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Ask HN: How do you generate ideas?
When I have time for myself, I find myself thinking about the same things often in a loop. I will try to think about or solve problems that I have failed to solve before, without any new inputs or a different approach.
There are some things which seem to break this cycle which include:
1) reading books of any kind where I'm introduced to a different way of thinking
2) stress-free vacation where ideas seem to come like a waterfall
3) Important changes in my life which seem to break the routine and give space for new thoughts.

What are your tricks to get into a state of producing new ideas? To clarify, I don't only mean ideas meant to increase your productivity but also ideas about how the world works, understanding yourself, new ways to have fun and so on.
We were very happy using Jumpstart Pro and were able to stay connected to changes as it evolved.
cold water, but it gets warmer over time
Can you just reset my password to P@ssword2023!
> We didn’t have trouble understanding where user pain points were back then

If anything, people seem to have much more difficulty understanding user pain points right now.
Why couldn't you use your old phone to get access and switch over?
That's what India did with its UID, Aadhar.
The initial days were so bad with security. Anyone and everyone could take the id number and fetch info about you.
Now you can lock access with biometrics and even after unlocking it auto locks in 5 minutes.
You can also generate a virtual unique id number to prevent fingerprinting across various services.
There are still some cases where the security of data seems to be questionable, but it's working there.
They also have oAuth support for websites to use aadhar profile. But not many services have integrated with it yet.
I highly encourage everyone online to visit BlackHatWorld forum at least once.

Really opens your mind to the amount of grift and scams and shady stuff that happens online.
You do realize this is more pedantic than insightful, don't you?
Apple Silicon really dropped the ball on Thunderbolt 4 with no support for eGPUs of any kind....
I'm also ignorant about this topic, but it's certainly accomplishable. There's a (quite old) video with demonstration: https://youtu.be/jjkcPn19fcs
> They're also not viable for road trips. Teslas can make it work but you still have to be willing for your trip to take 20 - 30% longer than it would with a gas car.

In my experience, 5-10% longer is more accurate.

Very little of my charging time is spent waiting for the car to charge. While the car is charging, I'm using the bathroom or eating.
> Search for something where you likely won't know any trusted brands (such as car covers) and you'll get 200 results with exactly the same picture but random brand names.

> All of it is imported crap from Alibaba, of course, and Amazon sellers won't even bother customizing the images.

Which, by the way, is also the literal user experience of AliExpress or Taobao. You forgot to mention widely varying prices.

Whenever I see that (or any Chinese on the packaging), it's a clue to me to go look for the literal same item on AliExpress, usually for a significantly cheaper price (like $1.50 + $3 shipping vs $17, to give a recent example).

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Emergency-Compatible-Re-Char...

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804659044321.html
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I would love a private office. It wouldn't need to be very big - and it wouldn't even need a door. Just a door frame without a door on it would be fine. I guess it's not even private in that sense, I just don't like people standing behind me.

Quite often in online discussions I notice people mention the move to open plan offices. I'm 31 and I've never known anything but open plan offices (apart from WFH).

When did the switch to open plan offices happen? Did people have private offices before that or was it only cubicles?
I'm not assuming anything except my main hypothesis which is simply following the corporate money interests. If I was a rich corporate owner, what would I do?

Well, I'd own real estate, I'd probably own it in expansive places such as NY and California, and I would use the media to influence public opinion and policies to advantage me.
What does it say about your technology if you need a certification to be competent in it? Simplicity and ease of use are no longer its USP?

But more importantly, are software certifications making a comeback? There was a time when we had certifications for everything from MVC to Spring to Scrum until the industry learnt better and started deriding them. It's not uncommon to treat certification as a negative signal during hiring, because it's usually used to fill in for a lack of real world experience. I hope we are not seeing the cycle shift again.
The problem is that people are very bad at assessing what is in their best interest. For sure, the result is a pretty thorny ethical debate, but you can't deny that the ability of the electorate to veto things would not necessarily result in an improvement.
> If you have any evidence that that doesn't give him any control, I'd be happy to see it

Here you go: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/nips

Not joking it’s a protocol and clients decide what standards they want to implement.
I don't have an answer for this, really, and I can see it. Still, I think if workers prefer a certain way of working, they aren't cattle, or just a number, and they should be allowed to make this decision for themselves.

I'm older, financially set, and have a partner with a good job, so I can't make that call for others. Part of how I got to this place was by leveraging professional relationships along the way. I was never more than a couple of phone calls away from something if I was starving. If I didn't have that I'd just be a house husband I guess. Or maybe a NEET.

10 years ago, I would have told youngers to get their ass back to work and never have lunch alone. Now that I'm rounding the corner towards retirement, I can't give that same advice in good faith.
You can get the database out of the phone. It requires adb and root, though.
I think this will be the eventual goal with a simple syntax.
There's not a single quote in the article from anyone who works at Target blaming this on shoplifting.

How many times do these headlines need to be proven false before we finally accept that retailers are not taking these actions because of a "shoplifting crisis"? It's not why Walgreens closed [1], it's not why Whole Foods closed [2] and when the dust settles it won't be why Target did this either.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/whole-foods-close-transgen...
But in Europe they are being forced to allow side-loading anyway.
> And if I did live in a Jason Bourne movie, I'd expect the ninja to just beat me up when I get home and unlock my safe for him, assuming I had bought an unbreakable safe.

Here I was thinking you might blow him up with the toaster. Or crash him into a garbage truck after an extenuated car chase.
What Neuroscientists and Philosophers Understand About Addiction
Amazon reviews and ratings are still useful signal if you know how to interpret:

1. Anything less than 4.6 is probably junk.
2. Ignore the 4-5 star reviews, only read the 1-3 star reviews
3. Really read them.
4. A good product will still generally have 2-3% of reviews at 1 star. Less than 2% is a red flag, more than 4% is also a red flag.
He talked about this style of discourse a couple of days ago and said he doesn't think it applies in today's world. He thinks its more similar to good vs evil and that both parties seem to not want a good outcome anymore. Without that underlying principle, debate can't really occur.
> no form of data personal protection is really a good fit for the American system

Not true. We have the Privacy Act of '74, HIPAA, GLBA and COPPA, to say nothing of e.g. California's CCPA and Virginia's CDPA [1]. Or Illinois' biometric privacy protections [2].

> the US leans heavily into the fallacy that if it's legal for one individual to do some as private activity, then allowing to be scaled up to mass corporate behavior is inherently reasonable

This is true for rights, which don't get diluted through assembly. Not rules or the law. Plenty of laws exempt small businesses and natural persons.

> the American concept of "consent" mostly functions as a legal fiction whereby less powerful parties are coerced into signing a bunch of binding legal documents

Not entirely true. See: EULA enforceability as it pertains to natural persons [3].

> to define a property right in personal information (information about yourself), making it non-transferable and revocable at any time

One generally defines a property right to enable transferability. Revocable property isn't property, it's a license. Making information one's inalienable property that can only be revocably licensed sounds neat, but it doesn't add value over enumerating data rights.

[1] https://www.comparitech.com/data-privacy-management/federal-...

[2] https://www.jacksonlewis.com/sites/default/files/docs/Illino...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enf...
I think it needs to be evaluated relative to the volume of the work. If you take a novel in the public domain and just change a few sentences, I don’t think you can claim copyright for the modified novel.
Office relationships can be good and also extremely toxic. I doubt there is any statistical evidence that being in the office leads to any net benefit of relationships.
What's the difference between telemetry from the client side, and aggregate logs of server api endpoints?

Assume no PII, what's the difference? What do you mean by dark pattern?
Our onboarding docs specifically tell employees to NOT use Google Authenticator precisely because of this issue. I have no idea how Google let this fester for so long, literally if even one (1) person over there was using it and got a new phone, they should have known about the issue.
But, see, here's the thing: you also wouldn't know if you're wrong, because you'd be getting just as biased a sample, only from the other side—if you're just in the wrong chatrooms and forums.

Furthermore, what you are doing is absolutely, unquestionably, telling other people "I don't know what you learned from these people, and furthermore, I don't have to know, because my experience, which is universal and unassailable in all possible ways, tells me that it must not be enough. If you think you learned enough from these people to be a good mid-to-upper-level programmer, you're wrong. No one can learn to be that good from this. Again, with the only evidence given being that I was unable to do that in this way."
All of it. It comes down to process followed by the dev team.

But, it is done at the time of writing the PR or requirement. For eg: "Add paid subscriptions" feature request. If you have, say, a markdown document that outline the feature request, it would be a simple matter to have a script pull specific tags to build your release note. A ProdMgr would own the release note anyway. So, it doesn't really matter.

My 2 cents, anyway. Others might have a different view.
Social justice for VCs now?
I think it lends more credence to the words in the article; this is a reduction in G&A while R&D is unaffected.

I've never been accused of being a RH fanboy. Layoffs are tragic to hear and observe. This one seems limited.
If only that was more broadly supported.
There's degrees of bias though. The BBC has a charter that is supposed to prioritise impartiality, and yet they show strong bias in many topics.
I would assume downtime in terms of "we're paying all these warehouse workers to stand outside - now we have to send them home and the warehouse is unusable, we don't know if the product inside is salvageable due to potential water damage, etc. etc."

Probably a lot easier on the business risk side of things to not have solar on the roof because then the risk for a fire is massively reduced in the first place.
Yes, I think you're right and Gen-Z in general seems more open to it.

I've worked several union and/or government jobs. Yes, it sucks that you end up carrying some of your co-workers. But knowing that your family isn't going to starve because your new manager doesn't like your outfit is nice.
Valve does this for a couple of their games, see a similar issue with Dota 2[0].

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/2285
I imagine the process is like any acquisition. From what I've seen so far, basic things people look for:
1. Business Registration (LLC, B corp, C corp, etc)
2. PnL for past 5 years
3. Tax statements
4. Banking statements
5. Inspect codebase, database, and cloud infra.

Also I'm surprised that you'd ask it here. Considering you're about to drop $250k, I imagine you'd hire a lawyer to look over everything.
I also grew up on the internet, but disagree strongly: the challenge of onboarding remotely is real, and more challenging the equivalent on-site experience.

And to be very precise: I don't think that remote vs in-office onboarding is simply different, or even that it simply requires more intentional efforts, but that it is on the whole entirely more complex in non-trivial ways (in time, effort, and attention by all parties - aka: more cost).
I don't know if it counts but this site also doesn't collect personal information, I don't even remember if I had to verify an email.
The latest version seems optimized for keyboard shortcuts at the expense of easily accessible 1-click copying of username/password/one-time password. To me, this introduced a large additional cognitive load where instead of a click, click, click, I now have to remember that CMD+C is username, CMD+Shift+C is password, and (something else?) for One-Time Password.
Imagine instead that you could speak to a human. One with the authority and skills to truly help you. That is the dream, not a less shitty robot.
The slide into Enterprise™, you mean. Lots of big companies use 1Password as an IT solution for secrets management. That $6.8 billion valuation has to come from somewhere.
Can somebody recommend a free relay for kicking the tires?
IMO, "scam" is a strong word.

I absolutely believe that Tesla will eventually figure out FSD. It's still 5+ years away, though. I would definitely agree with recommending people don't buy it, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a scam.
Businesses in general or your particular business? Your question is far too broad as is, it's as if asking how engineering teams operate, there are going to be a ton of different answers.

You need to discern a little better what you are actually trying to understand.
A big topic of conversation at nostrica (nostr's first conference) last month was how to maintain decentralization. One of the biggest concerns was having a client or relay provider build features outside of the protocol to gain market share and enable them to lock-in users.

You are correct that there is no easy solution to these problems. There are draft NIPs that attempt to solve many of the problems you've described. You're welcome to join us in the conversation and work with us to try and solve these hard problems!

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls

PS- I don't think the web is effectively controlled by large companies. Email is a different story though. Hopefully we can build nostr to be more like the web than email.
There's a solution to this problem for the big actors. Bug bounty programs that pay as well or better than the likes of NSO group.
I think it's that v8 feels less an app crafted for individuals and more like yet another generic SaaS made for corporate customers.
Yes, and this is very exploitable by dictators and those wanting to become such. If you can't get people to buy into your propaganda paper you can at least get them to buy into nothing at all, detach themselves from any notion of objective reality, and accept all complicity with whatever war crimes the regime wishes you to commit.

The most dangerous situation for a dictator is to be faced with multiple independent and competing sources of truth that all disagree with you, because they will propagandize your subjects away from you quite quickly.
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If there were some checkbox still checked (perhaps in some submenu that needs to be expanded), then "confirm my choices" might obviously have a different consequence. That might not apply here, but I am pretty sure I have seen that on other sites before. I am not a laywer, but "confirm my choices" just sounds like it could be interpreted in a way benefitting the website owner's interests in some cases even if everything is unticked, whereas "Reject all" is a very clear statement of disagreement. Similarly, you wouldn't say "I agree to everything on this list after I have removed all items", but "I disagree with anything on that list you gave me". But that's a general pattern it seems.
No, it can't be a previous password
Well, I mean, it does seriously call into question what new-Twitter means by 'verified'...
I host my own relay and it's stupid easy to set up. The problem then becomes relay discovery, which is an almost completely unsolved problem. I do think it will get there in though.
If you damage your Android screen it is basically useless unless you have pre-emptively set up some kind of remote access process...

Twice I've had to spend hours manually resetting/renabling my 2FA after a phone was damaged, and sans buying a new screen just to get a backup of the phone, there aren't many other options.

(Similarly, this was the time I learnt that the UK gov does not issue backup codes for their 2FA and you just have to spend 45 mins on hold to have them reset it for you.)
Without fractional reserve banking, banking kind of loses purpose. The problem is knowing where to draw the line. It's like dieting vs drugs. If you're a drug addict, you can stop taking drugs. But if you're trying to diet, you can't stop eating, so there's always this uneasy balance and a temptation to go overboard. Derivatives, risky bets, money printing.
That is possible. But, so far, the decision-making has been faulty: the decision to go ahead without, at least, the flame diverter, was a poor decision. Elon will be loathe to make any decision other than "Patch it up and add a flame diverter that fits between the legs of the launch mount."

Secondly, no decision at this point will save them two months. They are in for many months of reconstruction, apart from all the other design changes needed. They are also in for FAA scrutiny that will take at least several months. There is a large incentive to be unrealistic about this: A realistic view of delays makes an already very optimistic schedule for supplying a Starship-based lunar lander to the Artemis project look very risky.

What we are seeing is the limits to scaling an iterative project. It is transitioning from learning how to weld stainless steel, which can evolve quickly, to learning how to fix multiple large problems when every iteration costs 39 rocket engines, 200 tankers of fuel/oxidizer, etc.
I was referring to the reverse but wasn't clear: Nvidia would get better driver compatibility for free if they open-sourced it fully. Point was not that #corporation gets free labor by using open source, it’s that their product would be better for free if open sourced.
I think folks on our side of the equation are underestimating the value of generative AI by focusing on its obvious flaws. But the flaws (reasoning, goal formation, agency, optimization, information retrieval) are all well established sciences with excellent models and algorithms behind them. What they’ve lacked is the ability to do semantic synthesis in abstract spaces, which LLM do quite well. Use a multimodal AI and present it with a picture of a bar with cowboys playing poker. Pretend to be a goal based agent and assert you need $5 to the LLM. It will analyze the image and discern the is a poker table and you can make money from the poker game. It can describe in detail and annotate the image where to go. This can inform a navigation model where to go, and the navigation system can optimize and execute a route. Once there it can take images of the poker game and the LLM can describe the hand and the state of the game to a poker playing agent. The agent can tell the LLM moves to make, and the LLM can convert that into instructions for the navigation system.

The LLM itself can’t create agency, goals, reliably win at poker, navigate, manage control systems, etc. But it can very well “glue” these traditional AI systems in a novel way that’s never been possible to date.

Btw, I tried this as an experiment (with me being the traditional agents). By not delegating the parts that require agency, reasoning, calculation, or optimization to the LLM, I was more than able to prove to myself this approach is entirely feasible. With finetuning I was able to get it to output popular encodings as well so the input and output was properly structured.
Relative to a naively imagined abstraction of a safe, perhaps.

A decent home safe can be reasonable protection against that loose scrap of paper with backup codes ending up in the trash can and may even keep it legible in the event of a house fire. But it is true, it won't be much help if you are targeted by safe crackers.
> in the past it was the poor people whose jobs disappeared

I'm not sure that's true. When the industrial revolution displaced factory workers making stuff by hand, they were a new middle class that had moved off subsistence farms to work in the city.
"How (But Not Why) Marc Andreesen Was Wrong About Software Eating More Of The World Than It Actually Did Between 2012 and 2022, And *Handwave* Maybe AI Will Turn Out That Way Too"
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Ask HN: HN for Visually Impaired?
As visually impaired, I have large font, enabled zoom, dark mode for almost everything, strong contrast, etc. HN being one of my favourite site, is not visually impaired friendly.

Do you have plans to support visual accessibility features?
So what do you do when your phone falls down and breaks?
i agree, it's fun because of the people. a product is "not fun" when it impedes on those personal connections. like the obvious thing of injecting ads everywhere, a product doing that, is not fun in my view. it's infuriating
Quite interesting to see that Google Accounts, known for locking users out i.e AI auto-banning without recourse, might become a major gatekeeper of other accounts as well.
If it is so essential, how have they been so successful since 1P was released nearly 20 years ago?
> There are also a lot of arrogant American engineers need to justify their inflated salaries compared to Indians, Eastern Europeans and other offshore workers. With the rise of remote work, we should hopefully see those inflated remote salaries settle to the international norm.

As much as I support remote work, what you suggests is not the norm. Mainly because companies hire much more employees than contractors. Companies cannot just hire employees from dozens of different countries (unless they have branches on such countries or they hire an intermediary company to handle the taxes/health insurance stuff). Companies cannot just hire people who are +-6h away from their timezone.

Companies usually hire remote employees within the country they operate. Which is nice because you can live in a modest town around the nature and work for companies who have originally emerged in the capital.