skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity.

I agree with a lot of your points, but not this one. Even if I were to take my lunch to work, I would still end up spending some money on coffee or snacks (because I can't always predict exactly what I will want to eat or drink during the day), and if I'm in a rush in the morning at home (e.g. slept in), I can just make lunch when I end up having the time, versus having to buy lunch in the office if I left without time to prepare some food to take.

The electricity point stands I suppose, but it's hard to quantify the difference, for me, as I moved only a few weeks before the pandemic, so don't have any pre-pandemic, work from the office data to compare with.

The £150 odd I save each month on travel costs likely more than makes up for any extra spending on leccy
Fascinating article. PingWest appears to be a good site to keep up with details about Chinese tech developments.
This article assumes that it is possible to determine if the mail has been read. For the methods to do this see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_tracking.

For a real plain-text email you can only use Read-Receipts but several mail readers don't support this and even for those that support it the default setting is probably "Off".

That leaves only the creepy use of tracking images (e.g. the famous single pixel gif), and most privacy conscious users will not load these images.
Thanks, I had that humor idea rolling around in my mind since the early 90's strong AI era but had forgotten where I read it. Minsky sounds about right. Humor is a forced reset of a failed prediction model, reality does not conform to prediction, shake up that snowglobe of a mind and let reality rewrite prediction. Strengthening bad predictions isn't a good idea for survival.
Thanks so much! Author here.

The thing that stands out for me is that involving my (future) readers from day one has been a 100% positive experience. I expected things to be boring or ego-bruising, but this journey has been extremely positive.

I'm fortunate to be deeply embedded in the community I am writing for. Indie hackers and founders are quite supportive of each other, and it shows.
That doesn’t matter much.
I enjoyed the video, but I have to disagree. For me, the storytelling was the worst part. I feel like they said “the problem seemed insurmountable, and the community needed a little help. [x months/weeks/years] later [clever person] decided to give it a go” about 4 times.

I suppose, from a certain perspective, repetition can make good storytelling, and the actual real life events of course restrict the storyline to an extent, but they could have at least phrased it differently
Of course it should not be desktop-dependent, but it should be very well integrated into the DE, because it is the trusted party that can manage most of these permissions.

As for Qubes, it is cool, but I don’t think that such a massive performance degradation/requirement is feasible. Also, I’m not sure how great it is from an everyday usability point of view. If the user will rather run everything in a single vm, because it doesn’t work otherwise, we are back to where we are now.
The early MIUIs were something like a perfected iOS "copycat", and they were really nice operating systems.

You do all know that traditional chinese/japanese art starts learning by copying for years, right?

Different cultures percieve copying at a very different level - deal with it.
> You don't have to commute. You chose to commute.

Are you suggesting people live at the office?
https://shakti.com
I understand your disbelief. I was also in disbelief as I expected the speakers to be a joke and wouldn't believe it if I didn't hear it myself. But they are as much above cheap studio monitors as the monitors are above regular hifi speakers. I guess there is some DSP magic at play, but they realy sound that good. Really the only way we could resolve this issue is that you waste $30 and listen for yourself.
>I save 4 hours a day lost to transport being forced to listen to podcasts and have more meaningful work and play time as a result.

Man, people are really starting to stretch their commute times. Actually no, I save 8 hours a day commuting! No, 16! No, 350395803 hours!

Let's be 100% honest: you did not spend 4 hours a day commuting pre-WFH. You just didn't.
This is so disappointing, I would prefer if they just let employees have the choice to WFH and work in the office whenever they want.
Sort of. Although, for the part that I showed, you don't need the extra assumptions of the implicit function theorem. You only need local invertibility once you actually want to solve the equation. But analysis has been a while for me.

edit: to be more precise, nothing in my answer requires knowing the implicit function theorem. I'm just basically executing the same steps as for the proof of the implicit function theorem, but only for the concrete case of f: R^2 -> R (the implicit function theorem works for any f: R^n -> R^m). If you solve the equation, you need local invertibility (in this concrete example: the partial derivative of f wrt. y needs to be invertible in a neighbourhood of (x, y(x)).

> Another way to see it is to use the total derivative and then (somewhat heuristically) solve it for dy/dx. Mathematicians may yell at you, tho

If you do it properly (i.e. concretely state your assumptions), I don't think mathematicians will yell at you
Node.js – v16.3.0
Ask HN: What types of consulting are marketable/profitable? (Not language based)
Hi,

I am considering a move from developer to a solo consultant specialising in something. Just looking for ideas of what types of specialist consultants exist out there and what is marketable and profitable?

Rather than just specialising in a particular technology, programming language or framework I am looking to see if there are opportunities to specialise in things like:

- Optimising sales funnel (shout out patio11)
- Data cleansing
- Improving Analytics
- Upgrading legacy systems
- Development for specific industries
etc

Curious what specialities people are having success marketing themselves as?

Thanks!
China’s Tiangong space station uses ion drives instead of chemical propulsion
Any idea who owns it?
Lots of good work from Arvid around SaaS!!
Sidenote regarding whatsapps way to make users behave in their intended way:

Today whatsapp really annoyingly started reminding me that my old version will not be supported starting tomorrow. The popup appeared 20 times this morning already.
So I updated to the next version (not the current one), as this has nothing to do with the 'feared' privacy changes.
Now, whatsapp gives me full 9 days to update again, before it wont work anymore.
> Yeah, lists of objects are pretty crap, because they're almost always homogeneous but unenforcédly so

We use JSON Schema heavily to enforce structure in JSON data. https://json-schema.org/
I'm in Europe with a European number and the app asks me about once a day to accept the new terms
A stupid simple make wrapper that makes my life easier
The README says it all. I kept writing Makefiles that ran build targets in Docker in a shoddy way. I just wrote a slightly less shoddy POSIX sh wrapper that does it for me. It's nothing fancy, but it makes my life easier and it's super simple to use.
I believe it means that you can now use the adapter to connect a PS5 controller to the Switch.
I really hope open source tools like:
Budibase https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
NocoDB https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

Take off. Microsoft are chasing revenue and aim to lure you into their walled garden.
The GNOME Project manged to finally do away with the prejudice that Open Source means bad UX. Great job!
> Secondly, you can work towards a situation where you don't have that commute, or it's cheap / clean / easy / you don't lose all the time. Spoiler: live on a trainline or buy a bicycle.

Does "commuting" only mean "driving in a privately owned car" where you are based? I'd consider travelling by rail, bus or bicycle to also be commuting.
You are right and it's a real issue, but you can share them with whoever you want, however you want. You can just keep them and be pretty confident that they will be readable again in years : even if it could become difficult as the time passes, if it is nothing too exotic, chances are you will be able to at least read them.

And I prefer a "95%" correct DOCX or PSD that I can recover and rework if needed than a "0% this App is not available in the WhateverStore anymore".
My recent experience (I've started two different contracts since the pandemic started) is that companies are at lot worse at on-boarding when everyone is remote than when everyone is in the office.

Maybe it's just that we all need to get new habits and adapt to this new medium, and it's only n=2, but so far my intuition is that on-boarding is harder when your colleagues with the relevant experience aren't one office away. Asking questions on Slack just isn't the same.
Is Experts-Exchange still a thing?
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> Another major nit I have to pick with HarmonyOS is its lack of access and transparency. Just accessing the SDK and emulator required me to go through an insane process that involved uploading a photo of my US passport and credit card to Huawei’s servers so that I could be approved to access the SDK after a two-day waiting period. Most companies just have a download link. You don’t get to run the emulator locally on your computer, where it could be inspected more thoroughly—instead, it runs remotely on a server in China somewhere, and video of it is streamed to your computer. After we wrote our article, Huawei took down the emulator and blocked “overseas” users from downloading the SDK.

Essentially useless for me then.
"asks"
The person who asked the naive question that a million other new git users will have at some time or another.
‘Secure Intent’ on Apple Devices
Let the best win, isn't that our modern capitalism's answer?

If Huawei is copying they will always lag behind. Still, are they really copying? or are they piecing innovations together into a new improved product?

Give them a break and a chance to bring something new - sanctions and all, it is pretty impressive they have persevered.
Funnily enough the biggest offender of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric in my daily life is google search with its "people also search for" feature that causes me to constantly misclick.

Lighthouse is great though :)
And one primal instinct is social bonding.
"Zero to Sold" is a great book and I was lucky to read a few pages of the pre-release version of "The Embedded Entrepreneur: How to Build an Audience-Driven Business".

Congrats Arvid on the new book and best of luck!
Hi everyone! I'm Vadim, Co-Founder at Pixiko. To create stunning content for social media or ads you sometimes don't have enough good videos or images and effects (graphic, motion or animated) can help you in this case.

And for that tasks we're creating Pixiko which lets you add multiple effects to any part of the video. And create something really stunning and crazy)))
It is also kinda biased and just stuck at the old this just a copy of Android record.

For example the release notes mentions a new JS UI framework at the OS level with the potential to replace Android Java completely.

Had Google or Apple done this it would be sitting pretty on the hn front page for days.

Here it is just ignored in the politics of Huawei.
This is true, unfortunately. A common way around that is that you must connect both the controller you want to use and an original PS4 controller to the adapter. The adapter will forward all DRM/handshake messages to the original controller, but forward the input from the desired one.

Unless Sony is now signing every message I see no reason why this approach couldn't be used on the PS5/DualSense. That said, my cursory search didn't reveal a working PoC.
A lot of them have although I must admit that CS graduates fare noticeably better.

What happens is they know what virtual memory is but can't connect the concepts. It is knowledge without understanding.
Em... For example I :)
> 2. Fix that damn file picker dialog we've been groaning about for 20 years.

Hell, yes, please.
But if you have two dogs, and one dog is contentedly chewing on a bone, and then you trick the other one - will the contented dog be amused?
> However, I am mostly talking about people (mathematicians even) who do not understand that something as basic as 2+2=4 relies on our faith that: 1. there exists "one", and 2. there exists a successor to "one" (simplified, for interested readers, look for Peano axioms). The beauty of mathematics and the human mind are in that everything else flows from there!

I don't see any faith in here:

Math just says 'if something like 1 were to exist, and if successors were to exists (etc), then after a long chain of reasoning you could conclude that 2+2=4'.

The 'faith' perhaps comes in when you go from '2+2=4' to eg two hens in my coop and two more hens in my coop means that I have four hens in my coop.

(And that's not trivial! Not all things in the real world or even in math behave like that. For some not even as an approximation.)
or welcome to the UK/London trap... 650 usd / month for daily commute to work (45-60min train+tube) because you are not 20 and want to have more than a shoebox shared shit within the city limits or have family. Add to that ridiculous food prices and fully criminal housing market both rent or buy(keep dreaming)..WFH is a super solid relief...yes I miss hallway chat the most.. and quicker to help people but still no comparison to the commute shitshow. I told many times to upper management that operative offices do not need to be in central London.... maybe now something will shift. To be honest nothing needs to be even in the UK... place is becoming a larger Singapore, finance and corps, rest is services for slaves with no hope of building a normal life, 1 to 1-3 times is the healthy ratio between yearly wage and property, here is like 1:12-14 ... complete criminal (they will have to lie to tell you that can finish paying it) and classist (only rich fucks or upper middle class kids with mommy and daddy bank can ever buy anything) if you ask me.
Hope the new owners don't turn it to another _Expert Exchange_.
Maybe this was the plan all along? Tell everyone they need to accept or the app will stop working.. then when backlash inevitably hits hard they can backtrack. But by now 99% have already accepted.
So: Can I change my decision then?
There is some stuff here:

https://gitee.com/openharmony/docs/tree/master/docker

What exactly is a bit unclear and I don't know why it is inside the docs repository.
> I guess you're right, my influencer idea could be called a conspiracy theory. But I'm genuinely curious

Being genuinely curious is pretty much included in the definition of being a conspiracy theorist.
I have no experience with blender but have been developing for maya for 7+ years or so. Python in Maya is very much a afterthought and extremely slow (even for Python standards). There is noting pythonic about the api which by all means is just a port of the mel interface.

The documentation is great, agreed, but I am not sure you can attribute that to the python part of Maya. The documentation structure goes back to pre python days.

If any of the major studios spent a fraction of their development budget on Blender rather than Maya (and contributed back to the community) I think we could see great strides in polishing Blenders usability for scripting.
depends on your definition of "better"
If Nato didn't exist, Western Europe could focus on building defending forces against Russia rather than spending their defense budget on expeditionary forces that need to tag along on American-led adventures like Iraq or Afghanistan.
> b) Religions don’t just make unprovable claims, they make contradictory claims.

To quote myself:

> (And you can believe that Knuth and the author of the paper are smart enough to be able to reason away any inconsistencies.)
You wouldn't download a yoga.
I am against censorship in china in principle. However:
1) in article 2, it says "pornography, lewd conversations, nudity, graphic images and curse words — as well as unauthorized livestreaming sales and content that violated copyright." I think there is a real need for legal framework for content that are harmful for the society. China's online content laws also protects the society from child pornography, fraud, etc. And in the light of the harm of fake news and disinformation can have on the society, as people can see with covid19, there needs to be boundaries with speech. We could have laws govern internet space as well, just like how laws enacted through a democratic process can govern the physical world. As lives are more and more lived in the internet world, we could have laws to govern that world. Though I think there should be a legal due process, like with any law and law enforcement. If my speech is taken down on the internet, let me review the evidence, and let me appeal in a "court", let an independent judiciary judge if I am guilty or not.
2) censorship in china is instituted by the government, no business person could get away with it, they have to operate in that environment. Do the business person or the technologists want to do it? Absolutely not, its a hassle and more work on their part. But to survive in that business environment, they have to do it. These people just want to found these companies and conduct this line of business to earn money and earn a living. These people have families to feed and expensive mortgage to pay. No one wants to get into politics, ideologies. If you really want that every technologists should promote core ideals of freedom and free expression, even under these censorship, these apps in china are already allowing people to spread ideas and access information much better than before. Even under censorship, chinese people still read stories critical of government policies, corruptions, controversies etc that were impossible before the internet age (I read a large number of posts critical of one child policy and government worker implementation of it a few days ago). And the internet is still helping the society change. I wouldn't say these companies are complicit with censorship, because they won't exist if they didn't comply. Chinese government would shut down everyone of these internet services if they won't comply with the rules. And by being available they are still supporting more information accesses then when they weren't available. In my view, in some way, these people behind these companies are victims of the system as well.
With Pattern Matching
What projects do you donate to?
He left active duty in January, but still flies F-35s in the Air Force Reserves.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ4C_ClB01e/
Ugh, Ngh and Rgh walks into the cave...
I can agree with that; writing applications the same way we did on 1980's Unix systems is no longer a sensible way of doing things, and I really wish there was some momentum around fixing that too.
Our Climate Change Future Looks Like the Everglades
Our Climate Change Future Looks Like the Everglades
A few years ago, when I raised Amazon's practice of stack-ranking as a bad-culture reason I wouldn't want to go there, an employee there said Amazon had discontinued that practice, and I was relieved.

I wonder whether the employee knew of this alleged URA metric target:

> One of the key pieces of Amazon's review process is a metric called "unregretted attrition rate (URA)," which represents the percentage of employees managers aren't sad to see leave the company — whether they part ways voluntarily or otherwise. [...] Even the most senior executives at Amazon, including incoming CEO Andy Jassy, closely track URA, according to internal documents obtained by Insider. Jassy, for example, has a "6% goal" for URA, which means he's expected to replace 6% of his team through "unregretted" departures on what appears to be an annual basis. [...] Several sources said some leaders may have a URA goal that was even higher than the 6% followed by Jassy.

(quoting article linked from TFA: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tracks-unregretted-at... )
If I need to move a lot of data I just use adb and USB debugging to access the files. That is actually fast, but it's ridiculous that I have to do it.
One example where it was unsuccessful, not sure it counts as evidence. Yes one time someone did try to use it but it doesn't indicate a pattern of behaviour
> Or perhaps not acknowledging that under the umbrella of democracy the same things happen, is whataboutism.

No. That may be denial, but “whataboutism” is a variant (or, really, just a different name for) the tu quoque fallacy that deflects criticism by accusing the critic of hypocritically ignoring the same action they criticize when committed by a friendly party (or committing it themselves).

A critic denying that a friendly party engages in the act they are criticizing isn’t “whataboutism”. It may or may not be hypcocrisy, denialism, or something else, but its not whataboutism.

OTOH, accusing a critic of whataboutism (and invoking a nonstandard – indeed inverted – definition of “whataboutism” to do it) when they point out whataboutism as a deflection technique, so as to deflect the criticism contained in the original accusation of whataboutism is advanced-level whataboutism.
Show HN: Structure your thoughts when something is wrong
A Modern Template to Jump Start Your ReactJS Project
There's plenty of profitable SaaS listed on indiehackers.com , you can take inspiration from there
Sodium is extremely corrosive and was a nightmare on the French Superphénix fast breeder reactor, that ended up cancelled.
Yes it makes sense, that doesn't mean it is common. I can sell a 0-day for money and it is legitimate income. If I try and scam an exchange I have to be successful, be able to clean the coins I steal and then hope I am not caught.

I would take the 0-day payday thanks.
What a great, humane move. My hat is off. No company would exist without the people who make it up, so the company saying "we got you" in return (beyond the monthly pay cheque) is a very adult and eye-to-eye decision.
In my experience it's very unlikely you'll lose the offer for negotiating a higher salary, although to be clear I'm basing this on my experience with applying for positions here in the UK.

In the past I've just been very clear about what I'm looking for because the reality is if you don't get what you're looking for you're likely to look elsewhere eventually and if they like you enough to want to bring you onboard presumably they don't want you to leave in 12 months because you can get slightly extra pay elsewhere. Recruiting is expensive for companies. If they're sensible they won't mind paying slightly more to ensure you're fully commited.

If you applied through a recruitor they are normally willing to help you negociate the best salary, but I'd advice against doing this where you can. In my experience recruitors are quite good at negociating salary, but I prefer doing it myself to avoid miscommunication.

Personally I would just tell them that you feel $30/hour is a fair wage and that this is what you be able to get elsewhere. In the past I've framed it like this:

"I really want to work for this company, but from experience I know without a competetive salary I'm more likely to move on if something else comes along. If you can go to $30/hour, or at least agree to a pay review in [X] months I feel I would be fully committed to this role."

They won't always agree to what you're asking, but in my experience they will always at least counter offer. Sometimes larger companies simply don't have authority to go as high you would like because of pay brackets and in these cases they may try to offer other incentives like a work laptop, remote working, etc. If they're unwilling to negociate or reassure you that they will continue to reassess your pay I'd consider this a red flag.
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