skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We forget that taxes are inefficient and should be minimized where possible. A login tax for all eternity sucks.

Yes, but like in many other cases, an efficient market would mean that they will always need to be better in most aspects than whatever free, open source, or simply lower cost competitor pops up.

Unless they decide to prevent people from exporting their passwords, of course — and that's a big enough dealbreaker for me that I'd move away anyway, not caring how fancy or advanced the rest of their UX is.
Fwd: Cloudsec 2021 Speakers List
This is a problem that can be solved without Codespaces too. For example, if GitHub were to embrace Nix, every project could have a shell.nix file for all of their dependencies, and the new engineer bootstrap script that installs Nix could then just add an internal Nix binary cache (or use Cachix). Any time the shell.nix changes a GitHub Action could push the closure to the binary cache.

With this setup, you can use whatever local tool you want and, as long as environment variables are respected, they’ll just work. The only requirement on your end is to either run nix-shell first, or to use direnv and ask it to load the nix env for you.

The downside is you still are compiling locally, so you still need sufficient CPU/memory resources, but that’s it.

Unfortunately most companies still aren’t paying any attention to Nix.
Tk is very limited. It's nice for very simple apps, but basically unusable for anything else.
Thanks for the concrete example, I can relate to this much more. It seems much harder to know, when interviewing new teams to join, whether this particular kind of skill set would be useful or valued, as opposed to being an expert in some technical niche.
Hi, I work for 1Password. I can understand your frustration that we're phasing out local vaults. Luckily, I have some good news: we're currently running a survey to gauge user interest in self-hosting options. If you're interested, go to https://survey.1password.com/self-host/ and let us know your thoughts. Thanks!
I'm still confused about what advantage is gained by having the validator be a deep-space probe. How do we know whoever built/launched the probe didn't put in a back door, or can change the software by transmitting a special code, etc.

Also what currency does the system use, if it's a new one how is it originally (fairly) issued to people?
> But yeah, it will be a societal cost: one less thing we can trust. Just like "photos don't lie" went out the window with widespread photoshopping, so will trust in personalized videos.

But video is the final frontier of digital trust. Once photos, video, and audio can no longer be trusted, what will people trust?

Digital cynicism will become total.
Not that this is entirely wrong in principle, but it sounds like you got into the market for a house right around 2009. "Happen to enter the market at the exact bottom of a historic crash" isn't exactly a strategy. It's just luck.
Most of us have worked with the person who thinks they know everything. Part of being a good engineer/software developer/scientist is knowing it’s impossible to know everything and being open to new ideas.
Did you guys post on the Aug 1 "Who's Hiring" thread? I got more than 5 responses to that for an Elixir job.
BLS says closer to $250k using CPI.

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
If they were a public company where shareholders could vote, they'd probably fire the board and replace them with people who could maximize revenues.
I think that I agree, hoping that if I understood your comment correctly the crucial factor is "time"?
Not that I'm disagreeing with the sentiment, but reading an article on this site generally takes 5-30 minutes, not 5 seconds.
It may well change in the future, but it hasn't just yet.
OK... now how can I delete this cloud environment it created for me without prompting?
I'm seeing a lot of "I could do this myself" in this thread.

Okay. Then do it.

Make your own password manager. Make your own browser and iOS/Android keyboard extensions for it. Make your own cloud backup/sync of your encrypted passwords.

Do it.
You are technically correct - but it's overly pedantic. Another commonly accepted definition of public companies outside of the US is companies that are partially or wholly owned by the government and thus act as a public service. This includes crown corporations in Canada or the USPS in the US. I think within the context they used that calling Microsoft a private company is fair since they have no obligation to "act in the public good".
I meant in your place of work. It's still generally the case that you won't be picked for flagship projects, but you can get better at finding remaining opportunities than others are.
Let's start with low standards -- say, labor rights. Most Western countries cannot be competitive in manufacturing because of this differential.
For that matter, what’s the point of high school?
It seems like your primary call to action on your site is donating when I don't even really know what I am working with or looking at on your site. I think you need a big clear button pointing people to the data and how to get it.
I don't listen to the thoughts of anyone who can't make a blog that renders legibly on mobile. Expert in sci-fi != expert in literally anything else.
Is that like a camel but with dazzle camouflage?
The way Denuvo work is they absolutely litter your code with checks that are exceedingly complex and convoluted.

When they make a promise to the developers that "this game won't be cracked for X days/weeks" what they are saying is they are putting in so much extra code that it will take the crackers that much time to reverse engineer it. It's basically "we are adding this much busywork to your game". When some AAA publisher opts for the longest possible length it turns into a performance impacting amount of busywork.

I wish more game companies would then ship the un-denuvoed version once the main version was cracked and released on pirate sites. Just do it quietly in a patch with a bullet point of " * slightly improved performance".
Who are you to decide what people believe? There are far more important topics than HRCs purported baby-blood diet.
Ahhh, sorry, no. Porsches, in particular the 911, are known to be cars that hold value for a looong time.
People loudly decry inherited wealth because it is anti-meritocratic and we're raised with delusion that our system is ostensibly one where wealth is related to merit.
Misinformation is an issue because trust in politicians, the government, journalists, the media and the scientists they use as spokespeople has eroded significantly.

It is probably easier for them to dump 1B into something like this initiative than restore trust in those institutions.
Yeah, but NATO was better, and they "won" because of it. Most people in the West are still completely unaware of the close operational ties between huge "trusted" media firms like BBC, Reuters, literal NATO propaganda outlets like VoA and RFE/RL, and NATO intelligence agencies. In this respect, the Cold War never ended.
> Subscription business models

I think a subscription business model is the only honest way to sell software that will require ongoing support. If you're comfortable with a snapshot w/o updates, then by all means buy once, but I think coming to terms with the demands of ongoing support also means coming to terms with continuing to support the product in some way.

That said, I wish there were more variations in the way to pay - a long term license with a high upfront fee and a low monthly, an immediate access option with a high montly and no up-front fee, etc.
I know a lot of people who "retired" before 40. They joined the military and stayed in.
I’ve always used secure notes in the Keychain app for this. Not as smooth as 1Password, but it does the job when I need a licence number (when I get a new computer, so once every ~3 years) or an answer to a security question (can’t say how frequent that is; certainly not more than 1 every other year).

I’ve been doing that for more than a decade (more like 2 actually) without a hiccup.
>"invest in education, and give people the ability to spend 30 extra seconds critically thinking about the information they see and where it came from "

People have been demanding we teach critical thinking in education for decades. And it's not like teacher's haven't been trying to get people to think critically all this time.

The truth is, when we see information that conforms to our worldview, we naturally accept it. We only think critically when we see something we disagree with. Try it yourself, just start disagreeing with someone and watch how good they become at critiquing your arguments.
Good rant. I agree.
Damn I got rejected for a few Elixir jobs because of high/interest low professional experience with the language on my part.
Playing along:

Which probes are the correct ones? Or is each its own cryptocurrency? What happens when satellites fail? How do you know that your transaction is being processed by a satellite and not something else? How do you know the private key is really only on the satellite?

I'm failing to see the value of putting this hardware in space.
> invest in education, and give people the ability to spend 30 extra seconds critically thinking about the information they see and where it came from

Where might people who are long out of school receive such an education, if they are not seeking it? And what if it doesn't work as well as you hope it would?
It boggles my mind they allow people to graduate without being able to read, write, or do math.
The "Re-Os" bit indicates that it was Rhenium-Osmium dating of black shale (a sedimentary rock commonly found on paleo-coastlines) in the formation.

One of the major differences between the paleontologists and archaeologists is their opinion of shale and other mudstones. Paleontologists love the stuff, archaeologists hate it.
Seems like it fails the Occam's Razor test, but I guess it isn't impossible.
Unfortunately, that ship sailed when they took VC funding.
If you're actually interested in a self-host option I implore you to fill this survey out for them:

https://survey.1password.com/self-host/
> In practice, this is pronounced "I don't care".

I appreciate that you're taking a stand for accessibility, but IMO, that kind of statement just adds to the shrillness of so much of our online discourse. We can discuss the pros and cons of various approaches to UI, and what it takes to make accessibility practical, without venturing into the topic of whether a developer cares about accessibility, which is likely to just make them defensive.
Thanks! In scaling up the fragility of the material seems very likely to be a big factor, cube-square law and so on. I wonder if there’ll be physical testing of proposed designs, are there even near-vacuum wind tunnels?
Is it possible to teach people to think critically without actually taking a stand on any issue that requires critical thought?
This would be an appropriate riposte to [1], a vitriolic comment that draws the line between VC money and Electron, but not to parent.

Parent makes a lot of sense, actually, in context of the submission headline. There was no misinformation here at all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28145755
We already have trusts in case that ever happens.
I was wondering if this was going to be similar to "What do I do if I win the lottery?"

Step 1: Tell nobody.
Step 2: Hire an attorney.
etc.
> Especially when the product fits into $0 software so $4.99 is infinitely higher than $0.

What is the competition that costs $0? Bitwarden is $3.33/mo for equivalent functionality to the $4.99/mo plan from 1Password.
Which fixture do you use for the corn bulb?

I use $30 "FEIT" 55W PAR38 5000-lumen flood lamps, pointed toward the ceiling in $10 "IKEA NOT" floor lamp stands. I also use multiple $11 "FEIT OM200" 25W 3050-lumen LEDs in a ceiling fixture. Since brightening my workspace, my productivity and mood have been better and more stable.
Every high school english class I took covered this, save for British Literature. The problem is that grade school is inundated with busywork, memorization, and standardized test prep that no one but the top students cares about anything beyond their SAT score, if not just passing classes.

Grade school needs to be rethought entirely. It's completely broken for the Information Age; no one needs to bother with memorizing minutia anymore, we need to focus on critical thinking.
Fix non-social media company revenues so they can have healthy journalism departments that don’t have to rely on clickbait innuendo.
This will have the opposite of the intended effect.

The people who are falling victim to "misinformation" will see this as validating. And, honestly, in a way it is.

Absolutely short sighted.
... not really. savings is a percent, you can set it wherever you want. the math works out just the same only over more/less time.

you don't have to be a frugal miser, and you don't have to spend like it's burning a hole in your pocket. saving a responsible amount isn't going to dull your curiosity for decades.

whether you consider it intentionally or not, when you choose how much to save you're also _directly_ setting your future wealth. the most prudent thing to do is optimize _both_. how 'well' do you want to live vs how much wealth do you want and by when.

what actually costs you your life is spending unnecessarily in your youth, which implicitly sets your future wealth nearer to zero and burns the time to fix it.
I can see that, but find myself with different preferences. When I know I'll be making changes, I want to be working in a setting where I can tell some checker what I'm assuming, so that it lets me know when work elsewhere invalidates that assumption. Assumptions that will be mechanically checked are assumptions I can (metaphorically) page out in my head as I focus on other things, to be alerted when they again become relevant.

I definitely agree that all of this becomes even more important when those assumptions need to be shared between the heads of different individuals.
one more "I just read about bitcoin and I am here to fix it."
Subscription models make sense for something that needs to stay evergreen.

Why does a password manager need a subscription? My password should never touch a 3rd party’s server, I don’t need extra features, I don’t need a login, I don’t need long-term or even short-term support.

What ongoing development does a password manager have? Is it that buggy from the get-go to need constant updates?
Gigabyte servers hacked: 112GB of secret data from AMD, Intel leaked
Do you really want the government deciding what disinformation is and having the authority to silence it? Remember, Trump was president less than a year ago.
That's a super disingenuous way to argue. It only really works at getting people mad, and it's not even very good at that.
as an example, I think I saw a few days of material on logical fallacy in 10th grade. It should be a basic competency that is made a priority throughout middle school and high school at every year.
Right speech is only a natural outcome of free speech if you have a very disciplined population. (Disciplined intellectually, morally, perhaps other ways as well.) Without that... not so much.

So, do we have that kind of population? Examine the empirical evidence. Do we?

I'm not in favor of censorship, but your position here doesn't work.
Then I’m afraid the only option left is to fundamentally change technology. Faster isn’t always better. Maybe if people were forced to stare at loading pages anymore it would compel them to dig deeper instead of mindlessly scroll.
Having a preference for multiculturalism is something mostly expressed in the west. People in Nigeria, Iran, Iraq, Peru, India, etc. Live just fine with it without it. They don’t feel inadequate living in a city or village that is monocultural.

Neither is right or wrong. Cities develop over decades and they will have their unique histories. But seldom do people in other places say, oh my town is so monocultural, I wish it were a stew of cultures. No, mostly they are okay with their towns character. Interestingly besides Singapore, we have Beirut, Teheran, Khartoum, Baghdad which have lost multiculturalism over time, but those are mostly due to civil strife caused in part by the different cultures at violent odds with each other.
Germany, if you go for big boring corporate IT in a mid-sized metro area instead of the supercool Berlin startup scene, and tune out peer pressure to take the “awesome” company lease deal on an A6/5-Series.
I think you could easily argue that Covid disinformation alone is costing a lot of lives. Election disinformation has cost a few already as well.
The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Its Area of Responsibility (AOR) includes the Middle East, including Egypt in Africa, and Central Asia and parts of South Asia. The command has been the main American presence in many military operations, including the Persian Gulf War's Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War from 2003 to 2011. As of 2015, CENTCOM forces are deployed primarily in Afghanistan under the auspices of Operation Freedom's Sentinel, which is itself part of NATO's Resolute Support Mission (from 2015 to the present), and in Iraq and Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve since 2014 in supporting and advise-and-assist roles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Central_Command

The U.S. Army Central area of responsibility (AOR) spans more than 4 million square miles, stretching from Northeast Africa, across the Middle East, to Central and South Asia.

The 20 nations of the AOR include: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.

https://www.usarcent.army.mil/About/Area/
I don't like to enter random emails into forms. The company needlessly suffers with bad data going into their lists and ends up taxing other email providers with sends to non-existent inboxes. Unless you use a domain like example.com or something.
Completely agree with this as it very closely mirrors my current situation. I am retired, zero debt, live off modest investments. It is easy to minimize my taxes. I do not have the cost of a car. I select places to live that are interesting and affordable. It's quite easy to go a month and spend less than 3000 USD.

There's several websites that provide cost of living information by city on an international level.
No.

Right now I'm not well off enough to buy my own home and I'm well above 30.
If my kids or grandkids some day can buy their own home with my help, even if I've passed on, it gives me happiness and purpose.
Strongly disagree. I am frequently using lower power hardware and Electron apps are always slow and consume way too much memory for what they are doing. Even something simple like burning an ISO file to a USB stick can drag a system down to its knees because someone just had to make it an Electron app.
But you're trusting the ratings and the safety records.
Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?
Ask HN: Offline development and package managers (no internet connection)
I am going to be without an internet connection for 4 weeks but still I would like to do some coding experiments.

What is easiest way to host locally npm repository?

I would need same for nuget or maven? Did anybody tried and succeeded with either of them?

Different documentation and books are solved problem but for package managers I am not aware of easy solution.
But how can you justify removing the ability to have a local vault?

Why would anyone think for a second that it would be a good idea to force people to store every password for everything in their life in your cloud without an opt out?

That, even more than Electron and the subscription model (both which do bother me), is an absolutely deal breaker. I've paid for every version of 1Password since v3 in 2009, but I'm done with it now.
Fairly sure there's a lot of people at amazon and elsewhere who've passed that threshold and are still working. Sure, maybe they "love what they do", but that seems like a relevant point, much more so than the US$10M.
I like it. With advanced enough technology we may be able to completely automate the process of driving customer engagement and the process of being an engaged customer. That writhing ouroboros could generate trillions of dollars in pretend value.
There is a built in coaching system in DOTA 2.
>in a major metro

This is the key part, because AFAIK housing overall hasn't outpaced the s&p500.
Because the US Government is a bastion of truth, honesty and accountability. Pay no attention to the past 300 years.

Im legitimately horrified that anyone thinks this is even a remotely good idea.
Funny, "perätön" in Finnish means "unfounded", "baseless". I have a hard time believing this is a co-incidence.
> A little-noticed marketing report released last month by U.S. Trust contained the disturbing statistic that while almost a third of Baby Boomers worth more than $3 million claimed to have grown up in lower-middle-class homes, the number fell precipitously for younger cohorts, with 18 percent of Gen Xers and a mere 6 percent of such Millennials saying they came from working-class stock.

This is the 2013 report being referenced here:

http://doingmorethatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2...

Age Cohort Definition:

Millennials: age 18–32
Generation X: age 33–48
Baby Boomers: age 49–67

Socio-economic status growing up among the wealthy:

Age 18-32: 0% Poor, 6% Lower Middle Class
Age 33-48: 4% Poor, 18% Lower Middle Class
Age 49-67: 5% Poor, 31% Lower Middle Class
Age 68+: 7% Poor, 24% Lower Middle Class

This is almost entirely due to the fact being wealthy (to the tune of 3M+ net worth) is a far more exceptional outcome for younger people than it is for older people, especially given how much asset prices have gone up over the past few decades. Also these rely on self-assessments and my personal experience is that there's been a class inflation of how people describe themselves and their own upbringing. I suspect older people are more likely to describe their own upbringing as "Lower Middle Class" than younger people.
A lot of the discussion here is treating impostor syndrome and qualifications as binary: You're either qualified or not. And your evaluation of your skills is either above your actual skills or not.

But it's more nuanced than that.

I'm a Principal Engineer at a FAAMNG company. I have impostor syndrome all the time. Why? Because I measure myself against 1) role models that are ahead of me in many ways - I've always done that, and it's how I grow, 2) against those with strengths in areas that I have weaknesses.

I think my impostor syndrome is absolutely fact-based. I am not as good in the technical areas I care about as those I measure myself against.

My fallacy is that there is a billion things that I am good at, but I don't consider them difficult (how could they be, if I am good at them), or I consider them insufficient to a fully rounded engineer, if I don't also have the skills that I know I'm missing (but some of my peers are not).

It doesn't help that I'm the epitome of a 'Generalist' - I'm good at a lot of things, but I don't know if I'm the BEST at anything.

I get lots of positive reinforcement - from my management chain, and from those more junior than me. But it never resonates. I always think "damn, I've actually fooled them all". And then I feel guilty that the management is putting so much trust in me, and that the juniors actually look up to a fraud.

The only feedback that resonates is from my technical peers. Luckily I get this just often enough that I don't fall into a catatonic mess of anxiety. And sometimes I believe it...
Surely the Department of Defense wouldn't be involved in that kind Orwellian twisting of language.