skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Let me clarify first: The craft I refer to is the ability to create clear, detailed diagrams that not only document a system (like a layer 3 diagram), but also to express a series of ideas or concepts that a group of people is trying to wrap their head around. Effective use color, metaphor, and just enough text. These people obviously are not just artists...they need to understand what they draw. This is rare skill. Pictures can sell ideas, gain consensus, and move things ahead faster than a dozen emails and conf calls. Especially with Management. You won't get the attention of management with a 20 page dissertation...much less change their mind. I know, I have tried. In one case, we were trying to convince an army of execs to invest (substantially) in a large re-write. We had explained in detail, why it was needed. In the end it was a single diagram that sold our idea. We showed them how ugly the code base was with a cyclic dependency diagram. That hit them square in the eyes. We got the funding after that.

These people are hard to find...but you can (as I have) try to emulate them. I can suggest some books...I started with Edward Tufte's. Beautiful diagrams...and why they are beautiful. You can also look into the various "Napkin Books" from Dan Roam.

When I find a particularly amazing diagram, I keep a copy of it for reference. It helps me structure ideas and how I will communicate them to my leadership or my team. You can, with care, put an awful lot of data on a single page.

Again, make a lot of diagrams. If a concept, workflow, procedure, etc moves from unknown to known (mechanism by which this happens is not important) , draw the picture and send it out. If it never gets used again, at least you practiced the drawing and people know you can do it. Develop a style. A color palette. Certain styles of arrows. The list goes on.

Tooling: I love Visio. Damn, it's a fun tool. There are a few web-based tools... Omnigraffle, Lucidchart... not as good. At least for me. You can bang stuff out fast in Powerpoint, too. I keep a big pile of templates that I have massed over the years. Never used photoshop...not even once. Although, I keep inkscape and gimp around if I have to muck with actual images...but I really try to avoid that.
It's more uncommon nowadays. VMware has officially recommended against sdcard boot, which used to be fairly popular. The SD card option is still usually available but generally recommended against when getting blades or pizzaboxes from HPE, Cisco and Dell. For various reasons it's now nearly the same price to toss 2x nvme drives in, instead of the SD card raid controller and SD card mounting assembly. TCO is definitely lower due to the write resilience of your typical nvme flash drive compared to an SD card, physical work swapping parts can be way more expensive than a small capital increase.
Anyone in the trades is doing such a job. If you're a plumber, or electrician, or cabinet maker, or framing carpenter, or a mechanic, even if those 12 years (or 20 years or more) seem similar to people outside the field, you're learning all the time. It never stops, until you do.
Oh so THAT'S why the Evernote update sucks. The Android client is terrible, it dumps me to the useless Home whenever I scroll to the bottom. It's now unusable. I've begun transitioning to Notion because of it.
The populace has learned that the Taliban are the winners, when before they were just another contender, besides that they are now better armed and are able to claim victory over the United States which serves as a tremendous recruiting poster.
well, you're wrong because of all the ideas my ADHD mind ever came up with - that wasn't one of them.
Didn't DJB suggest massive improvements to NTP decades ago?
https://cr.yp.to/libtai.html
No one seemed to care.

This system seems to be special only because it's from MyFace.

Additionally, everyone has direct access to stratum 1 timing via cheap GPS receivers.

TimeNuts have been doing this stuff for decades:
http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm

Again, this seems just another piece of bullshit for the zukers and other MyFace lusers...
I only shared my parent comment with the hope that some people might benefit from the lessons I've acquired quite painfully and over many years. It's not a diss at anyone's country or sense of pride.

From the governments' perspective, it makes perfect sense to do everything they can to turn their countries into the next Silicon Valley. Same with the VCs - there's a lot of money to be made with the local talent that for whatever reason chooses to work in a geo with less attractive valuations and less favorable terms for the same quality of work.

But from the entrepreneurs' perspective, it really does matter if your local VC can get away with shenanigans because they are a big fish in a small pond [0].

[0] In this context, small pond is not a measure of the size of the city or its population, but instead a measure of the opportunity cost. If a NY VC screws over a NY entrepreneur and that entrepreneur somehow gets a big enough megaphone to ruin that VC's reputation, the VC in question would simply just focus on one of the many other sectors of finance that exist in NY (eg: private equity, investment banking, etc). If the same thing happened in the SF Bay Area, that VC would have to relocate their family to a different city in order to have a hope of a career in something related to finance. I am exaggerating a little bit, but not much. That power dynamic is very evident in interactions with VCs in the SF Bay Area.
Love the senpai/kohai reference in the name.
Open networks -> first ransomware too.
I think Kind-Core should be that language. It is the simplest proof kernel, after all, by far :) And it has nothing human or inventive. Basically just the lambda calculus with the self dependent function type. But I guess it ultimately is this old XKCD kind of problem: https://xkcd.com/927/
I recently received a telemarketing robocall that had a convincingly human voice.

It did polite social chitchat quite well.

But there were a few tell-tale signs: the bot would never interrupt or overlap my talking. It would always wait until I finished speaking to parse my speech, and its pauses were very consistent and slightly longer than what was natural.

When I asked it if it were a robot, it replied, "(giggle) why, do I sound like a robot?"

When I threw it a few unconventional questions, it quickly became clear that there was a script.
I appreciate the need for them to do what's right for their business, and that the HN crowd is probably not representative of their broader customer base.

With that said, they've lost a customer here. I would prefer not to pay a subscription, but I might have (though if you do the math, I've had paid upgrades frequently enough I'm not sure they'd have made more money off me with a subscription).

The sticking point is the lack of local vaults and removing the native app. Very disappointing.

The reason I used 1Password to start with and not KeePass was because it was Mac native. It is so deeply depressing to have faster and more efficient computers year-on-year and have all that efficiency wasted by moving to Electron apps. It sounds absurd to say, but there's a real ecological cost to less efficient apps too; it really does add up in aggregate.

The lack of local vault is the ultimate deal breaker, not because I think 1Password are untrustworthy, but because I'm reassured that I don't _need_ to trust them in the same way with a local vault as I need to if they're hosting the vault themselves.

I think what's most disheartening about this is that the customers who dislike this the most are also likely the customers who've been with them the longest and helped them build their business. I know I've been using 1Password since v2.

Given that password management is so central to our daily productivity, jobs, personal lives, I'm not surprised people have some very strong opinions about this. I hope the 1Password management read these threads, but I doubt it.

I will stick with 1Password 7 for as long as I'm able.
> > and disregard platform-specific semantics

> Again, this is a bad thing for users.

Can you make a supporting argument for this? You state it as fact. I do not see why globally strong UI/UX should be a bad thing for users just because it disregards some standards of unknown quality on an unknown platform. Most methods of interacting with applications today are standardized and have no platform reliance; it is unclear to me why a developer whose tool delivers value in and of itself would suddenly not be delivering value to users just because their UI implementation did not perfectly match said user's preferred OS' UI standards. Actually, it's perfectly clear to me that the opposite is true.
You don't think doctors and nurses wear masks to keep from getting what their patient has?

In infectious disease cases, medical personnel will absolutely don n95 respirators or better. Because they can absolutely protect you.

Medical staff wear surgical masks during surgery to keep from getting spittle in open wounds.

Regular cloth masks probably don't protect anyone that much. But the answer is not to say well, masks don't work. The answer is to tell everyone to get n95 masks or equivalent.
>Electron suited us perfectly, since we could write our UI code once and make it consistent across Linux, Windows, and Mac.

This is the source of your mistake. Users don't desire to have the same UI across different OS environments, it's only an app's developers that care about that. Cross-platform UIs are inarguably a worse user experience than UIs tailored to the conventions and designs of each OS.

A Mac app that doesn't actually feel or behave like a Mac app is not a good Mac app. The same is true with tvOS apps like YouTube and Prime Video that don't actually feel or act like good tvOS apps.
> Ps. They can delete accounts too: https://support.1password.com/add-remove-family-members/

This makes losing local vault support an even bigger cause for alarm:

> After you remove a family member’s account, they can’t sign in to 1Password, which means:

> They lose all the items in their Private vault. Because the items weren’t shared with any other family members, no one will be able to access them.

Imagine: the access credentials of the administrator gets compromised, and the entire's family's digital life, stored on 1Password, gets wiped by the malicious actor.

The attack surface would be limited if instead, the removed user's license turns into a read-only one, like how 1Password currently deals with people using local vaults, and are not on a subscription.
XMLHttpRequest was part of a COM component (or maybe its own?) and was therefore able to be embedded in any Visual Basic program or Access or FoxPro front end. To be able to make calls to the internet invisibly, without a web browser? In one of those classic 90s Windows UIs? It looked and felt like magic.
Because there are zero disturbed people? Is that really what makes SV unique?

I thought it was the universities (talent) paired with all that capital or something.
Have You Been Handling Python Exceptions the Wrong Way?
And where does that capital come from?
If they were simply workers, and not business owners, my guess is they would have bailed out long before. Being the owner of a successful business is a far cry from being a 9-5'er. I'd imagine it's intrinsically rewarding to grow your own company
I am a subscriber, an I was a standalone customer before. I've tried to self-host bitwarden-rs, but found the UX and browser extensions being subpar - and I want my wife and parents to use a password manager, too.

It runs well. However, I do not thrust their cloud (or any cloud) completely. I still have a local vault, which is synced locally on WiFi with passwords to my router, NAS, bank cards and accounts, mail accounts. The idea is that should there be a breach at 1password.com the critical accounts do not leak and the damage is limited.

Edit: Local vaults are not available anymore: https://1password.community/discussion/121638/what-is-the-fu...

I have to look for another solution, then. The all-in-cloud bullshit is not acceptable.
Economically numbers close enough to zero are zero. Basically every method of value extraction has overhead so something can both be valued and have no economic value.
False ads and bankruptcy: Charter sanctioned $18M for anti-Windstream ads
I'm bored too. Why not have an expiry date on money? All of it: fiat and crypto. Good for 10 years from the date its minted/created, virtual or not. No more sleeping fortune being stashed. Why not do the same with corporations? Laws? States? Like a 50 years limit with forced liquidation at the end. Like for any life form: you born, you live, you die. Just imagine. What a dream.

And because I'm that bored, another one: sandboxeing corporations. Do whatever you want within your shop, but only within your shop. People show for work, they can be treated as slaves if they want to. People get outside the sandbox no strings attached, the corporation has zero influence outside its own domain, and whatever happen outside the sandbox is public or owned by individuals only. That would be great for the environment.

Boredom is a blessing.
TypeScript, if you use its strong points, has a much slower development pace than a language such as Python. To each their own.
It has all of the downsides of both a SaaS service and owning the software. Truly the worst of both worlds.

And so unnecessary since the expensive piece of test equipment is already a huge dongle. All of that DRM nonsense is making your life worse for no gain whatsoever. It's not good when people who bought the software legally (often for 6 figures) are looking into how to pirate it because they're losing valuable time on expensive equipment to your copy protection nonsense.
>>For eleven months

Not even close to the same thing, there has been a long term trend of increasing temperatures.
> Because actual impostors don't experience impostor syndrome. They don't wonder if they're qualified for their current position, or if they measure up with their peers. They just lie, lie, lie, until they have access to what they want, then they take it—and leave.

This is just silly. The author of this article is perpetrating a logical fallacy of equivocation revolving the multiple semantics of the word "impostor".

Impostor syndrome is the fear that one is an undiscovered incompetent, promoted into their position by luck.

Impostor syndrome is not the fear that one is a literal impostor: someone who consciously takes on a false identity and lies to get what he wants, yet is somehow not aware of this! (That would be pretty serious psychiatric disorder!)

Impostor meaning "incompetent person in an undeserved position" is different from "someone who lies and disguises their identity to gain what he wants".

Of course impostors of this second kind, the conscious liars and pretenders, know what they are. That is completely irrelevant to impostor syndrome.

Impostors, the incompetents, often do not know they are incompetent. This is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.

However, incompetents sometimes do know that they are incompetent.

Whether or not you think you are incompetent actually has no bearing on whether or not you are. All four combinations of think/are are possible.

If you suspect you're incompetent, you've avoided the Duning-Kruger effect; but that doesn't prove you're competent. You simply could be right.
Why are they even using Electron instead of native web views?

In my experience it's perfectly fine to use a web app for your UI. What's not OK is to bundle Chrome and Node in your app.
That's what's so weird about SV ageism (actually, I live in New York, and tech ageism in NY is much worse than SV).

I won't wake up tomorrow and suddenly be black or latino. I probably won't turn gay (I've had my chances, and ignored them, so I'm stuck in boring old Heteropolis). I probably won't wake up a woman (although it is -technically- possible).

I will, however, wake up tomorrow, one day older than I am today.

We all will (God willing).

I'm not sure that folks are realizing that they are setting up a system, that will, sure as the swallows return to Capistrano (until climate change alters that), end up being the petard, upon which they, themselves, will be hoist.

It's like Robespierre, and his fun toy.
I did not understand that part. Every heavy Emacs or vim user have its own customizations of editor. How does it work with shared image?
yes, "if" statments in proofs are the "p->q" forms from logic, if you have p you also have q (therefore if no q then no p). If you imagine the set of all possible logical propositions as nodes in a graph, p->q tells you that q is reachable from p. If you prove that q is not reachable from whatever axioms you have (i.e. false), then p is false too by necessity, because otherwise q would be reachable and we know that's not the case. But if all you have is that q is reachable, that's not enough to assert that p is also reachable. Because you have no reason to believe that the road from p to q is the only one, it might very well be that p is false but q is reachable from another statment s or something.

"if and only if" is "p->q and q->p" (also equivalent to "p->q and not(p)->not(q), the more intuitive sense of the phrase), it basically establishes equivalence: any proof that requires p also requires q and vice versa, any proof that guarantees p also guarantees q and vice versa.
Boomers: The Sleeper Gold Mine of VR
It makes sense that a con artist conning people wouldn’t feel impostor syndrome since their self-identity is in fact a con artist.
Teach kids in schools how to be critical of all you read? Teach them persuasion techniques and how to spot them, logical fallacies and how to understand them. If your stated goal is really fighting misinformation this will do.

If your stated goal, however, is indoctrination, then yes indeed you need a $1B contract to "fight misinformation with misinformation"
There’s that for sure, but also I’m probably at a 50% rejection rate having at the HR screening level, in fairness though the latter is somewhat my fault.
Re your sciencedaily link, you are misinterpreting that in context.

I suggest reading David Graeber's book Debt, the first 5000 years. He is the world authority on the topic.

A short summary:

Contrary to the imagined assumptions of Adam Smith, prehistoric humans operated via gift economies. This makes sense because they lived/survived in smallish tribal bands that required cooperation. This was even true of humans before our species split from our hominid ancestors. This is one reason why instincts around fairness and reciprocal empathetic behavior are so strong within us. For hunter gatherer bands they were essential to survival.

The first thing that can be called money appeared in temple complexes in the Levant, during the neolithic revolution, thousands of years before your article's discussion of trade behaviors in Europe. These were entirely about a social contract and central authority. Those that lived in the surrounding vicinity of the temple were required to bring contributions, eg a goat herder would bring goats. The temple would record their contribution, typically denominated in units of weighed grain. This recorded the temple's debt to the herder, who could later claim the grain as needed. In turn, the herder's contribution would be used to support the specialized people building and operating the temple, growing the grain, etc. In essence this was the first government and tax redistribution system.

It's a fascinating book if a bit slow due to the level of detail in places. It will disabuse you of many assumptions people have about the history of economics that are directly contradicted by archeological evidence or later, written history.

As to your second point, we have ample historical evidence of how that goes wrong.
I would agree if I hadn't had such a vast array of experience trying to counter misinformation in my online interactions with others already. I blame the bullshit asymmetry principle, aka Brandolini's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Edit: This could be as simple as something that someone heard once and genuinely believes, passing on old wives' tales. Trying to combat a dedicated disinformation adversary is even more difficult.
For sure. Two easy checks on this: 1) Are other decentralized things seeing major adoption? 2) Does a cryptowhatever or blockchainwhatever hype target have to actually be decentralized? Or can it just talk about decentralization and carry on?
>is below 0.1g

below 0.1g for a minimum duration. otherwise, put it in the vomit-comet or similar to persuade the SE to generate the key.
> Does anyone else remember when it was possible to extract snapchat messages that haven't been viewed yet because they had some ridiculously easy to find encryption key, hardcoded in the app?

In ~2016 on Android, incoming messages that haven't been read yet weren't encrypted at all. You could just look at the app's SQLite database and find the message contents somewhere in the message table. The sending party would never known you had read it.
Oh great, then how about you implicitly trust me with your bank login info and email it to me?

> you couldn't get surgery, ride on a plane, get food from a grocery store,

I look up my doctors' ratings before I use them. I don't fly sketchy third-world airlines with bad safety records. I don't buy food from grocery stores in places with bad food safety. "Trusted" and "trustless" are shorthand for the degree of system-external due diligence you need to do before having a sufficient degree of confidence.
The point is to be aware that it is happening. Are you suggesting just letting Senators amplify the message that Hillary Clinton drinks baby blood and is a demon, and 20% of the population believes it? When do you step in and say, "Ok dipshits, stop making shit up to scare the rubes"? Or are you OK with just streams of shit clogging the channels, like Bannon suggested?

EDIT: At some point we need some kind of factual moderation. We can't have the US turn into 4chan, it needs a DanG to stay like HN. I don't buy all your slippery slope paranoia, right now the US is turning into a shit-show because half the country is running around saying "well nothing is really true borkborkbork" and electing autocratic criminals. Fuck. That.
I get it. I'm pretty sure they don't!

Although Bezos has stopped running Amazon in order to do what he loves, Blue Origin.

And Elon is already doing what he loves.

If either of them had been commuting to a cubicle to work for BigCorp instead, they might have stopped at 10MM.
Yes, I had the same conclusion about careful project picking and greenfield projects did seem to hold more promise than others. I've found that its kinda hard to get on prominent greenfield projects as one of the founding members though, without some 'in'. Many of the ones I've looked at, by the time they start staffing publicly, have picked a bunch of the staff level folks via networks. My experience might be narrow on this though.
My gas generator EV charging station startup will be ruined!
What I’ve Learned over a Lifetime of Caring for the Dying
I'm also bored: Ban inheritance, money left in peoples accounts when they die should just vanish.
I think the more salient point is that there is no natural endpoint to whatever it is that you think you're doing.

Sold more EVs than any other company? Go into space, and try to sell batteries!

Built the biggest e-commerce company in the Euro-sphere? Go into space, and sit in on board meetings while it gets even bigger!
I agree with all of your points - I'm okay with their sub model, I'm okay with Electron and it's the first time I was able to convince family members to use a password manager (because it works so well)
I wonder if they've developed any better diagnosis plans that "turn it off, then on again"?
Hah nice.
Static vs. Jamstack vs. Dynamic. Where is the line?