skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a survey construction class during my MBA. This is mainly obvious stuff, but indeed should be studied and practiced because people screw this up all the time. Assuming your goal is to find out what people think (vs, have the survey tell you what you want it to tell you) - you have to realize that most people plop down their at-the-moment emotional state as the survey response, and that state is most recently influenced by the survey itself.

Eg, if I asked you "should Israel dismantle the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for the 10/7/2023 murder of 1500 people" - most people would say "yes" because the words "dismantle the terrorist organization" resonate with most people.

If I asked them "do you support a ceasefire in Gaza" - most people would also say yes, because the word ceasefire would resonate with them.

Obviously these would be contradictory results. What this survey wouldn't tell you is how many people actually think about this topic and which way they lean.

A better designed survey would be something like this:

Question 1: How aware are you of the current conflict in Gaza (1-5)
Question 2: In your own words, how would you describe the conflict?
Question 3: If 1 is "Ceasefire at all costs" and 10 is "eliminate terrorists at all costs", where would you place your opinion?

Having these 3 datapoints would enable you to filter by those who actually have an opinion (or, find out what percentage has an opinion), use question 2 to validate that and/or gain new insights and use 3 to identify how strongly people lean one way or another.
> Yemen has an active famine, which I would imagine is contributing to the piracy problem. I fundamentally don't think you can make an action so risky that a starving person wouldn't attempt it. Some would likely be willing to die if it meant their children, spouse and parents could escape starving to death. I presume there's a Mafia-esque "we'll take care of your loved ones if you die" pact.

These houthis are not famined. They have expensive boats and top-notch arms. It looks like they even have guided missiles (you're not going to shoot down a reaper with small arms fire and they've already shot two of them down). The somali's too, they have a lot of money. They could use it to feed their people but they choose to use it to make their local warlords richer.

> People already do a wide range of jobs they know will probably kill them. You can't threaten someone starving to death with violence; they're already staring down death, it's not a deterrent anymore.

There's a big difference between having a big chance (or certainty) to die years in the future or to have the certainty to die on your next trip out. Because that will happen if there's a DDG around with the fingers on the trigger. There's just simply no point then.
Perhaps I should have said "hole in the type theory" to clarify what I meant.

To be clear I wasn't trying to imply the rustc maintainers were ignorant of the difference. I meant that Rust programmers seem to treat fundamental design flaws in the language as if they are temporary bugs in the compiler. (e.g. the comment I was responding to) There's a big difference between "this buggy program should not have compiled but somehow rustc missed it" and "this buggy program will compile because the Rust language has a design flaw."
An Interview with Rescale CEO Joris Poort About Building HPC in the Cloud
Love what you guys are doing. Great jobs Signal!

I have always wished to integrate a similar method in our phone first booking solution to keep the number private beetween host and particpant.

Very inspiring!
People absolutely care!

You can't cheat physics, so at today's CPU speeds, spinning disk HDDs more closely resemble tape drives than not. You have to pay a significant performance price when moving the read head across the disk surface, moreso when you have to wait an entire rotation for the correct sector to fly under the read head.
Based on anecdata from people in the UK and Australia, the Australian show Utopia [1] is the most realistic take on the civil service while The Thick of It is the most realistic take on party machinations.

Some civil servants find Utopia too painful to watch because it hits too close to home. The show has made several very prescient predictions [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series...

[2] https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/abc-comedy-series-...
It's not my impression that Veep was/is all that widely known? I just heard about it because it's the US version of The Thick of It, but then again I'm not in the US. And just like the US version of House of Cards, it's also much newer. There isn't that long of a tradition of cynical satire as in Britain going back to at least the 80s (Yes Minster, Spitting Image, House of Cards, The Thick of It).
A lot of spammers opt for media that does not require the effort of obtaining a phone number. It's the bike lock model: no bike lock is ever safe, but as long as your bike is parked next to bikes with a weaker lock, you have a pretty good chance of not having to walk home on foot.
> Same story with the PIN signal requires if you haven't used it in a few hours. It's the same as your phone PIN and there isn't anywhere you can change it, so it's just security theater.

This is not the Signal PIN. It sounds like you have the Screen Lock option enabled.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
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> If it's so great, why they have to force people into it?

The fact that people are forced is not in opposition to the fact that they can still be motivated and capable once training is over.

> I was conscripted, I fired 20 bullets over 12 months. Rest was just bullying, cleaning toilets and scraping potatoes. They would not even let me drive a truck, because I was too "unreliable"!

Conscription sucked for you, sure. If everyone in that army receives that level of training, I will concede that it will be neither motivated nor capable.

But we have plenty of examples where countries with conscription armies have performed well in armed conflicts.

So the concept of conscription is not obviously ineffective. It depends on the implementation.
That "real names" policy is the reason I have always been careful to never open YouTube while logged into any Google account: the understanding I gathered from the noise back then was that, if you ever logged into YouTube or Google+, and then Google for some reason decided that your name was not your real name, you could permanently lose access to more important things like Google Talk or Gmail.
This feature requires you to press the button that says “make myself visible” — and then it shares location. Like most apps, you can deny the location access at a system level and never worry about it.
Ask HN: How do you document complex software systems?
We have a codebase that’s fairly well documented. But the infrastructure it’s deployed to and the deployment process itself are not as well documented, and it interacts with other systems in ways that are not well documented or well understood by all of the dev team. Developers who join the project can struggle to understand the full implications of their changes, and developing an understanding of the system as a whole is some combination of reading the code, poking around the infrastructure, finding possibly-outdated documentation that might live in various places, and asking the right people. If someone changes something or someone leaves the team, that makes discoverability even more difficult. So:

1. Where do you document system architecture and the interactions between systems?

2. What does the documentation look like? Diagrams? Text? A combination of the two, or something else entirely?

3. Whose job is it to maintain that documentation?
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I mean there are fedi alternatives like mobilizon right?
Most of the kinds of obfuscating DJI is doing make the app take up more space.
Don't fall for the latest changes to the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act
It is interesting that you referenced "God does not play dice with the universe". If you were to discuss it, I would suggest discussing what he actually said:

"Die Quantenmechanik ist sehr achtung-gebietend. Aber eine innere Stimme sagt mir, daß das doch nicht der wahre Jakob ist. Die Theorie liefert viel, aber dem Geheimnis des Alten bringt sie uns kaum näher. Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, daß der nicht würfelt."

There are a number of different translations, but one is:

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.

It is relatively easy to understand both the context and meaning of what Einstein said, especially if you read his numerous other works. The objection to some of the key underpinnings of Quantum Mechanics was something he mentioned a number of times.

They key here is that you can explore and understand what Einstein was talking about without digging deep into the meaning of a god, or his view of religion. The concepts of Quantum Mechanics are complicated enough to keep any undergrad or grad student busy for a lifetime.
LLMs certainly can cope with disordered notes scribbled into the metaphorical margins, and OCR can usually turn literal scribbles in literal margins into something approximating what was written, buuuuuuuuut the AI we currently have is just good enough to be dangerous if you tried using it this way.

On the other hand, the last 15 months have been "if you don't like the state of the art AI, wait a week", so I may be out of date with that assessment.
I didn't have an impression you're defending russia, I was just making cold arguments. As per your latest argument: I'm not an economist, but isn't it the case that "war boosts economy" because military spending counts towards GDP? Isn't it a broken window fallacy? I'd think everyone by now understands war is terrible for economy long-term, unless the spoils of war are worth it. There's also a matter of "creative accounting" typical for immoral regimes.

Could you explain to me just *how* would russian economy thrive despite hundreds of thousands of people dying, contracts cancelled, resources being sold for less to China and India and with a mass emigration of intellectual workforce outside of the country?

Some things come to mind:

- prisoners sent to war dying and therefore less upkeep costs for prisons

- people willing to pay higher taxes for war efforts, be paid less, pay higher prices for products... In general the war justifying exploitation of people.

In first case, I'm skeptical this could grant significant savings, as well as I wonder: if it was beneficial, why wouldn't a member of the empire of evil not just kill the prisoners en masse - and if the answer is that it would cause a civil unrest, then maybe we're going to see such anyway - which will yet cause some damage in future.

In second case I wonder: is hardship good for your society? "Hard times create strong men", but on the other hand easy times generate sensitive men; it's hard to be an intellectual if you struggle to satisfy the bottom of Maslow's triangle. And as I already mentioned: some people simply escape to a country that grants them a higher standard of life.
Signal has never had access to my contacts and works perfectly without it.
A bit of an aside, but one of the most important things that I've learned over my career is that the business wants to make as much money as possible. This may seem similar to "wants to spend as little money as possible," but there's a big difference.

Your floor is limited because you can only drop your costs to zero, but there's no ceiling on how much revenue you can make.
> I've never really understood why you couldn't just break up your monolith into modules.

I think part of it is that many just don't know how.

Web developers deal with HTTP and APIs all the time, they understand this. But I suspect that a lot of people don't really understand (or want to understand) build systems, compilers, etc. deeply. "I just want to press the green button so that it runs".
I'm from South America, got a server with them, no issues so far.
Playwright is a rewrite of puppeteer by people who worked on puppeteer before, but now under Microsoft instead of Github. Not sure if it reached feature parity yet, but all the things we used to do with puppeteer work with playwright, and it seems to be more actively developed.
- operating system in three easy pieces (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP) is incredible for learning OS internals

- beej's networking guide is the best thing for network layer stuff https://beej.us/guide/

- explained from first principles great too https://explained-from-first-principles.com/

- pintos from Stanford https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos_...
So much this.

I'd github can afford the amount of downtime they do, it's likely that your business can afford 15 minutes of downtime every once in a while due to a failing server.

Also, the less servers you have overall, the least common a failure will be.

Backups and cold failover server are mandatory, but anything past that should be weighted on a rational cost/benefit analysis, and for most people the cost/benefit ratio just isn't enough to justify infrastructure complexity.
I know someone who owns an "Oral-B iO series 10" and they said they connected it directly via Wi-Fi. It's possible they got it wrong, but multiple product reviews on the internet explicitly mention difficulties getting their Wi-Fi password onto the device.
"Everyday people pay to use AI without the hopes of becoming rich, there is a real market that provides actual value." - I loved this quote. Truly opened my eyes and I think I will tell this to others too.

Thanks
There are ways of getting messages without breaking Signal or using a backdoor. One of them is getting the messages from the other party(ies) involved. You can't protect yourself from this even if you self host. Something else that might happen is you ending up with your phone hacked because you're talking with someone close to Putin.

The only way to know for sure is for you to create an alternative service, write all code yourself, and host everything without ever leaving your server alone. And even then you can't be sure you haven't been hacked.

On a side note, if we're getting information from someone that lies a lot and often leaves out details that don't fit the narrative, then perhaps we should also look at the person, not just the issue.
Here in Europe they don't even add the lid anymore if you dine in. Nor do they provide a straw for diners-in (but you can still request one - I always do because the ice hurts my teeth).
https://steinemieten.de in Germany is similar in case you want to get some inspiration. On the ordering page you can select not to take it apart before sending back (cost 20 Euro extra).

During Covid I looked at a couple of services. There was one with membership, like Netflix DVD model, where you can keep 1, 2 or 3 (depends on level) sets and they keep refreshing them. I found that pricing model too complicated.
I am happy doing most diary stuff across multiple calenday sources including Exchange and Google and local, though my macOS Calendar clients.
There is a rather ugly popup that prevents you from reading this story without an obvious way to bypass. You can either enter a fake email or I found if you press the down key multiple times the popover page will disappear.
No, the surplus skews it. If there's 120 males and 100 females for an age bracket like 30 - 40, and 80 of them are couples (assuming hetero), that leaves 40 males for 20 females as the rest, 2:1 single ratio. Men are born like 1.05 : 1 so early years are male-surplus and elderly are female-surplus because men die quicker. Then you also have the conundrum where males 20 - 50 are competing for women 20 - 35, so market dynamics aren't always 1 to 1 age-wise.
Can it detect and strip out advertisements?
Thanks for the response and taking the time to follow my recommendation.

I'm at work so need to be brief, but I assume you read the discussion of the five qualities you list as personal, on pp.205-229. What did you think were the weaknesses in the argument? If you want to focus on just one or two of the five qualities to keep the discussion within boundaries, that's obviously fine.

Would you agree that the proofs, if successful, prove the existence of something that is other than the universe, even if the arguments for the personal qualities of this entity fail?
How is it user-hostile to obfuscate your source code? It doesn’t change the user experience, just makes it more difficult to reverse engineer which would be against the EULA anyway.
So, don't upgrade it until you fixed your code?
I think you may be missing how many SKUs big name products have these days. Things like Sony and Kitchen-aid have SKUs per major retailer to avoid things like price matching and in many cases its unknown if they use similar parts.
It has been a long time since I've used Telegram but why else would I have had that enabled?
former Mac dev here, and completely agreed. Refactoring an app because someone else decided to change the language is a bridge to far. And if they do it this time, they'll do it again. Meanwhile the ObjC compiles.

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Rant - With Swift Apple shifted dev power to themselves. Having gotten fat on the open world, they've backed away from every 'Open' technology they can, and replaced it with their own, ( presently all the way to CPU architecture).
Yes, they are giving tremendous powers, but have they also crafted the One Ring.
Funny enough the best way I found to convince iOS users to talk to me on signal is by telling them it's like iMessage but cross platform. Sure there are differences but most people aren't using those features. I do think signal could really benefit by just linking signalstickers.com into the app since that's the biggest complaint I actually get.
You have a different threat model than most of us. Get an iPhone and turn locked down mode on or don’t is a phone at all.
I live in Prague, had gf from Ukraine, know like 5 men who escaped just before border closed, a few guys from my company were conscripted, I know 3 men who died...

I can ensure you this is not some sort of parody
> Safari adopts Google library

And so it begins...
I take it you mean flop differently than a successful product from a business and profit perspective. Like a comedian can flop around on stage in a hilarious bit of slapstick humor which you might call a successful flop. But the two hour comedy special the slapstick is part of might be panned by critics and audiences and that would be a flop of an entirely different sort.
I posted links to a lot of information here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec#39445866

The TL;DR is that they collect and forever store sensitive data in the cloud, meaning that the US gov could almost certainly access that data and any other government could access any one person's data too just by brute forcing a PIN
To what extent is data ownership/user control still a goal of local-first? It feels like that part of the rationale has tapered off.
You still need a phone number to sign up.
I pretty strongly disagree with this. I don't think that user preferences have changed so much, in that I think a lot of people would respond well to an "old-school"-style Facebook, even if released right now. The issue is simply that that version of Facebook probably has people only using it 15-30 mins a day max, but you really need to get the continual mindless scrolling to maximize ad rates. Facebook is just suffering "the tyranny of the marginal user", the topic which was so well-discussed on HN a couple months back.
Random aside: I saw the title and before reading it wanted to try and claim mine. I went on my phone, and this page was not even on my first google results page when I searched "how to use signal usernames", nor was anything remotely related to either topic.

I was tired of reading all the comments on here about how 'google search' is terrible, I now believe it and will be looking into all the suggestions here.
> PEP 594 (Removing dead batteries from the standard library) scheduled removals of many deprecated modules: aifc, audioop, chunk, cgi, cgitb, crypt, imghdr, mailcap, msilib, nis, nntplib, ossaudiodev, pipes, sndhdr, spwd, sunau, telnetlib, uu, xdrlib, lib2to3.

Every time there's talk of shrinking the standard library it gives me chills.
What about when it's both, because they learned many things about the United States that make a desire for disruption of the current status quo justified?

I think we're deluding ourselves if we think we can give people critical thinking and not have them question the consequences of colonialism, or slavery, or the industrial revolution, or manifest destiny, or homeland security, and which of those consequences should be kept and which should be torn down.

(There's a pretty good book on this subject, actually: among other things it touches on, The Myth of the Rational Voter [2007, Bryan Caplan] notes the stark difference in voting habits among those with and without a college education. Does that mean all college education includes indoctrination, or does it mean learning critical thinking causes people to think critically to similar conclusions, or perhaps both? And at another level of abstraction: if you're a policymaker and you want people to vote in the way they tend to do when not college educated, aren't there incentives to cast education itself into doubt?)
Because it has taken Chinese manufacturers using injection molding about ten years now to get in the ballpark of Lego levels of quality (especially friction and dimensional accuracy).

Your 3D printer won‘t print a single adequate Lego brick in a million tries.

Even Fischer Technik, a reputable company with many decades experience in construction sets (not Lego-like bricks), doesn‘t get close. I have so often had to swap a part with a notionally identical part, so that it actually stays in place.

The correct way out, btw, is to buy used Lego.
TBH Discord as the de facto place for communities to organize online is getting kinda annoying. The Discord apps really don't handle being in lots of such organizations at once, or really make them easy to deal with at all. I wish there was something halfway between Discord and Reddit for things like this.
The guy making the mail client is not being retained as a full-time employee for his expertise by the people buying his mail client. It's not at all a similar relationship.

But to answer your question - I work on a variety of internal projects for a company that moves freight. Every year I have to justify my salary by either being budgeted to continue supporting a product or by moving to a new product undergoing active development. I'm hardly writing one product and then receiving a unending revenue stream from it.
The obvious "threat" at the border is illegal immigration. If you don't think that illegal immigration, in the numbers we're experiencing it, is at least some kind of threat, then at least say so. Address the GP's point, rather than trying to pretend he didn't have one, even if he stated it not absolutely directly.
It's a pity you can't commit to 3 year rental for a discount