skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "quiet homeless" who can hold down a job are also likely to be able to keep track of a phone or other two factor device.

While I agree that there's a lot of generalization here, a lot of the point of supporting the homeless in the first place is that big tech should support everyone, even if they are indeed someone who "can't keep the same cell phone number for more than 4 months at a time" (via the source twitter thread) as if they're a government that must cater to its citizens.
Well I don't think it's just limited to playing games, the Quest Pro night introduce something like this for example: https://uploadvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Quest-Pro-im...
Thats one rabbithole, but mine might be worse. I recently made my first pickups.

First I made a coil winding machine, after lots of late night research. I bought an old sewing machine and took it to pieces for the main components. After my first build I improved my machine with some 3d printed parts.

Then there is the process of choosing and sourcing the components, coils, wire magnets, wax...

Then the actual process of getting the winding done...lots of broken wires later...my tele has an awesome set of pickups which sound so clear. The neck pickup is very non standard, more like a strat pickup.

What a stupid hobby!
It's possible. Try to do it from your phone with your browser in incognito mode.
Hackers Target Eager Homebuyers with a Dumb Scam That Keeps Working
It's not ideal, but phone numbers already are how we verify identity online and sometimes offline. There's been other methods proposed, but they've generally been rejected because of concerns over privacy.

I'm not proposing a solution for the real issue, simply a way of making things easier for people who have a hard enough time already.
To clarify, do you mean a contact relationship management software or something else, like Twitter or LinkedIn for people you have met in real life?
The "customized feed for you" is not as unique as you'd expect. It basically is the algorithm fitting you into some number of buckets and then serving you that content.

And speaking of shared experiences, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w has been watched 11 billion times.

However, I suspect 10 billion of those may be my kids ...
I've got a whiteboard on my wall with phrases I want to internalize and maybe turn into mantras. One of them is:

"Guilt and regret kill many a man before their time."

I regret many things in life. If I could go back I would do things very differently. I would be kinder. More hard working. Humble. Have integrity. Uplift the people around me. Explore the world.

It's very depressing when I look at my life that way. So I just look at today. How do I make the most of today. If I get hit by a bus will I be satisfied with what I did.

Remember half of life is chance.
What would happen if you renamed that folder from "regret" to "work in progress"?
https://archive.ph/Tiggv

On first reading of the title I thought this was a swap! Perhaps let Russia have New York to avoid war. It's very easy to decide on the fate of distant lands where the associated misery can be quietly ignored. And that happens a lot with less newsworthy countries. But consider it for your own country and the calculation changes.
The process you're describing is commonly (and usually derisively) referred to as "bifurcation," because experience solvers will generally only resort to "guessing" when there are only two possible values for a cell.

Strategies for solving sudoku puzzles are many and varied, but if a puzzle can only be solved by "guessing a number" rather than logically working out where a number goes or which number goes in a cell, it's probably a pretty bad puzzle.
Reminds me of the classic yoda quote "do or do not there is no try".
Basically trailers or RLBs. We have those…
Fake personalization in tech isn’t fooling anyone
I feel like your statement is kinda like random business drone would argue.

1. Lowers wadges.

2. Adjusts spreadsheet.

3. Declares increased profit!

But that's too simple / not how things play out and then you ask for a great deal more analysis. Kinda a weird angle to approach it from.
Ah, it seems that I was mistaken about Hikvision then.
It's a human interest piece: I took the point of Carin Froehlich's story to be that it affects more than just the people who are forced to not air-dry their laundry.

Given the simplicity of the problem ("I can't hang my laundry [without people, including local officials, complaining]"), the solution is a little obvious ("I want to be allowed to hang my laundry"). I think the journalist who wrote this probably trusted us to understand that.
Urbit exists right now, anyone with a command line can download it, create a comet, and see what they think.

It can't be denied that it's a practical option, given that there are thousands (maybe in the tens?) of users who are doing stuff on the network.

There's a lot of work which needs to be done, to make the core event loop faster, and enable scaling to the kind of social graph celebrities have. I'm confident in the technical leadership of the project at this point in time.

Full disclosure: I've been a user of urbit for many years, and stand to benefit materially if it becomes popular. I neither work on urbit nor on urbit things, never have, and have invested no money in either urbit or its address space.

I still think it's a good idea, just like I did when it was barely usable and much weirder.
Owned and operated by business executives.
Don't fight it, you know that "a few drinks" lets the real you out, get back with her and have some kids.
Yeah and it also only works on your phone (or if you know how to make Google think you are on your phone) and in certain countries. All to my knowledge and based on my tests.
Today I learned you can turn this feature off. Just disabled 2FA for my Gmail so I don't get locked out if something happens to my phone/phone-number.
Denying the existence of God (or a higher organizing intelligent power, if you like) until I was 45.
You're being disingenuous here, and blinded by your own partisanship. Both this story and the Mueller investigation (and whatever other inquiries into Trump) deserve scrutiny in the public eye. It is not absurd to think that Twitter and Facebook, two massive media companies with well-known connections to the democratic party, are major sources of information and huge multiplying factors in the spread of information about a lot of news.

> The laptop failed to gain traction under its own terms, not because it was suppressed by the government.

Simply not true, given that the man is under active FBI investigation.
These shouldn't be considered valid sudoku puzzles. Uniqueness is an attribute of valid puzzles.
I can't speak for Paris, but often in UK apartments the washing machine will be in the kitchen under the counter, so above them is counter-space.
There was a followup comment on HN:

> Doesn't sound like it was completely resolved. In fact, it sounds like Google may have treated it as a "squeaky wheel," and only that library is getting better help.

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32309190
Peloton CEO doesn’t understand why people aren’t happier he laid off 500 people
> I'm really curious. What would you propose?

The solution is very simple. Don't force 2FA. I'm sure most homeless people would rather risk the unlikely case of their accounts being hacked if they didn't choose a strong enough password to memorize than risk getting locked out of their accounts permanently.

You can encourage 2FA but forcibly enabling it for everyone does more harm than good, especially to homeless people but also non-tech-savvy parents and such (though the latter would be more likely to have a working recovery method).
> but "more people ranking a candidate first can cause them to lose" seems like a pretty absurd outcome to me.

It sure does seem absurd, and so thankfully there's no case where RCV does that! :)

There seems to be a lot of misinformation thrown around about this, where people seem to be conflating different issues.

I'm not sure what your source is, but you might be misunderstanding the Favorite Betrayal Criterion... which seems counterintuitive at first but isn't really. There's a lot of noise made about the fact that moving a non-preferred candidate higher than your preferred candidate can help your preferred candidate to win... but it's actually because you're ranking your preferred candidate's main opponent even lower in the process. And also it's basically impossible to do strategically because you'd need to know how everybody else voted first.

End of story, there's nothing absurd about cadidate A winning, but if some people downranked candidate A from 2nd to 3rd rank, then that candidate would lose.
Sorry, no, it's completely accurate to say the new FDA boosters weren't tested on humans. Period. I'm not complaining that this happened (deliberate tradeoff) but it definitely did occur and people saying that are not necessarily being misleading.
There are 1.5+ billion gmail users. I don't have stats, but that intuitively means millions of vulnerable people who could be scammed or phished or whatnot because they would never think of using 2FA at all.

Among those half a million homeless, how many use gmail and are unable to change for whatever reason? Among those, how many have issues with 2FA? Thus we advocate for increasing the vulnerability of millions to do something that would not even help the homeless that much. The whole problem of having to replace their phones every 12 weeks sounds like a far more pressing issue to investigate and find solutions for.
What sometimes ends up happening. It’s true that we have huge gaps for mental health and substance abuse but there are examples (famously, Salt Lake City) of such programs working. The mixed history says we need to take the problem seriously, not give up.
Interfaces are great, and easier to understand than Go's concurrency. Maybe the hardest part is getting the idea that neither interface nor implementing code need to know anything about the other.

Here's a fun experiment: dig through your codebase and find all the public methods, then look at the signatures and find the top 3-5 most common constructs. Now define an interface using those. Perhaps not very useful, but interesting to see. I bet a comprehensive audit of Go code in the wild (not including the standard libraries) would find a lot of types implementing something like this this:

type StringHandler interface {
Handle(string)
Parse(string)
Count() int
}
Conspiracy-theory-isation exists because people resent being told what they are supposed to believe by an authority they do not trust. I'm personally very opposed to forcing them to trust, to ramming the truth down their throat. Instead what I would prefer is that these people are given the tools to find the truth on their own. Simple tools that can be trusted just because they are simple, that do what they are supposed to, no more no less.

They could be technological, software, or maybe even something as simple as teaching people about rhetoric and how to manipulate people so that they can detect other people doing it. Teaching people about logic and fallacies. Teaching people how to infer motives.
Ask HN: Moonlighting – Whats Your Process
so like many of us i am moonlighting a company while working the 9-5 - i was curious what kind of cadence other founders follow to bring their idea to fruition?
And you seem to think doing the easiest thing is actually useful.
Right, more precisely cut out the defects from a wafer and save as much precious top-tier silicon as possible. Plus, another benefit of chiplets is that not every circuit needs the same performance level. Save the 5nm stuff for "hot paths" and use increasingly older processes for less performance/power critical applications, because while they might take up more space, they won't unnecessarily take up more next-gen fab time. Phones are literally the smallest and most power-limited devices we use so it makes sense to make every chip in them 5nm. Laptops and desktops and servers are not so constrained.
SMS as a second factor should be deprecated. I got locked out once because my phone was stolen that had the SIM inside, and I couldn't get back into my Google account. Now I just use a Yubikey and am never asked for OTP codes that are sent to my phone.
We went from Heroku to a self-hosted OpenShift cluster on AWS EC2 for compute and managed AWS services for state (RDS and Elasticache).

1. A few months. The actual changes to the apps were not fundamental, but we discovered a lot of things we didn't know about our own codebase and it had to be fixed. The majority of changes were devops plumbing not Ruby/Rails. The move itself, including all the necessary admin changes and supplemental work took about 1.5 years from decision to cut off date.

2. Me - about 30 years of total experience, 10+ years of devops/SW mixed experience. But total Ruby noob (and still is, you don't need to know Ruby to move apps)

3. The move made me a multimillionaire and a couple people billionaires and another 100 or so millionaires or multimillionaires. I mean this move opened the path to the IPO and we became one of meme-stocks of 2021. So even if I never touch AWS, Openshift, Heroku or Ruby it was totally worth it. I didn't learn any fundamental new things (after 30 years in the industry it rarely happens), but solidified my skills in many departments. I never run such a massive containerized workload before, for example.

4. Nobody cared actually. We grew like bamboo at that moment, so very difficult to compare apples to apples.

5. A single monolithic app about 0.5M LOC and a few smaller ones. Hundreds thousands of customers, tens of millions of revenue/month
My answers are a mix, I guess.

1) Possible but I don't know

2) Very likely

3) Very unlikely

4) Don't know what this means. What is the "American Project"?

5) Vague; is the assertion that the allegations were lies or the conclusions?

6) Very unlikely but I haven't looked at the data

7) His actions led to deaths, and none of the people that died deserved death for anything they did, so yes he did something wrong

I feel like these are just kind of common sense opinions? None of my answers to these questions feel partisan, at least not to me.

I definitely have different ways of determining truth than many other people, I suppose. I am absolutely certain, for example, that none of the creation myths or supernatural dieties that we have invented are real in any measurable way. I am pretty sure that most of the stories in, for example, the Bible were always meant to be read as metaphorical anyway. But the vast majority of the human race apparently disagrees with me on that, which blows my mind. How can they not see something so plainly obvious? It shouldn't even be a serious question. How do you deal with the fact that the majority of your fellow humans believe things that are obviously silly? I apparently just don't understand what normal people are doing when they say they are thinking. So the whole Qanon thing is on one level pretty much what you would expect from a species like us, and on another level it's still utterly baffling.
I don't think you can assume an implied threat here.

"your neighbors keep calling the police and we have told them that it isn't illegal to hang laundry. Can you hang it in the back yard so we stop getting calls?
There's a positive feedback loop between mental health and housing, so it takes more than tilting either end of the equation to fix it.
>Revisiting the idea recently, Pandora, YouTube, TikTok etc have all made a business out of building a customized feed for YOU. It's become the exact opposite of what the original article predicted.

Is that the opposite? If the customized feeds are selected from the same group of sources, we could still see a decrease in total number of sources even though people are more customized.

Here is a simplified example. Take the 50 US states. In the past, let's assume each state had 10 news sources. Generally people would only consume 10 news sources so the overlap of source consumption in each state was pretty similar. A person in a single state consumed the same 10 news sources as anyone else in that state. Total sources of news is 500.

Then we enter a globalization time. Everyone gets 10 news sources, but they are custom picked for each person. But there is now 1 source per state they are picked form. This gives us (50!/(40!10!) ~ 10 billion, assuming I remember my math correctly) combinations for 10 news sources, plenty enough that each person gets a custom selection of news sources. But the total sources of news is only 50, 1/10th of the previous example. So while each selection is more unique, the total number of captured thoughts and opinions is now 1/10th of what previously existed.
Shit gets stolen nonstop, and not just by fellow unhoused. When the police come and tear down camps, there's no expectation of recovering anything left behind. 9 times out of 10 they're followed by a public works crew throwing everything into dumpsters. Good luck getting your phone (or any of your other possessions) back.
It's a shame he never took the advice to heart. Jobs' last days were unnecessarily painful for both himself and his family, who desperately tried helping him only to be pushed away and insulted.

Jobs was good at echoing the wisdom of people smarter than him, but not so great at using those principles to fix his own life.
Oh really? I didn't see that option. Maybe it's new? If so, that's good!
Wikipedia calls them "regular tunings", which I think is clearer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_tuning
> The correct answer is not depending on the largesse of businesses. It is using government resources to provide methods for identity verification, communications, and various other bare minimum needs for living.

To be fair I don't see how any government system can do better regarding identity on the internet. Login.gov is one of the best services I've used for access to usajobs/SSA/etc but it follows some of the same security best practices people are complaining about here with no real way to re-gain access to your login.gov account should you lose your 2fa methods (afaik).
You better tell that to the people living in the county with the highest per capita income. Message to Manhattan residents -- you're failures!
I prefer to live somewhere that lasts more than 30 years.
I would not be surprised at all of the average American doesn't know the names of their neighbors, but can rattle off large numbers of "world figures" who basically have zero impact on them, and they certainly have zero impact on.
> I don't worry about any of this with my RSS feed.

With all due respect an RSS feed is not "your" data, it's just data that you aggregated. You're not comparing it to the fediverse in good faith. If you must make a comparison you can do it with email: do you have an email address? Do you trust your email provider with your data? It's the same with ActivityPub based servers.
I admire you. I hope that I could be healthy to code at 66. Wish you all the best
‘Aren’t You Entertained?’
Sounded like quite a pain when Robert Downey Jr did it: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/t-magazine/robert-downey-...
The older I get the more I recognize that most of the people I've encountered, in one way or another, have a great lack of confidence and courage.
I’ve always felt that my eye handles high dynamic range scenes much better than cameras. In the past I would shoot a photo and the shadows in the photo would be much darker than they appeared to me in person, and the sky would be blown out with no color.

These compressed images feel closer to me to the way I actually perceive the world. The colors do sometimes get a little funky though.
Having used Mastodon for years now, my experience has been that when I receive an abusive/spam/troll message it's a safe bet that it was from a Pleroma instance. I know I'm lot alone in defaulting to distrusting users on Pleroma instances. Just something for new fediverse users to keep in mind.
stopped reading at the first sentence.

Stop bringing your personal drama here please.
Those are BD-R. According to the linked research, those will last 5-10 years, or up to 20 years if you're using a gold metal plate. Either way, they're not close to top performers that last 50 to 100 years and more.

I'd suggest creating multiple backups, including additional mediums such as hard drives and cloud storage (something like S3 Glacier Deep Archive could be relevant), and refresh the media periodically.
The original stack exchange post: https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/1723/why-is-the-gu...
Disregarding any editorializing from the AP, not following up these quotes:

> “People think, when they hear AIDS, they hear HIV. No, the vaccines aren’t causing you to be infected with the HIV virus,” said Malone, during a taped interview with a website that focuses on COVID-19. “They are causing a form of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, that’s what AIDS stands for.”

With concrete and compelling evidence, is irresponsible and unbecoming of someone who is claiming expertise in a subject.

That’s the point. One can have a discussion about the integrity of the media in general, but that doesn’t have any bearing on the facts of Dr Malone’s public behavior. We’re talking about someone who clearly knows the ethics of his profession who is going around making extremely inflammatory statements without providing evidence, and tweeted out a video claiming a kid died from the Covid vaccine without actually making a basic effort to examine its provenance.

Y’all want to sit here and point fingers but my point was never about the integrity of the media nor tech companies. The original question was more or less “I don’t see why they have a problem with this guy“ and I answered it.
I dated a girl in college, and we were deeply in love. So much so that we got engaged. The one problem was that her family didn't approve of her dating me because of my race. She had initially been hesitant to introduce me to them, but I had insisted that she do it. When they threatened to disown her if she married me, she said that we should just do it and live our lives together. But I was too much of a coward to follow through and tried instead to convince her family to accept me. They never did and our relationship feel apart.

I've never met someone that I care about the way I cared about her. Huge what if.
Self Hosting Git Repositories with Stagit
I was really hopeful for OS/2 Warp as a mainstream desktop OS when it came out, even though they grossly understated the memory requirements (it really needed 8mb) I think the death knell was ultimately WIN-OS2 which discouraged developers to make 32-bit native software, had this strategy been implemented just a few years earlier, it would have had a chance to saturate in the market.

Once properly installed and running, it was clearly ahead of the curve compared to Win 3.11, or even NT 3.x.
One of the most prominent of these "laird" title providers switched from a scam for gullible people to green activities (saving unused plot of lands, re-creating wild-life habitats and similar) and now they make clear that the title is not worth the paper it is printed on and only a gadget, but a few years ago they promoted the whole stuff and people fell for it (just like they are falling for it now after the "greenwashing").

Lord Hicks of Lochaber would like to have a word with you:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/essex-firem...
It's true, even without the wave visualizer, it's 244Kb minified for an audio player. Apparently some people don't agree, but I think it's too much.
Dynamic languages and the fast changing pace of webapps go well together, lets say.
> it doesn't really changed any more

it does change, it just has outstanding backward compatibility and new feature (including parser-level) opt-in per module.
Dammit I hate articles like this. Really long but a skim reveals obviously very enlightening so now I need to budget time in the day to read.
Appears there’s number of businesses doing this. Did you try any of them? If not, why?