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Show HN: Go Go Quincy - Tech Help for Older Adults
Hi everyone, my name’s Ryan and I’m working on GoGoQuincy (https://gogoquincy.com) to help seniors have a better, safer experience on the internet.

We started three years ago, after my grandfather clicked on a phishing link for what he thought was a fraudulent charge on his credit card statement and put in his card info. It cost my family ~$3,000.

This is surprisingly common — over 300,000 Americans were victims of phishing scams last year, and a huge amount of those victims are older adults.

To safely use technology and to avoid scams, older adults typically rely on their children and grandchildren to help support them, as I’m sure many here on HN are familiar with.

Older adults are way more comfortable calling a real person than sifting through help docs, or using fully automated software, but most companies steer their users away from real live phone support as much as possible. For people who aren’t as tech-savvy, it can be really hard to work through those site experiences and get help.

Our mission is to provide that live help for any website, email, or general tech help that older adults need. When a senior enters their phone number on our site, we call them in around 30 seconds to assist.

We’ve helped thousands of older adults already, and some of the most common reasons people call are to check if an email is trustworthy, for help navigating a website, or for assistance with setting up devices like printers. This even extends to shopping, ensuring a website is safe, and understanding telehealth options.

We’re starting to work on building more software here, to automatically address the most common reasons people come to us for help that I mentioned above and get people even faster help, but ultimately we’ll always have the phone support — and make it super easy to call us — to handle the more complex cases.

While I know this isn’t the typical Show HN with a huge focus on impressive software, I hope it still resonates, and I’d really love to hear any ideas, personal experiences, and feedback from the community.
No they only turn them off if they detect 0 load for a few months
I'll be calling it that from here on, so thanks for that, but I admit I was pleasantly surprised by how good it is. Studio Mir rarely disappoints in terms of quality (although I still think The Legend of Korra was their best work), but I really wasn't expecting the rest of the show to be worth watching.
Introductory article to using message compression in Kafka
Revenue ignoring expenses is also known as revenue.
That's right. It won't make you rich. Just take into account that 100K eur/year is unheard of in other european countries.
Waystar Royco is down 13 points after this announcement
Is there a way to get around that in Julia? I tried to find a way to compile programs directly, and was disappointed with what was on offer.
And, of course, the difference is not just money that goes "to the government", but you get some of it back in form of various benefits, such as free education, a pretty nice high speed highway system (and other roads, of course), comprehensive health insurance (including dental), etc.
There is still no plugin support for Helix though right? That's what keeps bringing me back to VSCode, there is always something missing in each editor I look at. Same for VSCode though to be fair, it's sometimes slow on large files and especially when doing type checking, but it's a trade-off I'm making for its DX, I suppose.
Processing that amount of data is going to be expensive, regardless.
I find myself just typing random combinations of the letters that sound vaguely English because the game's vocabulary is much larger than mine. For example I got "minge" which is apparently British slang for vagina but I've never heard of it.

Anyway, that random guessing component mostly ruins the game. In Wordle at least your random guesses have consequences or can lead you closer to the right answer (which is usually a more common word)
I’ve always assumed it was a state actor such as the NSA that invented it. Seems like the obvious step for such an organisation to take, even just for shits and giggles. There was an awful lot of talk about electronic gold and financial/crypto-havens in the 90s (see also Cryptonomicon) so it was brewing for a long time. Plus such an actor is one of the few who could keep quiet about it all this time - it’s part of the job. One would expect that we’d all know who Satoshi was by now, unless Satoshi was a state-sponsored collective effort.
Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements
Could you please explain how is it differs from the other two? Never looked into Fortran.
It may be used as a shorthand for saying that, but it is completely wrong and lazy. Yes these companies are doing some advanced funding and rewards stuff. No that doesn't make you a bank.

"What is a bank?

A bank is a financial institution that is licensed to accept checking and
savings deposits and make loans. Banks also provide related services such as
individual retirement accounts (IRAs), certificates of deposit (CDs),
currency exchange, and safe deposit boxes.

There are several types of banks including retail banks, commercial or
corporate banks, and investment banks."

- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bank.asp

Notice how none of that is to do with how much money is made from financial shenanigans vs products and also there is no mention of running loyalty programs etc.

Every time there is one of these articles ("Starbucks is just a bank" was another recent offender) it's worth actually referring to the definition of a bank and reminding yourself that unless the article is in The Economist, the FT or the WSJ, the journalist themselves probably has absolutely no idea what a bank is, or does.
> Self-censorship for fear of being 'canceled' is putting a damper on the spirit of freedom.

I'm always curious about what people mean by this, because usually its people upset they can't say the N-word or upset they're getting cancelled over being sex pests.
Indeed. Slapping a coat of beige paint over the graffiti has got to be easier than moving them.
This seems like such a common problem where I wonder if there is anything that can be done to break this cycle.

For an equivalent comparison, on this side of the pond tech salaries in Canada are abysmal compared to US salaries (at least from what I hear). And it's not like Canada is a ton cheaper (their real estate affordability crisis makes even places like California look a bit tame). But then I often here how policymakers in Canada wish there were "more tech" north of the border how they put in place programs to attract tech talent to the country. Of course, those programs are usually completely useless when engineers can double their salary coming to the US.

But a big part of the issue is that companies simply couldn't afford to double their salaries because they aren't as profitable as US tech giants (and not even FAANGs, but just other mid-tier tech companies as well). But it's going to be hard to build top tier tech companies if you can't attract top tier tech talent, so the cycle spirals.

I'm curious what tech salaries are like in bonafide EU tech standouts like Spotify.
Tsunamis shouldn't be an issue for ships, but if the floating power plant is in a busy port you do have a risk of a Halifax, Texas City or Beirut scenario. Lots of fertilizer and sometimes explosives move through ports and a powerful blast could severely damage or even sink the power plant. It doesn't happen terribly often, but it does happen sometimes.
We use Obsidian extensively in my company. And are sharing our notes as a graph of decentralized vaults, managed by Github repos and a bunch of synchronization scripts.
That is an experience of collective intelligence that is going super well.
(having access to other people notes in a unified search engine is SUPER nuts!)

My humble 2 cents.
A feature for some is a missing requirement for others :)
Its a funny thing. I swapped to Colemak, was definitely worth it. I am pretty sure there are better layouts, but also I'm so wary of falling into a sort of productivity-tool/gear-acquisition-syndrome where I can never settle on one that is "perfect".

Swapping wasn't hard, but it sure wasn't easy. Did you find going from B -> C (-> D?) easier than A -> B?
Just as gaming hardware has taken over compute, gaming journalism must take over reporting!
Those breaking changes often are years apart which I sn much better than what the kernel currently offers.
Most code that is written is code that is run frequently and with a short runtime. Julia is not good at this.
Stop perpetuating these ignorant myths about nuclear energy.

Radioactive waste is radioactive because it still has stuff in it that can be refined into usable fuel ore for further use.

The reason this was not done was because it was cheaper to mine new ore than refine older waste. This is quickly changing.

When uranium pellets are used up they become depleted uranium and have industrial uses as ballests, armor, or (controversially) as weapons. These are about as dangerous as lead. Don't eat them but can be safely held on your hand or buried with minimum danger.

Nuclear power is our path to a green future and people like you spreading ignorance are why countries like Germany are now dependent on despotic totalitarian regimes.
> It's the entire reason Apple still exists as a company, for example.

Apple's edge on competitors is all hype? Do you really believe that?
No one is interested in being insulted. But you only feel insulted because what I said is 100 percent true.

"Bespoke routines for vehicular routing problems" lol. I mean phrases like that reveal what you think of yourself as.

You're writing simulations. That's all. "Bespoke" lol. And those simulations have lower fidelity then a video game like GTA which likely does traffic at higher levels of fidelity and real time with a renderer.

I have a doctorate in mathematics. Prior to that I've done work in cs. Doesn't mean shit. I don't name drop that crap to pretend to be superior.
Sounds a lot like the systems some police departments are using to profile people who might commit crimes before they actually happen. Voyager, or something like that?
What exactly do you mean that OCaml has figured out?
It was only after you hit $200,000 in sales for a year.
I use logseq daily to keep track of what I do in my job as a SWE. Having this structured archive is invaluable. I don't understand why you think that note-taking is only justified if you want to create some kind of product - that's a very weird take in my opinion.
The theory is that 'baking" it could reflow a bad solder joint and fix it. A popular fix of last resort.
GitHub Actions – Force cancel workflows
there's this custom action to do something similar https://github.com/marketplace/actions/cancel-workflow-actio... but now its officially supported via GitHub REST API
Looks to me like the same rethoric of those that speak the virtues of true communism. I heard the song many times already.
Those are the same:

https://adoptium.net/

“Eclipse Temurin is the name of the OpenJDK distribution from Adoptium.”
Dale Carnegie's book is about professional success. OBVIOUSLY, if you are having a meeting with a VP about your project, it might be good to make sure you say his or her name correctly. Equally obviously, if a VP mispronounces your name, you don't make a stink and derail business side of conversation.

If we are just talking about being nice well... exactly same considerations apply. Why burden other people when you can handle the problem yourself. At least for one off interactions, if you deal with someone regularly it's Ok to mention correct pronunciation a couple of times and not make it a huge deal if they find it challenging.
> Compare the satellite imagery from 2023, which clearly shows the bridge is out:

Maybe it shows it, but I could definitely not call that "clearly", although that doesn't really matter anyway, as abundantly mentioned elsewhere.
The leader of the AfD is using Nazi-speech in his talks. The party is considered being a right-wing extremist group.[0]

Sounds for me they are very much Nazi-like.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/afd-politician-h%C3%B6cke-charged-with...
Your are right, and I focus on what I can control to improve my life, but I am not ignorant of the struggles I face or the advantages of others.

I’m being realistic not a victim.
Until the tritium leaks...
> Consumers are far too happy to just jump on the hypiest train and don't care enough to actually educate themselves about which product has maximum value. It's the entire reason Apple still exists as a company, for example.

Can you elaborate on this? It seems to me that observing Apple, it is a company that creates and captures significant value as a business. They are excelling in some key business areas, such as supply chain logistics, while also moving the needle in a meaningful way with the development of best-in-class hardware, specifically in sensor packages, baseband processors, and CPUs. Some of that has to do with their buy of TSMC yield on N3 and other nodes, however there is a direct business acumen in choosing to do this and understanding the logistical chain of provenance to dominate the market from a hardware perspective.

While I agree that this release from Intel is mostly marketing, it isn't clear to me that Apple is driving a hype train, rather than actually meaningfully moving the needle.
"It is recommended that you have access to GPT-4 via the OpenAI API."

Does this sentence imply that some data of my vault will be sent to OpenAI?
[nut sure my company will be fond of that]
>an odd choice to go after Google since they have world class lawyers

Steve Dallas lawsuit?
Context: OVHcloud's data center fire: One year on, what do we know? - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/ovhclouds-dat...
Experimental Evidence: Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity, Quality
A blog post by one of the authors describing this paper is available here, with some interesting data: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the...
> IRS does not say cash back rewards from credit card spend is taxable income

No, it's just a rebate/discount made directly to the purchaser. For tax purposes, if they buy something for $100 and get a $2 cash back, it just means they spent $98.

It's very different when there's a third party - employee - involved. The "reward" is going to someone who never spent any money, and so generally would be considered taxable compensation to them. OF course, regulatory exceptions in the tax code are nothing new, and it seems like this might need to be re-visited soon.
Interesting that they talk about the double spending problem but don't propose a solution (which ultimately came in the form of the proof-of-work blockchain). From the section on Multiple Spending Prevention:

> One way to minimize the problem of multiple spending in an off-line system is to set an upper limit on the value of each payment. This would limit the financial losses to a given merchant due to accepting coins that have been previously deposited. However, this will not prevent someone from spending the same small coin many times in different places.

> In order to prevent multiple spending in off-line payments, we need to rely on physical security. A "tamper-proof" card could prevent multiple spending by removing or disabling a coin once it is spent. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a truly "tamper-proof" card. Instead, we will refer to a "tamper-resistant" card, which is physically constructed so that it is very difficult to modify its contents.
This is how type systems work, you ground them in a strong theoretical foundation then build on top of that for actual consumption.
Thanks for the feedback!

The hidden words are hand selected from a smaller vocabulary list to make the game is solvable without having to guess.

Then if you find a more obscure word that is valid in the dictionary it is counted as a bonus word and can further help you solve the hidden words based on it's position.
For anyone who hasn't seen it: https://gleam.run/

> The power of a type system, the expressiveness of functional programming, and the reliability of the highly concurrent, fault tolerant Erlang runtime, with a familiar and modern syntax.

Haven't used it, but I'd like to hear about others experience.
Somewhat similar to ombudsman?
It wasn't rhetoric - what work would they be doing? For whom? Who would assign it? Based on what priorities?

We are talking about a firehose of somewhere around five hundred billion dollars a year. Where do you intend to aim it?
Our intention is that it's clickable - I can't replicate this but others have mentioned it. What browser are you on?
I've felt the same way about Gainax, from whom all the good original people departed, forming splinter studios while Gainax's "loose management" ran it into the ground. These days the company is known for tax fraud and embezzlement in its history, as well as sexual misconduct against a minor committed by its president. But Evangelion is a Studio Khara (Hideaki Anno's studio) property now, so it's safe.
Like a lot of failure, a few things going wrong at the same time.

> Typically, barricades are in place to prevent drivers from crossing the bridge, North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. But the barricades had been removed after being vandalized and were missing at the time of Paxson’s wreck.

[0]: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/...
Same on https://www.numworks.com/simulator/
Two factors matter for me more than the others: (1) no alcohol, (2) time I go to bed. I find if I go to bed earlier my sleep quality and not just quantity is better. I am monitored by both a Garmin watch and a CPAP machine.

Sometimes I love starting a "small" technical project at 10:00 pm that I think will be done at 11:00pm but it isn't until 12:30am that I wrestling it into submission but I find it takes a long time to settle after that.
There are nazi like parties even in the counties that were allied to defeat the actual nazis.

Why should Germany be any different?
Totally with you on that, and in fact, I'm a massive practitioner thereof to the point I was regularly pushing an i7 2021Mac flat out to the point the kernel was just giving up handling any USB input in a remotely reasonable fashion from running several frameworks, servers, DB's VM's, and containers all at the same time.

I was basically pressing Ctrl in that one guys workflow with my project at the time. Fun as all hell. Love a thoroughly tasked computer.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of those. I know a few countries (including the US) tried nuclear-powered civilian ships and they were...not successes. The problem is the viable lifetime of a sea-going hull is very limited, perhaps 25-30 years at the outside.

Decommissioning nuclear ships is a BIG problem. Salt is a formidable enemy.

There are plans to convert the US attempt (NS Savannah) into a museum ship, but they can't even start on it yet because the hull is still, almost 50 years after the reactor was removed (1976) too radioactive.
> I dont think anyones advocating going that far

Not yet.

> edit: I would advocate for a sensible area somewhere between the two ludicrous extremes

That sensible conclusion is "you can't save everyone". If you try, you inevitably become the tyrant we must be saved from.

To save everyone, you require omniscience and omnipotence. You must know everything about your subjects and have the power to act on that knowledge. There's not a single human on this Earth I would trust with that power.
Senate is far worse in this regard. Feinstein is seemingly downright senile.
From Up on Poppy Hill is actually my favorite. But I haven't seen his others.
> The only thing Germany needs to fix is the winter time (you cannot expect to have healthy people when the sun sets at around 3-4pm in winter).

Short of taking Germany and pushing it further south I don’t think there’s much to do about that.

Permanent daylight savings will give people in parts of the country daylight for ~30 minutes after 5, at the cost of people commuting in the dark at their groggiest in the morning. A further change would compound that even more.

The reality is that if you live near the top of the world the winter daylight situation is gonna suck.
> How? How can a new movie ruin an old movie?

I think it must be kind of like desecrating a corpse. Maybe watching someone dig up and do something prolonged and unthinkable to the body of your dead grandmother can't undo all the lovely years you had together, but if witnessing that act enraged you, you might find that suddenly every time you see her photo or visit her grave you're reminded of what you saw and that it upsets you all over again.
They are volunteers in the sense participation in the project is voluntary, but are also an organized non-profit accepting donations.

Anyway I just logged in to fork the repo on the idea I might automate the context replacement, but... my subscriptions are somehow covered in spam for projects/users I don't follow? That is also worrying...
I...do not understand this mentality in the West. Until we have a clean reliable alternative, Nuclear is the best we have.

Do I think it's amazing or perfect? Not at all. But I much prefer it to burning non-renewable and cancerous petrochemicals/carbons. So, it's the best we have until we have for now.
Gee, one wonders how this could have happened?

Importing 1-2 Mio people into the German welfare system, or was it caused by purposefully driving up energy costs massively?

Is it that both things are a double whammy for housing costs?

We might never know! (because the answer is - as always - absolutely racist)
> 1000/month on groceries

yes, we as well mostly cook at home, but if you add some occasional restaurant meals, plus fast food on the road, plus things like $ for NG to cook, and $ for electricity for fridge and freezer, $1200-1300/month looks about right
I'm going to let you in on a secret...

Every single publicly listed company, every single one of them, is off when it comes to calculating their taxes by way more than just a dollar. And I don't mean clever accounting tricks or tax avoidance schemes, I just mean in terms of actual mistakes being made.
No they are not central banks. Central banks issue a currency and sovereign debt on behalf of some nation and are generally responsible for the financial regulation, fiscal and monetary policy and financial stability of that sovereign nation.

That really is nothing whatsoever to do with what an airline does.
But that's not how it effectively works at scale. It only takes a single person not bound by morals to mess it up for everyone. Those people naturally float to the top and are loved by shareholders (hence who's in charge at most places).

Individually the organisation is made up of people, but at large it's a big anonymous machine because those people are rewarded super-duper one-dimensionally: Help profits and you're rewarded or hurt them and you're out.

It makes about as much sense to anthropomorphise corporations as it does to anthropomorphise lawnmowers. They can not feel empathy.
On contrived benchmarks, sure. What if I want to, say, parse a json file and print something from it?

I understand that Julia is scientific computing oriented, and is probably faster than Python for those applications, but the fact is that Python is no slouch when it comes to scientific computing. And it can do a lot more, including simple but powerful scripts, which is what I mean when I say "most applications."
Clickteam Fusion 2.5
Author here. I was trying hard to not to make this article read as America-hating. Obviously the USA is a massive and diverse country and, personally, I think there is a lot to like and admire about American and Americans. But the fact is that Americans, on average, are pumping more carbon into the atmosphere per capita than nearly anyone else and a lot of it seems completely unnecessary.
Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
Practically impossible because they are "food deserts"?