skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's so much a corporate culture thing as a context thing. There are certainly channels in my work Slack that I feel compelled to add more kindness phrases to when engaging.

Following your metaphor: if I were in a room with a couple hundred other people I _probably would_ say "excuse me" before shouting a question.
Wait, I thought the foundation of cryptocurrency was about trust not privacy.
Hasn't it been shown that mass originates from coupling with the Higgs field and it's mass that deforms spacetime? Given the large size of the Higgs boson, I don't understood why the lack of gravity in QM is viewed as a problem. Why does gravity have to be fundamental? What if it just shows up right around the same time as electroweak symmetry breaks down?
Is there a reason to suspect Brian Acton’s motives? I’m always skeptical of celebrity-hackers, but I don’t know why I should be worried about Acton in particular.
Probably a typo for "chest of drawers".
Apple launches Apple Music TV channel for music videos
Intelligence is not hereditary for the most part, and there's a huge environmental component to it. Clearly this household had the right mix of freedom and strictness to encourage development of creative intelligent thinking. Probably rubs off of adults with same attitudes. Of course it's not 100% I'm pretty sure if OP had more siblings one of them would be bound to be dumb as a rock.
That's awesome! I develop a [plugin for Unity][1] that uses the WebView component to render web content in 3D for Hololens, and I have my fingers crossed that WebView2 will bring significant performance gains. So, I'm looking forward to the UWP GA release, and I'll get started with the preview in the meantime.

[1]: https://vuplex.com
It's 2020 and I can't believe we're paying for emoji.

I'm not blaming you. I get it. I'm blaming the world we live in.

Emoji are not innovation.
I think this is an uncharitable view, and while it might be true in some cases it is certainly not always the case. Many times the people who point out issues with Signal do it not because they think they want to show off, but because they honestly are frustrated that no product seems to meet their needs and Signal has specific issues that matter to them. I honestly believe “Signal is stupid for relying on phone numbers and SGX” is really just “I don’t trust this things, they have a track history of having issues, I would really like to use this service and am sad that you chose to do this”. Hacker News is often not very good at conveying what it is trying to say, but I remain optimistic that it’s more than a intellect measuring contest.
So, if a user says "create a website that does x, y, z", and describes in plain English, on a high level, how he wants this website to look like, and AI creates the website which does what the user wanted, does this mean this user is now a "software developer"?

Because the only requirement for the new breed of 'specialized' software developers might be they know English.
No, there's no world where Apple blocks access to an account because they're showing derogatory content towards Apple products, and a company gets a judge to overturn that block because it's not technically libel. Apple has the right to block you from their sign-in for any reason. Short of pulling a move like Epic and suing them for antitrust, a court of law is never going to enter into the equation.

None of these are legal definitions, Apple gets to decide what they mean. And no court of law is going to rule that they don't have the right to block when their TOS end with:

> Apple reserves the right to disable Sign in with Apple on a website or app for any reason at any time.
Wow, that's never happened to me before here! You da man!
None of that is correct. VO2max can be trained. You might not have the genetics to be able to reach 80 ml/kg/min like an elite professional endurance athlete but you can improve significantly from where you are now, if you're willing to put in the work. But just doing a bunch of running and hiking won't get you there. You'll have to follow a focused, goal oriented training plan. And it's going to hurt. This will also tend to boost natural testosterone production slightly, so there's a bit of a positive feedback loop.

If you have a legitimate medical condition then you can apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) to take banned supplements while still being allowed to compete.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/therapeutic-use-exempt...
Email spam could be almost totally eliminated if you had to send someone a 1-24c micro transaction for them to receive your mail.

Over the course of a year the costs to send would be balanced by the profit from receiving for your average person but for spammers it would be untenable.
Couldn't you buy four 10 year old laptops?
The Fed is starting to question its own policies
Tell that to Mozilla.
I don't know about FDD in particular. They certainly have their own agenda. Wikipedia suggests neoconservative thought and proponents of hawkish US foreign policy [1]. So it's not surprising them supporting the publication.

FDD may be the landing page but the authors were the actual reason I thought this could be interesting to other people. I've read some of their publications before, skimmed through the report itself and realized that they aggregated a set of issues they have previously discussed in more than one paper. There are actually not many new facts if you read Sinocism [2], Axios China [3] or Sinoskop [4] from time to time.

Generally interested, what standards need to be fulfilled that you think a source provides 'trustworthy analysis'?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Demo...
[2] https://sinocism.com/
[3] https://www.axios.com/world/china/
[4] https://www.sinoskop.de/blog/ [GERMAN]
You are pretending that apps don't do any of that? The only difference is you have control over your browser(you can filter tracking sites etc) but for an app you have none.
I'm reminded of the factoid that hunter-gatherers and nomads were healthier, stronger, and had more varied diets and lifestyles than farmers living under the thumb of centralized states, which begs the question of why farmers didn't just leave their fields behind and escape into the wilderness. A key part of the puzzle is probably that it takes significant skill and knowledge to forage off the land, while farming takes considerably less skill and more grunt labor. Humans shifted from a small population of hunter-gathers to a large population of taxable and conscriptable farmers-from-birth that forced nomads out into marginal lands where farmers couldn't survive. It seems that the internet is going through a similar dynamic. Highly skilled tech wizards that can roll their own equipment will continue to exist at the fringes, but the mass of less skilled and centrally manipulated users will dictate the momentum of the internet going forwards, much like how highly populated agricultural states became the dominant historical force based on their sheer mass and numbers.
He's assuming a non-tech savvy user. Catering to the 1% wouldn't really make for mass market appeal.
I mentioned above that some are still stuck with CUDA, but for the most part I was talking about desktop Linux users who can for all practical purposes ignore Nvidia today.

But in general I agree, the sickening CUDA lock-in situation has to change. AMD and Intel are working on it so things are improving, though slowly.
Signal only has any userbase due to advocacy; compared to the secure-enough-for-most WhatsApp which has literally billions of users and is the default choice, every user of Signal had to be convinced to install it.

So I think it's unfair to bash people who criticise the project. The 'drag' they apply to wider adoption is still miniscule.

Put it this way: why does Signal exist when WhatsApp is good enough? Wouldn't Mr Rosenfeld be better putting all that effort and ingenuity into a truly innovative new messenger?
Next Billion Users – Google
I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the Internet is decentralized, and in a far more fault-tolerant fashion than the meshnet-of-the-day. The fact that anyone can fire up a server and make it accessible to anyone else on the Internet should be indicative of that.

Maybe what we mean when we say we want a 'decentralized internet' is implicitly, that we want the popular nodes of the Internet Graph to be decentralized. That would be nice.

But I think we could realize that right now, the Internet is comprised of a ton of competing protocols, and as long as there's a translation interface that enables cross-communication, the internet will remain decentralized. That's impressive resillience. Kudos to the designers.

It seems to me that what would actually bring the most benefit to the structure of the Internet would be long-range wireless communication. Basically, the ability to use HAM radio to bypass ISPs. That would bring about a sea change in how the Internet is structured.
I’m not sure that that’s the only conclusion you can draw. Some systems choose to not handle that metadata, which often makes them a worse service but they make that choice by looking at the landscape and choosing to not use SGX. The other plausible argument is that Signal uses SGX, which is better than nothing, but in selling it as more secure than it is they do more harm than good.
I once took a job that paid far less than I was accustomed to — simply so I could work professionally in Common Lisp.

It wasn’t a mistake.
Git Tutorial for Beginners
What would you have considered the normal/preferred way of handling this? After all, hardware price drops were normal, that's how the market was expanded; wouldn't it be the case that no matter when the price came down, someone would've bought it the previous day?
Your comment seems at odds with the current research:

“the most recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
I like the idea but it does seem like you're setting up a poll tax to participate fully in the internet, simultaneously having it high enough to deter or at least raise the bar on scams and low enough to be affordable to the whole world is a hard ask.
You are arguing against a statement I didn't make. Look back at the last sentence of my original comment[1] where I distinguished HTML from HTML+CSS3+JS.

It seems we agree that HTML (a language, not a file that also includes other languages) cannot create a game like Mario or even Pong.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24826670
You can check it out here: aidlab.com/market/aidlab

It's an app for our wearable (but our wearable is also optional, haha). As said: account is no longer required on iOS, but we are also working on that feature on Android as well.
The real issue with these indictments is that they put US operators in a tough position. These are military hackers following lawful orders. We are not dealing with criminal acts, but diplomatic issues.

Foreign powers are more than capable of identifying individual US operators, but so far they've opted to not participate in this game.

Here's an op-ed on the subject by an ex-NSA hacker https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-punish-a-north-korean-hac...
It is a pretty smooth process but my partner got stuck in a failure mode due to removing friction like confirming email before you can start engaging with the app. A typo in the email and a password manager failing to save the generated password. This problem wasn’t noticed for days while chatting in various communities, when it was, even though their phone was still authenticated, no option but to abandon the account was available.

I’m sure it is a pretty small percentage of users this impacts but I think confirming an email address as real before allowing access avoids this wasted sunk cost and probably more importantly to small communities, avoiding troll accounts/harassment.
You seem to think that FP is the one right answer. You are mistaken. There are places where it's the right answer, or at least a very good one - the best definition I've seen is when your program looks like a pipe.

And there are places where FP is the wrong answer - where your program has state, and there are multiple parts to the state, and those parts have to be kept in sync with each other. At that point, bundling the data to the functions is warranted, because it limits the number of functions that can put the data in an inconsistent state.

And if you're going to say "don't structure the data that way", well, there are times when that's the nature of the problem, not just the nature of the program to solve the problem.
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You can do this with uBlock Origin filters, e.g.:

google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".geeksforgeeks.org"])
google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".gitmemory.com"])
google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".tutorialspoint.com"])
google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".w3schools.com"])
Compared to IRC, where do I start?
>It's only a 'grind' if you don't enjoy the process though, right?

That's the thing though, even with something you enjoy you will, or should hopefully, hit 'the grind'. That point where it gets hard and you force yourself to keep going even through.the parts you don't enjoy.

School forces you to do this, if you're teaching yourself something, you need to force yourself to do this.

I can't count the number of times i've heard someone say something like

'I tried learning/doing this new thing and it was fun for a bit but it ended up being way harder than I thought.'

And that's usually the point where they've given up or moved on.

But that's usually the point where learning breakthroughs happen and getting through the grind tends to cement those new facts or that new activity better.

That's usually the point where it starts being fun again too, until the next hump to grind through.

It's like an old nintendo game or something. One of those really hard ones that forces you to replay the same thing over and over again just to gain the tiniest bit of progress. Even though the game's probably fun, that's the point where people start throwing controllers and stuff. Yet when you get past those hard sections and make some progress. Suddenly, you feel good and have fun again.

Learning things is very much the same process. Even things you enjoy. The secret is to push yourself through the less fun parts.

Just quickly too, more of an aside, I feel like modern games lack this aspect and i think it's a big part of why many people complain about modern games. They don't stimulate and teach you through failure and repitition, there's usually no consequences, you have no breakthrough 'Aha I can do this now' moments, there's no learning or lessons to be had. Just mindless progression that never really feels like progress.
Hah! Well, I'm so old, I remember having two spaces after every period. And, I, too, hate waking up to 12 notifications, of which 3-4 are usually pings to my team alias, and then seeing a bunch of DM notifications. It makes me feel like I missed something urgent, when, often, it's just people who hate putting periods after the end of their thoughts. Maddening!
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> Even banks are increasingly getting regulator-ish. You may need to produce a "know-your-customer" policy.

That's an understatement, if I ever saw one.

> Anonymity just isn't done anymore.

When was banking anonymous? In the days of Bonnie and Clyde? :-)
I like the productivity focused design!
Can I use it to curate my feed based on the topic/tag?
it certainly can be...
https://owasp.org/www-pdf-archive/Marshaller_Deserialization...
BioRxiv has passed 100k preprints
If reddit allowed you to select a "personal mod team" that you followed, it'd be different. Instead mods can ban individuals and remove content. I think GP is suggesting something more like:

> I want RT/Fox/CNN/MSNBC/NYPost/Wapo/NYTimes/LATimes/etc. Twitter, vetted by their teams. Allow me to filter Twitter's content based on the input of my preferred "trusted" moderator.

This largely removes Twitter from the equation. They remain a platform for content, and others get to choose which content they interact with either freely (without moderation) or under their choice of moderation.
I can see homeschooling being potentially more interesting/engaging for a certain kind of student after the basics are out of the way, but this:

> He didn't even learn how to read until he was around 10.

to me, is fucking terrifying.

All of the people I know who did better on their own than in a classroom were able to do so because they could gobble up half a library in a weekend. I think you need to be able to read abnormally well for this unschooling concept to work as intended, and so good reading skills is one of the few things that I absolutely would not compromise on.
How would these people using (HAM) radio links to provide Internet access be, in the long term, different from existing ISPs?
One counterexample: bash isn’t available in the base system of typical BSD variants (though, yes, you can install it from ports).
First the Cloud Giveth
> personally I don't want some random third-party having the ability to exfiltrate my google cookie via an auto-updating extension

Driven by the same motivation, I've first adapted a userscript [1], but later replaced it with simple uBlock Origin filters:

google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".w3schools.com"])

[1] https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/blob/master/userscr...
Informatics an Ecological Glimpse
No. Accepting US dollars, "converting" those dollars into bitcoin, performing a mixing operation for the express purpose to make it difficult to track where those dollars went, and then sending back something worth the U.S. dollars you accepted (minus a fee), is money laundering.
Is "fear of school shootings" the worst reason for unschooling?
But is IQ (beyond a minimum level) really correlated with the type of success being discussed here?
it the text contains a program then it could be
It's interesting - I think i find the opposite to be true, but that's still the appeal.

I used Slack before I used Discord, so I compare the two a lot. I think Slack is more polished and playful while remaining mildly professional.

Discord I think has a more nerdy and less polished interface, which I think is a part of it's appeal.
>Anonymity just isn't done anymore.

Passive voice alert! By whom? Site/app producers can, with certain exceptions, choose to allow anonymity.
Source? I'm pretty sure intelligence is well over half hereditary. AFAIK, most of what we can do to increase people's intelligence is make sure they get proper nutrition as kids. Over that, we can at most spend lots of money on educational programs for really small increases in IQ (though of course education is not just about IQ).
I think there's a lot that could be done in regards to navigation around. Like it works, and it's clear it's inspired from the more mainline chatting interface that's been around for what feels like centuries. But any time I'm using the default client, if I'm not using hotkeys or ctrl+k to navigate across channels, there's just way too much clicking and scrolling. Not to mention you can only have one active chat buffer on display.

There's room for improvement in modern chat apps that the previous generation didn't shy away from. But it's hard to please anyone with change, but it still think that there should be experiments into some big changes
This is an awesome service. I initially planned to do one or two one-shot games and this has become a regular pastime with half a dozen games played over a couple of months.

Some GM’s are better at keeping players engaged and I have found you get what you pay for. There is a walkthrough game for kids on Saturday mornings that is on my list to try.

I would like to see player profiles somehow captured by the platform as the back and forth between the different gameboard programs is a bit clunky. Letting GMs set up multi-game campaigns on a subscription basis may also be interesting.

Overall a big fan and now a loyal user!
> We had those for sure before you ever have been in a school.

He's not wrong though. The average IRC user, especially, hates emojis.
Sometimes it‘s quite funny why you like certain people, how you weight the positive and negative attributes, because there‘s no person you like everything about. So you might dislike one person for certain attributes, but there‘s this other person you like with the same negative attributes, but in this case you don‘t weight them that much, it‘s easier to overlook them, because other positive attributes outweigh them.

So, what I‘m trying to say with this? I don‘t quite know, just a bit of a brain dump. Perhaps you‘re getting some hints for other podcasts.
He might be of the opinion that IQ != intelligence, or that IQ is a bad measurement of intelligence.
I dunno how much of a difference it makes... most people don't know that the admins of a slack can see everything, including the histories on unpaid slacks.
That's mostly irrelevant, since basically no one writes shell code in zsh and this is unlikely to change that.
I am sure unschooling works out well for some people. I appreciate giving students some flexibility, but I think there really is a standard core that most people should learn.

I went to a good engineering school for college, but they also require everyone to take 3 years of history, 3 years of english, 2 semesters of a foreign language, a psychology course, ...

If it was left up to me I would not have taken most of those classes, and I suffered through many of them, but I think they were an important part of my education, and I am glad I came out of school knowing more than the engineering that I would have picked for myself.
Widgify – Oraganize your iOS Home Screen using widgets
Since iOS 14 it is possible to place widgets on your home screens. Widgify allows you to easily sort your home screens. The focus of Widgify is usability and minimalism. The minimalistic design approach will guarantee your home screens look clean and organised.

In the Widgify app you can create as many widgets as you like, all with a personalised title, an optional description and a custom color to match your background or apps. iOS 14 currently offers three different sizes which are all available to customise to your needs.

There are countless ways you can sort your apps, here are some ideas:

- Sort your apps by category (games, office, social media, etc...)
- Sort your apps by color
- Sort yours by frequency of use
- Or use Widgify to add a placeholder at the top of the apps to make them easy to reach

We are constantly working on improving the app and adding new functionality - always with the background of keeping the app clean and minimalistic.
They have free IDs too, but groups can block them to reduce spam.

The free IDs have some other negatives too I think (long names, harder to recover, etc.).

The price is quite low ~$10 for a 'planet' or standard ID. Maybe in the developing world that price is too high, but I'd suspect if it succeeded to the point where that was an issue it could be solved without too much trouble.

The ID solution is cool because it fixes the spam issue which is one of the core incentives behind centralization.

The other core reason to centralize is server management and finding other users. If you design an OS that has this bit baked into it from the start you can make this complexity invisible to the user. You can have apps be p2p by default without the user having to know about it, you can make it easy for users to send photos or messages directly to each other rather than always having to interoperate with a middleman company (FB, Google etc.).

Their approach of starting as a VM that runs in linux is a good idea, it allows iteration on something that's immediately usable. Their initial focus on chat too I think is smart - it gets people using it while they improve it and immediately seeing changes.

Long term goal would be getting urbit running on its own hardware without the virtual layer, but I think if they started trying to do that they wouldn't succeed. With the current approach they might.