skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, it wasn’t a joke. I know a lot of young ladies that went down that path. That and sugar babies. I think it’s unfortunate but they’ve been advertised a lifestyle they can’t afford and this is a reliable way to get it. I also have a few exs that went on to sleep with old rich men - the old fashioned alternative. I would rather these were not alternatives to them or that they would at least not chose it but alas I don’t get to design society.
> Nuclear has a limited future.

Nuclear power is such a dead end China plans to build a hundred of them https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli.... Russia, over 20 https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil.... Japan, probably concerned about what's brewing over the Japanese sea, is going back at it as well https://www.ft.com/content/b380cb74-7b2e-493f-be99-281bd0dd4..., despite Fukushima's disaster.

> It was in transition and couldn't reasonably have been expected to predict gas would be switched off overnight

Except maybe for the war in Dombas plaging us since 2014?

> No one credible called renewables the holy grail.

You are correct.
Why a 224-Year-Old Human Heart Is Touring Brazil
Linking 80 columns to the size of foolscap paper several centuries ago is pretty arcane whether you like narrow lines or not.
Huh, I guess I didn’t make it easy for myself by trying to learn only category 4-5 languages.
I recall PayPal had a maximum password length when I first made my account.

Moreover, PayPal is the only financial institution I know that regularly sends emails with a juicy "click here to login" button. All other institutions are trying to teach "don't click links in emails that claim to be from us, only phishing mails will contain links".

I think imma close my PayPal.
That's definitely true in the short term.

Now, imagine the secret of the $1 build is available to at least one other commercial builder. The "your margin is my opportunity" aspect of a free market kicks in. There's a high demand for housing, so competing builders compete for the same buyers. Over time it'd drive down the price.

If this doesn't happen it's probably a combination of:

1. limited land available to build on

2. the money chasing uniqueness e.g. unique builds, pretty views, access to schools, etc.

3. price fixing

4. other..?
Sure, I get the theory. My glib response is that I do not believe a business tool kicking out "freeloaders" (in the nicest sense of the term) is a factor to me using it for a business. Why would I care? I want a communication tool for a business! Having to pay for loss leading is annoying!

Free tiers exist to help with onboarding and testing, the existence of free plans that allow more or less indefinite usage is an obvious mistake for something like Slack IMO.

I think if Slack had shown up with a free plan at 90 days history (really, 90 days/5 GB would be the "reall" thing), then people wouldn't bat an eye. It feels obvious that the solution here would be to grandfather old workspaces into the old model but .. shrug.
It is as they say "perfect being the enemy of good". There are just too many people who create this perception because of their one off bad experience. Given the Wikipedia model of open edits, they should go fix it rather than create a perception of it being bad.

Of course edit may not be possible in contentious subjects but most of us know that.
I'm trying something similar with Japanese via Ghost of Tsushima (finally started playing it this month). I've lived in Japan 10+ years, only speak conversational Japanese....so far I don't think I've absorbed any linguistic improvements from using the game. I might just need more time with this style of immersion.
Parental Burnout Across the Globe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
I'm not vouching for the product, but a little background context that might be lacking in general and that might help people in evaluating the claims made by the product:

So, they eye works pretty much like a camera - but it's not a "normal" camera: it's a complex dynamic self-assembling, self-tuning adaptive structure.

The fact that it's geometry is roughly static around a focal length that has sharp focus on the retina is a wonder of homeostasis with at least three known tuning loops:

1) the lens changing shape (accomodation)

2) a slower feedback loop adjusting the choriod (hence focal length) in the order of hours.

3) an even slower loop adjusting the eye geometry over longer periods of time.

The last two are not fully understood yet, but we have a a few good clues (even potential drugs targeting biochemical pathways)

If this product works it would be operating on the 3rd feedback loop

check out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662730...
I have expensive hardware preferences, and even sometimes upgrade before I need to. I like a computer to last 3-5 years, sometimes it falls on the lower end of that range. Every time the machine I replace is still usable or can be repaired, it’s a hand me down to family or friends or community who don’t have the luxury to afford any computer much less one which is still more powerful than what they could potentially buy if they saved money they don’t have.

To the extent the hardware has aged but will still serve the people receiving it, and to the extent they’re more comfortable jumping through the smaller hoops to run familiar software than the larger hoops of vast complexity of a new OS, projects like this are wonderful. That’s why.
The article has been changed. The word partially was added in the sentence below after I commented.

> enter an email address to log into PayPal, an SMS is immediately sent and the phone number is partially revealed.

That said, below that it mentioned number guessing so I probably could have guessed that's what they'd meant to write.
assuming one is stationary
Tronc 4 lyfe.
Don't mix up the cost of a house with the cost of the land.
> Japanese has a regular grammar.

Except for all the exceptions. Also, the millions of different ways you need to manipulate your verbs based on what comes after/what you are talking about.

Oh, and that you cannot read/write contemporary Japanese without knowing at least 3 writing systems (with a minimum of 54 characters each).
The mention of safety due to lack of doors does not add up, as none of the Routemaster busses at the time had a door at the bottom of the stairs. Jumping on and off was the normal thing.

The many tunnels under the Thames are awesome though - I used to live in Woolwich and there’s a pedestrian tunnel there that I’ve used many times
That would make it easier to grammar, but harder to pronounce.
> Can you define that difference? Wingstop and Thighstop for instance are incredibly close and not enough to trigger regulatory enforcement

I can define the difference clearly: "whatever a court decides"

The law is intentionally fuzzy, and in the case of trademark, it's whether the names are "likely to cause consumer confusion", which is an obviously fuzzy thing that cannot be encoded in a computer or with a set of string matching rules. Which is fine, our legal system has humans in it.

If the companies are doing so with the specific intent of causing consumer confusion, then it seems like the court would have a relatively easy time at showing that such an occurrence was likely.
It’s the stuff the Laundry series by Charles Stross used to be, but then it really focused on the espionage and then just general paranormal parody riffing.
See a doctor and take their advice, not the internets. They'll probably tell you diet, exercise and sleep.

More personally what I did with my caffeine problems was consume less and restrict the time I have it. One good coffee in the morning is enough, the withdrawal will suck but you'll sleep better in the long run. And the trick to not feeling tired all the time is to sleep well and not consume a bunch of nasty stuff in the afternoon and evening that your body can't handle well in excess.

Psychoactive chemicals aren't a solution if you don't have a problem that they can really help. That's why you see a doctor or three to determine if it's worth the risks.
i remember this was possible on thinkpads and linux with a custom pam library like ten years ago.

it was fun to set up, but not really worth maintaining.
well, As much as I agree, software development is subjective!!!
The phrase “squadron of ships” seems like deliberate word choice. And to me, “squadron” is a more alarming word than “ships,” because it implies cooperation between multiple intelligent entities. But the paper does not describe much compelling evidence for any intelligent “swarming” behavior, so I interpreted the word choice as bias.
This confuses me about discussions like these on HN:

On the one hand, there are so many stories on HN complaining about incompetent and dystopian security practices in the financial industry.

And many tips on how to cope with it. Like not giving PayPal your bank account, rather pay 3% to put a credit card between PayPal and your bank account. And to keep your phone number secret to avoid sim swapping and PayPal exposing it.

It seems to be a fight between customers who are supposed to try and hide as much data as possible from the companies. Because that data causes a threat to you. And the companies that try to get as much data as possible.

On the other hand, cryptographic solutions which put the user in control and do not expose any data to the outside world are frowned upon. To me, it seems the logical solution. I want a private key, that only I know. And to be able to sign transactions with it without exposing any data.

If such a solution based on cryptography would be widely used, I would hold a smallish amount of buying power on my "crypto wallet" and use that for day to day transactions. And regularly refill it directly from my bank account.

The best of both worlds: For my smallish day-to-day transactions, I am in full control of the security and privacy. And my savings stay on my bank, completely shielded from my day-to-day transactions.

Why does everyone on HN hate this approach?
Gray branding? Label spam?
English definitely needs better pronouns, but I have no idea how you can introduce them. We can't even agree on what cases you can use "they/their/them" for an individual person!
One thing you do occasionally hear people doing if they don't want to repeat full names and need to disambiguate pronouns is to refer to people by the first letter of their name ("John told Adam J wasn't the right person for A"), but obviously that won't work if you don't know their names.
Yeah but thats not going to happen.
Hah, I was going to say, you’d be fine even if you didn’t learn anything.

Still, if you can speak Dutch it’s appreciated, especially in less international areas.
I’m surprised to see this on the front page. It’s just an affiliate link site with “roundup” style reviews containing no more information than summary of product pages.
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html#c...

Stock GCC doesn't have such option though. I guess it's implemented with a macOS-specific patch?
I honestly can't tell if this is intended to be a joke or not.
I'd prefer for a backup to be a second key on a different hardware device, personally.

I might also be ok if somebody like Apple had engineered a cloud solution for securely keeping backups, but only maybe.
"Our astronomical work is daytime observations of meteors and
space invasions."

Is something being lost in translation? They can't literally mean that...
This is silly. Nobody is going to sim swap you to steal your paypal funds, getting the money out is way too difficult.
Well, I don't have an issue with the telemetry policy per se, but I do with the fact that Plasma depends on it being there, even if not used.

That's not reasonable to me ( and others -- you can find various levels of protest since this was baked in, from quiet annoyance to full paranoid hysteria ) but then I don't use KDE much these days. I don't like GNOME or others starting to take that route as well.
Well there was this episode of I think a16z, where initially they used the free accounts in their numbers (around, churn, etc). But later around those to marketing and cac instead.

All of a sudden everybody is happy, while nothing changed
I haven’t touched MS Office in about 10 years. Libreoffice and Apple’s equivalents have been perfectly fine for me.

Some specialized cases require office, but for the typical document or spreadsheet it’s very easy to avoid it.
Visual graph of poll results: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/32606904
Oh... invasions of their airspace, not invasions from space, right?
OP here - yeah that's my bad - I never intended it to be interpreted as fully revealed but a sentence taken out of context can read that way, so I tweaked the article (as well as fixing a few spelling mistakes). Apologies for the confusion.
This paper also doesn't mention "gamma" and uses the word "linear" only in other contexts.

Even if they're using RAW photos, the response curve is still non-linear because the individual pixels "saturate" as they get closer to the maximum exposure. This shifts colours, because a bright colourful source will saturate the pixels of the matching colour first, and then the other colours a bit later. A bright yellow meteor trail will saturate red and green, and then blue.

Their entire method and conclusion all hinges on analysing the relative intensities of RGB colours of photos of very bright meteor trails.

These guys are so unscientific it's almost a parody of science. It reads like a bunch of high school students doing "science" with their dad's camera, and then a kind professor submits their homework to arXiv to make them feel like they're Just Like The Big Boys.

Having said that, there is some amazing real scientific research being done with CotS camera equipment!

Examples:

https://astronomytechnologytoday.com/2018/06/28/miniwasp-par...

https://petapixel.com/2022/07/25/telescope-made-from-multipl...

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1561833

That last one is a beautiful example of how to do science right, with detailed calibration data and characterisation of every aberration in the system.
Discord has forum channels already: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-...

(they’re technically in beta but a bunch of popular discords use them)
The paper isn’t clear about this, but the crescent in that image is the moon, AFAIU. They’re using it as a baseline for luminosity of the UAPs, which are the multiple (less bright) white speckles in the image.
It depends. I haven't yet in my career come across something that I couldn't research online because I hadn't been taught it. Usually the first step is to discover which words to use, reading around the domain. Once I have the words I can usually find out everything I need to do my job.

Knowledge is so easily acquired these days that, while useful, it is not essential. I hire people with zero domain knowledge for that reason.
Saw those cloud kitchens mentioned couple of days ago in another post on people "gaming" the system. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32559519)
We also have the Home Advisor variant that just sells your leads. Fill out a form and get 10 phone calls in the next 2 minutes. They also make entire sites to appear as a local business like “Joe the Plumber.com” and advertise those side by side. But it’s the same leadgen bs.
Huh, that's pretty enticing. Unfortunately last time I set up Mattermost it exploded on a VPS so that wasn't too good...
Ask HN: Latest list of remote friendly companies (APAC)
Hello

I’m looking for a list of remote first / remote friendly companies that may be suitable from my location - New Zealand - into greater APAC or west coast US. Any lists I could look over?
'something', like being a model or an actor, who dated other famous people. It has changed, but let's face it, their celeb fame was always disproportionate to their work

we are in a postmodern world now, everything is meta. We deal with the celeb and scrap the work
I’m not gonna comment on the central topic, but that map is … not a good visualization in so many ways. Never mind it inverts the scale of intensity it supposedly conveys, the geography regions are not representative of any of the people in those regions.

Edit: it doesn’t even invert the scale! It’s just using a monochrome color range without any regard for scale.
Right, but the Routemaster doesn't have a five foot drop from the staircase to the ground!
no cap. optimizing user engagement and leveraging network effects is bussin fr fr
Has anyone had a good meal from a ghost kitchen-style restaurant? I've only ever heard awful things.
If you bring an umbrella to a gun fight, I know which way to bet.
I thought the only selling point of slack was that your chat history was archived and searchable.

Oh well. Time for the industry to move on.
And that, kids is why...
You have to accept that being a parent is a second full time job, and you are just going to be slower for a little while. It's now on you to compete with being a great parent.

The free time will slowly return as the kiddo gets older.
Ugh. These Ghost Kitchen jerks have been spamming me for an interview. Not interested in ever working for any business associated with Travis Kalanik, thanks.
> I want a private key, that only I know. And to be able to sign transactions with it without exposing any data. Why does everyone on HN hate this approach?

Because, in general, key management is hard, and your average user will likely not be able to understand such a flow, and will additionally probably lose their private key.

PayPal already has a pretty reasonable way to secure accounts: username+password+TOTP (using an app for the OTPs, not SMS). No, it's not perfect, and can be phished, but for most people it will be good enough. People who care about the phishing risk can use a FIDO2 hardware token instead of TOTP. All of this is common and widely-implemented enough that it's feasible to require that users do this.

But instead, probably in the name of reducing payment friction, they have decided on this horribly insecure method as described by OP. Ugh.
I think it's complicated; the fact that I use a free slack instance for note taking / bots is one thing, but I'm on 2 company slacks right now (paid), 2 non-profits (1 paid 1 not) and a handful of open source communities. Am I a user who won't convert?

Everyone on a free slack instance is NOT using a competitor's product.

There's a tipping point where having to check multiple apps will push people towards consolidating in a single client if they possibly can, which (in the long term) may not be slack if it doesn't support "ad hoc" communities or personal use-cases at a reasonable price.
It's possible. Indonesia has 7 cellphone carriers with their own infrastructure, and I think 5 of them have national coverage. Used to be more but the number got reduced over time due to mergers and acquisition. I won't be surprised if there would be only 4 major carriers left soon if the largest ones continue acquiring smaller players, which is a bad news because cellular plans used to be very expensive when there were only 3 major carriers and these smaller players brought competition which drastically reduce prices of cellular plans.
I was evaluating natural text to speech packages a year or so a go. And I was left with the eerie feeling that at least half of the offering must have been fronts for the same company/person, if not also exactly the same software. Nowhere was this more evident than in the sing-up and payment workflows of the various packages that followed exactly same pattern. So either in one corner of that market everyone copied each other there, or somebody just saturated that corner with their offerings.
i really hate the new youtube designs, cause i cannot tell if i have pressed the like button or not, the visual difference is so tiny that i often unlike stuff i have liked before. So sorry dear influencer, but i promise i am beholden to your influence forever
Do you think most Slack teams on the free plan are active enough to send 10,000 messages every 90 days? That’s 111 messages every single day, or 156 every weekday!

Maybe my team uses Slack too much, but that doesn't sound like very much to me. We have 11 devs, and a few non-dev roles, across 8 channels and we must be sending at least 500 messages in total on a busy day, and I doubt it's ever less than a couple of hundred. If I include the JIRA, CI, and bug reporting integrations it's far higher. We pay for Slack but this would be a good change for us if we didn't.

This is also a good time to point out that Slack conversations are not documentation. If you're losing access to important things because you can't go back more than 90 days in your chat history then you need a better knowledge capture process. Recognise when important information has been shared in chat, especially in a private chat, and put it somewhere that's easy for the whole team to access and that you know will still be available in a couple of years time. You won't regret it.
I so want to hear more about this. Mad props to you and your brothers. What a great way to approach life. Do you have an in-depth blog post or podcast or something where we can learn more?

EDIT: OK this explains a lot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32615712
I can't claim to speak for "everyone", but I was a crypto fanboy in the early days, when it seemed destined to be an actual currency, which would be great for all the reasons you mention.

But at some point it all went off the rails: crypto became a deeply rigged casino targeting the most vulnerable people they could find, fueled by insane amounts of energy consumption and money laundering.
If you individually delete messages, then yes, they are actually deleted.
Why would I carry an umbrella on sunny days? And how is this on front page?
Cryptocurrencies are what you obviously mean by your "a solution based on cryptography" phrase.

As they exist now, they are even more difficult to use safely and securely. For every one person who gets hacked via paypal's SMS crap and a simswap, there would be 50 people who would lose their crypto wallet to dropping their phone in the river and forgetting the passphrase.

It's perfectly consistent to have issues with cryptocurrency and with other centralized financial institutions since they both have awful security models for the average person. Financial institutes are too insecure, and crypto is too unusable.

I, personally, would like the government to provide a universal authorization server ("log in with GovID" or whatever), and require all banks in the country to support that auth mechanism, and then ensure that mechanism is both incredibly secure, but also has suitable fallbacks to recover access.

The government is uniquely positioned to be able to do that in theory, if only the government weren't wildly allergic to doing _anything_.

I'll settle for a bank that does not ever fall back to SMS and supports webauthn so I can use my yubikey, and fortunately such banks do exist, so things aren't actually so bad. As long as I don't use paypal or various other less competent software.
Sure it's an ad piece, but it's telling the truth.

Smart move from Zulip.
Related, this recent thread about Doordash/GrubHub was (in a way) kind of hilarious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339894
Searching for 'soaring' or 'gliders' or even 'gliding' does not show up the biggest subreddit about this topic, which is r/Gliding - as far as I know pretty SFW. But it shows unrelated and even smaller subs such as r/tailwind.

Maybe something worth looking into as may affect other topics. (:
ffs just use IRC. Not proprietary. You can host it yourself. All your base are belong to… yourself.
In Southern California there are bus routes with long racks for surfboards.