skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rationalist circles make just as many horrific logical errors. If you want to dig into this stuff philosophy has dug deep, and frankly all they came up with is all sources should be treated as suspect.

Sharing some anecdata, because I enjoy when others do.

I've got some very dear friends born in a highly prescriptive culture where credential-ism runs deep, being an intellectual is extremely valued -people are often denied leases due to their non-academic status- and authority figures and strangers get the "Mrs." and "Mr." treatment for years after you've met them. Early on in our friendship we would discuss and rant about everything and anything. We would often talk about my attitude of trusting no one and how I believe there are, truly, no experts, in the colloquial sense of the word. We've often had late-night discussions about my "stubborn and deeply misguided attitude", about how it's wrong that the only experts I trust are those who deeply distrust their own abilities, instincts and continuously attempt to disprove their own claims.

Shockingly, they defended the aforementioned views until many of their countries top virologists and they themselves, often and loudly, shared their opinion on covid-19 around March, April and May: covid-19 was nothing special, national mortality trends were unaffected, their country is rich and they had a high number of ICUs, it was basically just like the flu and nothing to worry about. Then, as we all know, shit hit the fan and we saw cooling trucks being turned into mortuary vehicles. I simply told them what I've always told them, and for the first time since we're friends they nodded with some sadness in their demeanour: trust no one, acquire evidence, make your own judgments, try to find hidden risks and the only so-called experts worth trusting are the ones who, in their own words, publicly and candidly express their skepticism towards their very own claims and try to help you reproduce their methods and conclusions.
I use hybrid basic and cookie auth in my application.

Basic auth functions as a captcha and invite code, eliminating users not invited and almost all bots.

After that,s done, the user gets a cookie (and a private key in LocalStorage) and is not prompted next time.

The beauty of cookies and basic is that the cookie is sent before auth takes place.
Nginx, Caddy.
Last I looked, Apple Health data doesn't leave the phone - there's no "cloud" aspect.

They could of course change that, or sneakily exfil it. The first hasn't happened yet, and the second would destroy a vast amount of consumer trust well before all the lawsuits started.

So I do rather doubt it.
Ask HN: Has anyone hired a coach to learn a particular skill? was it worth it?
Anything from targeted technical topics (computational biology, for example) to dating skills - specifically one-on-one.

How was the experience? Was it worth it?
Honestly couldn't tell if DHH's initial tweet was satire like vanillajs

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1341420143239450624
>> "so they can decide how the internet should work — even beyond their devices"

How does the decision Apple has made "work beyond their devices"? If I'm not on an Apple Device, the iOS changes do not affect how FB can continue to track me.
I mentor interviewers at my job. Pretty much, every junior (< 3 years of experience) interviewer at first asks me what they should do if the candidate starts talking about something they know very little about.

The interviewers are people too. They get nervous too sometimes. They too don’t want to look stupid when they’re having a conversation with the candidate.

The first learning of interviewer training I try to solidify is that the interviewer is not intended to be the person who “knows the answers”. Candidates have specialized, deep knowledge in the specific areas they’ve worked on. How can an interviewer expect to know more than them?

Experienced interviewers will know that they are there simply to facilitate the candidate in arriving at solutions to the problem.
If you quote instead of giving numbers then people can follow what you're saying.
What I would personally do is install Kubuntu LTS, then if I really need a new kernel because some hardware feature I enable a PPA that gives me that new kernel , if I need a different NVIDIA driver I install a PPA and try all the availleble drivers, find the one that works. Then if all works fine I don't upgrade the kernel or driver until I am forced and I always have the option to rollback,

Then when I want to try the next LTS years later I install it on a different partition and check if it works or not for my use case.

For my work I use Intellij , when there is a big update I get the .tag.gz and try it. If something goes wrong I still have the working version and I can go back.

Updating to latest and greatest was fun when I had the time and when I knew how to format the disk using "fdisk" and it was pleasurable to read and tweak stuff, this days I don't care about shiny stuff and my work does not require latest libraries and I am not using any first gen of hardware.

So IMO if you want stability and no surprises and the ability to maybe upgrade the kernel and a driver Ubuntu is a good solution(not sure about Debian or SUSE) and also I don't have experience with Wayland so maybe that invalidates things and is impossible to get a stable working Wayland setup.
> strong AIs aren't actually that good at playing handicap games

You wouldn't know that from watching JBXKataBot playing on KGS with a typical 5-7 stone handicap.
> inappropriate for all the uses mentioned above...

I'll raise you. See Papyrus. [1] Who needs "'I'd rather be golfing' on a t-shirt in Papyrus, of all fonts?

[1] https://www.instagram.com/papyrus_forever/?hl=en
I've given up on social media entirely. I've never had a Facebook account. I gave up Twitter last year and Instagram earlier this year. Once I got over that reflex of feeling the need to respond to events by shouting my useless opinions into the same void as everyone else, I found I don't miss any of it in the slightest.

I did subsequently and very briefly dabble with a few of the others; Scuttlebut, Mastodon, Minds...etc but found I'd completely lost interest in social media of any kind.

Commenting on HN and The Register pretty much does me for scratching the "Someone is wrong on the internet!" itch, these days.
Should have mentioned here, the reason Nintendo doesn't have this is probably that you could use it to cheat at Pokemon trading by restoring a backup to get back copies of things you'd given away.

Because that's more important than making sure their customers don't lose literally all the game progress in all of the games that they've played.

I can't imagine pouring hours and hours into your Animal Crossing island on a console that has an SD card slot and doesn't let you make a backup. Someone's going to learn a hard lesson from that about where Nintendo's priorities are.
Oh god I thought I was the only one who had noticed this... it drives me mad every single day.
For reference the best human player ~3800 elo. Alpha go zero is ~5200. A 400 elo difference means the better player will win 99/100 games if I remember correctly. Board game ai is definitely in a league of its own.
You make many terrible lifestyle assumptions and its insulting to me to call me 'oblivious' and frankly, it is unnecessary and below this forum.

More driving does not exclude a healthy walking routine.

More driving != equal more net green house gases. Yes the ICE generates greenhouse gases, but check out the carbon footprint of a battery supply chain for an EV sometime, or that of the MTA, MBTA, logistical supply chain of supplying the ENTIRE nyc 5 boroughs.

Bottom line, I'm willing to engage a deepdive discussion with critical eyes, not endure a superficial antisuburbia smear campaign while being namecalled.
I did not say, nor wanted to imply that Signal is not FLOSS.

Just that Signal is not on F-Droid. Which has a bit of a history and some drama. It was there, log ago. Still textsecure back then.

Sure, you can build it yourself. And from there, with some hoops to jump, install it on your phone over adb (it's what I did). But that is far from fdroid or some other app store. E.g. there are no updates, which is a crucial feature in a security-critical app.
It's not an "incorrect" FAQ page. It was not some mishap. This is is clear cut fraud.
This seems too good to be true, after the Arecibo accident. Perform all your radio telescope research under the watchful eye of China.
Finally! The font to use for projects I hate.
> 5. If your work is done on a computer, get a second monitor. Less time navigating between windows means more time for thinking.

I really don’t do well with a second monitor, because humans suck at multitasking. Invariably slack or email end up on the second monitor, not real work.

Better advice IMO: don’t task switch, stay in the shell as much as possible. Serialize your work to the limitations of human attention
> Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs?

To be fair, when sharing google documents widely, one common practice is to make the shared version comment(/propose suggestion) only, and often to share the /preview link by default, so that you have to explicitly navigate to the editable version of the page.

This helps with performance and with accidental edits, and many popular documents still get weird suggestions that are clearly unintended.
I'm not young anymore (35) but I really don't care about albums
US Lawmakers cram controversial copyright provisions into Covid relief bill
"Lawmakers are cramming multiple controversial copyright provisions into a must-pass spending bill at the eleventh hour, stirring up pushback from tech companies and civil liberties activists who say they're skirting proper procedure in order to create a system that's vulnerable to abuse.

The House and Senate Judiciary Committees have agreed to include a package of three provisions — the controversial CASE Act, the Trademark Modernization Act and a felony streaming proposal — in the omnibus spending bill, which must pass before a Dec. 11 government shutdown deadline, according to two congressional aides."
This is great, but I would have preferred it if it was based on Comic Neue[1], a more legible and sane version of the original Comic Sans.

[1]: http://comicneue.com/
This is one of the selling points of Pluto.jl for Julia... less hidden state for interactive coding.

https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl
With the web developer hat on I most prefer working on apps with cookie based authentication since it makes it easy to use the browser to debug/make additional requests. If the cookie already exists I can go to any API url in the browser and it just works. Putting the secret in localstorage or only in app memory makes that not possible.

On the API side I prefer to support both cookie and Authorization header so you get the benefits in browser but don't overcomplicate the CLI side of things by requiring cookie state.
They're including managed services like office 365 in that number though.

Might be fair because aws includes their services as well, but I'm pretty sure aws main income is from ec2, while azure is business tooling like active directory, office etc
Using VR to improve apathy in residential aged care
I think given Trump's actions so far he would clearly overthrow the democratically held election to keep him in power if the rest of government wasn't keeping him in check. Just because he's not had a night of the long knives yet doesn't mean it's not a serious, dangerous, and horrid usage of his position and power as President. He isn't Hitler but he is the worst President in the history of our country as far as sheer malfeasance.
I, too, vastly prefer purchasing outside of the App Store to the point where I’ll often not bother if I don’t absolutely need the app.

Too many times I’ve tried to run App Store apps and been bothered with my Apple ID. I prefer the decentralization and not relying so much on Apple’s cloud services.

Trivial to pull up old license info from 1Password or email if necessary.
Absolutely, that's something I pointed out in my writing: if the interviewer doesn't explain their expectations, you can and should ask. Interviews work best when both parties are engaged heavily in the success of the interview.
Actually if you look at wealth inequality, the Gini coefficient is higher for the Netherlands and Sweden than for the US. Denmark is pretty close as well. The benefits these countries have is the better life for people at the bottom and less income inequality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...
Ask HN: Stripe Catch Bad Card
I am facing an issue with sometimes customers giving us valid credit/debit cards but the moment we go ahead and charge even if the amount is $5, it fails.

How to stop these bad cards from getting through?

We are already blocking prepaid cards.

Putting a high hold on stripe is one solution we know.

Are there any other better solutions?
I'm not an expert here, so I can't say for sure, and the evidence you personally need will depend a lot on you. Perhaps take an online African-American Studies course and go from there?

Just from what I've read, I'd again recommend Loewen's Sundown Towns. He covers the post-Reconstruction past in the early chapters; latter chapters bring it to the present day. The combination of historical data with historical testimony was very convincing to me. The Atlantic has had a number of good articles on this over the last decade. E.g.: https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=atl...

There's a lot in the employment world. A study that was really eye-opening for me was this one: https://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

I also found some manager-focused classes on implicit bias very helpful in seeing how subtle the problem gets. An online course might help you as well. And the Project Implicit tests from Harvard helped me see some of my own implicit biases, which were notably different than my conscious beliefs.

And lastly, I strongly recommend breaking one's personal filter bubble: https://medium.com/@bjmay/how-26-tweets-broke-my-filter-bubb...

That was especially valuable for me in turning academic knowledge of the past into conviction about the present. When I listen to the daily lived experience of other people, it eventually became obvious to me that the same forces were at work. Racism has been diminished, and most racists know they can't speak openly [1]. But the problems have never gone away. As Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#Evolution_(1...
>thus, uploading a new Android image in Android Recovery is not "flashing", but uploading a "recovery" image in Android bootloader is? Now, would you call firmware uploading via iOS's DFU mode "flashing" too? Or do you believe that the DFU mode is end-user accessible, thus not low-level enough? Then, would you accept that uploading the firmware to the baseband processor (which I believe uses its own EEPROM) via DFU "flashing"?

The difference is that the recovery is almost a full blown operating system. It can mount filesystems, has various shell utilities installed, and there's a user interface (through ADB and on-screen). This in contrast to fastboot which has noneof those things, and only allows you to flash/erase partitions with the help of a computer.
I agree about the Spotify desktop app. It got worse and worse. But for me there are different reasons. Especially the performance got worse enormously. Still running the 0.9.7. The old Android apps were way faster, too. I really miss those times. Hardware got better but software got so much worse it's pure insanity.
Letter to a New Startup CMO
It doesn't mention client certificates.
i love not being an asshole ... so this works great for me since i am not an asshole
That... doesn't really matter when it comes to this issue.

However you feel about Apple or Facebook or anything else, what Apple is doing here is saying "you must tell users what you're tracking, and ask them if they're ok with that." That's it. Whatever motivation, good or evil or inbetween, you'd like to ascribe to their actions is besides the point; let's assume that they're doing this out of pure greed or a nefarious long-term goal -- it's still a win for users and their control of their own data. Users can still choose to share everything with Facebook if they so desire -- they'll just be presented with a choice.

You avoided saying "their devices" because you believe that when you buy a device you should own it, so I assume you similarly believe that your personal data should be yours to own and control. Facebook is fighting really hard against being forced to even tell customers what information they're gathering, much less be forced to let them choose to not share it. The position that Apple shouldn't be allowed to limit Facebook's freedom to take away your freedom to choose doesn't seem to align.

We don't have to agree with everything Apple is doing in order to agree with this one particular thing that they're doing.
Oh yeah do this all the time. One on one or small groups. In the past it was a potpourri of things like piano, deep learning, surfing, dancing, etc. Nowadays with a kid it's things like cpr, swaddling, etc.

One thing I have never, ever thought: "I wish I spent less time/less money paying for all those in person classes and lessons."

Now if only I can figure out how to get my daughter to learn this lesson before she's 30.
Don't tell the FBI this, they won't know you're joking (see schwartz, manning, & wget).
I wonder why noone makes a 'no root system' su root NO su no YES.

so you're user YES, which is NO-root, but YES

rm -rf /

Great Sucess.

NO or NON root system, it seems like a marketable gimmick.

Must be up your people's ass.
you can use absolutely any title. you have to be able to justify the skills.
Personal anectdote, so YMMV.

Interviewed at a FAANG last year, failed the onsite. I got called by the (internal) recruiter a few weeks ago asking if I wanted to retry, and he offered feedback he had from my previous attempt. I was shocked - both that he provided feedback, and because my own evaluation of how I did differed from the actual feedback (did better at a round I thought I bombed in). More on this later.

Interviewed at another FAANG, and got rejected there too. Here, the hiring manager immediately gave me feedback before sending me home. Again, surprising.

So are things changing in regards to giving feedback? Usually FAANG leads the charge, and other companies play copycat.

Getting back to the first FAANG, I wanted to punch myself because according to the recruiter, I might actually have been able to get in if I had asked to be considered for a lower level than what they had originally pegged me for. I would have hands down, no hesitation, jumped for joy to be brought in at a lower level. Sucked that no one told me at the time of the actual rejection.
I might be inclined to believe you if that meant Google is the only choice.

The first thing I recommend anyone with an iDevice is to switch to ddg.
I imagine by paying more tax, I'm afraid
Selling ads is not axe-murderering. But yeah they're gonna sell ads. It's what they do. I'm just hard pressed to explain how serving ads by fitness condition is going to harm the consumer, or why you can't just write a law that says to not do that.

I'm serious though, what's the most nefarious thing you could do with that? My imagination is unimaginative.
Might even be a mistake in ad spend.
>> solve a problem that doesn't exist, which is that storing and retrieving user sessions on the server is burdensome, even though it's one of the least expensive computations you can make on a server.

I've never heard anyone say that's the problem, rather the issue is the network latency + dependency of hitting a cache/database for every future request. It's not a problem for everyone's apps, but pretending it's never a problem for anyone is shortsighted. Session cookies are just fine for many/most apps, and JWTs add new problems, so I dont recommend them. YMMV
Sometimes I do this with music videos. Unfortunately a song has to be popular enough to have a video made, but I'm routinely surprised which songs do have videos. I'm sure this is a bit of nostalgia, since I grew up in the era when MTV still showed music videos.
Looks interesting, just gave it a try converting a simple Makefile. But it seems like Just does away with file targets and file dependencies as a whole? As far as I can tell there is no way to skip dependencies that are already fulfilled?
Wait wait wait, Spotify notifies my friends of what I am listening to (not a user, so honest question)?
Monospaced fonts are for programmers.
That's one thing MS got right.

If an App is found through external marketing they take a minimal fee. But if it's discovered through the store they take the full commission.
I clicked the link out of curiosity wondering if it's based on Notational Velocity (a project which I enjoy!). In case anyone else reading this was wondering about that... I never found an answer (though it does claim to be compatible with the nvALT and Notational Velocity url handlers).
I bought this for a tenth of what the blog suggests. Im sure it’s not as good but I get my 4K 60hz

https://www.cablematters.com/showproduct_m.aspx?ProductID=89...
I’m guessing that iOS has a way higher market share than macs ever had, and still, flash died.
How does Flix compare to Mercury? https://mercurylang.org/
>>As someone who knew Durov personally, I'd say that it's very unlikely that the UX will be ruined by ads

The Google founders were pretty idealistic when they started too and no doubt many swore by their intentions.
If I recall the news release correctly it is:

a) If you currently make under 1$ million your rate will now be 15%

b) If you to over 1 million you will be charged progressively, so each additional dollar you now only get 70%

c) If you go over, the next year your starting rate will be 30% for every dollar
Dang sends email to people suggesting they repost it if he thinks it should have gotten more traction, probably an easier system. I could see reddit doing something like that but hn seems pretty basic
Sounds like two different tiers of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Another example of the www getting worse every year.
Why not? In the US, there isn’t a formal professional engineer (P.E.) certification for software engineers (unlike most other branches of engineering). If you’re performing the same job as someone who has a software engineering or comp sci degree and your job title happens to be “software engineer,” why would it matter if you have an unrelated degree, no degree, or even no high school diploma?

*This may not be true outside of the US
A "better experience"? Maybe for a Mac only app. But once your product spreads across multiple platforms is much easier for the customer to download the app for all platforms in one place--your website.