skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we don't need new tools to catch criminals who were always easy to catch.
> though it will claim it is delivered

I thought SMS didn’t have delivery receipts?
It's true.

Also a lot of developers are really bad. They can maybe write specs if given to them, but not always. Let's say 1/100 devs can write good code and create ideas.

Sounds like we have a 1/100 x 1/100 chance of forming a good startup ;)
And now Google hides that more than one page even exists, as they populate their first page with buttons to ask similar questions and go to the first page of THOSE results.
Making people feel like targets will persuade them to give up self-defense?
Absolutely. During a time when most any other computer was an unreachable dream in communist Poland the ZX Spectrum was a gift to the emerging geek community here. I was lucky to have received my own in 1984. I was one of the first in the neighbourhood to get one. It literally cost about 2 months of my dad's wages. Those were the days.
The pop culture one is fairly common. Me and my wife both search "who the fuck is that" in that TV show movie all the time. Or who is the author of X book?
I'm not sure there is one. There are some mirrors[0] that have a copy of the original recording[1], but apparently still very low-res.

[0]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Conference_Recordin...

[1]: http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/Mirrors/CCC/25C3/video_h264_...
Right. As are the case numbers reported on the news and elsewhere.

I'm quoting myself to make the point there; that statement is accurate, but it doesn't tell the whole story. see the reports like [1] that expand on how the other numbers also have been taken to mean more than they perhaps should.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...
My dad sells new cars, they are selling at $3K over invoice. Desperate people will pay desperate prices.
Report from Turing Institute's Trustworthy Digital ID Conference
Windows 11: Just say no
I have played with storing location history using Home Assistant. Works, data never lands anywhere other than my home server.

EDIT: I use it to do home automation actions depending on where I am. I.e. when I leave, it automatically arms the alarm and turns off the lights.
But it seems like this type of "replacing stdlib features" discussion mostly evaporates for Rust.

In Rust an edition changes the prelude and new code that looks the same now gets the desirable new behaviour, even though backwards compatibility is undiminished for old code.

It feels like several of the Golang proposals are in the same spirit (I noticed one explicitly invoking Rust) but as hacks rather than a built-in language feature.
Agree that it is an extreme exaggeration. Some people just can't code and there is a baseline.

> If Google started doing that, the company would collapse pretty quickly.

I'd mention that they are already crumbling:

1.) Search has been deteriorating since 2007 and is now at the level of the engines they replaced (yep, Yahoo, Alta Vista etc actually worked, it was just that Google was extremely much better back then).

2.) They cannot maintain anything except the core services.

3.) Previously everyone including me wanted to work there because it was cool, now I at least don't think of it as cool anymore so I guess they have a harder time recruiting the best and brightest.
Is there any practical benefit to this research? It is interesting, and I'm sure there exists a small intersection of women who:

Want a baby with another woman

Are adamant that the baby be genetically from them

Have the funds to make this happen

But this seems like a very small market. If it is privately funded research by an eccentric billionaire that is one thing, but if a publicly traded company is contributing, it is short changing shareholders. If the government is contributing via tax dollars, it is a gross misappropriation of the publics funds, when more pressing issues which have impact to a broad base exist.

On the same spectrum fertility treatment while children are left unadopted or in foster care should be privately funded as it is not in the common good.
They are extremely technologically advanced, but they also (1) two thirds of their population lives in poverty, on under $2/day, and (2) they were not a major player in the cold war so they can both be considered third world in that they are a developing country and in the original meaning of the term.
That doesn't particularly surprise me. His computers weren't aimed at middle aged adult engineers. The early calculators weren't all that sophisticated. They were convenience devices rather than serious tools. There's nothing wrong with designing products aimed at people other than yourself.
I remember spending $20 on a plain medium cheese pizza in 2010. If only I instead bought BTC with that $20 and held it until today.

What exactly is the difference between our scenarios?
I have one file called Worknotes.txt been using that for last 10yrs. All my notes are there inbetween I tried keeping separate notes for separate projects but it's hard to remember in folder and where. So got back to one file itself. It's easy for searching back. I keep date format consistent so it's easy.

Top of the file has all zoom/ mobile numbers of people i need to contact during emergency or support in production.

EoD marked by 20-30 hyphens next line start with date.

I wish i had learnt mark down 10yrs back. Thinking again what's the point. This serves the purpose.
Who gives companies their personal phone number?
Ugh this one hurts. I'm a developer whose launched something I'm quite proud of but flailing at the marketing end. I've even been on the front page of Hacker News. I can write code till the cows come home but I've agonized over content and marketing and the proper way to market and promote the app.

FYI if you're at all curious the app is called Keenforms, it's a form builder with a no code rules engine.

https://www.keenforms.com
Maize fructose has probably a bigger effect than cane sugar, because it also hit poor populations.
The fact that you're getting downvoted is precisely the attitude that drives people away from mailing lists.
It wouldn't be appropriate to go into specifics, but I can add more information.

It wasn't about lyrics. Thats where Genius started. They moved into allowing annotation for news sites.

This presented copyright issues (which I wasn't complaining about in my original comment) where they would reproduce the story and images on a new domain. This presented problems as many publishers have contracts with writers, illustrators, and photographers where they need to pay them more if their content appears on other websites - or simply not allowed to have this hosted anywhere else.

Genius ignored those issues and the simple copyright aspects.

The other concern was that, as a publisher, if you had an article that wasn't liked by a powerful interest group (business, religion, cult, lobby, etc.), they could perform coordinated efforts to annotate and contradict every fact - those that were fact-checked and run past legal - to undermine reports.

This isn't about how the public get to flag 'fake news', this is how interest groups can undermine legitimate stories.

Genius were not willing to address this, or put basic safeguards in place to address this at any meaningful level - let alone giving us an option to 'opt-out'.

And by the way, this was not 'hypothetical'. In my role I had seen how this happened in numerous forms and this was a bigger attack vector.

I hope that helps provide the necessary context.
> If you care about privacy just don't carry a phone.

I feel like this position is unrealistic. Privacy is possible with a modern smartphone. Using an alternative OS on Android devices can help facilitate this. I've been using GrapheneOS as a daily driver for nearly six months now. Any issues I've run into have largely been due to my own configuration of the device.

You can also get a lot of useful information from Michael Bazzell's books or podcasts. It may involve jumping through hoops but it is possible to go "off grid" in many regards.

If your threat model includes your cell provider, then yes, a faraday bag may be worth looking into. There are also open alternatives like the Librem 5 or PinePhone that offer hardware kill switches. These types of cases are rare, but one doesn't need to become a complete technophobe.

As it stands, true privacy is relegated to the technologically elite, the truly paranoid, or those that can pay to play. I would love for that to change, but unfortunately that's the current state of affairs.
Why not impose costs instead of filtering?
There's https://owntracks.org/, which has iOS and Android apps and instructions on setting up your own server. If you run NextCloud self-hosted already, there's PhoneTrack (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack), which has a list of supported/suggested apps that send data back to it in a compatible format.
If it doesn't support window functions or CTEs I'm out.
https://archive.md/cUBtk
The post that is now flagged was referring to Dr. Fauci's March 8, 2020 statement that "there's no reason to be walking around with a mask." Dr. Fauci made that statement in a context of trying to ensure that enough protective equipment was available for frontline health workers at a time when there were runs on toilet paper in stores.

I believe you are mischaracterizing the argument that was made. Unfortunately, we may no longer view the original post because your opinion has apparently been deemed more correct.
Morals change, laws need to keep pace but should not anticipate changes in morals. Laws look backward at what was previously legal or illegal.
D had underscores in numbers in its first version, and that was inspired by Ada.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323

Since D popularized it, many other languages added it. Even C is finally doing it (although using a ' instead of _, which I do not understand the rationale for).
That doesn't do anything useful.
I cannot agree more with your last sentence. Even if the relationships aren't one sided, the feeling that they are is the worst and an enemy of action, so much so that the inaction becomes part of who you are and you start to take things in "it is what it is" without trying to communicate with others (speaking from experience).

I love to be alone but hate to be lonely, and I haven't found a balance of "what am I supposed to do" yet.
This line of reasoning is disappointingly unpopular. I think it fits a weird pattern of selection effects, where people get rich from very risky ventures (often retconned to have been savvy, precient business decisions) and it's implied that what they did was a good idea. Naturally there's no visibility for other crazy ventures that go nowhere, and it's much less fun to look at people who lost big by getting in on the top floor, chasing the success of people who were pretty smart, but very lucky.

Ultimately your expected marginal value for speculative investments where you don't have significant expertise or scale or regulatory capture or magical powers has to be negative.
>> "marketers" are hungry people who don't really know much about real marketing.

Funnily , good marketer just markets himself, not the product :) Whenever I pick up some marketing book and wonder all the great stuff they put in its description, I wonder, if the person is really good at marketing or they are just good at promoting themselves. Thus, I concluded that I can't learn much from these "great" marketers.
So much this.

I've recently tried Flarum and Discourse, and the biggest issue is that PHP and Ruby on Rails are unforgivably slow and complex. Granted, Flarum/Discourse are way better than PhpBB/NodeBB/etcBB, but after few months I can't update to a new version due to a lot of PHP/Ruby complexity/dependencies related stuff.

Another thing is that forums eventually become a mess of outdated/broken plugins that extend functionality and add features. It seems extending functionality is an afterthought in most forum engines. As a result I try to avoid to use any plugins at all just to keep the site running and not to spend sleepless nights upgrading/fixing code.
Pinecone is closed source and only available as a SaaS service. Milvus and us have more overlap, we’re focused on the embeddings workflow like versioning and using embedding with other features. Milvus is entirely focused on nearest neighbor operations.

Faiss is solving the approximate nearest neighbor problem, not the storage problem. It’s not a database, it’s an index. We use a lightweight version of Faiss (HNSWLIB) to index embeddings in Embeddinghub.
The ZX81 was the first computer I ever touched, in terms of “stretching,” for me it stopped working after I used it for an hour or so.
Di.fm Radio Native Mac App
The Zanclean Flood
You have been trolled. The entire point of saying "ok boomer" here is to, as economically as possible, be dismissive while getting the other side to spend disproportionate energy defending the the thing being dismissed.

> From a QA perspective, I prefer not to guess what the reporter might have intended

There's not really any other perspective. That thing which you say you "prefer" is much more than a preference. It is the only reason why the bug tracker is configured to even ask for STR. If you have a "no solicitors" sign on your front door and a solicitor comes knocking anyway, or you have your door locked and a burglar climbs through a broken window and and takes all your stuff, you wouldn't respond by saying, "from my perspective, it's really disruptive and time-consuming to deal with solicitors who ignore the sign" or, "try to understand that from my perspective, it's really inconvenient when you take my things, because I have to work and spend money to replace them when I could have used that time and money doing something else." To do so tacitly legitimizes an illegitimate position held by the other.

Please look up "DARVO" to understand why explaining yourself like this is a bad idea.
The concept of "justice" and "law" are based on morality.
Well .COM has had its day.

There (was?) even a semi-parody site called Domains For the Rest of Us[0] that generates .COM domains that you can use for side projects (or startups?).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24538758

The new gTLDs are a godsend since all the domain hacks have been largely exhausted. E.G: `del.icio.us`.

I like the new avalanche of gTLDs since it reduces domain squatting, domain hacks, and stops people snapping up short .COMs as if they were some digital gold to be mined.

Not to mention the hassle of having a really obscure ccTLD like .SO and having to battle to get that domain back if it was seized by pirates, yarr
So in this hypothetical, Elbonia has no laws against corruption and mugging, and we truly believe the only thing missing is the laws? Then sure, that's a fair comparison. In that case one might think that Elbonia could be a great place to visit once a less lawless regime steps in.

What message do you think I'm trying to say? I'm certainly not claiming crypto is free of scams and self dealings.
... is this Galileo 2021 a reference that I am not understanding?
Exhibit A:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32504693/

Exhibit B:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3076650/
China has a more historic and material claim over Taiwan than the U.S. has over Hawaii. Give me a break with all this imperialist sabre-rattling.

Taiwan is a province of China. Fewer than 15 countries (the U.S. is not one of them) acknowledge a sovereign Taiwan.

This is a wedge issue designed so that defense contractors can sell more weapons/arms/subs in the South Pacific.
I built this https://webcode.run/
Singletons in JS/TS are done by creating and exporting an instance of a class:

class MyClass {}
export const myClassSingleton = new MyClass()

Static initialization blocks = "Constructors, for static class members/values"

Static blocks only run once, like the class declaration itself:

class User {
constructor(public name: string, public age: number) {}

static {
console.log("Hello from class User static block")
}
}

const a = new User("a", 1)
const b = new User("b", 2)

Is transpiled to:

class User {
constructor(name, age) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
}
}
(() => {
console.log("Hello from class User static block");
})();
const a = new User("a", 1);
const b = new User("b", 2);
I was surprised I had never heard of this until today

It would have been amazing to witness
>>It's certainly censorship if a monopolistic or oligopolistic platform does it

this seems like a good point, I'll have to think on it. For this particular situation I'm having a hard time seeing the argument on the basis that .xyz domains are cheap and get used for lots of attacks as stated in the article, so is it censorship or defense?

I think the question at the heart of my disagreement would be "what speech is being censored?", I don't see a compelling answer so I have a hard time seeing it as censorship at all.
“It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.”

The commenter you are replying to, had and sold, but you never had at all.
Man, I think you're probably right about everyone benefiting from doing immoral things, but I don't know how we could avoid it other than hiding out in a national park or something

By that logic, the linux community is corrupted by helping and accepting submissions from evil companies and evil governments

Everyone who buys and/or uses any sort of devices is corrupt too

Kinda reminds me of "The Good Place", haha
No doubt.

Developer, you also may need to learn marketing. Here's why. A co-founder is your first fanatical customer. Without that first fan, your work will go unnoticed. To gain that first fan, you need to learn how to do a few things well:

1. Create a One-Liner that tells the primary reason your offering needs to exist and be adopted by your customer.
2. Associate each Feature with a Benefit, all pointing back to the One-Liner.
3. Create a Landing Page that proves 1 and 2.

So, after your offering is ready for people (preferably before, TBH), get 1, 2, and 3 in place.
Ask HN: What filesystem(s) are best suited for long-term use?
Given the need for digital preservation in anticipation of current-and-future digital archaeology, beyond mere file formats (and/or descriptions of how to convert them), what file systems are best suited to long-term digital data storage and retrieval?
That's one thing to see from all of this, but another that shouldn't be ignored is when cash is cheap in an economy people engage in businesses that are not otherwise viable, which leads to asset bubbles among other things.
> Americans need just the opposite: the right to produce and buy computers powerful enough to mine Bitcoin and build data centers;

No, what they need is to fix the current financial system without circumventing it with an inefficient, unstable, unusable for day-to-day use and environmentally dangerous hack (I can back up any of these claims if anyone wants to disagree).

If the problem is Visa & Mastercard controlling what we can and can't do with our money, they should be regulated. You have Net Neutrality for Internet access providers, why not "Financial Neutrality" - providers of payment services must treat all transactions equally. As long as it's legal, they must process it.

If the problem is the IRS looking over your shoulder, you'll have the same with crypto. This article suggests you should fight against such control of crypto, but if you think you can actually achieve that, surely you could just as successfully fight against such control over cash and digital fiat transactions.

Crypto is a technical solution to a human problem, and we all know how well those always go....
It was wild to me too. I have an .xyz domain, which seemed appropriate for a non-commercial math site. I'd try to send links of math experiments to friends and colleagues via SMS, so they could tell me if they worked right on their phones or not. Can't tell you how much confusion and frustration it caused that the links were simply not being delivered, though all the conversation around the links went through just fine. No error was reported on either end. A year or so ago, I did a lot of searching trying to find some explanation of this bizarre behavior, but found literally nothing. It's nice to know I'm not crazy, at least. Is there a published list of what domains are not allowed to go through?
This also has integrations for home assistant to use owntracks for logging and automations for smart home stuff too.
Having used Material UI in the turbulent days of v1, I can't say I've had a good experience.

- Custom styling with JSS was an underdocumented nightmare

- The Grid system had many gotchas, especially with flexible columns in flexbox

- "Private" components had to be used or replaced in Table components to enable sorting

- JSS generated classnames changed if you included material-ui-based components in a separate library

I'm not really trying to harp on the developers here, but I've had to re-implement basically all the material-ui components I've had to use, because it was infeasible to update the library due to the amount of changes required.
These are definitely the people you’re hanging out with. I would say outside of parties/partying most socializing is activity-based, at least in my personal experience.
The reaction of the stock market for the past year and a bit has been "quick, pump more printed money into it to keep stock prices up and pretend everything's okay when it's really really not - it'll be the next guy's problem right?"

It happen one already in a similar manner in 2008 and it'll happen again because we didn't learn our lessons the first time.
https://www.julian.com/learn/growth/content-marketing

This is a good resource
I let my PIA account expire after the purchase, but there's a reasonable argument for "any shadowy figures siphoning their info aren't in my threat model."

If you're Joe Schmoe who just wants to not get nastygrams over using Popcorn Time or a tweaked Kodi box pulling movies from torrent sites, you may be a lot more concerned about hiding your usage from your ISP than you are from some foreign government that doesn't care about you. For that user, PIA (or ExpressVPN, or NordVPN, or whoever else is out there) may be a perfectly viable option.
I use OwnTracks, it's opensource and available for both iOS and Android.

You can configure a custom https endpoint and then your devices will ping the endpoint when there's significant movement.
And then you add a single HTTP request and everything tones down to the speed of the web. Or I/O. Or DB call.
Tech-savvy kids don't have this problem. Also you don't need to shut it down for good, only add a little friction.
It's kinda like saying that a product contains "no chemicals." There's a truth that people are reaching for, but the language used is deceptive. Clearly, "select * from my_table order by insertion_time" is handled by an algorithm... but it isn't ranking content by hidden metrics, maximizing engagement, etc. that people mean by "algorithm."

When tools are used to do harm, they cease to have neutral meanings. Chemistry is villainized because of DDT; medicine is villainized because of thalidomide, AR-15s are villainized because of mass shootings, etc. Can we expect more nuance of a lay-audience?
Found a 40 Year Old BBS Session Transcript
The ZX Spectrum was my first computer. So many good moments with it... It's hard to describe it for the current generation - if you were there, you know what I mean.

Sir Clive Sinclair had an enormous impact on my life and career. Today is a sad day for me :(
> Reported the groups for months and no one at FB cared.

Analysis: Engaged, active users. Encourage them to engage more!
Most of these new TLDs are just the .biz of the present moment. I went to email whitelist a decade ago and haven’t looked back.
Looking forward to part 2.