skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The standard ("transverse") flute has pretty terrible ergonomics: your arms are way out to the side.

Why is that bad? It's never bothered me. The only ergonomic complaints I have about my Miyazawa are its inline G key (really stretching my left ring finger to seal the open hole properly) and how much pressure I need with my right pinky to make the C#/C keys work (uncomfortable, and I do actually mess it up sometimes).
Instagram copied TikTok as well (with Reels), but that went nowhere. ByteDance is now almost as big as Meta itself.

It is inevitable that there will be a thousand clones of every possible product or feature as soon as it is launched. It's on the company to give their users reasons not to switch away.
Maybe if Snapchat used more dynamic programming, the earning results could have been better.
This looks pretty great. I’ve been meaning to get back into RCT2. Does OpenRCT2 _feel_ like the original?
Being a parent in modern America sucks. Literally everything is working against you and super unreliable.
You're proud about harassing uses of the cuecat hardware with legal threats? You're proud of the security vulnerabilities on your site that leaked the PII of users that were foolish enough to use your software? -- because these are also thing the team at Digital Convergence did.

You spied on people.
You leaked their private data.
When people tried to not get spied on, you threatened to sue them and forced them to take their drivers down.

These are the things that got you called an asshole.

If you're going to post here today saying that you were proud and not even "some mistakes were made" -- then I think the asshole label was well justified.
> Why are we devoting so much energy to making people unhappy?

Few things in life make me less happy than the externalities of car culture. It fosters among other things:
1) Disconnection from one's community and the natural environment
2) Noise and air pollution imposed on one's neighbors without their consent
3) Worse collective physical health due to replacing walking trips with car trips
4) Excess consumption of all goods, including fossil fuels
5) Risk of serious injury or death for both drivers and pedestrians
6) High stress due to the inevitable presence of traffic
7) Environmental degradation and expansion of the urban/wilderness frontier
8) Repressive political regimes propped up by oil exports

Of course there are positives to cars too but many of the positives only exist due to the problems that the widespread deployment of private cars caused in the first place. We need cars to visit our friends and family or go to work because we constructed a society in which we don't actually live in the same communities as our friends, families and employers because the car allowed us to. We buy things that we don't need because the car allows us. Consumerism fills the void of meaning in our lives that is in no small part due to the disconnection that the car created in the first place.

Personally, although driving a car can be great fun under the right circumstance, I find most of the time it is either tedious or stressful. I would almost always rather be walking, which engages my body and allows my mind to wander without fear that I might seriously injure, or even kill, someone in a moment of inattention. At the same time, whatever mode of transportation I am using: car, biking or walking, I know that I am at risk of being hurt by an inattentive or reckless motorist, of which there are many.

I am making a distinction between private vehicles and vehicles in general. Obviously we need some vehicles to move crucial goods and people with limited mobility. And to occasionally make long journeys. Since the pandemic began, I have been only been in a car about a half a dozen times and I have experienced no material deprivation whatsoever. Of course I have been reliant on trucks delivering groceries to my local stores and the occasional home delivery (which again does not require a private vehicle).

Your fear does make me optimistic though. It suggests that people are waking up to the catastrophe that widespread deployment of private cars has had on human life.
https://lightmodehelmets.com/ sticks to the outside of the helmet. Quite visible, but you feel as uncool as a highlighter yellow rain suit.
These zoos need to get caught up on the latest research. I believe according to Yogi et al. their diet primarily consists of honey and campers' picnic baskets.
Right. Like a social network that’s VR only would seem crazy today but maybe a no brainer tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRuhiMDOjo
I think we are on a deadend track debating our values with each other.

Was it hard to find a quiet place to work at home? Yes. Did I eventually after setting up shop in a greenhouse, then at a family members house, then in a camper/rv. It’s possible.

Is in person interaction “good”. Sure. Is it better than the alternative. Nobody has proven that.

Corporations want control, and they are under the control of municipalities which was tax money for meals, coffees, parking tickets, the tailor, public transit, gas etc. I strongly believe that is what is driving talk of coming back. That and commercial real estate interests. Where does all that money go now? We decide, and we want to keep it that way.

Was open office layouts a crap show? Yes. Did it make us feel like our own voices weren’t heard (over others). Yes. We take that back now.

Do we want to waste time on commutes if we have a place in the country that’s comfy and doesn’t expose us to long commute times in subpar conditions, exposure to the flu and loud talkers and interrupt driven people? No.

Does in person help people who haven’t already done a 20 year slog of going into the office. Historically looking back sure maybe. But we evolve to the conditions.

There was zero reason why I couldn’t do my job remotely for the last 20 years. But management had their way.

Now the tables have turned, I’d say adapt, move away from the city, get some elbow room, and relax and enjoy. That’s what the rest of us are doing that approve of WFH.

Adapt, or lose out. Outsourcing isn’t replacing our jobs anytime soon. That’s a red herring.

Productivity is at an all time high, if you include work like balance into the picture.

Enjoy what Covid gifted us, finally the ability to push back on the crappy aspects in office life. Gave us a voice, the ability to make our own life choices. You can go back to the office, but many won’t be there. The world has changed and there is no undo button. Learn to find ways to turn a rainy day to your advantage. For example, I love skiing, so when it rains, it makes me happy. And I can actually pull off skiing on lunch breaks now so hey, my life is so much better without in office work.

Shareholders? Well, looks like they need to account for workers conditions, work life balance, and new measures, that they didn’t have to before.

Sorry, not sorry aboutcha!
My WiFi is fine too (as long as you have the right chip!) but the touchpad thing alone almost made me replace my thinkpad with an m1 air.

Now I'm on an unholy win/linux/ios setup and don't really get use all the Apple integrations, but I have to admit I wish I could, not for gnarly dev stuff, but simply to make my life easier
There is such a reasonable middle ground, but Android is falling down that slope at an alarming rate.
Nice find. It seems they were available since september and they are already out of stock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4NQePbj4dM
Spoken like someone who has not spent more than a week in SF, probably entirely in hotels or restaurants.
the iPod Touch got Bluetooth support via a software update.
> Just like Unity / Wayland.

So, flatpak will win, after years of Canonical messing about with snaps?
the recent abortion laws have made the turnkey tyranny argument more convincing and practical, lately. states have subpoenaed tech companies for surveillance data, attempting to catch women who seek abortions out of state. even my non-techie friends are wary now about period tracking apps.

regardless of your stance on abortion, and the extent to which law enforcement seeks this data, it's woken up a large chunk of the population to the risks of their personal data.
It's a silly thing to do by default but the vast majority of people do not need them and can't justify the loss of performance on every context switch. The only untrusted code people tend to run on personal computers is in the browser, where you have same address space sandbox escapes which OS mitigations don't typically mitigate.

You're protecting against one process attacking another process, or one process attacking the kernel. That's not your threat model on a personal device. Your threat model is much more likely that whatever process you're running has complete access to all your files, there are a lot of issues unsolved before even considering speculation and sidechannels
I don't see the difference from Selenium like solutions
FamilySearch 2022 Data Breach
Just saw this notification delivered to my spam folder.

Dear Account Holder:

FamilySearch International, a Utah nonprofit corporation (“FSI”), detected an unauthorized network intrusion that affected personal data you previously provided. At this time, there is no indication that the data has been or is likely to be used for fraudulent or other harmful purposes. The affected data did not include users’ family tree data. We are notifying you and others worldwide whose data may have been affected, even where this is not legally required.

What Happened?
On March 23, 2022, we detected unauthorized access to certain computer systems. We immediately notified federal law enforcement authorities in the United States. We were asked to keep the incident confidential to protect the integrity of the investigation. This instruction was lifted on October 12, 2022.

Who Committed the Intrusion?
FSI cannot determine the identity of the unauthorized person who may have accessed or acquired your personal data. U.S. federal law enforcement authorities suspect that this intrusion was part of a pattern of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at organizations and governments around the world that are not intended to cause harm to individuals. The forensic investigators who assisted in investigating the security breach have not detected any further unauthorized access or activity since April 3, 2022.

What Information Was Affected?
The breached FSI systems contain personal data, including basic contact information, of users of the FamilySearch website. The data that was accessed may include, if you provided it, your username, full name, gender, email address(es), birthdate, mailing address, phone number(s), and preferred language.

What Are We Doing?
We have been working with external forensic experts, U.S. federal law enforcement authorities, and other cybersecurity professionals to investigate the incident and further enhance the security of FSI’s systems. We also have notified data protection authorities, including, for example, the supervisory authority in Germany, where FSI’s representative under Art. 27 GDPR is based.

What Can You Do?
We have no indication that any of your personal data has been misused or published. We recommend that you remain vigilant about the security of your personal data by monitoring your personal accounts, frequently changing passwords, selecting strong and different passwords for every account, and taking action on any suspicious activity. You should promptly report to law enforcement authorities any fraudulent activity, scam, or identity theft.
> There is this moronic obsession with "scaling" in this industry, and it just blows my mind. You can have a wildly successful and profitable company while serving just a few hundred customers that requires nothing more than a basic LAMP stack.

This is us. We have a couple thousand customers in a B2B space with large revenue per customer. Growing rapidly and our node.js stack is running on a tiny EC2 instance and RDS server.

I spent a lot of time in the last couple years trying to fight back against attempts to overcomplicate this by using new services & new tooling. I just see it all as stuff that's going to slow down the single most important thing to us from a business perspective - which is writing new features to optimise our internal workflows - and give us more headaches from an operational perspective.

Even the stack we're using feels ridiculously over the top and complicated compared to a basic LAMP application. Everything in node.js feels like a huge pain in the ass. If there's not a node module you can install to immediately solve your problem (which of course just adds a different set of problems) even writing basic things feels exceptionally arcane and time consuming compared to a basic PHP implementation of the same thing. Maybe it's just a side effect of our dev team size (currently very small, only five full time devs) but the overhead of it all just feels like it's not worth it.
"No officer, my turn signal isn't broken, I'm just behind on my TurnSignalXM payments."
Thank you - your explanation and that photo of the Sun with the Calcium K filter are very helpful.

With so many colorized photos of space objects and so many artist impressions, I wasn’t sure whether space is just a black void to the human eye or we are capable of seeing the gorgeous colors of different nebulae and such.
The US has lots of "self sufficient" (in that you can live in walking distance and do all your retail, grocery, cafes on foot) micro-areas like that. They're called more like "mixed use malls," though.

So yeah, that's not exactly what a "superblock" is - because very few of them exist without parking. Doing both parking + easily walkable gets expensive.

Getting rid of the parking doesn't work because I've never seen one of them "self sufficient" to the point of most people not having to commute (either to there for those who work there or from there for those who live there). Even if you find a job and a place to live in the same superblock, people are gonna (a) want to have options to leave that job in the future and (b) know people outside of those blocks.

All that to say: if the superblocks don't solve the need-for-a-car problem, they aren't gonna do much for the traffic or car-centric problem. And a mall surrounded by parking garages isn't exactly the walkable old European city people are wanting. So we're back to needing transit first. And then if you have the transit, do you need the superblocks - lots of walkable cities with streets open to cars.
It’s pretty wild. Chicago always had a reputation of corruption, but it’s pretty clear SF isn’t much better.

There have been convictions with garbage collection and the planning reviews and the mayor has connections to all those people.

It runs deep.
Audience-specific arguments are definitely a good way to compartmentalize complexity. So niche communities are covered more effectively, but which argument should CNN choose? MSNBC? Other mainstream news sources with large audiences?

> But also you're complexifying my argument.

Assume good faith, I'm not trying to argue against you, but reach a novel conclusion by discussing with you. This is why my reply began with "I don't know".

> But people don't like to be treated like they are dumb, so don't.

I don't assume a given individual is dumb, and I reject such a generalized classification. Very intelligent people can have extremely simple perspectives about issues outside of their expertise. Simplicity/complexity is not strictly related to intelligence. It's far more a function of time and available energy one has to spend learning about an issue. I'd prefer to dispense with the metric of intelligence altogether and focus on reduction of wasted complexity.
With open source apps though? My guess is the idea of a store is a commonly known UX (App store, Play store.) And the snaps give you a way of installing more updated versions of software than the package repos provide.
It's interesting to see this coming from NJ, which is also automotively noteworthy for being the only state where self-service at the gas station is prohibited.
Well my first thing is I would want a defacto norm adopted in the same way that bash is basically available everywhere. And of course we would want it to be something that doesn't have the busted dependency story of Python. And I would like for third party programs to have a rich interface be provided through this new shell.

For example, you can interact with docker in Python with a lib, but it would be amazing if the docker binary just exposed an RPC interface and API for script languages so you wouldn't have to parse out things from output or otherwise try to figure things out when writing shell scripts. This is, of course, the PowerShell thing, but PS's aesthetics displease me and many other people.

Computers are, of course, turing complete. You can do whatevery you want, really. But for example I end up using zsh instead of xonsh because I want to use what other people write as well.
Internal innovation will never be profitable. If you have a good idea, are you rushing to work for Twitter for $150k/year? No. Is anyone you hire likely to have an especially good idea? No, all the people with good ideas are self-employed...because they know the value of good ideas.

It is far better to milk your cash cow, and invest in acquisitions where possible (now, almost impossible legally...so the only component of the strategy should be: milk cash cow, return excess value to shareholders).
This is why the optimum lighting pattern really looks vaguely like the spouse of the viewing driver, preferably embracing a former lover.
But don't start that php session (which sets the session cookie) before the user sends login credentials.
An obvious issue is that many protocols do two-sided negotiations of crypto algorithms during a handshake - so one of "most applications" which uses SHA-2 hashes by default could be vulnerable to a network connection saying "I don't support SHA-2, let's use SHA-3 pls?" and then exploiting the buffer overflow.

In a similar manner, apps that verify signatures/certificates often let the certificate specify which algorithm is used, so again effectively an attacker may be able to force the app to use SHA3 as long as it uses a library that has some support for it.
Heh, my dad had an old story about how he and his pals got pulled over, his pal was driving. The cop had them all do the thing where you walk heel-toe, touch your nose, etc. His pal driving was unsteady and was arrested, the other two guys were obviously drunk but were passengers, so they were out driving, and my dad who had drunk the most out of all of them was told to drive the two other guys home. When he responded, "I drank more than any of them!" the cop told him, "That's fine, you seem ok, here's my card if you get pulled over, stay safe." Oh, and his pal who was driving was stone-cold sober, but had old knee injuries, so he just walked funny all the time. He was let go at the hospital when the blood test turned up 0.0.
I'm thinking something like half the tread hit slippery surface, and the other half didn't, torqueing the rear wheel in one direction and throwing it to the side. The throttle to maintain speed as you say must have been enough to throw it. Happened very quickly, and as soon as the slick patch went away and the wheel gained purchase I was thrown off the bike as obviously there was misalignment between front and back wheel and the momentum of forward motion.

I don't think something like that can happen on an typical uniform slippery surface. I rode motorcycles exclusively for some time in seattle (rain capital of the US) and never had that happen. Rode motorcycles year round off and on for ~10 years before this happened, it was a freak occurrence. I think it requires a particularly nasty freak occurrence of the shape of a wet patch and the angle and entry point at which you hit it.
I had the ipad connected to a $700 LG monitor and the LG one was much much redder than the ipad, the difference was significant. It's fine for programming, gaming, and content consumption, but if you were doing any visual production work, this is unusable.
This seems very late. I mean antinatalism isn't an uncommon view point for people to have. This trend has been happening for a long time. I suspect it's cultural and economic. Some people that want to be parents simply can't afford to do what it takes to become parents. But at the same time, having kids doesn't tend to be a high priority for people in a society primarily focused on personal independence. And it shows;

>Nearly two-thirds of nonparents (65%) agree that the freedom that comes with not having kids brings them happiness, according to a survey of 1,950 U.S. adults conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of Fortune in October.
This is a surprisingly good writeup for such a comic-book headline. Also a delightful result, I am all for doing wacky stuff with very expensive science equipment just to see what happens.
wow good point. always weird having to fuel when driving through nj.
> (The alternatives can’t replace the important parts)

I’m genuinely curious what you mean by this. I don’t think I’ve opened Safari in iOS in 5+ years. I am also not as tech savvy as most of you so the question is genuine lol
I agree. Google should be able to make whatever they want, declare it a standard by fiat since they own YouTube, shove it down everyone’s throat, and then get some partners so the standard claim isn’t as ridiculous.

If YouTube hadn’t pushed it, would it be popular? That’s a BIG question in my mind.
> Provided that someone manages to crack the mass production conundrum, of course, as solid-state prototypes are a dime a dozen, too.
Being a human?
Good heavens, $2800 for a bent piece of pipe! [1] That sounds like a market ripe for disruption.

[1] https://www.flutespecialists.com/product/flute-lab-vertical-...
I went Fedora because of someones recommendation on HN when complaining about some issues I was having with other distros. But i too feel like my search for a daily driver has ended!
That sounds like that wouldn't hold up in court, it's not a "white room" implementation by any means. I hope it won't be tested though.

Contrast that to OpenTTD or OpenRA where they (AFAIK) re-implemented the engine while still having the same approach of re-using the main games assets.

Edit: taking a look at the source code, I don't think what you're saying is actually true. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 was written entirely in Assembly but I cannot find any Assembly files in OpenRCT2. So unless they already finished porting everything, it seems incorrect.
Wut docker swan never went away, I used it everyday. It was a misleading blog post made by some tech journal, which blew docker-ee dropping swarm in favor of another orchestrator.
Ce still has it.
I think the gearless rider by age curve is mostly a bell. Those I see riding in full gear are either young or old (55+ if I had to guess) but not usually in the middle. It's obviously biased but I'm 31 and everyone I knew and know always ride in full gear.
I had no success finding a higher level doc stating the reasons for hiding Addons behind collections for mobile firefox. I searched the MozillaWiki and github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix. Battery Optimization and Performance come to mind, but I'd like to read more into it if somebody can give me pointers