skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people miss isn't the thing, it's the feeling that the thing was novel, exciting, and good enough to be appreciated. People stayed up late creating these quirky little sites full of copy-pasted GIFs and cursor trails and felt proud of them. In retrospect it feels like a simpler and less self-conscious time. I'm not sure if it really was, though. For example, the "under construction" convention was basically a way to say "don't judge my website too harshly."
India, Tesla in 'weird stalemate' on tax cut demands with no investment pledge
Nah, the 99% of law students in my classes who went for shiny macbooks instead of absolutely any computer that allows its user to take notes and search the web obviously did so after carefully weighing the pros and cons of every solution. Not because they felt compelled to fit in the group.
This article is quite frustrating in a few ways because I feel like it misses the point on both sides of the fence:

Google’s ethos was clearly to throw a bunch of teams at the problem and see what sticks. From a planning perspective it might seem sensible but for the user it’s deeply confusing: they just want to know from Google which one app is blessed and will be supported for the long haul so they can get on with their day.

Apple OTOH absolutely nailed this. Messages is there, it’s always been there. Sure the i was removed from the word but it was still the same app. Simple, direct, everyone on the same protocol without any confusion.

In terms of the complaints about things like tapbacks - The last thing I want is more than a single row of reactions. The point is for them to be simple and universally understood instantly.
Only one of my flagship android phones bricked iself: a Samsung S3.

The rest just became painfully slow.

When I tap camera and the flagship phone seems to have to finish a conversation with some server somewhere before camera opens and the moment is gone then I get annoyed.

So after iPhone got user replacable keyboards I dared to try it and it has been better for me.
This is simply objectively wrong. You think the economy can be driven by volunteers? You think capitol allocated with no reward function will produce anything? And 3D printers went down in price because they became a popular diy hobby not because the patents were freed from the shackles of capitalism you dunce…
I don't think you need to pay royalties for playing 20 seconds of a song.
> We need to make dumb shit! Make useless stuff;

That's what we mostly are doing nowadays. Over 80% of the information on the web could be communicated much more efficiently without 80% of the "modern" bullshit.
> I don't need the full google workspace

It's honestly just a chore, many things don't work using G-Suite accounts, like taking part of a Google Home family with Gmail users, or signing in to Android Automotive (yes, I had to make a new account to be able to sign in to my Polestar 2 because my account is a G-Suite account), I would be HAPPY if they "downgraded" me to Gmail with custom domains and charged me a few bucks a month for it.
The uncertainty of the future and why we are afraid of the unknown
It looks like shit but it loads faster than Medium and a lot of similar sites that stare at you with a blank page until JS finally shows the text/img content HTML was designed to display since the early 90s.
I see autotune more like an instrument that gives the ability to create new sounds.
My thoughts on the topic after reading the article, which made gold points, especially on the low internal migration rate and women not working, but staying at home and taking care of household and family.

The West has followed the path of freedom and free markets. The smallest unit in society is the individual, not the family (like in Asian countries). Freedom here is being celebrated, also by having the kid "finally" moving out at 18+. Those who stay are not doing it for cultural, but mostly for economical reasons.

Taking care of elderly people is not very "cool" here in Germany. My friends haven't called or visited their grandmas for many months, while my Chinese friends try to use their holidays to visit home. They are also planning longterm how to move closer together and incorporate those thoughts into the partner selection.

The Western approach is different and get often "it's me and it's my happiness".
nah. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30003590
This is useful to know (wrt it being written in Vue/Nuxt):

> It's complicated on purpose btw, I wanted to do it in ReasonML and GraphQL but I didn't have time as this was done in an afternoon hackathon
Yeah, most PKD stories have that ‘reality slipping sideways’ moment in them, but reality never settles at all in Ubik
My main problem with iCloud is that when I first started using Apple products, I used my own email address as my Apple ID. Later I registered a separate Apple ID with my desired username @icloud.com when they became free, but before it was possible to create an @icloud.com address on your existing Apple ID. Now it's impossible to merge these two and I don't really want to dig myself into a deeper hole by creating some randomword@icloud.com on my primary Apple ID just to be able to use the iCloud+ custom domain feature.
Looks like a honest bug, where strings extracted from QR codes get sent through a typo correction step.

For example, https://www.fooco.at/hello becomes https://www.foo.co.at/hello and https://referendum.cat becomes https://referendum.ca.

(whether it’s good idea to make such corrections when theuser types such URLs is a different issue)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30003807
That is sad to hear even if it loads instantly.

Does it have 400 "partners" too?
Their main customer base (by orders of magnitude) are advertisers. I'm not convinced that this move will change anything at all in those relationships.

I, myself, am a 'victim' of this, with two personal accounts grandfathered in from the good ol' days. I'm moving both of them to Protonmail.
Getting high on your own paranoid propaganda.
I'll second that. I have found it to have the best quality of all video calling alternatives and handle low bandwidth situations the best too. The interface is weird but focusing on just one thing and doing it well feels like a good choice.
I pronounce it as "Linux" in German, while I pronounce it as "Linux" in English.
I was a little sad that the inspirational websites portion was empty, other than that, good clean fun...I suppose?
A quick search showed me these two: https://github.com/arnowelzel/periodical and https://github.com/wildeyedskies/log28. Both are available on F-Droid.

I don't use Android and I don't have periods, so unfortunately I can't really tell how decent they are - but they both look somewhat reasonable on screenshots.
Depending on the European country it is a mix of many apps, regarding my contacts:

With the friends in DACH region it is mostly about Whatsapp.

With the friends in Portugal it is mostly about Whatsapp and Skype.

With the friends in Balcans and east mediterrian it is mostly about Whatsapp and Viber.

With all of them, we still exchange plenty of SMS, as everyone has plenty of free ones on their pre-paid packages.
It's crazy that we're living in the world of (almost) infinitely available information, big data etc. in 2022, but recruiters are still often secretive and shady.

For the general audience, let me drop some advice here that helped me during my job search:

- I knew what I was looking for (remote-friendly tech startups with their own product). I suggest you think this through as well.

- No Linkedin profile! Really, not needed unless want a corporate job. (Though I have a tiny and mostly neglected personal website which is appreciated by most companies.)

- Browse and actively follow dozens of job boards like the one in parent comment. DuckDuckGo is your friend. In a few days or weeks, you'll find out your 'taste' in terms of jobs that interest you and easily filter out mediocre offers.

- Draw boundaries and put your bar high. Know your desired compensation range and ask right away if not indicated. Reject take-home homework, leetcode interviews etc. if you don't like them. The interview process tells a lot about the company culture and you're also getting to know that company, not just the other way.

- Work on your resume! An investment that pays back like wonders. It also makes you much better prepared for interviews. There are some very useful books out there like "The Tech Resume Inside Out". Best $20 I've ever spent.

This way, you have total control in your job search and will have zero awkward HR phone calls. Though I admit that if you're looking for corporate jobs, a Linkedin profile might help. Also, if you're looking for MANGA etc. jobs, you'll need a totally different approach.

Shameless plug: I'm currently working for a no-code process automation tool startup called Process Street (https://www.process.st/), and we're hiring. :)
I gotta agree, I clicked so damn well with the kids in any "gifted" program I ever partook in. Some of them were super socially-awkward, but I didn't care because they were super smart and loved to discuss super complex, deep subjects, at length. I learned from them and they learned from me. This just simply didn't happen in any normal school setting, whatsoever. Unfortunately all of those experiences were indeed outside of school, extracurricular stuff. If actual normal school had been like that, I may have actually liked school!
Google Talk had message delivery issues on bad networks. iMessage still works there.
French here; my usage is mostly: WhatsApp for group conversations (circle of friends, family, setting up some event/holidays/whatever), SMS for one-on-one conversations. I am definitely not a heavy communicator, though: perhaps younger folks have different usage patterns.

As a reminder: most cell phone plans here include unlimited (free) SMS messages
It's designed incredibly well and the aesthetic makes it stand out from just about everyone while still being accessible and usable. The designers and devs must know their stuff to pull it off. Kind of like Les Dawson playing the piano.
Changing the rules after the fact may work on current-Elon (what can he do?!) but will definitely discourage future-Elons. And the society will benefit much more from those future Elons than from fleecing the current one to appease non-productive "equality seekers".
Dear Joseph Stiglitz
One part of this is the rise in sex predator panic. I am well aware that child sexual abuse is a severe problem but one thing I will never do is spend time alone with children who are not mine. Not even my nieces, because one time my eldest niece lied about me doing something that I didn't, and I can't take that risk. In contrast, when I was a child, I regularly spent time alone with men of my father's age.
You can try out https://bangle.io, it is a real WYSIWYG Markdown * based note taking app that is local and open source.

* By real I mean that the UI stays WYSIWYG, unlike other apps that fall back to Markdown notation while editing.
>But I have no idea what the migration of a decade of email across 5 inboxes will look like; not to mention Calendar and contacts.

Painful. I know first hand. It is no surprise that these companies make migrating out of their services as painful as possible. This is why I treat personal services like I treat business services now: if there isn't a realistic exit option, I don't use it. There are just too many examples of services being cancelled, accounts banned, and prices jacked up unreasonably.
You can walk out of your house and the call seamlessly switches from WiFi to cellular. Try doing that with WhatsApp or Signal.
Yes. But that behavior makes it more likely for my phones to be bricked, that was my point.
It seems it's not possible to add "Cloud Identity Free Edition" to your account while the legacy subscription is still active, and I don't want to risk cancelling it before the deadline in case it has other unintended consequences :(
Poor countries like The Netherlands, where nearly anyone with a smart phone has got it installed?
You need to move a little bit out of Europe for WhatsApp to be all encompassing.

In Dubai almost half my bank correspondence has been on WhatsApp. Guy asks me which credit card I want and starts sending me snapshots of a printed brochure.

Advertisements have WhatsApp contact information listed, most businesses has a chat line open in WhatsApp. Delivery drivers will text you on WhatsApp if they have trouble finding your place. It’s really everywhere and that is despite the fact that phone calls on WhatsApp are blocked.

But it’s not like people aren’t on Facebook or nobody snaps or anything.

And of course, in China it’s WeChat, Japan and Taiwan it’s Line and I think South Korea still live and breathe through kakaotalk.

But for the majority of the world WhatsApp is really the first line of contact.
$100k on $5m, $250m on $5bn.

That's a serious amount on tax on wealth and a surprisingly low bar to entry, if assets are included. Many small business owners would be included.

Still, $2.52tn is a hell of an annual development fund. You could do some actual good around the world, fix the climate, feed, clothe and educate the poor.
I have two domains - simply because of the failures of the google legacy tools. I have countless services that oauth dance through Google - services I care about. The problem is that I've never felt that I receive value for the Google services. The value is comparative. With a family of 6 this would cost me ~$45 per month. Frankly this doesn't have the 3x the value of Spotify (which I will pay for, forever), and value is comparative.

For this price point, I can pay for O365. With O365, I get more storage, and I get usable office tools such as Excel and Word. The real question is do I gamble - do I migrate and hope the entire universe doesn't break - like my android?

What happens with my google play purchases, are those forfeit as I migrate out a google account? Is it now time to get a free throwaway gmail account, purely for android purchases and nothing more? This is.... frustrating to say the least.
Or maybe "video killed the radio star"? (1979, a bit before the late 90s).

When suddenly it wasn't about the music any more, it was about the video showing the music?
You mentioned roam - you should also mention org-roam, which sits atop emacs.
> the first one was great

the curse of too much money at hand. New hires urge to innovate.
Corbevax, a new patent-free Covid-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer
> Those things aren't "clean and simple" code and the team of 30-something 1337 guys that wrote wasn't imagining you when deciding how the program would work.

If those 1337 guys were tasked with writing software to accommodate those use cases, I’m certain it would be better than software today that accommodates those use cases

> Also it's not like these programs aren't still available. Did you write this comment using lynx? Do you do your finances with "gnome spreadsheet?" Do you listen to music with WinAmp 2.0?

I was referring to 80s software, not 90s software. In terms of architecture, 90s software is closer to the software of today than the software of the 80s.
Sure. But it can be overused, and currently it is applied everywhere. Whatever happened to singers with good tone, like Grace Slick and Madonna? You can hear autotune taking away the ability of the singer to play with the sound.

It isn't just autotune. It's the electronic modification done, like the color "adjustments" done in modern movies that turn every movie into blue and orange tones.
I haven't looked at it but I would hope that "Sign in with Google" provides the service using it with a stable ID other than the email address. But I can also see services ignoring that and just using the email address anyway...

If such a service only saved the email address when the user account was created it might be very difficult for them to fix this unless the do it really quickly and I happen to sign in to their service before all of this goes down.
What kind of a mess are we talking about here? I haven’t had any group chat issues (android and iOS participants) for the last few years.. I do remember it would bug out on occasion but I just haven’t seen any of that in a long time. I have a 3 and a 10 person group chat that has both android and iOS users… dont know if there is some threshold before issues start cropping up.
Hi, I think either I missed something or I see an insight that may not be in there yet, not sure if. In brief:

“Conveying without convincing.”

I think this guide is generally applicable to everyone interacting on HN, not just GitLab PRops, and while considering that I uncovered something I think would improve the value the guidelines.

Lots of online conversations get mired in back-and-forth persuasion, where each side is trying to convince the other of their viewpoint rather than just trying to convey it. This is essentially an impossible conversation to walk away from satisfied, because it’s rare that anyone can be convinced.

So, instead, focus on conveying. Ensure the facts are made clear and point out disagreements. Share your motivations and reasoning. Ask people to clarify when they say something you don’t understand, or could parse multiple ways. Leave disagreement alone, and don’t press it to change into agreement.

This is the toughest thing for anyone to do in conversation (“someone is wrong in the internet” xkcd here), but it’s absolutely the most essential skill and I don’t see it clearly called out. (Maybe I missed it though, it’s late!)

So, I would love to see that concept applied in guideline form. Teaching people to ensure comprehension rather than convincing, and to move on if it isn’t getting through, is the ultimate win in online chat, and I encourage adding it the the guide.
Engineering encompasses both. Does someone dictate literally every action of yours in great detail? No? You're an engineer and must exercise engineering acumen.
On the assessment of volcanic eruptions as existential risks
can confirm for italy: whatsapp is 100% the only expected tool of communication. telegram is making some waves in some circles, but for the most part it's whatsapp only: groups, 1:1, business support, anything

my experience in germany and spain is vastly similar
How much time/money/effort does it take to create/maintain a non-profit foundation?
" The only thing that I want to say now is that their prescriptions are not new at all. It may come as a surprise to some people, but Russia has been there already. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs, and not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society. "

Note that Vladimir Putin has made the same (or a very similar) point:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=45gV_0owJ20&t=490s
There was a great post on Reddit about this a couple of days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/s6l9tk...

Not about autotune per se but about what makes a great singer is not the perfection of their voice but the imperfections, that make it recognizable.

Autotune irons out imperfections; so does the grid. A big problem of new music is it's too perfect, which makes it sound dead.
How did it work out? Very curious, as such granularity of deployable units seems absurd unless it's deployed into a single runtime...
yes, but all lack design that would inspire the mainstream. Being niche is fine but the reader was big with multiplicators like journalists etc.

You don't get them with wholemeal bread.
Until the mid 19th century rather. By 1900 it was already the second richest country per capita in Europe (only behind UK and only Belgium was slightly ahead as well throughout most of the 19th century). Then again almost all European countries could had been described as impoverished and agrarian back then…
This might be relevant to understanding Einstein's attitude to Planck:

'According to his sister's memoir, Einstein was anxious about whether his relativity paper would be accepted by the Annalen der Physik. After it was accepted, he eagerly anticipated an immediate reaction to its publication, even though he expected it to be critical. He was greatly disappointed when his paper was not even mentioned in the following issues of the Annalen. Sometime afterward, she recounts, he received a letter from Planck, requesting explanations of a few obscure points in the work. "After the long period of waiting, this was the first sign that his paper was being read at all. The happiness of the young scholar was all the greater, since acknowledgement of his accomplishment came from one of the greatest contemporary physicists. ... At that time Planck's interest signified infinitely much for the morale of the young physicist."'

From Einstein's Miraculous Year by John Stachel (Ed), 1998, P115.
Because they want to make new products and become the privacy company.
you may be interested in the documentary "The Gut: Our Second Brain" on MagellanTV / Amazon. they talk about how personalities can change based on the food we eat.
Afaik iMessage chat is encrypted, unless you have iCloud backups enabled for messages.
This kind of experiments should be done only by people with previous experience culturing corals. I see at least two possible problems here.
> Imagine the entire US and Canada east of roughly Kansas being dark.

For weeks? Without ATMs, gas pumps, grocery stores, etc? It all runs on electricity. It would get pretty grim. According to risk assessments of EMP risk, 90% of Americans of die after 1 year of not having electricity.
Where do you read that for Apple’s services? Reading the “Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions” (at the confusing URL https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/), it doesn’t mention household, always spells “Family” with a capital letter, and as far as I can tell, only mentions these restrictions on who can join a Family:

“Family Sharing Rules: You can only belong to one Family at a time, and may join any Family no more than twice per year. You can change the Apple ID you associate with a Family no more than once every 90 days. All Family members must share the same Home Country”
Neat, I love this. The internet hugely changed my life too, and was utterly fundamental to my development as a person. I wonder if I'd ever take the time to write a story like this, but I think I wouldn't be able to resist going into way deeper detail haha
Heartwarming story, I would only say to be careful about diagnosing close friends or family with mental illness based on internet research. Even non mental illnesses.
Welcome to C-- (2008)
Find me another politician who's appeared one Question Time over 34 times in such a short space of time…
Blockchain Removes Need for So-Called Rulers and Decaying Archaic Systems
Yeah but those things increase the chances of bricking.

I've been using Android since 2009 and have never had one brick either.
This is one of the “litmus test” issues in the United States that makes it nearly impossible to have a constructive discussion about (along with abortion and tax policy). Which is incredibly unfortunate because there is a huge chasm of “middle ground” here that is absolutely ripe for study. Honestly, almost every (developed) country on earth has some form of a national health care system and if we (in the States) could be look past our dichotomy of single-payer vs. entirely free market we could create a health care system that truly advocates for maximal outcome at minimal cost.

But unfortunately sticking to the existing dichotomy creates far better tweets so we are fucked! :(