skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want irate non-technical people? Tell them they need to come up with something better than Password123.

People hate passwords. You can explain to them why passwords are important, how people from the outside can do all kinds of nasty things if you pick weak ones, but people will ignore all that because they never need to deal with the fallout.

When these people eventually get hacked, they will blame their computers, their antivirus, their browsers, the websites they use, and most likely also the most recent person who touched the computer.

Password security is like herding toddlers. This is why I'm looking forward to a future where physical keys and passkeys are supported essentially everywhere. We don't even need them as 2FA because they work fine as a first factor in most cases, though 2FA would be much better of course.

And to be honest, whoever manages normal people's IT is probably partially to blame for the hate most people have for passwords. Things like monthly password resets, session tokens that last less than a work day, separate passwords with slightly different usernames across different applications, and all kinds of other useless limitations are why people hate passwords so much: using a password manager once or twice is fine, but having to use it to copy/paste passwords every other hour is tedious and terrible.

Companies unable or unwilling to fix their terrible password setup should invest into something like Yubikeys to at least make the process less frustrating. The difficult part is getting a backup when people lose their keys, but you can probably use passwords as a fallback until a new key can be arranged.
The review of Derrick Reimer shows the 5 stars as grey, looks a little bit like 0 from 5.

Ironic for a site about UI design.
> Specificity is the algorithm used by browsers to determine the CSS declaration that is the most relevant to an element, which in turn, determines the property value to apply to the element. The specificity algorithm calculates the weight of a CSS selector to determine which rule from competing CSS declarations gets applied to an element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity...
Personally speaking I want my car quality and my car interior to be good enough, and the tech to be great.

I have a year and a half old Tesla and despite all the complaining about build quality I hear, I haven’t had a single issue. The interior is simple, comfortable, and has fewer components that will eventually break. It’s good enough. Why I love the car is the tech. Self driving completely aside, the software is fantastic, thoughtful, and always getting better.

Contrast that with the BMW SUV I recently rented while on vacation. BMW seems like it’s at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. It’s loaded with buttons and physical accoutrements that they charge for as premium upgrades. When it came to the tech, it was absolutely maddening and was the single reason why I’d never buy one. Just finding and connecting to CarPlay was nearly impossible, buried 10 pages deep in a buggy and unresponsive interface.

This is representative of my experience with almost every traditional auto manufacturer and I rarely see any signs of progress. If “software is eating the world”, it’s barely begun in the auto industry.
> Too many people lease. Too many people are driving cars they don't actually own. Too many people see cars as temporary.

To paint this as a consumer problem is hilarious to me because I used to work for a rental company that was owned by a big automaker and the way you describe consumers looking at cars is EXACTLY the way we did as a business. Why? Because cars are rapidly depreciating assets that carry high maintenance costs, and if you’re not paying attention to the age of your fleet, you’re completely SOL on you operational expenses.

Whatever “partnership” you used to have with your car was cooked up by a talented marketing and sales team to convince you that your car was more than just a car, and it clearly worked.
“Quick” and lawyers/court are antonyms.
It drives me nuts when systems are unnecessarily built with "magic DI" frameworks rather than initializer/constructor DI. Why is it so hard to pass a dep into the initializer? Make the initializer parameter a protocol/interface and you can pass a mock in at testing. And you can also grep the whole codebase for callers and find the exact concrete type passed in at runtime.
Thanks for the correction! That subtlety eluded me.

On whether the assistance measures apply: the Home Affairs FAQ you referenced says they apply to "companies, businesses, organisations or individuals who contribute to the communications supply chain in Australia... This definition captures telecommunications operators, providers of electronic services, developers of software and manufacturers of devices."
>The LM simply has no way of knowing whether the sequence it just predicted is grounded in reality or not.

Base GPT-4 was excellently calibrated. So this is just wrong.

https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r
Ben Thompson of Stratechery has been writing about this for a while - a big part of it is Microsoft is attempting to shift their product into a subscription model for content with Xbox game pass which is likely a lot better for consumers (and for Microsoft due to azure), it’s why they acquired activision. This is a good idea and Microsoft is doing it correctly (as opposed to Google stadia which had the games over the network idea, but stupidly kept an old business model that made no sense).

Sony sees this as a competitive threat and EU regulators are bad so don’t understand what’s happening - their restriction of the activision sale is itself anti-competitive because it locks in the existing business model (which is favorable for Sony) and reduces real business model competition which would benefit consumers.

All this focus on exclusives is dumb and part of the old business model.
I would imagine the author is asking a question from a company where Google Workspace is the default tool, and would like to produce document that can be shared with others in Google Drive?
Ask HN: What are your favorite “retro” electronic products?
For reasonably generous interpretations of "retro". A bit vague, but I'm curious about all the possible categories of electronics.

I have been feeling the urge to pick up a nice old computer/laptop/device as a digital typewriter. I would love for it to have near instant response time and a nice keyboard.

This led me to the question, although I hope the responses aren't limited to that category.
> employees who are also serious about their work.

Come on, office attendance is not a sign of being "serious about their work."

Farting in an office chair all day is frequently a performance to feel busy or fill other needs in their lives.
It should be easier to track file opening history of any running program. There is strace, but grepping/parsing the output for this purpose gets very messy.
Step 1: Go from the top.

Step 2: See a function.

Step 3: Ctl+Click on it.

Step 4: Read the code.

Step 5: Go to step 1.
If you can remember your passwords I have a strong suspicion that you’re using weak passwords and/or re-using them. All my passwords are 12+ (whatever the site max is) random alphanumeric+symbols and don’t get re-used across sites - there is no possible way I could remember them all.
If you are in k8s, I freaking love FluxCD for this reason. It points where your sources are.
A collapse or real estate would be a good thing for the economy. It would free up middle class paychecks to be spent on more goods, driving long term growth of our businesses.

The risk is without the correction you end up like many EU countries whos main GDP growth is real estate which only takes you a few generations to fall apart.
It was technically an ad for their service centers.
Show HN: Open-source shooter which made it to AC: Valhalla and Skydio drones
So just for fun, I wrote a complete multiplayer game in pure C++. I even wrote my own texture atlas packer, which is now used by Assassin's Creed, 2 scientific publications as well as a drone manufacturing company - each of these basically mentions the name of my game. There is even a claim that Unity patented some of the ECS ideas that originate from this project. See https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia#tech-highligh... for details.

By the way the game is pretty darn good. 10 people connected yesterday to test a new map:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHLPzZqANlM

It took me well over 10 years to code it all by hand, but the journey was truly worth it.
> I want X, Y, Z and I can't live without A, B, C and also I really like 1, 2, 3

Well yeah sure... that's why we completely fucked up the world in less than 100 years. It doesn't really qualify as an answer though.

Plenty of places, and times, where people had kids and no cars, you only """need""" a car now because we built everything around them.
Apple Has Finally Unveiled the Vision Pro. Here’s What It’s Launching Next
I remember borrowing Tintin books from my local library in rural Manitoba, Canada! I would get every one that I could transferred to my branch. That was in the early ‘80’s
You’re underestimating the costs of E2EE even in messaging. There are plenty more that cause trouble (e.g. lack of recoverability, no content-based spam filtering, various key sharing problems), but I’ll focus on one that’s probably the easiest cost to talk about: no server-side search. If you want useful search, you have to download the entire collection, and be bound by your client’s performance. (In theory you can just download/store/upload an index, but in practice I gather that isn’t workable and doesn’t help anything.) This is generally tolerable for something like iMessages which is designed to be used on one or a very few physical devices where it’s persistently stored, but is very impractical for things like web access and larger collections, things like email. By most people’s threat models, E2EE for email is a terrible idea.
The transport infrastructure very much determines this. If you live in a city with good public transport you don't need a car. I have two kids and live in the UK. When the kids we born we got a car but didn't need it much as many places were accessible by light rail, in a place with ok (but not great) public transport. Then we moved to a place that was badly connected and had two cars. Now we've moved to somewhere with better transport and the kids are old enough they can cycle just about anywhere they're interested in going. Going to sell one of the cars soon.
Their (Serif / Affinity) site license costs are exceedingly reasonable, too. Especially for education customers.
The point being made is that there is plenty of very cheap land adjacent to the nationally preserved land.

The reason it's cheap is that no one wants to develop it.
> Cars are now just a commodity

Henry Ford literally invented commodification so when exactly, in your opinion, was this not the case?

Edit:

This comment is actually really funny. Starts out strong with a kind of a "back in the my day" tone that's actually backhanded victim blaming (the consumer) and then completely jumps the shark and somehow ropes in commodification as if that's all in the control of consumers.
It's openly acknowledged in the published material: "OpenAI ChatGPT generated text for this book. The editor provided direction to generate prototype text for each topic, then edited all of it by hand for clarity, correctness, coherence, fitness, and the like."
I honestly though the Wii U was an accessory until years after it was released, and at this moment now I couldn't tell you whether an Xbox X or S is better. Is S better because 'S-tier' is the top rating, or is X better because 'X'box? Either way could make sense, you can't intuitively divine this.

It wasn't very long ago that kids were struggling to get their parents to stop calling xbox and playstation "the nintendo". Young parents today are probably comfortable with the brands of xbox and playstation, having grown up with those brands, but expecting them to be up-to-date on the latest models isn't smart. There can be a considerable gap in understanding between those who are tuned into gaming matters and those who might be making the actual purchase. The value of simple branding should not be underestimated.
> A growing number see them as "necessary evils" and treat them like a bad habit that we all should kick asap.

This is the correct attitude to have.
You can get high quality stuff out of China, but it is hard to do for one off purchases unless you know a bunch about it and have some hints and tricks (because if there is a good deal someone will start making a crap version with the same photos).
The average white collar worker can afford to pay for an appetizer at a restaurant for lunch.

DC museums are free.

Public golf courses aren't a luxury item.
Yes, it is very possible that "engineered" fire-resistant wood (and all the added chemicals that come into play with that) could be toxic, one way or the other, we are already using in construction lots of "engineered" (composite) wood, and I am personally not much convinced that even that is really-really "safe".

As a reference, for formaldehyde emissions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde#Safety

it took decades to categorize them as toxic/carcinogen and then put limitations in Laws and building codes.
I am not misunderstanding anything. I'm 51 and have been programming since I was 10 in 1982- Rest assured that I know what a "function" is, and I know what "optimizing for a local minima/maxima" is from my machine learning coursework. You can't just say there's a "reward function" without defining it. It's otherwise a completely hypothetical assumption, and assumptions are beliefs, and beliefs are useless from the perspective of rationality. There is otherwise nothing rational about some of the things I felt I needed to do, and yet a very disproportionate percentage of them seemed correct in hindsight.

What YOU have to realize is that you (like many others in the past) can only seem to understand the explanation for something in terms of only what is already understood. And that there is nothing "magical" or "special" about our current understanding (unless you believe there's nothing new to discover, which is preposterous hubris).
I feel like automobile quality peaked around 1995-2005; probably on the earlier side of that range. They used to make little roller skate cars that got 50MPG, and expected to run for 200k+ miles. We have two small trucks from that era, 250k on the Dodge and approaching 400k on the Toyota.

We're weird people who treat our cars as pets tho.
People don't know about the ability to export and import passwords, though. Modern interactions are so much "everything is locked behind this branded app" that it's a miracle people still remember they can email to other domains.

What they do know is how annoying it was to have to set up LastPass, entering each and every password, dealing with accounts and setup and recovery keys, and the process of getting used to it.

Unless LastPass adds a button that says "click here to switch to a competitor", I doubt their remaining customers will ever leave the problem.
It often is that blatant. Even when international donors send free food it often ends up getting seized by government forces or militant groups.
There's some degree of active involvement with this. I've long suspected Apple to do this for example. The best version of iOS for any iDevice is usually the one just before the one that they use as the hard cutoff point.

Granted, my big example of this is quite old (the iPhone 4 would run iOS 6 really well, while on iOS 7 it was a glitchy, slow, battery-draining mess) but it does seem to be a common trend (my last Apple phone, the iPhone 5 ran quite well on iOS 9 but would just have a complete breakdown if you installed iOS 10).

They were IIRC also caught red-handed a couple times deliberately releasing updates to older iDevices that would just wreck their battery life and have a few lawsuits pending about that.
Sure, you could also just go to a supermarket. If you don't know what to expect, why risk it?
I lost weight cutting out sugar soda. I did move initially to zero calorie but have cut down on that and moved to seltzer. I didn’t experience being hungrier drinking the artificially sweetened stuff but would lean towards it better to have it in moderation. Alcohol is another big one.

Some people don’t have to count calories but as someone growing up in America I think I can speak to this - some of y’all are eating full meals when cooking with taste testing or having what would be considered 3 serving of pasta or cereal in a sitting. Serving sizes might be significantly smaller than you imagine.
Wasn't it meant to make money for Apple?
Copywriting.

I rarely see it ever mentioned in UI/UX but Copywriting has the single biggest factor in UI/UX.

The number of words you write, what you write, and information hierarchy has massive impact on page layout which then ultimately changes the design of the page.

You could be like Yahoo back in the day and have an information hierchacy literally coprywritten onto the page.

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/yahoo-website

Or you could be like Google, and only have a search box.

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/google-search
Dan G is his name.
2016-18 i think i ordered a bunch of crap from aliexpress just because it was possible and i got really good experience with refunds for no delivery and such. i bought tonnes of garbage but it was a nice experience.

then the banhammer dropped and i haven't touched it since. are we still able to buy from aliexpress today?

edit: just to see if i could, i have bought plastic hooks worth 6 INR from aliexpress. they got delivered. mind=blown
Ask HN: Anyone using a PDA nowadays, for tasks, light note taking, etc.?
I'm thinking of getting one, either new or used. Used to have a Palm V and then a Palm Zire earlier. They got damaged after some years of use.
Users, please give recommendations, and pros and cons you found, also what all you use it for. I will be googling, but wanted personal recommendations. Thanks in advance.
> Stack objects are safe too

"I'd like to have the same drink this gentlemen has."

Of course stack objects are only fast (that'd why rust likes them) but entirely unsafe. You cannot return them, you cannot reference them from outside, and you cannot have too many or too big of them.
I have more than 400 websites in mine, but not a single one has custom fields or attachments and I can't think of a single reason why that would be necessary.
I have also pretty much left mobile gaming for several reasons.

But it's ridiculous and a real shame: I have a pocket computer that I'm already carrying 100% of the time, and whose capabilities would be a dream compared to what we had when I grew up with console and PC games in the 80s-90s... and I don't use it for gaming. I'd rather sit in front of a PC or Steam Deck... often to play an 80s or 90s game (although I also play newer stuff).

By the way, some of the few games that are worth it on mobile (as mentioned in other comments in the thread) are ports from other platforms or emulated games. But it feels silly to me to play those on mobile as it's clearly not the best platform for the job.
About 80% of these are pretty cowardly and the others overly verbose. Saying “sure I’ll meet you later this year” is not saying no. It is either lying or just a yes. Ignoring people with bounces is also lying and cowardly. Just say no.

The one with the priorities is too long and vague. It is also known as “yes, and” as in “yes and which thing should I not do?” Much more to the point.

People will respect you more if you literally say “no”. If you start saying things like “I can’t right now because …” that just invites people to do problem solving like “ok so what if I write the blog post, then can you do the job interview?”.

A more direct variation is “no. I can explain to you why if you want”. Then the answer is clear and it signals there is no room for negotiation. That is a real no.

Or just “no”
Other than the marketing thing, could you explain why a customer would pay for your 1 year license and not just use cloud flare's 7$/user plan?

I'm a newbie so sorry if I'm missing something.
Yeah and government agencies do the same all the time to avoid information release through public record laws. Don't want a pesky journalist poking in your emails? Just CC the staff lawyer and all those emails need to be redacted. It gets weirder when the FOIA officer is that lawyer.
User Interface Design for Programmers (by Joel Spolsky) is pretty good. I think it's available for free at this point: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-des...

It covers some foundational ideas of what makes a good interface.
Saying ‘no’ to almost everything is the difference between successful people and very successful people. It’s not the difference between very successful people and unsuccessful people.
“It’s as if the goal is not to do science, but to publish and tell an interesting story in your papers.”

Yup, it is the result of the profit motive. I think thanks to the Internet there has become a lot LESS respect for all kinds of views. Every blogger who has comments below can receive pushback. It wasn’t the case when people were simply publishing books with references.

I have taken advantage of this to some extent by interviewing some of the top people in what I am interested in. “Freedom of association”. I didnt even bother posting the videos as public, they are often unlisted.

Tim Berners-Lee

Noam Chomsky

Inventor of Freenet

Grandson of Milton Friedman

The author of Regulation S

Richard Heart from Hex

And so forth. A random assortment of people. Also people building new movements:

Andrew Yang

Tulsi Gabbard

Brock Pierce

Ben Swann

In general, I think people trust institutions less now, including scientists. Look at RFK Jr on Joe Rogan challenging the prevailin establishment on the coronavirus, etc.
Yeah, I could have been more specific when I said “outmoded commercial buildings.” I meant the typical open floor plan office towers built during the ‘60s-‘80s. Those are challenging, though not impossible, to convert to residential. But absent incentives it’s almost always cheaper to start from scratch.

More recent commercial buildings, particularly anything from the last decade, are generally fine in terms of valuation/viability - there’s been a very noticeable flight to quality in commercial real estate. Lots of tenants are giving up space in the slightly obsolete buildings and moving into new flagship towers.
RailsWorld is “routing around the nonsense” of RailsConf
The Hazy Days of Summer
I also really liked Gaston Lagaffe. I find it even more interesting now because of its 60s-70s world.
if you don't have the problem it solves, don't use it. you need clusters services that scale up and down quickly. it's not the best way to deploy one server, it's the best way to deploy 10k servers, turn them off, and deploy them again. that's not even mentioning monitoring etc
Wow. This post just prompts me to take another look at xmake.
I use iCloud to sync. Just locate the vault in an iCloud drive folder called Obsidian. Works beautifully to sync between my different Macs and iOS devices.
It might not make sense on the macro scale, but it certainly does on the micro scale. Even if you only use the extra size of the car a fraction of the time, the amount of money and time you would spend to rent a larger vehicle the times you actually need one would be much higher than the premium you're paying for having a vehicle with a capacity that well exceeds your average use case.

Also, one out six Americans are over 65 years of age, two out of five are obese, so the "extreme vast majority" being neither old nor disabled is really a question of definition.