skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies that mandate use of another company offer a good reason to shun both companies, when there are independent competitors which prioritize customer relationships over "business partner" relationships.

SMS is woefully insecure for multi-factor authentication, when we have TOTP and other open standards that work with local-only password managers.
@Hrun0 @portpecos Sure, I'd like to share the file if anyone needs it.
I wasn't able to get smooth scrolling on Terminal.app nor iTerm2. But I would love to.
Yeah, I think these days it is almost an art to not use JS. Saw a purely text-based blog use it the other day to generate the site nav... all in text... just links. Could not even see the text links without JS enabled.
That doesn't make up for the fact that an article about a visual subject matter is conspicuously missing images.

Show, don't tell. A picture is worth a thousand words. {insert relevant "pictures are important, yo!" quote here}

It means the author, Anne Trafton, didn't give enough of a shit to bother with spending an extra couple minutes doing something right - making the information more complete, accessible, or compelling - but instead did whatever bare minimum was required.
> Everything that's written on the subject -- every bit of research, fad, and personal anecdote -- is just one more experiment flailing around in the darkness while we try to figure out what it means to "engineer" software.

I think Ian Sommerville does a pretty good job in the book "Software Engineering" (I have the 10th edition), from the section 1.1.1:

> Software engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production from the early stages of system specification through to maintaining the system after it has gone into use. In this definition, there are two key phrases:

> 1. Engineering discipline: Engineers make things work. They apply theories, methods, and tools where these are appropriate. However, they use them selectively and always try to discover solutions to problems even when there are no applicable theories and methods. Engineers also recognize that they must work within organizational and financial constraints, and they must look for solutions within these constraints.

> 2. All aspects of software production: Software engineering is not just concerned with the technical processes of software development. It also includes activities such as software project management and the development of tools, methods, and theories to support software development.

These quotes don't do it justice. I'd really recommend this book.
People seem to be forgetting that "AA" game devs companies are an established "category" in video gaming. I wouldn't have considered the Divinity series from the same devs to be indie back when it came out.

Indie to me means a SMALL team (less than 20 total) selling something that is primarily a passion project, and not controlled by a larger entity. IE Minecraft stopped being indie when it was bought by Microsoft even though the team didn't get very large.

I'd love to hear a counterexample though.
> https://neocities.org/supporter

For anyone like me who has no need for the $5/mo features but wishes to support the project - I now notice they have a page for donations.
This subject about CO being fit came up recently when Robert Lustig was on the Huberman podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n28W4AmvMDE&t=7000s
I can’t help but wonder about the privacy implications of tech like this. I’m no fishing vessel, but I’m not that much smaller than some fishing vessels. Certainly my car is of comparable size. How long is it before humans can be tracked in, or out of, their cars, by anyone with a sufficiently adept satellite? That question also implies it isn’t already happening.
> you’ll also be able to earn money based on how many people are using your GPT

So how does that work? Are they showing ads? (Narrator: its always ads) Is this the new ad-sense and search engine replacement? Its not SEO anymore, its custom GPTs.
Disappointing (but understandable) that this is not available for my 14 Pro Max.
They also say things like "Efficient built-in ad blocker Based on Ublock Origin" and "Keyboard navigation Vim bindings", so I think they're developing both a new browser and a new engine for the browser to use, and kind of conflating the two when discussing features on their home page.
I am... confused? My old PC has an X1800 XT, which is significantly more recent than that, and the Linux driver hasn't been updated since 2009. I don't think that driver even works with modern X.Org or Linux kernels. Could someone tell me if I'm missing something? Would be very happy to be able to run this card at full resolution, instead of having to use a generic VGA driver.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/legacy-graphics/ati-...
In many European cities there are 7 or 22kW chargers on the street, used for overnight charging. Sometimes they're built in to lamp posts, more often they're independent.
Indy developers are making games for customers and that will shape the game. Indie should be bootstrapped games.
Women’s hands in every image yet a man’s face everywhere. Just a little on the nose.

Obviously I am not the target demographic but I am interested to see where this goes.
> please do

now that i think of it, i already did just that once, only forgot. getting old sucks, and also forgetting things is a great skill i learned from atw. as he likes to say, “kelas, ignorance is bliss”. Here you go - all you ever need to know about how to read and write atwc:

https://github.com/kparc/bcc/blob/master/d/sidenotes.md#styl...
iOs now has a way of moving the cursor by holding down spacebar and then dragging your finger. This also lets selections be extended.

How will this keyboard replace that for cursor movement?
Hasn't it always been the Game Advertisements? Perhaps it's gotten more egregious, but the nature of the thing hasn't really changed.
Thanks for the reply. I just sent out an email, really appreciate it!
Wouldn't colder cause the body to want to pack on the pounds as insulation?
Cooperative multitasking is "The illusion of simultaneously executing code paths by having said code paths pass control to each other fast enough."

If the OS forcefully switches control it's preemptive.
It was 18 minutes until the last person, the captain, evacuated. [1] Until an investigative report is released, and the timeline thoroughly reconstructed, it is bettee to ignore all such articles.

[1] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240104_06/
Does this mean that supplemental vitamin D could control body weight to some extent?
V is for Vendetta, I've been told.
But there's nothing stopping anyone from making their own website. There are even lots of free options for hosting, the problem is audience, which is captured and driven by platforms.

There must be a way to dispense with platforms entirely...
Indie is literally short for "independent". If it is financed and developed independently of outside influence, it is therefore indie. I think people conflate indie with low-budget. They are not the same. And I don't mean low-budget in a disparaging way. Low-budget has its perks, and can end up really cool.
When I bought Turbo Pascal in 1987, the retail price was $59.95 (USD), IIRC. A little earlier it was less, $39.95 IIRC. Pascal was an academically-oriented language, which would only let you use variables correctly according to their declared type, but Borland Pascal included a very useful and sensible set of loopholes for getting around all that in the many cases when that was necessary to make a program useful in the real world. It was a non-academic implementation of an academic language.
Ask HN: Best Password Manager without cloud login?
I am an expert at password management, but I don't necessarily know all the vendors of such.

Without exhaustively testing all the vendors, my personal judgement is that 1Password is about the best across many axes. However when they forced the subscription model (with VC-rationalized justifications) I abandoned them and went to BitWarden. BW is very much not as good but it's more than just good enough.

One defect that has bothered me about BW is that to unlock the vault, locally, you have to be able to contact the BW server. (I'm using the BW free cloud, not self hosted.) Right now, for the past 30 minutes, I've been unable to unlock my local vault due to being unable to login to the BW server. BW status page says all green. It could very well be a local/regional connectivity issue and not their systems actually being down. Doesn't really matter, this situation is unacceptable.

I do want to sync between a few devices, without hoops, so I do need their cloud service for that (don't I?). I cannot run an available enough self hosted service. I'm perfectly ok with BW and the way sync is done, it's just the vault unlock dependency which I can no longer tolerate.

Does the community here either know how to configure BW to retain sync but not have this cloud dependency on local unlock (sorry for basic tech support question!), OR do people have recommendations for a different provider that is either free or perpetually licensed? Obviously one can't run a cloud service for free, but I'm thinking iCloud or wifi or other kind of sync.

I am confident that KeePass can do this but I am also confident the UX and the DIY-ish nature of it is not for me.

I'm ok with a ios+mac-only solution, I can do something different/disjoint for the rare other usage I might have.
Prediction: They will take the Video Streaming route and own the IP / studios / devs.
Yes. From the FAQ at https://support.invisionapp.com :

> InVision will fully shut its doors shortly after December 31, 2024
I recently bought Samsung Galaxy add on keyboard, on a whim, to see if it would work with my iPhone. It sits over the screen where the onscreen keyboard is situated. On eBay it said “Bluetooth” but had no obvious signs of charging. Didn’t work with the iPhone. Next hypothesis was something clever with NFC.

Nope. Zero electronics. The reverse of the PCB has pads that fit over regions on the screen. On the front of the PCB, tactile dome switches short each pad through to a plane, presumably capacitively coupled to the hand.

(Edited for detail)

Why won’t anyone do this for iPhones? (Patents or market?)
We've banned this account for posting these comments excessively and ignoring our request to stop (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38849739).

The issue isn't your views on copyright (I'm not tracking what they are, but I'm sure they're fine and no doubt plenty of people agree with you). Rather the issue is that you've been posting about this repetitively and excessively. That's not allowed on HN. It adds noise rather than signal, and we want signal here.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll stop doing this in the future.
Should head over to Japan...

Exploring the eerie beauty of Japan's abandoned villages --- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/18/japan/society/e... -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37270007 171 points | 4 months ago | 126 comments

The top comment by nataz:

> If you are interested in buying an abandoned home in the Japan countryside highly recommend the YouTube channel Tokyo Llama. He's spent the last four years renovating a beautiful traditional style Japanese house and property about an hour outside of Tokyo. He talks about the renovation aspects, taxes, paperwork process, and the pros and cons of doing this with a family. Lots of videos the watch.

> https://youtu.be/TwRjO3kHxU4?si=a9rw7FbwpiXEQLjr
feels like this is ... 15 years late.
Every hour with the heater on but the car otherwise idle uses around 1-4km of range.
I think the ceiling is still there where if you have special hard to find skills (ML and distributed systems at my company) you can still command that salary but if you are just writing crud apps nobody is going to pay you half a mil per year anymore.
Okay so

> I was in a (unnamed cafe) browsing HN. I clicked on 'sit'. didn't expect the gong noise & my headphones weren't connected - got strange looks from a couple people.

> I'm usually super hyperfixated with things but I immediately just snapped into a zone. the 'you can stop looking at the screen for now' prompt was super helpful.

> so just I let my eyes just wander, it felt weird to do so, but slowly felt those knots in my brain fizzle out

> I started with the window, watched some people past - the usual mindfulness - nothing too interesting. started listening to the traffic on a car-by-car level which seemed to bring everything into scope. I saw a baby pigeon pick at something across the street, a mother lean down to kiss their baby in a pram.

> then my gaze sort of drifted back into the cafe, both visually and audibly

> I heard the coffee machine whir, listened to the waiters giving each other ordered - which felt sort of intrusive but also kind of like a superpower.

> THEN I caught this waitress' gaze, and I shit you not, she smiled at me.

> maybe it's because I looked like a creep sitting in a cafe watching people with an open laptop in front of me but...

> I learnt things from that 2 minutes of mental silence. thank you

edit: as I was writing this comment, the same waitress brought over my food and we had a chat!

side note: on my Mac there seemed to be some kind of UI glitch with the minutes dropdown menu - it was gigantic
I'm confused as to what you're implying - the first image with a person (after Mr. Mobile) is of a fully embodied woman, hands and all.
> This has been the persistent argument for many years from companies who say they can't release Open Source graphics drivers.

What? How can any company claim that with the patent thing at play? Wouldn't that just be admitting they're violating patents, therefore making the closed-sourceness reason moot in the first place?

Moreover, wouldn't any sufficiently-interested patentholder just reverse-engineer the compiled binary and arrive to the supposed infringment on their own?
Does it come with the Blackberry breakout game and a scroll wheel?
I wonder how the microphone input and speaker ouput are affected with the keyboard cover. As shocking as it seems, not all iPhone users use AirPods for their calls.
So "the fewer people are buying electric cars" canard is still living in a caption under the banner: "Fewer people are buying electric cars — the slowdown hints at a problem at the heart of America's EV push."
Llanelli's Felinfoel brewery pioneered beer in cans
For new products I always recommend the same thing: name your competitors and use cases. Compare them in a table; don't make the user think. Who should and should not use your product? Being in-memory and distributed, I imagine your competitors include Ignite and Hazelcast?

I read the title as CursorDB, which would have made a nice DB name.
I was also wondering why it feels more personal.

Plomking feels more like making a gesture, and I think we still lack that in the online world. Any reactions on social media usually have deeper and more loaded meaning than, say, a nod of acknowledgement, or even a wink.

I was wondering, could it be due to the value we mentally assign to our reactions when interacting online? “Liking” a post or message is never just about the “like”, it is also:

- forcing you to make a decison to “like” or not react (is this really worthy of my “like”?)

- broadcasting to everyone that you’ve liked something

- signaling the algorithms that there is some weight to the message

- keeping permanent record of your “like”

“Likes” and other reactions have so much weight and complexity behind them.. it kinda takes any intimacy and any human touch out of the equation.
Oh, you are right - I didn't think about the other direction at all.
Thanks for the explanation!
When you're talking about indie vs AAA game, you're generally talking about the overall design, not random bug fixes or very minor usability improvements like your tutorial entrance.

In the case of soulsbornes, it's death as a game mechanic and adding a bit more difficulty [1].

[1] ... although they mostly have the most fair difficulty i've seen in video games.
For me, Apple Books for MacOS will aggressively and unnecessarily sync epubs to iCloud, even with the current book while I'm reading. It makes it difficult to actually use Apple Books, as I get kicked out of my book every few minutes. It is even worse when I have no internet connection, as it will randomly attempt and fail to sync, blocking you from reading that book at all.
There looks like a mix of both women and men on that page?
I'm made a few that I find _incredibly_ useful to me, personally.

The one with the most usage by people other than me (posted it on twitter) is https://chat.openai.com/g/g-MGIdYisxl-small-answer

It's called "Small Answer". It's exactly what it sounds like. It gives very short and concise answers, which means it's very fast. Very useful when there are load problems or you just want it to be short and to the point.

-----------------

I made another that is ridiculously niche, but has been useful to a few others. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-thBmRjljk-ffmpeg-build-script-cr...

"ffmpeg Build Script Creator" - it generates a build script for you to build a custom build of ffmpeg with only the features you need on the platform you need it on (to minimize binary size etc. probably for embedding in an application).

This is the kind of thing I'm looking more forward to on GPT store. Incredibly niche use cases that someone took the time to prompt / provide sample data / 3rd party information for it to work properly.

-----------------

The most useful by far to me is "The Full Imp". It does a much better job building full implementations of things you tell it to. I find it much higher quality than Grimoire and GPT-4.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-7k9sZvoD7-the-full-imp
I wonder how this would feel in hand, grip seems to have unbalanced weight when I mimic on my iPhone pro max 11. Like it wants to tip over but maybe if you really have something physical at the bottom it is not that bad.

Blackberry sacrificed screen for the keyboard so balance was all OK.

I also caught myself thinking these buttons were too round and too tiny as compared to my on-screen keyboard. Also not having the luxury of seeing all my special characters appear on the keys when pressing the 123/#+= etc to toggle keyboards would be something to get used to. E.g. Type a {} or ~.
Yes I would love to collaborate. Sounds interesting, let me know how to proceed
There's a hack for it: <https://github.com/acook/OfficeKeyFix>

The Office key shortcuts get bound by Explorer when it starts. If you bind the keys when Explorer does not run, you own them and can then free them after Explorer has started.
Interesting. I wonder if these came about from engineers just trying to be too clever. The thing I really love about rails is the focus on creating nice boring conventional code.

I think the current mania for types has arisen largely out of the js SPA crowd creating problems for themselves doing the opposite,
> My guess: if the bitstream format was documented competitors would know how the device works and be able to prove their patents are being violated.

Assuming the patentholder had sufficient and warranted suspicions, wouldn't they initiate legal action and get the actual source/hardware design files through discovery anyway?
Did you know that Minecraft uses category theory?
>> I understand that tools like Next.js and Remix allow you to generate server-side React that ultimately produces plain HTML output. However, what if I don't want a backend at all and still desire straightforward HTML output?

Then write HTML? I don't understand what you are insinuating at all. Is this a hard stance? The web is flexible enough these days to allow javascript or for you to write HTML if you want to, which you seem to desire.
I wonder if the availability of different food types differs between high and low altitude locations?
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The human condition is such a weird one that for me the biggest benefit is hacking with hedonic adaptation. Of constantly resetting baselines so there is appreciation of the many wonderful things in life.

Many of the most enjoyed moments in my life -- moments when I really was living the moment, and appreciating and enjoying every element -- were often after "bad" moments. Not bad like war or trauma or anything, but like my best camping moment ever was when it had been raining for days, we were cold and miserable, but then the sun rose and it was a warm day and that day, with everything drying, warmth, and comfort, suddenly everything was brighter and better than it had ever been. The meal we made over the fire was next level. My best moment skiing was having a long, tiring and intensely cold day and then going into the blazing hot cabin to sit by a fire and have hot chocolate.

I make a french press pot of freshly brewed coffee and honestly the experience quickly becomes....meh. It's just coffee. But then I go on a business trip for a week, where I can only source mediocre coffee, and suddenly come home and my home coffee is just revelatory. It is just something I can sink into and sit in awe of.

So cold showers for me are like that. It is intense discomfort to reset the baseline, and suddenly warmth feels exhilerating and wonderful.
How do you intend to generate a certificate if you opted-out of these methods?
About a·Muse·Wiki
TFA's example of Baldur's Gate 3 is a great example of this (though I'm not sure the degree to which Hasbro retained creative control; it almost certainly wasn't zero, so that's a point against it).

[edited to replace WotC with Hasbro]
Why not have the keyboard part of the case and fold down
I wonder what the effect of the key rows not being offset is on the UX.
The fake podcast promo video is.. Weird.
The second photo of a person on the page is of a women holding the phone and you can see her face.
It was supposed to be a joke! Not inspiration! https://i.redd.it/g8o4nu49rfz51.jpg

I like having a physical keyboard, but not like this... it makes the phone too long. A slide out is preferred. I'm just going to stick with a regular bluetooth keyboard.
> What a beautiful car analogy.

Almost but not quite.

Web worked just fine without JS and to some extent still does (this site for example). So a better analogy would be something cars were fine without, but now have it and it improves experience (and sometimes bloats it eg one more thing to break).

Electric windows, seat heaters, GPS, come to mind.
AI-assisted bug reports make developers bear cost of cleanup
Nice horizontal scroll.
As someone who grew up with the Blackjack and Sidekick phones I like this. I'll nitpick on a marketed scenario though:

> Launch Spotlight

> cmd + space

Cool that there's a keyboard but this is more easily done by just dragging the home screen down. There are probably more powerful hotkey combos they can pick for the marketing here.
The big study was a 20+ year observational study in Finland [1] where Sauna's are supposed to be quite accessible, but the world is complicated and there are probably many confounding factors.

The mechanism of action seems very plausible. Sauna's are moderate stress which spikes your heart rate temporarily (they say 100-150bpm in the study). So it's not surprising it could be protective for cardiovascular disease just like many other forms of moderate stress/exercise.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...