skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came in ready to disagree with you... until I read the article.

Engineers joining usability tests is a great thing. Engineers talking with PMs and joining early discovery is a great thing.

But I would quit immediately if I were put on a customer support rotation. This seems idiotic.
As long as you went to MIT, majored in mechatronics, and made a 3-legged pogo bot, it's all good. :)

I had the conflagration of about 25 LEGO sets prior to Mindstorms. Perhaps that caused me to head over to EE/CS? I did have Big Trak though that could fire frickn laser beams. :)
Love my ReMarkable but I'm one of those paper nuts that likes to scribble a lot

I use it as an "endless pile of paper" and don't think much about organizing my notes. It's very effective at emulating paper, and because it can do so little it's also very nice to keeping focus and not getting distracted

It's my go-to tool for jotting down ideas, or taking notes during meetings and it's always on my table
When I was an undergrad, we ordered parts for some project and it turned out there was a Real Live Engineer in customer service. I guess that wouldn't be as impressive in a business-to-business context, but it impressed the heck out of us.
coffee is much better now though :)
I wanted magit and org-mode.
Don’t bother and buy an iPad. I have the rM and it really lacks any useful feature that could a 1ghz cpu offer to paper.
I think you're misinterpreting "you can request a refund at any time prior to release" – the release date is the date it comes out on Early Access, not any potential 1.0.

And re: kickstarter, I think "pledge" is in relation to the fact that you don't have to pay unless the project gets over it's goal. I remain very skeptical that pre-orders are as legally shaky as you claim.
No this is the whole point: if you are using iCloud backups, your messages are not backed up.

The _only_ online way to maintain your iMessages is (checks settings) "Messages in the Cloud", which is e2e encrypted - if you lose all your devices there is no recovery path except for the "iCloud Key Vault", but I honestly don't know if that can get you to a point where old messages can be recovered.
Out here in west LA it’s a joke! But I have thought to myself, “this thing would work pretty well in rural/suburban settings.”
If inflation goes to 20% it won't be a great rate.
I think a clearly summarized report on key issues and takeaways each month can deliver the same result.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t read the article but I learned a lot from video games and by extend the internet when I was a kid.

It thought me that if you work on something, you will get better at it, and you will be rewarded. This is not the case for a lot of other things in the life of a teenager. If you work hard at school you aren’t really rewarded, you just have to pass (binary outcome) and if you do an extra project it’s not like you get extra points. If you take a student job, you don’t get a raise when do a good job, you just get more work. If it wasn’t for video games the lessons I would have learned was that you should do the bare minimum not to fail/get fired. Which is a really sad attitude to have.
If you use tar.gz the split is at 50 gigs. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I read the linked source. Could not find any reference to any Indian law or Govt. order. Can you please point me to any source with credible information on the supposed provisions which are causing Signal to "exit" India.
> Price

I think one should let the suppliers live and pay for what one uses. 0 is a stupid price, you will be farmed.

> Best-in-class search

I don't use web-clients to read email, so wrong class.

> Availability

the track record of google+ and google-reader isn't convincing.
I'm still skeptical.

I will give you one case where I would give in, though: automatically translating and overlaying foreign text. I'd wear a set of AR goggles if it improved the experience of visiting countries that don't predominantly speak English.
FaceID uses a 3d camera, so a photo is not enough.
> I guess partially because they had to copy their homework from someone, so keeping good relations with the "nerds" was actually a good survival strategy

I was about to also mention the "copy homework" part, but I thought that would have sounded too specific, certainly glad that I wasn't the only one to whom that happened :) I've had a former highschool colleague thank me for everything I had helped her with during high-school at our 20 years reunion recently, she was a very smart person back then (still is) but the Physics classes just weren't for her.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/govt-proposes-law-...
We know authoritatively. Buy a new iPhone and create a new Apple ID. Install an app (which automatically logs you in to iCloud and automatically enables iCloud backup).

Wait 24 hours plugged in to AC power.

Remove the SIM card and throw the iPhone into the sea. Forget the password for the Apple ID.

Buy a new iPhone, and get Apple to reset the Apple ID password using PII/SMS/whatever. Log in and restore your iCloud backup.

Your messages are still right there, and you have provided no key material. Apple has them in plaintext or plaintext-equivalent.
That's because the NSA doesn't make big public statements. They just install a little black box in your servers and you don't say anything.
You forgot the why-part, which certainly seems on topic in this thread.

a) You just don't like chocolate and never eat/bake/cook with it,

b) You really like chocolate but only very particular/fancy kinds that people never manage to gift you,

c) Sonething else that would be actually interesting to hear.
And what is role of product managers then? What should they do?

The idea of product managers to be cross functional team between sales, support and engineering.

Sure you can make engineers to do sales too: but you will end up with product managers.

Anyway I 100% understand the point here: in small teams you don’t have so many roles. An engineer who is good engough in support and sales will become product managers (in future). Or support guy who understand code and feels the sales. I think that is a valid approach to grow.
Just yesterday I needed to know what model of TV I owned, and rather than try to crawl behind it with a flashlight I searched for the BestBuy order confirmation in my email from years ago. I do that kinda thing all the time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/mpyi5q/is_it_safe_...

Please refrain from ever mentioning anything positive about this company. Whataboutism in a tech support, GPL violations, constant pinging some server in China.

It should be vilified.
> and most consumer systems don’t even have a power cord to yank.

Some do. And the rest occasionally forcibly reboot (kernel panic or hardware failure), need to be manually forcibly rebooted (due to frozen UI), or unexpectedly loose battery, all leading to the same outcome. At least, that’s been my experience with just about every computer, phone, tablet, smartwatch, game console, and smart TV I’ve ever owned. Plus a number of routers. Is your experience different?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Please read this article. The Messages in iCloud sync feature is e2e encrypted - but the sync key itself for the e2e is included in the (non-e2e) iCloud Backup which is done every night.

From Apple themselves:

> For Messages in iCloud, if you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your messages. This ensures you can recover your messages if you lose access to your Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.

This is actually worse. It means that Apple has the cross-device Messages in iCloud sync key in effectively unencrypted form from the backup the night before - which means that they can decrypt the iMessages as they sync between your devices in realtime. This enables realtime iMessage surveillance because of this backdoor in the end to end crypto (the effectively unencrypted iCloud Backup, which includes the e2e keys for the Messages in iCloud feature).

The technical term for this is "key escrow". When you escrow the key to the middle transit service that is supposedly end to end, you backdoor the end to end encryption.
I don't think the language they are citing was ever gone from the TOS. I checked it couple weeks ago and it was there. Essentially if you have a seller account and any funds in PayPal, you agree that they can take $2500 from it for anything they don't like about you, per instance. Doesn't seem to apply to regular transfers or non-seller accounts though. Also, technically they are right saying "misinformation" is not on the list - it isn't, only a dozen of other things among which is "other forms of intolerance", "promotion of hate", "considered obscene", - which is determined by them and you agree in advance each time will cost you $2500 per pop.
Money is definitely an intersubjective reality - valuable only because people believe it to be so.

It might be a very stable concept in most instances, but various very real and extreme edge cases exist. (Regular inflation, Hyperinflation, local disaster, global disaster, bank runs, etc)

I quite liked the description of the invention of currency and beaurocracy in "Sapiens".
i3 user here so no need for tmux. And terminals in neovim give me all I need there. Still a very cool article.
>He doesn’t say there are good and bad things about capitalism, or that it is possible to reform it … he just says we have to get rid of the entire system.

Classic deadend Marxism. The reason why capitalism hasn't ended is actually because of the socialists whose job it is to end it...

Because of their wholly incomplete understanding of capitalism they are unable to strike at its heart, just at the henchmen. The moment anyone suggests a working solution (and they are out there) the Marxists obsessed with their hate driven revolution are going to shut them down. Keynes suggested artificial liquidity costs (the thing we call negative interest rates today) on money and land to solve capitalism. He wanted to introduce the Bancor system to capitalism between countries.

Implementing liquidity costs on cash is difficult politically, meanwhile raising inflation until full employment doesn't have as many political barriers.

It is particularly perplexing when you read some chapters from the third volume where Marx effectively says the same things as Keynes, that capitalism originates from money than physical capital. "Das Kapital" should have been titled "Das Geld" but here we are.

It is not only possible to do political reforms inside capitalism to end it, in fact it is even possible to build an internal system that ends capitalism without changing any law just through competition alone. Such a system would require peaceful cooperation however. Sardex is a successful barter club on Sardinia. A similar system could be offered by a banking network that spans the entire eurozone. The only critical aspect is that you need to be able to pay taxes in this system and that wouldn't require a violent revolution, just the governments opening a new type of euro bank account. Whenever capitalism fails due to a recession or depression people will join the new system on their own because the new system is centered on serving human needs rather than money accumulation.
I use the default firefox new tab with the frequently used website icons zoomed in a little but this is cool.
There are a billion iphone users and so far no touchid “data leak” has occurred as far as I know. Not even sure what it would mean, since your face/fingerprints are only stored on device.

But even if I had to setup touchid or faceid every year, hell every month, using it is still a whole lot more convenient (and probably safer) than typing in a password 10 times a day.
The first function of a state is to ensure the continued existence of the state. Which is threatened a lot more by civil uprisings as compared to an external actor, especially in a time when international relations are relatively stable (current security events being the formerly-normal that is today's extreme). Another "storm on the Capitol" is so much more damaging to the US as it exists today as compared to a border skirmish with the Chinese over Taiwan.
> If we replicated a human brain cell by cell wouldn’t that thing be conscious?

If we copied a human brain, assuming it were possible, what we'd be left with is two human brains. But I doubt either could be conscious, but even if they both were, they're still human brains, not computers. The mistake is confusing artificial intelligence with human intelligence, and the exercise would be like something out of a Mary Shelley novel and not computer science.
Leaving SRE for development job. Am I crazy?
My career path started in Ops, which evolved into SRE. I never did any formal training of any kind really. I'm entirely self taught. I feel confident in my skillset for the most part but I wonder if taking a backend/api development job might help me understand the world that I happen to find myself in a little more deeply. I've never had a dedicated development job so I don't think I really even understand what I'm missing by not doing it.

Has anyone else done this?

Also, it seems like developer jobs in general don't pay as well as SRE. Anyone have any thoughts on how can I weigh the value of the experience vs the lost wages?
Yes, via email, which you can put in your profile!
And it works fine as long as they are not just parroting some strong opinnions to feel part of the group.

But those reddit threads often do include some research and references, so one has a jumping off point for one's own search with some keywords.
That’s absolutely insane. I’m exactly the kind of person that would be interested in the RM2 but every time it comes up on HN I learn something new that keeps me away. Strange business.
Yes, just do not forgett to have the kid do some sport and be active, that helps as well.
Indeed! Breathing together in the literal, but breath also carries connotations, as often expressed in the Greek pneuma - the Bible, according to Paul, was "theospneustos", God breathed, the soul is the "pneuma", so conspiring implies an intermingling.
A chaos machine has entered the chat. What a place to be right now. I’d have left twitter months ago.
Former Apple kernel engineer:

"When ads first appeared in the App Store in early iOS betas, many inside were very upset. It was an insult to our customers. We pushed back strongly. After a meeting where management pretended to listen to our concerns, it was evident they had no intention of changing their mind."

https://twitter.com/stuntpants/status/1585150636781637632
I bought a Synology and moved everything to their Photos app. It’s really good. But if there was something better I could always mount the SMB share into a Docker container of whatever that is. It’s nice to own my own shit again after 20 years.
We can't (currently? yet?) hire people who are not working from Australia, for legal reasons. I'd love to change that, finding great people even across the whole of AU is extremely difficult.
That 盆栽(bonsai) grabbed my heart
Wow that was odd and very specific. How did that work in practice? Would you order whatever dish that said it came with ranch?
Myself and couple of friends have been considering it, but dropped due to aggressive and ridiculous "marketing" tactics.

Perhaps it's a fine device, but no thanks. Good luck with subscription for connection.

Settled with Huawei MatePad Paper and couldn't be happier.
> I disagree that it's deceptive. The name is confusing

okay then
As much as I agree with you according to my own principles, I would not underestimate the sacrifice-anything-for-profits side of the cost-benefit analysis that many businesses will perform.
Premium products cost premium money. Packaging, leather folio, stylus, device itself, they all look, work and feel like top quality.
Except porn isn't sex. (Porn is what people resort to when they can't get sex.)
> It’s lasted more than two hundred years and hasn’t been amended in any meaningful way since 1971, more than half a century ago.

1971 again

the baader-meinhof phenomenon is following me everywhere i go
Sure, but DOS4GW doesn’t do anything of that except the extender part
A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art
It actually isn't as hot in summer as I was expecting: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_011019.shtm...

They have opportunities to volunteer there sometimes too: https://www.networkbirdlife.org/volunteer-opportunities/volu...
The kindle will be using wacom emr which is more then adequate for most people. I never had a problem with the technology before and I don't think it will be practically worse. I can't imagine most people expect it to feel like writing on paper.
Nice write up. I’m currently in the process of moving all my photos into my new Synology NAS. I can see that you prefer the terminal, but the downloading could be performed via the download station and the copying of the files via the file manager/explorer. This way the whole procedure would be more user friendly to novice users ;-)
There's definitely coloured flags and has been for a little while now.
Is it me or India is becoming the next China?
Low-code and no-code are making developers' jobs better in two ways
My guess, as an Australian, is that if the government ever decided to get rid of it there would be a large and vocal petition to keep it. Just because it's funny.
Don’t bother and kill your eyes in the process.
Dark Data can be the next dark horse of Data Analytics
> Some things are a bit Boolean, as Whittaker states above, but some things are simply binary.

Eh, what's the difference?

It's better to read the original article:
https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messagin...
I never recovered news-wise from losing iGoogle, I'll check this out thanks.
Internet is not the prominent two or three social media platforms.
One can use the first without even ever visiting the latter.
Funny :)

I meant "a thing" like being a "foodie" became a thing. Before having an interest in something became part of someone's self constructed identity.
That is church specific - there are plenty of christian churches that don't put chastity constraints on priests.

Obviously others have pointed out that various churches, including the catholic, have spent decades allowing and protecting priests and nuns who rape and abuse children, which kind of undermines this kind of "porn is dangerous" message.
Damn! Let's be real though.
Cert Auth, SPIFFE... Those count?
That's because when the NSA comes knocking to your door you are also prevented from disclaiming the fact that the NSA came to visit. Unless you like the hospitality of prison, that is.
I'm in the about:blank gang too, and I hate that in Safari on iOS you can no longer have a blank tab since a few versions. You can hide all the things on the "start page" but then you will still see the edit button.
Thank you for recommendations. It’s been a while since I last skipped sleep to read on these topics, so maybe it is in fact time to catch up with recent ideas. My priors are still strong on humans being ultimately responsible, especially as the entire field is filled with a lot of wishful thinking about the noble nature of savage people, living in harmony with each other and environment.
It does not end in Prague. You leave and come back to Prague a couple of times, each time it’s more locked down and hostile. Finale is weirdly in a convention center in London.
A friend of mine buys me t-shirts, always black. I never have to buy another t-shirt or worry what to wear each day.
With this issue I think it’s just they’re in move fast break things mode still. Probably feeling the heat from the competition and focusing on competitive features.

But as a user, my impression is that they don’t consider this feature to be existential enough to have a smoke test for. And I do.
Though to be fair, the faster the system crosses the 3% mark the faster that 40,000 number can come down.
Uhh, Jitsi? Jitsi Meet? Free and open source of course.

Jitsi has ZRTP encryption. Jitsi Meet uses WebRTC and its encryption isn't the same, but from the academic research papers I've read such as "Stegozoa: Enhancing WebRTC Covert Channels with Video Steganography for Internet Censorship Circumvention" from June 2022, it's convincing enough for me to have set up my own Jitsi Meet server on a Debian Linux Virtualbox machine.

From the paper:

"Given that the peer-to-peer connections carrying the video
streams are encrypted end-to-end, not even a state-level adversary
with unrestricted access to the network infrastructure will be able
to observe the raw video content of the WebRTC streams. "
I do want to hear more about how signal and other companies are working to prevent their apps being used by bad actors, terrorists.
Some people use headsets to cancel environmental noise, improving the listening experience of friends and colleagues.
As someone who's in love with OpenGL, man what a great piece and interesting piece of history.
Elon Musk visits Twitter carrying sink as deal looms
I Bond rates are recalculated every 6 months. If inflation goes to 20%, the rate will be great. If inflation goes back down to 2%, not so much
Not sure if this will sway you but the entirety of the MD version of Prague is fictional. Překážka doesn’t exist, the main train station doesn’t look like that, Golem City isn’t a thing, there are no oppressive riot police stalking the streets :-)

The things that put me off Prague aren’t in the game, and likely wouldn’t irritate a tourist
I always quizzically (but non-judgementally) dive deeper into people’s offbrand traits because I’m not sure if they are serious

I recently hired a gardener on taskrabbit, and he was too cool for it so I’m trying to figure out “really? gardening bro?” and turns out he is totally hooking up with women on taskrabbit. like the modern day milkman! he’s also interested in plants and will do the work.

so there is merit to trying to figure out what the edge is, where is the dopamine coming from that gets you to associate the interest with fun?

in my experience, its worthwhile being skeptical, I’m either missing something or this person is completely unrelatable in a dozen other ways.
I mean I think that incorporation has a clearer constitutional basis than heller, but I see your point.

It also doesn't help that the constitution is unpleasantly vague in many places. It is a legal document, the chief legal document in fact, and yet we are forced to define legality based not so much on the text but on the vibe of the text (and yes this is true even if you are a textualist!), because the text isn't precise about what it means.
I've only used pm2 as a task runner. Never thought of it as a "runtime"
The Biden admin has clearly signalled that it resents Musk personally due to his political views, but this probe was launched last year, and is completely unrelated to that.
It’s probably a good idea but if I were a software engineer I wouldn’t want to do all that work. Sure one person doing everything would be great because you’ll understand every part of the business but as a salaried employee no thank you.

I’m also wary of doing any job that isn’t specifically in the jd because inevitable when there is a crunch you will be called on to do it again.
If that VR and AR is from Facebook, then nah. The last thing I want is living inside Zuck's abominations.
NuMega – Where are they now?
This is why I mention Chrome's web apps. I see these as a reasonable middle ground. They are a relatively low barrier to entry and could be used as a way to allow the user to opt into app-like behavior. Sites that the user hasn't opted into wouldn't have these abilities.

As another commenter mentions, I'm more likely to disable Javascript by default rather than continue to allow it's abuse. I suspect I'm in the minority though.

Double-redirect attacks not withstanding...