skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on, nobody in this thread shitting on the guy who gave away $8 billion is concerned with journalistic integrity.

$2 million in retirement is $80k/yr. Most of the people reading this thread will retire with twice that or more.
your own domain
you can use any email service provider, and if they choose to duty services you can always switch to another one

and if you are completely deplatformed you can always use selfhosted server(it's not that hard nowdays)
Ok but when did “cheap, east opioids” go away?
Technically no different but you have cast a small vote to behavior you no loner tolerate or support (socially). Even if it’s a fraction of a dollar. In aggregate they add up.
Someone put their time into creating it? Also perhaps because it is useful to people and if we ever hope to keep good content coming, without having to suffer through endless ads, we should support, what we deem to be good content.
I'm not riled up, but this clickbait-y headline made me (subconsciously) question everything else in the article.

If a billionaire gives away 99,9x% of his wealth that is fantastic news and I think Chuck Feeney is really great for doing so. No need for exaggeration.

But you are right, I should have made it clear that my comment is really aimed at the Forbes editor and not the author or C. Feeney.
iCloud Keychain is ‘good enough’ if you are 100% in the Apple ecosystem, but there’s a lot it could do better, including password sharing as well as password export. Most glaringly there’s no support for storing additional meta data alongside the password; eg all the made up answers to “what was the street you grew up on?”, etc
Bureaucracy growth has often little to do with need.

Important governmental services tend to be understaffed, either because the work is arduous, unpleasant or does not pay enough to attract competent individuals.

What tends to grow are services that are politically expedient.
Signal offers nothing new to users right now. "Privacy" is too abstract. E2EE? The few users who know what that is tend to know that Whatsapp already has it. In fact, those shitty crypto payments might be the only thing Signal does offer to users. But you also lose out on chat syncing for example.

Surprisingly though, Signal is gaining a bit of traction, so I think "Privacy" is still something people do want. But it has to be better defined.

And to be completely honest I don't believe in Signal. The current messenger wars kind of feel like a parallel universe's email wars "yahoo vs gmail vs hotmail vs live" or something. Coming up with a new messenger is easy. Most of them have the same featuresets. The underlying protocols should be compatible instead of this sorry state of affairs.

Matrix will probably win out in the end but it's going to be long-drawn and unnecessarily annoying for users in the mean time. It shouldn't matter if you're using instagram's UI, or messenger's, or signal's, …. You should get access to the contacts you want, and be able to cross-talk.
>There's no sense of scale or size in the virtual tour, as images on a screen feel much different than being somewhere.

Judging by the ludicrous FOV estate agents typically use in photos, that's a feature (to them) - as are the other limitations you cite.
Yes, that's the other thing. If the bookshelf didn't have doors you'd only see 100% of my wife's books behind me with a cam on, my bookshelf is next to the desk...
Not disagreeing with you at all. There are many many projects, that run on time and dedication of their creators and which deserve more.
Show HN: Napkin.io – Backend in the Browser
Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore
>The solution to this is to get a phone number from an area code that you don't live in.

Getting a new number is not a realistic "solution" for many people because they've had their old cellphone # for decades and it's already deeply entrenched with all their relatives, friends, doctors' emergency contact numbers, airlines notifications, bank fraud alerts vis SMS, etc, etc.

E.g. Most of my friends & family have had the same wireless phone numbers for more than 20 years which they've deliberately kept even when changing carriers.

People still want to keep their familiar number; they just want the spam robocalls to stop. Yes, buying a new area code # (which btw costs ~$40 admin charge with AT&T) ... and then expending a lot of effort to "propagate" the new number to all your contacts and website profiles is not impossible but it's a burden many don't want to tackle.

Some celebrities manage spam by always having at least 2 different cell phones. So a high-profile Hollywood actor would have:

(1) personal phone for spouse & kids & the agent that brings in the money. This number is a closely guarded secret and never shared with anyone or websites' account profiles. This phone's ringer can be set to "silence unknown callers not in the contact list".

(2) separate "burner" phone for everybody else.

The (2) business phone # is changed out monthly because it inevitably leaks out with all the people that have it. But (1) personal phone is only changed if it was leaked by a insider employee at AT&T or TMobile. But again, it's another unrealistic "solution" for most because regular people don't want to buy and carry around 2 separate phones. Yes, some phones can use dual SIMs but only the expensive models ... and it also requires paying extra for 2 numbers on the monthly bill.

Hopefully, an eventual solution that combines:

- more effective FCC crackdowns and penalties

- SHAKEN/STIR anti-spoofing,

- intelligent spam filters at the wireless carrier level,

- better call management tools in iOS/Android

... would be a more sane approach than buying new phone numbers to escape the spam.
Either defend your comments or actually delete them.
100 Startup Ideas.
What does a close-to-100% top marginal tax rate have to do with workers owning the means of production?

Yes, I’ve met a lot of people from former Soviet states that say the same things. But I also know even more people who lived in the USA when we had very high top marginal tax rates... you know, back when “America was great”.
With all due respect to the statistics lessons that usually follows news like this, if you are one of the 6,971 or the 8,803 for that matter, these numbers are not as comforting as you might imagine. It's like the time I was unemployed and I kept hearing from the government about how low the unemployment rate was.
NAS users do things explicitly not supported, working around built in enforcement in some cases. Then, when Synology blocks the unsupported actions to prevent having even more things to check and test, users complain. It may be no more nefarious than some thing they did want to add would create more problems if they left these holes in the code.

These actions were always unsupported. It's like complaining using unpublished APIs does not work in future versions.

It's also surprising how many people, likely not even Synology NAS users, misread the article, and jump into full outrage mode.
To be fair also probably all of these get more likely as age increases. I bet very few 30 year olds dies of falling down the stairs...
Pretending that the screen i just a window into the real world might be the most technically correct way to do it, but that doesn't mean it's the one we will experience as most real or most engaging.
There may be some grandfathering of old accounts: accounts that have email notification enabled, can still access the Packstation using mTAN transmitted by email. However, once the email notification is disabled, there seems to be no way to re-enable it (and maybe it is disabled per default for new accounts) [1]

[1] https://www.giga.de/tipp/dhl-mtan-anfordern-ohne-handy-das-s...
Or, rather, fixing alt-tab and moving window controls to where they should be. I guess it's a matter of taste and habit.

Full disclosure: I'm a former EM for the Unity dev team. I have heard more mindless opinion disguised as fact than you can possibly imagine.
He was probably very hungry, never think with your stomach!
Indeed, I got caught by the HN formatting. I meant un<star>x for unix/linux.
I don't see people knocking the Billionaire, only the title.
Possibly not if you're talking about €500 notes.
AI vs. Financial Crime – Fight Against Money Laundering (AML) and Bad Actors
Clean shutdowns are indeed preferred, but synology devices will do a clean shutdown (delayed as required) if you press and hold the power button until it beeps and starts flashing, then release.
$2m is a top end superannuation retirement fund any ordinary mortal could aspire to. After $1.6m in Australia you can't contribute more in the low tax regime.

I'm not saying it isn't a shit tonne of money but $8b is more like obscene money, lots and lots of ordinary people retire with $2m between a couple. Nothing like half , a top cohort of the retirement pool, but I know several (I'm not one btw)

If he really did give it away and there isn't some cunning plan, good on him.
Also series resistors are used to prevent ringing etc acting as a termination resistor.
Check out GILTI - a 10 year retroactive tax that the US hit me (and all expats who own small businesses) with. A retroactive double tax, at that.
> it's that it's not expressive enough

That may be part of it, but I imagine the JVM's safety obligations are also a significant factor. If the JIT can't elide array bounds checks, checks must be performed at runtime. Runtime type checks might be needed. Runtime arithmetic checks might also be needed. The JVM is also more constraining regarding concurrency gone awry, than the C/C++ memory model. [0] More broadly, the JVM's lack of undefined behaviour constrains the optimiser in ways the C/C++ approach does not (although I'm open to the idea that it's overstated how much of a performance win is owed to C and C++ having many kinds of undefined behaviour).

And of course there's the GC and Java's high object-churn, even where lifetimes are known statically. To my knowledge, escape analysis (the relevant family of JIT optimisations) still hasn't really addressed this.

[0] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/262428/
We should start letting "AI" decide the outcome in any of Google's pending court cases. We could setup a twitter account and direct them to complain, I mean appeal by @ the twitter account and hope the bot gods decide their tweet is worthy enough for human review
That's another point to look at it, you're right.
I think the point is not to talk about how it's implemented, but to point out that it's a more complex change, one that cannot be achieved by first performing a traditional render and then transforming the resulting 2d image. You actually need to project differently.
Multiple edits on the HTML are by far not anywhere near as performance devastating as they were a decade ago.

At the moment, the "virtual DOM" approach is actually going against performance optimization.

JS frameworks like react, vue, angualr etc effectively replicates a big portion of browser's internal logic for nothing.
I usually check r/selfhosted and awesome-selfhosted repo on GitHub[0].

[0] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
The first part of the post, where they said the got a strike for teaching people how to use pgp...

Wow, that’s um, wild
"A man giving away $8bn leaving himself $2m really is."

I agree. If it really is that big news, then a title phrased the way you did above would be work and be truthful.
In Serbia, a country that suffered government-caused hyperinflation, the idea is ask people to save money for retirement will meet some justified distrust. Not to mention that it is a low-income country where people have smaller margins from which to save. You can't just forgo a holiday in Bahamas to save some money if you cannot afford said holiday in the first place.
Perhaps, but there is a LOT of unused capacity out there.
Your math is based on the "4% rule" but that assumes you retire at age 65. Chuck Feeney is 89, so it is more like $350,000 a year.

That said, I agree with you that nitpicking headlines is a constant on HN. It is low value, gets tiresome, doesn't actually improve the web, and makes me stay away from HN in favor of other communities that actually want to engage with articles and not just their headlines.
How to Tell If You Have Engaged Your Audience?
An adult addresses the children.
> To me, your comment sums up modern online discourse.

Misinformation is a problem in society today, and false headlines are a contributing factor. People, whether rightly or wrongly, incorporate false information from headlines into their model of the world, as surely not everyone is reading the entire article.

An honest writer can not compete with the clickbait headlines, so it tends to get worse and worse over time as they need to one up each other to invoke emotions to get the clicks.

I see nothing wrong with trying to fight back by pointing this out. I opt not to click on these types of links to avoid financially rewarding this type of behavior, however futile it may be. I also trust the source less since I’ve already been lied to in the first few words I read, so why should I bother continue reading?

However tiny the effect of this specific publication, it chips away at trust in society.
> Honestly, this is a bad argument.

No, it is a very good argument. Those who are using computers since pre-mobile era (which is everyone but zoomers) remember very well how simple programs slowly became more bloated and then basically became adware. This is what it is associated to.
Creating money is inflationary when it's not backed up by something like bonds (which temporarily destroy money) or taxes (which permanently destroy money).
What do you think this will achieve? We know what Google thinks; they don't want this content on their platform.

Forcing them to state that in a specific forum as some sort of power play isn't going to help.
Yeah, that integrated offering is a great market differentiator. Still a much higher bar than the basic competence that SpaceX has had to display to eat everyone else's lunch.
The other way of looking at it is that Gnome is rampantly opinionated, and if you disagree, a fork might be your best option far more often than it is with other desktop environments.
That sounds like something that the government should oversee, maybe they could also make some regulations so that , I dunno, corporations might need to be responsible for their actions.
It seems that it's open source (Apache 2.0) and can generate SQL for PostgreSQL and SQLite in addition to BigQuery.
Russian darknet market Hydra, which is probably the biggest darknet market in the world, uses only Bitcoin for everything.
>This is the thinking of poor countries, like Croatia

Croatia’s had pretty decent universal healthcare for many years.
Why did you change my scrollbar though on this site? :|
The "clones" listed in this project is what I deem to be good content, i.e actual creative work that took much more time and effort than putting together yet another "awesome-whatever" list. That is what I would support.
This paper is an example of spurious correlations that appear because of selection-distortion effect and makes the authors come up with "believable" causes ti justfiy them.
And poll taxes is actually what could make such a life impossible do it is unclear why op advocates that.
"due to mass immigration driving up populations beyond their natural size"

Jain, as the Germans say. The combination of immigration into several major metropolitan hubs with almost all good jobs being there is what drives the housing prices up. What is "natural size" of San Francisco? It used to be close to 0 some 200 years ago.

There is plenty of cheap property in rural areas of Europe that are too far from the next Top 10 city to facilitate a daily commute there and back again. You can literally buy houses in remote Italian countryside for 1 euro if you promise to stay there as an inhabitant. And no one wants to stay in rural Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in East Germany, even the asylum seekers from Pakistan of Afghanistan get on the first train and leave.

A shift to remote work could alleviate some of that upward pressure.
this whole thread is pure gold, thanks for linking it. for me the comment [0] confirmed that it was bokeh.

[0] - https://www.metabunk.org/threads/pyramid-ufos-in-night-visio...
As a man I did the take away keyboard thing many times in the past. In SOME of the instances the people asked for help were incompetent. Regardless, I think a better approach should be spending time helping them do it themselves instead.
> I don't think any of your example of shrunk companies going on anything like the acquisition spree that these tech giants have.

IBM has a long history re acquisitions[1]. Xerox hasn't done it quite as much, but they started as a photographic paper company (Haloid) and actually acquired their photocopying business (the Rectigraph Company). They've made many other acquisitions more recently[2], but of course on a scale that suits their budget.

To the bigger point about the multi-billion dollar acquisitions that current tech giants do, those are a function of the massive cash piles the companies are sitting on and the low interest rate regime worldwide (which causes stock prices to go up). It's not like these "lock up" competition or anything. Indeed, by ending Nuance as an independent specialized voice to text company, there'll be more pressure now to fund alternative independent implementations. Google already has one that's nipping at Nuance's heels. You might see others fund a third effort now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

[2] https://www.news.xerox.com/investors/acquisitions
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What is the point of WASM if JavaScript is just as fast? After reading the article I'm not left with the impression that getting good performance out of WASM is particularly easy either. WASM has most of the performance footguns from C, requires including a lot of details and gunk, like memory layout and an allocator, that the browser compiler would probably be better off doing on its own.
The annoyance for me is precedent.

If, for example, part of the mechanism that allowed them to do this involved a search warrant for "all computers in the US"...that's a precedent that has obvious, chilling, future implications.

Perhaps that wasn't the mechanism, but it's such a broad action that I'm worried something like that is involved.
The thing is, we have to make sure we're OK with the consequences of going this way. Would people be happy to wait for days, maybe weeks, for their video to be approved for upload to YouTube? Would that work with the current society's attention span?

Is YouTube as we know it actually feasible without AI-based moderation? Can it be a sustainable business with an army of human moderators and/or a drastically reduced scale as a result?

I don't know, but I have my doubts.

Yes, moderation/suspensions can be a pain, and pointing out embarrassing mistakes is important to add pressure on Google to put more resources into it. At the same time, YouTube is full of great content and content creators. Anyone can upload a video and make it viewable by billions, instantly. I think we shouldn't forget how amazing this actually is.
I've had a less than stellar experience with their support too. I'm the author of a reasonably popular WireGuard plugin (https://github.com/runfalk/synology-wireguard) and in the next DSM version they are basically breaking all kernel module plugins without a migration path. A kind user has found a workaround and made a PR, but Synology have no interest in helping out with this (https://github.com/runfalk/synology-wireguard/issues/66#issu...).
I have distressed because I often can't finish reading books,
but this opinion changed my mind.

I thought of my personality, my interest shifting to various things as my shortcoming, but I will apply the concept of "One Thing" to my life and try to gather information what is useful to me from my daily life.
I wasn't, thanks! It's very nice to be able to type part of the domain name first and then space and then part of the username.

... but as far as I can see, passmenu just copies to clipboard and doesn't use xdotool?
> Apple can get away with segmentation because people will still buy Apple products because they're Apple products.

Apple can get away with an on-the-fly architecture transition, because they're willing to invest a shit ton of resources, and also because Rosetta 2 is the software equivalent of the Top Gear opening theme played by Slash on a guitar that's on fire.
> It is low value, gets tiresome, doesn't actually improve the web, and makes me stay away from HN in favor of other communities that actually want to engage with articles and not just their headlines.

I find it to be high value. The misleading-ness of a title is a proxy for quality of content, in my opinion.
Wait, why is Woocommerce listed as a clone of Shopify!
Korea has many startups.

There's rumors of a startup scene in China. /S

Greater China has lots:
HK (tho not a country in itself, but a special region of China) has some. Republic of China Taiwan has lots.

Singapore has a huge amount.

There's also a lot of people doing more "craft based" or "small business" startups in all those areas, such as cafes, organic or urban farms, manufacturing of various kinds.

Tho that is not the same as VC funded tech startups, some of these things do go that way. There's lots of delivery and gig economy startups. Lots of payment startups. Much of the innovation in social and payment that occurred in the last 6 years has been lifted out of East Asia and copied by startups everywhere.

A good resource for "out of the Anglosaxon / SV" bubble is TechInAsia.

https://www.techinasia.com/

The interesting thing about reading startup perspectives in Asia, is they are very aware of what happens in SV. An awareness that doesn't, unless you are an analyst at one of the big international VCs, go both ways.

Also interesting to note the culture in these places around entrepreneurship, it's very normal for people to consider having their own business. HK has one of the highest "company per capita" rates in the world, tho surely some of that is due to its special economic statuses. I don't know as much about other East Asian cultures, but ethnic Chinese culture is very "entrepreneurial", as in, many people have shops and businesses of various kinds. At least to me it seems to be an acceptable or desirable thing to do at a higher rate than the traditional Anglosaxon culture I also spent a lot of time in.
The title is perfectly fine or at least "good enough".

HN is not like Stackoverflow with its persnickety rules. This topic generated some discussion including those who feel the title is not suitable. That's a success.

Ironic to me that the ones objecting to the title say they value the time wasted to "click" but then write sentences explaining why that time was wasted. So x seconds to click and figure out you don't like the title and then 10x seconds to write a critique? Maybe just ignore it next time and move on with life?
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