skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been (lightly) thinking about this with regard to digital identity.

One of the few use cases that I find very compelling with regard to blockchain/web3 tech is as a means of ID/auth much in the same way that many sites now offer options to log in with FB/Google/etc.

One big obstacle (I imagine, I haven't really looked into this that far) is that of the password reset. Some non-trivial amount of people will forget the passwords to their identity tool, and in this scenario there's no central power with the capability to reset it for them.

The simplest option is to designate trusted friends who you could delegate authority to in order to perform some multi-sig reset, but then there's the issue of a FriendCoup. If you strike it big and turn on or ignore your friends, there's nothing stopping them from getting together and performing a takeover. Even if there are individual objectors, because it's blockchain, everything's public, and these are identity wallet contraptions, everyone knows who the hold out is and can lean on them or find some way to get their password, etc.

Even outside of a FriendCoup scenario, a FedCoup scenario where the government just leans on your buddies to grant them control is pretty plausible.

So I guess the question is, what sort of strategy for this is FriendCoup/FedCoup resistant but still grants the necessary amount of delegated power?

Not entirely relevant to the above, as doing this pen and paper for a password manager is a little harder for outsiders to game given that the holders aren't public, but still a question I've been batting around. Curious about anyone's thoughts/ideas or any existing work in this space.

Edit: After thinking about this for an extra minute, if it's not time sensitive a deadman switch could probably do it. If your friends perform the multi-sig and you haven't logged in in X days, then and only then will the reset occur, so you can void an attempt. That said, falls down on the FedCoup scenario since you'd presumably have restricted access to the internet.
We don't know of course; nor do we have any reason to believe it does work.

But as for "keeping quiet" -- that they aren't doing at all. They are (or at least were, when I last paid attention to this stuff) extremely forward about their belief in FP as part of their secret sauce for staying ahead of the competition.

Which, ironically, makes one further question whether it has all that much benefit. Because if it really did ... yeah, they'd probably want to keep quiet about it. Like any other truly winning strategy in their arsenal.
The best apples-to-apples experiment for the value of type systems is JS vs TS.

When I write TypeScript, I have so few runtime errors that I'm often in disbelief. Sometimes I have zero runtime errors on my first test of an application.

Contrast this with my own writing of JavaScript (same coder, same runtime, etc.) and it's very clear. JS needs many, many unit tests that TS just doesn't.
Little Snitch (Mac) can be very helpful in these situations. When I'm on the road and using my limited phone data for internet, I turn on the 'limited' profile where Little Snitch doesn't allow most internet traffic (with some exceptions).
This happens in some places already but a major issue is the absence of a distribution network to get water from where it is to where it is needed most. Being able to move the water consumption to where the water is located is one of the major drivers of cattle ranching out west.
Duck typing and structural are not the same thing (for safety), IMHO.

I think Structural is safer and better overall, and the best exponent is the relational/sql model.

What make it good is that structural types are more about the data itself, and if the code is around that concept, is very productive and safe in practique.

What make Duck typing unsafe is that is easy to "break" the type in runtime (ie: monkey patching, adding or removing things) and this is what I expect structural to retain it safety better...
Because billionaires are already having undue influence over politics and are funding policies that don’t always have the support of the voters. Why not tax them more and let the representatives of the people make decisions independently for better or for worse.
The valuable part of this document is reminding us what to remind them of.

I would add:
Do you have any private investments?
Convertible notes or stocks?

Should have a login for AngelList or whatever platform if it’s through one.

Then other assets like bank account, brokerage account, deeds to house and car.

And I agree this is stuff that — if possible — should be shared and discussed in real time.
Author here. The quote about VisiCalc starting as a reference card came from VisiCalc co-founder Dan Bricklin's TED Talk, where he mentioned writing the reference card first. And in the article you linked (which I'd also quoted from), Bob Frankston mentions the documentation card as part of prototyping, where it seems the card came first, and said "If we couldn't figure out how to explain a feature on the reference card we would change the program," which seemed to me another point towards documentation-drive development.

And on the Nest thermostat, that story came from founder Tony Fadell's book, Build, where he says he wrote a press release before they started working on the Next thermostat. That would have been prior to The Verge's article, based on his story.

Hope that helps clarify a bit.
Non-paywall version of article:

https://archive.ph/AyvrU
That has failure modes, though, especially death on one of the N (might seem unlikely but I just had to help a friend unfuck a family member's finances after he died in a car accident next to the one trusted associate who had all his logins saved in an account locked behind 2FA secured by his iPhone which he didn't leave the unlock code to with anyone). I know there are other schemes where you only need M of N to turn the key, but really...

Leave. Your. Passwords. With. An. Attorney. And also your phone unlock code. A reputable attorney (preferably attached to a big firm) won't lose your stuff, and if they die or go out of practice they will have procedures in place to make sure you are set. This is not a situation where you want some clever DIY scheme that might fail and leave your loved ones scrambling to sort your finances when they are already devastated and mourning.
Does this study really account for the fact that depression is a common co-morbidity for ADHD? And that ADHD leads itself to people getting depressed?

Sounds like they just did a meta-analysis and saw a link between ADHD and depression and blamed the med.
I'm wondering how to test those thousands lines of C++ code, a lot of them are compute-intensive, I don't see any unit test.
A much more reasonable proposal would simply be to ensure that billionaires actually pay the ~25%-35% everyone else pays and to put a $ cap on itemized deductions so that billionaires find it vanishingly difficult to write off 100% of their taxes. Same thing should go for corporations. Right now the standard for FANG-like companies is to achieve a $0 tax bill at the end of the year. It's disgusting when those same companies have employees making minimum wage as 1099 workers and paying a double digit percent of those wages in federal income tax.

The problem with billionaires though is they typically make and hold their money through assets, so what we really need is a bunch of reforms on how we tax assets. Namely, it should be such that if you have more than $1B in assets, taxes eat away at it pretty swiftly until it is back down to something reasonable. I think that's something we all can get behind.
I think it's more to prevent you from sitting on a mountain of cash the government is unaware of. Generational money, laundering and the like. Forces you to admit to all your cash or lose it. It smells pretty evil and totalitarian to me.
The problem with a wealth tax is that it’s easy for wealthy people to move.

We tax real estate because it can’t be moved out of the jurisdiction.
Left the second I had to sign up.
Mexican water rights were considered separate from the underlying land rights unless they were explicitly included in the grant. Moreover, Mexican title was required to be registered with the government shortly after annexation. Most of those titles were in turn siezed by various quasi-legal means, which is where cities like Berkeley come from. There are relatively few water rights remaining from Mexican annexation, most of which are held by municipal institutions like LA and only affect relatively small streams. Those of larger areas, like the Sangre de Cristo grant, have been litigated to death in courts over the past couple centuries and most of the entities involved no longer exist.

Water law is a nightmarishly confusing hellscape, but Guadalupe -Hidalgo isn't an important reason why today.
I am a crypto diehard and I am rooting for all bad actors to fall apart. No government should or will step in - this is an experiment in watching what the free market will do. If BTC and ETH drop 99% I have no issue with this. Solid firms will continue to exist, and the industry will be better and more hardened for it.

If you want to do hyper risky shit then be prepared for a reckoning. I'll be here with dry powder to scoop up the pieces.
Sorry, I lost patience with the article and its premise about halfway through. Sure many AAA titles are cookie cutter and remakes now. I'd still claim that there hardly ever was a better time for video games. If you only focus on AAA that's your mistake. That said, Nintendo continues to produce innovative games. Breath of the Wild of course sticks out here. We continue to see other phenomenal games like Outer Wilds or Disco Elysium that push what a game can be and how closer to true art the medium has come. I recently played some short, relaxing games like A Short Hike and Big Ocean, Wide Jacket that would have not been economically viable at all not that long ago. There are so many phenomenal indy games that nobody could possibly play them all and many of them have innovative concepts. I feel obligated to mention Babs Is You and Into the Breach. There are some studios that are not AAA but produce polished games like Supergiant with games like Hades and Pyre.

But yeah, some Call of Duty game and The Last of Us are getting a remake so it's all terrible now and innovation is gone.
Are there better estimates these days regarding the total number of stars in the Milky Way? I've seen numbers between 100 billion and over 400 billion.
The same goes for fatigue or anything else they can’t actually test for. I would guess it mostly stems from them not having a way to objectively judge it. My pain tolerance is way higher than my wife’s, in part because I suffer from cluster headaches. 8/10 for me might be a broken bone. For her it might be a relatively superficial cut.

So what’s a doctor supposed to do when someone says something really hurts? Hell if I know.
That’s probably one of the reasons real estate prices are so high.
I'm happy with the fact that medication has helped me immensely. That doesn't mean we should stop looking at better ways to address the issue, but until we find something better, i'll keep taking my meds.
Author here. Agreed on doing things correctly tending to not be very fun. Would add that, for most people (writers, included), writing documentation isn't very fun, is often put off until the last minute, and easy to neglect since it's not fun. That's why I found it interesting to see how many examples of people writing documentation much earlier in the process, as it's an incentive to prioritize one of those not-fun tasks.
> You may have missed it, but they redid that HIG and released it during the latest WWDC.

They didn't redo it, they redesigned it. All the recommendations they are breaking are still there.

> How about you... list some of these apps? I've been using macOS since Snow Leopard and all my muscle memory on the keyboard still works.

Except Messages all of their new first party apps have horrible to no keyboard access: Home, Music, App Store...

> The newer designs feel smoother and less constrained

How can it be less constrained when they literally crammed toolbar items into less space and redesigned dialog to be narrow? :)

Edit: there's of course more, as evidenced by the redesign of System Preferences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31746133 And IIRC they are not properly keyboard accessible either.
Not sure if this is a joke but unit testing is generally not used in games, definitely not in plam games 20 years ago.
> Some of them took decades to get to even moderate success.

1. Was it worth it? I have moderate success, and I'm still making less than I would if employed.

2. Wouldn't it be faster if you did it with another idea/team? Pivots do some of that, but sometimes it's a structural problem.

Not to mention that many entrepreneurs try it when they're young and just plain don't have the experience necessary. Not sure what would be a good education on that, other than keep burning other people's money for 2-3-5 times.
I was really hoping that bike or die would have been among them.
No, they use different frequency bands.
To put it in perspective, Bitcoin mining alone is more than three times that.
It's an autoimmune disease, so for some people it resolves automatically, or isminduced by stress, or comes in waves.
How is that relevant? I also wonder how two wrongs make a right, perhaps you could illuminate me on that.
The white paper link was broken on my phone, any suggestions as to where it can be found?
At least with OPsGenie it feels like too few features instead of feature bloat hah. But it’s been fine for me as an engineer.
very untrue. It is well documented that income equality is more extreme now (by an order of magnitude) than it was at any point in recorded human history. The inequality is something like 100x that of french revolution times where terms like bourgeois came from. The fact that we haven't broken out in revolution yet is just a testament to how powerful the media state, corporations, and lobbying have become.
When I was in university, students changed the pointer cursor in Netscape to the off-by-one version. That was around 1995.
I pay taxes for owning my house and owning a car and various other things already.
Pray tell what value has Sam Bankman Fried, who intends to spend a billion dollars [1] in 2024 elections, created for society?
[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/05...
This sounds like the Law of Averages. All things don't break at the same frequency, and noticing that doesn't mean that you're saying that something else is perfect; other things could just break less often, for different reasons.
Source? The MDN is very clear about precise timing not being available due to Spectre mitigations.
My favorite sushi restaurant in San Mateo, CA (sushi sams) would serve a single fried shrimp appetizer with the head still on. It's a crispy tasty delight!
To be fair the ocean is still pretty big. Also, water doesn’t disappear from the earth…
The Case for Use.GPU
“bringing in the personal” as you put it is a great tool here that separates the wheat from the chaff. It’s very easy to say “I work hard, sometimes for long hours, I don’t see much difference between what I do and founders, surely they shouldn’t be paid that much more than me”, but the reality is that it _is_ that much harder and riskier and beneficial to society, and the profits reaped are evidence.

So you’re more than welcome to criticize, but they’re “cheap seats” comments to a certain degree.

To stay objective about it though, the financial incentive brings a lot of innovation which helps all of society. They’re not taking your piece of the pie, they just baked some more.
Out of curiosity, what’s the typical profit or value of a McDonalds franchise?
How much of those games topping the statistics is because they are games you can keep playing for a very long time? I can play a storydriven games only that much before I've recolored it all and move on to something else
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Your point about nightmareishly confusing hellscape is what I just what was trying to get across.
Dating apps are so bad, the ratio of men:women matches would impress a red-pilled 4channer.

Most men get somewhere like 0-4 matches a week and most women get somewhere like 100-1000. That’s a 25x difference best-case scenario and often it’s over 100x. Which is kind of insane considering there are about 50/50 men to women ratio in real life.

People say “the 20% top men get 80% of matches” but it’s worse than that. The 20% top men may get something reasonable like 3-4 matches a day, but your average women is getting something crazy like 1 match every 15 minutes.

Because a lot of men like to swipe right on nearly everyone and buy passes which get them unlimited swipes. And most women get extremely choosy and swipe right on only the super handsome nearly-perfect men, but you can’t even blame them when they have literally 1,000 matches.

On top of that, the bios suck. Even on Hinge. You can’t base someone off of 6 pictures and 3 quotes. If you’re not judging them on plain attractiveness / photogenics, you’re judging them on one random quote or minor character trait you relate to.

Online dating sucks. You’re much better off trying to meet people in real-life situations, where there is a more reasonable ratio of men and women, you can learn more about people then their favorite vacation spots, and the people have a lot more time to learn more about you too.

Or, you can try meeting people online but not in a surface-level dating-oriented site. Plenty of people formed couples through discord or their favorite video games. Unfortunately my understanding is that most online places are still male-dominated, but hopefully that’s changing as we are becoming a more tech-oriented and women-inclusive society.
Here is the claim from pfizer's own press release.

"Vaccine effectiveness was at least 97% against symptomatic COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, severe and critical hospitalizations, and deaths. Furthermore, the analysis found a vaccine effectiveness of 94% against asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. "

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta....
DAOs seem pretty dumb.
>Why should so few individuals have outsized social, political and economic power over the whole country?

You just answered the question. Because they are the elected representatives. If you didn't trust them, why did you elect them in the first place?
> I'm wondering how to test those thousands lines of C++ code, a lot of them are compute-intensive, I don't see any unit test.

That's not C++ code.
This is true, but most institutions like Coinbase don’t have customers email employees.

Customers email something like “support@domain.com” and that routes to a ticketing system (eg Zendesk), not to people.

And, the vast majority of employees don’t directly interact with customers either.

Well designed controls deliberately keep PII data out of general purpose systems like email, drive sharing, dev ticketing, etc

I agree that the remote move introduces new risks, but those should be minimized by the existing controls in place.
I mean, as you hinted there are at least a few things on that list that are true. We’re in a weird period of time where people are desperate to ignore any differences between races but they absolutely exist as one would expect due to different evolutionary pressures.

I don’t know how you’d go about testing some of those and many shouldn’t matter to doctors, but I personally think the differences between us are fascinating.
I'm not sure if this counts, but where I run into this sort of problem it's with conventional methods/operators, like `operator+`. I've had lots of bugs over the years from something doing string-concat or list-append instead of integer+, or vice-versas.
I think Vary: Accept-Encoding or similar is the solution for this but not sure
unless you do something special, a lot of interrupts are handled by CPU 0. there's techniques like Receive-Side Scaling to balance this load across the cores but that's specific to NICs.
At least its changing these days now that THC is increasingly legal. Boomers have proved you can take it for six decades straight and be fine. Pro sports players are using it after getting beat up in games or practices too.
Author here, great point.

Tony Fadell mentioned something similar in his Build book, about writing a press release before building your product. He mentions to pull the press release back out a few months into the project, and use the press release as a way to see what needs cut or what is critical to add. Or, if everything's changed too much, rewrite the press release.

Scaffolding's a great example; it needs to morph as the project scope changes, but can also help set the scope (or at least direct it) at the start. At the very least, it gives you something to say ok, we're good to stop here, everything else can wait for v2.
Yes. RWBY FTW!
How do you know this website will last longer than you?
Exactly what apps/services are you referring to that are "opt-in"?
I read the help page.

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/help/

How can I be sure you'll outlive me?

We don't have to outlive you! If the service shuts down while you're alive, we'll send you an email well in advance so you can switch services. That said, the service has been running successfully since 2007.
Holy Shite!!

That's so weird, it took me a bit longer than I'd like to admit to see it.

A 10.0 beta looks like they ultimately made the better decision as I've never seen that image, nor, obviously, used that interface. Even prior versions to 10.0 didn't do that kind of stupidity. I honestly feel like beta testers aren't paid their value for dealing with that kind of asinine BS.

Luckily, they seemed to have learned quickly and never released to public with that monstrosity.
I don't even want linkedin, let alone another thing like it....
My God the nostalgia. I played Pokémon in school under my desk thanks to the Gameboy emulator liberty on the m105 if I am not mistaken. Might also have been my next model a m505.
Before I am being called a snob, I bought the m505 as broken on ebay for 100 DM (now around 50€) and "fixed" it by applying a hardware reset and charging it. I was beyond lucky.
Reddit AMA from a researcher leaving Google AI after 3 years
It makes me kind of sad. I was so excited about this. And really tried to use it whenever it made sense.

Sadly the experience wasn't fluid enough to make more people interested. And I think hardware were just one generation or two from being in a sweet spot of making it reliable and fast enough for most.

Still have my hopes of it coming back
They are repaid to the bank, which is obvious. No one said they are gifts. They are loaned at ridiculously low interest rates, and the government never sees an ounce of tax from the individual, which is the entire point. Like the person you replied to said, the mega-rich don't operate on income like the rest of us. Why does that make them completely immune to taxation?
Agreed. Cost really is the big selling point of Grafana Cloud - it’s far, far cheaper than most competitors, and good enough. Not as good as NewRelic, DataDog, etc., but you get good enough metrics, logs, alerts, distributed tracing, and now incident management, at an excellent price.
Some US beef is already produced with private water traded on the free market, at least in the western US. This is already priced into the cost of that beef. The price of water fluctuates every year but as a percentage of cost for beef, it isn't that much.
Adidas is suing over app patents
As an app developer I think it is interesting and a bit scary that there is patents on app features. Anyone know more details about what Nike has actually implemented that Adidas has patent for? Do I as a developer need to have insights in if a company has a patent on a feature or not if I want to add it to my app?
So write the query results to files and then mmap() them!