skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets share our Bell/Rogers stories..

Long ago i cancelled Bell because they would not stop the constant telemarketing calls and I wanted a new phone number and this was my only option.

After i did this, they sent me a bill for $660 in long distance charges. Turned out after "cancelling and re-enabling" they did not put me back on the "free long distance plan".

The $660 bill should have been closer to $90 which i was more then willing to pay.

They still come to my door from time to time, trying to sell me services. After doing this to me do they really think I will ever use them again?

Bell's problem is they still think it is 1970, and they hold all the cards and you MUST use them as there are no other options.
I understand that losing the public key doesn't matter cryptographically, which is why I said "it is not technically unrecoverable".

Also, the encryption happens on the server. If you protected the private key with a passphrase from the moment it was created then your data couldn't be encrypted because backblaze would never have access to the key.
My issue with their encryption scheme is that although you can encrypt your private key before sending it to them, during restore, you still need to hand them the unencrypted private key.

This feature is thus pure security theatre.

You gain nothing - the provider may still access your data at some point (yes, they only "fly-by fast on a super-secure-server"), but still lose the ability to restore without the password.

The thing is, it wouldn't be hard to do the decryption during restore on the client. Why haven't they done this in all these years?
Waterfall display might work though, or coloured sequences give each function it’s own colour then draw the last stack as a pattern of colours, humans are really good at spotting anomalies in patterns, probably because tree,tree,tree,wolf,tree was useful to our ancestors.
Replace culture with hierarchy and it may be easier to understand.
The unvaccinated are not solely responsible for spread of the virus, but they are largely responsible. I don't think that helps your argument.

> And many with serious immunity issues, or for example, know brain aneurysms who cannot be operated but do not cause immediate issues etc...Are not advised to take the vaccine. They should not be made second class citizens.

That's a bit of a strawman argument. Most people understand that medical exemptions to the vaccine, and to any use of vaccine passports are reasonable things. Not all governments are competent though to take that into account, but that's specifically their failure, not a failure of the idea.
Note that you're not comparing the same time periods there. That is 2020 total profit to the estimated 2021 search revenue. Apple's profits are going to be substantially higher in 2021.
It gives a false sense of security. The vast majority of users do not understand phone numbers can be spoofed, and will use this website to check if a call they received is from a "legitimate" number, instructions be damned. It wouldn't surprise me if scammers even incorporate it into their routines.
most financial “experts” made the bulk of their fortune by selling their advice. not actually earning wealth first then giving advice. like meet kevin or graham Stephan.
Hey, congratulations and great job!

I find there's a perpetual equilibrium between feeling confident in your output / yourself, and recognizing that much of what you do will likely be incomplete, messy, sub-optimal. This seems to be a fundamental part of being human as it extends across all types of creation.

Authors have stream-of-consciousness to overcome writers' block. Athletes get the 'yips'. Developers have probably heard "if you're not ashamed of your MVP, you took too long to ship." (does anyone know who originally said this?)

Doubt is a massively powerful and underrated tool that tends to signify the presence of many new variables. It's like a beacon saying "hey this is unprecedented" and the pursuit of any challenge will naturally yield unprecedented outcomes. In your context, you went from "hey let's do a thing" to "the Github CEO wants to call me and talk about this thing and there are multiple people that want to do this thing" and that is pretty damn unprecedented.

I've experienced >3 truly remarkable situations like you, and wandered between inflated ego, utter confusion, guilt, and pure existentialism. Honestly, I'm glad I felt such a spectrum of emotions because in retrospect those lenses provide me a lot of clarity when I invariably encounter another entirely baffling scenario.

I think your self-assessment is as balanced as it can be, and I'm certain that as you continue, you'll adjust the weights (heh) and become more comfortable... or maybe not. Maybe a hallmark of being a creator, founder, leader, is to double down on the discomfort, and rest later. Kind of like a marathon.

I'm following along. Good luck.

P.S. if you see this in time can you ask Nat what he thinks of the federated wiki? https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
That's pretty flawed methodology since you'd want to know what problems people encounter in the real world and how quickly they solve them.
I have workaholic tendencies. It bothers me a lot less than it used to.

I've resolved a lot of personal issues that are not supposed to be fixable and that makes it easier to feel like "Whatever I accomplish today, it's enough." I set goals for what I need to do next and I try to be realistic about how much I can actually do and I have made my peace with the fact that I'm only one person, I can only do so much.

Either the road rises up to meet me or it doesn't. There are parts of it I have no control over and if the world just doesn't want me to succeed at certain things, I simply won't through no fault of my own.

There has to be fertile ground for a thing. Thinking otherwise is often an oversized ego talking or some kind of baggage from broken mental models people get fed.
Yes, it's quite easy. Once all the gpg files are decrypted, the tar archives can be uncompressed with any piece of software that supports tar archives.
I imagine overwhelming miners with legitimate but expensive work. The way to generate this work is relatively sensitive to low-level blockchain parameters. BTC happens to fit the approach, but ETH doesn't. This isn't surprising because the approach was originally invented for BTC alone, prior to the proliferation of many different blockchains.
This is probably one of the most relatable things I've ever read about that era of computing, it reminds me of setting up fun little git hooks and devops events to play sounds at various stages. Amazing.
Not really, Bhagvad Gita, like most Hindu religious texts, is a justification for Varnashrama Dharma.
One solution might be to collaborate with, build upon, and donate to an existing reputable organization like archive.org or Wikipedia which takes snapshots of websites.

Given these snapshots, you could write manual extractors or build a machine learning system [1] to extract the main content of each page as plaintext. Then load these timestamped text file snapshots into git, which will give you a hash of the content and let you easily track changes.

Push the git repo to a few places like github, bitbucket, and maybe IPFS where people can mirror it.

[1] https://joyboseroy.medium.com/an-overview-of-web-page-conten...

Alternatively you could use the built-in reader mode in Firefox or Chrome which do this automatically, but then you'd have to figure out how to maintain stability of the extraction algorithm between new browser releases.
Thanks! Yes, in this context, this is what I meant.
All of the AMD SVM cores supported real mode in guests as far as I know, and Sandy Bridge is a decade old at this point. But yeah, that was really annoying, retconned "restricted guest" would happily let you put real mode segment info into the VMCS, but just silently would be broken in goofy ways. I tore my hair out for a while writing a hypervisor back then that was intending on running some real mode code until I figured out what was going on.
And it takes an architect to build a bridge that rarely stands...cf. the millennium bridge in london. Designed by architects, fixed by engineers.
I’ve had the same happen in macOS, which would slow down to a crawl when my network didn’t work correctly (quietly dropping packets).
Vaccines reduce both incidence and severity of infection. There's plenty of data on that now, with the delta variant.
Cheers, I was, I should have quoted it.
> Mobile Satellite phones are already similar in size to other phones

As someone who owns a pretty big smartphone (iPhone 12 Pro Max) and both a current gen Iridium and Inmarsat phone (aka not a handheld two way pager, like the Garmin devices), I can assure you they aren’t similar in size in the slightest, even with the antenna stowed.
This is the correct explanation (thank you)
There’s no intention to hide the fact that certain links are blocked. The bug is that the status of failed message sends (not limited to blocked links) only shows an exclamation mark against the last message on web.
I don't even know if this qualifies as a lazy effort, as that implies some effort was put in. This was an effort-free implementation. The user, as usual, pays the price.
He did really well as a successor!
would it be hard to implement reading an env var like I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING_HANDSOFF_MYKEYS to disable this behaviour?
It seems to me that something that's a couple of lightyears out can't have any sort of stable orbit. I suppose that an Oort cloud essentially merges with an adjacent star's so there's no hard definition.
There may be a better solution to this that I'm just not aware of

When that happens, I simply enter 'iex> end' which would return a SyntaxError, and start over but without having to restart iex.
Last time I looked at your servixe it was web only and did in-browser crypto. This is essentially useless for 2 reasons:
- There is no effetive Versioning.
- Application and Storage-Vendor are the same entity. Therefore if you are hacked or coerced you can push code to me. The only defense is proper version pinning and compiling myself / taking it from FDroid.

Photos are among the highest value phone data.
I dont take chances here.
You do not post the apk signing key prominently on your front page.
Your commits are not signed.
You host on Microsoft owned Github.

Why would I trust you? This seems like yolo-development.
» This sounds a bit like Ed Colligan's immortal "they're not going to just walk in."

Some context for others like me

> Sarah Jane Tribble and Dean Takahashi, reporting for the San Jose Mercury News on Palm CEO Ed Colligan’s remarks two weeks ago regarding Apple’s prospects in the mobile phone market:

» Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company — including the wildly popular Apple Computer — could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.

» “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

https://daringfireball.net/2006/11/colligan_head_stuck
Where I’ve lived my entire life I have a long river immediately due south of me that runs east to west parallel, years ago I internalise north as away from the river.

It’s really discomfiting when I’m away and lose track of that completely.
It's a Roblox copy, and as such is already mentioned.
"begin" and "end" are probably the most arguable, but in the context of everything else being a real-word keyword I think they make sense.

Ada was not my first language, and I was a little dubious about the keywords at first, but I quickly changed my mind. Now I wish every language did it (obviously, not literally every). It's really nice for a couple reasons.

One is just googling. You pretty much have a built-in shared lexicon, so there's no trying to remember the right name for the problematic symbol, or figuring out the best way to describe it.

There's also no trying to remember what symbol does the thing you want, which is really nice even when just coming back to a language feature you haven't used recently enough to be fresh on.

I have no idea how much these things would matter in a more structured environment. I pick up words way faster than symbols and my memory isn't so great, so I think it would have helped me even there. But I don't know how universal that is.

Though given the number of times I had to help the actual CS majors with basic syntax stuff, even after the 101 course... I can't help but suspect it would be useful.
This is actually really common, especially among the schools run by the more liberal Roman Catholic orders.

Plenty of people wash out in seminary and get completely disillusioned with the religion. Since the people who make it through generally go into the priesthood, this leaves the washouts as the most qualified to teach (comparative) religious studies and run campus religious services. The last thing most of them need to do to land a position is get qualifications required for counselors in their state, which is usually relatively simple.
REST is a model for CRUD, but modern apps have far more complex interactions with server data.
Cell service can be spotty outside of urban centers. I could imagine some people benefitting without hiking to remote locations.
I find your comment quite confusing.

>> A combination of "all categories are fuzzy" and "all models are wrong but some are useful"?

Are you talking about my first paragraph or symbolic AI?

>> The fallible sensors directly reporting readings from reality already has sufficient noise related issues.

I assume here you are trying to say that human input is not reliable.

I don't understand what's your approach with AI here. You seem to want to use it to better inform people? How? You are going to say that human input is not reliable, but then train an AI that can't explain itself and expect people to take its advice? Either noise can be palliated at scale in both places or none.

Finally, I'm very familiar with meditations on moloch. But you seem to be betting on an "education-based" solution, which doesn't fit very well with the scenario that meditations on moloch exposes, which is not that some people couldn't make better choices (for society, the collective), but rather that the "questionable" choices of a few can deeply compromise the game for everyone else. I mean, we all probably agree that it would be great to educate people on these concepts, but I doubt that will be enough to stop the dynamics that cause it.
The actual tunnel under the Bering Strait is only small part of the challenge as the end points of that tunnel are quite a long ways from any existing railways. There would be thousands of miles of rails to lay through difficult terrain.
I wouldn’t consider a smiley face unprofessional. What makes a smiley face worse, or less “professional”, than a big red X?
For me, the reason is that things which are straightforward to conceptualize often take a surprising amount of work to actually implement (many nitty-gritty details, unforeseen complexities, suboptimal tools). In addition, in hindsight one often realizes that there was a quicker or more effective way.

As a result there tends to be a mismatch between the expected and actual efficiency of the work. Even if the complexities are not one’s fault, overly optimistic expectations are. Furthermore, it’s simply frustrating that implementing seemingly straightforward ideas often takes so long. There is a conviction that there must be a better, more efficient way, and that one could obviously do better.

I suspect that there is a correlation with an affinity for abstract thinking, because abstracting from the details causes underestimating the required effort, perpetuating the mismatch.

Embracing the mismatch and giving up the expectations also means giving up one’s aspirations ("I should be able to do this") to a certain extent, which is hard if they are an integral part of one’s self-image.
Well that's a bold assertion about a theory with whose implications we are still grappling; electrons may not be point-like entities but they are nonetheless quantifiable 'packets' of energy, are they not?
Those penalties must be really harsh if Pepsi is electing to sell Dasani, a Coca-Cola product.
What you are saying exactly proves my point: "A lot of people feel the need to overcommit in the chase to try to become an all time great at a thing." Jack Nicklaus was the all time great at a thing, and could still have a nice work life balance.

My point is not that Jack Nicklaus did anything wrong, it's just that the lessons learned from his life aren't really applicable to many other folks because he didn't have to choose between being the best and his relationships - very few other people have that option.

I feel pretty strongly about this point because I see it all the time in "feel good" articles and stories in the US. One of my favorite examples were all the "best lessons of business from Google" books that seemed to be all the rage in the 00s. Except that Google had discovered and eventually monopolized a giant, nearly endless profit producing machine that hardly any other companies have access to. So much of the tools of that success (e.g. hiring top talent, giving that talent lots of freedom, 20% time, loads of cushy benefits, yada yada) were only possible with their giant pit of cash. And I'm not saying other companies weren't immensely profitable yet still fucked things up, I'm just saying the primary keys to Google's success is the immense profitability of their business, not all the other things than can result from that.
I was also hoping for more talk about why the author thought behavioral economics was fundamentally flawed as a concept, rather than just having flaws in some of it’s methodologies. I can only barely remember a time before economists actually believed that people were anything but ‘spherical cows’. When I was getting an undergrad degree in econ, the behavioral stuff felt like an enormous breath of fresh air, like ‘what if not everyone behaves rationally all the time? what does that do to this prevailing theory?’ I still think it’s an incredibly important field to study, especially if some of the core behaviors are being questioned. Knowing how humans behave to various incentives is incredibly useful, especially with all of the many collective action problems we face.
Having two independent writers to a file is generally living dangerously, even without the extra complexity of unpredictable async file syncing.
US tech firms deem themselves to be above the law. Most countries can't even do anything about it.

Once in a blue moon EU squeeses them where it hurts, and you get these screams of "oh noe, US firms that operate how the please and pay no tax are being harrassed"! So entitled, its unbelievable.
At the point of merger with neighboring stars it’s likely that circular orbits are unstable.

Judging by our own solar system it’s likely that the distance at which circular orbits are stable is a question of relative mass, and time.
Examine the slow queries with the query planner, don’t spend a bunch of time re-architecting on a hunch until you know for sure why it’s slow!

An hour with the query planner can save you days or weeks or wasted work!
Appreciate the honesty :) Consider that those with a more conservative position are highly suspicious of underspecified language ('decriminalization', without explicit scope modifiers), which only seem to serve to open the floodgates, and then in a few short years we end up with schools pushing heroin to kids behind their parent backs. All in the name of 'harm reduction' and 'undoing stigma'.
I’m not sure I understand. The board is clearly using ICs and those LEDs are surely placed by a pick-n-place. Maybe the power connector is manually soldered (but probably not). It looks like a board with single sided placements (at least the few I looked at).

Sure, they don’t have the volume to get to large-scale mass production, but these are almost surely machine assembled.
I have a cognitive behavioral therapy workbook sitting unused on my bookshelf, maybe I’ll make use of it. Thanks.
>SQL has a steep learning curve.

Does it? I think SQL just sucks and its tooling sucks too

Even SQL Management Studio which felt way better than PGAdmin is miles behind IntelliSense that's offered by Visual Studio for C# (when it comes to reliability)

SQL would benefit a lot from being like C#'s LINQ (Query syntax) e.g:

var result = from s in stringList

where s.Contains("Tutorials")

select s;

some SQLv2 is something we need
Considering the projected impact of lab grown food, I'd hope there would be much more investment in developing that, even from governments. It seems like such a ripe economic opportunity that could have first mover advantages too. Establish yourself as a manufacturer of cheap, very high quality, and safe lab grown food and others might not be able to match that level of trust.
Of course, but it's not like other providers offer this ability already "baked in".

At the same time, Backblaze only offers a security-theatre for encryption - they give you the ability to encrypt your backup private key with a password before sending it to them. But during restore, they collect this password and decrypt everything server-side. What's the point of offering encryption then?
That means your other life commitments compete with your engineering goals, but it doesn't mean that you are doing better engineering because of it. ("Having it all" is a myth.)
I'm a huge fan of assistive note pads. I wish the one I use was more stable and supported multiple files and more solvers: https://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/

Hopefully more tools like this and the OP come out.
This is brilliant thank you, some great real world advice in Hindu texts.

I wonder if Yoga is now mainstream, and Mindfulness aka Meditation which is one of the Eight limbs of Yoga. THe west will now start reading more into Hindu scriptures.

If anyone wants to read the original texts of the Gita its here

https://asitis.com/
Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them
I think science is divided on this question. There's that one study showing that many languages with C-like syntax are as easy to learn to read as languages with tokens picked completely at random[1].

But that talks about learning the language. What about once you're proficient?

I vaguely remember reading about a study that concluded more terse symbol-based syntax is better because the programmer can use visual organisation of the code to greater extent because the syntax occupies less of the screen. But I could also be making it up because I can't find it now.

There's also the interesting (but slightly irrelevant) result that abbreviated identifier names may be just as effective as ones spelled out![2]

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2534973

[2]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11334-007-0031-2
Oh wow, that's delightfully retro. I love 555 timers.
Things move pretty slowly in the world of naval architecture.
Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming for Distributed Production
What? No, it is a religious book teaching Dharma
You are correct that Evidence executes queries at build time, not at load time.

In a production environment for business reporting we would expect users to be building their project a few times a day, if not more often.

For example, we compile all of our KPIs for evidence into an evidence project, and we trigger a build of that project twice a day so that it has up-to-date metrics for us.

Your question is making me think about what an incremental build strategy could/should look like, but that’s a bit down the road for us.