skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time Blocking is a terrible name for the concept. Of the two ways you could interpret it, one makes you feel like Kronos the Lord of Time, and the other will make you hate your calendar/agenda and everything you put on there.

What does not work: Blocking time. The world will not adapt to how you planned it last Sunday, and no amount of wanting, asking, or even demanding will make it so. Time is fluid, people are selfish, your dog is colourblind and can't read.

What can work: Blocks of time. An estimation of how the day will go but probably won't. A suggestion to yourself. It is wrong from the outset, but still good enough for you to estimate what tasks could be taken on, maybe discover some efficiency opportunities, and it indicates visually that yes, that thing is due in two days.
I feel like this is something that has been a common occurrence since personal computers started entering the workplace, but people who accomplish it usually follow up by expanding the scope of their job. Personally, I know someone who has "automated her work" using Excel at several jobs, to the point that she spent a few days per month doing the entire job of the person she replaced. These were jobs that anyone could have automated any time in the previous 10-15 years, and were automated at other companies she worked at, but at several companies she was the first to do it.

In software development, I "automated my job" many times in the old days in the sense that I was given a task that I was expected to do in a brute-force manner over several weeks, but I solved it by spending a few days cleaning and structuring the data and then writing a script. Now people are less and less surprised by the ability to solve problems with programming, so instead of handing out tasks like that, they are more likely to ask a product manager to design a new capability for internal tooling.

I haven't personally encountered somebody who used automation to coast in a job. The intersection between people who can achieve this technically and the people who can achieve it socially is probably pretty small. (If I automated my job, I would have a hard time keeping my mouth shut about it. My Excel friend is a squeaky-clean go-getter and would not be able to resist taking on extra work.) I understand the choice, though.
I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own.

→ https://www.namy.ai

It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from.

It's not yet at $500/mo, but it's getting close. Server costs are significant though, since running an AI model is a bit expensive.

Ideas and feedback are welcome.
thank you for asking, sorry for the rant-like structure. Whatever is to be done, needs to back off from "surveillance capitalism". In my own experience, failure in government programs is tolerated because everyone involved is on permanent salary.
I get anxious when I have some kind of ... time thing coming up. Meeting, have to go get a kid from school... it just sits there churning up cycles in my brain.

It's the enemy of "flow".
Firms navigate this by making the employees fill out their own billing entries. If OP is filling out fraudulent billing entries then that would explain why nobody is checking up on him. If he's billed out, his real work output is billed-hours.
> Both takes appear to be missing the entire privacy issue - you are free to share your data with the US if you wish. You are not free to share my data with the US.

That's an interesting way of putting it; you've phrased it in terms of your personal data and the sharer's personal data. But the context is analytics; single datapoints are irrelevant. This is all about sharing data about other people.

Anyway, EU companies are not allowed to even collect data, unless they can justify it. I don't know if that is supposed to also be extra-territorial, so it applies universally (I really hope not).
Hi! I just tried it out and signed up for the 25gb plan. It was incredibly easy. I really appreciate that your prices are reasonable.

Just curious -- where are photos stored for Pixaver? Are you using cloud storage?
I'm in the US and I don't have an online IRS account. I assume many/most don't.
Hey so this was/is us. We raised two dogs from puppies, and when they both died of old-age related issues, we couldn't bring ourselves to bond with another dog/pet. Logistics aren't bad (my wife handles comm). Some people though want to meet us before the transaction which is a pain because of the amount of money involved and inconvenience.
Ugh, I know I'm getting old when I don't understand the memes.
Frankly, "hosted in NYC" probably has the same issues as "uses Google Analytics". Data on EU citizens is leaving the EU for a country without similar privacy protections.
I've been meaning to migrate but am more than a little leery of the potential for gotchas and disruption. Any advice from those who have gone through this already?

I understand you just lose all your Google Play purchases and need to re-purchase any apps or subscriptions you want to keep. I'm assuming this will basically require an Android phone factory reset and to be setup fresh with a "new" Google account for the old email address? Is this the case?

I also understand the need to do a Google Takeout and download everything. Already got bit by this once though when I recently did a Takeout to backup all my Google Photos content: a week or so later, after I had already permanently deleted the originals, I received an email from Google saying "sorry there was a bug in Takeout and some of your large videos were omitted from your exported data". I guess you need to comb through and verify everything actually made it to the Takeout to be safe.

When you migrate an email address off of Google Apps for Your Domain to another email host or self-host, what happens to the Google Account for that email address? Is it possible to shut down the Google Apps for Your Domain service for the domain in question and then establish a new fresh Google account for the same email address (not a gmail address) that was formerly part of the Google Apps for Your Domain service?
At this point even their Cloud Platform is very hard to recommend for projects. Sure it seems to be doing really well, but who knows: what if the "launch the product - kill the product" disease spreads into Google's Cloud division?
Apologies, should have mentioned - software.
>all of a sudden unpaid overtime would be so much harder

Austria "solved" this "problem" by introducing the infamous all-in contract, adopted by many companies, where all your potential overtime is already included in your compensation.

Basically it's a fancy way to have you wave your right to paid overtime to what amounts to one of the most exploitative legal employment practices I've seen in Europe.

And the strict time tracking is still there for legal and workplace accident insurance reasons ("you claim you hurt yourself through a work related accident at 14:40, but we need to check your time tracking as proof you were actually at work and not somewhere else")
that was an obvious one to clone or download

maybe an IPFS link might magically appear
We're doing an newsletter dedicated for Android developers:

https://androidweekly.net/

- it was four years without making any money

- with ~100k subs it's generating money

- everything grew organically
Well, those children are people, and outlawing secure communication is bad for people. So I would argue the calculus is still incomplete the way it's presented.
Hey Nikola - we don't yet support Outlook but it's something we are planning to do in the next couple weeks.

Indeed you are right - we've generally steered away from enterprise users because of those reasons, and instead target startups/SMEs because generally the person using our product is also an admin.

However, we do want to target enterprises eventually so at some point we'll have to figure all that out.
Is it just me that found it interesting that they chose the image of a black kid for a DDOS/cyber crime story?

It would have been nicer if they had shown a bunch of kids of all races.

Note: I'm not black myself, just found that curious.
FWIW - I'm a huge FOSS guy, but I went ahead and paid for Obsidian because it looked so good and it at least feels as if "saving in pure Markdown" is darn near equivalent, or at least a reasonable non-free alternative experiment; i.e. I'm not sure if this is as good as FOSS, but it's interesting enough for me to throw a few dollars at to see what happens.

In theory, seems like a fine idea. But for, me, in practice, I went back to https://zim-wiki.org (like I pretty much always do.) Not exactly sure what that says about it all, or if it much matters.

One thought though is that Obsidian feels "overloaded," almost as if it wasn't allowed to grow naturally like Zim did?
> Because much like privacy, password security shouldn't always be only a premium option.

So then who foots the bill? Password managers are the duct tape used to protect a user because we don't inherently trust application providers.

> proprietary code is a deal break for lots of people

Sort of. First, "lots of people" seems like "lots of people" because we're on HN. The wider population doesn't care whether your application is proprietary or not - they just want something that works. Apple's wall garden is proof of this. Second, you can still charge for a product and it be open source. An application being open source simply provides an audit log of the code and allows for "wisdom of the crowd" when it comes to bug and security issues. So yes I agree that having a password manager be openly auditable is a great feature, but I (and many others) likely would rather have the features of strong UX and known tenure (OSS tools get abandoned all of the time) then we would having an auditable source code.
Personalized kid's e-books http://www.littleheroes.com

Web + app store purchases

Up for sale if anyone's interested
Interesting idea with "Personal CRM". Do you feel like it helped to improve your relationship with close friends or family?
Thanks, but our problem is different, the datastructure on which all of this is based is memory-mapped, and does need some filesystem and OS cooperation to work well.

I haven't tested Pijul on Windows much, and I know that at least at some point it didn't work on WSL.
> Mortgage insurance providers a like service to the mortgage provider to minimize losses

If real estate becomes a non-cash producing “asset,” mortgage insurance would become far pricier.
I definitely have parts missing from the story since it was a long time ago, early to mid eighties--the part I do remember is my dad's mild disbelief and feeling terrible that I had caused it.
As a YouTube Premium subscriber, even once you're paying for the service, they don't really show you the originals any more than they did before. I do have an "Originals" button in the sidebar, but I don't think I've ever clicked it.
Bummer the only value I get out of the service as an individual user over Gmail is a custom domain.

Migration is going to suck only because of stupidly relying on login with Google which won't work after I putge everything google from my life with fire.

I'm presuming this includes paid apps that Google will be stealing when I decline to pay them by the month to keep them.

Lesson learned don't use anything Google.
Long-time user of "Google Apps for Your Domain".....what's the easiest way to migrate 10 family members to regular Gmail?
Your pricing page seems to have no prices on it and your sign up page doesn't load for me.
20%+ VAT baby.
Absolutely; this is the key to the whole thing. It's explained at length in the classic The Design of Everyday Things. Nerds v. normies are given the monikers "Homo logicus" and "Homo normalis". The nerds value control, understanding, and are concerned with edge cases; they accept complexity, workarounds, and the need for preparation as the cost. The latter prioritizes nearly the opposite, preferring simplicity to control, and guaranteed if partial success for the need to understand/invest time.
So Logseq [1] is open (AGPLv3), also markdown with no lock in, more powerful in some key ways than Obsidian (it has block links, which I’ll let others expound on the benefit of or edit this when I’m at my desk).

The main thing it’s lacking for now is good mobile support, for which folks still use Obsidian mobile…

[1]: https://logseq.com/
This is the same in any language. You can cause security issues in other languages as well if you trust the user/attacker.
This reminds me of my personal Wiki that I use to keep track of information at work (I also use Obsidian for this). I start a daily note in the morning and write everything in there until the end of the day, where I have some time set aside to chopping up the information into the appropriate pages. It took a bit for this system to pay off, but when I was writing employee reviews and co-worker feedback, it was almost effortless. I have started to accumulate a critical mass of information that is giving me little hints of insights I hope to be able to leverage this year.

I am still working on actually implementing a personal ZK system in Obsidian or on paper (I am looking forward to Scott Scheper's book about Antinets). I manage people and write software for a living, but I don't really write articles or papers (which ZK seems a good fit for). I just finished "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens, and it has inspired me to take another pass at starting a ZK for the benefits of greater understanding and insight about the variety of topics I read about.
> The thing about `sudo` is confusing because you don't even need to modify the namespace to overwrite `/etc/sudoers` if you have root. You just need to write to the file.

The point is that you DONT have root, and you DONT have access to write to the file. But you're free to rearrange your namespace WITHOUT having root, and you want to arrange for SOME users to escalate privileges and, say, debug the kernel. Or do something else dangerous that requires elevated privileges in the global context.

> A `sudo` that is seeing a local view of the root is going to have privileged access to that local root, not to the global system root. And that is correct. That is what sudo does. It gives root access to the same root that contains /etc, not to any "outer" or "more global" root.

Yes, and that's a concise description of the flaw: you can't use suid+file based privilege escalation to modify system-wide configuration, without restricting the ability to manage freely your namespace.

This is what unix does by design, and why the authentication design from unix isn't going to work for systems used in the style of plan 9.
Thanks for brightening my day! Honestly- I can use the laughs today.
Make a secure ID free and easily to get access to and voter ID concern melts away. Don't pretend that there is no barrier to getting an ID.
How are you earning revenue on this? Don't see any pricing or signup requirements
Well, if we're going as far as banning POW, I see no reason why ads should get any better treatment. Especially video ones.
I like VR and get nausea easily in it. I won’t take any drugs just to play a video game though. I just stick with less than 30 minutes session and Beat Saber, Thrill of Fight, Eleven - type of games.
>And they'll throw their users under the bus

They already through their consumer users under the bus when they switched to a subscription business.

I haven’t upgraded since v6, and I plan to avoid it as long as I can.
Yeah, we’ll, it sucks to pay for an app that is perfect and then have them ruin it because of their b2b aspirations. And raising money like this is just another link in the chain pulling them down into the pit of insanity that ruins the most-beloved password manager ever.
that work is done by maintenance workers — unless the landlord is personally out performing all the repairs, in which case they deserve to be compensated for their labor like anyone else. as mentioned below, the maintenance workers mysteriously aren't the ones entitled to a third of my paycheck...

secondly, ask anyone who's ever rented — landlords are notoriously awful at keeping up with maintenance. so if we're considering it a job, then they get paid far more for doing far worse work than any other occupation i can think of. does that not make you angry?
Human language is one place where "comes as close as you reasonably can to following Postel's Law" seems to work out pretty well.
Sadly exactly my thought stuck in MSO 365 outlook for corporate life. And havi g multiple clients with different stakeholders and multiple projects per client is calendar hell in itself.
Where is some data on these people who knew how to file things like you are saying? Perhaps an examination of this and bringing it to public light will bring some real change?
Worse Than Theranos
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The same reason they allowed Boeing MAX with the MCAS (May Crash Any Second) to fly.
That doesn't read as a personal attack to me. If someone is overexposed to one risky asset due to poor portfolio construction maybe that's just life in the free market? Property owners are getting paid to take on the risk and illiquidity of holding dirt and bricks, it's not risk free and as a taxpayer I don't see why I should bail out peoples' investments. If anyone needs help paying for food, housing, healthcare, etc then let's put the money towards that.

There's a reasonable argument that it's unjust that being richer by itself gives you access to better returns but small time landlords are not the worst affected by that.
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Yeah - I find this super important too. I readjust my calendar entries based on actual time I spent on something so I can reflect on it later in the day.

As mentioned, we are going to add in insights/analytics for this reason
Migadu is great overall. I've been using it for probably 3-4 years.

I will say, they broke imap/pop without an announcement. They just silently changed the pop endpoint. I had to reach out to support to get the new endpoint. That's totally unacceptable without advanced notice.

They also doubled the price and added worse storage limits in 2020 citing the pandemic and increased expenses. So it's something to be weary of.

However, the price quality of the product are good, so I'm happy I migrated away from Google.
One barrier is if you load an image from a source that doesn't allow CORS the canvas becomes "tainted" and exports are blocked (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/CORS_enabl...)
Thanks. However, now help2man is outputting the unicode character correctly, but `man $help2manOutput` is displaying things like `a(R)` and `a` instead of the unicode character. I've also tried with the `LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8` env var set.
Where in that equation do you make any place for landlords to continue to exist?
They will probably invest in business integration/sales. TBH we need more password management in this world and not less. Increasing scope in enterprise domain means reaching users who would otherwise just use post it's for the passwords.
I don't understand why ID.me refuses to accept my Google Voice number. They seem to be checking the phone number supplied against the numbers listed in your credit history, so if they match why not allow it?

Its frustrating because I've had the same number for 20 years, and right now it happens to be associated with a Google Voice account. It is literally my only phone number. But because of this policy I have to wait for 3 hours to video chat with someone just to get this account verified.
I use several password managers for various reasons, but I like Bitwarden. I use it both for work and privately. I think it is a bit unclear how Bitwarden the company is setup. That is the only thing that bothers me. Passwords are often not “real” secrets, so it does not matter that much.

Generally, I would really like a hardware password manager. Maybe in a chip that you can have in your body. With some MFA so no one can use it when you are dead or passed out.
Very helpful, thanks. In London, health insurance is normally provided by the company that you work for (at least all the companies I've worked for). And I can sign up my partner for an additional monthly fee as well.

Is this not the case in Switzerland?
Good to know, that there is a defining authority to tell us what is sane and what is not; well, almost...
> blacklist everything, and whitelist only the stuff you need

That _is_ a whitelist approach.
You can set up an email server to receive mail typically (assuming your ISP doesn't block it). For outbound mail, you can create a dedicated regular gmail address, and instruct it to accept sending emails out with an alternate email/domain in the From address and set up all outbound mail to route through that. (I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like all the pieces are there under the "send mail as" setting on gmail).
A human being can never use their energy gained from their food to reduce all of their exhaled CO2 back to carbon, no matter what technique they use.

It’s impossible, of the perpetual machine variety.

This is precisely analogous to this gallium example! You can’t unburn something without losing more energy in the process than the burning produced. It’s always over 100% overhead.

ALWAYS!! The details and the path taken through the world of chemistry or electrochemistry are totally irrelevant and can never alter this.
I sell covered calls on Robinhood.
How does this decrease the usability of reddit?
Don't forget one of the Xbox One's key innovative features: tight integration with your cable box. You know, that worthless piece of hardware tied to a $100/mo subscription that your Xbox 360 helped you replace entirely with its Netflix and Hulu apps.

When they showed that off I knew nobody at Xbox had a single clue who their audience was.
> I'm in the US and I don't have an online IRS account.

Then this change doesn't affect you? What am I missing?
Doesn't matter. The entire website iandesigned to mislead and manipulate SEO, and the sponsor is only mentioned in a small blob on bottom.
Your attitude appears more discriminating to me than the fact that they chose the image of a black kid.

I bet you woldn't have commented if they showed a white kid. So why does it matter to you if they show a black or a white kid? Why does it make a difference to you?
This feels like the kind of app created by people who don't have kids.
I had to use ID.me for something earlier this year (I forget what), and while it was not a terrible experience technically, I literally had to shave off my beard to complete it, as my drivers license photo is me with a freshly shaved face.
How easy is it to use with random notes/apps on mobile? Some reasons I prefer a non-browser manager:
- On Android/iOS, 1P will integrate with the system password manager APIs to sign in to apps
- I can generate/store arbitrary password-like things (SSH key passwords, secret question made up answers, 2FA backup codes) that are not associated with specific domains. At least in Chrome's default password manager there wasn't a way to do something like this.
Whose gonna write THE holy-grail of analyzer of many executables to determine what Linux capabilities, cgroups, and syscalls are just being referenced?

Caveat: it has to dig into ALL the linked libraries as well.
Since all (?) states take an electronic photo for a drivers license (and mine takes a thumbprint too), I'm not sure that this gives them any additional information they don't already have.