skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't want a different platform that functions similarly to SMS/MMS that I have to convince people to use, I want a replacement platform that transparently functions the same way but better. That solution is RCS…

Sorry to break it to you, but at least some people consider RCS to be DOA in that respect.

"Text messaging used to be a cash cow for carriers, but with the advent of unlimited texting and the commoditization of carrier messaging, there's no clear revenue motivation for carriers to release RCS. The result is that the RCS rollout has amounted to nothing but false promises and delays. The carriers nixed a joint venture called the 'Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative'¹ in April, pretty much killing any hopes that RCS will ever hit SMS-like ubiquity."²

¹ "Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile kill their cross-carrier RCS messaging plans" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/verizon-att-and-t-mo...

² https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/google-enables-end-t...
You got downvoted because “PoW is bad for the environment” is a strong mainstream argument.
PoS is pure oligarchy but people loves it because “it saves the planet!!1”
Eventually, people will understand differences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWrite
In... conservative.. towns? That's just kinda true everywhere.
>Security is a cost center, not a profit center. Most companies cut that investment to the bone, which means paying the bare minimum that lets them check boxes.

This. Definitely.

But even at organizations with the budget, the knowledge and the infrastructure to do security right, no matter what the security folks think/want/suggest, UX and low friction matters. If a process is too onerous (and that varies from org to org and person to person), it will be rejected post haste -- as will you if you try force it.

This is especially true in the finance sector. Joe trader is too busy making bank to worry about all that security bullshit. "Just make it work! I don't have time for this. I banked seven-figure bonuses in three quarters this year and you're just some asshole! Get the fuck out of here, I'm busy!"

And that attitude often extends to management as well.

If you get away from the front-end and its users, the InfoSec guys are all over the back end like a cheap suit. Because their (not seven-figures, but not a kick in the teeth either) bonuses depend on making sure nothing bad happens.

Money (especially in the finance sector) is a powerful motivator, but it sometimes (more often than I'd like) creates incentives that thwart optimal security practices.
An underlying issue is that Microsoft Active Directory does not support MFA of any kind at all. That's why third party PAM vendors exist, but they don't really change the fact that you the most widely deployed authentication service in business is effectively run by password hashes. That's the whole reason we so commonly see the "mimikatz scraped a hash from RAM and it was all over" write up in incidents.

Smartcards exist, but their use is clunky in practice (I'm aware Yubikeys may now function this way). For everything else, Microsoft's current MFA solution is "just use the cloud".
Pray you never find out…
Sounds like a shit friend group tbqh. I have never had it be a point of contention with anyone I know. Anyone who actually cared about this green bubble, which I'm just finding out is a thing in this thread, would make a swift exit from my life. It's beyond stupid and petty, bordering on absurd and childish.
$20B Figma Masterpiece
orange site is the worst subreddit and are we supposed to know who this author is? Context, please?
The one thing from the Stripe docs I like is the embedded API key in all the code snippets, but this seems difficult to accomplish with Markdoc, especially if you're rendering the whole site to static HTML.

For example:

```bash
curl https://api.example.com/stuff \
-u {% apiKey /%}: \
-d "foo=bar"
```

If the user is logged in, I want the {% apiKey /%} to be replaced with something. Do I use a transform, node, or tag to accomplish it? It seems easier to write:

```bash
curl https://api.example.com/stuff \
-u MY_API_KEY: \
-d "foo=bar"
```

And then have custom JavaScript that runs on the page that does a search-and-replace for the string MY_API_KEY with the user's API key (obtained async with API, etc.). The documentation on Markdoc needs work.
Let’s throw the baby out with the bath water.

Highly specific types are very useful on screen-limited mobile devices as they allow software developers to implement very specific controls for them.

It ticks me off that now I have to lose my 10-digit input keyboard for these fields and have to use the tiny on-screen keyboard for everything.

Reading the article and the linked UK.gov article, it seems like there are two issues: (1) lack of more specific types leading software developers to (2) make bad decisions related to the number type for things that are numeric but not countable numbers.

How about we just add a few specific types, or a subtype mechanism.

Eg specific types for dates, PINs, and so forth.

We would also need to add either a non-countable number type or a subtype of the existing number type. Under the hood it could even just be implemented as a string limited to digit characters, and would be usable for zip codes, etc.
Very much so. Write first for yourself. Write to your own standard of quality. A borrowed standard is one never fully understood, nor knowingly achieved.
Honestly, I have a really hard time reading this situation. Admittedly crime has risen in Chicago (I live here) and folks talk about it a lot. Partly because it's warranted, partly because it's amplified in order to get Pritzker out of the governorship. In any case, McDonalds moved their headquarters downtown to appeal to folks who wanted to work in the hipper downtown than the Chicago suburbs. But then the pandemic hit and now they are paying for an expensive office that isn't as appealing as it was before. So are these CEOs looking for excuses to leave the city (and blame Democrats who will tax them more)? Are there actually concerns inside the company that folks don't want to work downtown Chicago (I could honestly see that as possible as well). shrug
Ask HN: What “AI” features can you predict enough to use?
In reading Jason Snell's iOS 16 review to get a sense for what I will eventually have to accept, I was struck by this: "This idea of applying more intelligence to email is an interesting one, but it’s also a bit of a black box: even when the features work as intended, they’re sometimes a bit of a surprise." Programs are helpful when their behavior is predictable, but who can predict the behavior of a billion-parameter model trained on a data set no one truly understands?

Autocorrect was useful when it fixed simple transpositions, e.g. turning "teh" into "the," and minor spelling errors, e.g. "concieved" into "conceived." Apple's increasingly aggressive autocorrect is unpredictable to the point of being harmful. God only knows when it will reach back and change multiple words with no quick way to undo the damage, or switch "its" and "it's" incorrectly.

What if the "singularity" is not robots achieving superhuman intelligence, but unfathomable uselessness?
I got bit by this… never again Adobe… never again…

I hate this level of sneaky trash “gotcha” behaviour…

To top it off, you just know it must make them a lot of money and they know there’s no other game in town, so screw us users, am I right?
There is sometimes the expectation to get a printout that looks the same as the image on screen in any illuminating condition. The whole process of designing printed material (or, say, a passive billboard) on a computer has to constantly avoid making that assumption.
Why do people keep saying this. They keep some control but they don't keep ownership. It's not like they sold the company and saved 700M on the deal... they still gave away their stake in the company. Why are people trying to spin this as a tax scheme?
I had that a few years ago on those scummy up sell warranty plans they trick you into buying at car dealerships. I had to fax a signed cancellation form. Thankfully there are Web services that allow you to send pdfs but it was obnoxious.
Yes, the Apple II also uses a resistor-capacitor timing circuit to determine the paddle position. The big difference, however, is that the Apple II uses the timer and a counter to produce a paddle position 0-255. Software can then use this value to e.g. draw a paddle at a position on the screen.

The game chip, on the other hand, doesn't produce a value. Instead, the timer is synchronized to the screen drawing, so when the timer fires, it indicates to draw the paddle now. So the system never has the paddle position as a digital value and there's no register that holds the paddle position.
How would you enforce that? Track every purchase and attribute it to the correct taxable entity?

That would mean no more cash.

If I send my kid to buy groceries, is that sales tax on the kid or me?
There are few (if any) important differences between algebra textbooks from 400 years ago, trigonometry textbooks from 300 years ago, and calculus textbooks from 200 years ago vs. their current counterparts. The way we teach vector calculus is more than a century old. Introductory statistics courses still often haven’t caught up with the existence of computers. Undergraduate level math textbooks from 60–90 years ago are still among the most popular course sources across most subjects, including abstract algebra, analysis, etc. Hot “new” material comes from the 19th–early 20th century. The curriculum (at least say 8th grade through undergrad level) is calcified and dead, like a bleached coral.

Once you get to math grad school you can find more material that uses approaches and notations that are only about 50 years old.

The most significant “recent” change to be found from the 20th century is the “Bourbaki-zation” of mathematics, especially sources intended for expert readers: cutting out pictures, intuition, and leading examples in favor of an extremely spare and formal style that alienates many newcomers and chases them out of the field. And I guess at the high school level, there’s the domination of pocket calculators (displacing slide rules) which came about in the 1970s–80s.

There is massive, massive room for improvement across the board.

If you read works by e.g. Euler, other than being in Latin they still seem pretty much modern (we did tighten up some of the details in the century or two afterward), because much less has changed in the way we approach those subjects than you would expect. By contrast, if you read Newton or his contemporaries/predecessors, the style is often completely different and almost unrecognizable/illegible to modern audiences, building on the millennia old tradition of The Elements and Conics.

For another serious transformation, look to the way computing is taught, which has changed quite dramatically in the past 50 years. Nothing remotely like that is happening in up-through-undergraduate mathematics.
Man, every time I think I'm doing well, it turns out I'm making way less than I could be.. I'm apparently getting a crappy deal making $300k TC in the Bay Area with 14 years of experience
The headline is not true.

> Without that revenue stream, Baxter said, consumers would be paying more up front. "We'd collect a little bit more margin at retail to offset it," he said.

A little bit.

The value of that tracking is worth a lot to a company making near-zero margins, but it's not a very big impact on the full price.
People having fun with gpt3 prompt injection
See also https://redactle-unlimited.com/ if game-play feels too restrictive. For those not familiar, the original Redactle author went MIA for several months (TLS certificate expired, no contacts), and in the interim many people shifted to Redactle Unlimited, at least judging by the Reddit group. Redactle.com seems to have finally come back, and I still prefer it over Redactle Unlimited, but I figured it's worth mentioning. The latter makes it easier to count letters, and automatically fills in plurals and related forms--it can be infuriating when you realize you forgot the plural of a word you tried 200 words ago, and then proceed to immediately solve it. (For me most games are between 50-150 words.)
> which is a complete scam

I can hear the difference between 16-bit audio and 24-bit audio. 16-bit isn't bad at all, but 24-bit is definitely superior. I've worked with 32-bit on digital boards, and I think it is probably over-overkill, but whatever makes someone happy.

But one thing I know for certain and beyond all possibility of doubt is that I only have two ears. All that is necessary for 3D sound is stereo speakers. To be clear, with only 2 speakers sound can be mixed to seem like it is coming from any direction the engineer desires, left, right, top, bottom, front, back, and everywhere in between. And stereo speakers are dead simple to set up correctly for 3D sound. Sure, you can use 6 or 8 or 10 speakers to get the same effect, if you can figure out how to properly set them up, which is not a given, but I think it's a dick-pull and a money grab because no one can hear with more than two ears.

I realize there are Surround fanatics out there and in here that feel very strongly about it, but the physics of acoustics tells me their set ups are no better than and less efficient than stereo, and nearly always incorrectly configured.
That’s definitely my argument.
But cmon you just need a simple search to reach out to the same conclusion where simple math wins over man control.
I care. I care about start up time. I care because I just had a black out, and that requires booting, I care because I mess with my system and I have to reboot sometimes. I care because I expect software to improve, not get worse. I care about engineering because bad engineering ultimately wastes my time and everyone elses. Everyone can have fun and nobody should prohibit others from doing so. but valid criticism is valid criticism, even though I hate it.

With that said, the counter argument should've been that although powershell does start up slow, (and many other things) it is better than bash in many cases and more performant.
Lunacy from Icons8 is cross-platform and Sketch compatible.
>If you don't get your teenager an iPhone in the US then your kid is going to face some added difficulties.

If you don't get your teenager Nikes/Birkenstocks then your kid is going to face some added difficulties. Kids will bully kids for not having iPhones regardless; blue texts wont change that.
Fair, those are definitely much more fair but just a quick search will show there is no shortage of courts ruling in insurance companies favor even when acting in bad faith. Just looking at complaints on the insurance commissioners website for my state seems to indicates even when they do get fined the amounts are small.
Shhh!

But you're right this is quite possible, perhaps you will be able to buy an ad-free model at a premium, like with Kindles.

Probably some ads would be preloaded, so you'll end up giving it wifi just to get new ads instead of enduring the old ones over and over and over again.
The 6507 chip was essentially a repackaged 6502 microprocessor. The game chip is pretty weird, with a custom microcontroller and a bunch of specialized circuitry. So I don't think there is any connection between them.
I have never used iMessage (I use Android phones). What is the 'really good' part of it? I am used to WhatsApp and it seems pretty perfect to me. Just enough features as a messaging app, but not too much.
i'm not one to defend mega-corporations, but pretending a company that originated from belting out hamburgers as fast as possible is supposed to be doing social-positive humanitarian work is ridiculous.

also, just to entertain this notion, fast food is interlinked with poverty and substandard living conditions, too -- most folks tend to think that rather than being the cause of these conditions that fast food is simply the available option.

It's a special kind of privileged to be able to yell "Shut these places down that serve unhealthy food." without first securing healthy food for those in need.

Let's first think about what happens when the only food source available to certain groups gets regulated out of existence.

I'm not saying that they don't hold a level of responsibility -- what I AM saying is that no food is worse than bad food.
> Should I be cool and inject bleach into my veins?

Because a guy asked a question? You’d rather a leader not ask questions? I don’t have a horse in this race, but this incident is not the slam dunk people paint it as.
Quoting or citing trump as being right on Russia is very peculiar given that he deferred to Putin constantly over the US agencies and wanted to pull out of nato.
> due to leaked credentials (in this case the card number + CVV + exp date)

That information is practically public already, since you have to provide it to everyone you purchase from online with your card. If you regularly buy things online with your credit or debit card it's less a matter of if the credentials will leak than when. Regular checking and savings accounts are at least as bad given the existence of Direct Debit, a system where practically anyone can take money out of any account just by knowing the routing number (public information) and account number (printed on every check).

Cryptocurrency aside, just compare that to something like PayPal, where the authorization happens directly between you and the payment processor: the merchant never gets your credentials and can't take money out of your account without your express permission. The traditional banking system has the worst security procedures; the design is reminiscent of the early days of the Internet where plaintext passwords were commonplace in protocols like rlogin, FTP, SMTP, and unencrypted HTTP, when authentication was used at all. The only thing keeping it from complete collapse is the absolute fortune they spend on statistical anti-fraud analysis, which completely coincidentally requires them to have deep insight into every transaction passing through their network. Not that they would ever think of using that immensely valuable data for their own gain, of course. Perish the thought.

In any case, Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies weren't built to replace credit cards, but rather to replace cash. If someone steals your cash or you somehow manage to hand it to the wrong person or simply destroy it you can't just call up the U.S. Treasury and expect them to put things right. Holding cash and transacting in cash has its downsides, and yet those same risky properties can be extremely useful if proper care is taken. Escrow and human-mediated reversible payments can be implemented on top of a system of irreversible transactions. The reverse doesn't work; you can't very well run an escrow service where the payer can reverse their payment into the escrow account without following the escrow procedures after getting the goods.

Compared to physical cash, as a digital good crypto has several advantages and a few disadvantages. In the latter category you have the obvious risk of hackers compromising the wallet; IMHO a separate, secure, hardware wallet is mandatory if you keep any significant amount of self-custodial crypto. On the flip side, however, it's not all that difficult or expensive to make your crypto more secure against would-be thieves than the gold in Fort Knox if you're willing to put in a modicum of effort, and the possibility of geographically-distributed encrypted backups makes it much harder to separate you from your money if you plan ahead a bit.
Would anyone working in this space mind sharing their thoughts on the most promising methods for removing the small space debris? I work with radar and the debris problem is increasingly a large part of that work. I've heard various solutions suggested like physically impacting each piece, disintegrating them with lasers, creating pockets of atmosphere to slow them down, but nobody sounds convinced that any of these are good practical solutions.
That was just a simple example. If you take addresses as a whole, it gets a hell of a lot more complicated. I do agree that you can just `[ -]` in the middle of that one, but simple examples are simple. Also, it's telling that very few sites actually do this.

The real point is that you want to have one regular form for the input in your database, but imposing that one that you prefer on your users creates friction when their experience of the world differs.

As for 0 vs. O, in a Canadian postal code it doesn't matter, because there is indeed a very regular language to them: letters alternated with numbers. A round circly thing in a numeric position is a 0 and a round circly thing in a letter position is an O. No matter what. The only time this actually indicates a problem is if the pattern ceases to hold after the round circly thing, in which case it may or may not be the 0/O confusion that's the problem but it was wrong anyways.

I'm not saying you should store it wrong, but if a user enters "HOH-OH0" and you ask "did you mean 'H0H 0H0'?"[1] and they say yes then you've given the user a much better and helpful flow than "Invalid Postal Code, please fill out the form again."

[1] This is a 'real' postal code btw and it goes to a weird santa-letter black hole even though it doesn't indicate a geographical location that corresponds to the north (an H prefix is for Montreal).
I've heard a lot of good things about the https://www.happiestbaby.com/products/snoo-smart-bassinet.

It's expensive but my first child slept terribly; I'm not taking chances with my second.
Doesn't that depend on how good the implementation is? Some modern TVs and receivers have exceptionally good scaling built-in.

I'd also bet with certain types of displays (eg: OLED, HDR and/or local dimming) there's benefits when there's a different aspect ratio (eg 21:9), letting the TV do something different to the backlight when it knows there there is no content in parts of the display vs getting a black signal.
Ugh... why is Google's voice typing so not good.

1) It doesn't seem to learn.

2) I think it was better a couple years ago.

3) The transcription seems very slow. But I remember a couple years ago it was lightning fast.

Any settings or premium version that can be signed up for?
Why Japan Stopped Innovating
I realize now there's been some massive miscommunication. The statement about government and train cars was not meant to be portrayed "instance" of anarchism. It was supposed to convey a counter scenario that was not so possible under an anarchistic scenario, since obviously government is not anarchism.

I didn't (and don't) think my paragraph conveyed that. But perhaps so it does. Either way it appears I'm unable to effectively communicate to you. I apologize for that. I do not think I am an able communicator in conveying my ideas to you, so I will just stop here and apologize for the trouble.
The HN title is very misleading: It's a not actually a free tier, it's a time-limited, storage-capped free trial (separate from the normal $300 GCP free trial). Therefore, I don't think that there's a risk of it costing anything.

I guess I will say that I don't actually think that this is all that useful, personally, but I can see it as coming in handy in a very specific scenario.
> I don't have a 'family' app, 'friends' app, and 'personal business' app because they all overlap

Umm how do you expect that would work? One man's friend is another man's family :)

I agree the fragmentation is super annoying though. I use matrix with protocol bridges now to bring almost everything in one app.