skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but for me, the biggest annoyance with Pixel 6 compared to older devices was the fingerprint reader under the screen - so uncomfortable to use, and so much less precise than dedicated readers on the back like they had before (or on power button, like some other phones do).

A general frustration with the entire Pixel line is the lack of video output options. It's basically Chromecast or GTFO - no Miracast, no USB-C video. It's kind of sad when an Android phone has worse compatibility with generic hardware than iPad! And the most annoying part is that Google deliberately removed all these at some point in the past.
Luckily if you use a custom ROM, that is going to get updated after the official EOL, this should get fixed.
That link now 301s to another page. Here is an archive of the article:
https://archive.ph/Yg64e
My bad, you're right. I confused myself thinking RDP means Remote Debugging Protocol.
Yeah I agree with that one. They set up a call and he stood by his decision to disclose it on oct 15th. Then 3 days before the disclosure deadline they rewarded him.
While I understand your analogy, advertising tracking != death.

And also...yup. Exactly right. Thankfully something did come along that provided the business affordability and convenience of installation, while simultaneously reducing the health effects. You see, they took everything into consideration when then replaced it - both the benefit to the consumers and the businesses using it.
Adequate resourcing is irrelevant.

Think of the holidays for retail - do you pay 2 to 3x the employees year round to support the November to December shopping season?

If you did that, you would be very silly.

Conditions will frequently demand that an "adequately resourced" company has to run overtime to take advantage of an opportunity, beat a competitor to a new feature, or other such situations. This happens all the time.
https://archive.ph/Yg64e
I don't think he lacks morals, but he seems to have a Lex Luthor "ends justify the means" way of thinking. If you're whole moral framework is effective altruism, then as long as the good you do with the money you accumulate is greater than the harm caused in its accumulation by a ratio that exceeds your alternatives, you're all good.
Forget math, CommonMark doesn't even handle tables.
Haha they replaced the page entirely with a paragraph saying:

> Update: November 9, 2022 A liquidity crunch has created solvency risk for FTX and its future is uncertain. Many have been affected by this unexpected turn of events. For Sequoia, our fiduciary responsibility is to our LPs. To that end, we shared this letter with them today regarding our investment in FTX. For FTX, we believe its fiduciary responsibility is first to its customers, and second to its shareholders. As such, FTX is exploring all opportunities to ensure its customers are able to recover their funds as quickly as possible.
Looking from the outside it completely sounds like a death march project and all the engineers and technicians who actually pulled it off deserve a big award and a long vacation. It's not their fault that execs overpromised.
Ask HN: Sending Data to the Customers CRMs
For SaaS founders, do your customers ask you to send data from your SaaS to their CRMs? How do you go about it and offer these integrations?
Octopussies, natch.
It’s all from that buy the dip meme. I saw something similar where people were asking if they should buy that LUNA coin thing during its meteoric collapse. I think that coin is still in the dumpster so..
Add Royal Astronomical Society logo redesign to the collection:
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/royal-astronomical-society...

Because every damn hipster with a custom mechanical keyboard who can install Photoshop on his Mac is now suddenly a Designer. This is beyond appalling. These people must be beaten very hard with metal poles.
Google One VPN coming to desktop with Mac and Windows apps
I simply do not see corporations selling off obsolete equipment in the ways I used to. It seems it has become cheaper and less of a burden to take EOL hardware and shred and sell for scrap than to sell off in a way that could ever wind up in a normal person's hands. I've seen this first hand recently- this very, very well known company had a new plant, with a whole warehouse of industrial equipment just old enough to be considered obsolete- literal highbays full of what were once very advanced robotics and specialized machines, perfectly useable for hobbyist engineers or even small startups, but too much of a burden to try and sell off for this company as that would take too long- the space was needed yesterday. So a service came that literally sawed things off the floor with grinders and torches and used excavators to load up railcars with anything metal. Electronics and cables were simply cut and piled in separate bins. It all literally went for scrap value, and in ways that it could never be repurposed.
My youngest has gotten RSV twice this year, which is hard to do, among about 15 other illnesses, including COVID multiple times, flus and cold, etc.

It’s bad even by ‘2 yr old at daycare’ standards.

5 ER trips and a hospitalization due to breathing difficulties bad.
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/32ke2l/any_sf_abou...
Yep... yawn. Why bother with the time and effort it takes to do this? I don't get it.
Probably some automated script.

"It's $typeofobservance day for $holiday! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!"

The increase in antisemitism is the news is intriguing.
As others have pointed out the issues with ozone generators, I'll just throw ERVs as a ventilation option into the mix. An ERV with a filter can cycle out not just particles, bacteria, and viruses, but also dangerous gases.
Can you give them their own AWS account? If you’re using any kind of IaC, this should be manageable. Just make sure you charge enough to make it worthwhile taking on extra complexity.
There is a corollary to this advice: only try one solution at a time.

If you throw everything you have at a problem all at once you might solve it without figuring out which of the things you tried worked.
Is there something that just generates the html for you?

Exactly. I rolled my own CMS just for this. No images, just html and superfast svg built from database parameters. I'll be launching a full webcomic only site by the end of the year. I hope to include source at some point. I'll keep you posted.
This is unacceptable and should be corrected to allow a transaction to be reversed, otherwise a recipient is at risk for a scam.
Just tried it myself, works on Android 12, doesn't work on Android 11.
Both LineageOS, so the bug was introduced somwhere in AOSP 12.
You left this out:

Revise the UX so that anywhere the user chooses an option like "Save As.." they are initially presented with the involuntary OneDrive option(s) and then they are forced to click-through several times to get to the option that will allow saving to local storage.
This approach to preventing ossification is interesting, and also rather bad, since it creates cruft RFCs such as this one.
Any system with upvoting leads to this, particularly after a certain threshold of diverse viewpoints. Too much attention is needed to accurately defend your viewpoint, leading to feelings of social isolation, outbursts. This can be exacerbated further if your outbursts wind up being popular, rewarding you with social bonding.

This also tends to remove a bunch of nuance from the most popular discussions. Nuance adds more noise, and people have no remaining attention for it. This lack of nuance feeds back in to general resentments.
It's interesting because there also are The Mets. So you have the Met and the Mets, but nobody familiar with both would ever think of the other when hearing either.
Ask HN: Should customers get free upgrades of my software forever?
I think my suppot and maintenance policy is fairly standard for commercial software but please advise if you think otherwise.

Solo developer here selling a Windows desktop program for many years for $100 USD which includes one year free support (email only) and maintenance( free bug fixes and new versions). New customers are given a URL for downloading the licensed version(trial executable does not convert to licensed). After first year, annual support and maintenance is $20. License is sold as perpertual meaning it never expires. A few customers that purchased two or more years ago and have never purchased support needed to move software to new machine, which they can do using their installer. But if they no longer have their installer, they contact me and complain when told they they have to buy a new license. Support policy on my website is real clear about this: must be under a current maintenance contract to be able to download software. I have been lenient if their contract expired very recently, especially if it was their first year.

Older versions expire upon release of a new version and I do not offer installer for older versions because as a solo operator it would be too much to handle support for long forgotten bugs or other issues.
That's probably true. But so what? That just means that everybody pays the same amount rather than varying amount based on cultural norms around tipping. That's good! And it also means that bosses can't hide behind "oh, tips were just low this week" when their employees complain about pay.
Native Americans
The higher the # the more restricted the air flow is, which is harder for the fan to work with. This may be an issue if the fan is not very good.

It is not true though that the air will become amazingly clear based on the presence of the filter. I used a 11 for a long time and it certainly didn't stop everything from getting covered in dust anyway. My place is not airtight.
Second. Github not an option for a lot/most work.
Can you provide a cite/link for a private individual being able to redeem tether? I’ve never seen a confirmed case.

Just a lot of misdirection, bs, and confirmed cases of people not being able to actually do it despite promises.
Can you talk a bit more about the tech stack you are using for this and how long it took you from the time you started working on it until you had it up and running?
A more senior designer would have known to convince the manager at the outset that the design was actually his idea.
I can't meaningfully distinguish any of these criticisms from some you could have made about HTML earlier. None of these are deal-killers.
> If you use a wheel, you will lose more on average. You will be guaranteed to sell below market value and to buy above market value.

I'm not understanding your comment. Who is forcing you to sell below market value and buy above market value?
Show HN: Fastlane – Self hosted serverless password manager software
FastLane is a self hosted serverless password manager software. Use only one password to get access to all of your passwords without storing all of them using a database. Uses a sha512 hashing algorithm and QuantomRandom to create and access passwords for any site using only your original master password that the program itself can also generate. This makes using a database to store your other passwords uncessesary and increases ease of use and security.
Setting a light level and making sure there's room to move around are not really the kind of traits that make things homogeneous.

The layout I don't care, I'll learn it. And the other 90% of design is up for grabs.
This isn't that. The rate of inflation is going down, not the rate of increase of inflation. 8.2% in September, 7.7% now. The second derivative of prices, not the third.
I read a lot of positive opinions in this thread about index funds. Consider for a minute how much money has been flowing into <= 500 companies due to S&P500 index funds in the last decade.

My guess is that we're about to see a bubble pop over the coming recession that no one realized was there.
The issue is that it happens after the phone has locked, not that the PIN dialog happens to briefly flash before being bypassed.
I wrote a crawler a few years ago. I fired it up recently but had little luck in fetching pages. It looked like cloudflare was protecting the site from me.

Are any of you other HNers finding the web increasingly difficult to scrape from?
We can, and should give employees dignity and a fair wage. We can each start right now by directly transferring a tiny portion of our wealth to the individuals that we interact with who could benefit from it (at least in this specific context, not exclusive of others who could also benefit).

I figure, I have it, they could use it, and I don't need to change everything about our economy and society to do it. I can just give someone some money. Simple and elegant.
if 330M people flip a coin 20 times in a row, someone will get close to 20 heads. that person might have been zuck. how much is talent and how much is luck, no one will even know.
It’s 6th for me, and no adverts. How does this get monetised?
I don’t think he was saying anything about the merits of the ideas and views, rather why some people espouse them.
Screw that I want C++ rendered websites.
"I want to be able to choose to consciously support artists who don't use EQ. I want to be recommended and discover new artists, who consciously don't use EQ. I want to be able to choose to listen to real vocals as a genre. I want that choice."

Note that many recording artists do not actually make that choice; it happens further up the chain. Regardless, whether or not a singer or producer uses a particular effect on their voice does not distinguish between the vocals being 'real' or not. If you simply don't like the way it sounds, on the level of artistic taste, well, you can make that judgement for yourself, but, to claim it's more profound than that is just pure pretense.

Also, why are we talking about autotuned vocals on a thread about a speech synthesizer? Claims of 'real vocals' are already out the window at that point.
Android was invented before MVC?
I get a tip popup at the checkout register for my local frozen yogurt place, where the cashier just watches me put my yogurt on a scale and tells me how much it costs.

Many of the very best restaurants in the country have fixed gratuity and still have absolutely extraordinary service.
Too bad there aren't really any "decent" homes for 150k to raise a family without giving up something huge.
What happens currently if you send a file with content type text/plain to a browser? If the browser would just render it (maybe in a monospace font), you're already halfway there, without needing to embed a Markdown renderer in the browser.
The logical conclusion is that the title hasn't been editorialized, and the date is accurate, but Sequoia have took down the post because it's an embarrassment for them.

Here's an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20221027180943/https://www.sequo...
Coursera Layoff
Funny because it used to be 15% and in a few years, someone else will probably be saying 25%.

Why are you complaining about inflation? Just pay 10% more, it's that simple!
Many of these VCs seem to just be grifting into whatever market they can get the most potential capital gains from the 'greater fool theory.' In other words, they don't care what value it generates; they care if there's a good opportunity to cash out capital gains by conning other people to pay much more than what they paid.

A while ago, the Freakonomics podcast interviewed Arianna Simpson, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and who manages some of their crypto investments. The host, Stephen Dubner, asked what is now the classic question of 'what problem does crypto solve?' A question you'd expect a crypto investor to easily anticipate.

Her main response -- and I promise I'm not joking here -- was that you could resell access to your home wifi with crypto tokens, mainly to your neighbors.

When pressed further for a more commercially credible response, she engaged in a remarkable attempt to appeal to authority, saying that "if you were in the meetings I'm in...with top founders, from the top schools...you wouldn't be questioning this." But without any further explanations.

From what I could tell, Arianna frankly didn't care about any utility it could provide. If it did provide some, she couldn't name it. But she recognized a grift, and knew she could likely make some money using other peoples' money to get in on it.

To be fair, Andreessen is not an investor in FTX, though they've lost plenty of LPs money in other crypto investments. But this attitude is reflective of the approach of many VCs, including those at Sequoia.

They don't care about the product, or the value created. What they care about is that there's this masterful story-teller with wild hair, that the press will adore, and with an addressable market that seems unconstrained, which is easiest to do when it is undefined. These stories can be flipped for a hundred or a thousand times their original investment not because they generate that much value but because there is a frenzy of momentum and fear of losing out.

And often this works: the market frenzy begins to crest, and they can sell into it. But eventually the wave does crest and crashes down, and they are caught in it. And in the aftermath we look at the enablers, the funders, and their logic looks preposterous, because we assume they care about building lasting value. And we wonder what exactly it is they do, what their purpose is, what value they leave behind.
Can someone explain to me why they can't solve this by moving the money back from Alameda to FTX? Assuming Alameda is not that bad at investing money, most of the loan should still be there no?
> Just walk away, call it a day and enjoy your life.

Presumably, they're already doing the thing they enjoy most in life. Cashing out and lying around on a beach or whatever would be extremely disappointing.
Years ago I worked on something something that determined sales territory assignments for new prospects and inserted them into Salesforce.com through the API. One of the geospatial analysts made something with Alteryx that made the assignments, I wrote some C# to call the Salesforce API. It was a pretty easy project.
I completely agree! I mistakenly ommitted the word 'can' from the quoted sentence. I just meant to offer another example of declarative configuration management. The style of configuration/automation (of a config management tool) can be declarative whether the implementation has to consider the current state of the system or not.
One remark I have on anti-"ends justify the means" is they always ignore the ends. The "ends" might literally be saving real people's lives, whose lives have value. I'm sure there are good arguments against the idea, but you must engage with the ends that you propose we forsake, or you're just not serious.
I don’t know about SBF, who to my limited understanding is just a run of the mill crypto scammer so should’ve gotten out while he was ahead, but with Zuck I’m pretty sure that it’s simply not only about the money for him, but also about making cool stuff and having an impact.
You're probably right - I think a lot of people have a fundamental misunderstanding of severity and statistics here. As far as I can tell, if you have respiratory "cold"/"flu" symptoms, it's most likely that it's COVID, just based on prevalence and contagiousness.

Also, a lot of people haven't had the flu in years - it's not mild. It's often a week of being miserable in bed, not two days of sniffles. Mild COVID can feel like a cold, but COVID is more contagious and (I believe) more prevalent at this point. If you have any of those symptoms, you should probably assume it is COVID and take a test if you need to be around others.
Whats more likely to result in your kids being upstanding members of society? 300 million cash in a bank account, or a job and board seat at a billion dollar charity for eternity and $20 million?
If Zuck had taken Yahoo’s offer to buy Facebook for $1B, neither you nor I would be talking about Facebook or Zuck at all right now.

I think that's kind of the point – I can't imagine myself being offered the choice of "enough money to do whatever you want forever" or "enough money to do whatever you want forever but also constant public attention" and choosing the latter.
Ask HN: Where are all the mechanical engineers?
Hey HN! I come from a mostly EECS background, but because I work for a tiny robotics startup, I've been doing a nontrivial amount of mechanical design work at my job recently. We've been hiring some really talented mechanical engineers, but I would love to meet more (and ideally hire more folks way better than me!).

It occurred to me that I have no idea if there is an equivalent to HN for mechanical engineers. Do you all have any ideas on where I could be meeting more people? Are there communities like HN with a more mech-e focused crowd?

(Context: we are working on construction robots that build solar farms, and we had a Launch HN [0] post a few months back.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780455
> "Due to this, they decided to make an exception"

Sounds like they weren't going to at first, though, because it appeared to be a duplicate, but this was the better bug report that prompted an action.

(To be fair: my hat's off to Google for even having one, and it's still shocking to me that AWS doesn't have one at all.)
I really can’t comment on the designers idea, but it really depends on the agency and the workflow.

Sometimes you have these crazy stages in the design process where the client choses the design by committee, and you get the blandest dullest compromise of them all. This looks a bit like that. This logo certainly feels like that.

There are a lot of schools in design, but it doesn’t mean there are no criteria. It really depends on who made this, how it was made and so on.

I feel design really fits into our and any culture. Think of iconic designs like coca cola, or nike, or apple. Also everything you own is probably designed at some point. Yeah maybe it’s not “world peace” significant, but culturally it is, it’s a social phenomenon.
On my pixel 4a there's a "critical security" update available for download. (Current patch level is one month old)

I will try to exploit before and after downloading.
A key awesome bit noted elsewhere:

“Embarrassingly, we had never tried to reach out to Sam, because we figured he didn’t need us,” Bailhe admits. “I thought they were just minting money and had absolutely no need for investors.” Learning otherwise, they quickly contacted SBF and organized a last-minute Zoom call between him and the partners at Sequoia—at four California time on a hot July Friday afternoon.

[...]

The Zoom went well for all concerned. SBF looked relaxed as he answered questions, talking, as he usually does, in complete paragraphs about topics of extreme complexity. Ramnik Arora, FTX’s head of product and another ex-Facebook engineer, remembers the meeting clearly: “We’re getting all these questions from Sequoia toward the end. He’s absolutely fantastic.”

[...]

That’s when SBF told Sequoia about the so-called super-app: “I want FTX to be a place where you can do anything you want with your next dollar. You can buy bitcoin. You can send money in whatever currency to any friend anywhere in the world. You can buy a banana. You can do anything you want with your money from inside FTX.”

Suddenly, the chat window on Sequoia’s side of the Zoom lights up with partners freaking out. “I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” typed one partner. “I am a 10 out of 10,” pinged another. “YES!!!” exclaimed a third.

[...]

“I sit ten feet from him, and I walked over, thinking, Oh, shit, that was really good,” remembers Arora. “And it turns out that that f....r was playing League of Legends through the entire meeting.”
None of the new logos on this page are necessarily bad.
Gas prices ice bans and global warming. If you buy a gas car today, I wouldn’t expect much in terms of resale value.
Again, this is correct but they've already shown that their intent is to ban abortion at the federal level. You're right that it's not banned right now.