skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes end up crossing paths with birds while rock climbing. You try to avoid them where possible (especially if they are protected/endangered) but it's not always possible to spot them from the ground. Peregrines will warn you by swooping past you really fast, even if you are 10s of meters to the side of their nest.

It can sometimes end up in a weird kind of stand off, where they can see your path is through their nest or perch but they don't really know what your intent is so you just end up staring at each other. The most aggressive I came across was a big seagull, which I'm pretty sure was protecting it's eggs since it clearly wasn't going to move, thankfully that line was easy enough that I could just figure out an alternate way around. Climbing you also sometimes get to see some of the horrific remains from the predators - One time towards the end of covid lockdowns some peregrines had reclaimed a pinnacle due to the unusual absence of climbers. When I got to the top it looked like a sacrificial temple, filled with the carcases of all the other bird species, not to mention the bees nest en route, that one was a mini adventure.
An example of an anti-user feature I think Obsidian might fall into is making the end-user the product for the free tier. That's just how those business models work, they are inherently anti-user because the user is the product.

FOSS allows you to choose to be free tier or pay for their services. The difference is in the free tier: you can do the leg work and hack together your own systems to match their paid services (namely public hosting). Its sort of a promise that you can use, audit, help improve, and love the free product without having to be concerned about forfeiting your privacy or security.

Additionally, FOSS projects always benefit from community auditing of the code, increasing the reliability and security of the software instead of relying on a few individuals to catch bugs.

Anyways all this to say "not FOSS" might not count itself, but implies there are other anti-user features at play.
It's actually about how the White House (2 different administrations) pressured Twitter and other companies to do their bidding.
> if a different sub set of the population committed the exact crime

We don’t know who did this. Any assumptions about how one group is being treated relative to another is projection.
No, they are supposed to ask for documentation, not just a number.

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-docume...
Yea. To say nothing about the abuses possible if the US was in charge of the account unlocks for American citizens, picture for a moment if the Russian government was responsible for unlocks for Russian users of Google.

And then there’s the question of how the heck you scale this if you’re a new company and want to handle unlocks for global users.
nice, both of these are very cool, thanks. digging in now.
I can't tell if this is a humble brag, impostor syndrome, or just plain trolling.

Either way, a tiny bit of research reveals that the median compensation for a software engineer is around $120K, and the set of people making $350K per year is relatively small (top 5-10% of all software engineers).

By definition, not everyone can be in the top 10% of their profession.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/software-engineer-salary-...
Not quite -- this was designed to avoid developers using the "Input Monitoring" access, which covered whole-keyboard, etc. monitoring on a per-app level.

The permissions change is nothing new (introduced Fall 2019), and covers many more permissions than simply keystroke access.

Given the hotkey could be changed, keyboard-wide access makes the most sense -- would you really think it more "sane" to have to have a separate call and permission requests for each individual key, across apps?

Blame Discord for failing to communicate something that isn't a big deal, and hasn't been for the over 3 years this dialog has existed with it -- and worry more about what they're doing in the background, than Apple's APIs.
I don't see the problem with fixing shots in post. It's simply the best way to obtain high quality shots.
That's hilarious. In this case, the "swear" uses the old-fashioned definition (to give an honest testimony/promise; as in "swear on my mother's grave") rather than rude words.

If you're ever in Australia, don't forget to ask for a "Golden Gaytime". ;)
This reads to me like a "stay away! don't hire that guy" warning. When things get tough, who is going to put in the work to make the project a success:

a) The person with the "it's just an activity" attitude

b) The person who tied his/her self-worth to delivering a good result on time

;)
You might have just stumbled upon the Ozic secret of the Silicon Valley. Most of the guys who have made it rich so far did so on the ideas of others (while those who had grand ideas didn’t ship them).

When a core tenet is making things other people want, you tend to uplift folks who have no great thoughts of their own to sell.

I can imagine an Orwellian doublespeakessay on Steve Jobs called, “Saying No As The Only Act of Creation”.

Manager, meet thy Master.

PS: Was reading some Thiel approved Girard today, he mentioned something about the nihilism in society in which the secret of success being all about signaling success.
"but modern authentication tools have existed for a while now and it's time everyone learned to use them"

It's a nice thought, but overall computer literacy is still highly varied, and it likely will be for a very long time.

We still have a large percentage of users who use computers sparingly and by rote. I have family members who need a lot of help to do day to day setups and are going to have a hard time with MFA devices or apps.

"Other people could have an old phone registered as well if they don't want to buy a security key. It's a very minor hassle to set up and I can't see why people can't do it."

Minor hassle for you. Major hassle for a lot of users. Try real hard to put yourself in the place of a 77-year-old user who has limited sight and only needs to use a computer to accomplish very specific tasks - and has zero interest in doing more than basic email, banking, and a few other things that can only be done online. They have a smartphone only because it's a connection to their grandkids.

Because of the smartphone they're saddled with a Google or Apple ID that they'd otherwise never bother with. A TOTP app or YubiKey? That's well outside their comfort zone.

This isn't because these users are dumb. But the assumption that "it's time everyone learned" is based on the idea that everybody is using computers regularly and has resources for educating them - which is simply not true.

My kids, my wife, and my in-laws all use computers very differently than I do and it's extremely educational how people outside the industry see and use computers.

My 17-year-old only uses a Chromebook for school (grudgingly) and would rather do everything on their phone. My wife is fairly computer savvy, but still hits roadblocks. (She does enjoy forwarding me screenshots of particularly bad Phishing attempts...) And my older in-laws occupy most of their time far, far away from their computer. Singular.

Anyway - it'd be lovely if folks had way more empathy for the huge swaths of people who have less experience with computers. It's not the priority for them that you imagine that it should be.
Who do you think these Indy developers are and how would they get exposure and distribution outside of the App Store?

There is a reason that in the physical world, smaller sellers, authors, etc use Amazon instead of selling from their own site and use Amazon’s distribution.

How many Indy game developers for PCs try to sell on their own instead of going through the stores?

If I am going to start a business, why wouldn’t I take distribution costs into account and raise my prices?

Another question, Android allows side loading. Why do most app creators still go through Google Play?
That temperature drop sounds very unlikely. If you live in a well insulated home then you must have ventilation too, and that alone should replace the air inside multiple times each day.
There might be a reason why "build a better mousetrap" is a phrase while "build a worse mousetrap" isn't.

Although the middle managers who have destroyed things like the e.g. the Discovery channel are kind of doing the latter, but they'd argue they're making it better by increasing profits through cheap paranormal ghost shows.
No, I just a tourist in each country I pass through because I don't get paid by an employer from the country I happen to be in at the time, and I don't do any kind of freelancing in that country. I don't do anything to generate revenue in the country I'm in and I also don't get paid in that local currency, nor do I have a bank account in that country.
Or the classic: a corporation or LLC.
Some seem to be okay with the government and intelligence agencies working hand-in-hand with Big Tech to make sure we only get to learn and discuss corporate sponsored healthcare advice now.
We’re leveraging the work done by Druid so the plan is to use AccessibilityKit as the foundation. Our native renderer is essentially a GPU-accelerated HTML/CSS renderer so we’ll pull in all the accessibility tech there. We don’t want people to learn anything new to get started, so sticking with web foundations is smart even if it’s not as great as a bespoke solution.
Tough one, I feel you.

Maybe pivot into IT work that involves more physical activities and social factors?
Network engineering possibly? I imagine they move around more.
Or ethical hacking. It sometimes includes physical pentests and social engineering.
Maybe even IT management? Use that study voucher for it and return as the boss of geeks.

Being able to code is quite valuable so I would look into leveraging that.

If you're earning well right now maybe take some of that money and pay someone to help. People who know what kind of jobs are out there. Get a full assessment of your personality and skills. Are there agencies for this? Just spitballing here.

Lastly, try and see whether you already know deep down what you _really_ want but are too afraid to admit to yourself. That happens a lot.

I don't work in tech btw, so I have no idea what I'm talking about. Just a brainstorming session.
Not only Canada; also Bermuda and fewer restrictions for Mexico. All gone now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Travel_Init...
Real ID is terrible, and I am a perfectly legal not alien nor criminal.
Pinecil: Would you recommend this if the soldering job were more than just a few wires (e.g. circuit assembly)? I've had a couple of cordless soldering irons in the past and they were a bust - took too long to heat up, didn't hold their temp very well.
Foreign enemies? There is a lot well-documented violence by Americans against other Americans, especially attacks on religious minorities, racial minorities and LGBTQ people. Foreign acts of aggression within the US are exceptionally rare.
> The freedom isn't even universally supported on the left

It could be argued from a "leftist" position (whatever that means nowadays) that: it's mostly working class people that need to compete with immigrants. If the immigrants are undocumented or very poor, they are more likely to tolerate lower wages and unsafe working conditions, meaning that I (if I was a working class American) would have less negotiating power when it comes to my wages and work conditions, as there are plenty of people who would be happy to replace me. Also, working class people are more likely to meet with the immigrants that are engaged in illegal activities, whereas if you are middle-upper class or rich, you'll meet the educated, immigrants that maybe help your business growing or at the very least help you keep your household running.

I'm just trying to show a different "leftist" take, I don't really have a strong opinion on this issue as I believe there are good people on both sides and figuring out the best approach is basically impossible.
As amazing as this was, I do think subscription software and near-universal internet access has changed the equation now. Apple breaks backwards compatibility and old software all the time, and there's essentially no consequence.
I suspect this is a UI decision rather than "we would like to spy". Say you're a person who wants to use Discord's special key commands (from other comments "push to talk" and similar?), then Discord can have a dialog that says "would you like to do this?" which is then followed by the linked dialog, or they can just use the OS dialog (to avoid double-dialog to the user). It seems that they've gone for the latter, but I think I've seen this which means they haven't done even the most basic usage gating (I've never used any kind of audio in discord, so PTT etc shouldn't be being attempted).

You could reasonably argue that this is an API shortcoming on macOS - there's no real way that I'm aware of to add a global key handler outside of accessibility APIs, and those APIs basically just let you do nothing or listen to everything and then filter the events in your app.
Strongly agree.

The more that time goes on, the more that I feel like email is predominantly a combination of "automated account features" and "ambiguously-actionable spam". I'm sure some folks have meaningful communication via email, but for me - as much as I hate to say it - email is mostly a dead medium in which everything is suspicious by default because SNR is overwhelmingly low.
Yes, Google is just SPAM now. Kinda like Amazon.

In Germany, there is test.de which is funded by its subscribers. They tend to do pretty objective reviews (but in German).
I mean, I'm not a big fan of cruise ships, but it sounds like your life is a little antiseptic. Perhaps literally.
What you say is correct, but I am reminded of something David Harvey says: “wealth redistribution is the lowest form of socialism.”

If you have true community ownership of the means of production, then people gain wealth by working for cooperatives, not by state guaranteed benefits. In such a system I would think there is more flexibility in how benefits are distributed.
Yeah, I think cosmic_text doesn't really have a good story for font matching yet, but it's done most of the hard shaping/layout bit, which was the bit that was previously missing in the Rust ecosystem.
And a lot of space on the harddrive to house the last 20 versions of your operating system...
> You could tell the story as like, alcohol puts pressure on a population to evolve better responses, and with enough time the flush evolves and that helps limit drinking. But that's pretty just-so.

The "alcohol flush" reaction seems to be genetically conserved in Asia because it gives resistance to rice pathogens not because it protects against "alcoholism".
I feel bad to have to say that he may have been snacked on by a predator. If he could fly, he would probably have flown while you were there.
3nm Chips from Apple Supplier TSMC to Enter Mass Production This Week
> As can be seen, getting infected is actually not that bad compared to getting the AZ vaccine.

The analysis that your link is missing a comparison between the harm of getting hospitalized with covid and the harm of a case of blood clots. Without that severity comparison, while it does show that for all age groups hospitalization is many times more likely than clots it's hard to make a judgment either way.

> You also obviously haven’t read case reports for the people that got the blood clots and survived, if you’re only considering deaths as an undesirable outcome.

But you also need to count the people who got covid and survived with serious long-term symptoms, no?
You've made a very good point about the dangers of failing to learn from history, and I think that if you spent an hour or so researching how Hitler actually came to power in the Weimar Republic, you'd be able to appreciate it.
The point is that it gave him a text warning that basically said "press y to destroy your whole Desktop Environment" buried in a wall of text that you'd normally ignore. This is beyond terrible UX and would never happen outside of Linux/FOSS.
For me what puts Hacker News in the same bucket as Twitter, Reddit, or Facebook is that it’s a constantly refreshing feed of content that requires very little choice or initiative on my end to access. It’s always here, always novel, and I don’t have to think from a blank slate to figure out what I want to read, I just come and pick from the menu that’s been put in front of me.

I can contribute and participate actively by doing critical thinking and leaving comments but I can also read passively and barely even think my own thoughts. For me that passive version is the default.

I agree that social media is not the most accurate term. I wonder what a good alternative would be. “Mindless feed reading” could refer to the act of consuming it.
MZ: They trust me, dumb fucks.
Satellite is building their startup’s app with Dioxus!

https://github.com/Satellite-im

Dioxus is still less than a year old, but it’s getting more and more use.
Most regulations just screw up average people while being completely toothless against the actual criminals.
>Because a religious group in North Carolina did that, the power station powering the town with a drag show got shot up, and then they claimed "god works in mysterious ways" when interviewed by the police.

That doesn't mean she or anybody religious did it? Please reread what you posted.
I would argue that they’re already quite affordable in a marginal sense — the marginal cost in power to supply 51% of the hash rate for long enough to attack the network is not terribly high.

These attacks are not affordable in a capital sense when the miners are running near capacity. There isn’t an AWS with unlimited piles of hashing ASICS that you can rent for the hour at a reasonable price. You need to buy or lease these things, Ave capacity is finite.

But I suspect that, if mining profitability per hash drops enough, then the capital limitation on attacks will go away.
The Librem 5 looks great.

The thing that kills is for me is the lack of NFC. I haven't carried a wallet / cards with me since about 2018 and I'm not super eager to go back.
This Scientist lets critters sting and bite him for science.
How do you know Google execs are in full panic over OpenGPT?
I think this could really be the selling point, high performance native & web UIs. Nothing like it exists.

I imagined something like React & React Native, except implemented in a performant compiled language and runs anywhere using WASM.

But now that I think about it, maybe React/RN will be able to switch the core to WASM and keep the user code in JS, maybe this will be good enough for performance while still being more developer friendly.
I find the differentiation to be rather circular in its logic. The authors chose to call it "profound boredom", grouped it with "normal boredom" (which is, in fact, just "boredom"), called the union of them "boredom", and thus boredom can be great for your creativity.

All this mental gymnastic to produce the attention grabbing headline that something bad can be good for you, when that something bad is actually something good, but rehashed into the category of something bad. Of course, that thing which is good for you has not changed; we always knew that if you spend time thinking deeply, you might gain some insights or ideas. It's just a shuffling of terminologies, which conveniently helps market their findings.

By the same thought process, a human being can have 8 limbs, because here are the "normal humans", and there we have Billy the Octopus, who we re-categorize as a "Octopusian human". So, it's safe to say that some human can have 8 limbs.

It's like the gerrymandering of definitions.
Secret Life of a Children’s Party Princess
The OP isn't talking about time to themselves - they're talking about working through the holidays to avoid spending time with their kid. To be frank, this is a form of child abuse.

I've raised three kids. I know the importance of getting some time to yourself. I know there are times kids can be chaos. I know you're all-too-frequently operating on insufficient sleep. I know they can be very trying of your patience. I also know I spent every holiday with them - and now they spend them with me.
yo, correction vamp is more than cool. I was imagining already knowing what the progression is and then searching for matching midi clips. Vamp alludes to the possibility of auto feature extracting the progression and then searching for possible matches!!
The OP and their partner are 40 years old.

They had plenty of time for themselves.

They'll have plenty of more time in retirement.
Clone isn’t quite the right term since Digital Research made the original CPM which Seattle Computing used as the basis for their 86-DOS which they sold to Microsoft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
I've actually been having a tough time finding another job in Elixir. Sooooo many companies who use it are in crypto and I just have no interest.
You are being pedantic. Yes, if you're in a group and exchange discussions which are low-effort(memes) and high-dopamine(outrageous views) you are in the cycle.
Attack on Poland in 1939
https://historyandwar.org/2022/12/25/attack-on-poland-soviet...
someone on the internet said they were :D (there was some article on HN the other day. Personally I suspect this is just standard over exaggeration by reporters dependent on page views)
Ah, I see. I misunderstood your comment slightly, as it was the counterpoint to the GP’s 0.00001% comment, and not a number you came up with.

Apologies!
These services have existed for a very long time already.
Good example, but for whatever reason I don't remember that as vividly.
Steve Ballmer on KLOCs
I just self-warranty and self-return AliExpress items into the garbage can. I assume that will happen ~10% of the time, which is much less than my savings.

Ok, I’ll admit, sometimes I warranty claim and get a refund.

What I like about aliexpress reviews is that they seem to mostly be by well-intentioned Russians evaluating purchases on a strictly technical basis. Ali’s auto-translation is sloppy but it’s nothing like the wasteland that is most Amazon reviews.
and so does the seller here act as the “anonymous business” (OP’s words)? cash transactions w/o asking for ID or anything isn’t uncommon on CL. and there are CL users out there making a living from it (admittedly, they’re usually multi-platform sellers). at what point are such sellers breaking the law?
THank you.

I had no idea there were different ideas of what "real" meant, and it's my first encounter with the notion of a topos (other than a place: the "topos" was the toilet, the place where the boys went to piss at my boarding school).

[Edit] Also, I hadn't grokked that rationals were countable; but now you point it out, I guess they must be. Does countable imply enumerable?
I would bet the best ones took a lot of pride in their work, and we should remember that ego is not the same as bragging or bluster, which are often masks for insecurities.
It’s plenty easy to scam people on eBay if you’re smart.

I collect movies - and eBay has sent me bootleg DVDs and box sets countless times. They’re pretty convincing - even with stickers on the shrink wrap - but they are bootlegs regardless (sometimes poor printing, single instead of dual layer discs, no copy protection, etc.). eBay almost always makes me send them back despite my evidence, so I unfortunately know someone else will get scammed next time, but what else can be done?

Counterfeit Nintendo 64 cartridges are also becoming very widespread. eBay also sent me counterfeit AirPods Pro once. Very convincing box and look and feel, but the atrocious noise cancelling was the giveaway. It even made the little AirPods pop-up on your iPhone.
If you don't think bail is problematically classist to begin with, then there's no real disagreement here.
Who is "they"? The assailants have not been identified.
Simple solution: only allow the permission for specific keys.
Traditional media is a static website. Social media is infinite scroll.