skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure - that's why Signal is for secure communication between individuals who have some level of trust.

If I have this level of trust with someone they are about at level of adding them as a friend on Facebook. Who knows, I even might invite them on Facebook sooner than I decide to give them my phone number.

> what's the big issue with them having your number?

Seriously? With my number you can harass me endlessly with phonecalls, text messagers, registering for various services that will harass me basically forcing me to abandon this phone number and notify all of my valuable contacts of the number change.

Hell, they might even plaster town with my number with advert saying "Win 50$ in Chewbaca noise contest by subitting your best attempt at that number." as one creative asshole did to some poor girl.

> There's nothing stopping your interlocutor from leaking all of the messages you send to them

That way less of a problem if I haven't doxed myself in those conversations. All he will publish is some conversations he had with someone.
If you buy a consumer anything from Google, you have only yourself to blame.
These are great leads. I will study them. Thank you.
That patent was about group volume control. Why should it prevent web browsing?
Make Striving Cool Again
I was just making a cheeky comment related to software freedom.
The catchall subdomain is your username. You do have to setup your DNS a certain way. But its a one time thing.

whateveryoulike@username.domain.tld

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...
You have the right idea, but the wrong direction.

In theory, interest rate on government debt should be slightly below dividend payments of equity (stocks of private companies). That's because the dividends are more risky, so investors demand a higher yield.

If interest rates on government debt go up, then people should, in theory, sell some of their stocks and buy government bonds.

Think of it this way, if there is (in your words) "a clear choice between equities [and] bonds", then people will sell whichever one is less desirable and buy whichever one is more desirable. This will make the less desirable asset cheaper and the more desirable asset more expensive, and this process will continue until you reach a market equilibrium where investors as a whole are indifferent between stocks and bonds.
I run a number of social sites (like Facebook but way smaller) the number one thing is just be involved. That's it really, be available 24/7, remember there's a person behind the words you see. That's pretty much it.

Edit: also stay off Discord, it's not your platform, you could be removed from there at any time. Build your own platform, and always implement whatever your members suggest. Since you're planning on having developers there, you could just open source it all.
If W3C would stop doing initiatives like Web USB and give us a way to style a select box (finally going to be a thing) we wouldn't even need web frameworks.

* Styled select boxes

* Good cross platform datepicker with ranges that looks good

* More form validation options / dynamic form validation

* A good drag api that does edge detection well in every browser

* Bring back frames (would allow good nested routing)

* A built in rich text editor

* A good modal API (or bring it back)

* A way to submit a form via AJAX with just a property (think Rails UJS) to just render html.
What world does what I described mean daily riots?. I can tell you. It’s a world where facts do not matter, only confirmation bias and propaganda matters. It’s a world populated by an authoritarian’s ideally groomed enablers. No wonder your post used so much vehement language, living in such a bubble.
How Emotions are Made, Lisa Feldman-Barrett

IMHO, it will take another century before the world works through the full consequences of what she's written.
Streaming services work fine on my ancient windows laptop. What's the problem?
Does that also extend to your phone?
Video game tie in here. The term Fragging which is used in Unreal Tournament is actually a term that was coined in the Vietnam war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
Login.gov permits me if the IRS could do identity proofing.

The IRS can't do identity proofing (hence the need for ID.me, which is implementing "remote or in-person identity proofing"), and login.gov doesn't do it for the agency. Login.gov can only record whether the identity was created at IAL-1 or IAL-2.

Use of login.gov is orthogonal to the question of ID.me.
If the headline asks a question, the answer is No.
Terrible battery life on the Apple watches is the only thing preventing me from getting one (and I'm already fully invested in the Apple ecosystem - iphone, ipad, macbook air, hackintosh desktop).

By comparison my Polar V800, which has been in constant use since 2017, can last over a month on a single charge! It tracks my movement during day and detects sleep through lack of movement.

Under heavy use - GPS, heart rate, pedal cadence and wheel speed sensors all at the same time - it can last 5-6hrs.

Outstanding piece of kit :-)
I use firefox bookmarks. I don't organize past one level and most of my bookmarks just end up in the catch-all "read" folder to be honest.

To open bookmarks, I type a "*" in the location bar and then a term I am searching for.

For bookmarks, that I have a tough time finding, I will edit the bookmark and add a tag. This lets me use the tag with the "*" location search.
350 citations is not much. Retracted studies get cited more than that.
Yes, but everyone else just throws popcorn at them.
I would think not if the update only applies to devices not manufactured by Google.
I made https://www.flexulator.com to visually explain the spacing algorithm for the grow and shrink properties. You can add/remove children to see how the algorithm calculates the width as the viewport size changes. Hope this is useful!
Thanks for a thorough explanation! I've heard about NextJS, NuxtJS etc. and I know they're built on top of React and Vue, but didn't really know what kind of value they provided, now that's clearer.
I don't purchase smart devices. They either lose functionality is any or suddenly gain malicious features I can't control. Smart seems to be another way to say "fuck you".

It's true my speakers won't switch rooms automatically like Sonos and I couldn't ask me alarm clock about dog breeds but both my speakers and alarm will outlive any smart device released today. All of this stuff has to be supported and it won't be - it's just landfill material that hasn't made it there yet.

Make mine stupid please.
Is Netflix totally dominant still?
The link fails to load. Internet Archive to the rescue - here is a current capture:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220207215914/https://mwi.usma....
> 3. ... if you forfeit $1 of income and the strike price of options is $1, ...

Does this example need another prerequisite "and the current price of NFLX is $1"? Because if the example runs with NFLX at, say $10, then each option already have an intrinsic value of $9.

And combined with #5, those options look like at-the-money call options that expire in 10 years. But in this case it won't make any sense to set the option price (the amount of income to forfeit for each option) according to either strike price or stock price -- shouldn't it be set according to the difference between the two?
my BP is also out of whack and it's been 5 months since i had covid so i dont think it's getting better
I don't think this is true at all. I recently built the Saturn V and the Mario Question Mark Block and neither had _any_ notably unique pieces in them and certainly not in any excess quantity.
I'm curious which other obscure books people recommend in technical non-fiction. What has added to your career and/or personal outlook?
Wayback machine has the old version: https://web.archive.org/web/20211006161159/https://support.g...
Slicing and Dicing Instant Logs: Real-Time Insights on the Command Line
> I think the real question is what "usernames" will look like. There were hints dropped that this could be stronger than a typical username (like what HN has).

Quite a bit of code related to usernames has already been checked into Signal. Here's the username regexp and the method that checks if a username is valid: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/a5e5a735800...
In years of browsing desktop-focused websites on my phone, this is the first website that lags at 2fps while I try to use it. High-end Samsung phone from ~2 years ago (second hand) so cpu power definitely isn't the issue. It also goes back up the page randomly if I scroll a certain way, maybe it tries to lock the view to a certain region rather than in between?

No idea what's going on with that site but I can't check out your project. I'd be interested in a ~two-sentence description of what it's like and how it's different. E.g., is it using the Signal protocol without phone numbers? It so, how's it different from Wire? If not, what does it use, custom protocol? Does it have a description I can look up elsewhere?
Typically multi-stage investors like A16Z would like to lead the follow up round from seed. Seed is just a way to get in to the company, and the next rounds are where the actual money is for large funds. If the company is killing it, there is no reason for the VC not to invest. You basically want every single piece of the cap table you can without messing up the company. This is where the whole "signaling risk" issue came from.

If you look up Crunchbase where A16Z are the lead investor and organize the list by company name, you see that it's more likely they have lead at least 2 rounds: Charthop (seed, A, B), Compound (seed, A), Clubhouse (A,B,C), Databricks (A,D,E,F), Descript (seed, A), Fivetran (B,C,D)...

Founders can also prefer the previous investor because often you can get lower dilution, you already know the investors, no additional board seats and get the round done in one day vs multi week or month raise.

Founders sometimes can also prefer choosing a new lead investor but I wouldn't say it's typical at all that everyone wants a new investor.

Another multi-stage investors, Sequoia, WhatsApp raised all their rounds from Sequoia and no-one else. Sequoia also led Stripe's seed, Series A and have participated in every round so far.

In the end it's the founder who chooses the lead investor.
I recommend checking out Alpine.js which looks and feel like Vue 1. They don't have any ambition to be anything more than that.

https://alpinejs.dev/
> That’s why you’d only label the absolutely worse horseshit as “misinformation”.

Joe Rogan is primarily being attacked for bringing in Dr. Peter McCallaugh. Name one thing that he has said that is "misinformation".
I guess I'm far outside the loop as I don't know what a smart display is or why I would even want one. I did a search and read a little bit, but it just seems like a bunch of vague references to some kind of assistant.
> The behaviors of soldiers who are resistant to a military order fall into one of four categories recently described by Eric Hundman: grudging obedience, refinement, exiting service, and defiance.

What is refinement?
What does this have to do with being tied to a phone number?
Good explainer on repos.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/01/28/what-is-t...

It’s a large numbers market. I guess that’s why TFA liked it. It gave them big scary numbers to use.
FYI this is open and shut antitrust.

If they tried to do this you'd have a wonderful legal case against them if you so choose.
that's a very helpful link and also a very concise reply, thank you, btw I know some of my seniors who went into startups that were blowing up and got paid with equity, and are kinda very well off rn. Is this path worth looking into? Or is big tech a safer bet. TLDR: is the risk worth it? and is it too risky?
I have some hopes with regards casting thanks to Matter (IoT protocol which has an extension for TV). I'm not saying a lot of hopes, but still a bit.
Also, some regions don't support network optimized instances, or not all instance types of optimized instances.

Japan once ran out of instances of a type we wanted. When we finally got more, they all got located on the same host (without us knowing)... that host went down and we lost more VMs of a distributed database than we would have liked.

I've read that there are even regional differences in S3 metadata (like hash values for the file ... useful for seeing if you have the same file and don't need to upload and get dinged by AWS's ludicrous I/O costs).

AWS was also kind of scummy with the retirement of... I think it was us-east-1e where they have no m5s. We had to move AZs for one of our databases and so the AZ name of that rack of servers no longer was the same as the actual AZ. We eventually fixed it, but why AWS couldn't transparently migrate an AZ?

Anyway, the magic cloud isn't as magic as it appears. You'll run into edge cases.
It seems awkward, but it's not. It picks picks a deterministic default instead of a "whatever you have in your OS environment".

It practice all these env config initialization things are handled by the php.ini, and/or by a framework.

(Plus using the mb_string ext is how any minimally sane string handling is done in PHP nowadays.)

Yes, probably in ~10 years the PHP world too will move to a unicode by default setup :)

But hey, progress!
Thanks for the recommendation! I had never heard of pomelos - from what I read, they're likely "ancestors" of grapefruits. It sounds good, I will definitely try it.
A Big Tech Trade Is Losing Its Luster
i would guess because thinking of people as interchangeable resources amenable to algorithmic management is deeply embedded in the company's dna.
What does being tied to a phone number have to do with avoiding storing data on their servers or SGX?
Yeah, but they also didn't know about massive methane and C02 leaks coming from melting permafrost in Siberia and other frozen places. So any potential win could be lost to other negative impacts not accounted for.
I have zero "smart" device is my life exactly because the FURY that would be caused by being treated like this would far outweigh the drip-feeding of trivialities the devices would otherwise dish up each day.

I don't get into these sorts of argument with my pen or chair, for example. Why should I tolerate it from my TV?
This is very useful as well: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ (CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife)
The linked article has opinions on the third edition, toward the end.

In summary, it's not great.
Tabloid extremist political editorials are not a springboard for debate, as you're trying to use that one for now. They're also not reference material, as you were trying to use that same one in your previous comment.
Big companies can be very risk averse. E.g. legal raises some risk, then nobody is going to push back as then they could be blamed for legal fallout.
as pointed out in the parent comment that started this chain, politicians are captured by the same assholes who benefit from the system, as structured. if you change the politicians, they either buy or destroy their replacements. so if the system must change, what is to be done?
feel sort of bad considering how quickly they went down, thanks for the archive link.
> With due respect, why would someone trust this one?

It's the project of David Chaum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

Which makes that messenger very interesting. It's also quantum-resistant from the get go. I think the beta just went live.
Interesting idea about suing Lenovo instead. But I like Lenovo! The Smart Display is a very sweet piece of machinery. It's Google who damaged this machine with their forced update.

Dunno about rolling back any Android services, this is basically a kitchen appliance that Google controls my interaction with. As much as I love to hack into systems, I don't see a way in there that would be worth my time.
The UK and US are uniquely positioned among developed nations in that they lack, mostly, a national register of citizens.

Some countries have successful "government SSO" solutions which are used across the board ( e.g. France Connect in France, or the Estonian one come to mind, and both are open source to boot). The French one delegates authn to a few government-related providers ( the post office, tax office, healthcare system, all of which extensively verify your identity when setting up an account with them). There was talk for a new app that could read the NFC chips in passports and ID cards, and compare a selfie with the photo stored there for smoother authn, but I don't know if its state. Digital stuff is mostly well done in France ( at least recently), with most of it done in-house by the digital department and associated institutions, and usually open source.
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> I have long since deeply integrated my exercise with my cannabis consumption

Me too - I love playing basketball high. I'm getting a little too old to play and sadly indoor hoops has lost a lot of appeal in the COVID era. I still love shooting free throws and seeing a ball go through a hoop.

I didn't mention this but I wasn't a regular swimmer prior to this year. I do think that the novelty of swimming helped me substitute it for cannabis. One makes so much progress starting a new thing, diminishing marginal returns and all.

With a lot of things, for instance this bug I'm procrastinating on right now, just attempting the objective feels good. Every day I succeeded at swimming and not getting high so far has felt good.
You can use 9pfs or build upon the block device.
I reject that it's specific to "our generation". The people who made the monumental balls of complexity that Java is known for certainly aren't part of "my generation" at least. And we have contemporaries who embrace simplicity in significant and impactful ways.
How many movie tickets worth does your entire setup cost?
Thank you! Thanks to Ethan and Julia's weekly meetings on clubhouse, I've heard about some of these. Alok's DAO-based funding system seems very promising. I hope that gets traction. I thought I knew more about RareBase, but now I think I'll need to study their site in more depth.
Honestly, no one has ever put it this way. I like the reference to sports! I'd still be happy as a backup QB for 10 years making bank though. Cushy!
I think even today there are probably a lot more creatives using cheap wacom tablets than iPads and developing music on actual computers. Apple hasn't even bothered getting logic pro on the ipad.
> More and more I find myself investing in open systems (playing my own movies off of my Plex server...).

Plex may have a free to use tier, but it is not an open system.
There's sense in trying to keep their diff from upstream fairly minimal, but I can see value in having some differentiation - if nothing else, the RPi foundation probably wants to ship Pi-branded images (default background, application menu icon, that kind of thing). Also, there might be issues around nonfree requirements, although I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding information about that; I know booting the Pi requires a nonfree firmware blob, but I'm not sure whether there are any ex. wifi driver issues.

That said, yes one would very much hope that everyone can work together to make the diff between Debian and its downstreams as small as possible given the constraints that each party operates under.
I mean, I could have made the point that this is basically just the base rate fallacy: because 90% of papers are wrong, finding wrong papers is easy. You can just say all papers are wrong, with 90% accuracy.

Or, I could have made the point that social sciences as a whole are woefully non-quantitative and the real lesson is: ignore just about anything you hear about psychology studies in the media, because most of them come from innumeracy and invalid experimental techniques.

Another great point: when somebody, say an "average Nick", finds that a paper does contain an invalidating flaw, it can be challenging to get the attention of the establishment. Sometimes that's because you're an average Nick with no cred in the field, sometimes it's that the journal doesn't want to admit that one of their board has been publishing total crap for the last 20 years in said journal.

Instead, I summed up all those points in a single comment which was in no way shallow, but rather, from decades of experience with our broken scientific system.
Co-Founder of tines here, thanks for all of very valid feedback, there’s loads to think about! I’ll respond to a bunch of the comments individually but the one thing I’d say is try it - it’s way more powerful and flexible than any of the products listed here, although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers, with tonnes of enterprise features (Retry on status, connecting to external password vaults, global functions and resources, MTLS, forms, free SSO, curl converter etc.)

As mandatum says above “The UX of Tines beats the pants off ALL of their competitors.” And we can talk about price.

Happy to answer any questions folks have too!
I've rewatched the right turn at 6:30 a few times and I'm still not really certain where a driver is supposed to go.
I run Void Linux, and it uses runit as the init system.

It's way, way simple. It's pretty bulletproof. To add a completely new service, you have to write 1-2 lines of strictly linear shell script, maybe a few more lines in an options file if you want options to be configurable separately.

With very little effort, you can make it run your own, non-root daemons, requiring no sudo or similar.

That said, it's very simple. It has no idea of declarative dependencies; you can only explicitly ask other services to start or stop, and your init script will be retried when the dependencies (hopefully) meet your desired state. No means to start in a container / cgroup (use podman for that), no network activation (use the old inetd if you need it for some reason).

Despite that, it works pretty well, parallelizes itself naturally, and my laptop's startup time is dominated by disk decryption and loading the image to RAM.

For more sophistication, there is S6.
Do other countries economies experience these cycles in this repetitive fashion? It feels like the US correction/recession/crash cycle keeps going even though they (media, Fed?) call it different things or blame different things each time.

If this was happening to say a build/deploy system for software and it kept having crashes/halts on some interval I would want to find root causes. I am no economist but it seems like a root cause analysis is in order of the whole system. I know you can’t just stop the economy and look at log files to figure it out, but there aren’t even conversations about it, like you said “let it ride and see what happens”.
I'm really not sure what you are getting at. Psychology is pretty definitively a science. So is a massive chunk of medicine. Science holds extra weight because it involves at least attempting a verification step following an idea.

Treating science as gospel is stupid. But without personal experience (and frequently even with) stating something as true is largely meaningless. Stating something is true, while providing data to back it up, as well as evidence that other subject experts have checked that data may not be perfect, but that doesn't put it on equal footing with a gut check.
That was maybe me? If not someone else had the exact same experience. Was an odd interview, took place at a mostly empty office building in the presidio. Afterwards I was wandering around in the fog trying to get a cell signal to call an Uber which added to the ghost town feeling.
Fascinating stuff. I briefly wondered if you can not update, but I honestly don't know it is an option. If it is, users were just taught not to update for fear of losing features. Not sure what the lesson was if it is not.