skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that an interesting take-away from the article.

There are two underlying assumptions in the original author's piece; first that you find value in working and second that you need to work to support yourself. It also equates "less effort" with "easier to do" which implies more success at doing. But the questions posted are useful ones, to wit:

Why should my life be centered on the 'thing I'm good at'?

I'm going to stipulate here that most people split their life into three parts, the part where they work (someone else tells them what to do), the part where they sleep, and the part where they do what they want to do. And that the ratio of those three parts to one week can be called their "work life balance."

If you can agree to that stipulation, then I'm going to add the observation that the balance ratio is a significant, and perhaps dominant, contributor to a person's over all feeling of happiness, restfulness, and well being.

If you agree with that observation, then I'm going to add that the dominant force acting on the balance is the amount of wealth your work generates per unit time.

Basically, if you're paid more you can work fewer hours while still meeting all of your financial obligations. Further, you can reduce the portion of your life dedicated to work and distribute those hours over things you want to do or sleep. This allows you to adjust the life balance such that you can maximize your own feelings of happiness and well being.

The final piece is the assumption that "work" is a competitive marketplace. There are more people able to work than there are opportunities too work, so selection pressure will reduce wages on opportunities that anyone can do, and raise wages on opportunities that fewer people can do.

I believe this is the context in which the article is written.

If that is correct, then to "win" (defined by maximizing your happiness and well being for the longest possible time), one needs to find the opportunities that pay the highest wages per unit time and out compete other candidates for those opportunities.

So what I took away from the article is that if you start with the skillss that come easily to you, and focus on those, you can quickly become very competitive for opportunities requiring that skill. That will maximize the available wages to you at any given point of time.

Personally, I always suggest to people they continue to explore other skills. That way you can discover still more things that come easily to you and open up still more opportunities. More choices here are always preferable to fewer choices.

And to this last point, (e.g. you're the best mainframe programmer, but the PC revolution has come)? I believe the skill here is "programming", not the platform (PC or Mainframe). If programming comes easily to you then switching platforms will also be easy.

Contrast that with "struggling to learn programming" where once you have mastered exactly one system you don't have any idea how to generalize those skills to another system. This article suggests, and I concur, that you're time would be better off on finding a skill that comes easily rather than trying to develop one that doesn't.
>And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

If you're concerned about Tiktok influence where most content can be described as attractive young people do nonsense on camera you should be much more worried about Twitter, Facebook, Google, News media, Reddit, etc.
A counterpoint to the post: wasn't r/ShitRedditSays, a subreddit that repeatedly brigaded threads that had racist/bigoted comments, one of the first prominent subreddits to get in trouble for brigading?
Easily verified where?

I see the part where they linked a study about what was "often" the case between 1850 and 1920. None of the other links seem to be relevant to that part of the argument.

The article itself has a somewhat supported argument that it's not zero-sum. But it acts like disproving zero-sum is enough, when it really isn't. If bringing in 10 workers only adds 1 job, or 1 job's wages, that's not zero sum but it's almost as bad. And the article doesn't address how far it is from zero-sum, or link anything that does so.
I do not. It's a theory a friend and I philosophized about for a while in college, but nothing published.

If you'd like to check our work though, play with proving/disproving the following:

1. All negativity/opposition is inherently hypocritical

2. Negativity/opposition is necessary

3. Your opposition will always focus more on your negative differences than your negative similarities

4. Focusing on similarities is the only way to truly resolve conflict.
vacuum robot (not a roomba a 150€ cheap but great one)
Your books were a huge part of my childhood. The Klutz book got me started in origami, which became my primary hobby. I learned so much from all the earth science books. Now my own toddlers are starting to explore those old copies. Thanks for what you created.
It's disappointing that they dumped Network Utility on macOS 11. That app is in my Dock!
> NY is the only state that really saw the full potential impact.

IDK about that. MI Peaked around the same time as NY, locked down around the same time. If we look at the daily graphs both MI and NY are sticking around the same number of new cases per day.
Is it me or does this domain fail to resolve via cloudflare?

[user@host tmp]$ nslookup pib.gov.in 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: pib.gov.in
Address: 164.100.117.99

[user@host tmp]$ nslookup pib.gov.in 1.1.1.1
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53

server can't find pib.gov.in: SERVFAIL
It's very sad how many leftist are cheering on the censorship.

Forcible silencing of opposing views is a central tenant of actual fascism (not the kind of "fascism" that kids on social media accuse people of just for disagreeing with them).

History repeats itself, it would seem. This is a modern day book burning.
> The 2020 China–India skirmishes are part of an ongoing military standoff between China and India. ...numerous Indian government officials said that border tensions will not impact trade between India and China despite some Indian campaigns about boycotting Chinese products. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_China–India_skirmishes
Quick bites of a TV show? Sounds like a $1.75 billion idea.
""the only good Tory is a dead Tory" has been the popular refrain for decades."

I haven't followed British politics much. The only thing I can find for your popular refrain is

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-47853588

Could you provide some sources?
I agree, however India has a bureaucracy that makes running and starting businesses over there extremely difficult. As well as aggressive tariffs and Byzantine legal processes. China can be a difficult place, but nothing seems to approach India when it comes to paperwork and the dismal speed at which things get done.
Might be a form of shifting the narrative and scapegoating for sure. But you have to admit that recent events have outlined a significant shift in Indian-Sino foreign policy. I don’t see this being reversed any time soon.
I love that firefox send is on this list. Thank you.
But the current rules Reddit are still an invitation to "I'm not touching you Fascism". Fascists haven't gone away. They still are around and they still think fascist things, they've just metastasized into a subtler form of cancer. The only difference now is that we can't confront fascism with the truth any more.

Ironically, by using the tools of the fascist against them we've implicitly admitted that the fascist is right. When we censor, we're saying that our ideas should be determined by who has the power to enforce censorship, not by compassion and truth.
r/antifa
Yes, its not surprising that big business wants it.

But it is surprising how many "progressives" have been co-opted into F100 talking points, who they claim they oppose.
Show HN: Share, sell & showcase your plants while growing your plant collection
Any plant enthusiasts here that can use this app and give us feedback? Also any advice on growing peer-to-peer marketplaces would be really helpful.
> however this is not specific to Russia only. It seems most large powers exhibit bullying behaviour.

Interesting premise you're floating. As a discussion device, it's usually worth considering positive contributions as well, rather than only displaying one side of the scale.

Let's try taking the positive approach too.

Would you mind listing many of the positive things Russia / USSR have done for the world, or contributed to the world, over the last century?

For example, if Russia shielded and nurtured numerous prominent liberal democracies with its immense military power for decades, you could list those outcomes. Or if Russia gave the world a vast trove of technology that pushed the world forward dramatically, you could list all of those contributions. Or if Russia spent the last century feeding the world, saving tens of millions of lives in the process, you could list that. Or if Russia built an inclusive space program that allowed much of the world to participate in space, you could list that.
I left my Jerker behind when I did a cross-country move and I still regret it sometimes. Less so since I put together an Ikea order of some shelves and a tabletop designed to attach to them; it's not quite as solid as the Jerker was but I have SO MUCH SPACE.
> Free speech is not a god given right to spread hate, misinformation, antisemitism, misogyny

Free speech is a natural right. In a stat of nature one can say whatever they want. Rights are not some game of mother-may-I with the government.
> I honestly am asking you to reflect on it. Why do you care? What's it to you?

I care because I think there is a lot of misdirected energy and anger. In a world with racial injustice, starvation, poverty, etc. you choose this topic to be outraged about?

Well you have a right to your outrage. It’s good some people are outraged because it keeps them on their toes. But at the same time I have a right to say I think your dialogue and vitriol is out-of-line with the reality of the situation, and hyperbolic at best. I am a counter-balance to your outrage and that’s why I care.
It's high time Reddit and other social networks ban toxic users, and boy are those political zealots toxic. The problem with these people is that they don't realize that almost nobody cares about their fringe opinions.

For all that I'm concerned, if Reddit shadowbanned every user with a history of mostly political comments and posts, nothing of value would be lost. Political discussions online do not have any positive effects on anybody, neither on the people doing it nor on the poor bystanders who have to endure all these "campaigns" and the constant attempts to manipulate public opinion.

As a European, I'm particularly tired of the constant flow of politically-motivated garbage posts coming from the US. One reason why I'm mostly on HN is that political topics are usually flagged. Kudos to Reddit if they go the same path.
From a developer's point of view, I can see the value in PWAs (for them), but as an end user, I really don't see the benefit of PWAs over native apps. The UX is almost always severely degraded when compared to their native counterparts (even if the feature set is ostensibly identical). Why would I use a Twitter PWA, when the native app provides a much better UX?
How is it possible in 2020 a basic search of the start menu doesn't work? For example, I have Spotify installed, it appears in my start menu, but if I search for "Spotify" it's nowhere to be found.

https://i.imgur.com/y55C38B.jpg
Aren't TV pilots individual episodes?
I'd like to note that it is feasible to reuse current OneWeb satellite as ad-hoc GNSS, just the accuracy will be much worse than current service from Galileo or GPS
I mostly meant in terms of population. There is a physical limit to the number of people who can be on earth. If economic growth is dependent on population growth as many seem to be suggesting, then we need to reckon with that. And we should do it sooner rather than later.
What is the problem if the user give the permission to do so?

I don't get this let's not allow this web api because it's dangerous, well you only move the problem to an application that the user installs on his PC.

If the permission mechanism is correct there is no danger, a web applcation wants to access my MIDI interface or my USB or Bluetooth or whatever and it can. Isn't the same for mobile applications and permission?

So maybe and I say maybe we could stop having to ship an entire Chromium engine with Elecron just for a web application to access devices or files on the computer.
> India is democratic and hold values closer to our own.

Especially in terms of mixing religion and politics and right-wing based supremacy views.
Yep.

Consistent irony and in-jokes become real over time.
Is that not just a native port of the new Office Online suite? They don't include the full feature set of the original MS Office, which might be a deal-breaker for many.
There is an implementation of Chernoff faces where a fish is used instead of a human face, so it is called Chernoff fish:

http://tmm-archive.github.io/chernoff-fish/

It is implemented in D3 and React and the source code is here:

https://github.com/tmm-archive/chernoff-fish

I implemented my own version long ago (for MS-DOS) and I am quite surprised that there is still some interest in the topic.
> could have more federated and decentralized platforms

I would absolutely not going to a platform with no moderation. The quality of the content will be abysmal.

Honestly, r/D or something like that should just go to host its own website/forum, it shouldn't be Reddit's problem to begin with. Their presence brings toxic attention/traffic that is hard to monetize anyway
The New York Times Is Opting Out of Apple News
Good analysis on the thought process difference between SV and Hollywood!
There are many apps that continue to show ads even in their paid version / upgrade. Might not be an option for him?
In terms of military tech, Russia is #2. Period. (fast approaching Chinese tho).

Their submarines and missiles are beyond our tech in the US in some aspects (hypersonic missles, Supercavitation torpedos).

I view them like the 3rd opponent in a starcraft 1v1v1 that got smashed early. They can't win the match, but they can decide the winner.
It'd be absolutely terrifying - a totally invisible threat setting off an alarm that's telling you there's a danger in your immediate vicinity. And then what? The office building fire drill, where hundreds of people all trudge down 20 stories together in the claustrophobic confines of a concrete stairwell along with the unconsciously contagious? Or lock down the room until someone can decontaminate the whole thing?
> There might be a few people carelessly running around spreading the virus. There are a few documented cases of this happening early on. Possibly there are some individuals who will do this again in time.

How would this invoke less fear than "super spreader"? You just enumerated all the scary things about the phrase.
The thing about WMD's is that you only need one.

There's no use-case for it in the modern world, except the threat of using it.
John these books were absolutely legendary in my house growing up. I still haven't shipped any bears cross country with no packaging but I'm thinking it would be a fun project to try with my girls these days. Thank you so much for making so many topics fun and accessible. I've recently been wondering if anyone took the "Klutz" torch and ran with it but haven't found many good titles to check out yet. Nothing beats the ready to go aspect of those books. Klutz was such a unique and incredible brand. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
> "b&"

wow!
So, in order to be offended by the_Donald, I had to actively go searching for reasons to be offended?

I get it. It was a subreddit that said a lot of rude things. Stand up comedians also say rude things. A lot of political commentators say rude things. For example, liberal-leaning people calling Republicans "Nazis" or calling Trump "Hitler" seems unbelievably hateful and offensive. Must we "de-platform" all of these hate-mongers?

Let's stop all the banning and the pearl-clutching.
The average citizen is dumb enough to not be able to discern spyware from innocent apps.

It is the duty of the government to protect its citizens from foreign influence and banning apps is a legitimate exercise of the govts power in fulfilling that duty.
> The execs spend YEARS crafting that perfect alpha, open it up privately to friends and family, it flops and then they throw in the towel just like that.

This condition needs a name. I've done it myself too many times to count. The first time was back in 2004 with a Facebook rival at Yale University. We had all this great social photo and media sharing but it wasn't growing against the simplicity of Facebook. So, after a couple months of not being Facebook, we gave up and got jobs

<face palm>
And how would a community deal with being brigaded by another, often larger community?
Sorry, who is Calvin? Can't find any reference.
Not likely. All the conservatives have move to /r/conservative, which actually bans people for threatening to kill people and things like that, and Reddit appears to have no problem with them.
I can spend hours in a used bookstore. I keep many of the books I am interested in on a list and I eventually find them on the shelves of a used book store. I usually come out with unexpected items as well. It is always a joy.

If you are ever in San Jose, CA please stop by and support the Recycle Bookstore. Great staff, a large collection and a couple cool cats.
> 650 → 390: MAC efficiency
> there are 'housekeeping' packets that MUST be sent at the SLOWEST possible modulation

True, but it's actually the slowest supported/enabled modulation, which can be increased. In a crowded 2.4GHz environment (1Mbps min. modulation), raising it to 12Mbps or more can cut 50+% fluff (SSID, ARP, data broadcasts..) down to <5% fluff.

> 2166 → 1083: Client MIMO
> You must use the minimum MIMO common to both devices

MU-MIMO should enable the router to split its numerous MIMO channels to multiple devices with less MIMO channels. I have no idea whether it actually works.
You have to start somewhere, this is a starting point.

It's better than just raising the hands and saying that it cannot be done.
>lots of other communities are allowed to exist despite having much more and more overt bigotry including celebrations of political violence

I would argue that was what TD was until very recently.
Cloudy Reviews for busy folks with limited time (concise and pragmatic)
The npm ecosystem needs something like the distinction between Ubuntu's "main" and "universe" repositories, so that you have a smaller subset of known-good packages with harmonized transitive dependencies, stronger centralized curation, a lot more direct scrutiny, tighter control over versioning, and some party that is responsible for addressing vulnerabilities and ensuring appropriate maintainership.

As a venture-backed startup, the company behind npm needed the number of packages and the number of downloads to constantly trend upward in order to justify their valuation. This led to extremely poor policy and prevented them from taking strong steps to remedy the deterioration of the ecosystem. Now that it's owned by Microsoft, there's an opportunity to fix this.

Linux distributions have decades of experience solving these problems, there's no excuse for the JavaScript community to continue ignoring the longstanding precedents and best practices that have emerged from that experience.
If you look at the posting history of people who post lots of politics or bigoted, many of them are really weird.

One very clear class of weird is people who only post 1-2 sentence posts. If you scroll down, they may post 10-100 posts per day and they are always some short unoriginal emotionally loaded statement of the world situation. If they are not banned the posting history can go on for years, with just endless stream of short sentences.

Discussing for them is just saying opinions. They take everything against them personally. If you try to engage them into discussion, they really can't.
Oh nice, didn't know of it, thanks! Indeed, looks like there is a lot of opportunity to collaborate with privacy enhancement extensions.
Bazel has rules_rust and supports distributed builds. It might be useful to switch to that instead of cargo.
This was prompted by the latest "Github is down" (now transformed to "Github was down" by the arrow of time):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675864
I was still using the site but now my front page is empty I tell you empty not one sub I had is LEFT
I've said everything I know to say, 10 different ways all over this thread. It's a topic lots of people have strong opinions about for sure.
When I first saw win10's start menu, I promptly removed the tiles (ads, really) as useless fluff then promptly vowed to do everything I can to never use it.
My desktop is a mess now, but one of my own doing.

(You can imagine what my reaction was when edgy auto-started after an update to tell me the over-engineered Firefox downloader was now "better" than ever. I had to kill the process in order to not see the mandatory new features tour. It did it again after the recent update to make sure I hate it as much as possible.)
I used to be a compiler developer and this was no big deal (except when it was an actual code generator bug!). The compiler switches tell the compiler to do different things, so of course some of them change the output semantics. It’s up to the user to decide what she wants — it’s not like the differences are obscure or surprising.

Then I went on to other things and realized that developers are experts in their domains, and those “obvious” things were only clear to someone steeped in the code — not obvious at all. In fact some of them are no longer obvious to me any more after decades doing other things. Hopefully I’ve become at least slightly less arrogant and thoughtless by now.
This. Tiktok is clearly a data vacuum masquerading as a social media platform.
Poseidon and Skyfall are two distinct weapons with a shared motivation. Skyfall is a nuclear ramjet powered cruise missile, while Poseidon is a nuclear powered torpedo (in principle an unmanned miniature nuclear submarine with a suicide mission, although probably without hydrostatic buoyancy control.)

Both are motivated by the perception that ABM technology may render ICBMs ineffective.
Chromium 5h+
No you wouldn’t, that’s the whole point of upvotes and downvotes. The community gets to decide what’s popular. Not moderators.
> Why should my life be centered on the 'thing I'm good at'?

I have a conspiracy theory: I wonder if this is the sort of thing the ultra wealthy want the rest of us to believe. That way we are more easily commodified as labor. We can be put into a spreadsheet or Big Data app to make the 99.9% of us more manageable. We are more manageable if we are more predictable.

It's the flip side to "you are not your job" from Fight Club which ultimately must have got it from the general idea of identification, in a spiritual sense.
Third dupe I have seen but this is the best title, or the least clickbait-ish anyway. Dang can the leading post use a title more similar to this one?
I was recently thinking about a digital experience that can mirror the experience of walking into an old bookstore (think, City Lights or Strand) or a second-hand book store, and came up empty.

Walking into a room guaranteed to be filled with treasures, joys and learnings, what digital experience can mirror that?
I've written about it elsewhere, so just a quick comment: The best thing is to get rid of all political zealots on a forum. The majority of users are not interested in the political opinions of these people (who usually defend fringe views), and political agitation in online forums is not needed or any way beneficial for democracy. It just annoys the vast majority of normal users.