skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3. Sell more hardware through the upgrade treadmill.

> compared to 2GB [of RAM] for Android

Crikey, I didn't know that. I have a Nexus from 2012. It seems to have slowed down since I first bought it. Android has been upgraded since then, of course. It's not a phone, just a tablet. I was happy with my purchase at the time, although it seems to run slow as molasses now.

One big problem was that I had to log into my Inland Revenue account through an auth app that they had. They seemed to update it frequently, which of course needed a huge multi-megabyte download. I was actually concerned about this. Fortunately I was able to get the Inland Revenue to allow alternative authorisation, but I had to jump through a lot of hoops.

I now don't NEED my Nexus for anything. I use kik on rare occasions. My plan is to not use the device, unless there is some nice distro that runs on it. Any suggestions? It must be lightweight.

I can't really see the point of Android per se. It just seems like a bloat-tastic OS for devices that are ill-suited to bloat.

Now that you've got me ranting ... everything is poxy smartphone this and smartphone that these days. Scan a QR code? How? The hoops I have to jump through to get that sorted is unbelievable. They should just give me the text version.

I have a dumbphone, PAYG. I got it from Tesco (a UK supermarket) a couple of years ago. Cost me 25 quid, which included 20 quid worth of vouchers. So basically, I bought a phone for 5 quid. I doubt that Tesco could make them for that money. I told one guy about my purchase, and he laughed that I had been ripped off. Bizarre. I bought a legit phone for 5 quid. It does exactly what I want it to do. So joke's on you, pal.

Some people have no concept of frugality.
And the UK, unless for some reason their official speed limits and such aren't actually, you know, official.

As a practical matter, we use metric for many things in the US. The fact that we do not force everyone to change their customary units to metric really seems to irk some folks, but mostly outside the US.
Ask HN: Why is passwordless authentication not gaining traction?
I play an online mahjong game where users doesn't have passwords. You only need an email account and whenever you want to login you get a one-time code to your email address https://i.imgur.com/RI0PqP3.png

The whole thing... just make more sense? This is nothing special though, just a regular site but not having a password feels more straightforward.
The trigger is a one-time event, and you can use it to start some other process than does things periodically.

Billing stops if you pass away.
>From my perspective, something seemed to happen with Musk roughly around 2015 or so.

Maybe he's always been this way but his profile was lower? The first thing that sticks out to me is the the submarine pedo-guy incident of 2018. Somehow he went from an eccentric inventor who I honestly believe was genuinely making a real effort on a longshot solution to "How dare you joke about my submarine!" a few days later. So weird.
Ok, now scale to a few hundred millions users in lots of languages.
"instantly"

Modern hunt is all about instant killing, but traditional hunting techniques (ie prior to firearms) were all about exhausting the prey by chasing it on foot for hours.

Probably still better than factory farming, but very stressful for the animal.
There are likely other charges that they could face. I don't think this rises to the level of embezzlement (although IANAL), but the missing customer deposits, lack of strict segregation between Alameda and FTX, and the use of company assets for personal loans and purchases will probably lead to indictments.
Because of demographics this is a problem we will have to confront regardless - do you think medicare/medicaid spending will become 80% of government spending?
Can they be processed away? I presume that if the central pixel saturates then the calculations get more fraught, but it should still be possible.
Do we have a better alternative than nuclear power right now?
"Accounting Software Built for Business Owners and Accountants" - wtf is this headline? Who else besides business owners and accountants uses accounting software? /sorry I digress

I just chatted with their sales representative, they only provide accounting software, they don't help with incorporation. I'm looking for a all-in-one solution in a way.
Tailscale with Avery Pennarun
I for sure do not trust a company that have security breaches happen every now and then.

Not sure that even Mr. Musk can fix that.
This is funny, but off topic and not helpful.
Surely it’s all the test firings of Merlin and Raptor engines that’s slowing the earth down in the first place? I mean first he screws up twitter, now it’s time itself.

(/s)
yeah, i am about to wrap up the MIT probability course. Very very good course, i will be happy if i retain 50% of what i learned. Markov Chain is my favorite so far.
that I agree on, just commenting on this specific article
7.4M out of their 600M revenue is from contributions. I don't really see them soliciting donations either, so really they could have 0 donations starting tomorrow and be perfectly fine.
I don't think its politically toxic, but rather, extremely humane that we care for our elderly. The real unfortunate part is that we, in the working class, have to make due with sharing slices of the pie so more money can go to our exploiters and owners - especially in the US, we are such a wealthy nation, and yet here we are bickering around who deserves care based on age. Sad.
I don't disagree that insincere apologies usually don't work very well.

My point is that the "socioeconomic pressure" in many cases has nothing to do "bullying," "threats," or "playground politics". It can be self-inflicted: If you lower your value to the people who give you money, they will no longer want to give you as much money.
Your comments elsethread are further examples of someone ignoring (and apparently attempting to throw under the bus) co-workers who are trying to provide important, actionable context.
Of course but this is also twitter, not a startup in its infancy. I'm not saying new stuff won't happen (etc), but they have a very mature infra org.
About 25 years ago, with a group of friends: https://www.srcf.net/

It was what you'd call a community-run webhost, but at a time when such things weren't common. The main innovation was making it easy for multiple people to administer and hand over websites: we'd noticed that student society websites tended to get lost or rebuilt every year, because they were run under people's personal accounts which stopped working when they graduated.
Some of the stuff on their blog feed is just very negative. Like why would you write a blog post about how to delete an account from another service? Just seems petty and vindictive and not really any of your business. Why do it?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/how-to-delete-s...

Then they have an apparent advert for Disney?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/disney-and-pixars-turni...

Remember when they forced an a creepy advert for some random TV show into everyone's browsers?

It's all just a big unhinged.
Well, it's more of you can move fast and break things and then next decade the regulators will catch up with you.

In this case it looks like it'll be Dec 8th when he'll have to show up in court about all of this.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65680829/cornet-v-twitt...
And it's becoming more and more apparent that the "investors" had no desire to look closely at their golden baby.
Elon Musk has already said he supports unrestricted *legal* speech on Twitter, and that individual cultures should decide what that is for themselves, through their local legal system.

He's not a "free speech absolutist."
The oldest organizations are churches and universities. Seems like they should be involved managing something like this.
Yes, but the total lack of corporate governance that contributed to it is totally legal, and could have possibly prevented the fraud and theft.
A nodejs closed caption converter. I’m not a developer but can get along just fine for most of my projects.

Funniest part was, I open sourced it. Then a few years and an acquisition later the parent company tried to sell us a tool for converting caption files based off my own code.

https://github.com/jasonrojas/node-captions
By no means am I a religious person, but that certainly is a beautiful prayer.
Just now learning why it's called Yocto Linux.
Well that’s good.
The hallucinations sound like a side effect from lorazepam (Ativan) -- something hospitals give almost everyone but is a hardcore drug.

Consider asking nurses to stop administering it after you do your own research.

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-6685/ativan-oral/details#...).
I just gave 3 examples of products that succeeded brilliantly in a less mature market in western capitalist economies. WeChat might be an anachronism in 15 years just as AOL is today, although it continues to exist as a brand.

Incidentally I just glanced at the AOL website to remind myself how it's doing, and their ad banner offers a service to reduce the amount of paper junk mail you receive by signing up for AOL's managed unsubscription service. Less Information Age and more Irony Age.
I think this is exactly it. Elon and the possibility of his success threatens the worldview of a lot of people.
Probably this JavaScript function I posted on my blog in 2003 https://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/25/getElementsBySelector/
>"It's completely outrage driven and feeds on fearmongering: "google bad, we good, give us money"."

Indeed and yet they don't have any problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from Google in exchange for letting Google be their default search engine.[1] Talk about cognitive dissonance.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...
https://thedirty.com/
Making stuff float with magnets is hard. You have to replace the permanent magnets with electromagnets and then have a while bunch of sensors and logic to drive the electromagnets. I can't see a way to make it work in a clock like this.
It's a sad state of the large, useful search engine industry that they're faced with a lesser-of-two-evils choice for default search engine (thus driving royalties), between Google or Bing.

Unless anybody is smoking something really strong and suggests something like baidu search or yandex search.
The whole desertification of the middle east can be blamed on goat herding of nomadic farmers.
Not sure if this answers your question, but from the description tab, under "What is this map?"

The full map is actually a sphere. This visualization shows a thin slice of the Universe. Its thickness is about 10 degrees. More astronomical data is available but it is not possible to show all of it at once on a 2D map. The image would be completely saturated with dots.

It actually visualizes the slice depicted on the main page as a 3D rotation. I would struggle to explain the concept of arc slicing to a five-year-old though.
It is unfortunately not how Twitter works. It is very hard to restrict freedom of reach. If you follow a person with extreme opinions, you will still see their posts. Even if Twitter managed to address that problem, there will be users that created curated list of Tweets of interest to their followers.

...and not to forget the mainstream media that love to refer to extremist tweets as it is an easy article to write.
I grew up in the American south, hearing I would go to hell if I had premarital sex, took God's name in vain, or watched the Simpson's. There wasn't really a 'cultural left' where I lived (or I wasn't aware of it), but I was well aware that the Christian right had a stranglehold on the idea of morality.

Now that situation seems to have shifted, and the left has adopted and re-branded ideas of original sin, absolution, performative prayer, etc. But I don't believe for a minute that folks in my hometown have discovered how to embody the idea of grace and cultural liberality. If anything I see more antagonism now that evangelism and Trumpism have created a terrible two-headed beast.
GPT is filled with data that wasn't paid for. It infringes copyright, and by using it, you and all your users will infringe copyrights too.

Your CLI should come with a warning.

https://justoutsourcing.blogspot.com/2022/03/gpts-plagiarism...
I see roughly 400... https://imgur.com/a/QirnOG5

Admittedly - it's fairly certain that some of those will be about ycombinator itself - but I don't really find that outside the scope of the ask - given that many of the hits for twitter are really just following the company drama and not expanding the reach of a single user's tweet.
The reason I brought up that phrase is that Scott Adams of the Dilbert cartoon endorsed Hillary in 2016 using this exact language, despite actually liking Trump.

> "So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety."

If I recall correctly, he says that merely that endorsement, however transparently fake it was, got a lot of people off of his back.
I don't know about English, but in other languages you need to know the context to distinguish "hate" speech and insults. If I call someone "You, motherf*er!", without context you don't know if I'm insulting that person or just acknowledging my friend who just made a great joke.
WhatsApp didn't get to 55 employees by having 2000 and then randomly firing 97% of them.

The argument is not that twitter can't be ran leaner, it's that the current process of leaning twitter is bad.
I'm building Packj [1] to flag malicious/risky open-source dependencies. It offers “audit” as well as “sandboxing” of PyPI/NPM/Rubygems packages and reports hidden malware or "risky” code behavior such as spawning of shell, use of SSH keys, and mismatch of GitHub code vs packaged code (provenance). We found a bunch of malicious packages on PyPI/RubyGems using the tool, which have now been taken down.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
Twitter has a dislike button .. for replies.
ArrowJS – Reactivity Without the Framework
It can be extremely costly to close positions (often from a tax perspective this is a big-no no in some cases too).
crosses fingers Hopefully people escaping Chrome monoculture and users fleeing the looming ad blocking nerfing. Mozilla seems to fit the user agent role better.
God I’m glad the interview process there went no where
Microsoft Teams Adds Sign Language View for Meetings
I'd be curious to see what amount of the staff is actually lost and from what divisions. I doubt it'll be anyone working on the actual vehicle side of the business.

Carvana is a DriveTime spinoff, and leverages their existing infrastructure for all used vehicle processing -- massive warehouse-style facilities designed to process those vehicles as rapidly as possible and stage them around.
Agreed but it's never this significant. In the world of "real companies" investors, boards, teams, etc are not OK with providing a founder with "F U money" (which this certainly is) so that they can go on and do nothing, leave for another venture, etc.

For the others involved from investors to employees it's never good to be working with someone who could (theoretically) stand up from a meeting and walk out to go on and do whatever they want forever.
They were sitting on large illiquid unrealized gains until the IPO. I can't imagine that's strange behavior in companies going public. Some funds will sell into the IPO as a rule in order to redeploy capital to other early stage investments. For early employees and founders who could have had up to 99% of their wealth tied up in Coinbase stock, some diversification is hardly odd.
Since there's no evidence that he did anything wrong, it doesn't make any sense to just assume that he's guilty due to being in an administrative position during the time.
So, what percentage of Musk's tweets would be max deboosted? Examples start about halfway down the list.

https://www.insidehook.com/article/tech/elon-musk-worst-twee...
Please stop spreading the falsehood that Eli Lilly lost billions because of a fake verified tweet. https://medium.com/@westwise/did-twitter-just-take-8-billion...
"Hateful tweets will no longer be promoted algorithmically in users’ feeds, he said, but they will not be taken down."

Just stop promoting everything...
I found the side channel protection and CPU/L1 isolation between customers to be particularly interesting.

Very cool to see the physical hardware interconnects for resetting the system. Also the PCI bus as one of the isolating boundaries.

I have worked on an open source project for managing Nitro Enclaves (https://github.com/edgebitio/enclaver), so it is cool to see how these build on this foundation to provide even more protection.
at the time of their ipo, the user base was smaller. as your user base grows, obviously you need significantly more people to run the organization.

when the user base grew (we'll ignore the insane chaotic ways scaling impacts technological needs) so did the needs of a significant existence in other countries, those countries laws, the societal and cultural impacts, advertising in other countries, etc...
I'll definitely have to do my own benchmarks! It's been weird how infrequently VPN tech is benchmarked. It's not easy to dig up hard numbers on bandwidth.
Show HN: A minimal, keyboard centric Firefox theme
Hi,
Tired with unneccacary clutter, and not that many options for minimal browsers, with the option of browsing without toolbars. I made this quick tweak. By now means a technical feat, but it does the job. Figured some of you might enjoy!
Can we ban smug feigned incredulity posts already?
Yeah, they could have been working on something truly valuable like violating people’s privacy with ad-tech. Or maybe sucking millions of hours of people’s lives away with TikTok algo improvements. Maybe they could be working on the next MoviePass!

> zero sum game of stock arbitrage.

By your definition insurance is zero sum as well. But people find that generally useful. Taking risk off of peoples hands has value even if a widget doesn’t come out the other end.
I have doubts you or anyone would actually follow through on such a ridiculous claim.

I (and I have to believe many) would be thrilled to interview and work with folks who decided to stay at Twitter during the Elon takeover. In an era of wave after wave of frothy VC money anointing so many inexperienced and ineffective leaders in our industry, the opportunity to learn under a uniquely effective, authentic and bold leader are tremendous.
I helped build V1 of https://www.balanceapp.com as part of a small team. Meditation is a super crowded space, but it’s a lifestyle habit that I really believe in. Proud that it’s reached a fair number of people, even if it isn’t as well known as the competitors
Also, neither were built by musk.
Having a kid in the US is retirement-suicide at best, if you're not rich. As in, it'll all but completely kill any hope of a decent retirement. And if you get unlucky (as far as the kid's health) it's like winning a reverse-lottery ticket that condemns you to lifelong poverty. Except the odds of that happening are way better than hitting a lotto jackpot.

I get that birth rates are also low in Europe so a good social safety net can't be all of the solution, but I know an awful lot of people in the US who'd like to have kids, or who'd like to have more of them, but it's such a bonkers-bad financial decision that they can't bring themselves to do it. That is, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of desire in the US to have more kids, but you're punished so badly for it that people avoid it anyway. I think fixing our healthcare system and improving our public pension scheme to something better than "if you have to rely on it, you're probably fucked" would help a ton.
Well but you cannot have a 5-10 times smaller WebP at a quality comparable to JPEG. If low quality is good enough for you, then you can get maybe a 10-20% saving compared to JPEG (not 80-90% as you are claiming, that is ridiculous). At higher quality, WebP does not really save anything compared to JPEG. At camera quality: WebP cannot even do that, its lossy mode has a maximum quality that is well below the kind of visually lossless encoding cameras use.
(That, and having said books:)
Is it the same dilemma if we can kill one to save more?
Right? The only way this shit show would be worthwhile is if it were starring John Candy.
Potentially adding some somberness:

Feelings like somberness and loneliness only exist in your mind, as a result of how evolution formed how our brains work. It doesn’t have any real meaning outside of our current restraints. In fact, meaningfulness itself is a concept that only exists within our minds.

That set aside, what I find more disappointing is how the speed of light, the accelerating expansion of the universe, and the inescapable increase of entropy place serious constraints on anyone’s future.
> Is it important that midnight is actually midnight?

Midnight is almost never at midnight.

Let's talk noon, specifically solar noon, as it is easier to visualize. Solar noon varies throughout the year, and based on the position in the timezone.

Solar noon for two cities in Eastern Time Zone:
11:29:16 - Boston
12:22:36 - Atlanta

Tomorrow, solar noon in Atlanta will be 12:22:50, 14 seconds later than today. No one notices a 14 second shift from one day to the next. As you can see, solar noon is almost never at clock noon, yet no one complains about that. Who would notice a 1 minute shift over 100 years?

The programming problem is made vastly more difficult because the leap seconds are not known in advance. When a new leap second is announced, every dependent system has to be updated.
So, the legendary low-budget movie "Bad Taste" by Peter Jackson has antropotarian aliens as well.

Including the director himself making a cameo.
> If someone got in without your screw-up, at least you know who to point the finger at once the dust settles.

How do you know you didn't screw up? There are so many vulnerabilities in the gazillion or random stuff you run every day on your laptop. I'd argue it's more likely that something like that was breached than Tailscaled was breached or rogue.
Carmax is very successful, not sure what they have to do with these tech companies
I don't think it's cognitive dissosance, if anything it showcases their point. Google is so dominant that even its competitors essentially exist only by virtue of being kept around by them.

basically the browser version of the "you critize society, yet you have a phone" meme.
Well the incentives have also shifted.

Long ago your kids were like a retirement policy.

Now society says that's bad. You can't and shouldn't have kids to provide for your own future. No the kids are there, in the ultimate hypocrisy, to provide for everyone elses future via compulsory taxes funding social programs. So everyone else benefits from your raising them, while you disproportionately shoulder the costs, creating a massive "free rider" problem.
That's a truly amazing viewpoint, I honestly can't imagine how one could express the solution that clearly.

In case you can't guess, I'm not serious. However if you download a sentiment analysis model and feed it my first paragraph it'll claim it was positive.

Sentiment analysis is a really really really hard problem, especially for short texts.
Eh? The Amish (for instance) don't live in hyperreality (by Beaudrillard's definition).
Are "psyops" illegal, or are they free speech? How far beyond the Chinese government does this categorization extend?