skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great quick overview of some of these challenges and thank you for taking my question at face value, it was asked honestly. Pretty cool what the dev is doing.
If you read last mail, it states clearly, that they don't want parents to buy android for their kids, and iMessage would be lock-in.
> When the Tim Hortons app asks to use your location can't you Just Say No? ...or at most allow once.

Let us know when you're in the drive through! Just say yes to this prompt.

[location prompt]

===

I've actually been curious about this for a bit, I need to dig in to some apps to see what they're doing. I've noticed, for example, the Chick-Fil-A app does that prompt, and then continues monitoring your location even after you've gotten your order and aren't near the restaurant anymore.
If you would like to achieve this based on simple dimming, or even better, by using smart switches instead of smart bulbs, take a look at NASA spinoff Bios Lighting.

Here's their A19 (normal bulb) specsheet: https://bioslighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BIOS_A19...

There is also a spotlight-style BR30: https://bioslighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BIOS_BR-...
Meet is Google's product right? So you're sure your not targeted after you mentioned things in a call?
It's clearly not a dead convention in the legal sector, given that you have heard from numerous lawyers who use it. I am one such lawyer - it is part of my firm's style guide.
Web Scraping Google News Results
Can vouch for that, after having run first an ISP in the 90's and then a webmail provider a few years later.

The number of people I had to teach about the "@" symbol alone. And then a few years later the pain was gone. Enough people had learned that most people asked their friends and family rather than need tech support.

The tipping point comes quicker than people expect. E.g. many of the discussions on Mastodon on Twitter is already full of neophytes who had never heard about federation a week ago who are now explaining it to others.

I have no illusion this wave here and now will be the watershed for Mastodon, even with 10x-20x as many daily signups as a couple of weeks ago (currently the hourly signups are above the daily signups two weeks ago), but every wave makes the next one easier.
This infuriates the shit out of me, and I'm a heavy Apple user and a Product Manager. The role of PMs is to be tastemakers, among other things, and I have no idea which PM wrote the PRD/6-pager for adding ads everywhere in iOS, but they should be fired immediately. This experience is the epitome of un-premium, and is a huge step towards there being no experience differentiation in the product between Apple and Android. Apple is able to charge significantly more than competitors for its products /because/ the experience has a premium look and feel compared to the ghetto that is Android. Turning iOS into a ghetto too is definitely not a reasonable product vision.
Unfortunately, Tim Cook does not have the force of personality to stop it. Nobody does. Only Steve Jobs could do it, and that is likely exclusively down to the fact (whether you consider it as such or not is beside the point) that he saved Apple. The fact is, if you tell the shareholders no too frequently, you stop being in charge. And even if the next guy shares your vision, will his replacement? How many CEOs does it take until you get someone who will pursue short-term profit at any long-term cost?
How so? The only thing Instagram sacrificed to add Stories was some real estate at the top of the screen for the Stories bar. I would say adding Reels has been more invasive because those show up in your feed.
We'll do that.
How does typing cryptic, badly named two-three letter commands (with no less idiotic and inconsistent flags) enhance your thinking?

The default shell and utter lack of well designed autocomplete or hints is a like a bad trip back to tape machines, punch codes and weird idiosyncracies from a bygone PDP11 era.

It's absolute piss and nobody should be dealing with it unless they want to for whatever reason.
SQLite integrates nicely with .Net and EF Core. Would there be any reason to use this over SQLite with a JSON field?
Absolutely right there with you, in terms of joy per minute spent writing code, C wins for me by a huge margin. Every time I write C I end up making at least one thing that puts a genuine smile on my face.
A testimonial that makes me feel the hard work is worth it
It's been 2 months since we launched TinySnap, and today I got a testimonial as in the image, I am so excited about it.

https://twitter.com/LuoBaishun/status/1589255691734503427

He says:
Thanks for creating TinySnap for free. As, a student, it is impossible for me to pay right now but after I get a job, I will donate heftily to you via crypto. I will pray to God for you until then.

Do you get any uplifting testimonials in the journey of indie hacking?
If the proof is right, Zhang is in contention for greatest living mathematician with seven papers total, and on the basis of two of them (and should win all the major prizes he has not won yet and is still eligible for: Abel, Wolf, etc.). Would truly live up to Gauss' motto: "pauca, sed matura!"
Isn't the "Design Ideas" request going to the same Sharepoint server that is storing your doctor's OneDrive?

I didn't capture and inspect the traffic myself, but https://support.office.com/client/53c77d7b-dc40-45c2-b684-81... makes the feature sound like it's built into M365 and not sending data to some centralized web service.
Usenet sounds great! Is it actively used still?
I believe 64bit WinXP was when 16 bit support was first dropped - circa 2005!
Getting a girlfriend has taught me I can never avoid this stuff. There isn't a rewards program made that she won't sign up for, because look at all the money she can save!

Unless you're paying for everything in pure cash, they're still gathering the data anyway and keying it to your credit card number.
No worries, I can see how it sounded. The project sounds pretty cool. I really dig the 90's UI of SerenityOS. Do you think the OS can be more than a novelty? I read that it doesn't support 3rd party software. Maybe I don't fully understand what that means, but wouldn't it mean anything that doesn't ship with the OS likely wont work? That I couldn't make my own package that could be installed via the package manager? Seems like that kind of OS just couldn't satisfy people's computing needs.
Or just multiple chromecasts in the same group (chromecast audio ideally but theoretically I suppose you could use any chromecast with an HDMI converter to whatever audio format you need)
Fascinating... this happens to me a lot also, but I never really realized what I was experiencing until reading your comment. Later on I will feel guilty asking people to repeat things when I actually understood them. I never considered what you are saying, that I didn't yet have the information when I asked them, but later did.

I often wonder if my hearing is poor, or if I am just overly sensitive to the possibility of mis-hearing people, that I would rather err on the side of confusion. I overhear a lot of other people talking that I can tell misunderstand each other, but neither are aware, and I wouldn't want to do that.
No, that is not true. Chromecast streaming is lossless, so it is certainly possible to stream hi-res flac files bit-perfect.
There are tons of data brokers that get near real time user level location data from mobile apps (usually not from ‘name brand’ apps but from the long tail) and then sell this as aggregated data products to others: eg https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/monthly-patterns .
> SPARK itself can handle and prove some ownership properties but to the best of my knowledge isn't at the level of rust in memory safety on dynamically allocated memory.

It actually is: https://www.adacore.com/uploads/techPapers/Safe-Dynamic-Memo...

And using https://www.adacore.com/sparkpro as a reference (ignore the 'Pro' bit as it's also available in the GPL edition) - anything certified to SPARK Silver level is far safer than any Rust code out there.
Going down the captain pedant conversation path here, but technically all satellites also need to burn energy to stay in orbit or will eventually fall. The only ones who don’t have achieved escape velocity
Yup. Unfortunately “mean age of death” is most commonly known, but in reality many children died at birth, hence lower mean.
>But it seems strange to argue that Germany just should have bought gas from Qatar or the US for double the price from the start.

That was never on the table. The US doesn’t even have the export capacity to manage it.

Germany should have pursued energy independence for the the European Union. It’s as simple as that.
Usenet isn't just for piracy.
Ask HN: Any new travel tools/startups you like?
I quickly searched and already found some cool things: eSims, campervan renting, managed airbnb for your apartment when you're away etc, modern travel agencies etc. Curious what you found?

PS: I'm currently planning ski/surfing holiday/remote work
If this plays out the same like it has in the mature economies since neoliberalism then whelp, our biosphere's done for...
In the past I have put up a curtain around my bed (although originally for other reasons.) Like a homemade canopy bed!
Those may be more passion projects for him. But he's also violated labor law, safety regulations, committed SEC violations, and so on.

But if you want history of using his money for extreme trolling, just look at the whole Hyperloop thing, where he admitted it was a troll.

He's had a lot of disdain for Twitter in the past. He's laughed at people he's kicked out already. The Twitter story is one giant troll. If, somehow, it manages to get any kind of success, he wins. If it fails, he writes it off and moves on to the next sociopathic experience.
> managers are loath to fire someone they've already spent so much effort finding, hiring, and onboarding

Caveat: this applies to perms. It doesn't apply nearly as much to contractors (as my many experiences with saying "No, but..." to managers and being canned can attest.)
>A crash dummy aimed at protecting women drivers

The title of the article that we are currently discussing.

Please don't pretend your comment doesn't exist in the context of the discussion it's a reply to, that's somewhere between dishonest motte-and-bailey and blatantly bad comment etiquette.

(And beyond that, you're not even using a proper application of Bayes Law anyway, since "probability of injury if you are a woman" is what you should be concerned with if you're building safety devices)
I'm not familiar with the way GraalVM is implemented but I do know that at some point it has to have access to raw memory and registers in order to do JIT. There's no getting around that (and you can't do that with just java).

A compiler is different from a JIT engine since yeah you can just write whatever binary you want to disk, hell you could write an x86 compiler in javascript. but if you want to emit instructions to memory and send the CPU there to consume them, you need a smidge of native code.
You're correct; GP is wrong. Human normal lifespan is and has been about 70 years, once you account for early demise, especially from infant mortality -- https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-lifespan-history/
Apple AirPort Express

I agree with you. It's absolutely the biggest bargain secret in the audio world. Glorious dirt cheap dead simple lossless 44.1/16 bit perfect streaming. Install one in every room for the world's easiest multiroom audio solution.

They're available dirt cheap and in plentiful supply on eBay.

The only drawback is a lot of apps don't work with Airplay directly on Windows, need a third-party sound driver app or whatever (it's been ages since I looked)
This comment is very bizarre to me, based on the request to

> trust me

But I went and found your other comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33511009

It is not at all obvious to me how this is the first of its kinda instead of an improvement on previous “female” crash dummies. I know this conversation has strayed into pure semantics, but the idea that an improvement to an existing thing is actually the “‘real’ first” seems like an obvious dubious claim. To be blunt: it seems like clickbait, or at least an attempt to overinflate.
Thanks for putting this together.

Some other ideas:

* Config: dotenvy

* Database: sqlx (async), diesel (sync, ORM)

* gRPC: prost (protobuf library)
For 12th Gen Intel Core (the latest version), all configurations are available for pre-order shipping this month. For 11th Gen Intel Core (the original we launched last year), we're selling through remaining inventory. This means that many combinations of CPU+keyboard language are sold out.
OTOH, many people have been complaining that the Apple App Store is not more like the Android one(s).
I think ad driven markets are a trap in themselves, even outside the public market itself.

You have a large portion of end users themselves that will never pay for the product but gladly use the product 'for free'. You have users that would pay for the product, but again, why would they pay for the product if it's "free"? This leaves the only viable products in the market as free products. The only model I know for free service is ad and data collection driven.

The business world won't be able to escape this trap themselves, it will be driven by consumer protections and data privacy making targeted advertising via data collection more risky at a legal/compliance level.
Changed from https://www.gp.se/kultur/kultur/youtubekanalen-rosa-mannen-n.... Thanks!
EF Core briefly had a (beta-level) MongoDB-compatible provider. It wasn't very useful in practice, but EF Core blogs every now and then talk about returning to document database support as a possibility.

I don't think I would use EF Core with a document database, but I can understand the appeal in sharing models with EF Core, and maybe even utilizing a shared "Change Tracker". Unless you are doing your own things, most EF Core models should be POCOs easily enough serializable to JSON to directly use in your document DB, and EF Core contexts at this point have an easy enough Change Tracker API to query that you could possibly reuse it easily enough for a document DB (though that is probably overkill because you don't need per-property tracking at that point usually, just per-document tracking).
> Most people don't really appreciate how close Twitter was to shutting down. The 2016 election was the only thing that saved them and made them relevant again

So in the Good Timeline there's no Twitter _and_ no President Trump?
I've never seen such an ad... Maybe it's only an apt-get thing? Try using apt.
No. We also used it for porn and flame wars.
As a Chinese I want to say thank you for posting this. It's really ridiculous...
its not a troll, just my job, is your question why am i doing my job?
> have our PERSONAL aggregator

That's the dream, isn't it.

So if there are 100 people whose messages you willingly watch, how do you discover new people? (Maybe you do so organically when they mention them?)

And if you _do_ allow yourself to taste from the firehose of unfiltered messages, a single personal list of users/messages wouldn't scale and you have the classic spam problem. Do you share your rules with others (and form an aggregation like https://www.dnsbl.info/)?

Curious what you think about https://atproto.com/:

Algorithmic choice

Control how you see the world through an open market of algorithms.
Smalltalk and it’s Seaside server were really something in the early days. Basically broke out of the response/request model by doing your interactions with saved continuations. So if your server function requests a text to be entered, it would be “frozen” there and once the date makes it’s way back, it’ll pick up right there. Obviously that takes some RAM, and coupled with the unusual language, that made it a rare beast. Of course, later we’d escape this interaction model in much worse and wasteful ways, but now it’s the client paying for the RAM.
Ah yeah that makes sense!
real cool, thx for sharing!
Does Mastodon/Fediverse use ads/trackers/algorithms/blockchain/cryptocurrency?
That's the only (admittedly, a dealbreaker for many!) downside. It does not do DLNA.
I'm not a mathematician, but the story of Yitang Zhang desperately makes me want this paper to be correct.

> Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He also worked in a motel in Kentucky and in a Subway sandwich shop. A profile published in the Quanta Magazine reports that Zhang used to live in his car during the initial job-hunting days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang
No. Because he's a multibillionaire. The scale of his wealth means he doesn't have to care what people think. He can maintain his lifestyle and continue to make various life and business choices despite losing $44b because, overall, it's not that much compared to his overall wealth.

Maybe no one will want to hire him as CEO, if that's what you're referring to. But he can just buy another company if he wants to be CEO of it.
I thought regenerative ability vs cancer incidence was a problem for evolution to optimize per species rather than some statistical certainty per cell.
I found the most interesting section to be on the copyright status of fonts: https://typographyforlawyers.com/the-copyright-status-of-fon...

It describes how there is some debate as to whether or not fonts can be copyrighted, and it ends with:

> Fonts are digital files, and like every other digital file, the internet will happily provide you a free copy. Yet the font business—completely opposite to the music business in this regard—has continued to grow and thrive in the internet era. Therefore, the font business must be based on something closer to the honor system. It remains an unusual counterexample to the idea that digital rights management and litigation are indispensable tools in intellectual-property economies.
I would think have it near the end, as grads to be work on their final projects.

Make the end push to graduate require ethics classes to book end all the technical detail they spent the prior years absorbing.
Is this going to be the meme, now?
Tracking Bloggers with Blogdex (2001)
I found I need about 20k lux for much of the day to not feel sleepy or depressed in the daytime. I had to move to California and work outdoors to overcome this, I used to live far north, but even "extremely bright" indoor lights weren't enough to have a positive effect on me.
I missed a management meeting once and ended up with the sharepoint support team. Yes, you'll need an admin, a developer, a DBA, MS Premier support, and probably some contractors to set it up and keep it working. It's even worse if you try to use the workflow, forms, and process automation features.
Killfiles under slrn solved this fastly enough.
He memed the price. How is that a miscalculation? Everything he's doing with Twitter is going as planned.
Exactly, you're getting paid to store the gas for future delivery.
This is really neat. I had something like this in mind for Go-L.
1. Make the update rules more human readable/understandable
2. Move from binary to discrete options (and then as some have mentioned, to continuous values).
It was the old internet. There was no identity verification.

One day identity verification will occur at the network level. Until then, we have all this half-baked shit.
I think the approach you've taken by providing this document, allows you to give 1 option, and when there's something better you just change it. Ideally if you follow semver and there's something replacing something else, you could introduce a breaking change.
And if you let people navigate different versions, they could see how things changed over time.

Thanks for it btw!
not villages necessarily, families look out for each other, everyone's own kin.
Yeah, well replacing your whole laptop is an upgrade too. The mainboard is by far the most expensive component, so saying "you can just replace it" obviates the point of the frameowork.
No, they don’t. In the absence of drag, which only the lowest satellites have, they just stay up there forever. The fuel is needed for orbit changes and correcting drift due to gravitational instabilities.
This matches my experience.

I actually like Apple's hardware a good bit - but I absolutely despise the OS. It's a bloated hog of a thing.

I still wouldn't ever buy an Apple product, but the work issued macbooks are generally decent hardware, just avoid the 16 inch intels they put out, those are rubbish.

The software is annoying as all get out though, and they're only becoming more and more tight with control around it.

Kexts going away is painful

documentation is bad

scripting is much harder than it should be

FS is... obnoxious at best, utterly bug ridden at worst

The apps they put out are fine I guess (I really don't use basically any of them) but the base system feels like a tire fire right now.
> Hey Rust, what’s intmax_t on x64 linux?

pub type intmax_t = i64;

With D's ImportC:

import stdint; // reads stdint.h and all its declarations
intmax_t x; // declare x as type intmax_t

This is fun!
I think it's genuine since this product seems tailor made for the hackernews demographic.
You don't have to use the command line to update. Ubuntu comes with a GUI for apt. I think it's just called Discover.
DOE supercomputing centers get $1.5B boost from Biden administration
We're surprised by the amount of interest and traction each time too, but I'm the only person on the Framework team in this comment section.

Attempting to build a good product that respects the customers buying it works better than paying for marketing. We haven't gotten it right every time and won't get it right every time in the future either, but we really do try to!
Fed pumped 5 trillion dollars into stock market.
Phil Bagwells work is amazing. Especially the Hash Array Mapped Trie (HAMT) for me was an eye opener, as we had implemented a simple arrays based trie more or less for 64bit integers before and I always wondered how to compress the null pointers to children, which are non-existent. Nowadays I'm using ideas from the HAMT and the Adaptive Radix Trie (ART) to compress the trie nodes. Cool thing of course is also that each previous version is preserved through structure sharing and copy-on-write plus path copying (functional data structure, again).
Who Shares Conspiracy Theories, Other Misinformation: Evidence from 5 Countries
> I thought the whole point was that you're organizing your thoughts and ideas across connected notes.

I think the whole point is that you're NOT organizing :D

You end up sequencing the notes under a main line of thought per topic, but the idea is that the connections between your notes help you discover new unforeseen connections.

> I didn't think it required publishing.

I don't think it requires it either, but it seems like it's a waste of effort if you don't want to publish the product of your "notes" at some point.

The method asks that you write the notes in a publishable state, so you need to invest time to write like this. This time improves the form of the content, but not the content itself, and if your goal is only to remember or learn, then it's the content that you care about, and a lower quality edit would also do the job.

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It is "sold" as a general productivity method, highlighting the fact that Luhmann (the creator) published 50+ books and 600+ articles in his life. I believe it is a publishing productivity method.

I still think it must be beneficial, but the question is are you able to keep up with the effort required if you don't have this end goal of publishing your writings? I'm not sure I do.

When it comes to resources there are discussions about that on the subreddit. I can't find one I had in mind but this one covers that: https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/yc35nl/in_whi...
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Did Silk Road offer anything legitimate? I assume fake followers for social networks isn’t illegal in the US.