skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser
I've had a similar conversation with my agent in the past, and the answer was to create a bidding war. Once you have one real offer you can go back and counter to all of the others to see if they'll go up, and then rinse and repeat. That isn't a story too hard to sell.

The other thing about this one is that it was fixed up, so it could have been a flip. However I didn't go track down the real estate records to know for sure.
Ask HN: How do you take technical notes?
I've been a Bear.app user for some time now, recently I factory reset my laptop and was looking for maybe an alternative just to spice things up, an app or maybe a setup, to take notes related to my job.

Things I'd like to have:

- Good looking notes
- Supports markdown
- Allows for easy filtering

I'm always interested in knowing how other people do stuff so I can learn and take notes (no pun intended).
I have the same problem too, I feel like maybe you drop out because you already got what you got from them or maybe you don't really feel like working on the project, you just think that you should.

I still feel pretty bad about this and have a lot of guilt by not pursuing my projects, however I recently finished reading "Refuse To Choose" by Barbara Sher and it was a game changer, I still feel bad about it but I see now a different perspective and it has given me hope and made me realize that perhaps I'm not as broken as I thought I was.

The book also has a bunch of tools to help you pursue your goals even if you tend to rotate interests, that's another thing to like about it: not only is relatable but it's also very actionable.
So the distribution is the one that alters the code and same issue.
Samsung are investing heavily in the gate-all-around architecture.

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/10/21/samsung-electr...
Yes. I use ligatures on my system (Windows) and this is true in all IDEs, editors and terminal Windows, including when I SSH to a Linux system and use vim.

It really becomes seamless, and you get used to it in a similar way to syntax highlighting or high resolution screen. Yes, I can code on 768p laptop screen with laggy input and a crappy keyboard, but it's not as nice as my usual workstation.
If you believe this, you must be living in a bubble. This will be akin to someone from the midwest not wanting to move to California because of drug-loving hippies. It's kinda a gross generalization.
Did Tesla respond to this? I am curious if this an algorithm issue or an issue with real time scheduling where the necessary signal did not arrive in time and so the whole system failed to react.
Super interesting! I've been playing with this and with glitch art. If I may make a request though, adding an explicit license to your code on GitHub would be primo.
Is there a psychological angle? Exploiting FOMO to drive bids up higher?
I already turned off proxying, and I assume (maybe bad assumption) that most emails these days get encrypted in transit anyway

Also for privacy I’m mostly just focused on profiling by ad companies. For security my concern was someone using my DNS to take over my email, and thereby all my other accounts
Thanks for the support pketh! We forgot to mention on our current landing page that you can also pay with $ or your favorite currency using our Stripe integration. We'll update that on our website shortly! :)

We're using Storj and IPFS as the only storage layer behind user data, not as a CDN.
It's hard enough to find a good coding font without having to disqualify them because of their ligatures. Many fonts overdo it with making them pretty or look like single characters. If they instead appeared like two typed characters that form a single operator without much ambiguity that could be useful. Of course you don't want to depend on using the ligatures for the whitespacing to be 'right'.

Much as colored syntax can go very wrong with a poor color palette, mappings, or monitor color profile, ligatures go wrong enough not to make it worthwhile. Maybe they'll get sorted out eventually as we have good color defaults these days.
Maybe for a lot of people the media they consume actually shape their preferences?

But I would steer clear of generalizing, I think a lot of people have a strong preference for stories where the lines between what's moral and not are much more blurry and where you have reversal of preferences for various characters and where the main character is somehow sketchy. I think at the acclaimed Parasite for instance.

It's relatively easy to elicit a strong emotion, but that doesn't make a story, just a news.
If they can frighten people into believing 256 bits isn't enough, interesting parties will self-select, by using stronger ciphers, aiding traffic analysis.
This is a rare case where “many orders of magnitude” is underselling how unlikely something is.

It is estimated there are 10^80 atoms in the observable universe.
You don't have to sell if someone offers asking and you are nearly guaranteed to get significantly more. The asking price is effectively meaningless at this point.
59% of all containers leave US ports empty
so US is controlling exporting encryptions, and China is controlling importing encryptions. Apparently two governments can work together /
To draw down carbon and cool the planet, ocean fertilization gets another look
Tesla says it has put 2017 battery packs in brand new 2021 cars
Lots of realtors do it in Los Angeles, casual browsing of neighbourhood sales data on sites like RealtorStats show how common it is
The asking price thing really messed with my mom's mind. She was trying to buy a home and everywhere she read she had to bid at least 25% over asking. And then she just added 25% to each listing and considered what was in her price range. It was really hard to convince her to make an actual estimate of the house's value and make a bid according to that, disregarding the asking price and the dumb 25% rule.

It was super stressful but eventually she succeeded.
Perhaps my explanation will help?

In your chart of accounts, each account corresponds to exactly one of these:

- Asset

- Liability

- Equity (changes in this affect the income statement)

Whenever a transaction takes place, the debits and credits must sum up. For example, when you take a bank loan, your assets increase (debit) but your liabilities also increase (credit) by the same amount.

Sometimes something touches more than two accounts. For example, if you sell a cup of coffee for $2, using up $0.50 worth of beans:

CR Revenue $2
DR COGS $0.50
DR Cash $2
CR Materials $0.50

The first two lines increase the book value of the business by $1.50.

The last two lines increase the assets of the business by $1.50 (cash up by $2, bean inventory down by $0.50).

It's easy to get confused about debits and credits. I attempted to create a memorable explanation here: https://www.encona.com/posts/debits-and-credits
It is explicitly banning e2e encrypted services or devices.
> It's likely unknowable, but I'd be curious to know how many of those coming in for COVID tests are being required to test.

The data that's important is "percent positive".

When the covid19 cases are 5% positive or less, you've got accurate statistics. When its above 5%, then things get less-and-less accurate. That is to say: you want roughly 95% of people getting COVID19 tests to be negative, to ensure you're "counting" as many people as possible.

We're at 10%+ positive now. Which means our county is no longer with accurate covid19 counts.

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Its a local goal that's been emphasized. Test as many cases as possible so that we get as accurate a picture as possible. I'm not sure if this is applicable to the rest of the country. But we really do strive for 5% positive around here, and its kinda bad that we're failing that now... and is highly indicative that we're undercounting cases severely.

I mean... 4-hour wait times, amirite? If you've got (maybe) COVID19, and the receptionist says "4-hour wait before your test", will you really sit there? Or will you go home and just take off of work for a few days?

Its a natural behavior, but that's the sort of thing that leads to dramatic undercounts of COVID19 during these times.
Checker Plus for Gmail displays new emails and the sender's contact photo
Julia Zhao, a developer and video game creator
I admire your enthusiasm and conviction. I do not doubt that you and your pro-democracy patriotic brothers and sisters at what ever group are probably the right people for the job, currently.

In the United States presently, I am concerned about the health of democracy itself. I assume authoritarian forces from abroad (RU / NK / CN / Iran / others) are abusing our open social media networks to radicalize the public. The infection here is to a point where a very small minority of people even understand there is an infection -- most people don't look at problems from this sort of meta perspective, and they instead hail from either side of the divide, and are begging for a one-party takeover of the system.

I do not see the 1337 folks doing much to fix this. Going to hack some routers, spoof some DNS, send people firmware viruses, break their servers, collect information? That doesn't fix it. Authoritarian attacks on the American mind are mostly succeeding and this is blatantly evidenced by the radicalism that is becoming so popular in our politics.

If it can happen here, it can happen in France. I'm wondering if the only remedy is a government firewall of social media / comment sections / etc to keep conversations limited to real citizens, rather than foreign information warriors.

But hey, what do I know?
> It is always going to be cheaper and more performant to do any kind of forwarding on a rented server in a data center.

I understand this solution, but this is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.
Fistfuls of cash are indeed fun!
That rumor seems to have originated with a right-wing American broadcaster, but more importantly, ivermectin isn't approved for use as a Covid treatment in Japan:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/11/coronavirus-fac...
The whitepaper has no details about an authenticated key exchange like Signal does with X3DH, it just assumes that it already happened, but then the rest of their protocol does not offer any post-compromise security.
vscode doesn't and it doesn't even respect the setting to not insert " or ).
Grrr
Ray Manzarek from The Doors (named after this book) used to say something like "I don't need drugs any more because the doors are open". Here's a similar quote: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ray_manzarek_307478
I wonder if they just reinvented UU-(en,de)code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

I guess it'll go... nowhere.
>it would be a very interesting data point to know for sure what's the real situation there regarding treatments like ivermectin.

The efficacy of ivermectin is a proxy war for something that has zero to do with treating a disease. As such, by the time you find a satisfyingly-conclusive answer, you won't actually care anymore.
>100% of the show for every show

You're mis-framing what I'm saying. The effect is the same. There is something on the display that is unwanted. Regardless of what that thing is, the issue at hand is that people do not want things that they didn't choose to be on the display to actually be on the display. It doesn't matter what that is. In this case, it's a small dot but it could have been a little microphone icon or a camera icon or (like Windows) an orange border around the display or literally anything else.

The fact that it didn't affect some people before is great. They were lucky that they didn't have this happen. All I'm saying is that, for years before this change in Monterey, there have been things that pop-up like this on external displays because external displays do not have the ability to prevent the OS from using a display as a display (with a couple exceptions when used with APIs for exclusivity). That's a known problem with using extended displays and it's been known for a while, regardless of the OS you're using. There's also a solution to that problem that's pretty standard in the presentation/production industry.

That being said... there are now multiple solutions for people that both don't break the intention behind this change (they're slightly technical solutions that most people won't do) and allow for app developers themselves to fix the problem (using the APIs already provided to get screen exclusivity).
Batteries and EV in general are far more stable and run for longer then ICE engines.

Yes, some failures in an integrated battery module can not easily be fixed, but there are good engineering reason to do it this way. While some problems might of having to recycle a whole pack many will literally run for decades without any service. There is a tradeoff between serviceability and reliability.

Yes, they create resources to build, but any car does. The supply lines for batteries are not yet as well developed and thus not as efficient.

Data actually shows that Li batteries have incredible reuse rates. They often find secondary uses. There are literally 100s of companies who want to recycle batteries, but in reality there are not actually enough batteries coming off-line.

However as scale grows production efficiency will grow to.

Of course doesn't men EV are the solution by itself.
You could “draw” the whole website, create fairly complex animations and interactions, script everything, and then just publish it.

Now imagine what it means today to create a simple animation, export it to Lottie, incorporate that into a website and publish that. It’s a nightmare. And it’s nowhere near to what was possible with Flash.
> They are not really pumping that money into workers and economy

Uber pays thousands of engineers hundreds of thousands of dollars. They all live and spend in their local communities.

> The measure of a successful business is whether it can support itself.

Well this is the major difference - in the US they’re happy to invest and work for the long term, not short-term profits.

> Because those 20 billion dollars are better spent on actual businesses.

Why do you care or have an opinion on where someone else invests their money?

I’ve had to work my whole career for North American companies because European ones can’t even begin to compete. It’s madness to say Europe is better off with our bargain basement tech sector.
Do browsers block access to 192.168/16 or 10/8 etc?
This is mainly to catch drug cartels.
>it will eventually be removed from other non pinned sources

Hopefully, though, they unpin it.
Even if... Tesla (like many others) suppressed Radar standstill targets to prioritize driving over stopping. Without another modality, they are indistinguishable from ground clutter in some scenes and who would want to full stop for a manhole cover every now and then... Elon maybe thought, getting rid of radar might solve that problem. It doesn't.
In my experience even Ethernet over powerline is better than using WiFi mesh, since there's still a wire, even if it's noisy. That is, it provided a more stable connection, even if the peak speed is not theoretically as fast.

Your mileage may vary.
When I read your question, I thought you were writing about me. I have the same tendencies and I think it may be related to the "progress curve". Early when you are learning or trying something, it's very interesting because everything is new and the learning opportunities are everywhere. Progress is rapid and there are few difficult barriers in the early going. When the thing you are doing no longer scratches that "learning immediacy" itch and continued progress takes longer duration of focus, the new shiny loses its luster and you move on to the next thing. Some people seem to just have the discipline and focus to keep plugging away. I'm not sure if that is learned, genetic, or can be arrived at through the use of some sort of system, but I don't have it, and I think it is the thing you seek. Let me know if you find it!
It's not "all encrypted transmissions" that were at stake here.
My comment was in response to the statement you made before your edit which was

>>main infections in the UK are currently from Delta.
Have you ever actually visited the midwest or are all your negative stereotypes based completely on the casually accepted discriminatory comments you've read online?

To answer your question- people of color would be treated identically to white people. You do realize the racial history of the midwest is safehouses for the underground railroad and soldiers for the Union army during the civil war right? And that Iowa legalized gay marriage years before California.

There are good and bad people everywhere, smart and dumb people everywhere. Negative stereotypes based on city, state or region are just as bigoted as any other stereotypes.
Ask HN: What Makes Software Great?
I've been looking through a legacy code base recently and have observed a perennial question come into my mind:

What makes software great?

Of course it needs to work for its intended purpose. But that alone does not make great software. That is merely table stakes.

The more I work in this industry the more I think the main thing that defines greatness is:

Is the code easy to understand?

Of courses there is subjectivity in even this, but could a reasonably intelligent developer easily see what is going on in a codebase, even as it grows sufficiently large.

Empathy is a superpower here. How much are you thinking about the poor souls that will follow in your footsteps and be asked to build upon your foundation?

I know this is a complex topic with plenty of subjectivity. But I am curious what your thoughts are here.

What makes software great?
In what sense does it require finesse? It seems to work fine in vim at least.

Agree that it may be nice if they were more syntax aware. Although, I'm not sure what I want to have happen if I comment out some code.
Do you want to be an individual contributor or an EM again? The latter might be easier if you can find a more people focused role and given your prior experience.

For the former, just grind leetcode and keep applying. This first job is going to be difficult to land, but after that it should be smooth sailing. Keep practicing how to spin your time as a PM into a value add.
"A democratic state is elected by the majority, as such, the state should share the same definition as the majority."

Despite that
* They often don't do what the majority wants or is best for them.

* In most european states the government doesn't actually have >50% of the votes.

* There are things that are moral that the majority wants to be illegal (such as homosexual relationships until a few years ago).

* The retraction of this requirement actually serves the interests of the majority.
It took governments a while to catch up, and now they have. In the arms race between privacy and surveillance, E2E is the next shield against the weapon of mass surveillance.

Governments have always had warrant requirements, until they decided they didn't need them. If you want my data, get a warrant.

The US had it's own top secret database breached.. because they used a discount contractor. I choose to keep my data in higher regard.

Bulk SMS/location is also a horrible failure of justice and it harms innocent people so that a few criminals may be caught. This is backwards.

It is better that a criminal go unpunished than for a single innocent person to be harmed wrongfully by the government.
We aren't building towards anything. Or rather, we are collectively building towards 8 billion different things.

Some larger-scale themes: Getting off of the planet. Reducing poverty. Renewable energy. Knowledge available to everyone.
The only thing that taught me is imposter syndrom and how to wake up in sweat after dreaming of still being at university.
As if their braking is a reliable indicator of precisely when they see what...
Same with private cryptocurrency keys. Otherwise, accessing non-public APIs with weak security by playing around with the URL would be legal.
Did you watch the video? The truck is almost impossible to see it's so dark.

However human night vision is much better than camera night vision, so I wonder what an actual human would have seen in that scenario.

But it's certain the camera could not really see it.
I wouldn't mind not having names, certs or even losing the connection from time to time when a node goes off. That would still be a fair price to pay. A simple volunteer-based VPN-like network for port redirection would be enough.
I totally agree that it's probably worthwhile to implement some country specific logic for a user base of that size and ad revenue per user. But specifically with regards to this, I really can't imagine they would agree to do this. Suppose they do, it's probably not a bad guess that they would lose more users globally due to the bad publicity it would generate than they would lose by cutting off Belgium.

On the technical front, your examples are good and valid, but they seem like features that are pretty straight forward to feature flag per country. Something like disabling end-to-end encryption looks a lot more intrusive to me (without being a subject matter, feel free to correct me). Whatever WhatsApp built, they built it to enable end-to-end encryption on a global scale, to enable anyone from around the globe to send an encrypted message around the globe. Poking a hole in that seems non-trivial.
True, about so many issues.
This has been standard practice in Sweden since the early 2000s. No one ever sells at the sticker price, the apartment is shown Sunday and Monday, then a 2-3 day bidding war breaks out and the sale closes on Wednesday.

If the bidding war isn’t as successful as the seller wants the apartment is taken of the market for a week and then reappears with at 30% price jack and a title that says “fixed price! First come first served”
There's no downside to the owner. They're under no obligation to sell for asking price.
I use Plex (Kodi) like system for the phone and for other people. In practice I far more often use mpv on the terminal to start movies.
Active sensing like Lidar is even better than night vision. The side view of a damaged truck is really hard to train as a relevant class reliably, even for Karpathy.
Influencer with investment tips often not independent, warns Dutch regulator
>people usually had close enough to full control

No they didn't. That's literally the entire point. Just because people don't know that or weren't affected by it regularly doesn't change that fact. People are focusing on things like notifications because that was the initial example that I used for ease of understanding but there are literally thousands of things that the OS can display, on any OS, on top of a full-screen window or by kicking the display out of full-screen. Even on Windows, Virtual DJ has has a full-screen mode and errors will kick you out of full-screen and pop-up on that display. All of that is avoidable with an I/O box.

The fact is that if you're not ok with the OS choosing what shows up on your screen, there are ways to do that and they've been industry standard for years.
What the EPA's new vehicle emissions requirements look like
Pretty soon it is going to become a very difficult decision whether to have children. I would argue we are already at that point, however this idea has not really gone 'mainstream' yet. But I fully expect the birthrate to have plummeted by 2030.

The question we are going to have to answer: "What happens when there is no future?"