increasing your prices by a lot? I'm not the target market but $1 per month for the cheapest plan and $5 per month for the most expensive one sounds insanely cheap to me.
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...Till the fossil fuels run out.

Drawing down savings to pay the mortgage works just fine too, until they run out. There being no obvious alternatives doesn't mean you won't end up homeless.