skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like having to move between applications or tabs when using magic links, it also means I need to cleanup my inbox (deleting the email). I end up with 2 tabs for the site I want to log into if I don't close the original tab.

Regarding security, I don't see it being any better than if a user is using a password manager or different passwords for services. If someone takes control of the email they have access to all services that login via "magic" links, just like if they'd compromise the users password manager.
> Simulators (even simulator games) not limited for gaming only, instead it widely used in education for training purposes.[0]

Indeed, but this one is very much a game. Having played it, I can tell you it's fun but a bit shallow.
Historically, hasn't monetary success gone to people who inherited the wealth?

Monarchs and aristocrats and the like
It's literally called Gatekeeper lol
What's really more important than having numbers is having specific details on your resume (which could include numbers). Every bullet point on your resume might represent months of work (depending on how long your career has been). E.g., you may have refactored the front-end in a few days, or maybe it took you two months. There's no way to sum that experience into one bullet point, and that's not really the point.

It's better to have some very targeted details that can reveal the depth of your experience than high level summaries which may technically be better descriptors. It helps the person reading the resume better imagine who you are and the kinds of things that you do.

It also can provide a bit of context that you can later expand on in more detail during e.g. a screening interview. They might ask you how you measured user engagement, which gives you another chance to talk and sound smart. You might miss that opportunity with more generic descriptors.
I agree. Users want to jump into a discussion first and foremost. Discord facilitates this without adding any unnecessary friction.
Weird, I don’t want many interviews. I want as few as possible, ideally 1 and get hired on great terms.

This sounds like one of those “how to pass your exams with least effort” advices.

How about you get abnormally good at what you do?
Logical exercise:

1. If it happened to FB it can happen to anyone else, especially to small companies or people with less financial power to fight in court. It means it can apply to the entire Internet presence in Austria.

2. If any country can do such a ruling, then the entire Internet (see #1) is either abiding to all rules, being reduced to almost zero, or cut out extreme countries. This means Austria should be excluded from Internet? In the end Internet interlinks come from neighboring countries and an Austrian court cannot force them to connect the country to the rest of the world.

Not very sound logic, but the conclusion is quite scary to me.
Wow. Why is he so snarky and sarcastic? It's relentless. So toxic.
"You can’t have a back door in the software because you can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys." — Tim Cook
It's hard to think of a 'successful' tech org without a massive ego at the top. So far Sundar hasn't shown he has what it takes. Is a massive ego required to drive these orgs?
The sad irony is that the Matrix protocol was sold as a much simpler alternative to the bloated XMPP...

...and now it's bloated as well.
I’m perhaps equally surprised that you’d consider anything an emergency that would covered by your ordinary salary within a month’s time. I mean, that’s just normal credit card use, right?
> I don't think a lot of people know what they want.

> Just a lack of other goals for which to substitute.

Ding ding.

I've mentored students/grads from aforementioned prestigious Universities and most of them just genuinely don't know what they want

After a few drinks, many have voiced a fear of there being so many options in life and not knowing which would be more fulfilling for them.

Many reach a goal (graduation~), don't know what's really next, look around at nearby peers/family, and simply emulate what they see.
The correct person to ask would be a patriotic citizen of one of those countries. People are usually biased towards their own system and have trouble even conceptualizing the motivations behind radically different ones, especially when they don't even try because they've already internalized the belief that they're automatically bad. But the people who supported those systems had their own experiences motivations and in many cases it did work out well for them compared to the alternatives or what came before.
What’s the play if I didn’t get accepted into an Ivy tier school but want to make as much as them?

What’s a benchmark?
Imagination is unlimited. I don't mean to harsh anyone's dreams. But technological development isn't a predictable march forward.

There is less low hanging fruit as things progress. I'd guess we're very close to the peak of attainable technology.

Once sustainability comes into the picture then, IMO, we're beyond the limit.
Schools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware Attacks
I agree bans on images of nursing are absurd, but I am not sure you can make an appeal to evolution - genitals also are 'specially evolved' but also not postable in many places...
For almost all metals, the key thing is grain and crystalline structure [1]. Different cooling rate create different properties hence why katanas are made with half of it shielded when quenched. A big part of this (and alloys) is the grain size and the abundance of dislocations in the structure. But I am not entirely sure what the article is suggesting either. I'm not sure if it's lowering the cooling rate to create better grain structure or by increasing the water temperature decreases the microfractures in the grain boundaries (like hydrogen embrittlement).

[1] https://www.twi-global.com/technical-knowledge/faqs/faq-what...
Fair enough. I get the sense we're working on fairly different apps.

It's also possible that if the app I'm working on were structured differently, we'd have done things more like the way you're doing things. I'm getting vague thoughts in my head along those lines, which I'll have to let ruminate and see if they go anywhere.
Similar stories can be found in other fields where kids as young as 13 (that I know of) go through serious and tough adult-level certificates in IT Security (with parents permission) or develop the one remarkable piece of software after the other.

I’m equally happy for all of them that they live in a day and age where it is possible for them to explore their hobbies to these great lengths.
Some people call it humor
> hot hand fallacy at its finest.

Interesting choice of analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_hand#Recent_research_in_su...

Hot hand "fallacy" is only fallacious if cross-event outcomes are unrelated. Back in reality, neither hot hand nor reverse gambler's are actually fallacious.
Exclude Amazon? What?
This reminds me of Stripe, which logs every action of a user on any webpage (even non-checkout pages), in the name of fraud detection. Not sure what to think of it, but I would turn it off if I could.
Daft question: how do we know if the pronunciation is correct in the song your partner is singing? Given its in an older form of English and English is not well known for being spoken as you read it (like Latin).
Ask HN: How Does the Fediverse Work?
I've been reading a bunch about decentralized networks and communities lately. I don't really use much social media now. A few forums and stuff, hn, but that's about it.

I've been looking into the decentralized social networking options lately. The idea of being sble to make an account that spans multiple social media types and interconnects to them all seems pretty awesome.

Being able to connect with with random people who share interests over multiple platform types, microblogging, macroblogging, facebook style stuff, even music sharing, the funkwhale article was on the front page recently.

My problem is, i can't really seem to figure out how to join any communities, how to connect to any of the disparate communities i have managed to join to any wider communities or any other accounts i've made or how to really connect to people through it in general.

Reading things, it seems pretty straightforward. Pick a platform, pick either a host or host it yourself, make an account and connect with anyone across any platform that can connect to the fediverse.

In practice, i can't seem to even be able to find a few people on one platform let alone all these supposedly interconnected ones.

How does this all work?
Man where was this site when I was studying for my Linear Systems and Signals class in my EE program?
What settings are you unable to tinker with in macOS Big Sur?

Are we discussing generic theoreticals or are there actually specific settings you think you don’t have the freedom to modify?

I haven’t seen anyone say “I can’t modify this setting on Big Sur” and have that inability remain unsolved for more than an hour, yet there’s a huge ruckus about lost freedoms, so I’d love to understand where the rubber meets the road here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X5LySoOiIA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-6Li3CKflQ and
the original one in (Brazilian) Portuguese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RezuYwS0ngI
I think it's: People eating chili have 25% less chance of dying at any moment than other people, independently of the cause of death.
I'm always on the lookout for it (if I see bubbles, I know it's safe), since I regularly boil water in the microwave, and I've even tried to superheat water just to see what it was like, but I've never actually succeeded at it. My understanding is that it's more about whether your container has nucleation sites for bubbles to form than about the purity of the water. My pyrex measuring cup must have plenty of scratches on the inside.
Apple Developer ID OCSP
Thanks! Agreed! I would say I mostly have that, and in the near future I will also have several layers of audio which you can mix incredibly easy (right now I have a layer for sound effects, one for background music, one for recording, and several layers for the audio from your videos).

Cutting, trimming, moving are really really easy at this time (and also, you can stretch sound effects).

Any other audio operations you'd like?
German Government Anti Corona Ad
Australia can and will block your website locally. That's the pressure for you to conform to their laws. You don't have to but they don't have to let their citizens access it either. If Facebook ignored other country's laws, they would find themselves excluded entirely, such as has already happened in places like China.
I am using a pretty much "degoogled" android with microG as a replacement for the play services and a patched google play store that works with it. So the play store is basically the only google bit that ocassionally runs on my device.

And let me tell you, I almost never have to open up the playstore except for updating my banking apps, because f-droid has a much better selection of apps anyway.

For example, NewPipe is a much superior alternative to the official youtube app and it even works perfectly fine without a youtube account. I don't have to ever worry about having my google account deleted because NewPipe backs up my subscriptions to xml.

I can only recommend this approach of "degoogling" but still having the ability to fall back in case it is really needed. But so far microG has been great, they even implemented the Covid Exposure Notification framework very quickly.
It nice, but the old servers use a _lot_ of electricity and the single-core performance might be a killer.
This reminds me of the old saying that it's impossible to work within an infected system to clean it --- and now that corporations have been "infecting" systems with such telemetry/spyware by default, that's even more true.

I believe Win10 was the first to do something like this --- it ignores the hosts files and firewall for certain hardcoded domain names and IPs.
Minor note: You mean Austria, not Australia.
Super impressive, I couldn't even figure out Minecraft redstone circuits at that age
Prezi was the first major adopter of Elm in industry. They hired the language author to work on it full-time.

A few years later, they laid him off and deprecated their Elm codebase.
$20k/month is really a paltry amount of revenue for a business.

If your expenses are like $5k a month and your getting maybe $180k a year in profit before taxes this is really more like a job than a business.

A business making revenue of $20k a month must be a very small idea, for example a service that pings some servers and alerts customers of downtime or maybe some kind of file storage. Conceivably that means you can quickly pump out a lot of similar sized ideas and perhaps get multiple revenue streams going, each averaging $20k a month or so. Now you can afford to hire talent.
Let me call the wahmbulance for all of the snowflake conservatives who think they deserve a platform... Parler, like all right-wing sites before it, is already on the fast path to becoming a nazi shithole. In a few months, when everyone who never really left FB and Twitter is back, I predict that we will add this site to the list of failed attempts by right-wing pseudo-intellectuals to try to thread the needle in the ever shrinking space between Republican talking points and National Socialist rhetoric. The problem with building a site for angry ignorant polemicists is that after a short while they will get bored with talking to themselves and while Fox News personalities can make a living selling herbal ED treatments and scam gold schemes there is not a lot of commercial upside for a place like Parler. Their userbase will peak within six months when the first Trump is indicted and will have dropped 75% by the time the first is convicted.
There were working prototypes of video phones in the 1930's, and the first videoconferencing service started in 1970. [0] Your perspective is colored by the fact that "video calls" now take place in front of a computer, I think.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony
As someone who entered the functional world through Elm, trying to learn Haskell made me appreciate all the things it doesn't have. Operators are a particular offender, because every time I look up how to do something I have to memorize a new sequence of characters that doesn't mean anything. Incredibly frustrating.
Ask HN: Are you depressed?
The URL to crash Chrome (to test its crash reporting) is inducebrowsercrashforrealz. Developers have a sense of humor for things they don't want you to do.
IMO being able to quantify with numbers tells me the candidate actually cared about the outcome as well as the method.

No shortage of developers who consider rolling out a new feature to be a win even if it replaces a feature users preferred.
Elon Musk’s Covid tweets highlight problems with rapid tests
I’m more and more convinced that I’ve got to learn and find a way to make Linux work for me.
I'm curious how everyone here is doing mentally. Do you consider yourself depressed, whether or not you've been clinically diagnosed?
Thats why I use 2gb per month watch only a couple videos... thanks Google, I was really trying to restrict myself.
> And Apple converted. Steve Jobs invited Otellini on stage at Macworld to make the announcement.

In case anybody was wondering why Otellini was wearing a cleanroom suit on stage, it was a reference to Apple's 1998 "Toasted Bunny" commercial for the Power Macintosh G3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6PoLiXCA40

…which was itself a reference to the Pentium Ⅱ commercials of the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvt65mHXmR4
Costco selling $17,500 subscription to Wheels Up private jet service
Of course it's allowed. But you should come armed with epidemiological data that contradicts the evidence and studies already out there. That's the language that epidemiologists speak. And extraordinary claims that contradict both the data and common sense require extraordinary evidence.

Merely questioning it without a plausible explanation that is consistent with the existing data is a distraction. Why should anyone listen to you if that's all you've got?
@2) + good guys can be hacked.
Interested to hear your thoughts on Member with its self-sovereign identity, piggy backing on BCH's P2P network. Its not real time chat, but with some interface changes, it could be.

member.cash
Global scale, distribution, growth of aviation: Implications for climate change
The last time I looked into it - it required:

- buy a VM

- buy a domain

- configure DNS

- apt-get install

- fiddle with SSL certificates

- debug out a memory leak bug

- ask upstream and be told to use an unstable alpha release

- implement a workaround

- start investigating bridges for IRC, Slack, Telegram

- give up

In 2020 we should expect something like Briar:

- install Briar on your ws / phone. There is are no servers. Done.
I agree. It is absolutely 100% animal cruelty to release a domesticated animal that cannot survive on its own into the wild. I've seen multiple cases where people release pet rats, dogs, cats, even a rabbit once. Other than cats, those animals don't survive well in the wild. And, cats do it at the expense of whatever local bird population there is in the area.
There was a long thread on Twitter by entrepreneur/activist Dave Troy (currently a TedX organizer) that looks for patterns in the first several thousand accounts.

https://mobile.twitter.com/davetroy/status/13272539919364546...
> But is there empirical evidence for it? And a rational explanation behind it?

I don't have empirical evidence for it, but I can take a stab at a rational explanation.

The second group faces no opposition in their pursuit for control of the organization and its processes.

At best, members of that group will fight among themselves, but certainly won't find resistance from the first group.

Control over various parts of the organization is therefore slowly given to one or more members of the second group.
Short term, high-dose Vitamin D supplementation for Covid, a randomised trial
Interesting points, thanks. Related to meal size, yoga (via a book by The Yoga Institute) says at the end of a meal, your stomach contents should be one half food, one quarter water and one quarter air, for good digestion, which seems to make sense, intuitively, because if it was all food, it would be a tight fit, so would not move around and through the digestive system easily, and the same (though less so) if full with only food and water, hence the air bit too.

The Yoga Institute may be the oldest commercial yoga center in the world.

https://theyogainstitute.org
Privacy Must Be Defended
Mistakes in the modern world can have devastating consequences. It’s not as simple as your computer freezing up and becoming part of a bot net. Your files will be stolen, your accounts hacked, you will lose money. Most users would gladly take protection from that as opposed to “learning” by making mistakes (getting infected).
As the set of certificates is bounded and known by apple, they can also adopt crlite and just push all CRLs they have to all users, using CRLite.

https://github.com/mozilla/crlite
Few cryptocurrency holders are using it for payments or building anything that creates value. It’s just zero-sum speculation and FOMO.

Equities are different because their connection (however tenuous) to actual earnings gives them a very steady long-term uptrend. The hard part is just staying in during a crash so you don’t miss the recovery. Half of S&P 500 returns came on its ten best days.
The very first microwave (1967) had two dials, a coarse and fine timer (and they are additive):

https://www.radarange.com/fullsize/RR1PanelFull.JPG
Neat. I have a NeXT Station Turbo (68040/33, I think?) and am tempted to try this out.
Apple’s entire CDN collapsed on Big Sur launch day, which for years was and probably still is backed by Akamai. The OCSP endpoint was just one of many that was impacted. Seems like that’s exactly what you suggest they should have done to make this more robust. The endpoint failed for the first time in a decade this week. That’s better uptime than any stock exchange you’re trading securities on.
Fedora on Thinkpad + custom desktop.
It is similar to IPFS more than anything else. This applies: https://perkeep.org/doc/compare#ipfs
How does the client identify itself during the SMTP or IMAP transaction?
It looks like a great product. I'm wondering what makes yours the easiest among many alternatives out there?
So that is the base price including 4k in credits for flights, presumably each trip costs add'l funds?
I don't know if athletes fit. They spend their whole day in training to stay accurate.

And thanks for the cool kudzu article!
public transport, unfortunately, has been set back years by covid.
It's possible, if that image has a startup script to fetch the .apk from a third party source & install it. I've put custom/specialty ROMs on old Android devices in the past and they often come with random apps I don't need and uninstall on first boot.
It’s Time to Hunker Down
The GP may be referring to this previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
>All the combined efforts of thousand developers at a FAANG found it impossible, but against all odds, you succeeded where they failed.

I'm working on a product where google is my competitor and the thousands of super genius engineers utterly failed to achieve what we did.

Just because the big company of the day didn't do it, doesn't mean it can't be done.
Very simple way I know that not many people know:

Download a cert from offending Google servers, and blacklist it in Android.

The TLS library on the Android will then block it
I'm entirely fine with people running "Trust" systems. But not when the platforms do it by force. If you want to pay McAfee, or some other service to force your computer to only run trusted code, then that's your choice. I might even be fine if Apple or Microsoft offered it as a service you have to pay extra for.

The problem is when one entity can lock down a platform entirely. Its a problem when its not a choice the user have. Its also a problem that even when the user wants all code to be verified, they cant choose who it gets verified by.

If yesterdays disaster had happen to a third party trust company, and not Apple, a lot of people would be looking for a new trust vendor today. Thats what should happen in a non-monopolistic market.
Yeah, this is a popular saying, but couldn’t be further from the truth for the most successful people.

Probably. What about the rest of us who aren't really looking to those people for any kind of framework? Part of the whole "thinking there's a grand narrative" that caused me anxiety was trying to model after all of these "successful" people, what they were doing, and realizing I wasn't any happier for it.

Lately, what's brought me a lot of calm wasn't the chase of an "end state" (so to speak) but more optimizing my path. That, personally, and only speaking personally has been INFINITELY more rewarding.

If that's the "it" factor, then so be it ;)