skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what happened to the macOS app ecosystem where most tools go with the one time payment model instead of subscription.

It is not sustainable for indie devs and the software suffers as a result.

superwhisper is not expensive (65 a year) given what it provides to the user.

On top of that the base features are free, and require absolutely nothing from you, no sign up or contact information required at all- just download and use.

It completely respects your personal privacy and provides a useful service. Very few tools outside of open source do this.
HAH! This needs commendation!
The nasty issue is that even tvs are turning into covert spies and are starting to show ads. So even if all you do is watch cable channels, the TV itself might still be spying on you. You perhaps need a "filter" such as a raspberry pi or a device that can transfer content via HDMI and have the tv completely cutoff from the internet. Really dubious times we are in.
Platforms like Twitter and Facebook put the network in the center - it's about relationships between accounts (Friend/Follower). HN doesn't do that, so HN is a forum which is a slightly different genre of medium, isn't it? At least a kind that I'm much more in favour of.
Duo seems to have had lots of success, selling into higher education. To add to the other schools mentioned in this thread, Oregon State, and Stanford both use it too. And lots of schools are starting class today, which might be what contributed to their downtime.

To be honest, their useR experience is pretty slick compared to most two factor solutions. I am happy for them, (and their users) that they have been successful, selling into large organizations – good user experience usually isn’t found in large enterprise software due in part to the principal agent problem.
Show HN: Footage – Full-featured private video editor, 1.04 MB in size (iOS)
See the ghoti swimming in the pond. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
> how's that kind of attitude been working out for you, over the last couple decades of trying to change the public conversation in America?

The fable-believing egoist who wants their favorite story to "win" so that they can claim a place in some imaginary clever vanguard of those who "changed the public conversation" in America, in full projection mode here.
https://archive.ph/DC0YC
My opinion is that DUI should revoke your license. I know it is common in Europe where first offenders loose their license for a few months, and then it gets progressively longer.

The USA has IMO a terrible system which punishes DUI drivers through the justice system regardless of if they caused any harm. This leaves people with pretty shitty lives and prevents people from calling the police on DUI drivers. They can still drive shortly after though.
Establishing and protecting habitats for bats and dragonflies can be a big help.
RMS' comments and interpretations of the GPL have generally influenced how the industry deals with the GPL, and to the extent it has become de facto standard practice, the courts might take notice and take it into consideration.

Generally though, the contents of the text and (if applicable) case law surrounding its interpretation is more important.
I think it means getting people mad / to rage
Too bad the plate cost data wasn't presented. Was wondering which was the most expensive.
In Oregon the cost varies pretty wildly, and some don't have a renewal surcharge.
A new JavaScript Regex flag to match extended character classes for Unicode
Cool story, but the at least this USFS-approved product is not all that toxic at all.

https://firegel.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Barricade-GHS...
We use Typesense for vector search as well for Struct.ai in production, it works amazingly.

I'm surprised the original post doesn't benchmark Typesense.
I’m looking in the thread for your reasons and so far I can see accuracy of estimation and managing people as reasons.

You don’t need high accuracy to set bounds, and I don’t see how managing people is a factor.

It seems to me like the reasons you gave were based on your misunderstanding of the idea.

Maybe it is an abjectly terrible way to estimate the value of your time. Estimating the cost to send an email to be zero is worse.
Yeah. Should have called it XXX. 3 x's are better than one....
There's an old lawyer joke that 90% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. I dunno about lawyers, but I think that's true of recruiters.
This doesn't really hold up in reality. A flight attendant hands me a machete and tells me to dismember everyone in the entire cabin. I refuse.

Am I really going to be prosecuted for committing a felony in this scenario?
Motionshift Beta: Transform Video Creation with AI Editing
Oceans Release Microplastics into the Atmosphere
> Trump has the corrupt politicians and media right where he wants them.

You could say both sides agree with this, but with opposite interpretations.
Guess I shouldn't have said that I was attending DEF CON to the CBP agent at Dublin Airport, but I was just told to have a nice time in Vegas
Weak response
And how often did that then actually happen? Maybe they left it there intentionally?
> Another question I'd like answered, do the Voyagers cycle down or turn off the heater during TX downtime? Turning it off risks metal/cycling fatigue, leaving it on risks reducing the cathode life—or even poisoning it from stray ions.

I suspect that now the heaters are turned off during Tx downtime, but I think this is probably because they Pu power is much lower and so thy want to conserve as much power as possible. Even if they did have more power, Voyager only makes contact once per day so I think the increased thermal cycling is not much compared to reduction in cathode life so they probably go this route anyway. I do know that other missions I have worked on that have much more frequent contacts, we do keep the Tx heaters on so there is probably some number of cycles where one becomes more dominant.

> A final point, presumably the TWT's output has dropped over the decades, how is this monitored and do we know the percentage drop in power output (from the TWT not the Pu power source)?

This is telemetry from the TWTAs on the helix current and the anode voltage. Along with the DC power draw of the TWTAs I think you can interpret some of what the power output is and how it changed over life. Some of this might be curve fitting to ground-based life tests so there could be some estimation. The ground is also certainly measuring the received power so they can estimate power output from the spacecraft from that as well.

> The fact the TWT is still working seems quite remarkable

You're not the only one. From this article [0] a JPL engineer says "Nobody can explain why the Voyager TWT is still working".

[0] https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Traveling-Wave-Tubes-Travel-Far
As to your last paragraph, what really gets me is this:

However much you might save by cutting X corners, or how much you might make by selling someone something they don't need, etc. -- there are hundreds, thousands of companies you're dealing with that do the same to you, to people you love, your co-workers, employees and customers, probably making your life much worse than your own corner cutting can recoup. It might not even make business sense in the bigger picture, because instead of a small slice of something that is at least pie you get container ships full of saw dust or something.
Hi, HN!

Two years ago, my wife spent a ton of time editing and creating a movie of our newborn's first year.
This year, we have an app to easily create such films on the go.

Features:

- Capture clips directly into an auto-montage Stories (this means no editing afterwards)
- Share movie with an invite link (auto-updates, push notifications)
- Collaboration: Shoot the same movie(s) together with family/friends
- iCloud backup
- Front/Back camera(s) support, zoom, video stabilisation
- Trim, copy, move, re-arrange, mute, delete clips
- Export (as a compiled file or as separate clips)
- 100% privacy - no third-party backend is involved
- No Account, Sign-up is required
- 1.04 MB in size (download)
- Developed in pure Swift, using native libraries only (with the exception of Amplitude, which is used for anonymous usage analytics)
- Today View & Lock screen widgets for quick launch

Give it a try (it's free, https://apple.co/3q7OetH) and let us know what you enjoy/dislike about it!

Any feedback is very appreciated.

Thank you.
Also covered in Edge Magazine issue 9, June 1994, but I can't find a PDF of it anymore: https://www.retromags.com/magazines/uk/edge/edge-issue-9/
That would explain the "are you a terrorist?" forms I've heard they're asking people to fill in on their flights to the US.
Given that they were all wearing shirts for the thing.. I don't think it was a case of being bored or not wanting to be there. Also they were literally in a big group of friends - talk to your friend.

Obviously I didn't interview a stranger during a live show, but I suspect if I had asked them they would not have realized they had done it.

I see this behavior at bars and such too. Maybe next time I will just be rude for a bit and ask someone about it (though I would be surprised to get much of a real answer).
We aren't talking about a homebrew data warehouse though, we are talking about open source software. Designing the schema and/or data flows on top of the warehouse is needed regardless of whether you use open source or Snowflake.
If you are using Common Lisp, the HyperSpec is an awesome resource:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index...
Get ready to Ship **it Securely
Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered during a hiring process?
I'll start.

A few years back, I was interviewing at a then "hot" startup. At the end of the process, the CTO calls and says they'd like to extend an offer. I was expecting him to walk me through the offer details, when he goes "well, are you going to take it?" I asked about getting some specifics (cash comp, equity, etc.) and he explains that they ask candidates to commit before sharing any details.

I told him that didn't seem like such a great idea, and he assured me that comp wouldn't be an issue, and that they do this to avoid hiring mercenaries. I passed and never looked back.
Subclassing wheel builds for fun and profit
was referring to the open source alternatives.

have yet to meet a vendor-recommended solutions provider that felt like more than a cash grab for anyone too dazzled by the initial onboarding.

the math of outsourcing implementation to consulting firms always seems off - send the problem elsewhere, usually for a premium, and hope the internal folks can digest whatever the actual consulting dev writes after the sales dev talks big game on hypotheticals.

hesitant to say my sample size is too small. feels like a trap.
I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
The same could be said of any language. Most dynamic languages are roughly equivalent in the amount of skills that it takes to use, so there's obviously more to developer pricing than the language itself.
I think it’s a “if all you have is a hammer” situation. In my experience and from talking to different therapists CBT is ill-equipped to deal with existential problems because it doesn’t embrace them or helps patients learn from them. Existential therapy or other forms of psychoanalysis is better suited, in my opinion.
In my head, what this says is that the brain is a muscle that will use pathways and otherwise more used areas, more frequently.

Seems logical when I think about it that way.
I'm a software manager and used to be a developer. I used to get crushing headaches pretty often when I was working, typically at least once or twice per week. They would always start around lunchtime with mild eye pain and a dull headache, progressing to migraine-like stabbing pains by 3-4PM. I'd have to take ibuprofen and lay down in a dark room for at least an hour with a washcloth over my face to make them go away. This went on for years.

Early last year I got blue-light coating added to my new prescription glasses. This wasn't deliberate; the glasses place had just upgraded their standard lenses with the coating so I figured why not? The headaches went away almost immediately and I maybe got one or two in the entire following YEAR (as opposed to at least 3-4/month before). I still wasn't convinced though so when it came time for new glasses this year I got them without the coating. In the next two weeks I got multiple severe headaches, so I went back and exchanged them for new glasses with the coating. This was in April and I haven't had a single bad headache since.

Maybe this is all placebo but since I wasn't particularly expecting them to help much initially I doubt it.
There are a lot more other problems that happen when each service manages their own authentication. The move to SSO has been in response to problems that existed then.
Yup, the nice thing about windows was everything was accessible by both mouse and keyboard so for people who needed the gui to figure things out it’s there for you and for people who are comfortable on the keyboard you used to be able to never think about the mouse. (This is no longer the case on windows 10 even, they’ve totally neutered keyboard navigation and you often need to reach for the mouse or use the arrow keys excessively for many things now).

Linux requires being super comfortable on the keyboard, using cli nearly exclusively and recalling with perfect accuracy arcane letter incantations which if you know the guy who wrote the program and the full name of his dog makes sense but to everyone else is just random letters strung together.
There are average speed cameras on the A9 here in Scotland - which I think have been a good thing given the reduction in insane driving I've seen on what was already a very dangerous road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9_road_(Scotland)
I always use MAS to install my production Xcode, specifically because it lets me have small updates.

I've been doing this for as long as it's been available there as a developer at Apple, in my own startup, and in my current role as well. Never had a problem with it.
The number of accidental flags I’ve committed is too damn high. Flags should be removed from the front page links.
Yes. There's plenty of rodents in urban and suburban areas, but above all, cats have an inborn instinct to murder small critters for fun, and don't need to be taught that.

Rodents are their strong preference, but if bored, they will go after bugs, small birds, lizards... or engage in relentless "murder practice" using pieces of paper or cloth.

This is very different than with dogs, which often have to be trained for specific tasks. Source: lived with 10+ cats (not at the same time).
A few years ago, I set out to take a snapshot of a plate from every state. My rules were that I had to take it personally, it had to be a regular set of numbers and letters for that state - no vanities - and I had to be able to clearly see the whole thing.

I’m down to 3 left to get - North Dakota, West Virginia and Delaware. It’s been more than a year since I caught the last one (South Dakota) so I’m not sure I’ll ever be done.
Offline 2fa codes seems like a nightmare to roll out to an academic campus
You have to be pretty abled already to even start a basic lifting program. I have a nerve impingement in my neck/shoulder, if I even lift 10lb dumbbells over my head a few times, my left arm literally goes numb.
I don't really see that working. The rich might use the government benefits to the extent they exist, but they will always have the option of paying more privately, or buying additional private insurance, etc.

You see this every day in public school, where the more well-off families pay for math tutors or extra coaching or other out-of-school opportunities for their kids.
Show HN: AI to help you online date better
SmallTalks was born from my personal experience dating in NYC, where I struggled with the apps for quite a while before eventually figuring things out.

Initially, this app is focused on helping people build high performing Hinge and Bumble profiles by combining AI and human expertise, along with empirical data from content experiments.

Most online daters are not strategic about designing their Hinge or Bumble profiles but it's actually immensely important to be intentional about that process. Online dating is a power law distribution as far as matching goes (a small percentage of profiles attract an outsized amount of attention), so it's critical that you optimize your profile to fit your relationship goals.

If you sign up and go through the quick onboarding process, we'll review your existing dating profile for free using the same kind of general thought process as displayed here:

https://www.loom.com/share/4619b64b935d4357818a307d5c176b20?...).
Kris, we really miss you
I personally am a huge fan of average speed cameras and think we should adopt them but that is a hugely unpopular opinion here in the states... it would be career suicide for a politician to campaign on that, quite possibly even for the deadliest roads with the most insane drivers. (For me, instantly thinking of the 'Robert Moses style' New York state parkways [1])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkways_in_New_York
It's simply so much easier.

Okta offers a similar feature. So much easier to click a confirmation on my phone than to scroll through dozens of 2FA codes (some of which might be orphaned).
Compare and contrast with westerns, or any movie with an arming montage.

The boring answer is just that fantasy is about swords and westerns/crime dramas/action are about guns. "Why isn't historical fiction set in the future?" Well, some of them use that as a secret plot twist, but mostly it's just because anyone who writes about the future already has their own genre with better and more useful conventions.

If you put guns in your fantasy then you're breaking a convention, which is fun and profitable in moderation, but you can only break so many conventions before you end up in another genre.
Fair enough, it’s 100% your product to price how you see fit. I do think you’re shooting yourself in the foot a bit, though. But best of luck to you! The free version is great, keep up the good work.
Peter Thiel's investments have to be viewed in the context of his portfolio.

One might, for example, understand that investing in a small, totally ineffective environmental nonprofit would be profitable because it lets you greenwash your larger, environmentally destructive investments at a fraction of the cost of actually making effective progress on the problems your companies cause.
As mentioned at the end of the article, there are other applicants than just self driving. Body scanning can be one that can be useful for building 3D apps.
To add to this, expect to pay around $200 or so for custom earplugs, plus the cost of the audiologist exam. If you live close to a company that makes these, you may be able to visit them for an in-person exam at a bundled price.

While obviously this isn’t cheap, it’s well worth paying for if you’re a musician or you go to concerts frequently.

I got mine from Sensaphonics, they’re in Chicago. They also make in-ear monitors for professional musicians using the same molding process.

https://www.sensaphonics.com/products/erseriesplugs
IIRC all of the island nations around Indonesia were connected to each other and to the mainland during the pleistocene. Hardly a surprise that there was a shared culture when it is all the same landmass with no dividing mountains.
Well, looking at 2020, all the lawsuits that were filed went nowhere, generally for lack of evidence. Arrests and convictions for voter fraud do happen, but the scale tends to be very small and ineffectual at changing outcomes.

It's not that we don't look under the rug. The rug has been looked under, many times, and we keep not finding the monsters claimed to be under the rug.
Software cannot be distributed with a clickwrap agreement under the GPL. Requiring the user to affirmatively agree to a contract is a clickwrap agreement even if the terms are non-monetary. The old “you are making a second agreement, not the one the software is distributed under” approach.

Notionally the GPL allows you to disregard this but it may or may not be binding depending on your jurisdiction, and it’s certainly distasteful and against the absolute spirit and most likely the text of the GPL. This is an incompatible term being forced on the end user and the entire license might well be void.
''Vinegar syndrome'' decaying archives of cellulose acetate microfilm stock
Same name, different app.
I have no problem with confrontation, but I also don't seek it out, and there's definitely a tradeoff.

Is checking out one person later going to be better or worse than what will probably be the very mild confrontation of prompting someone to move back in line? Usually, one person's inconvenient action has no meaningful impact on me at all and is quickly forgotten, but I don't know how it might impact the other person, so I wouldn't normally choose that confrontation even though it also wouldn't bother me if it happened. I'm weighing "no impact on either of us" with "no impact on me, but possible negative impact on the other."
This statement is basically a metaphor for really any political issue. Modern political discourse is about picking sides and entrenching defenses rather than developing reasonable, nuanced takes on individual issues.
This element of our society being so stingy with our bottom economic half hurts everyone as that half spend their money quickly and locally. The cutting taxes of the wealthy since "they'll invest more in 'creating jobs' and grow the economy" hasn't worked. That 'investment' went mostly to sweatshops in other countries. This is compounded with other draining tax breaks lije carried interest and the scam where corps by their own shares at a tax advantaged situation. The middle class has shrunk and standards of living have declined for I'd guess 2/3 or more of Americans.
Back the day when I was in the academia I suggested some fixed set of countries visa friendly to host those conferences on AI/Databases.

The point that I made for the organizers is that, you can have clear instructions to the immigration offices and/or border control of those places if they had the full plan in advance: number of attendees, all info of the attendees already set in those departments, cross-check with their own embassies and consulates, etc.

Their justification in that time was that it's important to rotate in different cities because it closes the ties with the local academic community, but I did not brought that; can be a bit harsh but the whole thing sounded a reason to made academic tourism instead to foster a knowledge sharing.

Take that conference[1] for example and it's last venues:

2023 - Singapore
2022 - Seattle
2021 - Amsterdam
2020 - Online
2019 - Copenhagen
2018 - Vancouver
2017 - Como
2016 - Boston
2015 - Vienna
2014 - Silicon Valley
2013 - Hong Kong
2012 - Dublin
2011 - Chicago
2010 - Barcelona
2009 - New York
2008 - Lausanne
2007 - Minnesota

Unless that you have a strong passport or if you're from US/EU it's quite unlikely that you can have all the visas for attend all those conferences.

[1] - https://recsys.acm.org/