skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I was just checking. I thought maybe they run their own servers and thought it'd be worth trying

Yeah, I'm not a privacy fanatic, but literally having all my notifications funneled through one ad company .. that's on the far end of creepy/dystopian .. Thanks but no-thanks

I keep hearing this myth about how notifications can't work seemlessly without GCM. I don't believe it :)

I currently have GooglePlay disabled and I've never had issues with Signal notifications. However Instagram doesn't work at all. And Messenger is very inconsistent

If apps like WeChat do it then I don't believe it's impossible
You shouldn’t run a web browser on any system with less security than this.

(It doesn’t have nearly enough security yet, but it’s much more advanced than Linux. And strangely also OpenBSD, who like defending against imaginary attackers doing imaginary attacks instead of their real weak points.)
The past decade companies have sold debt to raise funds to repurchase stock to drive up stock price so senior management can meet their KPI and get a larger bonus.

This is useful activity for society because senior management deserves more money and they work really hard to earn it. /s
We agree on both of these points.
I didn't work for the money others were paid, I was paid the fruits of my labour, others was paid theirs, thinking that I would be worth more than I was paid is just hubris. Then after having worked a few years, getting 25% pay raises every year, I quit and can now easily work on my own projects because I made ridiculous amounts of money.
> way to look at how people are using a product over time and draw valid conclusions

Well, that exists. Metrics that summarize those conclusions is what don't exist.

Metrics are a different thing from information. You can discover if people like your product, it just takes effort and isn't accessible to people without any knowledge on the subject.
"My game Empire", he says offhandedly. :) Thanks for that--I fired it up about a year ago. Still fun!
This was Germany's case for Tunisia's democracy. Tunisia ended up implementing a Proportional Representation system and I believe it's a good and well balanced system. On Paper.

Well, democracy in Tunisia imploded and exploded. So, yeah, be careful of things that look good on paper.
Also built into Windows 11 as of the 22H2 release, just for the record.

That said, I may have to try this out - I've wanted to give Linux another go on my desktop but since I use captions rather heavily, that's been a disincentive. I'll have to see how this stacks up against other options; Apple's live captioning doesn't work as well as I'd like, Google's live captioning on the Pixel is great; Microsoft's live captions on Windows are pretty fantastic.

Unfortunately I'm tied to iOS for the longer-term since my hearing aid (a Resound model) integrates well with iPhones but not so much with Android, unless I want to buy an additional $400+ accessory.
Or any of the ARM hardware security features like PAC.
> I've seen zero sign that this is even on the radar of government

Perhaps you're being hyperbolic, but respectfully, if you really haven't seen any sign it doesn't feel like you've been looking that hard. There have been numerous steps for addressing both housing and food prices, and neither of those can be solved overnight.
Yeah, reflowing BGA is a whole different beast. You have to completely remove and reapply all solder but then that’s not really “reflowing” that’s just assembling.
> They’re the same fucking question…

I really don’t see it that way. One is customer-focused and one is tech-focused.

I think Jobs is explaining that he killed OpenDoc because, regardless of how great the tech was, it didn’t lead to something great Apple could make for its customers.
"I really would like you to contrast that with what you have to do with HTML on the Internet. Think about it. HTML on the Internet has gone back to the dark ages because it presupposes that there should be a browser that should understand its formats. This has to be one of the worst ideas since MS-DOS."

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=1415s
The two books that came with a TI 99/4A:

https://archive.org/details/tibook_beginners-basic

https://archive.org/details/tibook_users-reference-guide

From BASIC, it gives you variables, control flow, keyboard reading, addressable character cell graphics with color and custom characters, and multi-voice sound. You can do a whole lot with that, and that was the book you opened when you plugged it into your TV and started figuring out what you could do with this thing. (I wanted to make video games, and I did.)
it is so easy to spoof and really does not matter in usage except desktop/mobile. there are so many analytics out side that that it is indeed antiquated.
It’s all just text files, though. There’s no risk of lock-in.
Hard to find the specific comment I was looking for. I think this is one of the main sources, in addition to ElonJet not having tweeted on December 13th (the day of the alleged incident).

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1603454821700452365
Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format
I need you to customize my tools!

Seriously, I always loved the “bicycle for the mind” perspective on computers as personal personalizable productivity devices

There are few endpoints that can’t be traversed with a bicycle

But software today is a fractal pattern of walled areas within walled gardens. Each location connected with preplanned paths and guardrails. Each construction zone filled with tools that can’t be used elsewhere.

Forging new simple short paths across the diverse information in our lives (such as your “simple” productivity ideas), keeps getting more difficult
At the very least, ALL technology information, including all designs, source code, notes, studies, support logs, etc. is placed in escrow with the appropriate govt agency. If the company (or its successors) is unwilling/unable to provide continuous and effective support for the implants & associated tech, it is all open-sourced / becomes public domain.

This provides at least the tech basis for minimal right to repair/remove to other physicians.
I am more than tired of science journalism. The title is false and is contradicted by the subtitle and second paragraph! In that no, these are not the first water worlds we've discovered. And the author knows that since they directly compare to Europa in the subtitle and second paragraph. Infuriating to say the least. I've gotten accustomed to reading of firsts to just assume that whatever is being reported actually happened first decades ago.
I want to say - I did consider that as a counterargument but it is too weak. Moving closer to where your daily tasks take place is a reasonable way to make a lifestyle more energy efficient. It isn't necessarily a step down (why should we want to spend time in cars anyway?). It is potentially scaleable too, there are lots of examples of cities where people get packed in very tightly.

The issue is more that, while fader has demonstrated that they use less energy for heating and transport, they haven't actually demonstrated that they use less energy - what happened to the energy not going to those highlighted examples?

The key observation behind Jevons' paradox is that there is no reason for the aggregate energy production to go down just because some way of using energy gets more efficient. Since the payoff for the same amount of energy is higher, there is no economic incentive to produce less. Quite the opposite. Nothing in this example sits in contradiction to that, so there isn't a need to try and poke holes in a reasonable example of someone making their personal life more energy efficient to make the basic argument work. Plus there is the obvious practical evidence that economies only use less energy when there is an energy shortage, it is nigh impossible to find counterexamples that end well. The UK polity isn't acting like they have abundant free energy to play with.
For most of your life, the state is best aligned with keeping you healthy. The state's top priority is making sure you will be working and paying taxes, and you can't do that as well when you are sick.

The state will stop caring once you dont have prospects for paying more taxes, but before then, the state has your health as a higher priority than even you do. Eg. The government doesn't like it when teens do risky behaviour, and tries to stop it, because it will have bad health, and thus tax results.
> If a variable deserves the name `size` it deserves the type `size_t` as well.

That would be a mistake since size_t is poorly designed - it’s unsigned and you should use signed integer types whenever possible in C, as the Google C++ style guide says.

This is more secure because UBSan is more likely to find bugs using it. Bit unfortunate the STL doesn’t like you doing it.
They are in almost every factor.
The interesting part there was using the Turing machine to gain the ability to set up program stare reliably for the sandbox escape.
I wonder what data the model was trained on and what license the data and model are available under.
Isn't there still the thorny issue though that we don't know "why" some the ML works? See:

"The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI":

https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/04/11/5113/the-dark-se...

and

"Machine Learning Works Great—Mathematicians Just Don't Know Why":

https://www.wired.com/2015/12/machine-learning-works-greatma...
Lol. LF teams up with MS! The natural course should have been supporting OSM. This will eventually effectively kill OSM not G Maps. Linux fights monopoly with monopolies!
Double or triple glazing, insulation, mandatory energy efficient building codes, fuel efficiency standards, energy efficient light bulbs.... 25% reduction is certainly plausible. I'm surprised it isn't more, but I guess some industries remain high consumers. The lifestyle compromise is more expensive buildings, which hurts at least in the short term.
The article doesn’t say new species of what, so I looked it up. It’s a kind of plant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristolochiaceae
> That water isn't destroyed, it'll be back eventually, assuming we're not consuming fossil water.

I agree. But I'd add that the idea of a mist shower is great if you are doing something off-grid or boondocking in a camper, where every gallon counts.
I love this feedback! I will definitely take a look!
If you have a decrypted IPA? Sure.
If it means those of us who compete daily with our brains have an opportunity for an advantage—or at least parity—I’m all for it. I don’t expect it will happen within my lifetime but it would be nice for those who follow.
Is this the start of the bio bros?
How would Starmer needing to accommodate for instance, the Lib Dems on every position, be an improvement on this? Take the issue of housing policy for instance. Britain urgently needs more houses, but the Lib Dems turn up at every local election and by-election on a NIMBY platform.

The same for building new energy infrastructure- the Lib Dems famously blocked the building of new nuclear plants ‘because they wouldn’t be online until 2021/22’. The evidence of the Coalitions we’ve had is that they overall lead to pretty terrible decision making, and indecisive government on the whole.
Ask HN: Why aren’t introverts better at messaging?
My friend says he gets social panic when he’s facing people. As the medium is a chat app shouldn’t the going be easier (for introverts)? Replying in controlled env etc.
Or just use the rest of the document to build the corpus?
It solves a problem that you don't realize is here yet, just like people in France didn't understand it was here yet and Rome and Weimar Germany...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignat

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
Moving from the Moore’s Law to “Bezos Law” (2021)
> Here in Israel with proportional representation, every small party has outsized power since every one of them has enough power to vote down the current government by joining hands with the opposition.

Now Benjamin Netanyahu is soon to be back in power. He's generally acknowledged to be a crook, but nobody else seems to be able to assemble a governing coalition. He's already been Prime Minister for 15 years.
Why Fusion Ignition Is Being Hailed as a Major Breakthrough–A Nuclear Physicist
Honest question: did Germany have any say in Tunisia's voting system? Wasn't Tunisia a French protectorate? Do you mean more recently than 1956?

In any case, Tunisia is not the only country with PR. It's used a lot of places, including Germany (well, MMP, but pretty similar). Like any system it has advantages and disadvantages, but democracy in the Nordics hasn't imploded nor exploded...
We have no idea what triggered it, she just logged in, and it was removed for impersonation. My daughter challenged this through a form Instagram provided. It came back saying that the request was denied and the account was gone, and you couldn't try again. Every other request or attempt came back with the same message, where you could not even submit as it blocked the submit form.

To resolve this, I reached out to everyone I knew in tech, I have worked in the industry for over 20 years and know lots of people in lots of companies globally. I also posted here on HN in this post, and several people looked into it for me.

This was really weird for me; I never usually ask for help, for anything. It's not something men in my generation do, even though I help others every chance I get.

Its actually been a valuable life lesson for me, swallowing my pride and risking coming across vulnerable was a little scary, but asking for help was worth it.

Looking back if I did this earlier in my life and career, things would of probably been a lot easier.
In Firefox, turn off "Search for text when you start typing" (Settings, Browsing). Otherwise you get an annoying "Click to continue" overlay every time you hit a number or letter key.
I suggest you do a little reading. I'm Canadian and it's alarming.

It's already apparently 2.5% of deaths in Canada.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assi...

We have credible reports of a person aged 23 who was approved for medically assisted death because they were diabetic and depressed.
https://www.thefp.com/p/scheduled-to-die-the-rise-of-canadas

The top 1% of patients use approximately 30% of the total cost of health care.
https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

The Canadian health care system is extremely strained. We are already in an age of hallway medicine as there aren't enough staff to treat the people in rooms.
https://www.cma.ca/news/canadas-health-care-crisis-what-we-n...
see also, https://github.com/martinvonz/jj which I really have been enjoying wrapping my head around and using. True undo, and no-stage is truly such an amazing experience compared with raw git.
The Cienfuegos Affair: Inside the Case That Upended America’s Drug War
"democracy is under threat when people ~I don't like~ who advocate the overturn of democracy are elected"

FTFY.
Low corporate taxes on profits made NOT in Ireland--a special name for it: The double Irish Dutch sandwich
“Democracy” isn’t a unidimensional system. It’s a balance of many competing concerns. In particular, a key variable is not merely who wins the majority, but who votes. It wouldn’t placate Ukranians to say that if they became part of Russia, their vote would count just as much as a Russian’s. Simply winning 50%+1 isn’t sufficient. People must be willing to be bound into a body politic with other people to begin with.

Different voting mechanisms, along with federal systems, are a way of balancing those competing concerns. They allow you to form a larger body politic that would not necessarily be willing to be bound together in a simple “majority rules” system.
The way most people use crypto to bypass securities laws is through exchanges, though, and regulators don't care if your exchange operates a centralized or a decentralized db. They will sanction you regardless.

(Also, all exchanges[1] use centralized dbs.)

[1] Except maybe FTX, it didn't seem much into bookkeeping of any sort.
Lessons Learned in 2022
Sorry bro, entering a building without any greater plan and then leaving peacefully is not a "right wing coup" and Trump supporters are not Fascists, they're just a little odd. The fact that it isn't a coup and was not a coup is why its participants cannot be charged as such.

If you want to see a "fascist coup" plan, go look at Golden Dawn being busted with blueprints to parliament that indicated they were going to break down the walls with tanks.

What you're effectively saying here is that people should not be concerned about massive FBI overreach and should discard what he has covered elsewhere because 'orange man bad', when Trump barely factors into anything here. That's deranged, and it's not going to be taken seriously outside of your bubble.
Ask HN: What is the simplest product that you know of that makes money?
Now increase your sample size. Then, maybe, start to draw conclusions.
I don't know if we really pin the blame on that for stadia. Maybe portions, but I also suspect that a big reason for stadia's "failure" wasn't necessarily Google's/Stadia's fault. Lots of homes still have really bad internet connections. I tried stadia, I think the concept is great and most everything is there except I can't get a decent enough internet connection from any ISP in my area to make it usable at home. But I know people is places with really good internet connections and have heard nothing but good things about it before I tried.
Steve Jobs anticipated what was coming, and handled that very maturely.

Even though he says technology should not be in search of a solution, he does say that as soon as he saw the Canon printout, he realized it will sell itself. So his theme, with that nuance, seems to be that a technology should not be in search of a solution, unless it is so good as to sell itself.
Use a notebook and a pen, make it a nice pen, and it can become a meditative / reflective moment , no concerns on who’s tracking your thoughts , security is all yours , and short of tearing out pages or something similar , it’s fixed, if you’re writing is bad enough, nobody can read it anyway !!
So these aquariums have a design factor of safety of 11?? And still regularly fail?

To me, that shows something majorly wrong in the design/build process... Clearly some failure modes are not well understood/modelled.

Planes, the safest transportation vehicle by far, have a design factor of safety of 1.5 for example. And even then, failures due to material stress are rather rare.
Uptime monitors.
Find My Friends exists. Therefore, Apple has access to a pipeline providing real-time location data of your whereabouts, if you use that feature. Apple's privacy policy confirms that they collect "Precise location only to support Find My, and coarse location." Apple complies with law-enforcement subpoena requests about 90% of the time in the US (https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html). For comparison, Google's compliance rate is about the same, at 84% (https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview). I wouldn't expect those rates to be substantially different; they're both US companies subject to US law.

In other words, cops interested in your whereabouts probably don't care much if you have an iOS or Android-based product. Moreover, the easier subpoena target is your wireless carrier. For their service to work, your carrier must map your billing info to your SIM IMEI (I say "must" lazily; I could imagine a ZKP system that gave out certificates showing that a randomized IMEI is paid up. But the angry privacy mob doesn't seem to be focused on carriers right now, so I don't see why they'd change).

According to anecdotes on the web (I am not a customer of Apple), Find My Friends uses IP geolocation as a GPS fallback. It stands to reason that Apple's ad network has built a similar database. I believe both major networks allow individual users to opt out of that database being used to serve them ads, but I don't know whether that means that the ad networks do not still know where that user is.
So if you just change the bundle id of a development build, one is liable to introduce a bunch of bugs. Whew, that sounds confusing to debug.
People should start using these apps as simple note-taking apps and extend/adapt them based on their needs, rather than diving head-first into these complicated methods/systems to form a "second brain".

If you go straight into OPs system you'll spend way more time trying to figure out how it works (and it might not even work for you) rather than getting actual work done

Start simple. Write a few notes. Maybe you need to draw things: add Excalidraw. Maybe some note structures are similar: consider Templater.
Same! And that's why I'm now a DevOps engineer. In my role, DevOps primarily means automation and pipeline creation, working with teams to build and release their apps reliably and effectively. For me, it really scratches the itch of "setting things up".
The breakdown of MAID by main condition is interesting, and suggests that the vast majority (~70%) are cancer patients avoiding a painful, prolonged and terrible death.

This would also suggest that once we get even better at cancer treatments, the rate of people dying to MAID will drop dramatically.

Later in the stats, ~80% of people have lost the ability to engage in activities of daily life (which IMO is a terrible place to be).

I don't think your reference supports your claim at all. In fact, it suggests that it's doing exactly what it is meant to do: ending unnecessary suffering for those who are dying of diseases we don't yet have a cure to.
No - the person asking will not have forgotten, but those around will have.

Generally - in my experience - folks that genuinely want to answer or explain something will first rephrase the question, and/or ask more questions to understand what you are trying to ask, and then after their answer they open the dialogue with something akin to "does that answer your question?".
>One of the greatest reasons for concern is the sheer scale of Canada’s euthanasia regime. California provides a useful point of comparison: It legalized medically assisted death the same year as Canada, 2016, and it has about the same population, just under forty million. In 2021 in California, 486 people died using the state’s assisted suicide program. In Canada in the same year, 10,064 people used MAID to die.

70% of the Canadians reported cancer as the reason for MAID. It sounds like thousands of Californians are experiencing unnecessary and extended end of life suffering.
It's a real weird wedge issue for sure. Many stories portraying poor and disabled people resorting to MAID are being pushed by historically conservative and right leaning publications (ex. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11516989/Canadian-m...).

MAID didn't create or change the conditions these people are in and it's not like the Conservatives pushing this narrative are known for anything but outrage and cuts to social safety nets..
I believe the question is around layoffs being beneficial or detrimental. For example, let’s say you have a 6 person company and layoffs affect 50% of the staff. Now you’re down to 3 people. Is that beneficial or detrimental? Now 3 people need to do the work for 6.

At a large scale, maybe some companies over hire, so it cuts the waste and the amortized results are better financially. However, for others (Twitter?, tbd) when you mass cut a ton of talent, innovation dwindles, morale sinks, time to learn and pick up old projects increases. Layoffs can hurt companies financially much harder, but it may not be immediate. It may be the demise of the company in 1-3 years due to all the other complex variables at play
The First Insurance Company (2001)