skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the authentication front - JWTs would be a great fit here!

The developer's backend could issue a JWT, which is validated by the remoteStorage backend. Then, use the `sub` field as the user ID. JWTs are pretty ubiquitous in frontend applications, so many people would be able to reuse their existing auth setup.
It's different enough that Apple thinks it's only safe for them to ship GPLv2 software on MacOS devices, not GPLv3.

This might have something to do with the way they sign shipped versions and use TPM security to verify what's run, even though you can manually disable some of this if you want.

So all GPL the software shipped on MacOS devices is stuck at the last version which used GPLv2, and they rewrote Samba which they had previously shipped, whose last GPLv2 version is too out of date to keep using.
I suspect wisdom is not having children when you can't afford to take care of them. Just ensuring that my own medical care is met is a challenge - to add a couple kids to that equation is a terrifying notion. School and housing certainly haven't gotten any cheaper either.
The amount of time is entirely dependent on what kind of work it is and what kind of blocked you are. Can’t get your build to succeed? Ask for help quickly. Can’t get your research model to produce useful results on the first try? Maybe try a few things first.
Even NYC shipping to a house is shaky. Amazon's 3rd party last mile vendors are not all fantastic.

I live in a "suburb" of about 100k people right now, and Amazon 2 day delivery is fantastic. I still canceled my subscription to prime, though.
It can't be mutual because the receivers don't broadcast, so the sender doesn't know which contacts are in range.

I was also thinking you might be able to use asymmetric crypto for this, and encrypt the hash + a nonce using your private key, and anyone with your public key can decrypt it and check the hash against the contact list. But this means the potential receiver needs to decrypt with every public key it knows, which for large contact lists might be prohibitively expensive.

Someone has probably devised a more clever way, though.
A dozen essays on minimizing dependencies for reliability.

"Dependencies matter. Every dependency you add to your project is an invitation to break your project."
Haha. Ok. I think that’s where we’re just going to have to agree to disagree.
No, I didn't try it first.

I just made it up as an example of something that I had failed at in the past, on the basis that this kind of technical specificity has generally lead to daunting results in the past.

Finding specific things has generally been a frustrating mess for me on Amazon.

But I did try it just now: I searched for "ring terminals 12 #10" and got a long list of stuff that is actually worth considering.

WTF?

This is good and welcome, but it was certainly unexpected.

Perhaps their search engine has improved for some of this kind of thing.
Ranking systems seem to work OK, or at least seemed to 5-10 years ago when I played online shooters more. The key is just to not be too good; cheaters would shoot up out of my potential matches very quickly I think. I guess that must have been annoying for the very good players, but for the rest of us it was fine.

It would be interesting if a company would just release a shooter that has an open source client and explicitly allows plugins or alternative clients or whatnot. The server gives you what it gives you, everybody use it to the best of their ability. If everyone is cheating, it isn’t really cheating, it is just testing different skills. We’ve all got auto-aim? Then this is a game about positioning and map knowledge.
This is terrible logic and we (the international community) have banned several kinds of terrible weapons to avoid this kind of lose-lose escalation logic.
The Supreme Court itself wasn't really defined by the constitution - they conveyed a need for it - but not how to structure it, given the lack of historical data. They also foresaw the problems with parties but didn't take enough steps to retire them.

This is why things like Roe V. Wade are (/were) so controversial. Does the Supreme Court have the right to imagine new rights to abortion with no textual basis in the Constitution? Even RBG didn't think so. OTOH, given the recent election results, Abortion is finally starting to become settled law - something the USSC could not do. Democracy works again.

That said - they got far more right then wrong, and ditching the lessons they learned first are a big reason we are in the state we are in now.

Once upon a time, leaders actually had to learn history to be leaders. Now-adays, not so much.
> I think even if it were established that program B is not a derived work of library A

I don't think it ever will be.

> program B designed to require library A

How do you design program B to require A, without inspiration from A?

I believe you can't. For a silly example, take a puzzle peice. To integrate support for your puzzle in my work, I'm gonna have to copy some of your edges.
Maybe I'm wrong. I kind of just abduced it because it was the only plausible reason I could think of. My kindle only supports black and white. And I figure newer models might have colour support?
Certain parts of Microsoft Learn are permissive, most .NET/C# documentation is Creative Commons Attribution:

* Conceptual docs: https://github.com/dotnet/docs

* BCL: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs

* ASP.NET Core: https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs

* WinForms/WPF: https://github.com/dotnet/docs-desktop

The C# language specification is unfortunately a bit fuzzier, but the conceptual docs above include what most people want: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/4855

The updated unified C# language specification is CC, but it's still catching up to modern C#: https://github.com/dotnet/csharpstandard
Being a warmonger is the new cool. No appeasement and whatever. Sama is just being down with the kids.
The Best Security Key for MFA
Plug: https://mbork.pl/2013-09-18_Selective_replacement_in_LaTeX_d...
I recommend using a sophisticated ad blocker like uBlock origin or AdGuard for Safari to disable most of the irrelevant stuff and upsells that Amazon pushes to keep you shopping for hours instead of finding what you were looking for.

I started a personal collection where I just kept removing sponsored content or really anything that wasn’t relevant to what I was searching for or what was in my cart. I spend way less time on Amazon now. It’s not really meant for general use, and I don’t update it much, but here’s what I have if anyone wants to try it for themselves:

https://github.com/namuol/browser-qol/blob/main/blocker-rule...
"Using your voice to send an email" - how's that not useful?! E.g. running late for a meeting and send a quick email from your car.
Say what you want about Mozilla but they work diligently to remove every competitive advantage they have!
> What’s deeply frustrating is that for more than a decade Sal Khan similarly said that the videos on his “Khan Academy” would revolutionize education, and they utterly failed to do so.

How does one determine whether an edtech startup like KA has succeeded or failed? As someone who has found KA useful at times, I don't understand where the author is coming from
I'm going to assume you're in the USA, which may be incorrect.

I live in the third world, in Amazon's estimation-- Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands. If I search for something, there's a better-than-not chance that it will explicitly say in the search results under the item "ships to [Switzerland]," but when I click the item, I get "sorry, this item does not ship to your location" and I can't order it. It makes searching on Amazon incredibly frustrating because I have to click through every garbage 3rd-party knockoff of the thing I'm looking for to find the one garbage 3rd-party knockoff that ships to my uninhabited, remote shithole of the European backwaters (Zurich, Amsterdam, Cork). But will Amazon offer me an option to filter out things I can't have? No, of course not. Why? Shut up and stop asking questions, that's why.

What's worse, even this is still miles better than stuff-availability in Ireland was 20 years ago when I first moved over from Chicagoland. That was a blow to my expectations, I tell you hwat. I may have single-handedly kept eBay.com in the black between 2005-2016...
I've wondered before if anyone actually uses these, and if so, what for.
Re: "unsupported by the scientific literature"

Einstein received the same treatment before relativity was widely accepted.

In medicine the man who started the practice of cleaning hands before surgeries and childbirth, was essentially murdered for his preposterous practices:

"You'd think everyone would be thrilled. Semmelweis had solved the problem! But they weren't thrilled.

For one thing, doctors were upset because Semmelweis' hypothesis made it look like they were the ones giving childbed fever to the women.

...

The sad end to the story is that Semmelweis was probably beaten in the asylum and eventually died of sepsis".
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...

And paraphrasing Dr. Willie Soon, from the recent Tucker Carlson interview - found here - Soon says it only 1 takes scientist to be right - so the "unsupported by scientific literature" should hold little weight as you presented it at some kind of proof point; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7IdLzxzINw

All you're doing here is citing, to make it appear legitimate, what essentially is high level ad hominem - as you're not going into any specifics to argue a point, and where I doubt your sources even attempt to counter argue all of the relevant arguments that Soon put forward. You're just parroting propaganda talking points, literally copy/pasting them from a known corrupted-manipulated source:

"In a February 2021 interview with Fox News, Sanger stated that Wikipedia's 'ideological and religious bias is real and troubling, particularly in a resource that continues to be treated by many as an unbiased reference work'."
- Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia.
What Is Human Energy?
Sucks to fly on though, compared to the A350/A380/787, all of which are noticeably more comfortable.
The established part of the business had an appalling half year and couldn’t continue to fund the not-yet-profitable digital part of the business.

If you work for a startup you know there’s always a possibility that the money will run out, but at least you know your runway.

What does “pullback” mean?
Wow, it's almost like humans have predisposition for attractive peers, ceteris paribus.
Let's rephrase then: why does owning stock imply financially supporting the company? After IPO, you're not buying anything from the company, you're buying from other investors.
Wouldn’t it be more effective to phase out oil and coal production? Couldn’t that be enforced with remote sensing satellites and cruise missiles?

I’m not seeing the collective action problem here. All the personal shaming stuff feels like a big grift.
Don’t the phones practically need to be touching for that feature?

I don’t think that reduces AirDrop privacy, you’d know who it was from that distance anyway.
you got to be kidding me!!! is this for real? wtf!
Because passengers are incapable of choosing not to fly?
I assume you know that Steve Jobs used this line to lure Pepsi's CEO, John Sculley, to lead Apple :)
Too much legitimacy to her being a scientist so they couldn't just put "so-called scientist."
I'm thinking ChatGPT can probably do a lot of the heavy lifting in this cleaning step, have you considered integrating your app with OpenAI's API, or perhaps an open model like CodeLlama?
Religious flamewar isn't allowed on HN, so please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> At least in the USA, the copying of a program you legally received into working memory doesn't require a license of any kind, it is a type of fair use. I believe the EU has an explicit exception to copyright for the same reason. So I don't think any problem would arise when running the programs.

My point wasn't about copying into memory being a license violation, rather the fact that you're combining two works together into a single program that violates the license of one of the works. Who is liable for the violation in that case? The user who combined the works together or the developer who created a program that instructs the user to combine those works together?

Perhaps you're selling a book that's derivative of Stephen King's novels, but instead of actually including text from his novels you insert pages that just say "insert chapter 5 from the Shawshank Redemption here". Even though it contains instructions to create a derivative work, it is not in itself a derivative work.

However if the reader follows those instructions and creates a completed work by inserting those chapters as instructed. That completed work definitely is a derivative work of Stephen King's novels.
Love this idea. Especially because JWTs are so ubiquitous like you mentioned, this could be a very lightweight way to secure the calls without doing too much if any backend work. My main goal is to make it as easy to use as localStorage itself but with all the benefits and security of having a centralized state/store.
> Sometimes I wonder how people can actually enjoy songs that are so utterly linked to their times.

Because it sounds good and the more times change, the more they stay the same.

Also, almost every song, every work of art is inextricably tied to their times. From the Bible to Shakespeare to Bach to Prince and Eminem. You can enjoy a work of art in any time, but you can't truly understand it without understanding the context.

And yeah, the first thought that came to mind when I read the title was eminem's without me. Truly, great minds think alike.
True, few are thrilled at getting fired. But if you are told you're being let go due to performance they should be able to say how they determined your poor performance. Not being able to give metrics or manager feedback makes it seem like that's not the true reason. If you want to make fired people even more upset, lying to them is a good way to do it.
Populations that don't think it's a problem will be replaced by those who do.
For sure, the "Magic" mouse is another Apple entry in the Hall of Peripheral Shame.

"Does anyone who stops to think about this for more than 2 seconds actually want this?"

Really? Have you ever heard of Wacom? They built an entire company on people who want this, and it has been in business for decades. And of course you can see what you're writing, right there on the screen! The surface area of current Apple laptop trackpads is 33% larger than that of a Wacom Intuos tablet: https://i.imgur.com/D8pmsTC.jpeg

It has nothing to do with handwriting recognition, either. That's another area where Apple failed spectacularly to make the Pencil useful. All they had to do is add a single-character writing area to the standard keyboard on the iPad, as was nailed in the '90s by Palm. That way, ALL applications would have immediately have gotten handwriting-entry capability. Instead, Apple left it up to every application developer to implement it separately. Baffling.
London mayor says Brexit has cost UK over $178B so far
What else could 2*A + 1 mean, than this?

[1 2] [3 5]
2 [ ] + 1 = [ ]
[3 4] [7 9]
This seems like a very presentism viewpoint. I don't think your points hold historically nor do they acknowledge that "strong checks and balances" and the adversarialness of congress is the same thing and considered a feature, not a bug.
What is special with the server? I was surprised you offered a community-hosted server.

An OpenAPI spec should be enough, right?
Article skips one of the major reasons why Apple is so popular: actual physical Apple stores.

Any maintenance is dealt with at the store, no stress, no need to call customer support, or to find an authorized shop.

I love my Lenovo laptop with Linux, but their customer experience is dreadful both to purchase equipment (that website! why?) and to get any sort of maintenance.

I wouldn't buy a Mac, but dismissing Apple's dominance as human folly is a bad take.
i ise ublock origin, but I too suffer from abysmal search results on Amazon. Im sure their AI has decided ill just buy all the junk after i give up on finding what I actually looked for.

Ive also noticed lower prices for the same items if ive recently searched on walmart or target recently too…
> Donald Trump urged two Michigan election officials not to certify Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the state following the 2020 presidential election, personally calling them in a pressure campaign reminiscent of his Georgia tactics, the Detroit News reported.

it is utter madness that politicians are involved in anyway in certifying the results of elections
What were you able to derive from those two short quotes that don't really have any substance to them?
> Presumably they heard a convincing argument at one point and accepted that - but then later changed their standards to not accept convincing arguments

No, many people base their views on what their friends thinks, they never reasoned themselves into it.

It is rational to base your beliefs on your friends, and to keep those beliefs to ensure you can continue to fit in with your friends. That is less work and less risky than changing your mind, only few really go against the grain and try to think for themselves, it isn't helping them but some people has to do that for the benefit of our pack.
> It's probably mostly me

It's not.
He/she/they/it is referencing a certain "hastily made tourism video" on YouTube
> So far, the high profile busts involving Tor all involve some other weaker link in the chain, such as traffic analysis[0], a CI, a targeted sting operation. etc.

(If I recall, the Snowden files also contained a claim by NSA that they could not break Tor.)
> I don't think society is dependent on government.

Is that a hypothetical or are there large and successful societies around today that don't have one (or a group by some other name fulfilling the same function)?
Yes... when it does anything other than what I ask, it makes me feel like it's wasting my time.

Alexa recently started responding with "Good afternoon! <the normal response>" and it irks me more than it probably should. I've looked to see if I can turn it off and can't find the option.

I don't need pleasantries from a machine.
Absolute monarchy was still a thread at this time. They just called it enlightened despotism. The colonists were objecting to taxation (and really any form of government) without representation, which both the monarch and the parliament were at fault for. Enlightened Despotism died when George III didn't apply reason (as the colonists saw it) to rectify the problem.

In terms of power then George III would have dreamed of - yes, we live in a era when the power of government is still orders of magnitude greater then what anyone could have imagined at the time.
Just the other day I dealt with this issue looking for usb 3.2 hubs, specifically powered hubs, which I kept in quotes that evidently were not respected. I was getting mostly usb 3.0 even some usb 2.0. A few usb 3.2 but not all like you’d think a quote should work for search. Also all over the place powered vs unpowered hub
NASA unveils the X-59 Quesst 'quiet' supersonic jet
There is another failure mode. The prosecutor can refuse to prosecute a guilty party. This can happen for several reasons. 1) corruption, don’t prosecute your friends. 2) ideology, the law or punishment are “unfair” or the defendant is “misunderstood” or “disadvantaged” according to the prosecutor. 3) politics, to advance their political careers prosecutors want an unblemished record of successful convictions.

It is good that our system biases toward avoiding wrongful conviction but there’s no check that forces a party to “do their job.”
As somebody located outside the few main western market centres (US, EU, perhaps Australia), and thus having most Amazon orders also incur added domestic tax, plus shipping, plus wait-time, most of the advantages of Amazon are stripped away.

Once you can no longer get every cheap bauble under the sun delivered tomorrow for free, suddenly it all looks so much more like undesirable, wall-to-wall crap.
> We train our cognition to cancel out ads. We avoid them.

Anecdotally, I've noticed that with Reddits latest addition of allowing users to highlight posts yellow with a "super upvote" that, without thinking about it, my eyes immediately ignore those posts.

We are absolutely trained to ignore ads.
> think of a way

An app was recently mentioned in hn comments, for "live blogging" as PIM - a texting-like personal record of your questions and findings as they go by - research notebook meets chat UI. With a trace like that, or even just a browser trace, an AI might, without interrupting, summarize "what's Joe working on" and perhaps "how's that going?", or even "Hey Bob, maybe come chat with Joe?". And it could be nice to have a PIM that helped you maintain distilled clarity of objectives and state of play. Less nice the vision of a micromanager mesmerized by the dashboarded real-time state of his team.

A physics peer-instruction app, in support of "instructor puts up a question; everyone individually commits an answer; discussion with a neighbor; answer again", told students which neighbor to talk with, optimizing for fruitful discussions, knowing seating and the (mis)understandings implied by answers. LLMs open a lot of possibilities for the old dream of computer-supported cooperative work.

When github was band new, I'd hopped it would grow far more social/meetup/hackathony than it ended up. Wander by, see who's around and what people were banging on; stop by the beginner tables and see if anyone was stuck or struggling; maybe join a push; maybe pair or group; interest profiles, matchmaking (eg round-robin pairing, or "oh! a category-theoretic type system in-the-style-of-a-conference-bar discussion!"). Like a team or small community discord with bots, but scaled. Perhaps AI can make something like that more tractable.
Is it more difficult today than 50 years ago? That doesn't seem obvious to me. What seems more obvious to me is that 50 years ago, the US basically devoted itself entirely into making a moon landing. Today, nobody is making the effort on that scale or with that sense of urgency.
https://medium.com/@konstantine_45825/gpt-4-cant-reason-adde...

These are some examples on GPT-4.
I didn't actually know about PouchDB but it looks very useful!

I think the main difference here is the use case. remoteStorage is not intended to be used as a database (just like localStorage is not intended to either), but rather to store non PII data such as preferences, impression events, etc. without having to roll and stand up your own DB and API.
What is free will when my life depends on the actions of others? If the water that I drink is filled with nanoparticles that will result in cancer, why I am suffering from the free will of the others who decided to put them there? That means I'm not the subject under test, I'm a NPC.

So now we have established that there are perfect beings (angels), subjects under tests (those who have free will) and NPCs (those who suffer from the actions of the aforementioned subjects).
typo in URL:
https://zealdocs.org/
What I meant is that somehow companies released native applications for a multitude of operating systems in years past. Internet Explorer on Solaris, Windows, MacOS. Photoshop and AutoCAD on IRIX, Windows, MacOS. Netscape Navigator on anything with a screen and a keyboard. That's just the stuff I used off the top of my head.
Agreed, it sounds more like they had poorly-written queries and/or grossly incorrect table statistics.
What is Wolfram Derangement Syndrome?
It is time to recognize the major issue of 'boreout' at work
You also need to affirmatively press the button obviously titled ‘share’ before it sends the contact info.
New AI-generated George Carlin special [video]