skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To not put too fine of a point on it, while crime is decreasing in aggregate over time, it's also spreading into areas/communities where it historically has been lower. It's still generally true that if you avoid going into the bad parts of town or engaging in social relationships with known criminals you are unlikely to be a victim of crime generally, however upper class neighborhoods and quiet suburbs are now seeing an increase in property crime and general anti-social behaviors that are occurring due to shifts in social mores and a decrease in respect that are happening within society overall.

What I'm referring to is far more subtle than some direct link between social media and these behaviors, but even in the cases of direct links such things exist... for instance consider TikTok trends like "devious licks"[1] which had students vandalizing and stealing from schools on video, including in upper class neighborhoods and at good schools.

I am /very/ well aware of the overall trend of crime decreasing in aggregate. However, I am also aware of the shift I'm noting above, and I'm aware that some crimes are now simply under/un-reported. Property crimes are definitely on the rise /in aggregate/ in some areas of the US, and can be most directly linked to shifts in enforcement. Car-break ins and bike thefts in particular in cities like San Francisco are associated strongly to the refusal of the law enforcement in the area to actually enforce the law.

We have a large number of social ills, and aggregate decreases in mental health, happening in the West, and I see this as being in the large linked to lack of self-respect and self-esteem. People with self-respect and self-esteem don't go and hurt others and destroy things, they create and produce. Lack of self-esteem is a significant driver for depression, which seems to be on the rise, along with many other related issues.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devious_lick
Cloudflare’s unique network could make it the most essential security vendor
You don't want the old Instagram
I suspect because Google and Amazon want to use the data from the video feeds for their own purposes. I think using it for CV modeling and advertising can make them more money than not using it.

Also, they can charge police for these data.

I won’t buy their products because of their decision to monetize over privacy. What I find interesting is that their products aren’t cheaper than other privacy preserving products from Wyze and Apple so this extra revenue is pure profit or gravy. This isn’t some essential need of their business model, they just don’t respect user privacy enough to avoid this extra revenue.
Or K9s
I like Obsidian, but yea, there are some fundamental weirdnesses as a result of it basically being a web app. It'll never feel all that native.

For me though, much of the real issue is the iOS app. I feel like it needs some big modifications to how it operates in order to make quickly doing particular things a lot easier.

When I'm on my phone, the biggest thing for me is I need to take a quick note. I'd love to just open Obsidian, click a button to let me put a note in an inbox, then when I'm on my Mac I can sort the inbox like I would a task manager. I don't generally do deep work on my phone, I only really perform reference and quick notes type actions.
>large monument

Good luck at long beaches where there are endless swaths of identical copy-paste tress, tents, deck chairs and umbrellas, without any unique elements to use as bearings. I would hate to have to send people on wild goose chases in the hot sun.

>wearing a red shirt

You've obviously never experienced how difficult it is to be found by your friends if you're short in a crowd of tall people at a concert or any sort of wide festival/gathering. Telling people what color your shirt is doesn't do anything to help if they can't see you until they're within 1m of you. And that's without it being dark at night. It's like finding Waldo IRL but more difficult.

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fetishizing technology to overoptimize a problem that was trivially solved for millenia

Ok Fred Flintstone, you do you, just let me enjoy the modern comforts of current technical achievements please and you feel free to follow the stars and buffalo tracks with your friends.
IMO software is usually more of an organisational solution than a technical solution.
Yep. Pulling a number out of thin air, I'd be shocked if even 10% of people use facebook in the "keep up with friends and family" way.
Firefox and Brave are more privacy respecting than the lesser known shady ones. Firefox and Brave can block ADs, mitigate fingerprinting, enforce HTTPS etc
This happened 30 years ago, maybe it's time to get over it.
I do this too. I wrote about it at https://www.bbkane.com/blog/how-i-take-notes/
Glad I'm using Euphy and not Nest
> huge amount of unencrypted metadata your average Matrix conversation will generate

Do you have more details on this? Matrix being distributed of course will not "tumble" everything through a single service, sure, is that what you mean or other issues?
Yep, 47 here, and no one except a couple of right-wing, anti-immigration activist "friends" seem to actively use Facebook anymore, out of hundreds. In fact, that's the main reason why I and many of my friends don't use it — it's around 90 % conspiracy theory, and hatred towards government and minorities now, and it's super tiresome. Everyone else is long gone.

In my opinion it's not the UI that is the problem; it's the decision they made to allow all nutcases with their nutjob theories to run rampant, in order to make a quick buck out of peoples' outrage.
Zuckerberg: Meta and Apple in ‘deep’ competition to build the metaverse
This can be accomplished using a modular monorepo. Different teams simply manage different directories or modules of the same repo.

Breaking up an app into microservices is total overkill in this instance...
Sounds like he's ultimately agnostic on the issue:

" But I’m agnostic about whether at the end of this programme of trying to account in physical terms for properties of experience, there will still be some residue of mystery left, something more to explain."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/21/neuroscienti...
Keeping Some of the Lights on (2018)
Microservice is to manage junior level programmers who don't know how to make loosely coupling architecture. That's it. Because your job is to manage low quality code produced by junior devs, you need to use microservice to prevent bad code to break the monothlic.

Edit: For more context, this opinion is more about "the art of developer management", not much about infra, security, scalability stuff
It's the reduction of attention-span. Can't have critical thinkers if they can't focus for more than 15 seconds at a time.

I've noticed a lot of people hold conservative views despite growing up fairly liberal because a lot of the solutions to difficult problems are difficult. An easy way out is to accept the first thing that seems fine without any thinking involved. Add to that the fact that it's a worldview that doesn't make sense at first (like many things in maths and science) and people just give up.
"Great, so I can sign up for the same plan again, since my use falls within what you're offering?"

"Well, no, because now we know you'll actually use what we say we provide, and we don't really want to provide what we're offering—that part's a lie."

It'd be different if they'd responded by discontinuing that kind of plan entirely.

This seems pretty straightforward to me.
There’s also the classic: “Dont beware of the dog, beware of the owner”
I thought the same thing until about 2 minutes ago.

https://help.hulu.com/s/article/ads-no-commercials
If you want a great overview of the current(ish) state of algorithmic music, he has also edited the Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music, which is very worthwhile.
Google would just need to sign a Business Associate Agreement and protect the data under HIPAA rules. I believe they already offer that for cloud compute products.
Implied is “as simple as possible but no simpler”. We used JSON on disk at one job BUT.

1. We knew what we were doing with respect to fsync+rename to guarantee transactions. I bet you the vast majority of people who go to do that won’t (SQLite abstract you from needing to understand that)

2. We ended up switching to SQLite anyway and that was a painful migration.

Just pick SQLite to manage data and bypass headaches. There’s a huge ecosystem of SQL-based tools that can help you manage your growth too (eg if you need to migrate from SQLite to Postgres or something)
Is anyone knew how to achieve similar functionality using plain docker containers?
Different people respond to different things. But I do think the US system is a bit too punitive. A lot of states have stuff like free community college for those who want it. But guess what? they still have a lot of car radios and catalytic converters being stolen.
When I bought a house I picked up a dog dish and put it by my walkout basement sliding door. Also the pond next to my house has old tennis balls show up in it now and then so I put them next to the dish.

According to the local cops break ins in my area are mostly just kids going into open garage / garage side doors / back doors that are left open and stuff to steal is out and obvious and so on.

I figure just the sense of hassle / unknown of "who knows how this dog is" might be enough of a deterrent.
Try.

They'll try to notify users? After their data has been shared with police.

Well that's reassuring.
That is correct - it switched your profile version at a regular interval.

Indeed, that's the only way I could do it. The Twitter API has its limitations :D

I didn't know there was a specific definition of A/B testing. I'll see if I get more complaints about the terms I use ^^.

To me, that's still A/B testing - that is I'm testing a version A and a version B and then report on which one does better. I guess the way I'm doing it is different :D
I emigrated from a third-world country to Canada. One of the first things I noticed was the docility of the dogs.

Maybe back in the third world they pick up on their humans’ stress. There, they’d definitely attack at any opportunity.
Companies want automation for many more reasons besides cost cutting:

- latency - respond sooner to a request

- speed - work faster

- volume - produce more

- scalability - just deploy more models

- vigilance - the bot doesn't get tired and start making mistakes

- consistency - the bot does things one way, many people do things in many ways

- fewer human problems - no cutting corners, slacking off, office politics, etc

- lower environmental footprint

- increased work safety

- improved tracking - collect more data to analyse in order to improve your processes
Siri will narrate it frame by frame.
Slash has a long history of being used as a tree descent combinator. That would make sense for the descendant combinator (“ ”) or the child combinator (“>”), and XPath does basically that (approximately “//” and “/” for descendant and child); but to use it instead of the ampersand here, that would be silly, because the ampersand is representing a selector, not a combinator.

Ampersand has a long history, though much less popular, of being used to represent the source value of a text replacement (e.g. in Vim, :s/search/<&>/ will find “search” and replace it with “<search>”). This is pretty much exactly what’s going on here.
The house of a friend of mine was broken into. It was someone who went to every house in a neighborhood, broke whatever glass they could find with whatever was on hand (mostly paving stones) and went into the house. Dog didn't deter them at all. For his large (for the breed) black lab the burglar just grabbed a towel, waited for the dog to bite on it and then maneuvered the dog into a bedroom and locked the dog in there. Then ransacked the house in 5 minutes and moved onto the next house.
I wonder if there was some evolutionary advantage to sleep in making death less scary. If you didn't go to sleep every night, then the idea of suddenly becoming unconscious would be absolutely terrifying.
Heh, exigent circumstances? If somebody is hurt or calling for help, by all means knock down a door or bust a window. But exigent circumstances for rifling through my documents? Get a fucking warrant!
I was 13 and still trying to figure out life, one day I decided to send an email to someone who I secretly admired from reading his hacking blog.
I never contacted strangers on the internet and I used to be very shy.
I was lucky to receive an answer from this person that helped me find the courage to start programming and business very early on.
I love this, thanks! "Kids these days" of language. Oh well, I'm gonna stop correcting of's used instead of have's - don't want to end up in The Unfolding of Language II. But I will definitely check out the first one, thanks for the tip!
Well that's good to know. But I still say the OG logseq was the best of these apps: open source (mostly), plain markdown, visually clean, backlinks, browser accessible (so no issues jotting down a note from literally anything with an internet connection), almost zero friction for note-taking... It was just the best. Now the contortions we have to go through to synchronize notes is painful. A cynic would say it's a deliberate choice to make the paid sync more appealing, when previously it was unnecessary.

Athens is getting there as an alternative, but I wish they were markdown-based for portability.
I suspect most burglaries are just that, opportunistic. If there's some sense of extra risk or hassle, they're on to the next opportunity.
Man, this would be a great way to travel. I'd love to wake up on my hotel bed, after having my body transported in a containerized body box or whatever.
Thanks, did quite a bit of work on the landing page :D

I got a bunch of great feedback on Twitter as well, so I could polish it a bit.
Obsidian's price is pretty nutty as well.

I got lucky and snagged the sync product before they doubled the price, so I'm grandfathered into that. But even $50/yr is a fair bit given it's really just a storage mechanism. $50 isn't that bad, but I would give a hard no at the full price of $100/yr.

Worse, the publish feature... holy insanity this thing is. $192/yr to publish a single repository.
in 1984, it’s an emergency if you wrongthink
The tooling ecosystem that adds joy to KiCad
I understand that expression to have a slightly different meaning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort
JetBrains Suspending Development of Projector
The chinese five element system is made from the generating and overcoming relations (pentagram, pentagon, resp.) if the labels you put on this structure don't produce a nice "story" when you traverse along either cycle (such as with the five fingers or whatever) then it doesn't fit very well now does it?

Your labels are similar to the ones Keith uses in Impro, they have been very insightful on my own journey so I think you've probably helped lots of people with your model, if this hint can help you improve your model then that would be a positive.

One cool five that I've found is the ancient egyptian model of eloquence, may want to look into that.
>As a dev, corp laptops are usually so locked down as to be useless, i.e. unable to install dev tools etc.

In a past life writing my company, which was a .NET shop, was acquired by a large company that used Macs for everyone except salespeople. They didn't provide Macs to anyone on my team, so we had to use the Windows boxes that were so locked down we had to get exceptions for everything. While we were successful in getting Visual Studio and other tools added to the exception list, were weren't successful in getting our compiled software added to the list. i.e. we literally couldn't run the software were were acquired to create.

For the short term, we discovered that anything done in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) was completely ignored by endpoint security, so that let us work around many local issues for the 18 months or so it took us to get Macs for work.
JSON is a pretty poor storage format though, isn't it? I use it for the wordle clone I made, but the code would have been much simpler with SQL statements. And that was without
any kind of complicated relational data https://github.com/schwartzworld/schwardle
Do you still generally need a permit if the "weapon" is part of the boat — for example, a harpoon gun mounted on a swivel — rather than something you can pick up and carry?

(My thinking being: pirates generally use speedboats, and a harpoon gun is plenty good at shooting holes in fiberglass and/or destroying outboard motors; and so pirates wouldn't want to get near your boat if you had one. But this sort of setup is not really useful for shooting at people — especially people less than 50ft away from the boat, which puts them in a "blind spot" for aiming, and especially not people who have already boarded — and so it would be irrelevant when docked.)
What's a good entry to the indie maker community on Twitter?
As someone work in the telecommunications/service provider sectors. Capacity management is both an art and science on top of it with tight budget constraint. It always amaze me what we/ISP can accomplish given how lean the engineering team/budget is.
https://help.hulu.com/s/article/ads-no-commercials
Thank you!!

I wasn't expecting this post to reach the front page of HN, I usually get ignored on here xD
Thanks for checking it out. I may be way out of my depth here, but these are some examples I could think of:

I have two separate propmotions running in US and CA. I could create a link with this formula "https://ecom.com/promotions/{country}" and use the generated shortlink in my social posts. Users who click on the link will be automatically redirected to the correct promotion based on their IP address.

I have 50 products, and want to run a lucky "product" campaign. I create a link with this formula "https://ecom.com/products/{randomNumber}" and post it up on social media. Users who click on my link will randomly land on one of my products (I realise this requires a bit of adjustment I should make to the tool to make random numbers customisable).

I'm running a campaign that should send users to different pages each day (or month). I could write "https://ecom.com/promotions/daily-{day}" or "https://ecom.com/promotions/monthly-{month}" so that users who click on my short link are always redirected to the correct page without needing me to update my link every day / month.

I recognise I'm searching for problems to fit the solution here. Do any of these make any sense?
Not the person you replied to, buy Fastmail does IMAP just fine.
You can still store the data on the cloud and access it anywhere. I think the only features that probably need to be limited are video-analysis features such as who is at your door and what is moving across the lawn.
It isn't quite a check-box, but here's Ring's exigent circumstances form:

https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360053...
This is not a problem if you use proper redirects.
It's a shibboleth for knowing who the author is, you could say.
1 & 2 will likely only work once or twice before they are caught. Also the police refuse to do anything, so presumably calling them in won't help.

3 is a fun idea, but probably will get you violence'd.

4 will definitely get you violence'd.

5 seems unrelated. Are mafiosos trying to cultivate high scores on Google?

6 back to getting yourself murdered

7 honestly the only thing on here that might actually work. If the police are as incompetent as op describes, then maybe they won't even get caught.

Overall, good list. I like your style.
> the circumstances involved are emergencies and not just routine LE requests.

Fine, every routine LE request is now an emergency. Because one thing US LEOs are known for is their reserve in only requesting just the absolute minimum to do an investigation.
Some of us don't fit in a Prius. Add Rear facing baby seats to make it worse.
That is one reason I don't have one.
FWIW, Illinois sometimes does crazy things the other way too. They banned facial recognition altogether, so Nest (and other cameras) can't offer the "familiar faces" feature, like to not alert you when a spouse comes home instead of a stranger.

Facebook also paid me several hundred dollars because they were auto tagging faces for Illinois users.
Thanks. The secret is that you need to tweet a lot [of good stuff] :D
> EDIT: doesn't work when piping to less.

What if you pass '-r' to less? (I can't verify myself because it worked without -r for me)
A total rant about how headless commerce is not actually headless.
Persistent Storage of Adaptive Radix Trees in DuckDB
Tracking and ads scripts aren't special here. Yes page rendering is paid by the browser every time, and this group of people is specifically worried about the CSS part of that process. They're separate concerns and don't need to influence each other design wise
As far as I've seen reported, there was no boycott or grassroots outrage here. I think this is just a story of Disney accepting demands from a somewhat controversial industry with strong government connections that they must be allowed to advertise on Hulu.
I worked with Kaz at Facebook - he's the reason I would want to work at Shopify.
At what point does one “need” to move to Postgres / MySQL? It feels like much of DBA is all style points - not necessarily objective.
>I noticed was the docility of the dogs.

Depending on where you're from, some places spay / neutering dogs is much less common. It can impact their behavior a great deal.
The article implies that Apple makes a doorbell. Do they? There are obviously Homekit doorbells, but this sentence implies otherwise:

> Apple’s default setting for their doorbells is end-to-end encryption which means the company is unable to share user video at all.
Very true, a dumb phone seems to be the wrong answer to the problem. I mean if you really don't get any value ever from the smart phone go for it, but it is a weird solution when you can just make your relationship with the phone healthy yourself. I mean a fresh iOS install doesn't give you a ton of alerts on its own.

But also, smart phones do have their value. There have been a couple of jobs I have gotten interviews for because I was hanging out with someone and someone mentioned looking to fill a position so I sent them my resume right there.

Or navigation (walking or car). Not getting lost (heavily related to navigation but still). Needing to look up something on the internet.

Sure today a lot of smart phone use is for... I am going to say meaningless tasks. They are "fun" but you would be fine without them. But there are a lot of valid uses that smart phones provide. The issue is everything else.
Remove background and trace your handwritten signature online
We learned it to the tune of "pop goes the weasel"
I have built an online tool which does just one thing: traces a handwritten signature.
"Cloud" means somebody else's computer. This is pithy, people here are sick of hearing it, but it's still true.
If you live in western or northern Europe it is already obvious that the climate is getting warmer. Summers we previously thought were heat waves are now normal and winters with -5C to -10C days which were previously normal are now extremely cold. The change in the last 15 years has been very notable.

But evidence? How can you prove that a smoker's lung cancer was caused by them smoking their entire life?
Covid showed throwing a bunch of teachers with no appropriate training or properly structured curriculum at the problem will fail utterly. There are plenty of functional remote schools.
Being inundated with political ads is currently part of reality. Mere desire will not change that.
Illinois actually has some of the strongest privacy legislation in the country. I got a $350 check from Facebook for running facial recognition on my photo without permission, and Google owes me a similar amount when it's class action gets approved.

Check out the Illinois BIPA, it's the reason tech companies are trying to get federal privacy legislation that preempts state law.