skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer to separate my Google account from my real email. I've got a gmail before Android because it was free but I never used it. Basically I squatted myself. It's only a spam black hole now.

If anything happens to my Google account it has no effect to my business. I might get locked out of the Play store if I won't be able to register another account with the same phone number. The worst it happens is that I have to get a new number which actually is a lot of work (banks, etc.) Does that happen?

Anyway, the less I use my account the less problems I should have, so no Gmail.
Anecdotally, when I get extremely consistent sleep, like a week or more of going to sleep in the same 5-15 minute window and having an 8 A.M. alarm, I start to wake up at like 7:58/7:59 am. I suspect it's just my 'biological clock' falling into a routine.

The actual biological mechanisms responsible for this is a question for someone more educated than I am in that space.

Notable anecdote factors: I never consume caffeine after 3pm, I use taped down double layer blackout curtains so there is virtually no change in light level, and I have no blue light / stimulating mental activity an hour before bed.
I am not directing this at you personally, but:

Why do we have so much compassion for people arguing against forced vaccination, and yet so little compassion for people who were scared of an unknown disease and angry that people were pushing back against the best known way to slow or stop the spread?

Why is the burden of rationality on the latter group? Why don’t they get to be hostile?
I think despite the goals of GDPR/cookie law being laudable, it really has turned into a complete trainwreck for the European tech sector IMO.

I work with tech product companies in both the EU and US. EU companies are completely stymed by GDPR/privacy implications. Features are often delayed for weeks/months as it goes through endless cycles of GDPR etc compliance discussion, which often doesn't have a concrete answer in the end!

Smaller tech companies in the US are in the whole not doing this. They are moving far, far, faster because of it. It really is night and day.

Sidenote: EU tech companies tend to be much more risk averse than US ones in general. This means GDPR really scares leadership there and the often lose the bigger picture.

The worst thing about these laws are that the regional/national courts are all interpreting them differently, often with major implications.

I think we will actually get to the point where many tech products just block the EU from using them. It is impossible to comply with the law IMO with so many conflicting interperations from regional courts and if the fines keep ratcheting up it will become uneconomic to serve the EU market.
No, Cloudflare is a company that offers many products. And the services utilized by the project (Pages, D1, R2) would most likely be classified as PaaS by most.
Michael Burry's warning for the 2023 stock market crash
sorry- it was sarcasm - I'll try to remember to put a <sarcasm> next time.
Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide Program
From your article:

> A better option, he says? Start with a two-layered cloth mask that has been washed, which gives it the capacity to filter better. If you want to go one step further in protection, use a KN95 mask, he says.

So it isn’t like the suggested option is some esoteric thing that you need a 3M factory to make. “Single layers cloth masks don’t work” isn’t technically a lie but it omits that there was an alternative solution that was within the means of like… anybody with a sewing machine and a washing machine to make.
I recall not really coming across the OSI model until university, after a few years of hacking.

It seemed like a great idea that had never really taken off, some of the "layers" just didn't map to reality.
Added back the very next release

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/release/1.21.0-notes.html

> With the release of macOS 11.3, several different issues that numpy was encountering when using Accelerate Framework’s implementation of BLAS and LAPACK should be resolved.
If you’re going to include my words, which I chose to remove, go ahead and post the whole thing instead of being rude and taking my post out of context by only posting the part you wanted everyone to see.

Don’t do that and tell me I’ve deprived people of context. You've already taken away from otherwise valid discussion about development with an industry and why this sentiment has proliferated by pushing my post to the bottom.

I could have also simply replaced the sentence with, "I don't like it when people repeat that Safari is the new IE," but HN doesn't have a recorded policy of restoring posts from downweighing.

If this is the only offending sentence, it seems like pretty shallow moderation to me.

“Edit out swipes” is a part of HN guidelines. I removed the post because clearly moderation found it fulminating, I agree it was, and now you seem to think you own my words.

If you have a problem with edits after silent moderation and believe this to be abuse, which contradicts current guidelines, just update the guidelines to include such a statement.
Game Theory and Its Influence on Randomized Algorithms
Show HN: Rototill a Node.js library to make type-safe routes for Express
The big pro is that the only data that ever has to move is that which is actually accessed. It’s extremely cost-effective to produce, store and query statically vs moving it into something else of sufficient scale to handle the entire universe of data.

The downside is that you have to cache data, there is a latency penalty on the first request for any new data. One would expect performance to be poor when querying parquet directly using these new lazy dataframe libraries, but it’s actually amazingly fast. Very surprising.
AoC 2022 in TensorFlow – Day 6. Efficient solution with dataset interleave
Does "C ABI" mean the same thing as each platform's system ABI?

E.g., on x86-64 Linux, the System V x86-64 ABI [0]?

[0] https://www.owalle.com/2021/12/30/function-calling-sequence/...

EDIT: Added a link to the ABI doc.
They pivoted away from being an SMS system and that became a legacy part of it, that still worked but wasn't essential.

The part where Twitter was SMS only is like a footnote in its history.
Using eBPF and predefined inspections to minimize “observability tax”
If I remember correctly, Samsung currently is the most significant player in the memory segment. Any estimates on how this investment will affect Kyoceras market share a few years later?

Also curious if someone here used and benchmarked their SSDs for high-throughput IO. We were considering buying those but went with Samsung in the end.
When I was traveling with Renfe in Spain, they required the following information about me in order for me to be able to buy a ticket:

- Full name

- Phone number

- Passport number

Was it always like this in Spain, or did they introduce this after the train bombings in Madrid in 2004? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

Either way, it felt strange and unusual for me. In my country we can pay in cash and not enter any personal details unless we want to. In Spain, taking the train with Renfe is like taking an airplane to another country. They even have security gateways at the train station like the airports do.
Have you considered that your reaction may be out of sync with the rest of the adult world that worked pre-covid? Your fear is likely a hieghtened reaction due to your life stage development at the time of a pandemic. Coming of age during something as life altering, albeit temporarily, as the COVID lock downs will have a more dramatic impact on your world view than those who grew up prior to it.
I don't see much of anything to rip on, aside from the fact that I don't actually believe in simple software under the hood, because more complex software can target more use cases and be more of a standard.

Over the past few years I have been aggressively removing tinkered-with tech from my life, and it's been great. Thousands of lines of code gone, many side projects that nobody else seemed to care about archived and forgotten, several new popular technologies learned, features removed that weren't worth the trouble of explaining or learning.

I call it decustomization, the art of making your tech less interesting.
> Japan did not experience a major wave before the borders were reopened. The peaks were lower than in Europe and the US, and contact tracing never failed as badly.

Japan's testing rate was described as "ultra-low … 0.2% of the population"[1][2], no one can claim to be able to compare the infection waves with any certainty, and there certainly were major waves[3]:

> Japan is reporting nearly 200,000 Covid-19 cases a day—more than any other country in the world currently

> The ongoing surge in cases—which is being referred to as Japan’s seventh Covid wave

That was a month after a tiny reopening of the border so unless there were 6 waves in a month, you're a tad off.

What there weren't were major numbers of deaths compared to some other places.

I can't share your faith in Japan's general response and contact tracing (after a number of high profile incidents[4][5], and this excellent and realistic article by the Diplomat[6] goes over many of the flaws, including poor contact tracing that wouldn't work anyway[7]) but I'm going to go with a reason much more obvious for the lack of deaths, especially given what we know now[8] - less obesity, and the old in Japan are far more active than I've seen in Europe. I can't speak for the US but we know the stereotypes.

Certainly, "closing" the borders did not do anything but impoverish people and cause trouble.

[1] https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/japans-contact-tracing-method-...

(that article is a bit presumptuous in its description, there was a long way to go at that point;)

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-tests-per-thousand-...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/07/27/japan-i...

[4] https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-experts-admit-d...

[5] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/05/japans_covid19_contac...

[6] https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/lack-of-transparency-complic...

[7] https://inference-review.com/article/on-the-futility-of-cont...

[8] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/23/1145170935/covid-19-exercise-...
Happy user of passwordstore reporting in
Assuming you are an American, what is your sick day policy? Does she have to use vacation time to stay home when sick? How much vacation time does she have?
I left Facebook 8 years ago, but have been in and out of sites like Reddit, HN, trash news and the like. I’ve gotten rid of my smartphone on and off a few times.

I’m 27 and as I get older, I become much more cognizant of how I both spend my time and sources of my knowledge consumption.

I’ve since deleted Reddit and primarily only keep in contact with people via iMessage/post cards/phone calls or in person events.

I’ve been actively monitoring energy levels through the weeks and realize that limiting my screen time and sedentary time to 4 hours a day is key. A simple hack I’ve learned to build the habit is:

- Don’t have phone in bedroom at night

- Read the same time every day for 30 minutes minimum

- take pleasure in boredom

- exercise even if you don’t want to (and your body isn’t exhausted from excess exercise). I like to oscillate between activities like surfing, yoga, running and walking to keep exercise always interesting.

If you need some research backed knowledge on easing on the dopamine, check out Dopamine Nation and Deep Work. Both solid books that can help shift your perspective. For people needing more energy in their life, I highly recommend Why We Sleep
Albanian IT staff charged with negligence over cyberattack
A missing one I use is zotero. You can take a snapshot of the webpage and add notes and link related content.

For pdfs, you can use a zotfile addon where you can highlight, add notes, etc. using your favourite pdf veiwer and zotfile will then grab those highlights and notes and put them into the zotero entry for that file. You can then view these without having to open the pdf and search through them. This is particularly handy for when the pdf is large.

Of course the final advantage of zotero is that you can then easily cite things, which was its main purpose.

https://www.zotero.org/

http://zotfile.com/
> some random ad would popup with a close button the size of a pixel.

Run an adblocker. The Web was a total mess even before GDPR came along and not limited to Europe. If the issue of denying sites a revenue stream bothers you then perhaps make yourself a promise that you'll turn it off when ad networks stop being a vector for malware and/or stop engaging in the un-permitted collection and sale/abuse of personal data.

Personally, I run NoScript (as well as ad blockers) and so cookie popups are relatively rare on my Mac, but I still get them on iOS. I don't like them, but I see them as a warning that the site is going to try to exploit my personal data in return for serving me content.

It's also worth pointing out that there is no actual need to have a cookie banner unless you're doing something with the data that actually needs permission. For instance basecamp.com was GDPR/ePrivacy directive compliant when I was there, but never needed a banner because they decided to stop collecting and processing personal data in a way that required permission.
I tried taking cold showers and I can guarantee that "some time" is actually just 5 minutes or so. Not worth considering the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
I can't remember why but I had to switch my phone number from my personal discord to my work discord, either to get it to allow me to login from my iOS Discord or something else asinine. I remember it took me maybe 40 minutes to get into the thing, haven't seen anything like it.

So yeah, essentially you do need to verify.
Usually I would've expected so, and I even considered including it in my answer. But the last 2 years has made me question humanity too many times. It's a shame.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221227125216/https://www.nytim...
Strapi[0] is great and Payload[1] also looks promising.

[0] https://strapi.io/

[1] https://payloadcms.com/
It annoys me, too.

But you need to realize that, unless you work at some place special, in your company's eyes deadlines still need to be met, and taking sick leave is frowned upon.

In fact, taking too much sick leave can hurt your career. Many HR departments have a system that flags employees for sick leave "abuse". Our latest version of that software is enhanced with "advanced AI", so you know it's gotta be good.

Humans are not reasonable beings. Even you. Even me.

Is it right or healthy? That's definitely up for debate.
Well, you need some standard convention on how functions parameters and return values map to registers and memory locations. Whether those conventions are called "C ABI" or not doesn't really matter, those ABI conventions are much closer to the CPU architecture than any specific programming language anyway.
Question: Does anyone know which password manager each company uses
Does anyone know which password manager each company uses?

Like Alphabet, Twitter, Microsoft, Tesla, Meta, Netflix.

As far as I remember Apple has an agreement with 1Password.
Your text mode console is also a terminal emulator, albeit one provided by the kernel.

Very few people use hardware terminals; the scarcity has driven prices up to the point where it is sometimes cheaper to get a full computer, monitor, keyboard and serial adapter than to buy a working VT-series terminal.
>Who are these “feds”?

Anyone who knew what Snowden did and did not report it is a fed. There are no two ways about it. DoD, Congress, the executive branch (CIA, FBI, NSA) are all feds.
Thinking Outside the Pot: The Bond Between Taiwan and the Steam Rice Cooker
You're in luck! An early engine test for the original Prey leaked just this last week. (So early, it's before the portals concept.)
I'm pessimistic long term on tech, but specifically our current flavor of tech. Most of us work for companies that deliver or indirectly deliver economic value to other office workers (or promote gig economy crap that undermines worker rights - the list goes on).

The current machine is a totally broken model though. We have optimized to sell software to each other thats sole purpose is to just make more money on what already exists.

We haven't invented anything to the betterment of mankind in quite a while. I'm sorry, but making software (for example) that makes someone else's mundane job easier is not revolutionary - it's a low effort cash grab.

There is so much potential for tech growth in things the world needs, like energy, climate technology, feeding people, battery efficiency, sustainability. That stuff offers real value.

For example, if you're building another ad delivery platform or PaaS, give your head a shake. It might be a great idea, but we do not need your intellect to solve this problem. We need you to put your entrepreneurial gifts to solving real problems that the world has.

There is room for both - but what I'm trying to say is that if you have the means, please try to solve the hard problems instead. Because we really need someone to step up and 99% of what I see is missing the mark.

Tesla and its CEO is a dumpster fire right now, but EVs are a good example of a hard problem that is valuable.

If technology itself were like a stock portfolio (to a degree it is), what we are building is heavily skewed to junk status. Most of the money is in garbage reinventions of the wheel that are just padding the pockets of people that already have too much.

The web services era needs to die in a fire for now - we need better physical technology / hardware solutions for the next chapter.
I was at presentation about GDPR in Norway and the implied message was similar. It can be tricky to implement GDPR correctly, but if a small company will mistake on that, authorities will simply point to it with a reasonable timeline to fix it before any talk about fines.

Bigger companies is supposed to have resources to implement GDPR properly the first time.
As we close the chapter on 2022 and sharpen our pencils to write next year’s, here are the Top 2022 SaaS Reads that were clicked on the most by the SaaS Weekly community.
Can you tell me how GDPR has improved European lives over say a New Yorker?

Go ahead, I'm waiting.

The number of HNers who are willing to accept stupid laws and beholden to bureaucracy is mind-boggling
No code doesn't take away the need to understand the problem, capture requirements and specify the solution - and these are often the hardest parts most poorly done.
I can go to the sources, read studies and ask for opinions on stuff I don't know about.

What I cannot do is read a deleted message.

I'm more scared of those eager to use their well oiled delete and ban buttons, than someone spewing bullshit.
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Octane X App Launches for M1 and M2 iPads
Is there an optimal solution to that for all sizes of the arrays?

E.g. I’d expect for small/medium then re-writing as a fold over the input arrays would be fastest because you’d only traverse once & everything would fit in cache.

However if the 3 arrays combined size is larger than L1 cache, I’d be strongly tempted to bet on the naïve 3 operation approach to be faster. You’d save so much time on cache line flush / reload activities.

But then if 2 arrays are larger than L3 i’d expect going back to the fold / single traversal to win again because the iterating 2 arrays at a time behaviour is no longer any different to iterating 3 at a time.

Untested hypothesis.
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This is a 100% honest question and is not meant to be antagonizing or mean spirited:

At what point would you cease being “fully masked up”? What data or authority would you need?
I'm not quite as technical as you but what do you think of Cloudflare's explanations for why they use cookies for security and load balancing purposes here?

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/r...

The law says cookies that aren't "necessary" are illegal without explicit consent. Perhaps there's room for "necessary" to include cookies that are helpful technically even if not absolutely the only way things could be done.
I still remember when Gmail had the live counter that showed you how much disk space that was being added to your account in "real time" down in the corner back when it first launched.

I had to finally cave in last week and pony up to get rid of the "You are using 98% of your storage space!" banner across the top of my Gmail.
So you _do_ draw a line.
In a few cases I generate nicks or totally random user names but only if the other users of the service see my nick/username.

In those services and in all the other ones I still have to give them my email to confirm the accounts and actions like replacing that email with a new one. Or login with OAuth, if one does that sort of things, which is back to giving our email to somebody else.

Without the original email we are toast anyway.
> let the computer do the arrangement

Isn't that constraint propagation?

I'm discovering JS at the moment. I don't fully understand the async model, but the promise seems like a generic constraint of "the result is now available"

Maybe you could have the "flow managements" as other constraints?
Uh yeah.. also a hint of “Ozark” in there, to make it uh .. taste like nepotism
always poison your cookies when your done with them.
They could have just reached out to Walmart, Amazon, etc. told them that the government is buying all of their stock at a fair market rate via eminent domain laws. By lying to the populace they have set vaccine trust and trust in the CDC back decades. They could have told the truth and still easily gotten what they wanted without causing longterm harm.
This is the reason I went with LastPass, because they have a feature designed and designated for recovery after death, with support, and 1Password would require me explaining to my family how they would use the emergency kit after I died, and they would likely 1) be pissed at being asked to understand it, and 2) not even try it after I died, and suffer all the inconvenience of not having access to my accounts.

It's frustrating, but the fact that 1Password's emergency kit is primarily intended and documented for me to use, and incidentally happens to enable account recovery for my heirs as well, means that they won't use it. One look at the documentation and they'll write it off as techie stuff that I was into that they won't be able to understand. With LastPass, there's stuff online specifically explaining that it's intended to provide access for family members in case of death, and I think that is reassuring enough that they'll stick with the process until they figure it out.
I am the author of the blog and I want to thank for all the feedback here. Because I now do realize the article starts with a high premise but fails short. Will do a better job next time!

What I meant to talk about is as follows: we have engineered away all sorts of discomfort from our lives and I think that's bad. So (1) be aware of this, (2) seek some discomfort, and (3) if you run into discomfort, take it in a positive way (this I didn't convey in the article).

But yeah I don't mean to say chop of your limbs! Not sure how people are reaching that conclusion.

Thanks HN!