skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely don't make someone not techie use WordPress. It has a lot of UX issues that are hard to understand, compounded with endless marketing for Jetpack and caches and plug-ins and themes and always needing updates. I've set up dozens of those for friends and small business and it's a way bigger headache than you think.
Just use Wix. It's set and forget. WordPress is not.

Your plumber doesn't need a blog, just a business page. Wix excels at that. WordPress is terrible at it, even with a custom theme, because the underlying engine is designed around blogs.
> However, that’s a far cry from saying simply that “birthright” doesn’t make sense at least when talking about purely physical items to be inherited.

Land in particular is a special case because more cannot be created (without absolutely massive capital projects and those require some special thinking, but they are outliers).

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-...
I've used Google Workspaces (formerly G SUITE) for many years without any issue.
I mean, no, it plainly isn’t.

You have a single set of guidelines (BBC doesn’t have two sets, nor does any other provider I know of) and a single set of subtitles as a result.

This is accessibility like anything else. High contrast can be used by many people on the ability spectrum for multiple various reasons. Subtitles are the same. Some use them because they’re deaf, some use them because they’re not confident enough in a language to use only one sensory input, some just like subtitles.

But since your claim is they’re separate, please show me exactly how they are separate. Show me the two separate style guides, show me providers differentiating between them and providing both captions and subtitles. Show me even the smallest sliver that backs up your claim. And, more importantly, show me the exact reasoning why color would work in one but not the other.
> We only know the husband worked in a large company that had SBF as a client back in 2021

He didn't only "work" in the firm; he was a partner in it. Maybe he talked to the partner who managed the SBF work; maybe he didn't. But as a partner he'd have some justification for asking, "Hey, how's that crypto case going?" at least.
No, the US fought a war over slavery.

The "states' rights" framing of the US Civil War skips over which specific right the southerns states were willing to die for. It wasn't abstract, though it was papered over as such.

The history of later southern political leaders (e.g. Richard Russell) confirms that the fundamental issue was the enslavement (ideal, for them) or segregation and oppression of blacks in the US.

Which isn't to say that the state vs. federal power struggle of constitutional interpretation isn't still happening. These cases rise to the SCOTUS regularly. The US Civil War, however, wasn't that.
Never is a foolish frame, if you're talking about real politics in the real world.
Tesla suspends production at Shanghai plant
It was phishing and or extortion of a developer that for some reason had unilateral access to production databases and keys without any higher approval.
The pure, utilitarian calculation is rather simple. Anytime you beef up the security policy, it tends to decrease the (permanent) hijacking and increases the lockout. From the point of view of original owners access (i.e. availability), they are equivalent in terms of losing access to the account. Because the hijacking breaches the private information and it also gives hijacker further utility for other illegal activity, hijacking is worse in general.

Thus, as long as the total number of hijacking+lockout decreases, it is a useful policy from the utilitarian perspective. Of course, hijacked people don't cry for help as much, and neither they blame Google as much.

People think a better customer service would somehow solve the lockout problem, but they need to understand that customer service has the same hijacking vs lockout problem, and they can only help if they have better identity verification methods available to them - e.g. if Google asked for government ID for opening a Google account, this would work - but if Google did that, people would scream. Without properly established identity verification methods, the customer service can't improve the precision and the recall. Thus, the current choice for the users is to use a better identity verification method - like security keys and using Advanced Protection, as non-phishable auth does not need complex and elaborate heuristic based protection, and set up a chain of recovery accounts, with all accounts using the security keys and/or Advanced Protection.
Right. I'm well-aware that review bombing is against OpenAI's policies. The main issue that the adversaries have connections through Y Combinator, and I don't. None of this should be taken to cast aspersion on OpenAI itself--very loose and often indirect business or social ties to an evildoer to not make oneself an evildoer, of course--but it wouldn't shock me if certain policies were under-enforced. Even if OpenAI does revoke access, they probably won't assist me in exposing people, should they decide to do this.
> Gmail is still, by far, the best email app.

I find this opinion absurd. It is an e-mail client. Even if it did perform the tasks that an e-mail client needs to perform somewhat better than all other clients, the loss of autonomy makes it a terrible deal, even for non-technical users.
It's only for C, but Tigress[1] supports a ton of obfuscation types. Virtualization and JIT are very effective, especially when used together with control flow transforms like Split and Flatten.

Renaming variables or encoding them is fairly trivial to reverse.

[1] https://tigress.wtf/transformations.html
> The book I discovered later in life
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist, published in 2009. In this and his later book, The Matter With Things, McGilchrist investigates the extraordinary difference between the characteristic modes of perception, cognition and response of the two hemispheres of the brain. It’s like coming across an entirely new colour.

This book sounds interesting, brought to mind The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_...). This year I saw this book at Half Price Books and, primed by Westworld quickly bought and read it. It wasn’t good: interesting premise argued in a just so way without much substantive evidence.

> The books I am currently reading
… Dick Davis’s translation of the Shahnameh

Shahnameh had and continues to have enormous cultural influence not just in Iran but in all neighboring cultures, perhaps akin to the Bible in Western tradition. Davis’s new translation converts the couplets in prose, with some parts kept in poetic form, is highly accessible and praised (https://www.npr.org/2006/03/29/5309016/new-translation-of-pe...). I suggest complementing the reading with miniatures of key scenes you can find by googling or you may forego a full translation and go with the abridged but fantastically illustrated book by Hamid Rahmanian (https://www.amazon.com/Shahnameh-Persian-Kings-Illustrated-S...)
It’s illegal everywhere due to federal law… states altering their laws doesn’t change that.

The federal government just doesn’t enforce it in most cases. The DEA can start enforcing tomorrow if they wanted
Apple can solve its Mac Pro processor problem
As of now, you can definitely get your daily supply of Cannabis if you want. There are a lot of little businesses that legally sell it. So these federal laws are not preventing you from exercising your legal right to get high in e.g. NY state.

I would like to get the pulse of hn on this:

What do we think if e.g. the Coca-Cola Company got in the pot business? Is the fact that these Federal constraints are keeping big business out of the pot business good or bad?
There were a bunch of cheap typewriters that worked this way, collectively called index typewriters. Here's an example, the simplex:

https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/simplex.html
Gemini (earn) posts new Master Loan Agreement with Genesis
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Link to new MLA: https://www.gemini.com/legal/master-loan-agreement#section-master-digital-asset-loan-agreement
Ooof. I'd seriously considered buying in on a Helium miner, too.
UN has moved to stop resticting it's use for medicinal purposes, but it is still banned for private consumption. As a signatory to the UN drugs convention, US has voted againsy decriminalisation.

This is a clumsy summary, ANAL

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1079132
In saying that about Middlemarch, he may also be alluding to Virginia Woolf's famous comment that the book was "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."
I assume this is also the case in a lot of other countries, but where I live the inheritance rules are different for farm land/assets. There's still a tax on it, but the lower limit is much higher, and I think the rate might be lower too.

I think the aim of this is to avoid breaking up already poorly performing farms, and because the business tend to be low-revenue but high in assets (land, mostly). Doesn't hurt that farmers are a huge voting block here.
Year in Review 2022: Tenderlove's Ruby and Rails Reflections and Predictions
Convince them to shorten and/or summarize bills with AI?
Limits on bill length, and time of introduction- At least 2 weeks before federal holiday!
Reduce voting by Proxy, lawmakers must be present to Vote.
Term limits for our gerontocracy?

And the 2nd Amendment is always waiting, if the 1st is truly at risk
> why new users are averse to using Emacs+packages when they are ready to put similar time investment in learning TUI applications

Not a new user, but because I use vim as an editor, IntelliJ as an IDE, and have precisely no interest in emacs.

On the other hand the new TUIs I use are minimal in number - k9s and damon are the extent.
I use something I built, which is running at https://mitta.us/. It uses Solr and GPT3 to control your browser, crawl websites, run ML pipelines on the documents, and provide search for whatever is saved. It's sorta like a souped up version of goosh.org.

The whole idea is based on a "shell" UI, which runs JavaScript commands that translate into something like what DDG does:

> !google something (this takes you to Google after running google.js)

You can crawl things and then talk about them:

nickel-scorpion*> Showing 1 of 1 results.
url https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34102057
title ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says | Hacker News
description None
spool bulky-pastoral-perch view
source_type web
id 17VyZq5hw8xeLySWN discuss|tag|delete
updated 2022-12-24T16:33:04Z ⊂ +alltime
image
pastel-mature-herring~> !discuss what's this article about?
nickel-scorpion*> The article is about how Google is worried that they could be replaced by a search engine based on the ChatGPT like technology.
pastel-mature-herring~> !discuss is it a valid concern?
nickel-scorpion*> Yes, it is a valid concern.
pastel-mature-herring~> !model ~17VyZq5hw8xeLySWN |description_from_fulltext
nickel-scorpion*> Standby...
nickel-scorpion*> Document updated: ID 17VyZq5hw8xeLySWN.
description The page contains excerpts from a discussion about the ChatGPT search engine. People are generally impressed with its accuracy, but caution that it is not always correct. The engine is still in development, and its costs are currently high.

It's been a long haul working on it and I'm still struggling with "getting done" enough to release it.
Considering the conventional wisdom that +90% of startups fail, I still like his visionary odds.
I also use Google domains plus Gmail so I have a custom domain. Email is I think the single thing I'd never want the responsibility of hosting myself.
I know you are making a joke, but my point is I don't believe we can train these AI system to work collaboratively with humans (maybe with other AI though) and understand the subtlety of a human environment.
In New Zealand it was 10-N!
Welp buying this immediately. I'm colorblind but dabble in some art and some design work and this will be super useful. I've found tools that will display rgb values, but translating that to a color mentally isn't particulary easily.
You definitely need to try FSD or at least watch some latest YouTube videos.
> No, the US fought a war over slavery.

Seems to me these aren't mutually exclusive. I find your argument to be overly concerned with injustice of slavery. No one is defending it. And the southern states absolutely did not want to adhere to the laws set by the northern states.
In my opinion, the issue with Google's products is not and never really has been that they're "low quality", it's that, when you DO have problems with them, there is absolutely no recourse or support option. The reason that the parent mentioned that there have been 500 support threads for someone being locked out of their Gmail (or site de-listed, or literally any other change that Google has the ability to make) is that there is no accountability or infrastructure to get support.
The lactose tolerance unlocked major food group. Allergies lock people out of staples. So we have huge interest as a species to figure out why they appear and prevent them.
> That would not have been possible by just giving consumers access to a DB.

That depends on the DB's foreign table support, or equivalent, if it has it. It's certainly not categorically impossible with a DB.
This plus the well-documented safety issues happening on public transit across the country will keep the personal vehicle market strong for decades to come. There’s no future in US where public transit is so good that it takes a notable amount of cars off the road until we can culturally conquer hard problems like these (like close down the line for 3 months to improve) and actually police the systems (fun fact - almost every big city in india has to go through metal detector and bag though x-ray to ride the metro, I’d love this in US)
I’m a big fan of charitywatch! And that link is partly what I base my criticism on: the 43% of Wikimedia spending goes to operations would get them a D.

And I’m afraid you’ve bought into the “Wikimedia is on the verge of extinction” nonsense. There is no need for a skeleton staff and bare bones operations. They have a $300m endowment! They said, as recently as two years ago, that they only need a $100m endowment to meet their mission indefinitely.

What changed that merits a 3x increase? Do they really need to raise $120m per year, as they do now, to avoid the skeleton staff of doom that you propose?

I’ve posted supporting links elsewhere in this thread. I like Wikimedia. They do good work. Their management has run amok and is trapped in a spiral of raising ever-more money to justify more expensive management.
Hosting it myself on legacy system for 25years now.

Migrating to postfix at Hetzner that forwards at home hosted server is not for the faint at heart. Still struggling with the plethora of settings that have to line up with dns and forwarding.

For testing your email settings, internet.nl/test-mail is highly recommended.
Yes, to some degree we'll always be lifting the bottom line up as the top line rises. That said, we're not doing that now; right now we're still trying to get people fed and supply shelters.
Yes & it doesn’t work very well. Or at least it didn‘t,

Apple has been notorious for sacrificing good strain relief on their cables in pursuit of aesthetics for years. Possibly things have improved now that Ive has left, but there was a period a few years ago when everyone I knew with a Macbook had wrapped the power cable in electrical tape because the cable housing had failed just above the (useless) strain relief sleeve you describe.
Interstate commerce clause is the federal government's loophole for this inconvenient fact.
Cannabis is illegal under the Controlled Substances Act everywhere within the US. The feds are voluntarily[0] turning a blind eye to states that have changed their own state laws... but federal law has not changed.

0: https://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/305201382913275685...
It's not about the conflict being weak, it's mostly about standard setting. If it is the norm that judges recuse themselves even in case of fairly remote conflict of interest, it will make it very difficult for a judge to not recuse himself in the case of a more problematic conflict of interest.
Most governments seem to tax all of these things.
This is something I'm not certain but worth a try. I have also advised something very similar to someone who lost their parent's gmail ID access.

If you already have another Google ID or your partner/spouse/relative, upgrade to one of Google's paid service such as the Google One. Now, talk to a human customer care for Google One and seek help. I was able to talk a real person with an issue with Google One and the person on the other end knows a whole lot of details (which I was not expecting to be a regular information).

Yes, that might cost you one month's of Google One but worth a try.

Btw, I have never figure out how to talk to a person even when I have 3+ Google Workspace for Business accounts.
Ask HN: Protect against my domain registrar locking my account
For those who self host email, is there a risk of a domain registrar locking my account? If so how do I protect against this happening?
I'd say if something is important—as in it would be a huge mess if you were locked out of it suddenly—it's a good idea to pay for it.

You can switch browsers and search engines at the drop of a hat. Primarily email, password manager, and long term document storage, not so much.
Some local stores actually tried crypto back when Bitcoin was exploding. It was so inconvenient and volatile that it only lasted months.
I asked ChatGPT how to bake a Turkey with a SQL injection
Also, it's very convenient in a work context if your employer uses G Suite/Workspace. I don't have anything to hide work-wise, and I do everything else in incognito windows.
Anecdotally, this is insufficient to explain the evidence.

I have approximately no allergies but was exposed to a very diverse and not sterile environment from early on, with other siblings being similar. I have two brothers close to my age that did have significant and in some case deadly allergies, who were born and raised in the same environment.

Among my siblings, it is a completely mixed bag of sensitivity. Some were highly sensitive to many things, others were sensitive to almost nothing. If mere exposure to non-sterile environments was sufficient then we should all have had similar sensitivity to allergens but the variance in fact was quite high.
Tacit expressions like that are interesting and very rewarding to write, but I'd agree that it's way too terse. The Iversonian array languages tend to be like that, since they're derived from mathematical notation. (Though I have heard that tacit expressions are pretty much absent from production APL code.)

The aspect I find most interesting is the way primitives can be combined to build up functionality. It's closer to a declarative syntax, where the focus is on the end result instead of the steps to get there.
Can you link some?
> The odds that a homemade food stand accidentally gives a stray peanut to a consumer with a deadly allergy are low

The odds per food item consumed are higher for small food businesses that aren't as easily forced into absurd clean-room manufacturing. This analysis makes no sense.
Wait, there are schools that don't allow non-allergic kids to eat peanut butter, etc?
Cashless ATM is now blocked
Yeah but I am fairly sure it is an AI generated joke - and I chose to only laugh at human created humour. I use an AI to check for me if the joke might be AI-funny and not real-funny. Then only if it is real funny might I humour it with a chuckle. Future comedians will thank me for my contribution in protecting genuine laughs worldwide.
Fully aware. This discrepancy is exactly what this article is about.
> So did I but I had the bad luck of choosing Ubuntu

i hear nothing but good things about PoP_OS if you want to stick with a Ubuntu derivative.

certainly with linux you cannot just buy whatever hardware, but with just a bit of research (Intel Wifi, AMD gpu) everything works with 0 issues. im on a ryzen P14s AMD 4k-display thinkpad and only had to swap out the mediatek wlan card it came with for an Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210 (more stable, better perf, monitor mode etc)
Voter apathy is an issue, but I suspect the structural design of our representation has a bigger effect. Most seats in the Senate, and especially the House, are completely safe for the incumbent. Both parties’ primary systems heavily favor the incumbent, so actually voting out a particular politician in a deep red or blue state is almost impossible.
Yeah that's kinda my take too. A good manager should have enough knowledge to understand the field and be respected, but that's it. Putting your best technical person in this job would probably be a waste:

- excellent biologists, physicists, computer scientists and so on, are rare. You should put them where they can yield the best results. Same for people with managerial qualities.

- managing may requires qualities that are in conflict with excellence in a field. Juggling projects, building relationships or the will to play some political/administrative game may be very useful for a manager, but not necessary something an excellent developer or a surgeon would have maxed out as a skill.
Sounds great to me. TikTok is pretty, I don’t see a benefit for kids to use it. The type of content it has is hyper optimized for stunting development, in my opinion, I’m a way not found in most other social media. Also, it is rife with pretty illegal content. I would just say it doesn’t seem like a big loss.
I wonder how companies like IBM, Intel and Oracle were able to survive through the dotcom crash and 2008's financial recession, where Sun Microsystems essentially got obliterated. Did Sun Microsystems really had that bad of a management compared to them?
Why don't you just stop eating at restaurants and/or take appropriate steps to protect yourself?
I think companies would need to build the solution before this will become more of a thing.
I noticed there’s a huge push on this site to link Obama with negative policy’s. Look how many comments are flat out confused by the above post. It’s literally just a name drop. Like “something-something holocaust something-something George W Bush” level of criticism, not really adding anything to the conversation.
> Seems to me these aren't mutually exclusive

In the abstract, they are not.

Its just that the slavery explanation is factually true and the other is false, though it represents part of one sides propaganda (and more strongly that of the retrospective sympathizers of that side than the actual side, which was quite explicit about slavery specifically as the motivation.)
Pie is not better than cake