skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never leave your brokerage account unattended, make sure to be active.

The NPR Planet Money episode "Escheat Show" follows the story of a man who bought some Amazon stock long ago, and purposely never logged in to his online account, letting the stock multiply into a presumed small fortune. Years later he found that due to his inactivity the account had been deemed by his state (Connecticut?) as lost property years prior, liquidated, and entered into the state's escheat program, where one can claim lost property. The stock had been liquidated at a much lower price than its present worth. He wanted to sue since his intention was to leave the stock untouched for years but found there were some complications. He's currently waiting for the stock to hit a valuation where a great lawyer will be tempted to take it on contingency while still leaving himself a fortune.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799345159/episode-967-escheat...
Sounds like you have astigmatism. It can be mostly corrected by glasses.

But yes a dark on light theme helps a lot too! I like that almost all apps support light and dark modes these days so I can just switch to what I feel like. I have some astigmatism to but not very bad and I like the calm of a dark screen at night.
The advice I've heard for giving bad news is that you should come directly to the point and explain clearly. I doubt the people listening care how hard this may be for the CEO.

That said, I don't know how better people would feel even if this news was adroitly delivered.
Afaik all attributions to Russia about that came from "unnamed government sources/experts" in media, don't think the US accused Russia of that out in the open and "officially".
Does something the word "sync" require that no intermediary hardware must exist between the endpoints? And does this definition disqualify the use of devices like, say, routers and switches?
Probably, but I think there's a way to get the model to write more stuff. It's a model after all, generating stuff is what it does :P
right, like was South Africa a democracy during apartheid?
the content I watch (mostly intellectual or political conversations or lectures) rarely has a dislike rate of more than a few percent, so I don't understand what good the dislike button does.

>So frustrating not having the dislike button

I can understand the satisfaction of smashing the button on something you don't like... but does your frustration take a different form that translates into more/less usability?

(I can also imagine that a dislike button might help in an overall rating system like Yelp or Rottentomatoes, but then those systems don't serve me particularly well either. If something is hugely popular, that means middlebrow tastes like it, which isn't that useful. I don't want to watch or read Stephen King, and after all, people vote with their dollars for McDonald's. I suppose this could be a useful metric on youtube for gaming livestreams or skating videos or something?)
I dislike even engaging with this kind of lazy reasoning. The offer was made under a different US administration which did not prioritize enforcement of antitrust laws.
I don't want a monopoly. The thing I REALLY don't want though is exclusivity in games. The only possible outcome I see without Steam being the monopoly is other stores trying to win over users via exclusives. We already see this with the Epic Games Store. And since Valve has pretty much shown they are the good guys over the decades I am willing to accept Steam as a monopoly to ensure we don't get a Netflix, Disney+, HBO, Prime, Apple TV+ situation with PC gaming.
“Rclone” and not “Csync”? Missed opportunity! ;)
I personally think there's a good compromise to prevent "dislike" campaigns while keeping roughly same amount of information (putting quality labels with simple anti spam modeling would work fine), but still it looks like YT wants to get rid of the button itself ultimately? Otherwise it's hard to explain why they didn't even try such middle ground first.
Apple apparently got a patent for direct retinal lighting, which is probably a better experience overall, and seems more flexible. So it might be a totally different experience.
Now I'm wondering why ldd doesn't offer this feature in the first place.
... I assume the same prosecutors that refuse to prosecute property crimes below a certain threshold are also the same winning about online commerce killing retailers.
Yes ? Ramanujan's introduction to math was when he stumbled upon a book by Hardy. If that book hadn't showed up in his life, his gift might never have been discovered
I think “adventure” implies significant depth into the unknown which one must traverse. A single coin flip is also an unknown but generally wouldn’t be described as an adventure.
The market only cares about aggregate performance. If every company has its own set of problems that are difficult to fix, the situation is stable. Especially if the market is dominated by a small number of companies, which makes it unlikely that anyone manages to fix their hard problems.
Given that neo-Nazi marches have more attendants in Germany than they do in US, I would question the assertion that it actually does anything to prevent the Nazis from coming to power.

The "paradox of tolerance" is not a paradox at all when one contemplates the difference between speech and action. Tolerating intolerant speech, no matter how extreme, is not a problem. Tolerating intolerant actions is where tolerance breaks down.
> We don't need deregulation. We need better designed regulation.

This is such an important statement. The hub of this article really.
From bullshit jobs it looks like 37% of some surveyed Britons thought that their jobs did not contribute 'meaningfully' to the world. So that means the vast majority do think they contribute meaningfully.

Most people I know do seem to like their manager, if they don't they switch jobs. But tech jobs are also plentiful here (SV).
They can’t really become too big when they still have two very viable competitors.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook

The timing may be totally coincidental, of course…
This happens for a few reasons.

1) Inactive or low activity account starts selling (instead of buying) high value / high risk items. Think GPU's, Macbooks, etc.

2) An old account has activity (including someone trying passwords from various breaches some of which might match an old salt). Because old account takeover and then fraudulent sales is a pretty big issue (old accounts often have 100% positive ratings) this seems to trigger the bots.

3) Accounts without KYC - normally you are asked to update.

I'm not sure how old accounts have to be to have problems. I'm from early 1999 which was three or four years after I think they got going.

The fraud problem was getting pretty ridiculous on ebay so kind of glad they are cracking down but it's got to be a pretty imperfect hammer and so no doubt lots of false positives.

I've gone to selling my old iphones / ipads etc back through apple. No where near the price you get elsewhere, but no hassle either from my experience.
Such a weird way to me.
Not in legal trouble.

Socially, yes, of course there are views that will get you ostracized to some extent. But that's merely the consequence of freedom of association.
I would see Apple's recent addition of 2FA support to iCloud passwords would be a good (and maybe the only) 'average person solution'? MS Authenticator is also good as you can sync it and if you get a new phone you can get the same 2FA codes again
The order of the results shows you how good it is
Ask HN: Old US documentaries about aviation and X planes
I remember watching some old US documentaries, in color, about the x plane prototypes and aeronautics in general, but I can't remember the name. Thanks
Typesense and Melisearch are what you're looking for.
I think this is great! it has some drawbacks, but I enjoy seeing others push the web to its limits.
Maybe, but Swift is intentionally lazy in lots of ways (globals aren't initialized until the first access, for example).

The trade-off of zconform's approach is that dynamic linking is slowed down by needing to eagerly identify all protocol conformances whenever an image is loaded (including conformances which are never even cast). It does make the performance of dynamic casting more deterministic, but it would slow down (for example) app launch by eagerly pre-caching things which might never be queried.

I'd expect that the response from the Swift team would be to avoid dynamic casting in performance-critical code, rather than pessimize link-time.

[Edit, to clarify why the cache needs to be rebuilt when libraries are loaded]: Swift protocols have a feature called retroactive conformance, which allows apps and libraries to add protocol conformance to types they don't own. So, any library that gets loaded could add a protocol to a type. It's a really powerful feature, but has some unfortunate side-effects...
Doing the same for a Go CLI or an Electron app is a walk in the park. I did it in minutes from not knowing anything and it worked on people's computers. I'd choose it any day.
Content creators are already moving to TikTok. YouTube has a weaker position now than they’ve ever had.

You may be a HN TikTok skeptic (there are many) but TikTok is already expanding to things you’d find on YouTube historically, like tutorials, DIY, arts and crafts.
Germany also bans "extreme" political parties. And no, that doesn't just mean the Nazis - the Communist party was also banned under the same law, for example. In general, it seems to cover any party with a platform that is in conflict with liberal democracy (even if, say, it's a platform of radical direct democracy, although I don't think this was ever tested in practice)?
This has nothing to do with Blender specifically: is there, or why isn’t there, a DAW (Pro Tools, Logic Pro, etc.) that is relatively comparable with closed-source tools?

I’ve often heard the sound/plugin packs for DAW keep people on the paid products. Why shouldn’t there be a competitive open source option?

Edit to contextualize, and maybe an added question: Blender is amazing and competes in so many ways with high-cost, industry-standard software. How is the DAW world not a great analog and opportunity?
>Jeremy Corbin constantly being accused of anti-antisemitism for criticizing the state of Israel

A 2 minute web search:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/01/jeremy-corbyn-r...

"Before becoming Labour leader he called 1902 book containing antisemitic tropes ‘brilliant’.

Jewish leaders have written to Jeremy Corbyn to express “grave concern” and demand an explanation after it emerged he wrote a glowing foreword for a century-old political tract that includes antisemitic tropes."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/23/corbyn-crit...

"Labour leader offered support on Facebook in 2012 to artist whose work featured antisemitic tropes"

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/jeremy-corbyn-blamed-zionist-l...

"By the time Mr Corbyn was writing, Mr Salah's comments were well documented..."

It's possible to criticize Israel while not allowing antisemitic bigotry. It's the smart thing to do for someone trying to advance a political cause.

However, if one does it again and again, even on instances not involving Israel at all, people will start to take notice.
This is a business I've tried to start in the past.

I've usually found some cool-ish indie hacker project that was tech-oriented and doing well, just ping the owner/dev and say, "hey, i'm in between gigs, an indie hacker myself, and have thought of starting an outsource-support-type business, any interest? flexible on pay rate, etc."

if i got an answer, it was usually something like, 'thanks but we want the product/service insight/learnings from the customers (so we want/have to do it ourselves)'.

no real insights on how best to do it, just know what i would want if i ever outsourced my own support. i have outsourced social media and things like that on a limited basis, with limited success.

what would i want, in terms of customer service, for my baby?

- should look like it's coming from me/us
- should hit whatever SLAs we specify (one hour response, etc.)
- should be (very) technical if necessary
- should be geared towards self-help/service/kb-driven
- but not in that anti-human way
- ideally graduates to producing CSAT-like measures/surveys
- weekly summaries of issues/root causes/etc.
- weekly summaries of 'where the market/user base' is going/wanting
- pro-active documentation/kb/screencasts/etc.
- real documentation/reproducability/jira doc/screenshots/etc.
- geared towards customer success and even up/cross-selling
- some revenue/benefit tie-in like profit-sharing, bonuses, etc.
- should be super-independent; i'm outsourcing for a reason.

maybe it's a pipe dream to think 'support' could be more than just support - more than just a cost-center - but i still hope that's the case, even if i don't quite believe it is actually true.

part of the outsourcing function, to me, is to have another, semi-independent partner who is invested in my success.

please ping me if you're open to exploring a new/additional provider.
Thanks. It seems like the issue would be fitting a pressure vessel around a food? We’d need a custom shape for each item?

Also why is the pressure free?
There is a reason they are ignoring it. Their notions of value aren't workable or coherent. If I manufacture a gun and it is used by a rancher it reduces predator-on-livestock losses. If I manufacture it and an eventual buyer uses it in a school shooting it causes large losses.

There is this weirdly persistent leftist idea of demanding absolute precognition with values for things which are determined in the future and utterly irrelevant and unknown. If I buy coffee beans from locals of Cape Horn growers for my use at the local prices I am helping by supporting local farmers. If I roast them and sell them overseas for 100x the cost I am somehow harming them now.

The Marxist derived notions of value and exploitation are downright certifiably insane.
Actually, come to think of it - I think front page was the harbinger of white backgrounds - not ie. I think the standard ie user style sheet also used black on grey.
I agree with this - its trivially easy for programmers to write code in such a way that it is easy for them to write and maintain but completely non trivial for other team members to maintain and more importantly add to. Examples are adding in their own go to library for some function instead of using the existing one, ambiguious variable naming, etc.

The mechanism I've attempted to use to show to non-programmers whether a feature is written in a supportable way and encourage team members to write supportable code is by listing out every feature row by row.

Then in each column a team member will sign up as the lead for the feature. The rest of the team members will have to rate (from green to red) whether they are willing to PR review the feature commit, be on pager/bugfix duty for that feature going forward and be on the hook to add new subfeatures to the original feature.

Team members who lead features that have many green checkboxes for their rows are highly visible to management.

Team members who add esoteric dependencies and add too much "job security" also quickly realize they are going to be the ones stuck debugging/QA'ing that portion of the code.

It also allows PMs to understand the level of bus factor/ redundancy for each specific features. Its quite possible some features are experimental and don't need redundant support.
I'll add to the chorus. Something like this happened to me recently.

I bought a heating element for my dishwasher on eBay. I received a non-genuine part, took photos, and requested a return. Next thing I know my 15-year-old account is banned. Maybe the seller reported me in retaliation? eBay's "support" AI sure isn't interested in telling me what happened.

I hate this world we've created, where you can get banned from services at random with no recourse and locked out for life by an AI. The same thing happened to my Discord account a few months ago too :(

It almost makes me want to start a meme Twitter account and build up a big follower count. That's apparently the only way to reach a human in customer support at a big tech company these days.
I also love his explanation of "How Regexes Work": https://perl.plover.com/Regex/article.html

Before reading it, I could write regexes with decent success, but I was never 100% comfortable that they'd do quite what I expected. After, the fog cleared, and I felt like I finally understood what I was asking the computer to do when I wrote a regex.

Also, whenever I think of state machines, in my mind I still see pennies moving around on circles.

(FYI, it was written for a Perl programmer audience, but it doesn't involve much Perl.)
My experience has been, the next guy always thinks it's the last guy's fault. But actually the fault usually winds being that of the next guy - even when I was the next guy.

Programmers are impatient, we look at the code, the code looks terrible. We lay into with a hatchet and three days later, it works. But there's a very minor problem. You look at the problem, look at it again. Three more days and you've ripped out your code completely, done apologies to the ancestors of the last guy and finally his work and all the problem are solved.

And the comment? The communication? No one read them, they made no sense. But once you complete the code, you realize no other comments could have sufficed.
Kind of reminds me of penile fractures, which can only occur while you have an erection, making one sometimes suspect that what the victim says they were doing when the injury occurred does not quite match what they were actually up to.

See this 1988 "The Straight Dope" column for some examples [1].

[1] https://www.straightdope.com/21341780/is-it-true-men-can-suf...
Fair enough! Just pondering what it might be like to run with a limitation too. Thanks for sharing this.

For some reason it gives me a really similar vibe to 88% Parentheticals, a single-episode joke podcast made for Reply All. It's just one long rambling nested parenthetical side story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/88-parentheticals/id14...
> In a remarkable breach with Israel over one of its most successful technology companies, the Biden administration on Wednesday blacklisted the NSO Group, saying the company knowingly supplied spyware that has been used by foreign governments to “maliciously target” the phones of dissidents, human rights activists, journalists and others.
Writing often improves memory and retention. I understand the sentiment but I believe writing something down (even in a digital way) improves recollection because of the physical movement involved which is (distinct from each written item).

A picture, and typing, is the same action regardless of the substance being captures. There is not enough uniqueness to the process to help memory. But writing I believe is.
I agree with the latter portion, and that's the part I like about RISC-V the most.

Just wish some of the choices were made differently. Open could be open and amazing. We are likely to get open with a bit of hobbling built in early on, and that makes me wonder.

This discussion is much improved over the initial, "unified, but..." one we started with.
Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP)
>There are a lot of signals for how worthwhile a video is going to be, and frankly I'd rank likes/dislikes as the least useful one, mostly because they provide no context and aren't normalized to the video's view count.

What are those other signals to help filter quality? Because in my experience, the dislike-to-likes ratio is the #1 statistical signal. It beats the #likes/#views ratio which is far weaker. Comments are not a better signal because (1) they can be deleted by the channel and (2) they take more work to scroll through than just looking at the public dislikes number.

It doesn't even matter that dislikes don't have "context" (do you mean "downvote reasons"?). To me, the context is the video itself.

If I come across a plumbing how-to and it has more dislikes than likes, it's a junk video. MKBHD is another youtuber that explains the usefulness of dislikes counts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaaJyRvvaq8

EDIT add: also note in the MKBHD video the comments from other famous youtube creators that they also depend on public dislike stats when they themselves consume videos.
Wendy's social media team are incredibly good at what they do, no doubt that it's intentional.
> You could say that about free text too.

Not only can, but did: about 15 minutes ago in another subthread under this submission.
If YouTube notices people keep bouncing from your video it will not perform well due to the algorithm. YouTube wants you to be watching content, and not spending time searching around for content to watch.
High school students are frequently taught a highly routinized form of proof in Geometry class in the US: https://www.cuemath.com/geometry/geometrical-proofs/
That is what it seems the parent was referring to and what I was referring to.
Paying the barest amount of attention to the news and being repeatedly confronted with the myriad ways that once-first-world countries are crumbling.
It’s been a number of years since I’ve been in the field but back in the day the paid plugins were everything. One couldn’t do business without them.
> * Conversely, never use white! Modern macOS sucks at this! A large window of Mail.app in light mode is pretty blinding. What if you want to add a subtle highlight to a button border on a white background? #fafafa was always a go-to white for me because its easy to remember.

Yes this is why I love dark modes these days. So many apps totally overdo it with the white. MacOS indeed but also pretty much all Google apps and sites are light gray on white. It's too blinding and I can't reduce my screen brightness as I'm already at 0% during the day. Screen manufacturers are now optimising for high brightness that stands out in the shop but ignore low levels.

And so I reduce my contast as the only option but it reduces colour depth too much.

Dark modes are not a perfect option either because they make the apps that don't support it be ultra bright in comparison.

But either way it starts with misguided design principles from Apple and Google IMO. The old Grey window fabric of windows 2000 was boring but it really balanced things out.
They already have that. You can disable comments and voting, as far as I know.
> Once you know which target operating systems and CPU architectures you wish to deploy to

If you know that, this is not the problem for you.

Often you do not know that. Then this is a huge problem.
Then again, those huge corporations in question exist because the state gives them the ability to incorporate in the first place, and then exerts its monopoly on the use of force to protect their capital as it gets accumulated and concentrated.
I pay my ISP a lot more than I pay Google.
If that isn't your assertion what is?
> The end result? I'm sticking to my current channels

Isn't that good for them though? Generally speaking, it's a lot easier for youtube to do a few red carpet partnership shenanigans with the ssniperwolfs and mrbeasts in the top ranks and screw the long tail. That story has played again and again all over the entertainment media industry.

If everyone does what you're doing, they can potentially even get away with having to do less content moderation, or quietly "disappearing" channel categories, etc. You're already getting sort of played by relying on recommendation systems in the first place. People seem to think recommendations scour the deep web to cater to them personally, but the Occam's Razor take is that you get shown whatever the algorithm determines is clickbaity enough for your general flavor of hivemind.
Also Metasploit