skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate all the different ways companies target people.

I recently booked flight on American Airlines for my 80+ year-old father. I requested the golf cart to take him between gates.

Immediately I got a call from "American Airlines Health Alert."

They made it sound like there was an issue with the booking... "An important health alert related to your flight." And there was a "Press 1, if you're over 50" option.

Anyway long story short it was some shady marketing company selling me a panic button in case of falls.

The lady was like"these are very expensive devices"... "we'll give you the device... but you pay a small fee for monitoring every month."

Clearly she'd given the pitch 1,000 times. Didn't give me any time to talk. Finally, I was like, "Hey is there a problem with my Dad's flight, or are you just trying to sell me something?" And she hung up on me.

Fuck American Airlines. Fuck all the airlines really, but it should be illegal to target the elderly just because they asked for help with connection flights.
You are not alone, and thank you for articulating this better than I could. The handwriting experience is the reason I return to Notability for any significant writing despite its performance problems. I've yet to find an app that reaches the same level of handwriting fidelity.

I really hope the good people at Muse make this a priority. That, and search.
I think the CEO should personally be on the hook for widespread organizational fraud, and in cases should be held criminally responsible.
> it's just the new reality

I wonder whether they are prepared for the next reality where these multiples is no longer sustainable.
and I meant: “concerns were raised within the Soviet high command that an invasion of Hokkaido would be impractical and unlikely to succeed”

Sure, there was a huge political part at play and I don't deny it, but even abstracting the US, purely militarily speaking, the Soviets would have been hard-pressed to succesfully invade Japan mainland.
self-published print works, one or more copies handmade, the rest duplicated cheaply. arguably a modern successor of 18th-century pamphleting. usually folded and staple-bound, if bound at all. low barrier to entry made them popular with marginalized groups; easily mailed, they were also the nexus of some early fan communities, especially for Star Trek, comics, music, and film.

some early web publishing was heavily zine inspired; boingboing was a zine for almost a decade before becoming a blog

maybe a more digestible history of zines in the internet era: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/alt-zines-and-memo...
Luckily services makes clear that you should print backup codes in case you lose 2FA.

As for Android Google authenticator - there is export function, that generates QR code for all tokens. You can't screenshot it, but can take a photo with different device and print.
A big chunk of the Go core maintainers are Google employees, and they run Go services on top of Google infrastructure.
I'm sure y'all get mixed up a bit with Aussies! Thanks for telling me.
> All opinions are accidental.
I don't know why but this is hilarious :).
Then you’re just making all your money on interchange, right?
I just started using that and would recommend it. When you set it up you add each key you own from the same QR code.
dont want it.
The study doesn't seem to claim causality, just that this is their second study showing the same results, and that further study is needed.

I'm not sure how controlling for income/wealth would matter, given that the study is all nurses and they control by ethnicity.
What the missing access check protected was a stream of information that could defeat ASLR. If Zircon was written in a memory-safe language, that would have been the end of the issue. Logic bugs and missing access checks are still possible, but defeating them has fairly well definable consequences. Since Zircon isn’t written in a memory-safe language, the author was able to use that to fully compromise the kernel instead. I don’t mean that you can’t write bugs in memory-safe languages, but in the end the attacker still has to play by your rules. With a memory safety bug, attackers play by no one’s rules.
Give Texas and California to Mexico then. Why not? Really, same reasoning can be applied.
I suppose you're talking about automatic backups, but at least on Android you can manually "transfer accounts" to export to another device over QR codes.
People. Salaries are expensive, especially SV salaries. Then you need well paid management for the extra heads, and group manager for them. IIRC (feel free to correct me, I'm not going to dig it out again) they spent >$1B on R&D itself... which is pretty much just couple hundred of engineers who, (judging from the service changes recently) mostly did nothing.
I feel like the prosecutors would remember this movie line: "Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book."
2018-2022 taking time to care for sick relative.
I've worked indirectly with two 10x developers - sequentially. They worked fast and late into the night. They added every feature the product management asked for and more. When the product management team rotated and the new PMs added more feature requests, they obliged whether the feature was really necessary or not and even if the other devs had pushed back on the feature.

They also handled all uptime issues no matter what hour of the day. The rest of the team tried to help out but by that time the code base was too complex for 1x developers to support.

Then after a few years with the company, they each ended up getting tired of doing all the leg work and moved on and the remaining team members figured out the bare minimum to kick the server when needed and promptly started on version 2.0 at a 1x pace with only the core features and more bus factor built in.

That said I do think 10x devs have a sweet spot in a startup thats still trying to find product market fit and overthinking/over documenting can mean the startup never gets off the ground.
Why not increase the punishment by having random audits like the government do for drug checks? And make the company pay, would be an even bigger deterrent if it's not just a fine...
Sorry to hear this, I hope everything works out for you.
My anecdotal understanding is that it has been GitHub who has been apprehensive to allow Heroku to reenable and not something Heroku could be lauded for
I am working on a tool I'm calling Makerflow[1] that covers your github PRs and upcoming meetings use cases. My big picture aim is to work towards a system that makes it easier for devs to do do deep work, collaborate effectively, and manage their cognitive load.

[1] https://makerflow.co
Climate change: GM traits to improve the plants ability to sequester carbon in higher concentrations, in more tissue, and further into the soil where it is less likely to re-enter the atmosphere.

Environmental: moving away from herbicide resistance traits and focus on yield, crop improvement traits, and crop protection. The current business model of GM is designed to force farmers to buy herbicide from the same supplier as the seed. It's a double money grab.

Moving away from herbicide resistance traits will improve environment by reducing monoculture and evolutionary pressure on weeds.
Agree, Minikibe occupies a strange middle ground of being ephemeral but heavyweight. It’s slow enough to make it seem worth maintaining the same cluster over time, but that was a bad approach when I tried it.

Kind is very clearly ephemeral, and it starts up quickly enough that it’s not annoying to deal with frequent restarts while developing setup scripts.
Half of the employees participated
That Elizabeth Warren thing is the opposite of what's needed.

Teaching budgeting in schools would be a good start.
Or just get a phone and service provider who doesn't allow SIM swapping (e.g. Google Fi, etc.), since many more services only do 2FA with SMS than allow hardware authentication.
So just because some people have broken rules and gotten away with it so far, we should get rid of those rules for everyone?
FYI I’m seeing a 404 from that last link.

Is this the intended link?

https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/2019-10-17-you-want-tor-browse...
Fwiw Endless Sky is a pretty good remake of EV, though it's fairly linear and single player.
Am I understanding this correctly?

1. IPFS's bandwidth is so low that it is unusable.

2. IPFS's bandwidth usage is so high that it makes the network unusable.
I feel like this is just because they are directly addressing the webmaster who think in terms of SEO and relative rankings. On the individual level they are trying to "perform".

To take your example for the seller of a specific brand of product you couldn't find. It might be a problem with their location or branding. In that case it seems like it makes sense? You are the search algorithm they are trying to game.
I'm thinking some manufacturers might be catching on to the downsides of touchscreen controls. I did a test drive of the previous generation Honda Civic, and it had touchscreen climate controls. I wound up getting a 2022 Honda Civic which has physical dials for all climate controls.

Though, as an aside, dials for temperature and fan speed are fine, but they also use a dial for changing which vents the air comes out of, which makes no sense. Also, the dials rotate infinitely, even though the ranges are finite. It means I still have to look to see what the setting is at, instead of being able to tell by feel.

By comparison, the 1992 Honda Civic climate controls are way better: https://i.imgur.com/r8JjjNw.png
Some weeks ago I wanted to deactivate my Twitter account.
I hadn't used it for a while, and it claimed that my account was locked. Nothing was sent from it in many months, so it wasn't clear why/how it would be locked now.

For some reason you cannot deactivate your account when it is locked.

So I contacted Twitter demanding that as EU citizen (which is true) I hereby demand all data about me that Twitter or its subsidiaries might have, including account data, to be deleted under the GDPR... Or alternatively unlock my account so that I would be able to deactivate it.

They were actually pretty responsible. My account was unlocked 30 minutes later and I was able to deactivate it.
True. I was mainly responding to the ARM encrypted pointers part with that bit. ARM also didn't invent memory tagging, which might also have come from SPARC ADI (I'm not sure), but they also plan to include that. QARMA itself looks to be designed by Qualcomm engineers: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/444.pdf

A lot of good stuff has come from SPARC :)
No, the sun will rise, irrespective of the blasted nature of the landscape.
Back when the Web Audio API's were still very fresh I had similar goals and ideas. I wasn't overly impressed at the usability of the web audio API's, especially for things like beat-accurate triggering for music playback, so I wrote my own multi-channel mixer/sampled synth library, and a MOD/S3M player on top of it. [0] (It's since been basically abandoned). It was both a proof of concept as well as a journey back through time for me, and at the time I remember being amazed at how unreasonably well it all worked. It felt wrong that an interpreted language like JS could be fast enough to real-time mix multiple audio streams.

As an aside, the MOD format is one of those things that's surprisingly easy to describe, but surprisingly difficult to get all of the edge cases to behave the same as the original trackers, and I quite enjoyed the process of critically listening to things and going back and fixing issues as they came up.

I had also written a MOD player much earlier in my life, targeting my first PC, an old 10MHz 286 with a sound blaster card. At the time I had to hand optimise things in assembler to get to the point where I could play 8-channel MOD's reliably. And that was pushing it. Nowadays an interpreted language running in a browser on a low-spec PC is more than enough to do a ton more channels without even breaking a sweat. Progress is amazing.

Kudos to the authors of this tool. It looks amazing!

[0] https://github.com/gundy/jssynth
According to their financial disclosures for 2021:
On income of ~$5.08B, they spent

- $1.8B as "cost of revenue" (costs incurred to run their business),

- $1.25B on "research and development",

- $1.2B on "Sales and Marketing", and

- ~$1.3B together on "general and administrative" (overhead) and "litigation settlement".

Then there are a bunch of small monies related to interest expense and income, etc etc.

They're spending huge amounts of money and could be profitable if they really wanted. I can't imagine what Twitter is doing with 1.25B in research. Elon could make Twitter profitable simply by cutting their research department.
"Pre-profit companies" LOL. So that's what they're calling them nowadays?

Talk about euphemisms...
Nonsense. I was hired freelance to create a web forum for someone who wanted it to run on Tor and making everything work without JavaScript was the top requirement. The guy wanted an option to enable JS for those who were willing to trust it, but it was disabled by default and I designed all parts of the forum to run without JS.
I find it abhorrent that organisations (Experian/Equifax) who I have never directly done business with have a license to collect, use and sell my very personal information for financial gain.

I had hoped with the implementation of GDPR I would be able to write to these con artists and ask them to remove my information but alas apparently my personal right to object does not automatically mean they have to stop processing my data see more here: https://help.equifax.co.uk/EquifaxOnlineHelp/s/article/Howdo...

The whole arrangement is a total scam.
Hard question, because usually it's implementation more than the idea that matters.

Something like Daggerfall (huge, procedurally generated world for an RPG) combined with a much more dynamic AI that generates political events, quests, etc.

The lesson RPGs took from Daggerfall was to hand-design dungeons. I think that was understandable, but maybe the wrong lesson.
> you have to check out eDCGs.

https://github.com/kamahen/edcg , https://occasionallycogent.com/prolog_edcgs/index.html
I shaved a bit off our AWS bill and my CFO at the time asked if it was worth my time. I asked him if he knew how you get a huge AWS bill with no idea how to fix? A little bit at a time.

People get lazy because things seem good and let questionable hires and other expenses slide by because why not, there's plenty of money.
Polished, complete, co-op multiplayer "FTL: Faster Than Light" for up to 8 players

I'm aware of:
- an FTL mod (unfinished?),
- Tachyon (work in progress?),
- Undercrewed (a bit too much arcade/action and kind of short),
- Among Us (but that betrayal aspect...)
- Interstellar Rift (closest but too grindy, too long, the encounters leave much to be desired particularly from the perspective of a crewed ship)
- Space Engineers (but requires too much understanding of how and why the ship works for some people, and doesn't really have a "series of encounters" mode I'm aware of)
- Star Citizen (TBD...)

Also, just generally that co-op games would support more than 4 players.
YES EXACTLY and this transcends Google too, so many products need a "I know what I'm doing" switch for power users. I despise this mass infantilization of UIs happening right now. I develop web apps and work closely with UX and I'm always trying to push this particular envelope... unfortunately it's managers and "visionary" bosses who want one unified design seemingly made for a child.
Apple Platform Security: Hardware microphone disconnect
FreeOTP works just fine for me
Have you used the touchscreen in a 2000's-era Japanese car? It's horrific.
> Since the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant shut down two years ago, Northfield has been buying its off-peak operating power straight off the grid. But as more solar and wind comes online, Bakas believes the pumped storage generating station could one day run as a totally climate-friendly supplier of electricity.

> "I think the goal of our facility would be to look at the opportunities to purchase purely green, renewable power and be able to supply green power to the grid," he says.

So right now it's fueled by... gas and coal.

They could just buy clean, green energy from up north (if lobbyists hadn't killed the project). [0]

[0] https://apnews.com/article/election-2021-maine-hydropower-li...
From what I see, a lot more productivity can still be extracted from existing technology if only people would try to use it more.

Configuring software is regularly more complicated than it needs to be. And software developers are tied in to using the 'language of software' (visual and written language to describe widgets, disk space, bandwidth, latency, whatever) in their applications, leading to many users being unable to understand the capabilities of the tools they use.

Education of the next generation of kids to better understand software will tremendously help this. But so will, I think, design that pays more attention to sensible defaults when releasing software to market to solve specific problems, rather than leave it to users to configure things to their needs.
Not if you know how to cure cancer ;)
Somehow they don't have to figure that out with felony murder. Everyone who participates who is aware is liable to the same punishment, then. Why not in crimes of bureaucracy? Why make sure people who are just following orders are free from punishment?
I'm wondering if the collective noun shouldn't be "passel" or "sounder". I supposed it depends on the spam source.
On iOS, I do see this feature, but it claims it will move the account, as opposed to "copy" it, and so, if it is a backup mechanism, they are explicitly pretending it isn't one.
I don't believe it has Zettelkasten capabilities built in. You're referring to the Zettelkasten ID toggle button. In actuality, that ID was invented by the creators of Zettelkasten.de (people who I like, though disagree with on several points—I'm an analog diehard); these socalled Zettelkasten IDs are prepended with a timestamp. That's all. The originator of Zettelkasten, Niklas Luhmann, did not use these types of IDs at all. Unfortunately this confusion now has forked Zettelkasten into two different systems, yet they use the same term.

IMO, the digital Zettelkasten should be rebranded "Hyperlinked Notes".

And the term Zettelkasten should refer to the analog notebox system Luhmann used.

But I don't run the world, so that's what we're stuck with. For this reason I adopted the term Antinet to dilineate. (Antinet Zettelkasten).
Brave browser has a notoriously bad history with their tor implementation. Would not trust [1].

Brave’s Tor mode, introduced in 2018, was sending requests for .onion domains to DNS resolvers, rather than private Tor nodes. A DNS resolver is a server that converts domain names into IP addresses. This means the .onion sites people searched for, with the understanding those searches would be private, were not. In fact, they could be observed by centralized internet service providers (ISPs).

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/02/22/brave-browser-was-e...
Hm, never heard against Docker in cloud (since early times of Docker). Only about keeping your database in Docker -- yes, that was arecommentadion some 5+ years ago and maybe now as well.
Nice - perhaps there's some kind of equivalence (or at least similarity) between lenses and those migrations. Thanks for the response!
You're entirely right! And points out the blind spot that I've used it much more as a library in tools I build/use than integrated with other things. Never used brtfs, I'm assuming it uses zstd internally for something? Cool.

Also very cool that qcow contains zstd support (didn't know that either!).
I mean the established big tech companies are sitting on mountains of cash. I suspect they’ll start ramping up buybacks even more aggressively due to what they see as undervalued equity.
Obsidian is not complicated, it's a markdown editor with optional plugins.

The workflows people imagine around them are complicated.

I use it in a way that is similar to the 16 minute video posted elsewhere in this thread, and it works well for me.

Biggest benefits for me are:

1. Finding references, before using obsidian I would recall reading something somewhere but would be unable to find the so source

2. I remember stuff I write about better. I use it a lot for work, software engineering, so I summarize new ideas and concepts as notes which makes it so much easier to remember and understand

The important part of that is that it forces me to break ideas down into manageable chunks. I can't make a note about "everything you need to know about react 18", but I can make a note about "React 18's useTransition hook prioritizes rendering of user input".

3. It's fun! I've always enjoyed writing, and always enjoyed customizing editors and IDEs, obsidian is a great fit for that. It's exclusively for so writing and organization, so now I have two main programs, my coding editor and my writing editor.

4. The program also just works really really well. Evernote is bloated and has weird updates, emacs is insanely complicated and maybe just a little bit too powerful? Roam and friends are too chaotic for me, I don't function well with 0 structure. All simple markdown programs I used lacked good syncing, although sublime text with Dropbox came close. But obsidian just syncs perfectly, and has a very performant application on all devices I use, and yes I'm crazy enough to use all three of windows, Linux and Mac os as well as mobile... I like variety

Still, a lot of what obsidian does can be achieved with alternatives. Sublime works well with Dropbox, if you're in the apple ecosystem then Apple notes is great! Regular text editors or traditional note taking apps are still very viable.

In the end it's about what you do. If you are a knowledge worker, or even more particularly a researcher/ academic you need a good solution for organizing your references, notes, ideas etc. Obsidian is a great choice for that.

Otherwise don't bother unless you find it fun or interesting.
> any decision has to be unanimous

non-unanimous results are also decisive, causing a "mistrial"
This is the proper frame to analyze this issue. If you're using Functional Options to configure a long-running http server once at startup, the cost is so small that you've already spent more money thinking about it for 1 minute than it will ever cost in compute runtime. But if you're using it once per request over thousands of requests, or once per record with thousands of records per request then maybe it's time to consider using a more lightweight configuration pattern.
> You probably won't use them,

Curious - I fuzzily recall usually ending up manually threading state (eg, doing a Perl-Compatible Regular Expression engine (apropos "why LP?" - it was just a page of code, with good performance)), but I don't recall what drove that decision...
In general, I agree. But for Bolt in particular- they have a 2500x ARR multiple, and their top customer is suing them for "utterly failing to deliver on its promises" due to incompetence in software and lying about the details of their relationship, and the general sentiment of the company and founder is that of fraud, and the direct competitor just went out of business for very similar reasons, and the TAM of the market is less than they've raised in VC- I'd say the employees and investors can do greater things with the remaining capital.
Yes, it may well be killed, but that’s Ok - it’s an experiment. But, yes, you need to take that into account before investing time in it. The other mistake that I think people make is assuming that because Google is a giant Corp. these things will move quickly, when in fact Google often puts small teams on non-critical projects.