skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zines are one of these words that just was never in my vocabulary until maybe six months ago. I had to Google what people were talking about. They’re just cheap magazines right?
I love Muse, and 2.0 is a huge gain for me.
I only wish that the inking/writing/drawing experience was a bit better.

When I use a real pen to write notes on real paper, my handwriting is pretty! That generates positive feelings for me both when I create notes, and also when I review notes.
In the same way, the apps in which my handwriting looks good create a feedback loop where seeing my own handwriting encourages me to continue to write more, and makes the app more "sticky" for me.
At the moment, my handwriting in Muse looks displeasing, which discourages me from writing more. I'm currently getting around this by mostly using the new text note type instead of ink, but it is a more limited kind of expression and note taking than free-form inking, which is a shame.

I understand this behaviour/reaction is unlikely to be universal, or might be a condemning expression of vanity on my part in some way, but still - I might not be alone!
Introduced my partner to both of these games. We completed DOS1 together and played countless hours of Stardew Valley - she would take care of the animals and I would take care of the plants.
data is a liability regardless
The standard for any criminal trial in the US is “proof beyond a reasonable doubt”; I’m sure the defense has hammered on this point. If a juror has reasonable doubt, she will not be convicted.
An hour? That is ridiculous.

It takes forever, but it really shouldn't. It only seems to get installed to provide a compiler. Why does that take an hour?

`apt install gcc` takes a minute.
Awesome. Hope there's at least a very basic commenting feature as well.
The L490 comes with a spinning hard drive configuration.

That explains most if not all of the slowness if your configuration didn't come with an SSD.
Those were examples I thought people were likely to recognize, not vendor recommendations. I edited for clarity.
You're totally right, I did some dumb math.
The blog post that introduced it (https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-...) mentions

func DoSomethingVerbosely(foo *Foo, verbosity int) {
prev := foo.Option(pkg.Verbosity(verbosity))
defer foo.Option(prev)
// ... do some stuff with foo under high verbosity.
}

but I don’t see why that’s better than

func DoSomethingVerbosely(foo *Foo, verbosity int) {
prev := foo.setVerbosity(verbosity))
defer foo.setVerbosity(prev)
// ... do some stuff with foo under high verbosity.
}

It also mentions that it allows you to “set lots of options in a given call”. That, you could sort of accomplish by having the setProperty methods return the changed object, thus allowing chaining (e.g. foo.setVerbosity(v).setDryRun(true)).

This allows both that defer and setting lots of options in a single call.

Given the limited features of go, it’s a nice hack, but I don’t like it. To me, it doesn’t feel like it fits the philosophy of go.
If I told you I don’t listen to the Billboard top 100 songs, would you say “nonsense, you don’t listen to music?”

I also prefer w3m and find most of the web much better as text only, switching over to another browser when I want video or some other JS feature. Or I can use something like youtube-dl to fetch a video. And there’s much more out there than the top 100 websites.
That's rather presumptive that it's a positive outcome. Maybe some of us don't want supplemented tomatoes and prefer regular ones.

https://www.sciencealert.com/vitamin-d-tablets-may-be-worse-...
There are some tongue in cheek answers but actually how does it cost that much to run?

That’s a ton of money for a website that is very text heavy with short/low quality videos and a largely fixed feature set.
You do realize that TOTP is a standard that doesn't require you to use either, that you can use the same secrets for any TOTP app, right?
How so? The line you quoted from Wikipedia calls them unforgeable. If you can forge it (by printing it out and reading it back in from somewhere else, or by guessing a bit pattern) then surely it's not a capability?
Thank you! I feel you 100% when you say that keeping user happy is incredibly gratifying.

The app took me about 300-400 hours to build. Regarding marketing, I've said it elsewhere in the thread but here it is again:

- Created an instagram account for the app and started following some tags. I liked post on the tags and started following some users to get them to look at my profile. Got about 150 downloads from that.

- Made a 5/3/1 Calculator website. The goal was to make something useful to boost the SEO of my domain. What really ended up happening is the calculator ranks usually number 2 on Google and then users see the link to the app in there and click on it. Got about 200 downloads from that.

- Apple Search Ads gives you $100 credit. Got a bunch of downloads with this

- I used Bing Ads credits but wasn't too impressed with what I was getting from there though
How does one automate the minikube (or any other flavor) provisioning and setting up the dev environment matched to prod so there would be as little friction as possible?

Talking of something, which idempotently installs minikube if necessary, pulls images from the remote registry, sets up the network with DNS... Is there such a tool?
The plan seems to be to reduce residential water usage by 15% per year.

There is a point of diminishing returns, as you note.
Ugh. I have a bunch of money saved up but I am terrified this is going to be the great depression 2.
Thanks, this was a nice read.

And closing with...

> Bookkeeping can be as annoying as debugging, but in the end I'm really grateful that I understand how each detail works.

... hits home for me, haha. Never thought I was going to understand - let alone like - bookkeeping. What maybe helped, was me making my own bookkeeping app, it also forced me to understand the rules.
Eh.. probably because I learned of lenses from Ink & Switch in the first place: https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/
Calling home, AWS and Sentry (Error tracking) is very reasonable. Intercom is the only "eh" one and it's not even that bad.
We are using Docker Swarm and we decided to build tooling that makes using docker stack easier.

For now all it does is enabling rolling upgrades to configs and secrets by rewriting the stack file to include SHA-1 hashes of the secret contents.

Other things that are planned are:

1. Templating support for (relevant) parts of the YAML file.
2. Integration with https://github.com/sudo-bmitch/docker-stack-wait (or reimplementation)
I really can't believe companies are still doing this with people's data. Insane that this is still a thing companies abuse.
I must admit, I don't know what games are out there these days, but I want an adventure game like the original King's Quest, Space Quest, Hero's Quest, etc. but with modern graphics, of course. It is important that they be language-driven, like the originals, but taking advantage of modern nlp.
Spotlight going out of its mind indexing is my current annoyance. mds and mdworker processes taking up 100% of my CPU for hours on end, blasting hot air into my already hot home office. I have a screenshot of 30+ mdworker_shared processes simultaneously doing god knows what, roasting my CPU. Nothing I do seems to help, including limiting spotlight to specific folders, disabling it for certain volumes from the command line, there's just no way tell Spotlight to not melt my CPU without turning off the service altogether. Total madness and it's an opaque black box.
That didn't have an easy and free solution in most areas, a solution that carries other benefits. That also didn't involve editing genes that could potentially spread. Also it had a clear benefit. Not so much here.

https://www.sciencealert.com/vitamin-d-tablets-may-be-worse-...
Or, you know, a regular taxi service. Japan has one where a second person shows up to drive your car home as well:

> The service, known as “daiko” in Japan, gives inebriated people a lift home, along with their vehicles, after a night on the town.

* https://www.stripes.com/news/dial-a-driver-service-helps-us-...
If it goes from a wallet you control to a different wallet you control, neither system would say ownership changed, so I'm not sure how that example helps.

Another point of comparison I'll bring up is cars, where if you let someone have your keys then you have limited or zero recourse in many situations where they do something bad.
Nvidia will slow down its hiring pace and control expenses
You don't have to use microsoft authenticator. TOTP is a big step up from SMS and most/good apps won't violate your privacy.
I believe GP meant authenticator app like authy, duo, or any other TOTP. You're not giving anyone your location by using that.
Same inbox, yes. But you can always use filters to have them show up in different folders instead of the default inbox folder.
Isn't that poor man SIMD an Abrash Black Book trick?
Scientists create tomatoes genetically edited to bolster Vitamin D levels
It says they cannot use the data commercially, only for the stated purposes (security, recovery).

In practice, it'll be hard to enforce, though.
I'd like to play with a game that's like Civilisation, but when you start, you don't know what world you're playing in. You only know what your ruler sees and hears. You may send your Columbus across the Atlantic, and you will see him arrive to India in the East. Later on you may learn that he instead discovered a new continent. Maybe. Maybe he really landed in India in your game. Or maybe he was a fraud and found nothing, and all the lands he reported on will disappear from the map when you send more ships to follow his route.

Similarly, you wouldn't know which technology would work in this world and which not. Maybe alchemy would be real, and you could develop it to mass produce rare materials. Maybe it would turn out to be fake science only. Similarly, magic and religion may work as either basic mind tricks and psychology that enlightenment would mostly cancel out, or be part of the reality of the world, and you could get gods fighting on your side Greek mythology style, or wizards casting spells even deadlier than tanks and nukes.

I guess this system would be already a bit too hard to implement, but if I could keep wishing freely, it would be awesome if you could actually govern by writing whatever law you want. So you wouldn't just click a button to switch from feudalism to theocracy or communism, but you would actually have to come to an agreement with power figures (or classes) in your society on how your state would work. You could grant rights to tax trade routes in exchange of doing military service for example. And later you would need support from some other group if you would like to abolish this system.
> Function returning function returning function is an awful style of coding that is hard to read.

Hey, that's basically how any function with more than one argument is implemented in Haskell. (Look up currying.)

It's not so much that this style is 'awful' in any universal sense; it's more that Go is terrible, terrible host language for anything in this style.
Before Java came into the world I remember Turbo Vision, Powerplant, CSet++, OWL, MFC, Motif++, VCL, Tools.h++,...
Russia and China carried out a joint military drill yesterday, buzzing Japan. Those hoping for conflict between them need to smoke another bowl.
Atlassian had a similar one.
Rancher Desktop, wonderful tool on OS X and Windows when i’ve used it.
How the Apple of the Midwest fell apart
Thanks for the Rothamsted reference Matt, I am interested, like so
much today this is obviously a complex can-o-worms.
That specific thing might kot be a hardware issue, but the rest of it is. Large corps issue these giant plastic behemoths of laptops that they buy in bulk, and they just suck so much ass to use as a notebook. Heavy, bad to type on, low quality screens sometimes, slow, locked down, giant but somehow flimsy, meant to be used on a dock.
I don't think the important thing is necessarily profit, but margins. According to Bezos, Amazon had positive contribution margins from day 1.
“ discord is forcing Namecheap to transfer my domain discord.style to them”
Star Citizen was the first thing that came to mind too! I "pledged" in 2017 as a teenager and now I'll be graduating college next year. Unbelievable how poorly the game's been managed.
I think it's helpful to take the specific quote that describes his apparent view:

> An elaborate study of five different methods by C. Floyd and several coworkers [Floyd, 1984] concludes that the notion of methods as systems of rules that in an arbitrary context and mechanically will lead to good solutions is an illusion.

> ...

> Where the Theory Building View departs from the methodologists is on the question of which techniques to use and in what order. On the Theory Building View this must remain entirely a matter for the programmer to decide, taking into account the actual problem to be solved.

This is not an outright rejection of methods or methodologies, only the method-centric view: The belief that there is some universally (or near universally) applicable method which can mechanically be applied to solve arbitrary problems in programming.
There is a clear reason not to use Authy, which is that making your data portable is extremely annoying. No export function. I ended up writing a 3rd party Authy client just to get my TOTP keys out.

For iOS users, I cannot say enough good things about https://apps.apple.com/us/app/otp-auth/id659877384. Author is responsive, encrypted backups, portable data format.
Taking on Segment (YC S11), RudderStack, mParticle, and maybe a lesser degree FreshPaint (YC S19), Hightouch (YC S19), Census, etc.
Airbyte employee here! can I learn more about what was painful about the SFDC connector?
There are free, open-source, and privacy-respecting options for TOTP 2FA that don't require a mobile phone plan.

You can use something like KeepassXC (desktop) or something like KeepassDX or Aegis (on F-Droid on Android) for your OTP authentication app to manage 2FA for Google, Amazon, eBay, Dropbox, etc. and there are other options as well.
There's actually a very good reason to not use Google Authenticator actually.

They don't offer any backups (at least on iOS) and as a result, if you lose your phone, you are hosed. Google Authenticator also doesn't use iCloud for backup for files like other apps. I also just assume at this point no one owns that app and that it'll never get backups because that's how Google operates.

I've seen multiple people lose their TOTP codes this way and have been locked out of their accounts. Or even the more simple case, they buy a new phone, restore from backup and just assume everything is peachy then send their old phone back and then don't realize it until they open the app for the first time.

Use something with cloud backups for your safety.
I think the general discussion is around whether that's a feature or a bug.
Afaik, TOTP is standardized, so you should be able to use any authenticator app for 2FA. Idk about Microsoft, but I haven't encountered any service that doesn't allow you to bring your own TOTP app.
The loss would have been bigger tho.
Yep, we already have basic support for versioning.

The foundation of our approach is to have a versioned, documented schema shared among clients. Every write down to the individual attribute level is persisted with a schema version. We're already several versions in, and indeed think it's healthy to get experience with version updates frequently so that it's not an unusual occurrence.

Currently we use this schema to interpret / coerce values as needed at read-time. For example we see an attribute has schema version 1, and know that it should be interpreted in the sense that we meant as of version 1. In the future, we may also choose to write out updates for "migrations" where that'd be helpful. So that e.g. instead of having to re-interpret values for older version 1, we'd right out an update to he attribute that overwrites the old value and updates the version tag to e.g. 3.

We do think lenses are interesting and the lab from which we spun out has done some good work with them: https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/. They're just a bit complex for our modest needs re: schema versioning at this time.
It is sooo successful on the Android, IoT ecosystems.
Are you using Microsoft Authenticator in a corporate environment/profile? I just checked my personal install (Android) and it does not require any permissions (location is denied).
The vague accusation is that because "onion routing"[1] has roots in the military, it must have a backdoor that we haven't uncovered in decades. If the person had posted this Wikipedia link with the info you mentioned, for example, I wouldn't have thought it unsubstantial per the guidelines (even if the claim/accusation itself is unsubstantiated by the evidence, that's a difference of opinion and not a guidelines thing).

[1] Not the cryptography, not even the code implementation, but just the general concept: having a message packed in several layers of encryption such that intermediate routers don't know the contents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
very broad strokes: money is raised to be spent. each round gets you to the next, or you reach some measure of sustainability before the money runs out — layoffs like this should be expected, regardless of the amount raised, if there’s a shift in conditions that indicate raising again in 18 months isn’t going to be easy. You can burn any amount of money if you want to.
I had just assumed that this was Neal working more necessary maths into the book with an amusing anecdote attributed to Turing.

Given that this blog post is from this year, I’m going to continue to assume as much.
Nuclear doctrine and deterrence has a different risk profile. Not something to be willy nilly or flippant about.

You seem to not be considering the reality of the situation or the nature of humans and power
… where I am it's $2,700/mo.

… my brother just moved to Podunksville, TN, and the rent on a 1 bd is $900/mo…
According to Ryan Brewslow,

> There IS risk to the employee; they now have a real loan outstanding and 100% personal recourse, so if the common stock becomes less than exercise price, their personal assets are on the hook

So I suppose the bank will be after your personal assets?
> The second link is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

It's relevant to the issue of the ban, which is what the (sub)thread is about. I think the reason it was posted was to demonstrate a pattern, and I think that's pretty relevant.

Every single disagreement I've had with Drew escalated and I don't think that's my fault since it never happens with anyone else (Never? Well, hardly ever) and I've seen it happen with various other people too. Not that I'm perfect by any means or couldn't have done things better, but there's certainly a pattern here.

As for the actual issue at hand: I mostly agree with Drew, however, I don't really have enough information to be sure here, and Drew has misrepresented things in the past and does so here in this post (a reader unfamiliar with Go would be left assuming that Go "phones home" just for the sake of "phoning home" after reading this article, which is really a misrepresentation IMHO), so there's not a lot of trust here (again, a pattern).
For a quick-and-dirty conversion, I do F=2C+30, C=(F-30)/2.
So don't use Microsoft Authenticator. There are many options without the privacy problems with the MS App (which, IMO are overblown, but whatever). Go run your own if you want to be absolutely private. I'm happy with 1Password for managing it.

http://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html
So is this the competitor to Fast, which also had a big round of layoffs recently?
(edit: ah yes I remember now it was a complete shutdown)

My current understanding is that both of these businesses were premised on the end of Amazon’s one-click checkout patent. Is this proving that to be a faulty premise?
For android users, Aegis provides much of these benefits (as does andOTP). Both are open source, I like aegis a bit better.
Honestly, text in another language is nearly as useful to me as inscrutable icons. Maybe even more useful as long as it's a romance or Germanic language.
>I truly doubt this was a calculated tradeoff.

Potentially, sure.

>It was almost certainly a fuckup where the phone # was mistakenly stored in a shared schema, and someone on the ads side saw it and decided to use it

How is this an "almost certainly"? Do you have additional information you'd care to share on why you think so? If this were the case, it would point to insanely sloppy policies, procedures, and implementations.

>This probably only affects a tiny fraction of their users.

Why?
The most important fact is buried on the middle of the third paragraph, because the CEO is a coward.
iOS has this control to prompt users to rate your app. I made it so that the prompt appears after the user has completed a workout, at which point they are probably happy with the app (and aren't getting jarringly interrupted).
I mean, of course they're slow, it's varargs (on the heap, garbage collected), dynamic function closures (on the heap, garbage collected), and a series of indirect function calls. You really don't need a bunch of benchmarks to tell me it's slow, I believe you. But as much as it pains me, and any premature optimizer, to write "...func(*config)", I don't see the problem unless you find it in a hot section of real code and then do real benchmarks on the code to solve a real problem; these blog post benchmarks are not helpful. I bet regexp.Compile is slow too, but I don't complain about it until I find it in a hot section of code.
Exactly. When the business is failing is when there's lots of time and resources available to make your core product more efficient.
I don't think VC-backed startups typically do stock buybacks? That's more of a Fortune 500 thing, AFAIK. "Startups" (of whatever size) are always concerned about the next funding round; I don't think they're going to burn runway to prop up the share price. It's companies like GE and IBM that do that, AFAIK.
> As California stretches into its third year of drought

no.

> Since California's unnaturally wet period ended in the early 20th century and the naturally dry state continues to remain dry and become drier every year for the foreseeable future

TFTFY
As hunger spreads in Somalia, babies start to die
Most important of all porn doesn’t work
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 146
Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)
First you have to establish who goes to jail, corporations are able to avoid this by having vague structures of shifting blame so a jury can't decide if any particular individual is actually at fault.

There probably should be laws establishing ultimately responsible people with the unenviable duty of being responsible for illegal things corporations do (sort of like an engineer signing off on the design of a bridge), but doubtful such a thing will happen.

We're left then with personal responsibility being limited to people stupid enough to leave pretty explicit records of nefarious intent to commit crimes.
Fast shut down completely.