skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't do that. A trademark might be lost due to that company being the first one to trade under that name, and part of that might be the court forcing the person owning the domain to transfer the domain name. If there's no trademark and there's no business at that domain there's no way to sue for trademark infringement.

I would keep it as far away from anything business-like as possible.
STARTTLS is a protocol. Allowing unencrypted connections is a policy. One does not imply the other.
Former employee at Assurance IQ, the company from the article.

One of our data scientists determined that the sketchy lead sales were a net negative to a customer’s lifetime value. Assurance IQ kept doing it because it makes (less) money faster.

It built a whole marketplace around this junk: https://www.gonectar.com

The former CEO did it to make quick money. Current leadership sticks with it out of ineptitude.

Something like 12 out of the last 13 quarters were unprofitable.
Tchaikovsky's books convey an extraordinary depth of empathy and intellect, knowledge and imagination. I just finished the 10-book Shadows of the Apt series... highly recommended.
From what I understand, auto manufacturers are not using asbestos anymore but the cheap Chinese replacement brake pads might.
Since he wrestled his whole life and will probably continue in some way or another to keep himself fit, he doesn't care.

However you can easily prevent your ears from "cauliflowering" after severe ear trauma if you drain the accumulated blood before it dries completely out after 2-3 days.

At some point if you train a lot some soft/protruding parts of your ears will harden a bit and some edges aren't as smooth as before but it isn't really noticeable to other people.
There are problems with using a browser for delivery of any secure elements. It's slightly better than nothing, but if the govt can coerce Apple into blocking Signal from the app store, then they can coerce Apple into compromising their browser to deliver a modified Signal web-app for certain people.
Loopholes in Google’s data safety labels
Wrong, they lower quality for non paying people.
Logic Solver: a boolean satisfiability solver
> If Figma wrangles $2-3B cash out of this, they could probably take down the entire adobe ecosystem.

I think you highly underestimates how much lock-in adobe has (and intentionally pushed, e.g. by doing what they can to prevent other programs from parsing their file formats, similar to what Microsoft used to do but fortunately no longer does).
Hypothetically? You just recently moved your site to a new domain name (your reasons are your own) and you want to advertise the new one even though the old one is “organically” first.

You want to control the snippet in a way that’s impossible with organic search.

Among other hypothetical situations.
I wonder why this filter doesn't work on my Pixel 7 Pro. I don't find any occurrence of this problem on the web.
Okay but why would you do that in a large company, you don't need every single developer triple booting. You've got 150 people and 25 of are RHEL, 25 are macos and 100 are windows.

and also the 5k license is a one time fee. over the course of say 5 years its

5100 [first two years]
+ (1125 * 3) [next three]
= 1695 a year [asymptotically approaching 1125]

if you want to target both mobile runtimes

+ (5 * 2000)[the mobile runtimes *are* annual although as with desktop you wouldn't actually need everyone to have both, or either]
= 3695 a year [asymptotically approaching 3125]

That's before any volume discount (I dunno lispworks but as a point of comparison Sicstus goes from 2550/seat to 1510/seat for just 20 seats) and unlike say Dyalog, distribution is free so only the devs need licenses not any one else in the org.

I'm not saying it's cheap mind you but even at 3700 a year * 100 devs, if your bumping up against sharp edges in SBCL: 370000 only gets you 1-2 devs to work on those edges.

At the size of a Google adding developers works out to be cheaper than licensing software for all the existing devs. But a lot of companies don't have high 3-4 digits worth of devs such that they can break off a team to work on support technology instead of core internal business apps or products.
like mastazi, I also remove snapd immediately. I get all the benefits of ubuntu and lose absolutely nothing by removing snapd
That is reassuring, thank you!

Have you considered moving the HQ to some more privacy-friendly place? (Switzerland would be an obvious choice, but I've heard good things about Seychelles too, for example.)
https://acoup.blog/2023/01/20/collections-the-nitpicks-of-po...

Bret Devereaux has done several highly entertaining posts about some of the shortcomings he's perceived in the show.
Show HN: Sova – Knowledge Base Software
I'm not sure I completely understand what you mean.

For some people, none of that applies.
How long would you say this input lag was? Like how many milliseconds? Some people, especially non-gamers, just "don't see" lag unless it's significant. So you could be right that there is lag even if others don't see.
+1 anecdata, I've tried to get colleagues off of adobe suite for years to little success.
You'll find very few people in the UK that want to be able to have weapons in the way that the USA does.
> Android 4.1.2 was released in 2012, a year later.

It does not mean there were no security patches after this though. But let's say you have a point here, security support on Android is usually a complete joke.

> The latest version of iOS for iPad 2 was 9.3.6 released in 2019, 8 years later.

Okay, but that's not the complete story. The previous version, 9.3.5, was released in 2016. It seems 9.3.6 only contains a GPS related fix. It's good they provided this fix (I guess it makes the iPad 2 way more useful, as a GPS device) but it's nothing substantial. Still stuck on a late 2015 browser with some fixes in 2016 when the Galaxy S II could run a up to date browser in 2020

So...

> Apple's support for its mobile and portable hardware far exceeds any other manufacturer.

Yes and no. I agree that they provide support for far longer than any other manufacturer. But after this, you are dead stuck. I'd rather have an Android device supported by the manufacturer for 3 years (Android One) and be able to install and use up to date apps and browsers on it for years after this, and be able to install a Lineage OS on it. The support won't come from the manufacturer and this is a shame, but at least you have reasonable support for years on many device thanks to Lineage.

> very very very few people will have the knowledge and the skills to install unofficial unsupported versions of whatever on their phones and tablets.

Indeed. Though they can still find help from a knowledgeable friend. I suspend most people don't though.

That said, I'm done with Android too, because of this "sad state of affairs" you mention. I am lucky to never have got people used to me having the usual messaging suspects that require an Android or an iOS device so I can get away with avoiding them altogether.
What’s our problem? a self-help book for societies from Tim urban
I don't get why this is significant. How is this a better substrate than any other flexible plastic? Isn't the issue with flexible electronics the robustness of the circuits and components?
The headhunter spam helps to keep aware of who's hiring in the region, then when you will something that might seem interesting apply directly.

Although some of them are also good, and might help you to at least skip directly to the interview on site.
You will be surprised. They don't only share data. They also modify it.
FWIW I've been in NL for a little under 2 years and got a fresh Dutch number when I arrived, and I have received zero spam calls. Even after registering my business with the KVK and entering my number into the public record -- when I did that in the states it generated a lot of spam. To be fair, I am reluctant to give out my number to businesses, so perhaps that has saved me from the typical experience.
btw there is a followup to this article, doing investigation of who was the author

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/who-made-fy_iceworld-a-fore...

and most interestingly, there is a comment burried in the comments, admitting the he was the original author - and it checks out with the article. It was 15 year old Taiwanese guy. (Who is now a software engineer.)

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/community/profile/dmgkyd
I mentioned that Americans depend on the whims of the market for their retirement, rather than most developed nations which have pensions and government sponsored retirement. This is generally what people mean when they say "socialism" as described in the current capitalist system we all live under. In America, you call your politicians that advocate for this sort of thing, "democratic socialists." Bernie Sanders is an example.

Did you think I meant a socialist revolution seeking communism? Is that what you think Germans, Fins, Taiwanese, or Norwegians living on government pensions are doing lol? Well, that demonstrates my point re: americans are allergic to the word "socialism." I mentioned better ways for people to have a guaranteed retirement, such as a socialist policy of government pensions, and you immediately thought I was calling for a Stalinist regime?

Out of curiosity, are you an anarchocapitalist? It sounds like you believe a free market of bitcoin will grant people more freedom than socialistically regulated capitalism. That'd be nice, but the evidence doesn't seem to be in favor of this argument.
Google very intentionally made ads to look like a part of the search results. The reason why we know this is intentional is because it wasn't always like that.
WebGL Based Sliders/Carousel
The way to do this is just to become a member of one of NPR’s member stations, which provide the network its main source of funding (with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting being a distant second, IIRC). The member stations are also responsible for creating much of the content distributed by the network, though National NPR in DC produces the major drive-time news shows (Morning Edition and All Things Considered).
I’ve actually purchased a number of things through instagram ads, so I would say that they are getting better. Now I can also say I have been disappointed by the quality of some of the stuff I’ve bought through ads… so now if I see something interesting I’ll google/amazon/reddit it. It at least makes me discover new types of things to buy.
I don't give myself the excuse of perfectionism.

Good luck.
A tale of Phobos – How we almost cracked a ransomware using CUDA
For me there's two big offenders: KPN and AD. They each tend to call once a week. Recruiters cold-calling is indeed pretty common.

Amount of scam calls I've ever received can be counted on the fingers of a single hand. There was this time that scam texts (usually trying to impersonate either a bank or PostNL) were common, but I haven't received one in quite a while.

Most disturbing were the energy company salespeople that would actually ring the door, and somehow knew _exactly_ how large my consumption was.
Try and stop an open source project built on standards
This is about how to build a recommendation engine into postgres by storing embeddings from OpenAI in a table and querying them with pg_vector.
If you want to create sequence diagrams from text that are much more presentable than what you get in Mermaid, check out app.colibridiagrams.net.

This app may not have all the diagramming syntax Mermaid or sequencediagram.org has, but should be enough for 99% cases.
This was bought by the former Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (now late)...was listed for sale by his heirs but didn't find any buyer, so they likely decided to eat their loss and sell the engines and other parts for scrap.
Tailwind does not have their own UI library as reusable self-contained components. Instead Tailwind UI gives you the source code of these components so you can customize them to your needs. I much prefer that approach to that of pre-baked rigid components
> I honestly expect many of the people who go "nah I'm just that good" even in this thread are actually cheating.

This, players that are actually good don't feel the need to brag about it on hacker news.
I've had it work effectively in the past. I once had the guy waiting for 10 minutes while I found my 'password', which he was eager to have me read to him over the phone. You can imagine what it was. :) His response: "you bloody bastard, I <expletive> <expletive> mother .. "<CLICK>
I love it! The double spaced text looks very easy on the eye and it will work especially well on a phone / tablet with a shell. Is burgr published and can I install it? Ship it with some free books too!
> The Register article is overly kind about this

Wait, what?

I wrote the article. In what way do you feel I am being "overly kind"? You baldly state this as an assertion without any backup or argument or evidence to support it.

> I appreciate the "news not editorial" flavour

Not really, no. I added in the analysis and evaluation that I felt it merited.

> but the real story is that Ubuntu apparently consider themselves apart from the community that makes their software

Why do you feel that that is "the real story"? On what basis?

Ubuntu is not a community distro. Ubuntu is built and maintained by Canonical on the basis of Debian.

Debian is a community distro.

The Ubuntu remixes are, arguably, community distros, but a requirement of being an official remix is only using upstream Ubuntu packages. I specifically spelled that out in the article, with a link for citation, but the reason I know is that I approached Canonical and asked about making new remixes, years ago, and they told me no, for 2 reasons:

* One was that one of my planned remixes used proprietary freeware. This, for clarity, did in the end get launched as a product, but without Ubuntu branding, at Canonical's demand.

* The other one needed external repos because the versions in Ubuntu's repos are too old. Ubuntu would not take newer versions into their repos; the packages came from Debian, and Debian didn't have current versions, so for Canonical it was Somebody Else's Problem and there the discussion ended.

> and they should now be consigned to history by that community

If you don't want to use an Ubuntu remix, nobody is forcing you.

But millions do, more than any other free Linux distro. Ubuntu has merits. Its users like those. Some don't. Debian hasn't gone away. Neither has Slackware, one of the few distros that predate Debian.

That is how evolution works. We humans evolved from apes, which evolved from monkeys, which evolved from things very like lemurs, but all of those still exist because they are very good at doing what they do and being what they are. Monkeys are better at being monkeys than humans are at being monkeys.

Debian is better at being Debian than Ubuntu is, so Debian continues to exist.

Debian continues to be rather harder to install, which is why SpiralLinux exists.

Debian continues to be rather dogmatic about init systems, which is why Devuan and antiX and MX Linux exist.

Debian continues to be built from rather out of date packages, which is why siduction exists.

And so on.
I'd never heard of her, but her art is nice. The authors credit her, as they should, and that should be enough as we're only talking about inspiration here.

It's hardly ghoulish to make new works in the style of a late artist, when you're open about what you're doing and giving credit.
Don’t JSFuck with me: Part 1
> of someone who is not very familiar with Unix/command line tools.

Given that they mention wc, tr, sed, grep, diff, patch, jq, je, and vim, and show an understanding of what they do, I don’t see where you get that conclusion from.

> Interpreting author in the best light, I think their point is: "I want formats to be obfuscated and unreadable

Again, where do you draw that conclusion from?
> The government, and prominent child protection charities have long argued that encryption hinders efforts to combat online child abuse - which they say is a growing problem.

Translation: can u give us a backdoor in Signal, plz? for the kidz, promiss.
Tastes are our evolved response to support us in an environment we no longer occupy.

This is also why ice cream and candy manages to be bad for us (in the quantities we consume) despite tasting delicious.

Note that morality isn't part of evolution's calculus any more than it would be for leopards eating your face.
This gives me hope for the future. I’m ok with shutting down the “honest leads” along with all the others as those are few and far between.

I had a neighbor who owned a common .com for housing construction that was top seo and all it did was collect your info and sell the lead. I had actually used it before I met my neighbor and hated it. He ran it in the least scammy way possible, but it still boiled down to having a bunch of contractors call and email me and the experience was bad.

I think phone calls should be run like apple does push notifications. Someone who doesn’t care (apple) confirms you want them and provides a simple way to turn them off when you no longer want them.

I’ve had very few spam push messages and never two from the same org as I just block them.

Texts and calls should be similar. Agreeing to be contacted by one vendor and then getting stuff forever from anyone that vendor sells to is ridiculous.
GitLab team member here. Thanks for the feedback.

When not logged in, gitlab.com will redirect to about.gitlab.com which hosts the website [1] and the handbook [2]

At the top menu on the right, `sign in` will bring up a form to log into GitLab.com. After login, the default dashboard shows an overview of projects, etc. and you can use the main navigation. Tip: "Your work" on the left menu is the first iteration of a new navigation experience, released with 15.9. [3]

The mentioned redirect will not happen when logged in, or by visiting a project namespace directly, for example https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab or https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org

To download GitLab and install it in a self-managed setup on the website, follow `Resources > Get Started > Install` to see the available packages for Linux, and cloud-native installation (Kubernetes, cloud) [4]

[1] https://about.gitlab.com

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2023/02/22/gitlab-15-9-rel...

[4] https://about.gitlab.com/install/
I have `<firstname>.nu` as one of my domains, some company that resides on the same postal address as the owners of `<firstname>.se` reached out to buy the domain from me for I think it was €1000. I just told them no, I've had that name for 15 years, I've used it for my personal website ever since and have email and such set up.

I don't care if they printed out my domain on a car print or a card or something that they give out. That's not my problem.

The thing is, companies can (at least under some TLD's) claim domain names. But this claim has to be tested. And the test that I'm aware that exists is kinda if you have some kind of claim to it as well. It may that you own a business with that name, but it's also claim enough that you have that name as your name. Then your claim is valid and you had it first.

I'm not sure how it works with .com, but I wouldn't think they are very different.

In whois records I've seen something called registry lock, may be worth for you to look into that: https://internetstiftelsen.se/en/domains/tech-tools/registry...
SPF and DKIM allow using domain reputation instead of IP reputation. Especially with IPv6 IPs are fairly easy to aquire and can be "stolen" either by spoofing/highjacking the network or more easily by compromising some hosts and sending from there. Hijacking a domain is generally harder as you need to compromise a mail server to get both the IP and DKIM key. And there are less mail servers than WordPress instances to hijack.

Sure, you can buy domains but that leaves some paper trail and generally you will see added spam scores for new domains.

So SPF and DKIM don't improve spam scores on their own, but the give a much more reliable path to building reputation.
Or maybe it will just hallucinate this number too.
You are thinking of Snap probably. Some flatpaks have $HOME wide-open, but Flatpak itself has no mechanism to completely bypass the sandboxing, as evidenced by things like Wireshark being unable to actually capture packets and many IDEs being unable to actually call build tools.
I agree, I misworded the statement, the sun does indeed shine from northwest for a couple of hours in the summer months in Switzerland as well.

The point in the linked article is that the grandseigneurs of Swiss topography didn't like that the usually sunny and warm south slopes show up dark and shaded in the map (and the other way around). They felt this to be unnatural and an error to be corrected. That was back in the 1920s and obviously has not been changed.
Great.. now "they" really won't shut up about Kombucha..
Regarding tip number 1, how can one find an enterprise-class domain name registry? Any advice?
You know what they say: Emacs is a nice operating system, but a lousy text editor :)
You're getting hit with basically the same %% fees credit card companies charge

PayPal's very clear on this (as is Stripe, etc)

The only "feeless" transfer service I know is Zelle ... but there's also no recourse if you transfer money to the wrong target, the product doesn't arrive, etc
> Pop os is probably the best consumer linux desktop experience.

I've tried it. I really did not like it.

May I suggest that you try to separate your personal preferences, which are your own business and 100% fine but are yours, from a general canonical announcement such as "best consumer... experience" which is a sweeping generalization and is not true?

The existence proof that Pop OS is not the best consumer experience is this: the most widely-used desktop Linux in the world is ChromeOS.

It has something around 200-300 million happy users, and ChromeBooks now outsell Macs and have been doing since 2017 in the USA and 2020 worldwide.

ChromeBooks are pure Linux machines, with a desktop Linux based on Gentoo.

There are about 10x more ChromeBooks in use than all other desktop Linux distros PUT TOGETHER.

So, that proves by sheer numbers that the most popular consumer Linux is ChromeOS. It sells, for money, more than all the free distros put together.
I generally avoid discussing Quantum Computing as I know next to nothing, but I've been wondering:

Are there any inherently stable/noise free/non-Volatile Quantum Computing methods, at all?

Even just maintaining the state of a single Qubit for long periods without an exotic lab setup, or reliably transforming a single Qubit from a state, to a state with a near zero error rate?

My apologies if these are general knowledge
What if a software developer didn't complete his work within the deadline?
Y'all get in here !!!
Let's discuss this important topic.

Also add answers and opinions related to :
What do software developers do when they are forced to write a code/project within an impossible deadline?

What should a software developer do when company is giving unrealistic workloads and deadlines?

Is missing deadlines common in software development?
There is such a thing as mail forwarding - it just doesn't work with SPF. In fact, since submission and outbound connections are both SMTP pretty much all mail servers to happily forward mail from your client to another server - only with domain and authentication restrictions, but those are not required by the protocol.
Have you noticed that 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴? It happens everywhere: in Google searches and on social media platforms.

With AI search gaining rapid ground, we're going to click even less.

In yesterday's edition of 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, I examined the implications of a zero-click world for marketers: what happens to the "old" metrics we used to rely on and where will most of the marketing efforts and budgets go in the near future?

The TL;DR of it: 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 — 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.