skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could happen! There's a bunch of reasons why I'm not super worried about this though:

- It is a fair bit of work for the person forking, including ongoing work to keep up to date indefinitely into the future as new features come out and the code changes, for no clear personal benefit to distributing it more widely.

- Doing this properly is not free. Distributing desktop apps means paying for code signing certificates, which cost you a few hundred dollars every year. Without this, both Apple & Windows will loudly complain and show many scary warnings to very firmly discourage all users from using your software.

- For the same effort (and zero cost) anybody doing this could instead contribute a feature, or bug fix, or docs improvement to the app, and I'd give them a free Pro account anyway. Seems like a strictly better deal.

- Even if/when somebody does do this, the marketing moat is pretty strong. Making a significant number of users aware of such a fork would be a huge amount of work on its own, for no real benefit.

- From a funding perspective, the most relevant users are well-paid software professionals, where the product is usually being bought by their boss and they just want something that works ASAP. Even if a free fork existed, they don't want to spend an hour digging around to find one that's trustworthy & up to date.

- Most of the features are free anyway. The Pro features are literally targetted at professionals: people working in teams, setting up mocks for entire APIs, dealing with enterprise proxies & certs, etc. Not people trying to do some quick reverse engineering & testing. That means the people who want Pro are almost exactly the people for whom doing the work to fork & maintain the project isn't worthwhile.

- There's a meaningful percentage of users who pay in part because they explicitly want to fund ongoing development on the software they're using, because they like the project. Those users don't even want to switch to a free fork.

- Empirically, I've done this for a few years now, and AFAIK not one person has ever forked it for anything but their own personal use :-)
Not 83 different passwords, 83 sites with the same, compromised password. I know, I know, horrible security, but I do believe its what the majority of people do!
https://runbox.com/

https://www.fastmail.com/

https://mailbox.org/en/

https://posteo.de/en

https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
no true scotsperson?
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I think it's mostly because the new tech Solves-A-Problem-That-I-Recognize, and developers mislead themselves into thinking the new tech is does everything old tech does, plus this, and they downplay the trade-offs being made (or they aren't experienced enough to recognize the tradeoffs).
I have stress dreams about working in a restaurant all the time! It’s insane. I haven’t worked the line in almost 10 years at this point, yet I still have nightmares that the tickets are overflowing.

> Do you do recreational drugs? Are you an alcoholic? Do you have a criminal record? Are you in the country illegally? If no, how are you going to deal with the fact that 75% of your coworkers meet one if not all of those criteria?

This resonates so much. I was never able to connect in any long term sense with my coworkers due to these reasons. Not getting drunk or doing other drugs after my shift meant that I wasn’t bonding with my coworkers.
> if they are not interested in pursuing a career in the tech industry?

There is very little reason to learn something you aren't going to use. They should invest their time in what they find compelling and they will be successful.

If you think they need to learn to code to be "future proof" that day has past. In the future there will be millions of coders it won't pay well and they will have spent their energy, money and time doing something they don't enjoy and have no use for.

You can make good money as a builder or electrician etc don't try to fit a role you aren't made for.
Dutch digital identity verification system DigiD has announced the phasing out SMS as second factor. That way they require citizens to install a smartphone app in order to use digital services from the government, municipalities, the health sector and others. These applications only work on iOS and Android phones, with reliance on third party services.

Plenty of members of our community choose not to use a device that is tied to vendor-specific services.

What does phasing out of SMS have to do with this? SMS is using a device (SIM or eSIM) that is tied to (wildly insecure) vendor-specific services.

Further, a decent alternative, TOTP, is not iOS or Android specific. Nor are Yubikeys.

It's unbelievable to me how many people's accounts are tied to, and have been reassigned to bad actors by, their telco, and yet banks still think this is a lovely idea.

Pretty convinced the survival of SMS as 2FA is, as made clear by FB among others, excused "because we take your security seriously" but actually implemented for tying you to your data master record.
I think it looks really nice but alluded to in the article is the spectre of people who thought they were doing something equally innovative in the 1950s and we now have large brutalist city centres that are much lamented.

There are plenty of buildings that look amazing when they are first built (or even worse when they are simply drawn) but give it 5 years, some water staining, a few unruly residents etc....

I don't want to be negative because I often wonder about much better living environments/thinking but I think that the social side of things is often overlooked (at least in the UK) so that affordable housing in my friends new estate meant drug dealers and large white vans parked up and down her small road next to her nice house. You don't want to be a snob but when you work hard to afford a nice place to live, you also don't want to be imposed upon by those who aren't so bothered about their community.
App Continuum
> Why not?

Because if you have enough of them for internal purposes then they can't have meaning to users.

> It seems like the opposite has happened. URIs were the default navigation UX, but we are slowly pushing them away.

URIs were the default entry point for navigation, and they still are. That's one way in which they leak, but these are intentional so maybe best not called "leaks". There's also the URIs that leak in other ways, like in the browser status bar, and so on.
Select them in finder and press space bar.
I'm very interested in novel forms of policy making, alternatives to parliamentary procedure. Your suggestions are worth trying out. Perhaps as a game or simulation, a la Nomics.

I'm personally interested in participatory democracy strategies like citizen juries.

Not to be confused with direct democracy strategies like initiatives. Which have proven to be poor choices.

Emphasis on the deliberation, discourse, participation. Versus just voting.

Learning how the Iroquois governed is on my "to do" list.
You can use the regular YouTube app from your phone purely as a remote, and cast from it to SmartTubeNext on your TV.
Increasing atmospheric helium due to fossil fuel exploitation
From my experience feedback from retrospectives rarely gets acted on. You can make changes that are isolated to your team but you quickly reach a point where other functions need to change their process. To make these changes you need support from senior management but I have never seen anything happen besides words.
looks like a neat way around the hell of patching relocations. though, if you'd want to modify the binary arbitrarily and not hijack sections or such things, it might be nice to look into that.
I worked in this industry for many years. The railroads were always hyper-focused on increasing throughput. I left the industry about ten years ago, but back then derailments were considered the most significant risk to average network speed. At the time, average network speed was roughly correlated with profit. The rule of thumb was a 1 mph increase in average network speed was worth about $100MM in profit. That was 15 years ago.

There were a lot of systems in place to monitor rolling stock:

- Wheel Impact Detectors

- Hotbox detectors

- Acoustic bearing detectors

- Truck performance detectors

To name just a few. There were also efforts to monitor the railway infrastructure. The things I remember:

- Rail stress management (rails need to be under the right amount of stress, which of course varies with temperature)

- Top of rail friction management

- Rail profile management (the name eludes me, but the idea is you want the interface between the rail and wheel to meet certain parameters)

I worked on the rolling stock side measuring wheel impacts, overloads, imbalances, and a handful of more esoteric metrics. One of the outputs of these measurements was a train consist. For each of our locations we were able to build up the consist of the entire train (which was a fun CS problem in itself).

I stared at a lot of consists over the years. In North America I never saw anything longer than about 100 cars and 2-4 locos. However, in Northwest Australia they routinely ran 300 car trains meeting the description in this article. But, the reason they could get away with that is they were running a straight shot from the heart of the Pilbara to one of the port towns on the north west shoulder (Karratha and Port Hedland).

I need to check in with my old colleagues and see if things have changed. It wouldn't surprise me if train lengths have gotten longer, but I would be surprised if this correlated with a large increase in derailments, as that would have a tremendous impact on average network speed and thus profit.

As someone mentioned elsewhere on this thread, there are a lot of single track corridors. It's bad enough when one train has to sidetrack. It's really bad when a train takes out the whole corridor. These aren't packet switched networks. It's not easy to reroute. And it's really expensive and difficult to lay new rail.
I can't actually tell what the parent's politics are. "40% of Americans don't believe Biden won the election" seems like a left-leaning talking point while "protests at Kavenaugh's house" seems like a right-leaning talking point. I think it's a good thing that he wasn't transparently political.

I downvoted because the apparent argument ("the US has these imperfections, thus it follows that it ranks low among countries") is a specific incarnation of the enumeration fallacy that is both obvious and frequently employed. If this isn't what the parent intended to communicate, then he can take my downvote as a cue to be clearer in the future. My downvotes are intended as (albeit very low-resolution) constructive criticism, not ill-will or petty disagreement.
In the original incarnation, it included the legendary TweakUI.[1]

[1]http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu/~rpearson/tips/tweakui.html
Often I think this means teaching people how to make services large enough to do their job and small enough that you can replace it within a couple hours worth of a work for a junior developer (a senior developer should be able to do the same work within an hour or less depending on their familiarity with the language and build system).
Signatures stamps are great, but the signature-creation method is absurd.

Ok, there is something cryptographically special about a signature image, which means we can't just import a file, it has to be created while in the program, and it gets stored on the keychain. Fine. But then why not also give us the ability to add an arbitrary stamp from an image? Why have the only method for adding a stamp to a PDF be through the signatures?

I have a fine signature as an image, which didn't survive the switch to a new Mac because it's not a plain image and you have to jump through hoops to bring it across keychains. I also have a stamp that I use. I can't import either of these into Preview, and my only option for the former is a terrible scrawl on the touchpad, or holding up an image in front of the camera and hoping it's not too distorted. Why?
https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
Holy hell, I'm glad I clicked on this story. Had no idea this feature existed, I've been using much clunkier solutions to get a photo or document over from my phone. Thanks!
My passport application photo kept getting rejected as my eyes were ‘too dark’.

I tried various things without luck, then in a rage, I copied my ‘light’ eye and stuck it over my shaded eye.

I thought the passport photo submission tool would let me review before accepting an upload. Nope, off it went.

The passport has worked in several countries, USA, UK and others.

Thanks Preview.
Have you looked to see if your microwave has a volume control menu? After years of listening to my microwave blare across the house I saw a tweet that informed me that most microwaves have a menu setting somewhere to control the volume and sure enough, my Frigidaire microwave actually does. I had just never thought to look.
> You're absolutely right kid. Sincerely. I look forward to the day when the real utility shines through again. And I come from a time (as a now well bearded computer nerd) when it was all utility and coolness.

Sure, my Palm was amazingly useful, a much better productivity tool than my smartphone is, minus the maps and real time data stuff.

Having a button dedicated to "pull up my todo list" is a life changer. I wish I could buy a smartphone that did that, or even just let my lock screen be taken over by my todo list.

Given modern tech, I wonder how thin a Palm like device could be made now days.
I love preview -- I've done every one of these things in it. I also use it to crop images all the time. Not only can you select a rectangle, but it also has a magic wand selector where you can draw an outline of what you want to select and it will find the borders for you.
Ransomware plows through farm machinery giant AGCO
It's a completely different thing to produce something of value and to get paid for it. There are plenty of examples. Immediately come to mind operating systems or compilers. Or a lot of completely underfunded but fundamental open source tools that everybody uses but nobody pays.
I've been able to reach google by email & phone, though not sure if I have ever needed to for GSuite? There are paid plans for gcloud to get more responsive support.

The idea you believe about google is supported by anecdotal stories. Those who have no issue rarely relate their story.
If a battery is "removable", that means replacing the battery is a normal, reasonable use of the device. Ergo, if the device breaks while the customer is replacing the battery, the manufacturer would need to replace it under warranty.
So that they can make money for when they become sick from sitting behind a computer all day.
I think that’s the point of the article. If you just look at the numbers like an MBA would then maybe it makes sense. But all of the negative externalities are being bore by the local communities where the derailments are happening, and those don’t show up in the balance sheets. So if they’re not in the balance sheets then why would someone in the corporate big city office care about it at all? That is now totally someone else’s problem. The numbers still look great.
Ugh, those red buildings. There are wonderfully colored houses/buildings in many of the picturesque neighborhoods you see in certain towns. It seems like they tried to do the same with those. In my opinion, it doesn't work. There's no color variation, no trim/contrast to make the colors pop and look good. It just looks like an ugly red building that would hurt my eyes to see that much red every day (imagine being in the center building with red on both sides). It would have likely been better and cheaper to go with a neutral color for the majority of the structure and used color on various subpieces or trim.

Even just doing something like the blue floating houses is so much better. They have variation. I think it probably also works better due to the smaller size (red sports car vs solid red semi truck - one can look nice and the other looks obnoxious)
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Yeah, Preview is awesome. I remember when I learned about adding signatures to docs, I was blown away at how awesome the import procedure was - sign on a piece of paper (sharpie works well), hold it up to your webcam, voila! Natural looking signature on hundreds of docs since.

Preview is one of the biggest things I’ve missed every time I’ve tried to finally make Linux my daily driver.
Yeah, I've been hearing that for many years now, but I think reddit has entered into the zeitgeist and is as sticky as Facebook at this point. I have non-tech family members that use reddit. It used to surprise me when IRL people mentioned reddit, but now it's very common.

"Hey, I saw this on reddit"
This looks really cool! Very excited to get closer to universal JS for some of these APIs.

What's your plan for handling this in cases where there's existing divergence? Is there general enthusiasm for breaking changes in server-side frameworks to fix that and create consistency? It is much easier to do on the server than in the browser, but still painful...
Duplicate is basically the same as save as, but they've swapped the order of operations. Save as would have you pick a destination, then start editing. Duplicate lets you edit and then choose where to save. I'm guessing part of the reason for the change was also that save as sounds like "rename" when it is in fact "duplicate under a new name"
I saw it at a local council (serving ~300k people) & a small gas (as in methane delivery) company as well as at a very large telco and in government/defence. It may not have been ubiquitous but it was definitely everywhere I worked.
Railroads are an old business where the safety and other operational considerations are well known.

The equation here is more like “I can increase margins 3% this quarter to get my bonus, but increase the risk of an incident that may harm or result in the death of an employee or disaster affecting the public by 15%”

The long game is that the railroad will lose money when they create a 9-figure incident. The short game is the management makes their money.
Why are these monster trains preferable at all? They apparently need distributed locomotives, which means that the number of cars per locomotive isn’t actually substantially larger than a group of smaller trains. So they save a couple engineers per monster train at the cost of lower utilization (due to inefficiencies of loading and unloading)? What’s the corresponding benefit?
The evidence for flossing is pretty weak. I think it's mostly an American thing, kinda like circumcision (when compared to Europe). I never flossed even once in my life and don't know anyone who did. (I'm not suggesting that's a reason not to do it!)
It feels like they could have just called Agile "The True Scotsman" to short circuit both sides of this endless repetitive and predictable argument.
That iOS scan feature is "hidden" in the Files app. Open it on your phone and press the three dots in the top right corner and it should have "scan documents" option.

You can also select "black & white" mode for text documents which saves a ton of space
Not really a technical challenge. You could force an equivalent of POSIX, maybe based on WASM, that smartphone makers would be forced to support if they want to sell in your region, and forced to support side loading those apps, as no government should be subject to the caprices of the various app stores. At this point smartphones have a fairly mature feature set to expose to the app. That would also help with the anti-competitive app store practices.
And you never once considered going premium to remove the ads?

Surely someone must have been able to help you out with that if you couldn’t do it yourself?

The answer exists, it’s right there with buttons for clicking given to you by Google, but people here on HN so often seem so entirely blindsided and insist there’s no such thing as ad-free Youtube.

What gives? I just don't get it.
Tried to sign up but nothing happened after agreeing to the tos. Couldn't log in either. Needs some feedback in a failure state at minimum.
Perhaps there are different definitions of “derailed”.

After all one of the communication problems in this pandemic was that even technical, medical professionals could not agree on the definition of “airborne” as it relates to the public’s best interest.
I'm not even sure they need to assume. So much programming is by organizational design task by task problem solving that people get lead into making one off decisions and really don't have time to explore otherwise.
If you skin produces dozens of thousands of IU while staying 20 minutes in the sun, and the RDA is not even a tenth of that, I'd rather wage the RDA is completely wrong and misplaced.
All known human societies have government, even the most primitive tribes, so I'm not clear what your point is. I was just reading about the The Tripolye Culture giant-settlements in Ukraine, from 7,000 years ago, who seem to have had something like a democratic government:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1842174835/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Why not use an existing open standard like TOTP instead of creating a custom app? Seems less of a hassle to me.
That's crazy, do you know what happened to the startup? I imagine losing such a good domain after two years is quite the rocky transition
> Something really needs to be done about these "money transmitter" services. They essentially get all the power of a bank and none of the oversight, and de-facto there is very little way to avoid them when transacting on the internet.

I guess it depends what kinds of transactions you are making on the internet... I have never used paypal or anything similar to send money to a stranger. I occasionally use venmo to send small sums to friends, but never an amount I would be sad to lose.

if you want all the guarantees that come from dealing with a regulated financial institution, you should... go to your bank? they should be happy to set up an ach/wire transfer for you.
It rains 9 months a year here. Much of the US gets quite cold or hot for a significant part of the year. I really don't want to step outside to use my phone. WFH means I need to leave it on my porch in order to receive work calls, I guess.
One of the interesting parts of humanity is that we make artificial frameworks that become so familiar to us it feels “natural”

The entire concept of interest is a human-designed concept (one that some cultures actively reject). To say that interest rates are being “meddled” with is just basically saying “one group of humans is doing one thing that disagrees with how another group of humans do it”

I’d argue that humans in general are awful at understanding time values and interest is a very incomplete solution to that problem. Making that incomplete solution marginally better isn’t going to get us anywhere.

Shame is, I don’t have any better ideas.
Generally agree, but disagree with this one:

- Code reviews are a waste of time and present a great opportunity to
destroy team morale

CR has prevented an uncountable number of issues in our large codebase with junior devs. It doesn't have to reduce morale if used as a teaching moment (growth mindset) instead of opportunity for punishment. Imagine a sports team without a coach.
"Just have experts (only) work for you," isn't a solution for most either.
Small claims court? It depends on local laws, so maybe it does not apply. At least is should cost less than a lawyer fees and allow the victim to also recoup some of the money used to sue.
Your Prayers Have Been Answered: The Vatican Will Sell NFTs
In case you are still looking for a card that will work without an app, American Express sends you emails and SMSs with validation codes for online purchases.
That could have been deliberately planned by Wardle well in advance. The issue wasn't so much with today's word, as the timing of it looks like it was deliberately placed recently.