skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true at all. The fact someone sees no value in something is interesting. In your case, why don't you use your car? Maybe public transport has improved. Maybe C-19 is impacting your social life. Maybe you've started remote working more. The "what" (eg you don't drive) isn't interesting but the "why" definitely is.

The fact someone is choosing not to use LinkedIn means they're not getting value from it. Why is that? How could LinkedIn fix that? Are they using an alternative?

If you're more curious about the reasons behind events you can learn a lot.
Do you mean they can constantly harass you instead of imprisoning?
A minimax bandsaw costs about $2-3000. A sawstop around $3000. A jointer/planer combo another $5000. So you're all in for a complete woodworking setup for $10,000. But then you need a couple hundred square feet to put them in with sufficient room around them to store wood, maneuver and perform assembly. At $100/sf for a garage area, you are hitting $20,000. You generally can't just add 200 or 500 sf to your house, and moving is expensive. The space is more expensive than the actual tools that fill it.
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Lockdown's lessons on human rights [video]
The utilitarian pleasures of playing board games by yourself
The author isn’t the one who shared the link on HN.
No it's just a term used in that area of study such that researchers have consistent terminology. The three common configurations are "sevens", "primes" and "turned" where the opposite sides are 1-3 2-4 5-6
I get what you say to some extent - and as often is, there is no direct comparison. But let me elaborate a little bit on my view.

LinkedIn may be an online professional network, but that doesn't mean there are no other means of "transportation". I take care of my network by meeting my professional peers a lot. I talk with the same recruiters normally, both in a hiring capacity and a candidate capacity. I know them, they know me. I stay in touch with my old colleagues, some who are now CEOs, others who are programmers, and even more who are still where I met them - some of them I even consider friends - most of the valuable connections.

In the technology community, you can go to many organized events. I participate in both React, .NET, and cloud meetups, and now I co-host some as well.

Your network is so much more than LinkedIn, it's a relationship with actual human beings, which is where LinkedIn often falls short. It does, however, work great as a contact book of "oh shit, I wonder where he is now and how can I get in touch with him" - and then you go meet them. In person. All jobs of significance I have been considered for, and most likely most of what I will be considered for in the future is based on my actual relations with people. "Talk to this guy, I worked with him on X" - it's the same way I hire great people. LinkedIn is a showcase for your resume, what you've done, who you are affiliated with, and a professional point of contact, but it's by no means "your professional network".
The only value I get from the post it's that it may provoke a thought in other LinkedIn members about "What am I doing here too?" "Do I really need a LinkedIn profile?". But you cannot judge LinkedIn platform usefulness as a whole based on this post.
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You can find any number of comments on Reddit but also on Slashdot (at least up to 2015 or so) whose quality is higher than many comments here.

They are drowned in the noise, but on Reddit it is very easy to read past the noise.

Here the noise is usually someone trying to sell you something while pretending to be innocent or defending his employer while pretending to be innocent.

Much harder to read past that, also since the moderation claims it never happens.
It used to a few years ago, before Cabal v2-style. Nowadays package management is rather good, but its reputation hasn't caught up yet.
A (working afaik) BBC Micro.
Forget software, think about every other industry where IP is important to protect R&D. Car manufacturers, machinery, trains, planes, etc. And it's not just the US being hit, it's the EU too. Anywhere where significant and important R&D is being done. Of course Zoom is relevant when Western businesses are using Zoom for all their video conferencing. It doesn't matter whether it's an open market. Businesses are being lured in with a good product while not being aware of the fact that the product is essentially run by people in China who are subject to CCP influence and it makes them vulnerable to a completely different threat model.

People here simply do not care about the threat that the CCP poses to Western companies. The people here simply have no concept of geopolitical issues. It's incredibly depressing and dangerous. Even now I'm being downvoted again everywhere for pointing this out, because I don't know, they think I'm racist? Overblowing the issue? As if none of them have ever read anything about China or Chinese ambition (re: the CCP) or the CCP's behaviour in the past 20 years.
Then they have to stay inside prison or closed psychiatry, absolutely. Like i wrote prisons a here to protect the public, closed psychiatry's to protect the public or the prisoner/patient from themselves.

Some guy with pointy ears said once:

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The highest authority in the country directed police to dominate the public. This is how they dominate the public: fear, intimidation, the deployment of chemical weapons and physical violence against crowds, the 3 AM knock on the door. Next come the targeted killings, roving death squads, and the mothers of the disappeared protesting in public squares. It's alomost like an international standard being followed to the letter. Will no one rid us of the meddlesome priest?

The poor police were just following orders.
Bollox, mate.
Correct, every concentration camp had an on-site IBM office that assisted in prisoner data processing. These offices continued to operate even after the war started until the end of WW2.
Geographically Distributed Teams
As someone who's known a fair few architects, we unfortunately do use analogies to design houses. Sadly.

Glad to hear you don't when designing yours though.

> I’ve never had to worry about how they would evolve or be modified by others after they were built.

That seems unfortunate. Isn't that something you should want to consider (though you describe it as an undesirable, which seems a shortsighted view of the purpose of buildings).
It is a view from the colonial era at least and probably much older.
I agree with that, but his post is not about the "why" - at least not at its core.
If you are searching for a job there is no choice: Expose all your personal data everywhere on every job searching platform and job social network and confirm the usage of your data in every way.

It's a privacy nightmare basically.
He seemed like the obvious choice, so, seems like a jerk move to blast out a virtue signal for yourself at his expense.
Submodules break a lot of other common git features such as switching branches. Instead you have to do something brutal like:

git submodule deinit --all --force
git clean -dfx
git checkout newbranch
git submodule update --init --recursive

There might be cases where you can do a more lightweight switch, but they probably require iterating over the submodules.
"BSA, is a trade group established by Microsoft"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA_(The_Software_Alliance)
Animal Form is not a textbook in any way whatsoever. Downvoted.
> This is valueless content.

I disagree. It poses several questions about the value of LinkedIn. And it spurred a discussion. If anything your comment really adds nothing here.. (Maybe some discussion, but a useful one?)
or The Arab Scholars
I don't understand what you mean. Do you think it's easy or hard to measure the value of a contributor in tech, and what does the "speculation" about their worth do exactly?
I can underestand the author's point of view about the uniformizing atmosphere on Linkedin, but I could not quit. I am IT system architect in Paris. It means linkedin is my magic tool to get tons of job opportunities without even searching. Closing my account would be a meaningless and self-harming move...
But by the way I use it only as smart and dynamic resumé / job offer board and never use it as a social network. And I never read at personal publications as they are mainly about corporate spirit BS clichés and pathetic personal development advice.
And I personnaly think that people who spend much time commenting on Linkedin often offer a bad image of themselves : they should work more and self-promote less.
Bad construction errors are almost entirely an issue of bad design. The more complex the roof line, the more likely you are to have leaks. Using multiple types of cladding is similarly inviting a host of issues. etc etc

There is still plenty of room to mess up the details, but that tends to be easier to ignore and cheaper to fix.
Peter Millard and the 10-minute workshop is based out of the UK and I find him very watchable.
> Having only 100 connections probably does more harm than good

Ha! I had probably an order of magnitude fewer when I closed my account in 2013. My motivation was their underhanded spamming of all my contacts with connection requests, but I guess it's nice to know I didn't miss out on anything.
LinkedIn is mostly full of people trying to reach or impress other people who are broadly not really using LinkedIn.

Most people have a profile but few people I know spend any time on the site unless their activity fits the description above. Thus it’s never really clear to me what the point of it all is.
This is... wrong?

Scratching a face is a matter of fine motor control. [1] is an example from 2011 which did this, as well as face shaving.

Walking is slightly tricky because it's such a dynamic system, but is now human level[2], and there was never really any question that it would be possible.

On the other hand, the state of the art in Go systems before Alpha Go (the one trained off games, not Alpha Zero) couldn't beat competent amateurs. No one had really considered the learn-from-zero-knowledge approach of Alpha Zero even for easier games like chess.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2011-07-14-robots-for-humanity-help...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E
Maybe you can provide your experience on why linkedin is of value to you and then there can be a discusion. I personally agree with the author and i am happy to read on this. From the stand point of a company, if they were actually paying attention to honest feedback they could learn a bunch.
I don’t see what’s wrong with keeping a LinkedIn profile. Just turn off all notifications and ignore the corporate speak self promotion drivel in your feed.

This goes for any social networking site btw.
I was in doubt whether to delete my LinkedIn or give it a facelift. After Corona hit, I did indeed improved my LinkedIn presence.

I have diabled all the distractions and focuse on the network though. I realized there is value in keeping in touch with potential decision makers and employers.

If you are an expat, live in a faraway place, lack community in your town, etc, LinkedIn could be valuable for you. If you are in a tech-hub, have access to lots of communities and potential employers, sure, LinkedIn looks useless to you.
Preventative Maintenance – Sensors and systems to monitor plant and equipment
KataGo and Leela Zero and all the other AIs certainly didn't cost that much (the people running them wouldn't have had that much money and resources) and are probably stronger than Alpha Go Zero. I don't think it's at all fair to say this number is a good ballpark estimate of how much it would cost to replicate this experiment. It's wrong as a calculation of Google's costs, it's wrong per the title How much did AlphaGo Zero cost, and it's also wrong as an estimate of the cost of replication.
Government, people and the country, three completely different non-intersecting concepts.

There's nothing to begin though unfortunately.
What bundle size? There's no javascript being shipped to the client.
I still remember the BSA ads against pirate software in the '90s..
Festool has started sponsoring TOH, but they used the tools before that. The track saw, domino, sanders, and dust extractors are very well built tools. The amount of dust from my Dewalt 5" ROS was night and day compared to the 125mm Rotex. The domino makes joinery much faster, and has become an essential part of my workflow.

My beef with TOH is now that all the houses are so expensive and the work is so custom or complicated that it is not relatable.
So do available resources. This go to argument that things that work in smaller countries don't work in the US is bizarre. It's used in all these discussions of how things that work in the EU couldn't possibly work in the US, even though the EU has a larger population.
I tried creating a LinkedIn profile some time ago. After having updated everything in the profile, it was restricted. To activate it again I have to verify my ID by sending pictures of my passport or something. I wonder which wire I tripped to get banned like that
> Obviously nobody

You mean you. I actually do. Without situational awareness the police should hold their fire lest innocent people be murdered. It isn't all that hard to understand, really.
Yes. That's the dictionary definition of 'privilege'. Now show me where in that definition is the position of 'manager' cast as a 'privileged' position or an example of 'privilege of power'? You had to import that from ideas put out from leftists writings where this word is reframed and redefined to mean something completely different. This bait-and-switch is a dishonest equivocation on your part because you're hijacking regular, commonly understood words in order to backdoor extreme ideas.

Back to the topic at hand, another way to look at a position of 'manager', that actually matches reality, is to admit that it is a necessary role in any sized organization of people focusing on completing a common task. This is true if the organization is a club, or a sports team or a corporation because there will always be a need, to manage and organize groups of people. This position comes with its own set of responsibilities and accountability and as such frequently the punishments and repercussions for 'misbehaviour' are greater than what a subordinate employee would receive for the same action. It's not an intrinsically 'privileged' position. I made this argument to another poster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479872
That's a bit like blaming the iceberg for sinking the Titanic. I mean, what did you expect was going to happen?

Either way, whoever gets the blame doesn't matter to the outcome. Court rulings don't have to be popular.
> We were promised flying cars and got 140 (now more) characters on Twitter.

This is entirely due to tech financiers like Peter Thiel investing in software to the exclusion of other forms of technology. He could be funding flying cars in the way that Elon Musk is funding space travel.
Not generally, no. blosc is geared towards “rectangular” data — that is, a C-style array of int, double, or some struct type.
Yes.

Here's Boston Dynamic's robot doing Parkour and gymnastics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBBaNYex3E

It's not national level gymnastics but it's better co-ordinated than most humans.
The Economist Introduces US 2020 election forecasting model
How to Lead from Home
> The likely thing that is already happening is that power users are leaving Windows and once power users leave the platform will die

I would consider myself a power user, but the only reason I stick with Windows still is because I can't find a good reliable video editor on Linux -- and also some games.

Kdenlive makes doing super common things a lot more difficult and time consuming than what's available on Windows video editors and DaVinci Resolve has potential but it's the most crash prone piece of software I've run into on any platform, and also has severe audio quality issues when exporting mp4s (on my hardware at least -- I couldn't use it to create videos due to that).

But I would think at this point, power users are only a drop in the bucket compared to the gaming crowd in terms of audience size. Right now on Linux, gaming comes down to hoping 3rd party tools allow you to run most games you want, or you dual boot (really annoying) or you run KVM with a GPU pass-through to run Windows in a VM with native performance (approaching 1 level above power user level just to set this up and 2 video cards).
I'm no fan of LinkedIn. It's a mess of dark patterns, and I think that shortly after I joined, they tried to con me into giving them my Gmail password. They certainly offer me a lot of contacts who I do know, but they have no business knowing that I know them. There's certainly fishy stuff going on.

At the same time, though, recruiters find me there. Despite my CV being years out of date, and me ignoring LinkedIn most of the time, recruiters keep finding me there and offering me interesting freelance positions.

A co-worker who is also a freelancer uses LinkedIn more actively, and uses it to connect to hiring managers of companies he might want to work for. That way he finds work without middlemen.
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I really enjoyed your article. LinkedIn seems to not know what it would like to be. Its initial model was good - bring resumes into the 21st century. But, in an era when one's Twitter account or personal blog is considered "the new resume" what is LinkedIn's value proposition anymore? Personally, I do like the platform, but I have found its users much less likely to respond/interact with content or DMs than Twitter. Thanks!
Jitsi Meet had some troubles in Firefox due to some WebRTC implementation differences. It is being worked on and the situation has improved, but I'm not sure whether all outstanding issues have been resolved. You could try Chromium and see if it gets any better.
The human population and therefore the size of the market has also increased rather a lot in that time. The overall size of the job market isn't shrinking, but what's the median share per worker?

Also we shouldn't discount the various sophistries used to manipulate the unemployment rate. Many, many people aren't counted as 'unemployed' when they probably should be, because either they aren't applying for jobs, or they get occasional casual or gig work.
It’s over a year old, with pretty average activity and there’s no other comments with outrage material??
Good looking us, if it's art or remix does it violate ?
The screenshots are reduced in size and barely readable. I found it took me a long time to even figure out the difference between them.
How was it annoying? I turned off LinkedIn’s notifications probably 10 years ago and they’ve been surprisingly not bad about coming up with new categories of messages that I need to block.

I think I only use it as a digital Rolodex and it’s been helpful as that. I can’t think of another site as useful for that purpose.
+1 for Matt Estlea. I find his content very watchable, and I like that he explains the theory before showing you how.
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My strength lies in product management, marketing, and sales. I have a first-hand experience in dealing with MarTech consumers.

Searching for someone who is passionate about building products that scale.
The project got hit for providing an ISO with license check removed, not for customizing windows. Over the last ~25 years I don't recall any of the windows customization tools getting hit with DMCA... because they didn't provide a technically illegal copy of the OS with them.
The point is not that in this case with DDG I needed to execute a more specific search (or, by extension, execute two searches to get what I need). The point is that in almost every case where I start with DDG I have to execute more than one search to find what I want. That second search is often with !g.

That's a shame because, as bad as Google has become, it's still better than other options. As an example of how bad Google really is, last night I tried searching for info on how to mount twin slot shelving uprights on an uneven wall - specifically a wall where the otherwise smooth plaster is less than perfectly vertical (there's an undulation reflecting imperfections in the underlying brickwork). The result? Just pages and pages of SEO spam/"content marketing" on the very basics of fitting twin slot shelving, all of which assumes that your walls are perfectly vertical across their entire surface, and none of which has any kind of troubleshooting hints and tips. I probably tried 10 different search query variants before giving up in disgust.

Google is outright terrible, and its much touted AI is laughably poor[1]. But DuckDuckGo is worse. I'm simply choosing the least bad option, which unfortunately isn't saying much.

[1] Or enragingly poor depending on your mood and perspective.
Well, they did have refrigerators, but they indeed were less widespread. I remember visiting relatives in my childhood and they didn't have a refrigerator sometime in late 1970s. Consumer goods were in short supply, that is true, and they actually never cought up with the West until the fall of the USSR. Not to mention personal cars, that was a real luxury.
The quote says there are different existing definitions of racism. I agree with that statement.

I don't agree that your definition of racism is useful to discussion. It is a redefinition that confuses people into false and harmful beliefs, such as the idea that "people of oppressed minority race cannot be racial oppresors" or the idea that "an action/belief against white majority cannot be racist".
I find that I don't shoot random innocent people mostly because I'm not a homicidal maniac but also because I will probably lose my house and everything I've worked for my whole life possibly including my freedom.

People in the armed forces need to be put in the same boat I'm in.
Twitter aims to limit people sharing articles they have not read
Let's not forget to shame software companies that have shifted to this evil revenue model too. No longer can I expect to buy and download software I'd have a right to use for life. Now I have to subscribe to everything, not only to receive future updates, but even just to fucking use it in perpetuity.
I was suspecting another boring clone, but Kata looks like a cool project with nice new ideas! Thanks for sharing
Uncoupling Parking and Residential Development: A Thought Experiment
At this point in Europe we have private accredited labs doing tests for under 100€ on-site whenever there's an outbreak. Testing the entire US population once would cost ~30B$. Do it three times and spend 100B$ which would be incredible overtesting, and yet well below the other measures your congress has already passed in terms of cost.
of computers as well as whatever software stuff that went along with that

Well, that is categorically wrong, given the history of computing.

But anyway, the implication in the previous comment was that IBM were built on the business of exterminating Jews, which is frankly ridiculous given that they started business 30 years before the Nazi party even came to power.

Note, I'm not claiming IBM didn't get involve with the nazis. The German subsidiary certainly did business with the Nazis, including with their processing of Jews and minorities. Thomas J Watson even received an award from them. But, IIRC, he realised he'd been set up as a publicity stunt and gave it back. Once the war started, the German subsidiary bought themselves out and became independent.

It should be noted that IBM in the US has a history of introducing policies ensuring equality and diversity in employment that precede similar federal legislation, sometimes by decades.

And yet it's only the Nazis thing everyone brings up.