skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the concept but question the business model.

It is something with universal appeal but I fear the revenue from "extended" won't be sufficient to sustain it over time. The value add just doesn't justify the subscription price --- considering that I can achieve similar functionality on my own using Aescrypt and readily available "free" web storage.

To make it more viable I would suggest extending the functionality. In particular, I would like to see an option for asymmetric encryption. Distribution lists with notification. I would like to upload a file that only select individuals can decrypt and have them notified that the upload is available.

Discuss amongst yourselves and get back to me.
I dont understand this HN infatuation with apples new chip laptops. Ppl are doing everything under the sun to make it work in random ways that arent supported yet etc.
May I ask you why you want interstellar travel? What benefit does it give to humanity?
I was reading through the "harmful" lists, and some W3C drafts really fall into the "what were they thinking?" bucket:

HTML Imports
https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-html-imports-20160225/
In short, it lets you time-travel to retrieve prior states in tabular data.

One useful example is continuous forecasting. Every forecast is done with a certain moving window of historical training data, and each time the forecast is run, this training data is different.

In order to evaluate/backtest the performance of the forecasting algorithm over time, you need to be able to retrieve all the previous training datasets from the database, calculate a performance metric, and then aggregate. This lets you do that on a continuous basis in the database itself, without dumping each training set to secondary storage each time.

Also, in many real life applications, historical data isn’t immutable — data corrections can arrive after the fact that will change state, so it’s usually not sufficient to just use a simple WHERE clause to retrieve a particular time range. This is where time travel becomes really useful.
I wouldnt call you an imbecile, but your portfolio is 70% cash? Cash is trash, as they say.
true, but if you do sequential for users and free trials, the information leakage can be close to zero. Think about if all those AOL CDs were sequentially numbered.
Singapore and Thailand also have done quite well so far.
It's like the cookie dilemma. Get rid of them and fingerprinting will become the norm (and user's lose the ability to reset them). I don't know how much fingerprinting you can be done within a JVM, but I imagine it's a lot.
> Google doesn't owe their customers a fair market. No one does.

do you mean this as an exclusively textual interpretation of existing laws?

or something else entirely?

because I'd assert that any and every agent has the responsibility to act in a fair and balanced way. Both ethically and legally. Alphabet may have found a loop hole in existing laws, but isnt' that the whole idea behind antitrust. You're free to eliminate all your competition by being better than them but not by restricting their ability to compete.
I understand why people are saying this is not a breach and I tend to agree. I do think there are some basic measures you can put in place to make this kind of abuse harder.

The real problem is that most users don’t understand when they sign up for a service like clubhouse, what information is public, how easy it is for bad actors to get access to that information and how this information can be used to harm them later (phishing, identity theft etc.).

Who should be educating the average non technical user about the risk of agreeing to share you information publicly and even if they knew would it actually change anything.

Personally, I have hit the point where I have accepted that all my -and my families information is public and for that reason with people like my parents I tend focus on teaching them to avoid falling for phone scams and phishing.
Depends. How much money? For a $1 a day per company? Sure. Otherwise, no. How about $1 per mail? No.
thanks, that seems to be the answer
Countries like the UK should designate large sections of their sea territory as marine conservation areas - where trawling is completely and permanently banned - this would be far more effective than quotas in enabling fish stocks to recover.
You sound angry. Being a fanboy isn't healthy.
Internet-monitoring – A Docker stack that monitors your home network
It kills me that they quoted Hal Varian in this piece. Hal is an Micro-Econ legend (full disclosure: I interviewed him whilst he was still at Berkeley and we exchanged 1-2 emails over the years since the move to Google). I highly doubt—and more than anything, hope—that he didn’t have anything to do with this. It’s important to see good people succeed, it gives hope to the rest of the universe that success isn’t merely winning a race to an unethical finish line!
Show HN: Image-to-beads pattern generator (Perler/Hama/Artkal/Nabbi)
The vast majority of the coverage of Facebook has large factual issues that most employees would know about. Seeing their work, or the work of people they admire, misrepresented just makes employees distrust the media.

It’s easy to have Gell-Mann amnesia when you notice something wrong every year at most. It’s harder when it’s every day.
Your English is hard to understand. But you can reset the ID in Android too.
I think he might be referring to tls sessions. When a client comes back to a server it remembers that it connected to it can send a session Id encrypted with the master secret or a complete session ticket. When the handshake completes successfully you know who it was if you stored that information. It saves using a cookie. Also it might not be supported in every client.

I think you still need to have mTLS or another credential to use initially for auth. Unless I miss an option. As such I don’t see much value over mtls in a corporate network setting.
> If only they could make the WebPage or WebApp installing on Home Screen as easy as pressing a link.

When you have the web page / web application open, press the action button, then select Add to Home Screen.
Thanks for sharing! It's a good resource and not one I've come across before.

So I do very much appreciate the spirit of your comment: that we should attend to less visible (and more easily addressed) harms, and not get caught up in 'celebrity causes,' so to speak.

But I think where I differ from you is that I don't view it as an either-or paradigm. I'd say to people "Go ahead and try to help these monkey individuals, and also work for, e.g., food-farmed nonhumans (who are easier to help, etc.)"

I appreciate the risk you're citing, that people could effectively "waste" time and resources on a case like this. But I'd argue there's a greater risk in approaching ethics as A) zero sum, and B) generalizable. I'll elaborate:

A) It's certainly true that we only have so many minutes in the day and so many dollars in our wallet. But I think these zero-sum resources are often not the final limit on what we can do. Rather, the limits we reach are emotional and psychological energy - which is often not zero-sum. Getting engaged in an issue (especially when it's an issue that radicalizes you) can actually increase the amount of time and resources you find for other issues. (I.e., you reclaim it from less important stuff.)

B) I'd argue ethics is patently not generalizable (in the sense that you're suggesting - i.e. that everyone should reach the same conclusion about which cases are worth effort), simply because humans are so varied. One person might have tons of money and be happy to spend on this cause in addition to whatever they give to help farmed nonhumans. Another person might feel a special bond with monkeys that makes this an easy, non-taxing (or even net-energy-positive) issue to engage in. Yet another person might currently find the plight of food-farmed nonhumans overwhelming to consider, but these monkeys will be a stepping-stone issue that help them get there. Etc.
Using technology to remove human interaction? Maybe not the app for everybody.
Measuring firewood is fun too. Here we have 3 different ways to measure it. Roughly: loose, piled and solid. And differences aren't small. Really matters what are you talking about, loosely piled, properly piled or actual amount of material minus all air...
So... while I accept the premise that mask wearing in a situation where you are also distanced, outside and vaccinated is probably a needless optimization, it's still an optimization. People wearing a mask are less likely to get sick. People wearing a mask are less likely to spread disease. That is true whether their base chance was 50% (a sick person eating across a table in an indoor restaurant for half an hour, say) or 0.01% as it is in your hypothetical. The difference is only in the calculation of the absolute, not relative, protection.

It's not "pseudoscientific" to or "religious" to make a different risk analysis decision. People just have different tolerances.

Broadly: be nice. You're not as right as you think you are, you're just braver.
Winsome Heartwood by the Spinel
> with only enough power

This is far more difficult to achieve than you might think, and incredibly illegal.
It’s new tech with a lot of promise, in a decent laptop. Experimenting to see what you can do with it is very solidly within HN’s typical audience.
> To get VSCode to a usable state requires 16 third-party plugins

You mean this literally? It took just that one plugin for me, when experimenting with using another machine on my network as the dev environment.
>Is there a way I can camouflage my IP headers

You can't write the wrong address on a letter and expect it to arrive at its intended destination. You're already doing the most you can, routing wise, but a direct line still has to be made back to you... be it behind a proxy or not.
> There's no biological theory underpinning cherry picking of a handful of Sweden's neighbours.

Uh... the whole premise was to cherry pick Sweden and try to make a broad determination based on that one data point! You don't get to demand broad statistics if you didn't do it originally.
and the reason most of continental Europe started using metric was thanks to napoleon and the Napoleonic wars.
The chip is insanely fast, runs without a cooler, consumes very little power.
Do you absolutely have to have a laptop? I realized years ago that I spend 99% of my time in a single place and have since built custom desktop systems for my primary development machine. They are faster than any laptop I ever owned, quieter and much easier to live with. And because I can put together a system to my own specifications I can end up with something that works perfectly with Linux. I haven't bought a Mac in years and even with their new ARM hardware I don't see enough of a benefit to go back.
Prepare to See Shortages of All Kinds of Things
A good number of cryptocurrencies do provide real world value, just because it is not a physical good doesn't mean the value doesn't exist.

And many of the cryptocoins are Proof of Stake, or planning to switch to PoS (such as Ethereum). This, besides requiring far less energy than the Proof of Work mining for block validation, allows someone who purchased the coin to gain more coin. By staking coin to assist in the validation of blocks, stakers are rewarded a percentage of the transaction fees as payment. They do not need to buy equipment to mine and effectively earn interest on staked coin.

Even if you bought in at the point a coin stabilizes and no longer appreciates, you could still increase your wealth without needing the price of the coin to increase.
1/8 mile = 220 yards = 660 feet. Now you do t--actually wait.

1/110 mile = 16 yards = 48 feet. Now you do this for an one-hundred-and-tenth of a kilometer.

Or...

1/3 pound = 1/2 mark = 6 shillings & eightpence = 80 pence. Now you do this for a euro. 1/3 of a euro = , ummm?

The point is, the traditional measures are built out of very highly divisible numbers, which is very useful in certain applications, for example surveying, bartering, baking, etc. Just like the metric measures are built out of powers of ten, which is very useful in certain other applications, like seamlessly moving between scales of magnitude in scientific work.
I know people lave s5cmd (a successor of s4cmd, which itself is a successor of the popular s3cmd), but the standard aws-cli handles parallel transfers well.
I'm unclear on what React helps with here.

The gradient text appears to just be css, like this: https://jsfiddle.net/ehmgjc86/
Centennial Monorail
"General Roy Stone's Centennial Monorail was demonstrated at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the U.S., which was held in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence."
It is really depressing to read such an opinion steeped in disinformation on a tech site, the science behind vaccines is indisputably proven in general. These specific vaccines have gone through trials and the risk is statistically insignificant. But the bigger risk from not taking the vaccine is even if you have no risk factor at all, you will most likely spread it to others who do.
our guide told us there used to be traffic jams in ancient Rome as well - when we were standing at the traffic light waiting to cross the road. so humbling to feel a thousand year back someone might be standing at the exact place waiting to cross the road and get into the Colosseum for the games ...
Nuclear weapons did lead to nuclear energy, and that is a benefit. They also lead to the end of WW2 and to the peace we are living now ( the reason super powers don't fight each other is that attacking each other with nuclear weapons will mean the end of everything ).

I'm not sure what ads can give us...
Just go to levels.fyi and see what people are reporting per company and region, and of course what is discussed on blind if you're familiar with that. Maybe not outbid but coming within 10-15%, which is going to be dramatically better than other regional options.

By these other companies, I mean more established ones like Linked In or pre-IPO like Slack/Stripe. There are quite a few of them and they are indeed competing with FAANGs for talent. But the FAANGs are going to have larger national spread.

My point is, if someone lives in a 2nd tier tech hub they should have a handful options to make dramatically more than average from one of these companies; but the interviews are tough and whether or not they want to have a conversation in the first place are gating factors.
> You've got to have at least some amount of drive beyond "clock in at 9 and leave at 5 sharp to collect a paycheck" to get into these top tech companies.

I can't say how true this is or not, but I know there are plenty that _want_ to get in exactly so they can clock in & out without doing much
“Atlassian has somehow duped several software companies into thinking they need JIRA to be agile; if only we all had the agility move in real life.”

Such a good laugh.
Sounds close enough to a cord in North America.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_(unit)

What bothers me is that it, of course, depends how you cut/stack it. Different woods = different density.

Firewood should be sold on based on dry weight, not volume.

A lot of American recipes assume scales are for cocaine dealers and inappropriately use volume and dumb measures at that “a teaspoon???” While European recipes appropriately use grams.
Yeah but not that long ago people accepted not having plumbing. There's no reason to be confident that things couldn't be much better.
You Can Be a Different Person After the Pandemic
Why do so many companies incorporate in Delaware?
NNMD is a weak example. Out of the top 10 mutual fund holders only FNCMX is a passive index fund.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NNDM/

And FNCMX is relatively small with only $11B in assets. So if you want us to take your argument seriously you'll have to provide a better example.
I don't agree. The more likely outcome would be complete domination of big brands because they own the mindshare (e.g. people will remember Amazon.co.uk, they will not remember hundreds of small businesses too).

Even if you were not directly influenced by advertising, you probably were indirectly through word of mouth.
I've used this a couple times both with the regular implementation and the version that can run in AWS managed databases.

It is surprisingly useful. Many use cases benefit from having a full history that can be instantiated at any time. In particular, you can apply migrations to these tables which means your old data is still in the correct format when you need it.
It's not only public, it's central to the whole concept. You can always walk up your tree to see who the original member in your line is.
Which was over 20 years ago. I'm sure it's not 100% but it's certainly fair to say that the metric system is used extensively in science and engineering.
Personally I can't wait to upgrade my iMac to the one with the new chips as soon as they come out, but the fact that setting up a dev env is still a pain (whether it's Docker or a VM) makes me hesitant.

I want to run multiple VMs at the same time and my current quad core iMac struggles. So I was thinking of getting a beefy Lenovo Workstation to use as a dev environment and use the VScode remote ssh thing. But in that case I don't really to upgrade my iMac.
Very cool idea for an app and great excecution.
Edward R. Murrow broadcast from Buchenwald
The app-stores are filled with millions of garbage apps despite the ridiculous restrictions.
I don't know what to tell you, maybe I won the lottery on hardware. (though, admittedly I buy computers with linux support in mind). Everything works completely flawlessly for me (even nice font rendering, though idk if I did something manual for that).

For context, I have (currently) a precision 5520 laptop;

I run arch with sway, I have a big USB-C 4k at work and 2*16:10 FHD Dell USB-C monitors at home.

The only issues I have with linux is that I don't have Microsoft Office, and Zoom+Wayland is buggy as hell.
Paul Theroux is one of those writers who has faded in and out of my life over the years but one I always thoroughly enjoy returning to.

His writing is like catching up with an old friend who never begrudges the years when you didn't call or write and within 10 minutes, it's like you were never apart.
If you are considering moving back to a technical career, perhaps my experience (over the last 34 years) will be of use to you. There is an excellent living to be made purely as a technical person without having to unduly fear your job going to younger folks. I chose to take six months off each year since 2001 (*). I have never had anyone report to me ever, yet I have strived to be good enough technically that I am often the person people turn to, from higher management to the entry-level programmer. I do short-term consulting engagements (almost always hands on technical work), and I am never in a hurry to get the next gig. This is what I have learnt.

First, think in terms of entire systems. Clients pay, and pay handsomely, for honest solutions to their (technical) problems. Don't think of the solution as a "coding" issue alone. There's design (of interfaces, of documentation), there is hardware (IoT, network), there are deployments with 24/7 operations, there are installations in unforgiving environments ( sensors in a corrosive humid tank) and so on. Each one of this is a technical challenge. At the end of the day, clients want a system that is a pleasure to use and is maintainable and extendable by someone else.

Second, get good at all aspects of delivering a system entirely on your own. That is, you don't have to do it by yourself, but you should be decent enough to pitch in as a replacement for any part. This provides opportunities for endless learning, and in my experience, breadth of experience is rewarded.

Third, many real-world problems are not shiny and cool, and younger people don't want to do them. HN is biased towards Open GPT more than say, wastewater management systems, so one could be forgiven for feeling uncool and out of date all the time. Nah, it is a big world out there. And there's plenty of opportunity to use Rust or Elixir or whatever tickles your fancy.

Fourth, if you go my way (not working one's tail off for the whole year), I'd advise you to downscale expectations in terms of money and lifestyle. Once you learn to make peace with making less money, you will find that you will have loads of work coming your way, enough time and plenty of money to enjoy life where it counts. Most good things in life (health, travel, books, sports, entertainment, vacations) are surprisingly affordable. And you need time to enjoy them with your loved ones.

Good luck.

(*) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21645117
Why bother. He already has very nice product and makes very nice money.
Ecological impacts of solar geoengineering are highly uncertain
Docker makes things really slow, VirtualBox much better on my Intel Mac.

Any idea if Parallels would work better on the M1?
Did radio knowingly facilitate the Rwandan genocide?
Apparently JPL uses Model Driven Development to build telescopes. There is an interesting presentation[0] which describes their setup to design and build the JPL Thirty Meter Telescope. They use SysML[1] and Jupyter to provide true model driven development, i.e., changes to models are propagated to the code.

[0]=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CshfBGrjdBU
[1]=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Modeling_Language
Intro to Angular – Part 1
Still just scraping. They iterated every phone number on the planet.

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1379686946117668867
Everyone is talking about running a separate Linux dev environment, but I'd actually love to run a separate macOS dev environment in a clean way (i.e. without messing with partitions for dualboot, especially on the M1).

I get my stuff from Homebrew, just Rails + MySQL, no Docker, no fancy stuff. I'd love to have a fast macOS VM to run software I don't trust like Zoom or Skype and a second one to run my work projects, so they don't spill over my personal stuff, but AFAIK the virtualization story is still pretty incomplete on the M1 (or is there a way to run an arm64 macOS VM without a gigantic performance hit?).
Where is the code? Do I have to install it via npm to just view the code?
If you demonstrate some success and a company with some other kind of unfair advantage (e.g. name brand, distribution) can just copy you once they realize.
Anyone know if the book covers ESNI? Or if there's a good resource on how to set that up with Nginx, CloudFlare DNS, and Let's Encrypt?

EDIT: Okay, it looks like this is not yet ready for most people to use.
Well, you could have a mains powered rechargable battery (or supercapacitor) backed detector.
Then again, it better be designed so that the sensor part is replaceable and it fails loud.
(Though neither supercapacitor nor nickel-* cells are very expensive, we put them in random MP3 players for $10 a pop.)

The feature richness is a scam though.
Dentons is the biggest law firm in the world. As of 2016, when Dean started, it also employed Newt Gingrich.
I do it like this.

fizzbuzz n = case (n^4 `mod` 15) of
1 -> show n
6 -> "fizz"
10 -> "buzz"
0 -> "fizzbuzz"
main :: IO ()
main = print $ map fizzbuzz [1..30]
Making Librem 5 Apps [video]
A fairly cursory search on the topic of cloth masks came up
with this, and this article actually references its sources:

https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/07/do-cloth-ma...
"if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
>I dont understand this HN infatuation with apples new chip laptops. Ppl are doing everything under the sun to make it work in random ways that arent supported yet etc.

(a) HN has people who like new technology.

(b) This particular new technology is also very good.

What's difficult to understand about it?

People have been tinkering with WSL and Linux to have all kinds of things working "in random ways that arent supported yet etc", M1 is not that different...