skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We believe the platform is attractive to professionals who want an easy, privacy-focused way to promote the services they offer, with the ability to differentiate themselves from people offering the same/similar services.

The platform is zero-cost, ad-free and includes direct messages. I hope the UI is more easy to navigate and understand, compared to LinkedIn.

The TRU Score, while somewhat controversial, is more powerful than a star-rating system. Also, it works works for you as a buyer or seller.

Monetization is planned in a future release and includes [1] selling blocks of time to people who want to consult with you, and [2] promotions, where you [as a seller] pays the buyer for considering your services.

We believe it's a great time to build alternatives to the major networks that exist today. It should be easier for people to promote and sell their services. It should be easier for people to find trustworthy providers. And it should be easier to protect your personal privacy.
Do you have any metrics or other proof to verify this statement?
I think there is a range to this being true. Take app review score aggregation. Anything 3 stars and up is probably acceptable. You score a 1 star and within reason nobody will use the app. You can say similar things about tv/movie reviews, car safety scores, and I'm sure many other trust metrics.
- Amazon Prime
- VLC
- Netflix
- Slack
Offline Speech Recognition on Nvidia Jetson Nano
This. We'll always need a certain amount of cars for delivery and people with disabilities but the majority of people can walk or bicycle in cities. It would do us some good, in fact. Not just the additional exercise but also bringing back a culture that is less in a hurry, less time -enslaved, and less disconnected from the outside.
Our cultural disconnect from reality is as much at fault regarding global warming as our technology is.
The rugged phones are also significantly larger and more expensive.
I sympathize with that sentiment. One of the few things I can tell myself is my role isn't involved in this side of things. The only thing that has helped from getting totally disillusioned is having hobbies that are not tech related.
So what? That's what capitalism does. It cheapens and commodifies everything. Often, that's what you want, but when it comes to personal relationships, or welfare of people and animals, maybe it's not. Both parents working 10 hour days and neglecting their kids and quality time just so they can climb the corporate ladder is a more serious example. The other day I wrote about Facebook doing it to the words "friend" and "like":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26456328

I remember an acquaintance of mine, Siqi Chen, built Friends for Sale back in the day on Facebook and that was a great launch pad for his career, where he did a lot more interesting stuff later :)
Unfortunately, Tesla is starting to build their battery packs in-frame so it'll become harder to repair. https://electrek.co/2021/01/19/tesla-structural-battery-pack...
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Intel Launches Rocket Lake 11th Gen Core i9, i7, i5
Major European nations suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine
Steam for PC Gaming.

At first, it was just annoying DRM. But it was convenient.

- Before that, you had to manually update your games in order to play the latest version

- Without no-cd cracks, you were required to leave a CD / DVD in your drive

- with the addition of steam workshops, installing mods for certain games became easier. You didn't have to manually copy paste files.

- you have one central friend list, and invite system which many PC games use. It took some time until more companies launched own launchers and fragmented this ecosystem again.

- save game cloud backups became the norm. No need to manually backup a savegame folder if you want to ever reinstall a game.

- the refund system is user friendly (refund if you haven't played for more than 2 hours)

- steam link allows you to stream your games from a PC to other clients locally or through the internet

- steam remote play together allows you to stream a game to a friend for remote couch-coop. Other player doesn't need to own the game and since a recent update, doesn't require a Steam account.

- family sharing lets users easily share a whole game library with friends and family

- big picture mode offers a great gamepad focused UI which is ideal for living room gaming PCs on the TV

- enchanced Steam controller settings which let you configure the Steam Controller and after some updates also other controllers for each game. This even works if the game doesn't have official controller support.

- compared to other launchers it is really fast…looking at you "Xbox Game Pass for PC Launcher" thing
Okay, then why is the camera serialized and not the battery (which, incidentally, you CAN replace on the iPhone 12)?
Just a note, it doesn't apply retroactively.

It doesn't matter how much money GTA V made in the past. This applies only to future profit that would be have been lost going forwards.
And across all the KPI's we know of - kids in a two parent household are more successful by every measure.
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Picketing has been legal for a long, long time. There's no law now that says I can't go out and picket on the sidewalk outside Whole Foods or Walmart.
What 2FA method is preferred instead of SMS these days?
Yes, if the traditional family implies that the bulk of child rearing falls on mothers and there is little help from the community in that respect.
In Defense of Statistical Modeling
> The PSP’s web browser is – charitably – pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.

I'm 99% certain that the latter part of that is false. Personally the PSP's browser was about on par with, eh, IE7 or so, the last time I used it (circa 2013).
This is the same on Windows and Linux afaik you have Ctrl + Shift + V. Still makes me angry because it's a stupid default.
I'm pretty sure Silverblue lets you install snapd as well.
Cmd-Up brings you to the parent folder.
Apache Cassandra Applications in Rust
the jab is in good fun. i've had some very...patient partners, lets say.

most people i know who drive in the northeast don't have any qualms with having a 2nd wheelset and storing it.

i think there's a rather NA quirk to GP's comment -- they live in a small urban apartment, with no storage space available, but still have to own a car.
Dropping the price to exercise the options to zero dollars seems like it would be an equitable solution. If the company is really worth nothing then why should an option to buy a share of the company cost more than that?
In fairness, Tom MacDonald gets a lot of external publicity from conservatives; he's mostly a right-wing political rapper.

I've seen a big rise in conservative rappers on YouTube. I've got a conspiracy theory that the GOP is funding them like a record label. If so, it's a sweet deal for artists. The GOP cares far more about cultural effects than they do the money from the music.
Gmail was amazing when it launched...I was so excited to get an invite from a friend during the beta period. It made the crappy POP sync for my ISP email account look like a joke. Funny thing is–closing in on 20 years later–I dislike the latest generation of Gmail's web interface so much that I'm back to using a desktop email client.
Those paragraphs go through great contortions to avoid using the word "father".
Apache feels like a forgotten gem in the ops world. Everyone moved onto Nginx and at some point will run into some use-case that needs a feature that's only in Nginx+. And since Nginx+ is so expensive people end up just patching the OSS Nginx with the modules they need. But that whole time Apache was there with every conceivable battery and feature already included.
Which specific software do you use for configuration management?
Full disclosure: I wrote this. Interested to hear what people think about the article and the site in general.
Many tests are simply not that good. It's not that simple, like pay $1 for a test that with absolute certainty tells you if you have disease X or not. It would be good if that was the case because then it WOULD have been just a question of money.

But if you have a test that is wrong 20% of the time, and you take this on all your patients every year, you will end up with a huge amount of mental suffering or possibly physical side-effects (unnecessary biopsies, or even surgery). You might end up giving people long runs of unnecessary meds. OTOH, you might end up missing some diagnoses if you don't do some tests. Balancing all of this is difficult.

Of course this is not news to the medical profession, this is a big input to the standard flowcharts. And you can always find anecdotal edge-cases that think their particular case was crystal clear and should have immediately been diagnosed. But don't assume that medical diagnosis and treatment is as trivial as doing a blood test and some googling.
And how has that planning been going in those 18 months?
Jonathan Blow's Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [0] is an excellent talk, on how too much abstractions destroy knowledge.

This is a problem with the software industry today. we have forgotten how to do the simple stuff, that works and is robust.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Can anyone point me to where the millions raised by BLM after the summer riots has gone?

BLM seem to cause a lot of agitation, but I am not aware of them doing anything helpful to the communities that it claims to be fighting for.
> Any situation that can be permanently resolved by education and intelligence, rather than by brute-forcing a constant 'workaround', would seem to me to be the best way forwards

Hard disagree. You're essentially proposing the "solution" that nobody should ever make mistakes, and if someone does make a mistake, we should educate them to prevent the mistake in the future. In studies of disaster prevention, this has been shown to be ineffective time and time again: training does not always work in a real situation. Should every driver learn how to control a skid? Yes. Should we rely on that type of training as a substitute for other measures? Surely not, if only because the driving test doesn't have kids in the back or a fallen tree blocking the road.

The current solution is to adjust the environment in such a way as to make mistakes less likely and less damaging. This is what disaster prevention experts recommend. Now, salting roads is not the only way to do this: personally, I think snow tires, tire chains, and TCS software are all better interventions depending on the situation. Putting it all on training, on the other hand, will get people killed.
I was going to link Advoko Makes if it wasn't already here. That guy amazes me more than anybody else, not just because of the scale of the stuff he builds by himself out in the middle of Karelia, but because of the preparation and focus he shows. He clearly spends 11 months out of the year learning new skills and planning down to the smallest detail what he will do in the one month of build time he has each summer.
> I reckon this was just lip-service to consumers

Nope, this is price discrimination so that Bitcoin miners buy their more expensive mining card. They don't want this to be broken.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Nix is very much customizable, at every level. It's also in my experience much much faster than bitbake and friends.
No matter how polite and sophisticated the criticism is, ideologues will always finds epithets and labels to try and delegitimize critics.
De-sugared beet juice is a common additive too
Spending time on something people aren’t willing to pay for is always a waste of time, whether you’re writing a book or digging holes.

We need to stop assuming that having no copyright means that the work cannot be monetized. It just can’t be monetized as if it was a physical object or service rendered. Vinyl records, tee shirts, patronage, book signings, lectures, anything that isn’t copyright dependent can be monetized easily.

The fans of art are aware that paying for it will help create more art they like. This is a personal connection that the fan has with the artist and keeps the art accessible for the casuals.
No, the main reason nuclear has a hard time these days is that it's expensive. Governments simply don't have the willpower for a decade long trillion dollar push for nuclear when the pay-off is far longer than 1-2 election cycles. Now that nuclear weapons isn't a motivator for pushing general nuclear R&D it's even harder.

I'm pretty sure if there was enough desire for nuclear from politicians and commercial interests, the public could be convinced.

I think we should support nuclear. But my biggest reasons for being negative towards a big push for nuclear, is that nuclear doesn't really solve our problems. It only solves part of the grid electricity problem, and probably only for major industrial countries. We still need massive improvements in energy storage solutions and renewable hydrogen/ammonia/synfuel production for transportation, industry and farming. If you solve those problems, you've also solved energy balancing of renewables. Since renewables seems to be scaling faster, the logical answer is to focus 95% of efforts on renewables and energy storage/conversion. Keep nuclear R&D at a low but sustainable level. Then we can start to convert some of the wind/solar farms to nuclear down the line. Hopefully with small modular reactors that'd be easier to mass-produce.

That is, if you assume we'll need nuclear power, you're basically assuming we're not going to solve the climate crisis.

But seriously, don't shut down existing nuclear reactors unless it's absolutely necessary. That's just dumb.
They're making purchase decisions on 5-star ratings for eg consumer goods, objects. You're talking about trading people virtually. It's going to be extraordinarily offensive and maybe worse.

Prepare for an incredible wave of never-ending lawsuits from the large number of people who don't like 1) being traded at all or 2) don't like how they're trading / being represented. And the service will lose those lawsuits: it'll be demonstrated to cause reputational harm, and the service dies right there.
Stop. Buying. Stuff. Made. In. China.

Easy to say when you're bloviating on the internet. Hard to do in real life. I know, because I try.

I end up buying a good amount of vintage stuff to keep from supporting China. But there are a lot of things that aren't available at any price where I live that aren't made in China.

I went through this a couple of years ago looking for a toaster. The only non-Chinese option available where I live was $900.
> Yesterday I wanted to fix the light on a USB wallsocket I have, I gave up because after 10 minutes I couldn't figure out how to even open the thing up. I tried squeezing it, tapping it in various parts, prying at various seams, nothing would give.

Did you try looking up the manual? Even if the steps for removing it aren't documented, you can often walk the installation steps in reverse order.

Visible serial + some documentation would help a great deal.
"Henk and Ingrid pay for Mohammed and Fatima.”

I really hope that at some point, the world starts talking about how Mohammed and Fatima ended up there. This is a part of what happens when you spend two decades bombing villages.
Show HN: Phrenemies A browser game I made to play online with friends
In practice, gcc and clang implement it so it's portable /s
It's a brave new world. Fortunately, we have Russian hackers by our side generously sharing their code to bypass DRM in farm equipment.
I'm under the assumption that wiretapping to create evidence is illegal, but wiretapping to get a warrant probably happens all the time. (AKA Judge and Police officer listen to illegally captured audio - Judge approves official warrant to make future recordings legal)
Speeding up Docker builds in CI with BuildKit
The 3c^4 ≡ 6 (mod 15) line is missing parentheses... As written, it means 3 * (c^4) ≡ 6 (mod 15), which is demonstrably false (e.g. 3 * (4^4) = 768 ≡ 3 (mod 15)).
It’s less “having only a few tabs open at once” and more “having a few tabs per window, in many windows.” People who exclusively use tabs are rare compared to people who mostly use windows and sometimes use tabs.

Remember, the default behaviour in all major browsers is to open external links from other applications in a new window. So, if you’re the regular “go with the flow” kind of computer user who presumes the defaults are defaults for a reason — and are a bit lazy in cleaning up your windows, and you use at least one external app (e.g. a mail client, a piece of collaboration software, etc.) — then even if you yourself prefer to open tabs, you’ll end up opening new windows quite frequently as well.

And, if you don’t care where you open each new tab, you’ll just end up opening it against whichever window was most recently opened; rather than having a dedicated “tabs I opened” window.

(As a person who bothered to install the “Merge Windows” Chrome extension to replicate the feature in Safari, I genuinely don’t get these people — but they really do exist, and are even seemingly in the majority.)
What is the cost if I did it for free?
Just an inheritance from the term progressive.

"I disagree with you."

"What, you're against progress?"
TOTP, I guess.
In the suburbs, I would think that covering parking lots with solar panels would be more efficient. Especially in places like Florida and the SouthWest that can use more shade.
> Are we going to use 20 year old computers in the future?

I hope so. If it weren't for the ever-increasing bloat, on both webpages and webpage-as-an-app's, it wouldn't be a problem. What can you do today with your computer that you couldn't have done 20 years ago? ("Looks better" doesn't count)
To add to your point, different employers value different things in their employees. Some employers want a ton of reliability in their employees, whilst others obviously want a reasonable level of reliability but also employees who are creative and easy to get along with. And there are some where your personality doesn't matter so much as long as you get your work done.

The idea is interesting, and it's good that people experiment with such ideas, but I'm skeptical that this scoring concept isn't going to make people miserable and possibly going to be gamed easily.

A better way to compete with LinkedIn would be to simply get rid of the social media feed. I'd find LinkedIn much more pleasant if it wasn't full of trite platitudes, cringey corporate signaling, political grandstanding, dudebro philosophy around productivity, and so forth.
Really sorry to ask the dumb question here, but what is V9? A cursory Google search didn't show me anything about e.g. a major update to the V8 JavaScript engine?

UPDATE: Ah, C# v9.0 thank you all.
I don't think this is a very charitable take. To me this statement is about making sure mothers don't have to do all the child-rearing, and coming together as a community to raise children. In any event, I definitely don't buy "tradition" as the sole reason to keep doing something a certain way. I also don't think the tradition you're talking about is nearly as traditional as you think.
Ask HN: Is encryption over HTTPS redundant and useless?
I'm planning to develop an application which is going to use SJCL (Stanford Javascript Crypto Library) to encrypt sensitive data (not card number, don't worry) in the SPA(React) before send it to a server which ONLY stores the information. Is that the correct approach? What I'm missing? Is out there any example of a similar scenario?
What you're describing is edging close to the setup for the 2003 novel 'Blind Lake':
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Lake_(novel)

In the novel, quantum computers (rather than ML per-se) are tasked with interpolating more and more detailed data from astronomical observations, to the point that tracking individual members of an alien species on a distant world, underground, is possible. Eventually it is noticed that cutting off the astronomical data entirely doesn't interrupt the interpolated data. Then things get weird.

I won't go into further plot details, as that would be spoilery, but it is a pretty good book, reminiscent to me of Greg Egan's oeuvre (the novel is actually by Robert Charles Wilson).
Why not Kotlin, C#, F#, ML and so many other languages?
Does pretty much every major newspaper around the world count?
Arguably, Kotlin took some of the better ideas from Scala.
His point was writing a function without conditional logic, and then of course generalizing to any "fizzbuzz category" problem.

I thought it was a fantastic post on a extremely well trodden subject, up there with solving fizzbuzz in Tensorflow post. (https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/)
Or a centralized update mechanism at all. As I understand it, Appimage doesn't offer such a feature.
There was a lot of discussion about this and they eventually settled on the hyphen. Consider this our introduction to hyphenated keywords and expect to see a lot more of them in the future.
> We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another

A commune? Your child will be raised by the state automatically?

It's hippy-dippy marxist nonsense.
That's not why its bad.

Its bad because 85% of the usecase of 2fa is people using bad passwords. If you use a bad password in one place, you probably are also doing so on your email.
Your experiences are quite limited then.
Personally I'd like if you could click on the link and then hit the "back" button to go directly to the comments.

You can work around by clicking the comments and then the link, but then you look at the top comment and are tempted to read and then respond.
What's surprising is that there are so many skus - many of which are redundant given the limited core count (i7 and i9 both have 8 physical cores and 16 threads).

Rumors are that the next iteration (Alder Lake) will be released end of this year so this could be one of the shortest product cycles for Intel. Makes this number of skus even more perplexing...
That's interesting, because a lot of the most popular actors today have theater backgrounds: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Laurie, Judy Dench, Paul Bettany, and lots of others.

It's a stronger tradition in the UK, though some American actors seek out that training as well. It seems to do especially well at teaching people how to be charismatic leads. My theory is that there's something about connecting with an audience and holding their attention when they don't have a camera telling them where to look.

It's not about being "big", but about committing strongly to each moment. It's a hard thing to describe without theater jargon, which mostly means that we don't really understand it. We just know it when we see it.

Early theater actors did have a very different style, not just un-subtle but athletic and operatic. Audiences then would find today's films underwhelming, without the actors filling the room with their voices and making their emotions as big as possible. That's more about taste than about medium: the same change has happened in the theater, and the naturalistic acting styles pioneered by Stanislavsky were invented for theater, not film.
Another approach to portable JavaScript Spectre exploitation
It seems extremely unlikely to me that Spotify users stream 4 hours per day on average. I suspect it's less than one hour.
While it helped as a conversation starter here, the 10x rule is hollow punditry.
Multiple cursors in Sublime Text. Made it incredibly easy to do repetitive edits to json data or html templates. VS Code does a better job of cursor management now, but I think that was inspired by sublime text.

Language and date time services like Moment and i18n. Huge productivity gains from having off the shelf solutions for multi-language features.

Node.js and Express got rid of all the cruft from backend API development. It’s a breeze to spin up a new API, whereas years prior needed a fairly strict environment setup to run reliably.