skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm on the go, I'll just take screenshots of that point in time and if I remember, I'll go back to that moment and take notes on it, google search it, or something.

If I can stop what I'm doing (if I'm on a walk), I will pause and take notes. With audiobooks, I can bookmark and take notes in Audible. I do wish I could see the transcription because I always worry Audible didn't capture the right portion of the audio so that when I go back to listen later it takes me a while to try to figure out what I bookmarked/clipped. Whereas in a physical book, I know exactly what I highlighted. Does that make sense?
> "Killing TurboTax" is essentially a meme until we meaningfully simplify the tax code. [...] There is no software development team on earth who could catch up with the full capabilities of TurboTax without some sort of fundamental shift in the business.

So let's just nationalize TurboTax.
Preventing the loss of manufacturing capability is one of the reasons for offering military aid to friendly countries. We give them money to buy weapons, but they are obligated to buy certain weapons systems with that money.

For example, the Saudi's really don't need all those M-1s they buy from us (with money we give them), but we offer the it keeps our production lines open and active.

It's a devious way of laundering military readiness expenses.
Your website has single handedly changed the negotiations for so many people. It was so hard to get good salary data
And also trusts the nerds to not immediately post the email offering them this deal to their blog for the street cred immediately.
Ask HN: I have replaced Google for my family and they don't use it.
I am working to self host everything me and my family needs, I have drive (nextcloud), sheets, docs, forms, video calls, polls on one thing. I also have email, and my search engine (https://sturtz.cf). I have this all on my server that I control.
My question is how do I convince them to use what I have spent months on building and hosting.
I always hated writing e2e tests (tools like Cypress just didn't cut it for me), so I put this together a while back (it's open source, MIT licensed): https://github.com/testfront-io/testfront-devtools

See also https://www.testfront.io/ for an actual description of how it works, but don't bother signing up. I'm really bad at marketing/getting the word out, and google took forever to approve the extension so I lost interest/ran out of money. Maybe if others show interest, I'll be motivated to resume the plans I had for it.

Here's a 4 minute video of it in action, covering every user join/login/update possibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifkaptIYeL8
Scene_Cast2 should add this as a fourth element to their list.
I'm certainly confused now whether or not we are talking about the same thing. Without delving to much on the use of the word "union", how would you solve the use case presented in the typescript examples using enums?
If one takes a good FPGA and implements a 4096 bit multiplier in it, would it be faster?

Or, if we take a GPU, can we split a 4096 bit number into, say, 32-bit fragments, mass-multiply them, and combine the results faster than on a CPU? I suspect pretty common hardware can help speed such things up a lot; isn't crypto mining already using some of these approaches?
The app looks nice but scrolling feels incredibly weird on my iPhone XS Max. Did you write some custom scrolling logic or is that just how scroll views are in flutter?

There’s a bit of chop in the scrolling and it feels completely linear, instead of elastic like native iOS apps feel (and websites).
Have you heard of https://fusionauth.io/ ? I'm not a user of the product, but I know some of the folks behind it. Might be time for them to shine here.
How long have you been with this org? If you're new, and not familiar with being new, this is just how it feels.
I’m still having a hard time believing any « flutter is so great for me » testimonies, because my personnal experience with app having only the most basic list screen has always between a disaster. There’s such a big discrepancy between those testimonies and my experience that i’m starting to become suspicious about their authenticities
Luckily, modern life has made the interminable meetings of the 70's a thing of the past. Right? Right?!?
> It's great news for the businesses,

I assume you mean they'll be able to get monopolistic rents now?

The other alternative is that Auth0 customers will be forced into Okta plans and migrate to other platforms. It's happened before with other mergers.

Disclosure: I work for a competitor.
How much of the spacecraft was manufactured in the USA? Are we able to create another one without our trading partners?
Overvalued SPACs (detailed walk through)
For someone who took a matrix calculation (linear algebra) course like me, it was kinda understandable.
Yeah I wish they had mentioned what those are supposed to be exactly. Is it average? Median? Entry-level? Senior?

In my experience, the SF value on the chart seems to match entry-level developers, and the other values on the chart are above what senior developers make elsewhere. If you're a developer in Detroit, maybe you can make 90k, but I suspect you'll have to settle for closer to 60k.

Looks like Dice is based in NYC. Maybe a bit of cross-coastal rivalry pulling our apparent numbers down so we don't steal all the NYC devs? ;)
> Why you think MMT is important in this discussion, I don't know.

Because over the last decade the US has been quietly transitioning to the MMT mental model. MMT is how we got out of the 2008 recession and also how we are funding both the pandemic stimulus packages (in 2020 and again in 2021).

The inflation we previously discussed in this thread is, in my understanding, a direct consequence of MMT.
Yeah, I thought that was very insightful.
(I was previous editor of the HTML standard for ~10 years, now I'm the Flutter TL)

I mean... you're not wrong. But let's be honest, we never managed to really deliver on the web's promise here. It was <table> and <font> in the 90s, it's WebGL+Wasm now, but the reality is we've never succeeded at true portability (ever tried going to a non-trivial site in lynx? or a web app on your phone?) or accessibility (just ask anyone who uses a screen reader how accessible the web truly is) or customisability (have you _tried_ creating a user style sheet?) or interoperability (I spent a literal decade just trying to clean up the mess around HTML parsing and that was the success story!).
Practically speaking, is this the best time in history to revive a species that died out because of a warming client? This is like reinventing ice & inviting it to your pool party in the desert.
Joplin + Johnny Decimal

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/

https://johnnydecimal.com/

They go under 80-89: Inspiration & Notes > 81. Other Thinkers' Ideas Mentioned in Podcasts & Articles

Title: {author or (podcast name & episode)} - {1 sentence description}

Content:

- blog post screenshot?

- bullet point summary of ideas and context building up to ideas?

- url link

E.g. these 2 examples https://imgur.com/a/w3De47J

Worst part abt this system though is that I often listen to podcasts while doing the dishes. Inevitably I rush to write an idea down but my hands are sopping wet.. :^)
Network filesystems, compressed filesystems, and of course the ever-dreaded on-access virus scanners on Windows that 'break' one open source project after another. Who knew that opening the same file 10 times is slow? Everybody. Everybody knew that.

Looking at you, svn team.
For those outside Silicon Valley why might think, "you could live like a king with that kind of money", here is a potential home you are looking at ($2M, 1200 sqft, 7 rated schools): https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3785-Park-Blvd-94306/hom...
I don't understand how breaking accessibility with Flutter wouldn't mean that companies that use it on the web are violating the ADA.
Machine Learning Up-to-Date #38
I was with a team that went the React Native route. At first it was fine until we had to go slightly off the rails.. and I was rebuilding .so files based off random gists and updating linkage assemblies.

React Native works until it doesn't and then you are getting into very detailed platform specific territory.

A lot of the cross platform promises were untrue - we quickly learned the importance of QAing both builds and frequently had platform specific patches.

Just bite the bullet and go native upfront.
Headline two years from now: “Brave apologizes for breaking their promise on search and tracking users anyways. Promises to do better.”
What if we rewrote the tax code with code? There are many high level languages (especially functional ones) which could address this problem domain really well if we had the courage to start completely over.

Imagine a legal document that is written using terminology that is ultimately just a series of higher-order functions. A human could make sense of it with some training, and a computer could directly execute it with determinism.
Sorry, RSS was probably a bad example. I meant that I could have One Interface to Rule Them All, seamless collaboration between similar tools (e.g. viewing repositories on Github and Gitlab in a single application, or ordering a few items from a few different sites in a single place). I think the problem today is that data between websites is disjointed and not interoperable with other sites; my solution would be to build a tool that generates a kind of formula for conversion from multiple sites, such as Github and Gitlab, to a standard format, which can then be consumed by an application. Data and features wouldn't be mapped one-to-one, which is probably one of the larger problems.

The tool looks fantastic though, thanks for sharing.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have everything "hidden" by default and have an explicit "aria-include" ?
Part of it may have been job protection.

Management gets exactly the behaviours from employees that it rewards and incentivises.
I've heard the exact opposite for security: defense-in-depth. For example, IdP with Okta and 2FA with Duo. This seems much better to me.
Monocultures are more efficient, until they aren't.
Perspectives vary. That's what I made on my first job out of college in one of the bigger cities in the Midwest (not Chicago). It was fine for that. I didn't have extravagant tastes, but I didn't penny pinch. I had enough room in my budget that I could have saved probably a few hundred dollars a month.

It's worth calling out that my car was paid off (and a Prius so gas/insurance was cheap), and my rent was really low ($300 a month because of arrangement with the landlord). Work also covered almost all of my insurance, which I think is unusual for jobs in those range. If those things weren't true, I probably would have saved little or nothing unless I started cutting back and focusing on buying cheap food to eat instead of just being happy with cooking instead of eating out.

Home ownership is possible if you save for years, or if you can get a grant to help with the downpayment (had a friend who did that). It's not pleassant, but it's doable imo.

I don't think you could have a family on a single $15/hr income. Even at 2 $15/hr incomes I would think it was hard, but I don't have children so maybe they're cheaper than I think. Although no one has ever said their children were cheaper than they thought.
Well, hopefully you understand where I'm coming from then.
Perhaps there is a bimodal distribution? Eg large public companies or older well funded startups in Silicon Valley can afford to pay more than the (many?) other companies
U.S. currently has ~95 million cows. That 60 million figure for Bison was U.S. population pre-westward expansion. 60/95=63% - that’s a rather large “drop in the bucket”... dumb take seems to be on your end here bud.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194297/total-number-of-c...
How will market consolidation lead to a smaller viable alternative?
The cloud feature sounds like a nice product, but I think ordinaryradial was suggesting something else (or if he wasn't, I am): a toy app on your own pages that also has the automation scripts "pre-injected". It would be limited to just running on that sample app but would let people try it out immediately in their own browser without needing to install an extension or use a full-blown virtual browser.
One fears we'd be shocked by how much is actually going to General Smith's brother-in-law's toilet-seat dropship company. We'd like to think that Pentagon auditors could find that sort of thing, except that Pentagon people tell us continuously that they are unauditable.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-audit-bud...
another crazy valuation
If they don't load the icons (whether they are image icons or font icons or svg icons), the presentation is badly busted in any case.
And the full capabilities of TurboTax still aren't that great. I never felt confident that I was interpreting every question properly.

As soon as my tax situation got even the slightest bit complex I started using an accountant. They use TurboTax, I'm pretty sure, but they also know all the questions and what they really mean and can answer my questions on what the tax impact of various situations I encounter might be. They also go to bat for me if I have an audit.

Not only do I consider that far more valuable than the $500/year it costs, but I'm also confident my tax savings more than cancel the expense.

Just my experience, but I recommend a tax accountant to all adults.
He also does excellent computer advertisements!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlmzwZXa-Ww
Both ends will have extremes.
Too much calculations, too much expectations, keep hunting for better deals even after marriage, no willingness to compromise, having all eggs in spouse relationship basket and expecting her/him to play all roles, selfishness for own happiness but disregard for children's life, trivial reasons leading to breakup..

Plus culture where freedom, independence and success are more valued than institute of marriage, interdependence and family life.
I only worked tangentially in the field, but I get the feeling that modern semiconductor manufacturing is sort of the same, except with more excel sheets and the like?
> My computer can manipulate and prove things about real numbers just fine.

If you mean it can, with appropriate software, do symbolic manipulations of general formulas that are valid for real numbers, yes, of course. But that's not the same as doing specific concrete computations with them.

> What I was mostly responding to in your previous comment is the idea of "emulating" multiplication for whole numbers by repeated addition. What I got from that is that you were thinking of the whole numbers as being inside the real numbers. My point was that to get the real numbers you usually have to start with the whole numbers and build up to the reals (say by Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences)

Ah, I see. As far as I know the axiomatic reasoning involved can go either way. But in any case, that wasn't what I was trying to get at with the term "emulating"; I'm sorry if my use of that term caused confusion, and I agree with you that telling a child something like "the whole numbers are inside the real numbers" without qualification would also be a misrepresentation. My point was simply that teaching a child a specific computational procedure, repeated addition, in order to get an answer to particular multiplication problems does not require telling the child that multiplication is repeated addition, without qualification. The two things are distinct, and I am fine with the former; I only object to the latter.
I also imagine living in a foreign country you spend a disproportionate amount of time just doing basic things, let alone growing a social circle from zero, let alone getting out and dating other people.
My favorite thing with L2 is how you can call almost anything an L2 and people believe it. You can just tell them to use an independent proof of stake network with permissionless validators like Polygon (formerly Matic), and everyone believes this is the "trustless growing L2" while Binance Smart Chain - which is also an independent proof of stake network with permissionless validators - is the "centralized" one.

Polygon has a separate Plasma network which is not what anybody uses for all their smart contract redeployments.

The gulf of knowledge just gets wider and wider, and more and more profitable.
Centralized services gonna centralize.

Something I've been thinking about recently is that a full web browser is a hard dependency of OAuth2-based systems. That's 20-30 million lines of code even for the simplest systems, even though you're basically just using the browser as a form renderer and a central space to store tokens.

I feel like there's room for a simpler protocol designed to operate on HTTP plus a minimal UI language (maybe JSON-based) used to describe forms for granting access. This would make it much easier to develop for devices that don't have browsers. You could even make CLI interfaces for authorization flows.
AWS probably has more money than the rest of the Ethereum ecosystem? Anyway, even if they turn out not to have more clout it could still end up as an ecosystem split where some will migrate to ETH2 and some will stay on the AWS managed ETH1 version.
>> and integrated over time
> I'm reading too much into this sentence fragment and it fills me with fear.

Lol!
There's just so much value in the fact that I can run it locally, deploy it wherever, play with it and learn it for free and even feel safe enough to expose it publicly due to its maturity and backing. As long as I stick with the standards (remind yourself and your users "you build OpenID Connect clients, not 'keycloak' clients," I can even (easily) move somewhere else if I want, and now I understand Oauth2/OIDC better and probably have a much more scalable authn/z system in place thanks to the way federated authn asks you to design your (fine-grained) authz.
What is it with HN being so hostile towards design?

So many smart designers are carefully considering how to make genuinely ideal interfaces.

But fuck them, they're just too lazy to put effort into complex interfaces, they're just following trends. They don't know what there doing. But Winamp-Themes where you can barely even see the buttons - yes, those are great.

Sure, mistakes are made, and overcorrections happen. Everyone was tired of skeuomorphism a while ago (ironically, OP seems to have forgotten that). The response was a vast overcorrection and we're still recovering from that. But if you honestly think that we're off worse now, then I can only shake my head.

(EDIT) But why is this hostility so prevalent in the developer demographic? Apparentlyy everyone else is okay. (unless you want to argue that there is some secret designer cult that imposes their will on everyone). Is it age? Are we just damaged from looking at a terminal too much?
Ask HN: Has anyone come across something like Segment for fraud engines?
I'm looking to see if there's anything like Segment's analytics.js for fraud. I haven't been able to find anything through my googling. Ideally, just like Segment does for analytics, I could do one integration and have fraud signals collected and proxied to any number of fraud engines. I think this would save a lot of time in the future if we ever switched fraud solutions. Does that make any sense as an approach / does anyone know of any solutions like that?
If anyone's looking for an Auth0 alternative, come check out FusionAuth!

It's been built from the ground up for developer experience with a distinct lack of jargon, amazing customizability, an API first approach and great docs. Plus, enterprise features too, including SSO/SAML, OIDC, and more.

https://fusionauth.io/docs/

(I work at FusionAuth.)
A related story:

One of the proposals for future upgrades to SLS (ugh) was liquid-fueled boosters using new-build F-1 engines (i.e. Saturn V main engines). Unfortunately, the specs were not complete; not only was lots of stuff different in the factory than in the drawings, but parts of the engine were literally hand-built. Think API documentation built on a tight deadline, and published while software is still under development.

Luckily, some NASA engineers were already taking one apart and modeling the parts for previous SLS work. The new Dynetics version ended up much simpler and cheaper because of new manufacturing methods, but the reverse engineering process required to get there was a serious project in its own right.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the...
Here is a relevant lecture on the decay of specialised knowledge across civilisations.

https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko

Included is an anecdote about Texas Instruments and loss of knowledge between generations of silicon hardware.
The US nuclear weapons program had to do something similar in the 2000's with a material known as Fogbank. This is used in the W76 warhead as an interstage material, and they needed more of it to keep the weapons in operational state.

Unfortunately, they'd forgotten the manufacturing process, decommissioned the plant that made it, and the people that knew how to do it weren't around any more. They figured it out, but it doesn't necessarily look easy to do (nor does the material seem easy at all to make in the first place).

https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/201814/fogbank/

p20 here says more: https://www.lanl.gov/science/weapons_journal/wj_pubs/17nwj2_...

Edit: I somehow missed this other thread in this story, despite a search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334367
I guess the open-access overlay journal approach is the cheapest, now looking for a free peer review platform, alternative to Scholastica
I'm not really sure what you mean by "all of that". What I described _is_ the web.
https://www.keycloak.org/
Feral children are sometimes raised by a species like wolves, more different from us than mammoths are from elephants. Some of them can never acculturate with other humans, but they are generally viable creatures. They are still human. That's better than extinction.
> when they tried to use logos to serve two distinct roles: branding and utility.

But you can do this. MS Office has done so one way or another for decades - the icons in the product family have similar, distinctive design language, but each also clearly conveys which product it is with shape, colour, and a clear letter logo.
Neutral (if it was possible) observer here...well handled Dang.
>This is the kind of government competence that only exists in the most wild conspiracy theories

And, possibly, before the 1960s.
amazon getting into crypto adds a ton of credibility from an outsider's perspective. even if you're not a fan of amazon, this should have a positive impact on crypto as a whole.
yeah the potential of lossing access to children, your home, car, half of your possessions, and large part of your social network is not something to take lightly. then trying to peice your life back together when your have to pay alimony and child support, before your other expenses is a lot to ask when the alternative is free internet porn.
Comcast hides upload speeds deep inside its infuriating ordering system
Somewhat visible in some of the outdoor photos: a railroad right-of-way is located directly behind this house, with at least two trains per hour from early morning until midnight.
My grandfather spent the last part of his career doing this sort of work—often on classified projects, I'm told. Usually there was an assumption made on the project about the useful working life of any part, and the expected duration of the program, and they made the "right" number of spares.

Things change, and the factory/tooling/people are long gone. Also, often the underlying tech isn't available. But the part needs to weigh the same amount, meet the same guidelines, and fit in the same hole.

It's cheaper to pay someone to spend the time to figure out how to make the replacement then to mothball the entire airplane—almost regardless of how expensive it might be.