skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two levels to consider. At the individual post level, conversation needs to be thoughtful, respectful of the other person, and patient when correcting wrong information or responding to bad arguments. If that's what you mean by civility, that's good (we stopped using that word years ago, but that's a separate issue).

At the overall account level, an account needs to be using HN for its intended purpose, which is intellectual curiosity. It's not ok to post primarily on battle topics (like nationalistic ones or ideological ones or partisan ones), because curiosity doesn't work that way. If the primary use of one's energy is for nationalistic or political battle, that pretty much guarantees that curiosity is not part of the mix. I've written extensively about this in the past:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

and about how/why we use this as the litmus test for banning accounts:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

If you take a look at those links and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be interested to know what it is.
If only there was an invention that enabled you to change gears on the fly with the push of a stalk on the handle bars…
We shouldn't assume that about the GP, but indoor vaping in public spaces is much common than indoor smoking in the US.
Where did all the Strategy Gamers go?
Hate to hear this, but I'm glad I bailed when LogMeIn bought them years ago.
Only $1 an hour for access! Actually I think Prodigy was more expensive. AOL made money hand over fist during that brief window before Web Browsers became mainstream.

As soon as ISPs starting showing up that were $10 or $15 for an entire month of Internet all of those dial up services were doomed. They had grown way too fat on per-hour billing and couldn't hope to compete.
But I don't think that it is an unsolvable task. If you simply use Unicode-aware version of "to lowercase" function, it will be better than what we have today. But of course there is a place for improvement (dealing with accented letters in European languages, dealing with combining characters, different alphabets like Hiragana/Katakana etc).
Oh yes, we are working hard to optimize current space. But I think the real issue is 12 months ago we could have bought any home in any of nice middle class neighborhoods. Now homes are so expensive for us. This made me start comparing my career with some of my friends.

I don't even care for a bigger home but my kids ask for backyard. That is what kills me.
Read excerpts of his book or his essays on the topic. You might be suprised.
Don't they also actively destabilize each other though? I'm not sure why this should be considered the primary cause behind it.
I like this idea. I wish insurance company management and software engineers would handle some insurance claims. The processes they create without experience are poop.
How is this not a Ponzi scheme?
The fact that 1Pass is dropping local hosting means I’ll be dropping 1Pass.
It's not an all-or-nothing issue. Every single reactor that produces weapons-grade material increases the risk.

Because it's not just state actors you need to be worried about. A gun-type fission bomb is simple enough for a well-funded terrorist group to construct from scratch - if they can obtain enough enriched Uranium.
The Indiana Sand Dunes are a good day trip into Indiana from Chicago.
First part is, second part isn't :)
> I was skeptical that any mechanism to create bullshit jobs could arise from a system as inherently Darwinian as capitalism

But if we take Darwinian evolution as our analogy, there are plenty of strategies that essentially piggy back on other organisms. Cuckoo birds, intestinal worms, a whole coterie of sexual behaviors.

It's also the everyday experience of just about everyone that they perceive certain others to not be contributing anything at all. The surprise is that some people are willing to admit they are one of those people as well. It's not hard to think of how this would work, either. Convince someone to hire you, and then don't contribute, while taking a salary. If it's hard or expensive to detect the non-contributor, there will be NCs in the organization.
At my workplace we assume if you're a good Matlab programmer, you can teach yourself Python in a jiffy. What's a bit tricky is that every resume mentions Matlab and Python. Having a public repo is a useful way to show what you can do.
This is so lovely and so remarkably familiar. Thank you so much for sharing. Having recently moved back to the midwest (SE WI) after being in the Seattle area for almost ten years, I feel so much of this. You've put it into words far better than I could dream of doing.
Highly recommend 1Password with Yubikey/TitanKey protection. This means even if somebody had your master password and private key, they'd need a Yubikey to access your 1Password account from a new device. It's pretty much fool-proof unless you're kidnapped and held hostage.
It seems that after a few years of relative calm in the crypto scene (bitcoin just used to transact, mine or invest) the easier it got to roll-your-own-crypto the more magical ways we are finding uses for it. I had no idea this existed before.
A bit like social media points, right?

Followers, likes, karma, all aren't directly worth anything. But it takes work to get them.

I know a bunch of prominent internet people who don't make much money with this status, because it's not easy to monetize it without compromise yourself.
> GnuPG has stood up pretty well for three decades

Make sure you also look for libgcrypt, which had a lot of cryptographic weaknesses in the 2010s.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-4711...
The response by one of the devs to the first problem is "In fact, the concerns on typing-friendliness always comes up in discussions about the GoboLinux tree. To that, I can only respond that, in a properly configured shell like the one that comes by default with GoboLinux, typing /Programs takes the exact same number of keystrokes as typing /usr: slash, lowercase p, Tab." [0]

The response to your second problem is that not all programs are well written, and they cannot afford to patch every poorly-written program.

[0] https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html
you're right, the nodejs dependency in not small;

I've picked it because I work with js on my daily basis and found http://yargs.js.org/ very handy to create beautiful CLI.

Another possibility could be to extract a binary to provide the CLI as an executable instead of the node project with yargs in dev-deps

And the other part of the project is are libs, not very well documented as of today, but real shortcuts for gdscript projects: Example the Animate functions based on the tween API;

WIP!
Some countries have proposed banning it from a threshold. I.e. ban it for people born after year X (which at time of introduction is e.g. 14 year olds)
From the faq it sounds like the purpose is to differentiate the gobolinux top level folders from the hidden compatibility folders, which makes sense to me.
I am Thelemic. I recite an affirmation to manifest my will in this world. I believe that every day reveals my self-realization. I perform self-aware meditation to force myself to be honest.

It's not too different from many other forms of introspective study.
Because it was stored in KeePass it sounds very likely that you’re copy pasting it into LastPass, which could have been intercepted by any malware that accessed the clipboard. Especially if you allow clipboard access to your phone from your computer.
Sound effects used to be common in the GNOME desktop. I think they were added because of Sun's involvement in improving the usability of the desktop. There is a wealth of research that indicates that sound clues can improve usability. See f.e.: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014492999119066

But the sound effect support was never complete so some buttons and icons in Nautilus (the file manager) would make sounds when pressed but not those in the window manager. I think that is why they were dropped. Because if some buttons make a click sound when clicked but not others then the experience becomes confusing. And making all Linux desktop apps comply with the same sound effect "theme" (or whatever) would be very difficult. KDE apps would undoubtedly use different sound effects than GNOME apps and so on. It's a feature I sorely miss though.
The issue is subpixel antialiasing. it got removed in Big Sur and hence nonretina screens have blurry fonts.
Ah yes, the $5 wrench method.
Yeah, but throwing away lot's of good features so that you can keep your phone underwater all day just doesn't make sense.

Waterproofing is possible right now and works for almost all normal use cases. No need to remove features.

What Apple is doing is definitely not for waterproofing.
For what it's worth, my attempt at using Keepass drove me away because the password database kept becoming conflicted, necessitating a merge. Keepass' options for dealing with conflicts were to "accept mine" or "accept theirs", but I'd often end up in situations where the conflict went sideways and I lost my login completely.

In the end I was running the conflict resolution command once every couple days.

Normally I wouldn't mind, but the only time the warning comes up saying that my db file is conflicted is when I need to enter a password in... which is the last time I want to be dealing with this.

This was Keepass with the db file on Dropbox, by the way. Not sure how Syncthing would handle it differently, but it wouldn't have anything to do with merging db files if they go out of sync.
Exactly. They’re mimicking how they were taught. My 3yo is all about “let me show you” because that’s exactly what we say when we teach him something/how to use a new toy. When a guest comes over, it’s his turn to show off his new toy and teach them how to use it.
What if you’re in another country and your devices get stolen? Should you bring the Yubikey to travel? What happens if there’s a fire at your house and the Yubikey is destroyed?
Is this different from the phenomenon described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming?

Honestly it seems like a pretty great career -- you get to spend your time indoors, probably somewhere climate controlled with electricity and restrooms. This is way better than the workhouse.

Whoever is buying these things as a collector is basically donating their wealth to others, like a kind of privatized welfare. If people are buying these things as a speculative investment, they're participating in a private lottery. That all seems … fine?
> David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work, as a sort of subconscious self-preservation instinct of the economic status quo.

Isn't it unavoidable in a world with food surplus and automation?
This is an excellent choice, my current job is already remote. We are stuck in our current general area due to school for 2 years or so. After 2 years, we can move to country if things don't change.
Do you feel like the "search space" of MBA problems is somewhat finite?

Like, if you read 5 books and 20 blogs on VCs you are unlikely to be mystified by anything that happens to you as you seed/VC/pivot/exit whatever. There are only so many possibilities.

(MBA stuff is still hard, and sensitive to luck/timing/networking/cultural factors..)
Solar and wind are only cheaper when you don't count the adaptation the network needs to make to accommodate them (storage or gas plants to deal with intermittency, but also regional interconnections, frequency stabilization mechanism, the “smart grid” thing, etc). And people usually bring that “nuclear doesn't account for the decommissioning cost”, as if renewable did…

It's the same issue as trucks vs trains: trucks are cheaper because they don't pay for the roads at all.
Real Russian roulette would be to preload history with a sure-shot such as `sudo rm -rf /`

If you don't like your job there's also the Polish variant, where you take one bullet out of every six.
Because case insensitive filesystem doesn't require you to press Shift key when typing a command. Typing `ls /Program` requires one keypress more than `ls /program`. Also, it is easier to remember just a name rather than remember how exactly it is spelled.
So if I paid you a salary to dig a hole and fill it up again, ad infinitum, that job would have inherent value just because I'm paying you to do it?

If so, welcome aboard.
postgres can collect stats across all queries against the database[1]. GCP Cloud SQL has this enabled by default.

You can do `select * from pg_stat_user_tables` to see how many table have had (1) a full sequential scan, (2) how many records have been traversed by sequential scans, (3) how many index scans, and (4) how many records have been scanned using indexes.

You can also do `select * from pg_stat_user_indexes` to see (1) which indexes have or have not been used, (2) how many times they've been used, and (3) how many records have been crawled using each index.

Using this information, you would deduce which indexes to add/remove, and but you would still need to figure out which queries are not hitting indexes (an exercise for the reader).

If you save these stats once a day (e.g. using `pg_cron` to copy to a new table with a timestamp), you will be able to monitor over time whether an index should be added/removed

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/monitoring-stats.html
I get that Krugman can be shrill. But no one who wins a nobel prize in economics is an idiot.
That's more to do with the carrier than the eSIM standard or phone, though. My iPhone supports eSIM but my carrier (and the others, apparently) refuses to provision eSIMs for anything that isn't a smartwatch.
I read his writing, and I also read his Debt book and found it unimpressive and unconvincing.
> A great example is 32-bit apps, where Apple gave something like an 8-year heads-up that 32-bit apps were going away, which happened a few years ago but it's not hard to find threads on HN where people are still complaining about it.

But actually, I personally believe that the actual reason Apple killed 32bit support was because they didn't want to build it into Rosetta. (And they didn't want Intel computers to be able to run anything their new Apple Silicon computers could not.)

Before Apple Silicon was on the horizon, it was no problem for Apple to keep 32 bit and carbon libraries around for eight years because they might as well, it's not doing any harm.

(I'm also one of the people who was/is mad about 32 bit support, but I acknowledge that my opinion on the matter has no bearing on what Apple will decide to do.)
Japan doesn't have the same export laws as the US.
Why wouldn't rejecting eSIMs be a violation then?
You definitely don't need an infinite amount of time to make C or C++ implementation of a matching engine run faster than a Java based one.

I've worked at two fintech companies, a prop shop and an investment bank and seen some APIs for other companies' matching engines and they've pretty much all been C/C++.
This take is pretty spot-on. Many developers also move to Minnesota, so there are some pretty striking personality clashes in odd ways. As long as you like craft beer, though, you're golden
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What company is paying to do this?
The whole service pretty much started to deteriorate after being bought. We have daily issues with initial logins taking maybe five minutes. I've also experience being told that my account was a "Free user" and I had zero password. Not something you want to see when working for a company that has 1000+ passwords in Lastpass.
I'd be careful telling people what they "should" and "shouldn't" be doing with their time based on your contrived opinions.
While iPhones are supported on Google Fi they don't support 5G. Other Google Fi phones support 5G without problems. But 5G on iPhones has been "coming" for years. I have no idea what's taking so long.
Yeah I don't know anything at all but it does make me wonder if you could use the energy created by the muon-catalyzed fusion to push a lower-temp hot plasma into fusing over the edge. Almost like hierarchical catalysis of fusion.

Again per your observation, if it had any value we would do it so i'm missing one to many major things. I just enjoy thinking about it.
Have you seen the 13? It is almost fat enough for a 1/4" jack.
Yup, and it gets worse when you consider that everyone is usually trying to make their job look important regardless of how important it actually is. It's likely that a deliberate attempt to weed out BS jobs would select for good fakers, ass kissers, and con artists and weed out a lot of heads-down productive people.
The most important non x86 arch is aarch64 which is in fact byte addressable (more so than x86)! So is mips64.
1. Composite indicator of financial market development. Developing countries saw a big jump from the 1990s in terms of access to capital markets (productive assets) [0]

2. this one is tied into #1. People in developing countries have more access to capital markets and therefore more access to higher yielding products

3. Average annual hours actually worked per worker (OECD) shows a downward trend among practically all countries [1]

[0] https://voxeu.org/article/financial-market-development-econo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#/media/File:Annua...
That has almost nothing to do with it.

It's about convenience vs security, and specifically, auto-filled passwords across devices and applications. Anything that provides such a feature will be inherently less secure than an encrypted file.

If LastPass and others are to blame for anything, it would possibly be their marketing around the this tradeoff, though I think they avoid direct misrepresentation by just avoiding the issue completely.
Yes PL, my home field, I am proud to say has been leading the way. I am certainly more optomistic than I would have been 20 years ago when Rob Pike wrote this, but the war is not yet won.

I fear some of the accidental complexity is more indicative than economic problems than CS ones. E.g. it feels like 1000s of bad abstraction dependencies is mirroring https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/industrial-s... in the real world. (I am not against larger numbers of dependencies, just the bloat that comes from a gazillion square pegs in round holes, and conway's law preventing anyone from trying to do anything about it.)
> However, users receiving these warnings have stated that their passwords are unique to LastPass and not used elsewhere.

So it’s not just bots trying passwords from other database leaks

The whole premise of LastPass is that they can’t even decrypt your master password. It’s pretty concerning that this is happening.

If hackers can get your master password, then _all_ of your passwords are at risk
If they can ban players fir cheating how is the game decentralized?
I prefer to keep my password db off the internet all together. I just copy it from my PC to my phone whenever I make a change.
Hum... I think simpler is better, and having each letter be what they are only seems much simpler than having to guess if the file system is going to decide my new file name is equivalent to another existing file name and overide it rather than creating a new one (for example).
I can't remember any recent good news about 0click mitigation
No I can't it was some years ago, in the time when they didn't capture the market yet. You can easliy find them online, just go through related subreddits from around 2016, and watch for studies people are complaining about.

edit:
I have just written my comments in good faith. I don't know what distorted view of yourself you have, to expect people will prove something to you.
I haven't thought about this too deeply, but I was thinking if you can have every phone come with "free" global network access - just data. i.e. get rid of the current tech for voice calls, so that all phone calls will be over a VOIP type service. And you can't use the phone without an active account with one of the providers that participate in this global access program. Each provider can bill other providers on the backend when a roaming subscriber uses their network.
Its not just exploitation, the way managers imagine the work is done is very different from how it really gets done. Imagining how things work is never exactly how it works and you cant imagine how far off you could be. We've all been surprised by reality.
Corporations, whether giant or not, create products which people chose to purchase because they are useful. That's creating value, not sucking value.

Sometimes a corporation can "suck value" by using anticompetitive behavior to prevent competitors from offering better/cheaper products to consumers. But in this case, Google is the big corporation, and contributions to OSM benefit smaller competitors at the expense of Google, creating more options and more value for consumers overall.
I prefer it over the mobile microtransaction loot box culture of the last decade.
I like how the comments are full of people challenging the rule breaking author/title/study
Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015)
Except that we end up spending a vast amount of human effort doing work that fundamentally doesn't need to be done. There's no actual economic output to paying people to break rocks.
Using c on a word machine is just a bad idea.
It didn't try to do what you put on that list. It didn't do messaging; messaging programs used it. It didn't do backups; backup programs used it.

It's just a foundation-sort of program that does encryption and signing of arbitrary data, using one format for keys, and allowing working with those keys whether they're in the same computer or in a smartcard/hsm. That simplifies key management, since it allows you to have one Yubikey with your PGP key on it and do basically anything crypto related.

But what I believe someguydave was referring to was stuff like smartcard/Yubikey support, not different uses of encryption and signing.
I'll pay you to do it. I'll incorporate a company and then pay you through that if it feels more legit that way.
You do realize you are on HackerNews, where Paul Graham says it’s a negative trait for founders, start up workers, etc. So most companies that are growing or are looking to change directions will feel this way.

If you are at the same company people want to at the very least see growth. Positional or responsibility wise.

I rather hire someone with multiple 2-3 year stints, than someone with one 8 year job. But it’s only a small part of the hiring equation.
Yes! However, as stated in the article, earning currency or items in videogames and reselling them have been around since the earliest days of online gaming. Plus these people are entrepreneurs working for themselves. I'm really not getting the link.
Your adversary wants the clear text of your messages. The clear text exists on server, or they exist on a client device. Client device is the only acceptable solution. Make it hard for them, they must hack your client, rather than send an email. It IS an argument against snake oil, server side “encryption”.

Sorry, this is a hacker board. I, and others hackers, agree with me. E2E||GTFO.