skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the original iPad 2 released with a SIM card slot, I happily went phone-free for about two years. I had a messenger bag that allowed me quick access to the iPad (https://www.previousmagazine.com/hex-recon-15-charcoal-messe...).

I no longer use an iPad, in fact I haven't used anything Apple since ~2013 post-Jobs.

These days, phones are increasingly used for multi-factor authentication via apps, and a lot of these don't ship with a tablet version of the app, or they rely on a phone number as well as the app. Unfortunately, I do use an Android phone.

Do I miss being phone-free? Yes. But here's what's changed with how I treat my phone:

All of my social media notifications are completely disabled. I look whenever I feel the urge or I'm doing a marketing campaign.

I no longer use umpteen different comms apps, the cognitive load and battery life was terrible because of it. Instead, I aggregate everything via bridges into my Matrix Synapse server, and access it via Element, meaning all of my devices have one app for all of my comms.

I triage email once every 2h automatically. The exception being that important notifications containing x in the subject line or y in the from field will get my attention on each device, and flash my lights a certain colour until the message is read. (Gmail scripts are cool)

I no longer give out my personal phone number. I only give out SIP numbers, this way I have greater control of who can contact me, and blocking numbers en masse is simple. Android has SIP support baked into the default dialler on most ROMs. This also means I can use my SIP accounts from any device.

Other than a handful of the absolute most essential apps, my smartphone is increasingly like a feature phone, and that's not a bad thing.

I do most of my reading on an Android e-ink device. My eyes thank me for it. For about six months I was using eyedrops to mitigate sore eyes from staring at screens all day, every day, but then realized I had to treat the source.

FWIW, despite having a high-end desktop, most of my day-to-day work, particularly stuff most people would use a phone for, has been replaced by a modded ThinkPad. Swappable batteries are great.
Lots of distance with lots of nothing in between.
One doesn't get a resupply fleet on Mars.
I've seen many of consent forms mention tracking beyond cookies and cross-devices.

Are you sure that by accepting you aren't just accepting legally to continue to be tracked with all other means?

If true, then deleting cookies only cause them to ask again next time, but you're still fully tracked.

See https://www.kompyte.com/blog/5-ways-to-identify-your-users-w... (just found it) for examples of tracking without cookies.
Anyone remember Gatwick?

Somehow it strikes me that kids having fun and authorities overreacting and chasing their own tails is a more likely explanation than the Russians flying drones from their hidden submarines.
The history and evolution of an alternative monitoring system
Completely agree, Microsoft seems more focused on UI polishing than addressing fundamental usability issues hampering productivity with Windows 11. Presenting grouped application windows and trying to parse which one is which, when they all look the same. It's bananas! Unbearable to use. Must be due to bad management decisions, the release was premature and they are still rolling out fixes interminably.
"It's all stuff that optimizes for memorized, spoilered, scripted player behavior, and against general learning of a consistent world model."

To be frank, I never got that far in Nethack. But I know what you mean, I experienced it already in TES games. After you "learn" various paths to success, the game stops being fun.
I think this is a logical explanation - that they have a huge team going through answers here and that one of them made a fuck-up.
Not totally true as peer to peer can use a decentralised protocol to find peer.

Is there a “centralised” server under Bitcoin? Or is it you can bootstrapping even manually then the peer to peer network can go ahead to find more peer …

The problem of “centralisation” is not due to the need of finding peer. It is in the edge. You control the isp you control all. See China.

How to break this edge issue … very hard.
Does MacOS not highlight open files in Finder the way that it used to work back in MacOS 9?
There are people (free market people, not communists) who'd argue the idea of owning land as a private person and extracting rent/speculation is folly itself and who'd argue you should either pay much higher taxes (Georgism) or they you should only be able to lease land from the community around you.

Free market capitalism doesn't work well (in terms of social welfare) with natural monopolies, and land could be called the ultimate natural monopoly.
I think Hanlon's Razor can be applied here - i.e. never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Particularly considering his comments were just echoing all the other comments in the thread - and the message "hello there" is strange and doesn't really make sense to me (if they have the power to edit a post, they probably have the power to delete it outright, which would have been less suspicious and not generated this post).
KDE is a great first desktop for anyone coming from Windows, but Mac users might be more comfortable with some of the more "Mac-like" desktop offerings available on Linux. But in that there ability you have one of Linux-based operating systems' great strengths. You can easily customize things to fit your preferred workflow. :)
Starnet needed …
I’m not sure this is a benefit? The time dilation means the passengers subjectively get there faster than they would without the time dilation.

Why would removing this be a benefit? It means when you arrive at your destination you are older than you would have been if you had the normal time dilation, and if you head back, the people will have aged just as much in your round trip as normal, the only difference is that you’ve also aged as much as they have.

Right?

If you have a non-accelerating subliminal warp bubble, and you shift to a frame of reference where it is not moving,
then wouldn’t you just get a region where time moves more quickly? Or.. ?
OK, fine, but not having JavaScript is unworkable. Most sites, such as Github, Outlook and Jira require it and I need those to do my day-to-day work.
Anything which gets responses of empty platitudes usually means they aren’t listening.

I am a small developer who makes apps and puts them on the App Store and play store (Hacker news client HACK for example). I often get emails from users on how to add a feature or fix a bug etc.
I email them and instead of just saying “thanks for your feedback”, I address the real problem/feature.

Example- few days ago someone asked me to integrate the Orion browser support in my app.

I wasn’t aware of this browser so I googled it, found it that it’s currently in closed beta and I signed up for a beta. I replied back to the user that currently I can’t add it in because I don’t have access to the beta yet, however I have signed up and when I do get access to it, I will test and add it in unless the user can get me a piece of code from the developers of Orion browser which tells me what identifier to use to launch their browser on iOS.

The user contacted the developers of Orion and got me the info I needed. Today I added it in but since I still don’t have access to the beta, I sent the app update and informed the user that for now, I have added the functionality acting blindly and I think it should work but if it doesn’t, then they will have to wait for me to get the beta. User is happy.

Another example- someone recently contacted me for a feature in another one of my apps which I have no intention of adding. I replied back that I will be honest with them and inform them that I don’t intend on adding it in and here’s my reasons. I gave them an alternative app which has that feature in case they want to try. User was happy and gave me a 5 star review.

Basically, even if you have bad news for the customer, tell them the news and they will be just fine. I try to put myself in the customers shoes and think about what I would think of got the typical cookie cutter response “we are listening to your feedback” with no further details on what they intend on doing with what they are hearing.
No chance of bear attack, according to a popular meme.
Isn’t it basically PR to attract students, who in turn will pay very expensive tuition (often backed by student loans, and guaranteed by the government to boot, meaning it can be cranked up really high)?
You shouldn't have your crypto designed by a CEO
Haha I get that. I love MacKaye and Rollins.

As I was growing up I found that "straight edge" and "hardcore Christian" overlapped too much for my comfort. I chalked it up to kids trying to exude a rebellious attitude within the safe confines of the Christian narrative. That didn't seem as authentic to me as the kids who started anarchist punk or satanic grind bands.

Basically, there were some behaviors that served as the narc test. Straight edge kids had a self-declared pass because of their morals. "I don't drink, see? I have an x tattooed on my hand." Those morals conspicuously seemed to align with what "good Christian kids" were taught to believe. This was outlined in stark relief as I realized more and more bands around me labeled themselves as "Christian".

I hadn't revisited that conclusion in a long time, but a cursory glance signals to me that the logic is still sound. It seems like it was my own allergic reaction to cynicism, which I think MacKaye et al might at least respect.
A defer feature using lambda expressions
They could single-handedly make peertube 100x more popular by moving there. The only problem being money from ad revenue of course. Brave style micropayments are starting to make more and more sense as I think about it.
But isn't it that you also need repair stuff with your house? The same for public property - it's never "finished" and needs repairing, etc.
I wouldn't use a batch activator, I'm sure Valve has some anti-bot measure that will either throttle activations or lock your account. Better to import them into a password manager (or just a spreadsheet) and activate a specific game when you want to download it.
I mean, I'm a long time linux user and think windows has been steadily getting worse too, but in reference to your linked comment complaining about "inclusively designed" being a meaningless buzzword - I was confused what it meant too, but reading the actual article the full sentence is:

>We’re proud that Windows 11 is the most inclusively designed version of Windows, built with and for people with disabilities.

so that just means it's designed to be more accessible to people with disabilities. I don't really think that's the problem, and it is a concern that is directly related to product quality. Seems like you just have a bone to pick
Not GP, but just was about to skim the sources and changed my mind upon seeing GitLab: its UI is sluggish to the point where FF occasionally asks whether it should stop JS execution, at least with larger projects.
It would let the revenues pay for the cost of the roads in the city, but not the rest.
Now, persuading people to paste your keyword dump into the HN page discussion for your site. There’s some real SEO for ya ;)
I also spent quite a lot of time during the Windows 10 preview phase, and a while after release, diligently reporting bugs, and voting on well thought-out feature requests. But after noticing that none of these bugs ever got any attention, and how the Feedback Hub was mostly just noise, I started to wonder why I even did free work for a multi-billion dollar company, on my own time. Right around that period I switched to Linux and now only use Windows for some games that absolutely won't work on the former. This way I no longer care how bad the UX of the system is, and how many bugs there are, as long as my games launch.
Could you make the navigation look more like Bootstrap's NavBar with a simple flat items? The button menu looks weird.
I think generally that a competent manager without too many direct reports can have a good sense of who’s contributing more in the end, even when mixing apples and oranges like you describe.
Apparently it worked on specific hardware configurations a couple years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-ME3PsKtc

In terms of general minimal-viable support, that's probably hit-and-miss (perhaps around where Linux distros were at in the early 90s - probably worked, except for everywhere it didn't), particularly with the increasing ossification and variability of BIOS/legacy emulation in current-era systems.
(author here) I like the thinking but I have never once seen a MSFT rep reply directly to a comment on Feedback Hub. Not once. You're lucky if the submission-level response makes sense. I don't think it explains this case.
Link to the github project: https://github.com/asen/smg
Whenever I drink, it's all fun and I'm buzzed, feeling funny... Then it starts to make me melancholic. This feeling doesn't stop when the alcohol is out of my system a few days after. It takes me about 3-4 weeks to feel truly "normal" again...

Can anyone relate to this or am I an alien?
Is 5G Harmful for Humans and the Environment?
I visited this in 2012 while motorbiking to the Pamir Highway.

At the time, it was less known, and certainly hadn't attracted the "tourist destination" classification that it now has.

I had a vague GPS point, and we spent a good 4-5 hours riding around getting the bikes stuck in the 5km of deep, soft sand that lies between the North/South road of Turkmenistan and the 'Gates of Hell'.

To our frustration, night fell without locating the spot, and we started the arduous task of heading back to the road.

As defeat settled in, I turned to see a patch of clouds in the sky cloaked in a deep umber glow, projected from the fire below.

We followed the glow in the sky, and came upon the pit. It was completely mesmerising, two hours passed before we spoke a word.

Pictures for the interested:

https://travel.ninjito.com/images/2012-06-01-StanTour/SLR/qx...

https://travel.ninjito.com/images/2012-06-01-StanTour/SLR/qx...

https://travel.ninjito.com/images/2012-06-01-StanTour/SLR/qx...

Also, the infamous 'camel spiders' live here, and are particularly scary: I got chased a solid 200m by one. When I thought I'd shaken it, it appeared 10 seconds later on the nape of my neck.
The solution is to add spice.
No, it does not:

> Several compromises were made in the design of the unit: no CO2 sensor
Hey, that PR #1 from a couple of years ago is from me! Thought this looked familiar!
Maybe for the same reasons the German Wikipedia is so large. I'm not sure what they are, but I suspect: It's a large language sphere, speakers enjoy relative wealth and the luxury of time, there is a cultural tradition of cultivating and archiving information. All of them may make it more probable someone would submit translations. In addition, here specifically, the online community was well-developed in the late 90s for similar demographic reasons, e.g. science/engineering communities jumping on board early.

On the other hand, the Heaven's Gate cult made many references to Star Trek in their material as well, and the franchise enjoyed major popularity in Germany, I would wager beyond other non-English language spheres. This may also have increased the size of the potential receptive/interested audience.
Ask HN: Is SEO Dark Magic?
For what it seems, people who are SEO vets and the likes claim that most resources and books on SEO are snake oil (not to say worse) and no one can teach you SEO, you can learn it only yourself.

Maybe, share a different opinion? Stories of getting into SEO and utilizing the information you have obtained initially and then succeeded while gradually implementing all the required steps?
That’s a great point. It could be seen that way. Though it’s certainly not how it’s usually explained, and I don’t think most people would see that as a satisfying answer. “Sports are profitable because they allow us to charge you more” just doesn’t have the same ring.
Aye, I found myself compiling some stuff on windows 10 the other day, not having used it at all, and other windows versions in years. It really felt downright hostile, with advertisements in the start menu, popups prodding me to make a microsoft account, and I only used the damn thing for like 2 hours. I returned to linux with a newfound appreciation for how it just does what I want it to, and isn't trying to sell me anything
Money spent on taxes doesn't go to fix your own property.
Well said. I get it in SO, but here? Upvoting or downvoting doesn't make sense. We're all smart and we can take being wrong. Strong opinions held lightly.
Yeah... I'm in the UK and my council tax (nearest equivalent) is currently about 1.7% of my house's value p/a, although council tax is fairly regressive and has a hard cap. Whenever I hear Americans complaining about how terrible their infrastructure is (and it is compared to every other developed country I've ever been to) I can't help but wonder why you don't do the obvious thing and just pay to fix it.

edit 1.7% not 2.7%!
This is a cool project. The lack of CO2 sensing is a significant limitation. This wouldn’t replace a CPET because of that limitation. I know that’s not what it claims to replace (though the price tag seems to suggest so). But that could be a modification that would have significant value. It would allow you to triangulate your anaerobic threshold, for example.
Junk Values
Millions of people installed adblock. When YouTube increased the number of ads, lots of people complained about it. People often complain about TV ads and switch to Netflix.

There's no social contract - a company shows ads and gets money, so they do it.

Do you really think customers are happy when an ad interrupts their favorite TV show? The answer is no fucking way. You've worked in the business for 17 years so it may cost you to believe it, but it's obvious to everyone else.
Genetic studies of human–chimpanzee divergence using stem cell fusions
obviously an energy shield
>Stuff like this can be incredibly dangerous

By this logic, History Channel should've been sent to the shadow realm decades ago along with their alien pyramids and pawn shop "experts".
No it goes to fix the shared infrastructure. People would definitely like it less if they were billed for the infrastructure costs directly. For example it’s clear here that the downtown subsidises the sprawl.
Author here. Thanks for submitting this project! I made this because I thought it would be funny if publisher websites had SciHub links that look like they belong on the website [0]. I didn't know about the bookmarklet when I started this. Maybe I should have used that instead. Oh well.

I'm currently waiting for Mozilla to accept this into the add on store. If that passes, I will submit it to Chrome as well.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/GP7rm43
First glance looks like KnockoutJS syntax
In a hypothetical world where you’re right, why would that not kill sites like HN? And if it would, is that a good outcome?
KDE is great though I really do have to configure it a bit to get it to be the way I like. I think I like cinnamon's out of the box experience the best, but I've also started using mate on a laptop of mine. Some things could use a little polish (like the way to move a task bar from one place to another is pretty much impossible to figure out without googling) but it's quite nice too, and it has the best file browser of them all IMO (cinnamon uses a nautilus 3 fork, but was forked after the point where they broke some things like type-to-search in folders behaviour)
My mind went immediately in a satirical direction. I often ignore that actually being there, in the physical space where something that intense happened could be psychologically difficult to handle. The internet gives us enough distance to make things so much more abstract.
Is D: optical? If yes, maybe they are a full fraction, because photons.
I'm not sure if that's a helpful way of looking at things. Something is legal (for a person) if it is not explicitly illegal. So if there is no law against having a bath on Wednesdays in New York, then we say you can "legally" do so. In a territory where there is no government and no laws whatsoever, it is equally legal to have a bath on Wednesdays, so you would be "legally" bathing there too.

You're right, though, that in normal circumstances when we talk about things being "legal" we mean "with respect to a specific (non-null) jurisdiction". I think that's because places without jurisdictions are so rare that we don't usually think of this degenerate case. Perhaps there needs to be some special term like "vacuously legal", or "anarchically legal", to distinguish it from the more common type of legality.
You have a point. I initially misread the article as suggesting that the entire DB from other sites was leaked.

Still though:

> Moreover, we observed that in some cases, websites use unique user-specific identifiers in database names. This means that authenticated users can be uniquely and precisely identified. Some popular examples would be YouTube, Google Calendar, or Google Keep. All of these websites create databases that include the authenticated Google User ID and in case the user is logged into multiple accounts, databases are created for all these accounts.
Ask HN: Recommended resources for pricing digital products/services?
What to price the things I make feels too much like guesswork to me. I would love to know any recommended advice for how to price digital products and services. How did you come up with the price for your project?
Do you think that it costs the government more to protect a homeless person or a person with a house? Do you think it costs the government more to protect a person with a house, or a person with a mansion?

Piles of wealth require protection. Without government protection, they would be expropriated without considerable expenses on private security.

Income tax is the tax that is hard to justify. Wealth taxes are taxes to protect wealth, and sales/transaction taxes are taxes to enforce sales and transaction agreements.

Libertarians believe those should be the only functions of government. If you don't even believe in those, you're an anarchist, or maybe even a Mad Maxist.

edit: imagine the absurdity of people sharing a rented shed paying as much for fire and police protection as a person in a mansion.
China has been committing a genocide in Tibet for generations. Somehow when it came to Uighurs it is a problem and Tibetans are conveniently ignored.
The point being that the real world is biased. AI is bound to be biased.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that in a future version.
Hehe good call, “Never attribute to malice…”…
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