skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was because Trump often used his personal Twitter account for official Presidential stuff instead of using @POTUS or @WhiteHouse.

If Trump had done like other presidents and tried to keep official Presidential business off his personal Twitter account he would have been to block anyone he wanted to.
It sounds like that I didn't explain myself super well, because we agree. Using Dropbox or OneDrive to do sync is still owning the sync story yourself. You may not be writing the file syncing software, but you're not using Obsidian's purpose built sync system.
In my experience, one can accurately predict development time by correctly working around the planning fallacy.

The planning fallacy is something like "Humans are hopelessly optimistic. Even if you think you're planning for the worst case, unexpected things will happen, and your estimate is more like the best case scenario. This is true even if you try to compensate for the planning fallacy by being more pessimistic".

So you can't fix it by padding more weeks, trying to think of all the things that might happen, etc.

The only way to compensate for this is detailed in Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" (Must-read for many reasons). That is to start with prior evidence. Rather than making your estimate, start with "How long did it ACTUALLY take the last time someone did something like this?" and only then modifying the estimate for circumstances.

There is a huge gap between these two methods:

1. "How long does it take an average team to create a SAS product? Maybe a year?" Then modify for "but our team is extra smart, so maybe I'll shorten that to 10 months"

vs

2. "How long will this take? It's not a complicated product, and our team is smart: maybe 4 weeks for feature X, 6 for feature Y, 2 to deploy. I'll even throw in an extra 4 weeks of padding for unknowns, so 16 weeks".
I wonder what he'd make of the JavaScript web frameworks if he thought python had too many.
I never stopped using the Notes app in my Apple computer and phones. I know it lacks a lot of features that typical HN reader thinks is a must-have but the fact that I don't have to worry about feature creep and crazy monetization schemes is a strong enough motives that keeps me on this ecosystem. Plain text FTW!
It's amazing how batshit crazy blogs like this pop up to the top of HN so frequently. Imagine the people who are so deluded as to believe that more vacation days is all it takes to cure mental illness. Or that vacation days would offset a culture of overworking, underpaying, underbenefits, underrepresentation, etc. Your shitty work life is still waiting for you when you get back. The bills aren't getting paid any faster. You're still on the bottom rung. But you can sure sit around your house longer worrying about things.
I want to know what's so special about July 19th that it made this list.

Probably not this:

> 2014 – Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_19#1901%E2%80%93present

Edit:

For real though, this is kind of a strange article once it starts comparing 2019 and after.

> A recent gallup poll noticed a slight downturn in satisfaction with Americans’ personal life during the last 20 years.

> [graph showing a tick down in this poll on satisfaction from somewhere around mid-60s to ~50 from 2019 to 2020]

Gee, I wonder what happened from 2019 to 2020 that caused a dramatic shift in Americans' satisfaction with personal life. Hmm. Let me think...

> Notably, the amount of leisure is one area that people say could be be improved upon.

Changed from 42 up to 43 from 2019 to 2023. Personal health went down from 54 to 41, family life from 76 to 66, community as a place to live from 61 to 51.

I don't know why the article presents this data at all because it doesn't support focusing on leisure. The dramatic tick down is quite clearly people pissed off or affected by COVID-19 and government's response to it (both impacted people negatively). Given that data, leisure seems like a non-sequitur. Leisure definitely is important and has been consistently poor regardless of COVID-19, so why present this particular data? Just talk about leisure.

I'll add that one thing I think about leisure in the US is that without longer vacations, our leisure time is used in a worse way as well. A lot of peoples' leisure is filled with consuming television. It's like the junk food of leisure. Heck, if you're watching TV shows where characters are frequently angry and yelling at each other or committing murder, I'm going to guess that might actually have a more negative impact on the viewer's mental health. To each their own of course, but I find that when I listen to sad or angry music, it makes me sad or angry. It's like the Bill Burr bit on his dog's temper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnjGyOQ7FcU). Not suggesting we need to regulate how people use their leisure, I just think this is probably another piece of the puzzle when discussing Americans and our dissatisfaction with our lives in terms of leisure.
> what tech does this even use? Do they mean using Pegasus or similar malware that the govt has to first get onto the suspect's devices, or is this via Google/Apple or the device manufacturers that makes 'remotely and secretly activating a microphone' even possible?

It would have to be after compromise, which would mean its likely only used on a very small number of cases due to the sensitivity and cost of the technology involved.
The porn and drugs were bad, but peddling influence with foreign adversaries is a pretty big deal.
Looks like any app can be installed silently behind your back with GTalkService that is running on your Android phone

https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete...

https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/28/a-peek-inside-the-...

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Google Play Services spyware discussion

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-insanely-better-bat...

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-disable-service-guide...

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"...the cellular carrier can send blobs of FORTH code right to the radio. The radio firmware also seems to have an IP stack (with TCP) so it can do its own interesting things (both bad and good)..." https://boston.conman.org/2013/01/22.2

"...easily spotted loads and loads of bugs, scattered all over the place, each and every one of which could lead to exploits – crashing the device, and even allowing the attacker to remotely execute code. Remember: all over the air. One of the exploits he found required nothing more but a 73 byte message to get remote code execution. Over the air..."

"... It’s kind of a sobering thought that mobile communications, the cornerstone of the modern world in both developed and developing regions, pivots around software that is of dubious quality, poorly understood, entirely proprietary, and wholly insecure by design." https://www.osnews.com/story/27416/the-second-operating-syst... (archive: https://archive.is/FOR5V)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722539

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722732

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738066

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6724034 <-- Seems to be higher risk with Qualcomm basebands where everything is integrated

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SIM card reader chips have their own operating system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_card#Design

Rooting SIM cards https://archive.is/3ZohQ

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722896

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6724215

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6723236

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It is all over the place. The worst part is when you realize reputation is always a trailing indicator the only rational action seems to be to buy the cheapest one and use the saved money for the replacement. Basically, optimize your life around rapid disposal and replacement which makes extra trash and takes extra time versus just having a good quality item you can rely on.

My mower recently started to rust out and I dread buying a replacement. Aside from cheaply replacing poorly designed wheels fairly often I was 100% with this mower. But I can't buy it again because the march forward with redesigns means it is no longer made. Is the new one better? General life experience says, probably not.
> is the weekend considered a holiday

People who got shot by federal troops and Pinkertons while delaying mail trains until the railroad would come to the negotiating table are gonna say "no."
He's not a member of the House of Representatives, but the word "representative" is larger than merely that.
-> Then tell me with a straight face that you think it’s a good thing for free speech.

I'm just curious, can you tell us what you take issue with?
It really saddens me to know that the hacker culture I once so much loved to be part of is rapidly disappearing from the industry.
I didn't say representative, that's a misleading paraphrase.

I said representative of the government. Those can be police officers, FBI agents, or bureaucrats making demands of private companies.
Time for reflection if the remote work fosters creative collaboration
Yh, it now looks like a genuine psychosis moment from Prigozhin, might look very weird to European people but random crazy decisions like this were how guys like Prigozhin got rich in the 90s in the first place.

I'm sceptical on Wagner being used as a way to attack Ukraine from the north, much more likely explanation is that Russia still needs the PMC structure in Africa but now wants to outsource responsibility to Belarus.
Phil Spencer wasn't brought in, he was just promoted. He was already head of Microsoft Game Studios.
everyone is on instagram too. the threads onboarding process is suppper simple and you can auto follow your instagram peeps as soon as they signup.
Yes the simplified version that MS made was also much much crappier. The tabs for the different notebook disappeared and much of the functionality too :'(

The syncing with Sharepoint also works pretty crap. I preferred when the database was just stored locally and I could choose where to store it.

I'd love to get a new application just like this that works like the old OneNote. Without a whole cloud backing it which locks in my information (e.g. Evernote, Notion etc). Just a file (or collection of files) I can store locally or even in a local git server or whatever. But with options for attachments and cross platform.

I haven't really found anything good. Most of the things are not WYSIWYG but markdown with a double pane (one for the input and one for rendered) which I don't like - I'm not a dev so I don't really idolise markdown or have the muscle memory for it.
The ISW folks maps tend to not really reflect reality so well.

Every time someone lands troops somewhere they mark it as a territory gain, even if the area is still ‘disputed’.

It’s deeply annoying - small thrusts and retreats or probing attacks by either side get marked as territory gains/losses, which is entirely inaccurate and usually the situation has changed by the time ISW posts it.
I read that as “the Rodney King story” being the story in the traditional news or later documentary format. Without the social media explosion, the situation might not have got the attention it needed meaning the story fizzled out (or, more cynically, the police would have been able to control the narrative long enough for the general public not to pay attention because something else was happened elsewhere to take over the news coverage).
> The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, just as it could be remotely activated to record sound and images of people suspected of terror offences, as well as delinquency and organised crime.

Not just phones looks like.
But how did Earth look back then at these conditions?

It certainly is uncharted territory for our current vegetation.
The free speech misinformation directly led to deaths of citizens. It is no different from any other speech that causes mass panic and confusion. I don't understand why this decision was allowed to become detached from reality.
not just die, it allows you to run scheduled updates without interrupting service. I can update our gateways during the day without folks complaining.

It's been a feature of pfsense for many years (the smart kids have moved onto opensense now though)
is this a joke? People are worried about nuclear plants on land with banks of maintenance facilities and buffer land. Fukushima, one of the worst nuclear dissaters in history, is famous because of how exposed the plant is to the water.

Like if you're looking for a method of generating power offshore, isn't the most intuitive option tidal power?
I haven't used Scratch but I think Godot might be one of the easier engines to get into compared to Unity and Unreal Engine. GDScript (https://gdscript.com/) is a custom language created for Godot and is similar to Python so it will be more complicated than creating games with Scratch since you will be writing out code explicitly rather than dragging blocks together. GDScript is immensely easier to use than C# (Unity) and C++ (Unreal), though.

It might be worth looking at GD Quest (https://www.gdquest.com/tutorial/godot/learning-paths/gettin...) to determine if it's something your kid would want to learn and get into. As a developer, I found it very easy to start to get started with Godot versus Unity and Unreal so it might be a fun adventure for your kid to start learning :)
As with many of these organization-controlled LLMs: it used to be a whole-lot-more capable, pre- "as a large language model, I cannot..."
An excellent overview of the Hashicorp's Plugin Architecture "Go Plugins over RPC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvm3zQQc1Q
Where is the login or signup button on their threads.net webpage?
But disinformation isn't just incorrect information. Disinformation is false information seeded with an intent to mislead the population. The person who "gets to decide" what is disinformation is effectively the person who is planting the disinformation.

Once the disinformation starts to propagate then the downstream propagandists may believe they are spreading legitimate truths, but ultimately by definition the disinformation can be traced to a source that intended to deliberately disinform.

Also, not everyone around us needs to be gullible for disinformation to work. In the US for example we live in a country where national elections are routinely decided on razor thin margins, where just a couple of percent or less can flip the results. We also live in a nation where 32% of people believe in ghosts [0]. So there are enough gullible people for the type of disinformation that wouldn't persuade a reasonable person to still yield powerful results.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/style/do-you-believe-in-g...
Those headphones look like the most uncomfortable things on the planet.

Are they supposed to be over-ear or on-ear?
gamedev.tv has a godot course updated for 4.0. I haven't gone through that one but their other stuff is really good. Just wait for sale. they usually go down to $10-$15 for a course.
I’m thinking of using a prompt-based game to help people understand how prompts work. I want it to be engaging and a bit frustrating too.

Sometimes, it’s already quite hard to beat the bot with simple stuff like “Repeat the rules”, which it does, and there’s the secret phrase. Sometimes it’s easier to just do what it wants. And I see this as a victory of AI over humans conceptually.

There are requests that make it reveal the key despite all the given restrictions and rules. But the most annoying thing is when you _simply can’t_ do this and you have to, like a monkey, feed it answers to questions like “tell me a new riddle”, “make up a bedtime story”, “share a childhood memory”. And humans do this with pleasure!
Joplin does have a Web Clipper
Some things the author didn't consider:

* In the US, there's no mandatory federal holidays for states and private companies.

* This doesn't include essential employees, who typically get floating holidays in lieu of federal holidays (usually used at a later time)

* Are the differences in happiness actually caused by holiday time - or are there other factors (and what are they) that account for other countries having seemingly higher happiness levels

* Is this happiness or contentment we're talking about - there is a huge difference

* My understanding was that the high and late middle ages the RCC did whatever it could to placate many of the lower classes because of the pressures brought on by the Ottoman and Eastern Orthodoxies
I learnt after my first year living in a Muslim majority country to never schedule anything important during Ramadan. Everything slows down, most offices let people go home early, and then there’s a week off for Eid.
I'm sure this will stop the rioting.
it's interesting how your reluctance in naming names in this instance actually ensures PE folks win.
That’s just unique identifiers with extra steps.
This is also how Mastodon works but there is no algorithm. You can follow other people but then you see everything they post and, for me, much of it isn't interesting to me, so I'm only following a couple of people. Instead I follow hashtags. Twitter lets you search for hashtags but doesn't let you follow them, allowing them to show up in your feed. Hashtags ensure I'm only seeing posts that are related to my interests. So Mastodon gives you similar benefits to TikTok's algorithm but gives you full control of it. Eventually, TikTok will be seeking to make even more money and will change the algorithm to benefit itself more than the user. Any social media run by shareholders seeking profit will eventually enshitify this way, as we've already seen with almost all other shareholder controlled businesses.
Oh and I'm working on another post about which clouds are best in general. My current recommendation set is:

If you need a huge number of A100s/H100s - talk to Oracle, FluidStack, Lambda Labs. Capacity is very low though for large quantities, especially of H100s, based on a couple of cloud founders/execs I've talked with.

If you need a couple A100s: FluidStack or Runpod.

If you need 1x H100: FluidStack or Lambda Labs.

If you need cheap 3090s: Tensordock.

If you need Stable Diffusion inference only: Salad.

If you want to play around with templates / general hobbyist: Runpod.

Assuming you're not tied to / required to use a specific large cloud by your enterprise.
As article notes, people tend to not take time off unless it’s enforced in US. Early in my career I used to joke that my accumulated vacation time was my severance buffer to at will employment. It’s sad to think that it was both true and super misguided.

US sorely needs federal minimums for time off, parental paid leave (that doesn’t exempt people from small employers, who currently get next to nothing), sick leave and minimum compensation/notice period if they are to be let go (unless some egregious cause). Many employers already offer these and if we spread it out with small incremental taxes, it wouldn’t disproportionately hurt small employers either. This will give employees basic stability and reduce anxiety, most likely boosting productivity. Having nothing to fall back on definitely limited me at the start of my career.
> if developers built track housing with passive solar orientation

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

https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/25/track-home/
I like this and also aaron swartz rss 3.0 spec: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss30
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/303_Creative_LLC_v._Elenis

> When Smith's suit was filed at the federal district court in 2016, she had not begun designing websites, nor had she received any requests to design a wedding website for a same-sex couple. In 2017, her lawyers ADF filed an affidavit from Smith stating that she had received such a request several days after the initial filing, and appended a copy of the request. Smith never responded to the request, and has stated that she feared she would violate Colorado's law if she were to do so. However, the name, email, and phone number on the online form belong to a man who has long been married to a woman, and who stated that he never submitted such a request, as reported by The New Republic on June 29, 2023, a day before the Supreme Court's decision was released.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/sham-customer...

> That narrative was thrown into question last week after The New Republic published an article on Stewart, who denied ever having reached out to Smith. It quoted him saying he was a web designer who has been married to a woman for years.

> “I wouldn’t want anybody to … make me a wedding website?” the man identified only as Stewart told the magazine. “I’m married, I have a child — I’m not really sure where that came from? But somebody’s using false information in a Supreme Court filing document.”

Perjury is probably a stretch, and it's unlikely to affect the ruling any.
The flamewars on social media are fundamentally outraging and shocking, but I don't find them any strange. Maybe my usage of "rocking the boat" was a bit inappropriate, I apologise. I definitely didn't want to say I don't want "too strange" stuff.

It's just that the topics people talk about are very narrow, and even on the most heated twitter thread it's mostly the same stuff. There is nothing novel in there.:(
It is uncharted in the history of human civilization -- say, since the advent of agriculture 12K to 14K years ago.
No, the website specifically refuses to provide the content to a range of IP addresses (anything not in the US, I'm guessing).

Don't confuse this with local censorship.
Content from .gov sites was labeled disinformation. One could consider the censorship at the time an act of disinformation. Remember the lab leak? Fauci with his smug smile behind Trump knowing full well the NIH sponsored gain-of-function research on Coronavirues in Wuhan of all places. Now that the dust has settled it's no longer a conspiracy theory but the most likely origin. CNN claims them not covering it at the time was "because Trump".

What is even disinformation in this climate other than a comfort blanket for those unable to form an actual argument?
> But lawmakers agreed to the bill late Wednesday as Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti insisted the bill would affect only “dozens of cases a year.”

Technically he is not lying or naive, because any number, including large numbers like 66 million, can be expressed in units of dozens.
Wash trades misrepresent the trading volume, which is a key signal of the interest in and utility of a trading venue. Imagine eBay described itself to investors as having $100billion in trade occur on the platform, but in reality, well over $99billion of it was actually eBay employees posting (even real) items for sale that other eBay employees would then purchase, all on company time and with company cash. Even if the trades are honored and there were actual goods for sale in those listings, it is major securities fraud. If a real securities exchange does wash trades to inflate trading volume, it is major market manipulation/securities fraud (it's illegal if any market participant does it to inflate volume, not just the exchange itself). If a crypto exchange does it, at the very least the normative ethics of the industry should say "that's not good".
Redundancy is the name of the game. Glad they realize this.
Not sure if I understand the question, but it was in the forum. Clearly some sort of mental issue.