skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah so from my experience a lot of tech companies are actually already doing this - google has their own version, instagram has their own version, etc. etc.
The downside of using this approach is if you don't do it right and respectful to the user, you might be annoying them. We've addressed this with our tool with an easy control over how frequent and when / where the in-app survey should show up, so that it is 1) relevant 2) not annoying. With regards to privacy, we are using MongoDB cloud with standard encryption hosted on AWS. Later this year we're gonna offer European servers for GDPR compliance. Right now though, users can close the pop-up anytime in the flow and they are not blocked from what they are doing, so only users who WANT to tell you what they think will, and when they voluntarily give you their thoughts and info, that is your 1st party data - you have full ownership over it and you (as the company) should make sure to not abuse user data (which I really hope all of our customers do!)
I get the top 100 posts from the top 100 popular subreddits for the past hour (as defined by reddit). I then do some basic filtering on subreddits to exclude a few that are often in the top that I find are either mostly text or media content, I'm looking for links.

The lack of Kanye West content is interesting. I'm going to try to find some time this weekend to dive into that. The only thing I can think of is it's so well known less people are sharing links and more people are just making text posts on reddit about it.

However, it could be an indexing issue too. I'm using postgres for the index so maybe there is something there. I'll research that. Thanks for noticing and calling it out!
Pex turned 8 today. So I decided to pull some stats for my 8 years here
You're right. It's not too late
Sometimes (or often?) mortgages and financing can fall apart at the last minute, so sellers often prefer all-cash offers because they know there's virtually nothing that can make the deal fall through or drag on long. Pre-approval is usually done by different people than much stricter people who do the underwriting, so things can fall appart there, too.

When I bought my last house (newly built), on the DAY OF closing, 2 hours before the closing appointment, my mortgage officer calls me to tell me I'd need to bring another $5000-ish (due to a reason I've blocked from my mind). He told me my builder would bring a check for an equivalent amount made out to me, but to make the accounting/financial all legal, we couldn't just "zero each other out". The money had to clear from both accounts. (I wish I could remember exactly the circumstances). And, this money couldn't just be a check but had to be a cashier's check that was guaranteed. It couldn't be cash, either, because it had to be from an account that the underwriters had reviewed and done money laundering screening for.

Due to the logistics of that day, I had to go through herculean efforts to get that cashier's check made. I usually bank with online-only banks, and thank god that I had a local bank with just enough balance to make it all work... And that's for someone who is lucky enough to be able to bring that extra money and to be able to take the day off of work to make happen. I imagine many others wouldn't be as lucky.

That closing could've been easily pushed off a couple days had this surprise made us unable to close that day.

Sellers like not dealing with this, so they prefer cash offers.
Negative Reaction is a great episode!
Exercise is nice. Reading is good for you, even fiction books can be challenging and engage your mind in new ways. Time spent with family, if you have that option. Never underestimate how big a part being social plays for humans
I've said this before in another thread. The way I square this conundrum is with the notion that you are born short housing. Your parents cover your short position when you're growing up. But as an adult, renting is also continuing to short the market. Buying your first house is therefore just covering your short position.

Its buying a second house that makes your position long.
By definition you can be “unconscionably wealthy” and be middle class.
Every time this gets posted I go there and learn 1 new thing.

At this rate, I think in a few years I will have learned so much.
> storing passwords in encrypted files is probably safer

That is too hard or tedious for most people. Syncing is a pain, and doesn't autofill on websites or in apps.
What makes a forum interesting IMO is the back and forth discussion that sometimes happens, as long as it's respectful and productive. If you don't occasionally check and answer replies, you'd miss out on the chance of having your opinion challenged and having to defend or amend it, which is a good opportunity for growth. Otherwise it's akin to throwing your thoughts into the well and walking away. You might as well do that on Twitter and turn off notifications.

I do think HN should have a simple notification system, with a configurable period of up to, say, a week after posting, and having the ability to mute threads. Just so that you don't miss any initial discussion on new posts, but without feeling overwhelmed or distracted by posts that are no longer news.
>> Columbo starts by pulling on all the strings and then doggedly chasing the inconsistencies and loose ends.

> Interesting quirk of English idioms here. Maybe regional?

> * Pulling strings often means to control, as a marionette

> * Pulling threads often means to inspect closely and follow a pattern

That's way too clever for me to have done intentionally. I just had my idioms scrambled.
If it became impossible to convert it into income without paying 98% tax for sure its price would fall eventually.

However, it probably wouldnt be the most effective way of extracting that wealth. A lot of families would try to restructure their holdings to convert income into unrealized capital gains and try to wait a few decades until the tax could be brought down again.
I make pretty good money, well above median income in Nashville and can't afford a home in the area unless it's a very rough area. Some home prices in the area are up 5x+ in just 10 years. The returns have been insane between Nashville, Huntsville and Atlanta. Rents are creeping up too, I honestly don't get how people that make less than me are able to live at all and have any money left for retirement or emergencies. Obviously a dual income stream helps couples (I'm on a single income) but it's still crazy.
In a way, yes, gold is a Ponzi scheme. It trades out of proportion to any other inherent value. It does so because people decided, somewhat arbitrarily, that it made a good medium for denoting debts. (Not entirely arbitrary -- it's pretty, it's durable, it's rare but not too rare, etc.)

It pretty much fills that niche completely. You don't need any more of them. Bitcoin could displace gold in that niche, except that there's no reason to pick that one over all of the others. The thing with gold is that its amount is really fixed, while cryptocurrencies magic themselves into existence every day.

Even gold doesn't really fulfill that job any more. It's been displaced by fiat currencies whose "inherent value" is the land on which a government has control. If you want to live on that dirt, you deal with that currency. Gold ends up just being any other commodity, but with a history that makes it unique in a way no crypto can.
I'm not firmly in the terraforming camp, but something I'd like to point out is that humans don't need exactly 1 atm. About 0.5 atm would be sufficient. It's analogous to what is found in Bolivia's altiplano. Mar's gravity is sufficient to hold onto oxygen and nitrogen.
Oh OK. Nit picking, but more like "core functions" then right? Put two or more together and it's a workflow.
A mass-affordable Los Angeles is geometrically impossible. The single-family house and car culture are central to what it means to be "LA" and there are fundamental scaling limits on those.
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It's always been the case that banks had the ability to seize funds, what is new with this Emergency Order is that banks can now seize personal funds without evidence, based purely on suspicion and without legal liability if this power is abused. Those whose assets are frozen also have no recourse through the courts or due process of any kind. The implications are chilling and are very likely to result in Canadian banks losing business and reputation/credibility.
Facebook (the product, not the company) is still a money machine. Go ahead and mock it all you want for being old (average user age is 40 in the USA, lower globally).

For a subreddit that purports to reveal the real value, there was a surprising dearth of actual analysis, just plenty of consternation.
Online Certificate Request UI/UX Fail
>Trudeau should have done what he did with the 2020 train blockade protests. Met with the protestors, had a dialogue about the issues (mandates) and come to a compromise conclusion.

I totally agree with you there. What happened to the Trudeau who would talk to anyone at town halls.

That's exactly what Melissa Lantsman asked right before Trudeau called her a nazi.
> "shouldn't"s are not very useful during shortages.

There is an important difference between "it might be necessary to put them behind NATs" and "shouldn't they be on NATs?".
If you ask for the type of (+) it's Num a => a -> a -> a
So it does say something about + through its type.
I'm curious. If you have a bucket with perhaps half a billion objects, what is the use case that leads you to wanting to navigate through it with a GUI? Are you perhaps trying to go through folders with dates looking for a particular day or something?
Thanks and yes correct, the review API uses the drawer UI on Android. What I meant in the original post is a dialog with the users asking them if they'd be willing to support us if they're happy, and that upfront communication with the users alone (rather than a standard Android pop-up) did all the magic for me when I was an indie!
I always wonder if people live in such bubbles they really don't know or can't even perceive the struggles others deal with. To me it tends to feel disingenious most of the time. When I encounter these sort of retorts I like to sit down and force the person to consider the situation an average minimum wage employee is likely in or even someone doing a bit above minimum wage, say $20/hr, do a little basic arithmetic and budgeting. They usually end up "well that sounds rough, glad I don't have to deal with that" and brush it off where the creep back in their cushy little bubble.

I grew up poor and have plenty of money now so maybe I just have a more unique perspective that's difficult to have without living it. But I often find so many really just want to tow the narrative because they understand how much inequality really works and so long as they're doing better than most, the can continue to do fairly well as long as no one rocks the boat. They like hiring that person to do that thing for virtually nothing. They like all the services they get for marginal costs because the people who work there are being exploited. As long as it's not in their face as as long as they can br the lords and vassels of today, they get to enjoy enough of the spoils of human exploitation to ignore all the terrible ways we treat each other through financial abstractions.

So much success or lack there of has little to nothing to do with work ethic, value creation, or contribution to society and has so much more to do with gaming the current systems.
Sure, but I do not think it’s due to their feeling that their own software is inferior. I think much more of that is cost. They needn’t pay to develop yet another OS variant, and instead benefit off of the open source community and their past contributions to said community.
Saving people from learning how to use Cost Explorer, Storage Lens, Cost and Usage Reports - and then taking 1 hour to study documentation - sounds to me like a legitimate market opportunity.
If everyone is looking for seniors and beyond, then it is not the case that developers in general are in high demand - only a certain subset of them are. First proposition in your sentence directly contradicts the second one.
> What if https://bitwarden.com/ gets hacked?

Bitwarden is self-hostable FOSS. You can easily run your own server instance, if you are, wisely, concerned about the security risks inherent in SaaS.
No loan underwriter to delay or veto the offer. Underwriters can put a hold on financing until X,Y & Z are fixed. Cash can take the house as-is.
If I buy a diesel car, should I only be allowed to use Apple Diesel? What happens if I fill up with MS petrol and damage the engine? Do I need to go to some Genius to tell me I'm an idiot?
I agree. My preference is not to have any reply notifications. Most of the time the comments or article have aged out of view within a day or two, and no new comments are being posted there anyways.

If it is something important and could be positive, you could always try contacting the poster directly if they have an email on their profile.
> Temporal's initial demographic was entirely self sufficient in terms of devops knowledge to take the helm charts and docker stuff we have and translate it to their environment, and read source code/talk to us to fill in any gaps.

I ended up writing a set of AWS CDK constructs internally to provision clusters via ECS + EC2, with best practices baked in, but knowing what the best practices are is a little more difficult. I would prefer not learning through getting burned :)
It depends on what you mean by password managers and trust.

If you have an application that you trust (be it track record, inspection or known-good controls), and that application happens to also be a password manager, then the trust in the manager itself should be fine. If, however, you use a third party service, i.e. something managed by a company that holds your data, that is a different topic because you're talking about trusting a company.

A password manager can be KeePass on your local FDE storage medium. A password manager can also be a web app hosted elsewhere. It can also be both. You can even mix it up and have the storage medium be remote storage in stead of local storage.

If you currently have a file called "passwords.txt" stored in a public S3 bucket, that would be your 'own method' but would that really be good? Or perhaps you have an RSA-wrapped AES-encrypted spreadsheet you store locally with no back-ups, also possible. Too many unknown parameters.

At the end of the day the solution that gets you strong unique passwords per entity in a way that you don't lose access to personally but also don't give unwanted access to towards third parties is better than not having a solution at all. (this includes physical paper password books, those are 'unhackable' after all)
Native English speaker, would give the same rough definitions for each phrase if asked[0], but for whatever reason I read the GP and didn't think it was out of place at all. Immediately got the intended meaning. Even after having it pointed out it seems fine to me, in fact I can't really see the "control" meaning even though I know it should be there.

[0]: Though I'd use "pulling the strings" and "pulling at threads".
Jason, you buried the lede! :-)

Very nicely put, and thank you for putting that together!

This patch goes a long way toward eliminating a long overdue userspace
crypto footgun. After several decades of endless user confusion, we will
finally be able to say, "use any single one of our random interfaces and
you'll be fine. They're all the same. It doesn't matter." And that, I
think, is really something. Finally all of those blog posts and
disagreeing forums and contradictory articles will all become correct
about whatever they happened to recommend, and along with it, a whole
class of vulnerabilities eliminated.

With very minimal downside, we're finally in a position where we can
make this change.
I'd like to see a cross between this and Absurdle
> The problem that I struggle with is that disproportionately harms poor people

I think the answer here is more general support for the poor. Progressive taxation, public transport, etc. That's politically difficult in the US of course. But it's surely the solution.

> The real problem is energy production.

That and energy consumption. IIRC the US consumes ~2x the energy per capita compared to Europe. Yes, we need greener production, but we could also do a lot by reducing consumptions.
Oh no, YouTube shuts down and we all have to go outside and read a book. Realistically, enough people will remain ignorant of ad blocking hygiene that YT will remain relevant to the big G for the foreseeable future. "What if everyone made the same choice?" We already know they don't.
Don't something like 65% of Americans own their homes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...

Realistically, we're in a place where significant prices increases (which has happened, obviously ) and a significant price drop would both have a significant economic impact. Both groups (home owners, and renters) are large. And while a chunk of people that own homes are investors, there are a ton of people that own their home and pretty much depend on selling and capturing the equity in the future for either their next house or retirement. Many of those people are just middle class folks, well into the fat part of the bell curve. Obviously on the flip side, more expensive homes makes it more difficult for new homeowners to buy in, and break out of the renting cycle, build equity, build wealth, etc, etc, and that's also bad. Just wanted to point out the flip side of it.
I currently make a living in the MS ecosystem, so I'm stuck with Windows for a while. And I truly do love some of the applications I run and I take for granted the hardware support.

While it's sad, it's not unexpected. It's money just lying on the table. Apple and Google do it [Edit: nevermind, they don't technically require it currently], so MS will do it too. Now we have younger generations that only know walled-gardens and locked down devices. The era of client-side general purpose computing looks like it's a blip in history rather than the dominate trend.

I built a AMD TR 1950X system a few years ago, and it should carry me through 2025 just fine. After that I plan on using Debian Stable to just run Windows11 VMs (I'm assuming by then that there will be some solutions to visualize the hardware requirements that Windows says I don't have).
Show HN: A simple associative array library in C
The future is here:

https://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html

Perhaps also why this company is looking for a buyer:

http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/about.php
No, the problem is much worse than that. Wordle has you drawing from a pool of 12000 possible 5-letter words to guess from a pool of 2500 answers.

Compare this to drawing from 195 countries to guess 195 countries.
RCMP? They have nothing to do with enforcement in the City of Ottawa (local cops), the brief protest at Quebec City (also local cops), two brief weekend protests in Vancouver (local cops), or the multi-day border closure at Windsor (local cops).

The RCMP do have enforcement duties at the Alberta border crossing and BC border crossing, both now open.

Judging RCMP for the inactions of a useless Ottawa city police force is inaccurate and misleading.
>you can't get any engineers to agree to maintain a service in Keep the Lights on mode

...and then you go on to explain in business terms that only apply to the handful of companies that have cargo-culted similar dev team designs and incentives.

I started writing a comment here about how my current employer structures and incentivizes maintenance but I've deleted it and decided not to give it away that info for free.
I use 1password for the convenience they offer.

However for important accounts, I use 2FA with yubikeys or codes that are not stored on 1password. Just in case.

Especially for non-tech family members and friends. Its either an easy password manager or using the same password everywhere.
OP here. Fun to talk about something technical :). I didn't make a curated list of words (also, my app supports 4-7 letter words). Instead, I use word frequency data to exclude 80% of the least used Swedish words. The frequency data is based on text from novels released since the 50th, popular Swedish web forums, and Swedish newspapers. Surprisingly, even with the 20% most common words, I've still seen odd words a few times. However, I find it quite enjoyable that it's possible to get a really hard word now and then.
Idk how this translates into policy if it's even possible, but people just shouldn't be so attached to home ownership. It's a not a great way to invest your money and it doesn't make any sense at all to tie your personal net worth to a piece of real estate you rely on to live. In high cost areas especially, renting is usually more fiscally sensible.
I'm surprised by so many of the comments here out-of-hand dismissing or denigrating any password manager that stores data in the cloud. There are ways to store data securely, one of the simplest methods is to do zero-knowledge encryption of that data by way of key-generation from a password only the user knows at the time of decryption. This is essentially how the vault functionality of most password managers work, whether that vault is stored locally or not. They used something like PBKDF2 to generate the key used for encryption from your password.

There's no such thing as perfect security, but as a security-minded person I see nothing there to concern me simply because the data is stored in a company's S3 environment vs on Dropbox vs on my local disk. Presuming that the software itself has not been maliciously modified to leak the key, then regardless of where the data is stored it either requires breaking the encryption or finding the password that generated the key in order to access the data. My local disk is no more secure in that aspect, except that I may have the illusion of control. Availability is also an aspect of data security (in the CIA triangle) and a cloud provider that properly replicates and manages backups of data is more reliable than my local disk in this aspect and a fair trade-off for data I likely want to synchronize across systems and devices (phone and laptop, at minimum).

Why should you trust a password manager?

For me, it's pretty simple. I don't use social login, and I use unique usernames (most of the time) and passwords (every time) for hundreds of sites I've created accounts on over the years. This is because breaches /will/ happen, and password re-use is probably the single largest issue for user security, including for "power users" like myself. A password manager of /some kind/ is basically required to have unique passwords across hundreds to thousands of sites. Certainly, there's more to it, and you need to figure out your own threat model and trust constraints, and I can't solve that for you. But as far as I am concerned, if I have a reasonable assurance that the right algorithms are used and those algorithms are correctly implemented by the password manager software, I see no reason to distrust it.