skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is surprisingly sophisticated and loaded with features for a 1.0, congratulations on the release! I totally know what it's like to work on a productivity app for a long time before it feels like it meets the minimum bar for release, serious props for making it over the line. The smart summaries feature in particular looks really interesting.

While I confess that I'd also like the option to purchase a 1.0 license and then pay to upgrade to 2.0 later, I fully recognize that the App Store makes that sort of arrangement extremely awkward and difficult to achieve, and think you priced it more than fairly anyways.
AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A – How AWS signs and verifies API requests
That's probably true, but I don't think it's relevant. An awful lot of us who don't find our own speech being stifled still don't want the free speech of others infringed either. I may not have anything dangerous to say today, but I should still defend my right to say something dangerous tomorrow.
You know who loves to use this feature? Recaptcha!

When browsing Firefox in Incognito mode with uBlock Origin and uMatrix fully active, the Recaptcha challenges load painfully slowly. Like each picture might take upwards of five seconds to refresh.

And to my delight, I have noticed that if I flip away from that tab while the panels are refreshing, they pause until I bring the tab back into active focus.

It's a slap in the face that this kind of user-hostile design is allowed.
My understanding is if you have a receipt sent to your gmail account, google scrapes and tracks those purchases.
One reason is cost.
The other i think is the number of services.

If I recall correctly, some dns services are in us east only only u host it in other region.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/r53.html

Name registration is in us east only.
DNS resolving is in a few specific regions
Worth noting that the VAC games on that list, CS:GO, TF2, and Dota 2, have effectively given up on actually detecting and preventing cheaters and now rely on server-based or community-consensus methods of finding and punishing cheaters (with TF2 being the exception with how little maintenance Valve performs on it).

Both CS:GO and Dota 2 have a report+overwatch system where users watch a replay to determine if someone is exhibiting suspicious cheating behavior. The server side of this is VACnet where it uses heuristics like mouse movement or [in Dota] clicking out of regular camera bounds to detect these cheaters and expedite them to the Overwatch queue. You can readily download the biggest script client for Dota 2, and VAC ban waves for using it have been unheard of for years now (you only get an in-game ban when enough other players verify the cheating via Overwatch).

https://youtu.be/SnRgW54EWwA

https://www.pcgamer.com/vacnet-csgo/
Hi there! Loved your comment, you get some of the complexity this brings up! I am just going out travelling shortly so ill respond in detail in a day or so.
It’s not a security issue. It’s a user confusion and poor validation issue.

I was an early GMail user and have a common-ish name. I probably get 30-50 emails a month from confused people ranging from contracts to receipts to racy photos.
A closed-source browser built by an ad company enables surveillance??? Do go on...
That’s a good move
Once the moderator enables "Video Bridge Encryption" it is automatically enabled for other participants. I believe that if a 21st user tried to join it would error out, but let me confirm this with the 8x8 team.
Eat Like a Medieval Saint with Her Recipe for ‘Cookies of Joy’
> For reference, the gender-neutral singular in English is "they/them/their"

Let me also assure you that "they" hasn't always been (and still isn't to many) accepted as a singular pronoun. Crazy how things change.
>> there is no truth - the sufficient and necessary condition for the definition of nihilism...

nihilism isn't about there not being truth, it's about there not being meaning, or more specifically long-term relevance. XXX may be true, but to a nihilist that's OK we're all going to die anyway and the universe will wind down to its heat death. In that sense the truth isn't relevant long term.
Obsidian.md is my go to for notes. It also has tons of extensions which take it to the next level.

As the name suggests, all notes are stored as markdown files.
Youtube has an international audience.
Who are you responding to? Above comment said nothing about Cherry MX for RSI. Neither did the article's author.
Is it a "vertical mouse" or something different?

examples I've heard of:
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-vertical-erg...

https://us.anker.com/products/a7852
Is this the path to a tightly coupled distributed monolith?
After a naive removal of the tests (every folder and files that contains tests was deleted), React still has 190k lines of code.

> React has one job, and it does it really well

I'm not sure I agree. It's hard to compare without a minimal copy of React to see how small it can get, but I'm guessing it could be an order of magnitude smaller. For example, React supports different ways of doing things (class components, function compenents, hooks). Backwards compatibility is a great thing, but it's not the same as "having one job and doing it well", it's a different tradeoff. The React team has lots of people that depends on their code, and thus choose stability over being small and nimble. I think that's a responsible choice. But this leads to complexity, and losing the "having one job and doing it well".

As a more general remark, there's a cycle in software. React starts small and nimble, especially compared to the "jQuery behemots of the past". It gets really popular. So people start depending on it. So it grows, and grows, and grows. And then someone else comes out, maybe Photon, maybe Svelte, maybe something else. Compared to React, it's small and nimble. Maybe in 10 years, Photon will be really popular, will be 200k lines of code, and someone will build an alternative because it's too big and complex.

Edit: as a more meta-remark: My message is way longer than yours because I was trying to steelman my argument, and you didn't do the same with yours. Considering you made a small message "defending" React and I did a long one "defending" Photon, I think we already agree about the tradeoffs involved here.
I completely understand why Amazon has done this. I do something similar, but more targeted -- I avoid sending emails to gmail addresses at all when possible, and when it's unavoidable, I try to make the emails as minimalistic as I can get away with.

I see Amazon as doing something similar, but less targeted at gmail specifically.
Memory Breadcrumbs and Memory Trails
How hard would it be given that Tesla uses cameras to just disable Autopilot when it senses flashing lights? Or at least give the driver a few seconds to react before disabling Autopilot.
Maybe people are starting to wise up to that bullshit, the same way the native of the web died.
I think I missed something in these maps (actually the reason for the maps).

The resolution is ridiculous, I do not even see my city (almost 100k inhabitants).

The aerial view is hardly usable except if one is interested in geographical investigations.

My honest question i s: what are these maps for? What is in there that there is not somewhere else?
More Ways to Run Containers on AWS
It's taken them 20 years since the G4 Cube and several other no-fan, overheat-plagued models to figure it out.

Sad for all the customers along the way that suffered through all the failed attempts.
>how is it possible without the typical "root access / rootkits" invasiveness of anticheat software!?

It probably does require root/kernel access. If you're not a fan of that, your only option is cloud gaming.
Curious, what other recommendations they made? I mean generally.
He already has bad relations with minority shareholders[0], so I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries to sieze this opportunity.

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8261775/Facebook-in...
My concern is that Thiel and the Thielists think that democracy in America does not work anymore and feel they need to take over and run the country.
That's life my friend. Anything you do that sticks out from the other sheeps will make some people wonder about you.

Personally I'm fine with that since my end goal in life is not about bending over for others to gain advantages or avoid disadvantages.

I never use Web cam at work for example. I'm usually the only person not on camera in phone conferences. I'm sure it's a disadvantage but I'm somehow still doing fine. :)
I didn't say they can't eat it - obviously they can. The post I replied to specifically called out that they were sticking with meat because humans hadn't evolved to eat plant-based or lab-grown meat, and then implied their nutrition would suffer if they gave up meat. If that's correct, it must also then affect livestock's nutrition, since they didn't evolve to eat a soy/wheat or, as you correctly call out, corn diet. So I asked if they avoid meat fed on this "not evolved to eat" diet as well.
Everything degrades over a long enough timescale, even plastics and metals. The question is what damage they do to ecosystems on their long cycle to be atomized and recycled.
This is part of a slowly growing phenomenon.

As a professor I started noticing this general trend awhile ago, when file types starting being obscured. Students had trouble opening and moving files around because they didn't understand the concept of a filetype. They just expected to click on a file and have it open in the "correct" software. So they'd try to do that, and it would open in the wrong program, and then they'd save it, in the wrong format, and then everything would get corrupted across nesting dolls of attempting different programs to open increasingly frankenstein files.

It was confusing to me at first, but then I realized most OSs by default hide filetypes.

This stuff with cloud software, automatic saves, tags, etc was just the next step.

People complain about loss of terminal/shell UI but I do think this is all a good example of how maybe things are getting too far away from what's going on under the hood.

I wouldn't believe it either except I've had to deal with it firsthand.
This is a general confusion (problem, trouble, discomfort) I have with dividing the world up into "indigenous" and "other"--it feels very arbitrary and ahistorical (and I'm happy to be corrected!). Surely all of human history and pre-history, people were moving around and conquering each other's territory and so on? What criteria do we use to determine which territory rightfully belongs to a given "people" (and "what constitutes a people?" seems like another particularly difficult question).
Which sounds great until you experience the loading times. Last time I tried it out, the loading times for all the DLLs that a typical application requires was pretty bad. But once it loaded, things were snappy.
At least on Playstation, that is 100% Sony's fault. They refuse to let you have cross-platform play unless your game is huge. Unsure if Microsoft has/had similar policies for Xbox games.
I picked up a Kinesis Freestyle 2 last year, with the longer (20" I think) cable, and it's been wonderful. Standard QWERTY, and the cable is long enough that I'm in a comfortable typing position leaning fully back into my chair with my arms sitting on the armrests.

Only complaint is that the macro buttons off to the side just emit standard key presses (eg Cut sends Control+x), which I guess means I should look into the Freestyle Pro which _is_ programmable :)
What about Volterra kernel estimates? This is the particularly interesting thing in my opinion.
Interesting that the minimum threshold is one minute. That might be too long for features like auto-saving documents, but lower-precision probably avoids a lot of nasty use cases too.
Does matlab count as an interactive learning material?

If it does then I can recommend Practical Signals Theory with MATLAB Applications by Richard J. Tervo

Lots of real world examples of systems and signals in a level appropriate for a first DSP class.

Honestly it's kinda like linear algebra in that everyone has their own favorite and there is a place for many styles. The best thing is to go a nearby college library and look at a lot of them and find an author that speaks to you.
> given that a person can only lose 100% of their money [...] but some people do gain much more than 100%, it is likely that average person has lost or will lose money.

But with a long enough time horizon and generally rising prices, we can make the probability of any one person losing money as close as we want to zero. For a given unit of crypto only the last person in its chain of buyers loses money, left holding it when prices finally drop.
Released two days ago:

New in #Tesla 2021.24.12 Owners Manual for #Model3 #ModelY "If Model 3/Model Y detects lights from an emergency vehicle when using Autosteer at night on a high speed road, the driving speed is automatically reduced and the touchscreen displays a message informing you of the slowdown. You will also hear a chime and see a reminder to keep your hands on the steering wheel. When the light detections pass by or cease to appear, Autopilot resumes your cruising speed. Alternatively, you may tap the accelerator to resume your cruising speed. Never depend on Autopilot features to determine the presence of emergency vehicles. Model 3/Model Y may not detect lights from emergency vehicles in all situations. Keep your eyes on your driving path and always be prepared to take immediate action."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1440537502272536581.html

Vehicle firmware revision uptake stats for vehicles using Teslascope [1] and TeslaFi [2].

[1] https://teslascope.com/teslapedia/software

[2] https://www.teslafi.com/firmware.php
If motive is not in alignment then "the problem" is an excuse for a solution that may not address "the problem" at all.

Bootleggers and Baptists is a concept put forth by regulatory economist Bruce Yandle, derived from the observation that regulations are supported both by groups that want the ostensible purpose of the regulation, and by groups that profit from undermining that purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
Right, right, of course, thx for pointing that out.

Now, how does that make Tesla "good for society"?

I'm not saying they aren't. I'm simply asking, how is mining rare earth minerals (by blowing up one mountain top after the other) to produce solar panels or batteries "good for society"?
Study: Effectiveness of Apple's App Tracking Transparency
Google serves ton of malware ads, they seem to consider it the responsibility of the users to report them.
Thanks for your feedback! At what price would you consider the app for a one time purchase?
Depends on what your goals are. Protos give a nice API definition if you want to make sure you don't screw up that data that's on the wire (field name misspelled or something similar). Obviously JSON has OpenAPI (swagger), but I'm still a fan of protobufs (probably stockholm syndrome).
I've always wondered how this merits a whole book...I mean, isn't the gist of it:

"checklists are a good idea, even smart people benefit from them"

??
Sounds like a startup opportunity. Lookin' forward to the pitch deck!
Ask HN: How to effectively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders?
I lead a team at a big org. One of the things I struggle with is communicating and collaborating with other teams that are working on the project or working on something similar and relevant. I try to schedule sync meetings with key members of other teams and stakeholders, but those often lose steam after a few meetings. It's much easier for me to work in isolation without with my team without all the distraction, but that's not ideal for the company.
Update, I checked with the 8x8 team, and it will warn from 21 to 25 users, and then disable when the 25th user joins. You'll see the green video bridge encryption notification turn off at the top at that point.
What are the externalities of extracting fossil fuels? Or are you attributing the consumption of fossil fuels to the extraction companies? How many degrees removed does one continue to be responsible?
What if X is more reusable than Y but Y is the thing that is on the books. Now you have to lobby the government. Fun. Also, it's very hard for a bureaucrat or anyone else to make a judgement on what is going to be the most efficient what to organise the blue economy. Every day people invent new things, my understanding is that recycling and re-ellasticing bio-polymer is there way to go, but time will tell.
Does PUBG not use this, or does it just not work that well?
Yeah imagine if instead of just using plain text JSON for your web application you could use a proprietary binary format that web browsers know nothing about and require a translation layer to talk to. It's awesome.
Agreed about point 1 -- it seems silly to disable "advanced" features on the Stable distribution of the browser.

Of course, clearly someone at Mozilla thinks this is a good idea because they do the same damn thing on desktop -- you can't disable add-on certificate checks on Stable, but you can on the Beta/Nightly/Developer Edition branches. We all found out the hard way a couple of years ago when all the FireFox add-ons stopped working just because someone forget to renew a certificate.
It's incredible how people are chastising you for having skin in the game
You are quite mistaken on "format content properly", as Firefox based on Gecko does not agree in detail (esp. on mobile) with Chrome, so people tend to go to Chrome over time. Worse, as Firefox loses share on this basis (among others), sites whose webdevs test in Chrome and Safari only (Edge is Chromium-based) tend to break Firefox. This spirals down. But keep pretending browsers are passive, blind formatting engines!

In fact Google did Chrome because it learned from Firefox that browsers are high-value user agents, and if they camouflage as passive/blind agents, then the big tech network superpower can have its way with the user, both through top sites such as Google search tied into default omnibus search engine setting, and over time via Google's browser tying (an antitrust term) other Google products, Google's accounts and analytics systems, and even full ad-exchange user-tracking, into its browser.

As for user feedback falling on deaf ears, you are simply making stuff up. Chrome ignores user complaints, Firefox too (roasted endlessly over killing XUL add-ons, Proton UX, etc.). Brave is all over Twitter and Reddit and we do live customer support there. I spend a good chunk of every day on it.

As Chesterton put it, one can always be blind to a thing so long as it is big enough. That seems to be the case with you and your "format content properly" statement here. If you are a Chrome user, I hope you disable account-based tracking in your Google account(s). If you use Firefox, ditto, and beware tracking pixels they whitelist on Google's SERP.
I've heard that if one sets the display screen (whatever it is) to be black-and-white, the web gets much less compelling. I'm sure there are more factors than that, but it's funny how much bright colours in feedback play a role.
Knowing it's "roughly lunch time" on the other side of the globe doesn't mean much to me, knowing "I'm available from 22:00-1:00" or "let's try to arrive at 23:00" does. If I'm particularly interested in where the sun is there at that time that's when I should need to look it up, not every single time we try to reference times between 2 locations for the off chance I actually care about the sun's position.

I may have a bias here in that I already do meeting scheduling in UTC due to the geographic dispersion of the folks I work with and amount of cross tz travel we do (well, not as much of that as of late but hopefully soon again).
Anyone with a retirement account in an index fund!
Starship Quick Disconnect arm, chopsticks, heat tiles, updates from Starbase
Blizzard's Warden anti-cheat was rumored to collect your process list and/or open window titles at one point, but IIRC they weren't substantiated.

https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Warden_(software)
For once it might be!
Airdrop transfers data at full wifi speed and I’m sure we could make a universal standard for that. The charging pads go as high as 15 watts right now. I’m certain we will see more improvements in the future.
BTW, I got one of my best interview questions from a problem I encountered there.

Undergraduates solve it in two minutes; people with a BS need 5; MS 20; PhD never, or as fast as an undergraduate. The iterative solution is much simpler than a recursive one, so the question identifies how well-tuned your instincts are to problem spaces. If you go straight for recursion, you'll be there all day.

I found that everybody who found the minimal solution used the same hand gesture while describing it.
Yeah, it is standard now, he was making the rounds with this >10y ago.
Not to mention, recent work with things like Maui in KDE and the “platform building” nature of Gnome 40+ have lent a growing polish to the desktop experience of both environments.

There’s still a lot of work to be done for Linux to reach the hardware and software ubiquity of Windows or the UX polish of MacOS, but I increasingly see a more diverse set of talent, including design talent, lending their experience to the platform.

And as more disciplines work on the ecosystem, eventually demand for a more diverse set of software will follow.

Combine that with an initially lukewarm reception to Windows 11 so far, and growing privacy concerns on MacOS, and the incentives for an alternative platform are more widespread than they’ve been in a long time.

I know “the year of Linux desktops” has been a thing for forever, but it really does feel closer to the tipping point than ever.

Doesn’t mean it will definitely happen, but the momentum feels more with it than against it, IMO.
Wow rubber dot, nice tip
Nice, I can see the tilt angle is different.

I might need to try either getting the one you linked or perhaps 3D printing a stand to tilt my existing mouse out and experiment.
Thank your for part 1 and I hear you for part 2 :)
I call it "daylight shaving time" because it's like shaving bits off a bar of soap to then glob them onto the other side of the same bar.
I thought it was just because email wasn't secure? That's why health and banking providers send you links to their messages; perhaps this is just for health and banking info.
If true that distinguishes him from nobody, including people without power. However, a serious investigation of Thiel's work dismisses any serious accusation of "Intellectualism" it is well thought out and philosophically rigorous.

Is he completely correct? Probably not. But then, who is?

If one person is an existential threat to humanity (which is what I assume you mean) then, frankly, we probably "deserve" it (in the evolutionary sense). Thiel is useful here to countermand this point. One of his most useful ideas is that the so called "powerful" and "elite" have much less power than we think they do and can can be easily circumvented if ignored (of course there are marginal cases).
"Latest word from the ministry of Truth"?
> China-owned

State owned is problematic, I'm not in disagreement with you. But so is corporate owned. I'd like to see an industry standard anti-cheat root-kit developed as a publicly reviewable open source project at the very least.