skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, you are being influenced by media, which convinces you that things are a proxy for happiness and good relationships

The Fight Club line has always really resonated with me:

"We work jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need"

Live below your means. Tune out from all the consumerism. Suddenly you find that you have enough savings built up that you could support yourself for multiple years without working. Now you are no longer willing to put up with as much at work. Oddly, this builds a sort of respect from people and they bother you less. Now you have excellent work life balance and more than you could ever want.

And really the key to it all is just not wanting so much.

(Also try to keep the freak-accident / illness destroying your life type stuff out your mind.)
It used to be like this for me too. Recently I can‘t use siri anymore when the ventilation is already running. After I said my sentence it keeps listening to the noise forever until it gives up, even though it understood my first sentence perfectly.
I guess then I live near a "bad" McD... the quarter pounder burger indeed is NOT visible until after you bite into the sandwich, it is nowhere near like the pictures.
George Orwell said it best:

"England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box."
Google Play Store becomes a minefield with crypto scam apps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceballs

...for the curious.
I'm surprised PG is commenting on registered users and exponential curves. Do you really think they are all programers? Why are we not seeing a graph for DAU?
One thing that happens in SV is:

* Employer says "hey, we have all these convenient corporate app, wouldn't it be nice to be able to check work messages and work docs on your mobile? Just install our app to "corp-ify" your phone"

* Employer now views your mobile device as containing sensitive company IP and therefore they have the right to snoop on anything on your phone.

If you install corp on your phone, Google views it as a right to rootkit your phone, view all your private messages, etc. I learned this the hard way. Whether this is ethical, or legal, I don't know, but it's one of those things that seem obvious to some and not obvious to others.

If your employer expects you to use a mobile device at work, have them pay for your phone and only use it for work purposes, assume that HR can view EVERYTHING on your phone, because they can, especially at a company like Google that has both deep mobile expertise and insane paranoia around things like IP protection and stopping whistleblowers.
Updates requiring reboot are not applied unless you reboot... so don't apply updates requiring reboot? It's useless to install them if you refuse to reboot. You can't have it both ways.

So the solution, as I said, is to not install these updates. (Or reboot, but you say you don't want reboots.)
My phone does it.

You have to enter this code in the dialer:

*#*#4636#*#*

After which you can navigate to "Phone Information" and decide which networks to use.

For example, if you select "LTE Only", then the phone will not connect to 2G/3G networks, and instead show that there is no signal.

This works for most Android phones.
Also available on Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/8otPjbOzTbb
Hah. "They both break things by applying force. Amazing coincidence"
Notice the lack of the brand-name investment firms, or even a prominent angel. They don't name many names, but this seems indicative of the investor profile Oomba was after

> Around 20 members of the golf club invested. Several brought in family and other friends. The finance guy got his ex-wife involved. Some people didn’t have the savings necessary to be accredited investors, but Williams helped “fudge” the paperwork, as one person put it.
Love the concept, but gave up without any progress. I would mirror much of the previous feedback:

- Make the first puzzle much easier. A quick win would help hook us in.

- The password could be either kid (or is Daniel the husband?), any capitalization, date format, spacing, etc. Too much to brute force by hand.

- The clicking is wonky and I often wondered if I was missing something.
Sounds like a poor man's version of recoll

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

A PDF in a Zip file, in an email attachment. recoll can index it and do OCR if you like
Show HN: List of 5k poorly executed but popular apps
Hi everybody!
I wanted to come up with an idea for my next side project, but I got stuck.

That's when I got an idea to collect actual products (apps) from the app store.
So I did just that.

After finding a few of them valuable, I decided to make it an info product and sell it on Gumroad.

I must say that not all of the 5,000 apps are good ideas or they are worth the effort, but I think there are some of them that you could execute better than the original.

Note: these apps are from the (google) play store.
Filters (parameters) I used:
- each app has more than 100,000+ downloads
- lower than 3.2 ratings
- active, all of them were updated in the last few months

You can find a few examples in the Gumroad page.

Have a nice day and stay safe!
Your comment is basically correcet, but not as a refutation of mine. Your point is the same as mine: certain "special" outcomes at certain rates are evidence of implementation flaws in our random number generator even though they're not any more or less likely given an actually perfect RNG.
Even the vaccines are racist?
I threw in the towel (on predicting the future) when Twitter became a thing. I remember reading a "Penny Arcade" comic about Gabe (or is it Tycho?) "micro-blogging" about his defecations, and being deeply puzzled. Pretty much my rule of thumb is, if you didn't predict Twitter you have no idea what's going on. Even Alvin Toffler didn't predict Twitter.

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FWIW, I think the sane response to complexity of modern society is a kind of physical conservatism, similar to how the Amish live (but with slightly more technology.)

The idea is that you rely on old highly-stable systems (not to be obscure but I'm talking about mimicking ecosystems for our fundamental needs: food, clothing, housing, [most] medicine) and then introduce carefully those aspects of our "modern space-age-a-go-go" civilization that are really indispensable and low-risk.
Yes and no. These vaccines have been formally tested for their ability to protect the recipient, & there is some unquantifiable risk that they'll still get harmless-to-themselves mild infections – especially nasal/mucosal/surface infections – that can still transmit to others.

But it's reasonable to also expect the following to be shown when there's more time:

* The milder infection makes such infections less transmissible (in terms of duration-of-infectiousness of quantity-of-sheddding)

* such superficial infections in the vaccinated don't recur often, or as they recur become ever-milder – because the nasal/mucosal surfaces themselves eventually improve their immunity. So, an extra step is required to achieve the simplified idea of 'herd immunity', but the vaccines is still one step in that direction.

So it is still very much the hope & eventual aim of these vaccines to keep enough people alive, with mild easily-recovered infections, that 'herd immunity' (and thus much-lower or almost non-existent rates of infection even in the unvaccinated) is reached.
My thoughts: the first suggestion is too complex for HN and would amount to a sort of infinite scroll, which users here would probably hate (many have said so pre-emptively!). The second suggestion is probably a good idea. I worked on it at one point but it turned out to be a little harder to get right than I expected. Will probably return to it.
Thanks for presenting this. I suspected this might be a problem across administrations rather than Trump-specific.
ekz – A Kubernetes distribution built on EKS-D and k0s
Twitter is suspending the accounts of people who testified in Arizona
So would you support the same Trump supporters in those positions now doing the same to the Biden admin? If not, how is it any objectively different beyond your perspective that “your side is right/good, and the other side is wrong/evil”?

Or is it more reasonable that you do your job and set your own politics aside because a peaceful and unobstructed transition of power is a key to a free society? That we should not celebrate or reward unelected partisans internally sabotaging elected representatives?
Google maps used to have a feature where if you scroll back from street view you would get a 3D rendering before they gave you the 2D satellite view if you scrolled further back.

Not sure why that went away, but it was pretty cool, and I enjoyed exploring a number of places with the feature before it went away.
>> Let's say that their consistency model is achieved via quorum, that is writes write to a quorum of nodes while reads read from a quorum of nodes (of their metadata database) then this guarantees read after write consistency.

If reads are reading only from a quorum of nodes how do you guarantee they have latest data? In theory, while a node is servicing a read request wouldn’t you need to query “all” other nodes to verify that the data in current node is latest? What if the quorum of nodes don’t have the latest data yet?
Interesting but what is the Mtr/mm2 for a "true" 3nm transistor? How big is the gap with the marketing names?
Masayoshi Son seems to be a prime example of this, from what I’ve read.
Is it really so wrong to include politics in talking about the modern world?
Privacy. Alexa and Siri get triggered unintentionally very frequently in normal conversation.
You can absolutely install an adblocker on iOS. Safari supports plugins:

https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-ios-9-finally-...
Get rid of the tracking parameters in the url, thank you.
I think the liberal establishment is starting to sour on their relationship with Google and other tech companies. They blame tech for Trump getting elected in the first place, and now that they see Google and Facebook have the ability to pick election winners and losers, they view them much more as a threat than they did during the Obama years.

It definitely remains to be seen if Biden will start hiring up a bunch of Google employees into senior positions like Obama did or not, but I suspect Google will be nowhere near as welcome as it was under Obama.
This is what I was thinking. If you stop a second to think about it from their perspective, it can make more sense. (I know in 2020 it is unheard of to think about something from a different point of view than one's own.) Even real-life human beings in the assistant role get things wrong as they interpret the original request not as intended.
(Please don't use visual gimmicks, like ASCII art, in these job posts. I've taken that bit out now.

There's nothing wrong with it in principle, but it starts a sort of attention-grabbing arms race which isn't a good fit for HN.)
They are being honest and should be appraised for doing so.
Eventually, you might not realize that men are the victims of 90% of all homicides in Mexico.

Given the new definition of femicide, shouldn't the figure be that 100% of homicide victims are men?
I personally love Fastmail, I hear Protonmail is good too.
> 5. Commands which have worked for months suddenly stop working.

This is my biggest gripe. Whatever magic voodoo ML they use is inconsistent, and it's not clear what level of abstraction this inconsistency is happening in.

What I want is the reliability of Google Assistant's speech to text parsing, combined with a firm, customizable interface. Something like If This Then That, where there are some default commands with a clear reliable command pattern: "send message to George Orwell, we live in your book", and commands can be added.
He should win an award for saying that with a straight face.
I would expect it to ask you to take out the trash first.
I use “hey Siri remind me to get tomatoes today” and then manually move it all to the shopping list later.
Microsoft should patent the tech around it and then bury it in a deep bottomless pit so no one can ever do this.
This is why I invest in index funds only and never look at individual stocks. It wasn't even 15 years ago in college that I was taught that fundamental analysis and buy-and-hold value-based investing was the way to go for individual investors. The 'discipline of the market' will force companies to improve their fundamentals and by extension, their profitability over time.

That advice seems laughable now, even if you hold for years. Companies are going public while nowhere near profitability. And others are experiencing surging prices on the basis of hype and rosy promises about the future. You can say "that's just tech companies", but it's not 1999 anymore. 'Tech' is not a new and mysterious industry with made-up metrics, they make up the largest companies in our economy.
That is the stated reason but we all know that is not the real reason. If they added an ascii art of a dinosaur or a message on another topic to that internal security tool, they wouldn't have been fired, probably not even a slap on the wrist, at most an annoyed "take that off" request.
You can transmit using unlicensed equipment on Ham bands with appropriate amateur license, or on the ISM bands without a license under certain more restrictive power emission rules.
I'd love some more info as well!
It's incredibly handy when cooking. "Hey Google set up a 15 minutes timer", "Hey Google how many teaspoons is in a cup?", etc while you have your hands dirty / busy.
Location: Cleveland
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C#, C, C++, Ruby, Python, Postgres and MySQL, Unity
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNj2wYX2umnrA6HznTT62xj4W0sedGhEHjwqqTbNCGU/edit?usp=sharing
Email: joshua.galecki@gmail.com

I've been working as a nurse for the past 3.5 years. I wanted to figure out what problems nurses face and then see if I could solve one of those problems with programming. I haven't found that problem yet, but now I consider my "research" complete and I'm ready to return programming full-time.

While I'm open to many different jobs, I am especially interested in health or clinical applications where I can put my nursing background to good use.
Regressions in language understanding are common when children are acquiring deeper understanding of the rules of that language. For example a kid may start saying 'letted' for the past-tense of 'let', even if they had used it correctly before.
This works without kids. If you have kids, then typically you desire to give them the best available options, and that then means living in higher priced neighborhoods with higher achieving student populations. And then your kid befriends another kid whose parents are doctors/lawyers/engineers/business owners, and they want to don vacation or camp with them and you need to pony up a few hundred or thousand dollars and so on and so forth.
This level of user engagement is fantastic but does it translate to actual revenue growth? Or is this only a hockey stick of expenses that will eventually run the company dry?
He's just pushing some stock that he owns.
I think Gnutella protocols of the previous generation wouldn't survive due to privacy issues. Much of the world is behind NAT today, which makes P2P difficult without hacks like WebRTC relays.

There are a number of distributed applications and protocols out there: ZeroNet, FreeNet, Mastodon/Pleroma/PeerTube (ActivityPub), I2P, IPFS, etc.

Distributed protocols are probably the future.
I try hard not to make Reddit-esque jokes here but I can't help it:

username checks out.

Edit: Yes, I'll take my very deserved downvotes and go. But come on, Henry Kissinger talking about covering up Presidential crimes :-P We just need a RichardNixon to come in and concur.
Human nature may be crafted by evolutionary forces, but that doesn't mean that human behavious do is always in service of biological evolution.

The idea about people coming from Genghis Khan is unrepresentative in a couple ways. First, that a large number of people have a common ancestor does not mean that the common ancestor was in fact Genghis Khan. It could have been someone else associated with the Mongol conquest.

Second, six hundred years from now you or I may have a lot of ancestors, assuming you have kids (I already do). There is nothing remarkable about that.
Please follow the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note the very last one.

HN has been "becoming like Reddit" since before it was HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852
Why meetings suck (especially now)
Looks like a nice alternative for slack for sure. Task and crossing company space are very interesting features. I used to use confluence + jira to manage a project with a lot of external members. The permission management is terrible. Rock probably would have made my life easier.
This is the first time I am hearing that CDC doesn't mean science or experts. Maybe they lost their reputation in this pandemic but before that I remember them being pretty reputable.

And perhaps you missed it but I said:

> they were also attacked by fact checkers who cited these experts on TV.

I never said experts themselves attacked anyone. I said fact checkers attacked people using these experts. The most famous one is of course Dr. Fauci. His famous video was used by news anchors, fact checkers and most people on social media. And most of the fact checking was going on platforms like Twitter and reddit. And searching for months old comments on those platforms is very difficult.

Update: It is impossible. Reddit search results won't even sort by time. Most search results are cluttered by recent posts.
> hopefully bring some of that fabrication talent stateside

Taiwan will never let that happen. Having TSMC's expertise stay where it is is a matter of national security for them, since it gives them a bargaining chip to force the US to come to their aid if the worst happens.
Well, not more than you could want...
> This is fine, until you have kids

I have three.

If anything they have more options, they just have less concrete things.
Ok, I take that back.

It was a submarine article as you can see at the end but the call to action is for charity. So clickbait for a worthy cause.
they really should've called it something else. now they sound ridiculous: "Productivity Score is NOT a metric for measuring productivity!"
I guess a problem is that some smaller offices use O365 and simple deduction could link the person back to the data O365 spits out. They should make the feature unavailable unless you have a certain amount of seats.
I consider underwater welders to be the real 10x engineers
A founder’s guide to understanding users
So if she instead put "Nobody has the right to enter this country illegally" it would be fine because she's just restating the law?
Yes? Official records should be conserved.
It's 2020 and that's still everything virtual assistants are good for. It's kind of sad, really.
I miss the days of instruction manuals. Alexa has always (?) supported concurrent timers but it wasn't until recently that it started asking me if I want to name my timers. But it tries to be "smart" and only ask me when it thinks I need to name them.

I only figured out through trial and error that I can name my Alexa timers without waiting for it to prompt me:

> Alexa, set a pasta timer for 10 minutes
> - Pasta timer, 10 minutes, starting now.
> Alexa, cancel pasta timer
> - Pasta timer canceled
Ah, but that's what they want you to think.
The M1 doesn’t use 24W, it uses 12-16 watts. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste... (CPU, GPU + DRAM combined)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MUTS7xvKhQ&list=PLo11Rczpzu... Check this out, 12.5W power consumption for the M1 CPU vs. 68W CPU power consumption for the Intel i9 CPU of the 16” Macbook Pro, and yet the M1 is 8% faster in Cinebench R23 in multi-core score.
Adguard is available on iOS and works great.
Please don't respond to flamebait by taking HN threads further into flamewar. That helps nothing, and only makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's a phenomenon I've witnessed in dev teams that I always thought was a separate issue but I'm starting to question that conclusion.

Like with Covid, like with SLAs, it's not enough to think of ratios of success or failure. You have to also look at frequency and duration.

A flaky test might fail a build 1 time in 200, but as your team gets bigger, build frequency rises, your tests grow, and eventually you're getting failed builds frequently enough that people start to see them as a regular occurrence, and that negatively affects their opinions about the whole experience. I've seen people bash the system when failures happen weekly, I've seen others 'turn' after a couple of statistical clusters and then fall to confirmation bias long afterward.

Google has so many irons in the fire that I think we've reached that same threshold for a lot of people. Shutting down the worst 1% of your projects a year sounds like a completely reasonable business plan. Until you have 1000 projects, and now you're shutting one down every five weeks on average. People will talk.

And if there's no transparency in that process, how do I know that my favorite tool isn't next, or on the list for next year? Odds are low, but not zero.
Elon has said more than once it will work perfectly fine, even when the van (or yacht, or train) is in motion.

In the Starlink Engineers AMA on reddit the team said they're working on reducing the power requirements. My current vehicle has 200W of solar, but a 100W draw would be a lot.
And Google Assistant doesn't? We quite often (~once a week, minimum) have our Home mini trigger off of some unrelated conversation. 50/50 on if "google" is ever mentioned, too.
Do you mean youtube music has no chromecast support? Really?
Or the other way round: why should telcos sink billions into covering rural areas with extremely low population density where they'll never be able to recoup costs even closely? They're not having any incentive to do so now, they'll have even less once Starlink is up and running because half the target customers will be happy with that.

That is why basic telecommunication infrastructure should be built out by the government, similar to roads, sewers/drinking water/gas pipes and postal service. Letting private companies do the job without mandating equal service will always lead to rural areas being dropped off the radar, and besides it's an enormous waste of resources if two or more service providers have to dig up half the country to bury infrastructure.
Your browser history (if you use Chrome or Firefox at least) is stored in a SQLite database.

It looks like rga can handle SQLite out of the box, so just making sure your history .db file is visible to rga may be all you need.

You can also use my Datasette tool to get a web UI against your history, see https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/getting_started.html#usi...
excellent!
now: what if the byline was "Donald Trump"
SS7 is challenging to find info about, so I'll ask here:

How hard are these attacks to actually execute?

* Can someone with an SDR and no credentials start an attack?

* Do you need a femtocell registered with a carrier to attack SS7?

* Do you need to be a registered carrier to have the access required to attack a user?

The attacks described in the article assume the attacker is a nation-state, but is it possible for any random person with the right hardware to gain access to sensitive info via SS7?
So for Asian Americans, Moderna's findings are equivalent to flipping four (4) coins, and declaring from the results (which we don't see here) that coins come down as Heads 94% of the time.