skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, I found your website late last year and eventually started publishing lists of things I had found interesting in a per week, week in review: https://photogabble.co.uk/topic/week-in-review/

The "slow web" never left it just became more underground as the flashy algorithms paved over it in favour of turning visitors into media consumption addicts then into a product to sell to advertisers.
Finance / Economy - https://www.youtube.com/c/BlockWorksGroup
Somerton man identified is not equivalent to Taman Shud Solved.

For me raises new questions.
> the people who own Signal have opinions

This is not what the OP said. It's not just opinions. You are forced to use the only client and the only server. You are forced to not have backups, and so on. You are forced to use an Android or iOS phone (security? really?).
I never understand stuff like this. The idea seems to be to run Gutenberg texts through a text to speech system so you can listen while washing dishes. Doesn't anyone read any more?
They switched to MFY instead of pre-made stuff (in New Zealand at least) around 2002-2005 or so? It's been like that a long time.

The reason for the slowdown is purely just the delivery apps. Staff doing payments & cooking/assembly are usually different people unless it's like 3am on a weekday.
AFAIK the idea behind 'actually portable executables' only works for POSIX-style command line programs. As soon as system-level DLLs (like OpenGL/X11/XGL or D3D11/DXGI) need to be accessed the problem becomes a lot more complicated (solving this problem would be massive though).
I think you can block a user easily if your server supports XEP-0191, or if it implements some sort of blacklisting. I am unsure about blocking client side, since I never needed it (yet?).

It is probably due to XMPP's lack of popularity, but FWIW I have been using my XMPP for about 4 years and have not received a single unsolicited message yet.
Let’s be honest; this probably won’t work. However, if it does work, it will be a good thing to exist and a contribution to humanity’s knowledge.

Whether or not it’s worth trying depends on how likely it is to work, and how valuable you think it succeeding would be.

But I think that it’s good to have some experiments, and I think lately too much of our political and social mood is opposed to trying anything new, unless we know ahead of time it will be perfect.
Ooo is tomasulo's algorithm, 2 decades before this paper :) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo%27s_algorithm
I served in war time in Iraq and live a very different life than most. A hot world war would not change my quality of life by much; it may even improve it (less rules in the wild).

I understand the weight of what I say. The trillions of thriving future lives spread throughout our solar system and galaxy are easily worth our suffering.

I agree that the current system has little hope of saving anyone from anything, save a small minority from discomfort for the short term future at the cost of oblivion for everything else in the long term.
There should be sociopathy/narcissim/lack of empathy screenings early in life, and people scored based on it. Based on that jobs would be limited/encouraged. Put sociopaths in jobs where impact is limited.
okaaaay... >.>
When marketing theory meets the real world in a tech startup
I have a feeling that 1) this is a global phenomenon 2) it's due to computing lightness (it costs few energy to change programs and websites compared to physical things).

Google keeps swinging secondary apps in and out of existence, social networks come and go every 5 years. It's low energy high frequency, low integration and unstable.
Implicit @nest every time for me .. except for example 8 where brackets (finally) made some sense. Also intrigued by the example 9 `&[open]` edge case. Wild.

Honestly tho, I think scss has it right where ampersand is only used for grouping / parenting.
That’s why we usually tie you into a 2 year contract with review points for expansion and adjustments, with looots of discounts up front. By year 5 you’re paying sticker price and paying our consultants for integration and Enterprise feature configuration.
It is amazing how much effort is going to simplify adding "enum_to_string(e)" support in C++ or C. What is the reason this not being part of C++ standard?
Signal has a bulky, slow Windows client. Elements is a [0] bulky, slow Windows client. Gajim is fast (I’m guessing it’s the only native of the 3, but I haven’t checked). Configurability is also better. And then there are other options (which I’ll evaluate soon, as I did not like the recent redesign), while there are none for Signal and none that are stable for Matrix.

It’s not as bad on mobile (I can only talk about Signal here, not Matrix), as clients are far more constrained, but once again Signal has a slow Android client (every action only happens after a noticeable delay) while the biggest XMPP client Conversations is instant.

[0]: I tried a beta version that felt like an alpha, but OTOH the last time I tried it, it seemed reasonably stable.
I tend to just configure my .ssh/config file to create an entry for github-companya with host github.com and identity file ~/.ssh/companya (or replace GitHub with bitbucket in your case)
> but what is so appealing about a "metaverse" vs a phone or video call?

This question had many forms in the past, with people questioning phone calls, then emails, then text messages, and so on.

Meta, done right of course, has real potential to actually be good. For example, schooling can easily be done through Meta, which has the potential of monetary savings across the board, and with several advantages over in person schooling.
Twitter does seem to be replacing most of their feed with random posts from people you don't follow, poorly categorised by AI into topics they incorrectly think you're interested in though.
I think that beside the scary name, not forcing 'apps' into user's devices and via massive advertising is what makes XMPP not so popular. https://snikket.org/ is an attempt to 'rebrand' XMPP into something that should be more familiar to non-hackers.
Yup. Travelling in an Asian country recently and in order to buy a prepaid SIM they needed to take scans of my passport and visa.
Found the Linux burger.
It’s not about just opinions. Signal is actively hostile to user privacy and experience in certain ways (note that I’m not saying it’s hostile to user privacy in all ways).

As I wrote in this comment in the past [1]:

> Additional irritants that nobody in the development team has thought about for years:

> * I decline Signal’s prompt to turn on notifications with the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days.

> * I decline Signal’s prompt to share my contacts with it using the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days.

> Signal may be good at security, but whoever designed the app has no respect for users’ time, and it doesn’t seem like they respect a user’s privacy choices either.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641137
I remember the introduction of the News Feed and how creepy and invasive it felt at the time. Here’s all the interactions you previously had to look for explicitly, now pushed in front of you. It was a harbinger of things to come.
Citation needed for the schooling part.
Since nobody’s asked: How does GPS jamming work?
Only possible in Broome, where there really isn't all that much to do
March 2020: Finding the body of my mother in the basement. She had died suddenly and unexpectedly that morning. The neighbours were alarmed because they couldn't reach her. I went to investigate. She was 74, so she didn't go too early and had a good death.

I realised that my life will be over relatively soon too. I decided to make it count (in little ways). Quit my job. Became a freelancer. Made a big effort to cut bullshit from my life. To give less fucks about irrelevant stuff. To be happier in simple and sustainable ways.

My favourite quote: "We all have 2 lives, the second begins when we realise we have only 1".
There definitely seems to be a gap between what a certain subset of people want out of Signal and what I do.

I like Signal because it is a fairly pure messaging app. Admittedly, introduction of Mobile Coin has marred that though. I want something analogous to SMS but is E2E encrypted. I'm personally not intentionally trying to evade state governments, I'm concerned about Comcast.

My favorite Signal feature is automatic deleting messages. I can have ephemeral conversations with people about politics, a health issue, etc and generally trust that it won't be on their phone later. When that feature rolled out, it was controversial. The security types complained that it provided a fake assurance of privacy since there was nothing stopping screenshotting or simply taking a picture of your phone. It reminds me of the federation discussion in that I understand the concern from security pureists, but Signal still seems like the better option than an FB managed app or SMS while still providing something my parents can easily use.
I mean we can observe finite mapping of the mathematical
world onto physical universe. Which in itself is a wonder,
because it exists. I find no reason for it to be so,
otherwise that it is related through common substance.

Even Reals are not real.

Math is mental. Math objects are infinitely larger
than physical world.

Material universe is a special case of mathematical world.
because you can construct infinite physical worlds if you
choose different relations from the infinite.

You can observe infinite worlds through consciousness.
Only one of them is physical.

If there is a hypothetical one to one mapping of
physical world onto a set of models then consciousness
is larger than the physical universe.

The question is whether that is true.
How much of the physical universe is
unknowable in principle.

If the material world > consciousness, then there
exist things that are possible to observe, but
impossible to know.

And the converse, if consciousness > material world
then there exist things that are impossible to observe,
but possible to imagine.

I mean there is physical brain, neurons, observations
and other stuff which is strongly relating self body
and consciousness. But maybe it is so by design?

The question is what is the difference
between me being a brain and me imagining
being a brain.

That is my take into it as I am approaching 30. We will
see my opinion later in life.

edit, formatting
Let's say I give you a 90 day warning of a 200bps rise. You price that into your economic activity, you decrease your forward investment and deleverage, this causes a recession (as expected). 89 days later the economy is looking much slower than it was when I made the announcement and inflation is dropping. What do I do now? I told you I was going to raise rates, but conditions clearly now make that the wrong thing to do. But if I don't do it then the next time I guide you about future rates you're going to ignore me.
After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try
The purpose of these drives is not for archive. In fact, individual SSDs in general should not be used for archiving. They are for performance. Since we're probably talking about laptops or phones typically, there's also the loss of the device or catastrophic failure (fire?) to worry about so there needs to be a disaster recovery plan regardless.
A Crypto Bank Went Bankrupt
OD?
We are like 12-13 years into the VR renaissance and locomotion is still not fixed besides some novelty approaches. If they can’t fix it AR is all that is left and we still don’t have the computing nor the displays for proper immersion. It’s still a very long road ahead…
Not your contacts, but everyone [already using Signal] who has you as a contact.

To remove that functionality would be equivalent to removing the ability to look up if a Signal message can be sent to a particular number. At least as long as phone numbers are used as the sole identifier for Signal accounts—another decision that has been debated into the ground, of course, but was done for understandable reasons.
There are tons of public shared AMIs in AWS, but which are trustworthy? If you're new to AWS or just need to refresh your knowledge about the ways of getting the verified AMI for your next EC2 launch, I welcome you to read this blog post!
Facebook's ARPU and overall revenue has been continuing to increase even last quarter.

So clearly they know a little bit about what is a solid, sustainable profit source.
When trolley lines were new, they competed with horse-drawn carriage traffic for fast transit, and they just ran continuously at very slow speeds without stopping. Nowadays you can ride an e-bike faster than a horse and cover those routes in less time...except that all of the lines have stops for cars.

Basically, all the old trolley lines have a lot of trouble in the present-day context because the traffic appeared around them, and once cities succumbed to the desire for lots of parking, the die was cast - you had to also give cars most of the routes. And then it's pulling teeth to get a modest 1 MPH improvement out of some trolley corridors with careful stop alignment and signalling.

If we separate out the rights of way well it's a different story, but then we are talking about a more substantial build, and when that happens a busway becomes the way to do the mass transit cheaply upfront and get the most impact immediately.

Everything really comes back to the geometry, not the modality. When there's dedicated space the difference between rails, overhead lines, and battery is just a spreadsheet calculation. But as soon as it's mixed traffic battery shoots to the top because of its flexibility.
Fair enough, turns out my student who's just finished a GCSE (age 16) in Computer Science had never used a spreadsheet
I prefer flagging packets from cgroup. But since cgroupv2 it can only be done with systemd/slices, it's not easy and stable. (The slice must exist before iptables rule, and if it stops, i experiment kernel crashes etc.)
The author calls it Actually Portable Executable too.[1]

[1] https://justine.lol/ape.html
Inflation = less purchasing power = less effective discretionary income.

That means less to spend on new phones, data plans etc. And more time spent at work.
Why would it be one or the other ?

There can be people consuming books through reading, audiobooks, or both.

It does not matter much, except for the preference of the consumer : The thing that actually matters is the content of the book, not the channel through which it is consumed.

And even if you think audiobooks are strictly inferior to reading for everyone, I'm sure you'll still agree that an audiobook is strictly superior to no audiobook, which would be the alternative in the case of people listening to audiobooks while driving/doing dishes/etc...
Only if only 1% of the population know the risks, teach the other 99% to care. Same with any civic problem
Were they using the stock troff look by any chance?
How long before they buy Unity?
I'm surprised no one here has mentioned https://www.gnunet.org/

Currently they're pretty far off something robust and usable by relatively tech savvy folks let alone the masses, but the direction is sound and I'm sure they'd be happy for help.
It's a very common thing that I've seen in many projects. Bad inventory management basically. PMs just build a huge backlog of stuff. By the time people get around to that stuff it's months out of date and probably half wrong anyway. That's why waterfall is not a thing. Developers are not great at multi tasking. And switching tasks has a cost of making a context switch. If you spread things out over time, you basically get a lot of cost related to that and you stretch the time to initial feedback on whatever it is you are doing.

The smarter way to manage projects is to deliver stories, design, etc. just in time to have them ready for immediate implementation and thus shorten the cycle time from coming up with a thing to do all the way to having the thing in production. That minimizes context switches and ensures everybody still has everything that was agreed in their heads.

I've been on projects where PMs had 10 sprints completely planned out and they'd be shitting their pants by sprint 2 because it wasn't working out as they wanted it. That's not agile, that's waterfall and it cannot possibly work. But it's what a lot of people revert to.

Reinertsen's points are that there are good reasons that you can reason about from an economical point of view to do things differently that neatly align with a lot of intuitions developers have anyway. Queue theory applies to all sorts of queues, including issue trackers and backlogs.
I've heard that a lot of the time men are cheating to get sex, and women are cheating for the emotional romantic side of things.

I think the GP is aimed primarily with sympathy for the vast minority of female users, and perhaps an uncharacteristically more emotional subgroup of male users, implicitly baked in.
And that explains why they have another separate 1 billion+ monthly active users on Instagram?

If they didn't think their main product would decline or get unpopular soon, why would they bet on spending $1B on buying Instagram before anyone else and copy the greatest hits and main features found in other competitors (Stories, Disappearing posts, etc) directly into Instagram first?

Without Instagram, Facebook would likely have sunk much faster and I already said they will be around for 10+ years.

So the death of Meta Platforms has been greatly exaggerated.
He could have released a “facephone” instead. It’s equally challenging, competes against apple, could use open source Android as a base. Perhaps it was too obvious of a route?
Beyond raw technical ability, Nick and Julian were the kindest, most reasonable developers I've ever interacted with. I think a lot of Valgrind's success stems from combination of sophisticated tech and approachability of the core team.
No inside knowledge here but I figured Justine intends it as a shibboleth.

I use a magic string somewhere, which has control codes, three ASCII digits for versioning, and an RTL UTF-8 character, and is exactly eight bytes wide.

Anything munges my file, I'll know. Meanwhile I can just mask it.
Please stop. No one is responsible for your safety but yourself. Also, you clearly linked and cited unrelated guidelines.
How do you imagine the drivers would just run on any OS, talking to the kernel in a very very kernel-specific way? This is just a hack in the respective executable file format headers (a genius hack nonetheless from Justine), but it only works for very very basic things. Anything higher level is highly OS-specific.
That is not uncommon. I've heard Brummies and Yorkshiremen speak Spanish in what to my untrained ears¹ sounded like pretty good fluency, but by eck you could tell where they were originally from!

---

[1] passed GCSE Spanish nearly three decades ago, can just about remember how to state my name, age, birthplace, and order food & drink.
and cash in on the popularity of cats!
Jigsaw Puzzle
Show HN: Fill your hiring pipelines with ready-to-interview candidates
As a former recruiter, I saw firsthand the struggle of getting relevant candidates into the hiring process. Companies could spend 10-20 hours per week just to go through endless LinkedIn profiles without knowing if the candidate will respond.

Connect is a product built by recruiters for recruiters. It's a sourcing platform that takes in requirements through a structured kick-off, then shares candidates that were reached out to by our recruiters and are already interested in speaking to the company.

Would love for you to check out the product and give us feedback!
How about Optane?
This kind of reading elitism is cringe.

Books can be consumed with eyes or ears. Neither is inherently better or worse. Let others have their preferences without having to endure your elitism.
Now, imagine McDonald's selling phones...
Oh this is interesting, I would be super interested to learn about how they embedded Python in their .exe. (Cython can do it, but there are also other ways).

I started reading the blog, but not so much about the packaging of their code into .exe distribution.
yes, thanks for the correction.

that is mostly a UX problem, not a technical problem: people are surprised that signal tells others that they created an account, and this isn't a pleasant surprise IME. doubly so (more, actually) if you've got a stalker who has your phone number.
> I'm personally not intentionally trying to evade state governments, I'm concerned about Comcast.

There’s a pretty interesting irony, or a joke, buried somewhere in the fact that those living in authoritarian regimes use Signal to evade the regime, while those of us living in the “free world” use it to not primarily evade state owned institutions but the private for-profit institutions that start doing very similar things to the regime.

Here’s an attempt at a joke:

Q: what’s the difference between your private communications being intercepted in Iran and the US?

A: in the US it increases the value of your stock portfolio
> You are forced to use the only client and the only server.

This is a fancy way of saying that the protocol is private and that their instance of the server has a ToS. There's also nothing stopping you running your own server instance (I know of a handful of private Signal server deployments).

> You are forced to not have backups

I literally juse restored my signal backup to a new device in the last 10 mins. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> You are forced to use an Android or iOS phone (security? really?).

I'm interested in hearing about what other client platforms they should invest in supporting that would increase the "security" of their users and service.

What's frustrating is that these sorts of rants can generally be summarised as "I want to use someone else's service on my own terms, even if the service owner explicitly doesn't want that".

No-one's forcing you to use Signal.
Copy/paste of some URL in a specific field to get started will cause at least some non-nerd friends to question the ease of use and inherit distrust.

"Why am I pasting a URL given by you in this app, will you be able to track all my private conversations as well? Hell, will you be able to hack into my phone now?"
You can do quite a lot with redbean, I wouldn't call it very very basic.

But agreed graphical use cases are limited.
python.exe is the only other option to fulfill the Actually Portable requirement on Windows.

Thing is, an APE is a COM file, not an EXE. Different headers, which contemporary Windows no longer cares about; but why lie about it? python.com is in COM format, as far as Windows is concerned.

Added for clarity: 'no longer cares about' meaning, Windows loads executables by checking the header for COM or EXE format and behaving accordingly, it's which of the two valid extensions gets used which it no longer cares about.
As a selfemployed I do not get any pension at all. That's the point. I'd be in for a tax based pension system and I'd happily pay for it. Unfortunately public pension is prohibitively expensive and a pretty bad investment. You're better off investing your savings yourself. So there's no point in waiting for me.
Yes, agreed. To me "serverless" means that the application is entirely client-side, running in a browser without depending on any backend except whatever httpd originally sent you the .html, .css and .js files.

Anything else has servers, and calling it "serverless" is stupid.