skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind mind paying for good tools/software when you are making good use of it. I guess my problem is with these subscription models where your software evaporates when you stop paying. That's rough. As a simple example, I couldn't imagine being on that kind of a model with Excel. We have tools built on Excel covering disciplines from electrical, mechanical, software, optical and acoustics engineering dating back decades. Having Excel disappear would cause serious damage to our business. This means I have zero interest in anything related to an Excel subscription model where the software goes away when you stop paying.

Frankly, I feel the same way about stuff like Gmail for business. We have always hosted our own email (which isn't that difficult) and have archives going back a couple of decades. Full access with a number of email clients, including Outlook, which is what I tend to use.
Great to see a dock properly integrated into the settings app. The first thing I do in Pop_OS is track down and install the dash to dock extension and fiddle with the settings until it's sitting on the right-hand side of my screen just like God intended.
I'm a little sad this comment was dead and I couldn't respond earlier...

ANYWAY:

>the vast majority are simply uninterested in such pursuits

I really think this is an "image" problem. I'd say the majority of people are uninterested in technology, so the numbers are already low. But it also has a huge connotation of the people who DO like it being white/asian nerds, or affluent people who can afford to go to college for computer science. People want to fit in, no one wants to be alone. And if you're just some black kid, you're going to feel really out of place. Even if no one is being racist to you, you're still going to FEEL alone (even if you're not). And that's not fun.

This isn't just a tech problem. Think about welders or metalworkers. I think about bearded, husky white guys. But I'm sure there's plenty of girls who think swords kick ass but don't want to feel like an outsider. It's understandable for people to feel this way.

It's like the complete opposite of the Utopian Hacker idea where just your contributions matter, nothing else. About how good or enthusiastic you are, not about WHO you are. I don't think any single group or initiative can get rid of stereotypes with careers or subcultures. I'm not even sure if it CAN be done.
I had a look to Element after seeing it mentioned here multiple times. Sadly it' is too complicated for me to ask my friends and my family to switch to it. Signal was just so simple to use in comparison. Here even the name, Element/Matrix, needs explaining. Matrix is much more that a chat app, it's too much to be a Signal or Whatsapp replacement.
Yeah the AppStore is a joke...the search especially, thats one big point where devs don't eat their dogfood, i bet that 99.9% of Gnome-devs never try'd "AppStore" (so much for linux desktop year), but a working thing like synaptic is probably too complicated for "normal" Linux-Users (do they even exist?)...just give them a Store (that does not work)...thanks gnome.
I should clarify the above means that given the (lack of) quality of the Play Store, I don't see Google hosting iOS apps would get much traction and receive many adopters.
That seems to apply to a lot of discussion of crypto on HN.

It's like people stopped paying attention after the last crash and assume the crypto space has stood still since.
Are you also under the impression that most Olympic medalists aren't doping?

Following the rules doesn't get you very far when cheaters don't get punished.
The problem with a universal format is it's hard to know that everyone you're talking to does things right. If you have end to end security and the other end leaks, that's not very good. Whereas with a limited format I know a non-malicious counterpart probably has their client configured just like mine.

Here's a good quote from the article at the top of this chain:

> Take AEAD ciphers: the Rust-language Sequoia PGP defaulted to the AES-EAX AEAD mode, which is great, and nobody can read those messages because most PGP installs don’t know what EAX mode is, which is not great. Every well-known bad cryptosystem eventually sprouts an RFC extension that supports curves or AEAD, so that its proponents can claim on message boards that they support modern cryptography. RFC’s don’t matter: only the installed base does. We’ve understood authenticated encryption for 2 decades, and PGP is old enough to buy me drinks; enough excuses.

> You can have backwards compatibility with the 1990s or you can have sound cryptography; you can’t have both.
> I think about this like trying to objectify relative efficiency multipliers of -personal- study habits?

makes me wonder what happens if you cut the data by:

> frequently picks their nose

do you think the bonus zen of mindless nose picking is offset enough by the drag of increased chance of nose infection reducing total study time?
Moderating a forum where anyone can post is playing whack-a-mole, especially if registering the new account is simple.

One possible approach is something like Stack Exchange does: new users acquire their rights gradually. New accounts can only do little damage (post an answer that appears at the bottom of the list, and is made even less visible when someone downvotes it), and if they produce bad content, they will never acquire more rights.

Another possible approach would be some vouching system: moderator invites their friends, the friends can invite their friends, everyone needs to have a sponsor. (You can retract your invitation of someone, and unless someone else becomes their sponsor, they lose access. You can proactively become a co-sponsor of existing users. Users inactive for one year automatically retract all their invitations.) When a user is banned, their sponsor also suffers some penalty, such as losing the right to invite people for one year.

There are probably other solutions. The idea is that accounts that were easy to create should be even easier to remove.
Ask HN: How should one/how did you learn about DeFi?
Oh no!

Anyways.
> no more absurdly large trackpad that has easy false positive when you are typing on it.

What are you doing to get those? I've never had issues with that, and I absolutely love the large trackpad on my MacBook
Korean man retires in his 40s from Samsung
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They might not know what 8051s are, but they are still in their cars :D
Same here, I find myself swinging my mouse to the top left whenever I am helping my mother on her laptop with Windows.
If I do a search on https://www.google.com without sending SNI, I get a terse message placed in the CN X.509 attribute of the returned certificate: "Fix your client". It feels like arrogance and it seems like they have acquired a remarkable sense of entitlement. (The search still works.)

As for speed, it would be interesting to have a "surfing contest", i.e., a web surfing contest that is a "browser challenge", pitting a team of users using a no-Javascript user agent versus a team using a "modern browser". The objective might be something like a race to interactively extract a given item of textual information from a selection of Javascript-heavy websites.
Or it could have just been Monero, which is the most common privacy coin. The fact that they went with some no-name premined shitcoin is mind boggling and screams money grab.
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I had one Asus laptop that required me to occasionally toggle Bluetooth off and on again to reconnect my mouse. The rest of my laptops and my desktop's USB Bluetooth dongle have worked without issue for my mice and headphones. I don't think it's a common issue, but I'm just one person!
> If all the teacher had was PowerPoint slides, I typically barely recalled anything.

Probably because you were in a coma.
I personally really like the `Deno compile` feature which outputs your code into a self-contained .exe which executes your script no need for separate tools.
I had a brand new computer that i built at the start of the year. 100% new hardware. Brand new install of windows. Installed Steam, installed CS:GO. And I was unable to play because Steam flagged my system for cheating. The fix was to run some random steam exe found in the steam install directory. I guess it caused Steam to re-scan my system?

Not the same level of frustration as a permaban. But I was pretty annoyed that I had to jump through hoops on a brand-new system. Really weird.
A web startup I joined years ago hired this way. The "main" technical interview was pairing with one of the devs to fix a toy broken service. In my case, this went fullstack from client bugs to backend bugs to sql/orm bugs as well as "make a page to show a list of things". They weren't so formal as to have a coded up modular interview system or anything, but I always enjoyed that one the most because it was closest to the job.
No idea how this is possible that someone retires in their 40's.. I'm assuming he is making money doing youtube. As an engineer just starting in their 30's can't image stopping so early.
Thanks! It seems I started using 1Password after its model changed, so I’ve never had to really think about it, but I can appreciate the frustration.

I’m happy to just have another offering in the world of secrets management
its true, i made the mistake of seeing small text on 4k and 1080p side by side and it can be hard to go back
This doesn’t answer your question, but it appears ROS can work with WSL.

https://jack-kawell.com/2020/06/12/ros-wsl2/
Your friends aren't too stupid to register a facebook account but registering on Element website is too hard for them? Come on man.
Maybe there's a bundler/webpack plugin that supports deno's import system, so it just fetches whatever http urls/analyzes the import maps and turns it into a normal web bundle.
what were your symptoms that led you to go to the hospital to get checked for clots?

What is someone getting a vaccine as such is supposed to look for?
It feels nice and clean, but also like it is leaking the list of sites I use.
As a full time developer, I'm sure my typing speed directly affects my productivity (probably between 80-100 wpm in Dvorak). There are a lot of times I'm typing at full speed for hours, aided by code auto-completion and vim macros, and since the program already exists in my head, the limiting factor is how fast I can type it out. Other times not so much, I'm sitting there reading code, or debugging line by line, or whatever. But when I'm ready to code, my typing speed is the single biggest factor of how fast I can get it out.
> vouching system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

I've not examined it closely, but Web of Trust follows that train of thought at least to an extent.
> So it seems early to call this a side-effect.

Yes, causation is hard to show with certainty.

However, regulator have to follow rules, and those rules probably err on the side of caution. Similarly to "first, do no harm".

I agree that the matter of public trust is also relevant here. In some countries large part of the population already does not want to get vaccinated. So the vaccinator is naturally motivated to prevent any PR screw-ups even at the cost of slowing down.
I did this weeks ago. I am screwed, they will never listen to me again if I tell them to drop Signal...
This was my biggest takeaway also, why Tumblr...
Deno March 2 incident update
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I’m not sure what you’re suggesting, but FWIW my children are several years from being teenagers.
I don't agree that setting a date makes it a firing. If someone is looking to leave soon, there may be cause not to involve them in confidential company plans. It's a risk to take with little benefit.
I don't think it matters how dominate the iPhone is. Google and Apple are joined at the hip.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s...

You think Google is going to piss off Apple too much with Android? Not likely.

> A forced breakup could mean the loss of easy money to Apple. But it would be a more significant threat to Google, which would have no obvious way to replace the lost traffic. It could also push Apple to acquire or build its own search engine.

So I would definitely argue that the future of Android and iPhone are intertwined.
Yes and no.

This would cover some of the functions. How about overtime? How about 'less time'? How about an extra Sudnay because game/football/concert/office-party?

The HR of each company would need this data to adjust salaries.

I am not discussing incidents and/or user-access-management (apologies if my above comment was misunderstood). I meant it for time-tracking purposes. An app where one can add an exception note "I had to pop to X shop to buy Y material" would also help document and approve. Geofencing requirement makes sense in some lines of work and a work-phone (switched on only the work-hours) is a reasonably 'invasive' tool.
> What kind of improvement will this bring to the seasoned nodejs dev, that it will leverage the learning effort?

Not much right now, aside from 'native' Typescript support and not relying on NPM hell for everything. But as the project matures, it might be useful to take a look at it.

I personally hate having to rely on third party libraries for basic web-server functionalities, so a strong "official ecosystem" with batteries included is an interesting proposition.
They have https://dendrite.matrix.org, and they use Dendrite to test new features (like Spaces). But its issue is it's not feature complete so I don't think it sees that much usage.
4k scaled up like that is incredibly sharp fonts tho, it looks really nice. but yea total waste of space otherwise. i was surprised to see big sur default to 200% scale on a 4k attached to m1 mac mini but obviously screen real estate is the least of concerns with that garbage padded ui
I don't think the issue is that it is too easy to change identities. Vouching or slow starts both lead to much more closed systems. You could say that is a solution for the posed problem. "A more closed system".

But to me, a more closed system is less valuable. Certainly it lacks the network effects that seem to be needed these days to make it financially.
>I doubt they would initiate a nuclear strike, knowing it means their annihilation.

If someone with a gun holstered at their waist asked you to give you your money, would you refuse?

If Iran will get access to nuclear weapons, it's status in international politics will change drastically, all leverages the west has on Iran (like the ability to impose sanctions upon human right violations and counter their violent export of the shiite ideology) will more or less disappear
Bitcoin mining enables more revenue for green energy startups. You are misinformed kiddo
"Better" is a very broad word.

I have found pen and paper to be a highly productive alternative to typing for organizing my life, despite the fact that I'm much faster at typing and my handwriting is awful:

- pen and paper require no batteries

- pen and paper are more portable than any electronic device with comparable input efficiency

- pieces of paper can be placed in spatial locations as contextual reminders

- no backlight = no eyestrain

- totally seamless transition from inputting text to diagrams to tables to "realistic" sketches; idea space can be navigated freely

- ability to easily spatially organize information on a page

- narrow context aids focus (while a laptop distracts by the sheer possibility of opening a terminal and trying something, or looking something up)
"Trust" in this context means "I believe this key indeed matches this identity". Nothing more is meant by that.
These are standard things people have when they are savvy enough to own a mobile phone. In UK/EU they don't solve a problem tiny bit but rather make it more risky because of volatility and more difficult abs expensive to cash out.
I overall think programs like this are more of a good thing than a bad thing.

I however could see them having negative psychological effects on participants that do more to widen gaps than close them. For instance it gives an impression that black girls need to do programming in a protected separated environment because the environment at large is not safe for them or accepting of them.

I think this might even be true in some cases but regardless I don't think it's beneficial to anyone to promote the idea, and I think it is certainly sending the signal that that is the way things are to these young girls which I think can be self perpetuating.

I hope I am wrong.
So Iran SAYS "Israel should be wiped out of the map", and that makes all ACTIONS (including boarder line terrorism) by Israel justified.
Our way of buying into narratives and pushing them allows justifications for wars so easy. Just look at Iraq war. Narrative build and bought by us was that Sadam is bad and has bar weapons so let's go to war.
Again I'm not defending Iran. In fact I really hate the regime. I'm just saying what's wrong is wrong no matter who does it.
There's the web APIs which are tested against https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt (albeit without full coverage), and there is ffi/plugins - for deno specific things like readFile.

I don't know the history of Node... but why would there need to be a diversion?
Just power-cycle the slaves.
Android allows side loading and none of that stuff is an issue on Android. It exists, but it's not an issue. You can easily stay in the Play store, but if you choose not to... caveat emptor.
With deno you can import scripts from anywhere on the web you want, my personal favorite is jspm.dev which basically has all npm packages
Negative Emissions, Positive Economy
> The vast majority will continue to use the App Store.

Definitely not true. Most people will be forced to install alternative stores because those stores will pay for exclusives on key apps. Players like Facebook and Google will open stores and only make their products available within them.

> Apple could also manage this situation to both educate users and frame the situation in such a way so that only power users would leave the safety of the App Store to seek out sideloading or alternative stores.

Not true. If Apple is forced to allow alternative store, anti-trust regulators will prevent Apple from portraying their own store as safer or from framing the situation.

> The dichotomy of walled garden vs. the Wild West is a false one and a failure of imagination that ignores the possibility of a middle ground. If you believe Apple can truly build a good walled garden, you can also believe that Apple can lift restrictions and allow third party stores in a sensible, well-managed way without sacrificing product quality.

Not true. Apple obviously cannot manage the behavior of third parties who they are forced to allow to build stores.

> It will be the fault of those who prevented Apple from offering a curated environment.
> Actually, it would be the fault of the scammers and privacy-invaders in question.

Clearly false. We know the scammers and privacy invaders will act, but are currently limited in their ability to do so.

Forcing Apple to reduce protections will be the proximate cause of their customers being vulnerable.
Twist: all of this was a very expensive Apple TV ad!

In all seriousness, if what you say it's true it really makes me want to watch Tehran.
Is it that good? There are places where lots of people are refusing to get the vaccine if they hear it's Astra-Zeneca, because of all the overblown nightmarish news around it. I can tell you for example that in Italy there are examples of regions where 80% of people refuse.

I understand the need for being cautious and for transparency. Actually, I would like to have even more transparency and actual scientific data and numbers from the news. That would help the public understand better why certain decisions are made.

(Maybe my main problem is just with mainstream press, not much with stopping vaccinations per se. I'd just like to know more and be told by politicians: we are listening to scientists, these are the data, this is how numbers compare to the incidence of other side effects for well known medicines and to the numbers of daily deaths and long term problems caused by COVID, and the decisions are taken because X > Y).
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No doubt mitmproxy could probably be used. Personally I prefer haproxy or stunnel. Among other advantages, this allows me to do proxying on smaller computers with limited storage where installing Python would be costly.
Similarly, Python is supposed to be a language that's easy to learn and easy to read code in. Pythonistas take pride in that, as IMO they should. With that in mind, preserving a counterintuitive behavior that exists solely because of how the lexer was implemented seems inconsistent at best. A language with a more relaxed attitude toward inscrutable brevity - e.g. Perl - can use that excuse. I don't think Python should.
The workaround I've seen people use is hitting the edit button and replacing the entire comment with a - character.
Having come into Linux from FreeBSD, I agree, FreeBSD does feel "greener"
I'd like to see more programs like this focusing on class disparity.

College finance system already works this way to an extent. I think making more educational programs adjust cost based on means would have the effect of helping the least-privileged people in our society without the moral hazards of racial segregation.
Embedding and Linking Kaggle Notebooks
You Can Launch an Article Multiple Times as Well
...which is a kind of blood clot.
Often the worth of a language comes from its ecosystem. Node.js for now has perhaps the biggest ecosystem in history of computer languages and since Javascript is supported natively by browsers, well it makes the number of developers knowing Javascript quite substantial. It's no worse than Python, Perl or others.
Yeah, I love it as well. Zero false positives ever. If there's one thing Apple does right, it's a killer trackpad.
Why am I seeing payment integration while I still lose my place in an audio playback when I switch from landscape to portrait? Or the fact that I still can't tell whether I've listened to a message yet or not? Still losing messages in the middle of recording.

Honestly, having a hard time with my switch from WhatsApp to Signal, and certainly don't need any cryptocurrency integration.
Android work profiles make this so easy - it doesn't appear as easy on iOS, but I was never a big iOS user.

I don't mind using resources on my personal device, I mind the access to my personal information. Carrying two phones vs. one for isolation make sense, but if the isolation can be done in hardware/software on the same device it's much easier for me.
Flatpak is backed by Linux containers, which are not designed to be secure against hacks. Flatpak (like Snap) is a convenience to distribute and install apps, not a security protection.
I applaud the removal of all the obsolete drivers and utilities. Let's keep it lean and mean!
Myanmar heading towards a ‘full-blown conflict’, UN human rights chief warns
Just buy the data from telco providers - they already track your location by cell tower.
I've used pass for a while, but I switch to bitwarden, since it has official apps for all platforms. Also with bitwarde I only have to trust them, with pass I have to trust all the different app developers.
It's actually more like they will ask you to one of several stupid dances and you have to know how to do them all well.
Not even, it's a BT controller for one app! That said, I do like the big knob, it's maddening how bad the physical controls (if there even are any) can be in modern cars.