skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It literally injects a "are you really, definitely sure you want to switch away from Edge?" kind of entry in the top search results when you use the preinstalled Edge to look up another browser. That is absolutely a dark pattern in my book, of the manipulative and desperate kind. Not to mention the constant struggle to (re)set your favorite browser as default where Windows fights you at every corner in pretty much the most extreme way that Microsoft can hope to get away with unless they want to risk sanctions from the EU.
> Many European countries, like Cuba

Cuba is in the Caribbean...
> 1. `docker run -p 0.0.0.0:6666:6666 ...` - docker will update the firewall to allow traffic to port 6666

I don't think Docker should touch the firewall whatsoever. Apache doesn't, nginx doesn't, PostgreSQL doesn't, etc. Why is Docker different? The sysadmin should decide that!
South Africa: Ex-president Jacob Zuma jailed for 15 months
This is a channel mostly about city layout and urban development. What he really argues for is changing cities and providing alternatives, not flat out banning cars.
I don’t want an android anything.
You're relying on a nation state to behave in a certain way. This never works out in the long term. The winds of politics change on a whim. That's just history for you.

With Bitcoin you instead rely on the intrinsic properties of the protocol. No ifs or buts.
I wish him luck ( really...):

http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/RHproof...
Is there any other profession were the professional, doing something wrong, would be called the victim? Would an engineer, having made an error when doing structural engineering calculations, be called a victim if the software used was too complex? Or a physician who overlooked adverse affects written in fine print? Or the electrician making errors when fixing things in a house with old wiring?

Of course the behavior of Docker is really problematic in this case, and ditto for MongoDB not having auth active per default. But both applications were consciously chosen by Newsblur.
Essential mathematics for aspiring game developers [video]
I would consider it a stretch to consider modern anthropology to be 'science'.

> "The belief in races as a natural aspect of human biology and the institutional and structural inequities (racism) that have emerged in tandem with such beliefs in European colonial contexts are among the most damaging elements in human societies."

The use of the term "European colonial contexts" betrays its intent immediately. I say this as a non-white person, of non-European origin.

> "Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation. It was never accurate in the past, and it remains inaccurate when referencing contemporary human populations"

Only smart people could be convinced of such foolishness. A classification system as simple as 'race' may not provide an accurate taxonomy for all scientific purposes. It does however provide a sensible abstraction which has persisted uniformly across cultures and time because of its utility. Regardless of to what extent you believe the concept of 'race' explains population differences, there are clearly quantifiable differences between individuals associated with their genetic origins. This is well known in all biological scientific fields: medicine, forensics, pharmacology...
These screenshots and mockups look like a step backwards from an 'ease of navigation' perspective, especially for someone who is only an occasional user.

However, GDS has had good success in the past, so I hope they'll only push ahead with the rollout if the data shows that I'm an outlier.
I'm in the same camp, thinking I probably have aphantasia.
Before I read about it I didn't call it anything because I had no concept that there was anything lacking in my experience. I thought it was just how everyone's mind worked. I had no idea that people could actually see things that they visualized. I had always thought that the term "visualize" was just an exaggerated metaphor for imagining. For example I can imagine a little island in a field of blue ocean with a palm tree growing out of it just fine, I can conceptually place the objects around in this imaginary scene and have a sense for where the things are in relation to one another and what shapes and colors they are, but I can't for the life of me "see" a single thing no matter how much I focus on it. It might sound contradictory but I don't know how else to describe it.

I have only experienced something that sounds like how normal folks see in their minds eye once, on the cusp of falling asleep, hypnagogic hallucinations began but I was somewhat in control of what I was seeing, I could change the image at will to whatever I imagined. It lasted but a couple of minutes before I fell asleep. Someone that has a normal mind's eye - and has also experienced the pre-sleep hallucinations - would have to tell me if my experience was similar to a normal imagination though. It could be that my hypnagogic episode was far more vivid than a typical person's visual imagination during normal waking hours though, too, who knows?
I did feel very jealous though after that episode thinking that most people probably have such an ability to visualize like that while awake.
Well, the jig is up, as they say. Being absolutely honest about what is going on could work, or it could get her fired. But if she genuinely likes the workplace & people and management is worth staying around for, it can work out fine.

“I’m finding this repetitive task combined with the isolation of quarantine is having a negative effect on my productivity. I’m interested in developing new skills to broaden or introduce some variety into my role, is there anything that we could do to make this happen?“

It’s turned from a question about someone’s productivity problems to a question about how much more can I do for the company. 9/10 a good manager will jump at the chance to avoid an awkward “why aren’t we getting the work done?” conversation and have a (much more productive) “let’s help each other out” conversation.

It is also very likely that no one has noticed the work is slowing down and it is just a normal sort of check in.

Really you should not let it get this far that you feel this negative about the work you are doing.

YMMV, & not my fault if you try this and lose the job anyway as loss of job is an expected outcome when you stop doing it. No one should get soulcrushed and discarded, but it does happen frequently.

Also, this only applies to the relatively privileged industry of ‘tech’ where you’re expensive to replace and finding anyone competent enough is an incredible chore.
Apple Pay is no more of a hurdle/mitm than whatever payment gateway they were using.
Yes, my partner and I recently went out to eat and did not bring our phones. I said, “We don’t have our phones.” The server brought us paper menus, and we were all OK.
I am self-hosting postgres containerized on the server with auto encrypted backups to s3.

Besides this I also run a self hosted production grade elasticsearch cluster which I manage via ansible.

Both of these would be insanely expensive if I chose any of the managed solutions from aws or gcp.
I hate to say it: the same argument was made by the communist party. It is sad that people never learn from history. It does not matter who does it. It matters because it becomes widespread and it becomes the new normality and good luck fighting normality. In communism ( or nazism) the party was not always the coercive power. Sometimes your boss, your wife or your neighbour take this role.
Ex-CEO of Monzo discusses challenges of starting a bank [video]
I was happy with the ARM Windows phone deal, without having to deal with Android Java, NDK primitive tooling that makes me miss Symbian C++, JNI boilerplate, that resource hog duo known as Android Studio/Gradle.

But that is now gone, and I never bothered to make use of my DeX enabled devices in such context.
Covishield: India seeks EU travel approval for its main vaccine
The problem is that scientific "race" doesn't quite work that way.

To be scientific about it, you have to be willing to conclude things like that a diverse looking group of people are actually all the same race because they happen to share common genetics, or that what looks like an all white group is really 5 distinct genetic groups that just happen to look similar.

To really find what scientifically accurate genetic group a given person falls into you'd have to be scientific about it, and look at the genetics or at the very least their detailed ancestry. Simply looking at them doesn't cut it. Science is all about precision and eliminating biases.

At that point, what is even the point? You know enough about them to treat them as an individual regardless of what they happen to look like.
Related "Burnout Is Real" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27630468
Crypto AG. So no.
Can you tell a little about you use cases
What happens when you tell the staff you don’t have your phone? Do they not bring you a menu at that point?
This isn't necessarily the case. If restaurant service in a region is slow as a rule, it's probably a matter of different priorities. There may well be less pressure for such a system to speed up the process of ordering, because a more relaxed system is seen as a good thing, and the system that gets implemented in practice might be worse (e.g. perhaps the staff don't like/trust the online order system and they will not even check it, or when they do check it they still confirm with you).

It is almost certainly better to address the actual problem (in this case: a disagreement about priorities and service speed) than to implement a technical measure that one party thinks will fix a problem that the other party considers a feature. By failing to actually address the problem, it could cause some people to feel threatened and result in other problems.
I'd love to hear the one main argument against it. Throwing 7 arguments (some of them related) is throwing too large of a net. Is he hoping to get people convinced with at least one of the points resonating?

IMO, in order (and happy to be proven wrong, I am curious what others think):

1. I'm not sure why this would matter. Wouldn't that mean that the insiders have all the incentive to sell the bitcoins they own, even in time – so they can make some "real" money? Wouldn't the price have crashed / gone to zero so many times until now? (there were plenty of opportunities to sell). There is def speculation in BTC, I am not denying that.

2. This is incorrect. Some (most?) people view BTC as a store of value, so in essence, transactions can be few and far between. The adage here is "transaction costs too high? – it means you're moving too little BTC". The Lightning network does play a role in transaction costs.

3. This might a good point. I don't know enough about Tether's use but I have heard this argument raised before.

4. Agree with author, but this point is rather vague. It could go either way. Not sure if regulation is as much of a silver bullet as he makes it out to seem.

5. This is a corollary to the above 2 points, so not really a different argument.

6. Is this the main argument? The author does seem to be an environmentalist - but there are plenty of arguments against this point too. I personally disagree with this point.

7. Again, not really a point, just a rant on what the author thinks are the people that own BTC. At this point he's just insulting BTC holders really, so you know, pyramid of argument (attack the argument not the person etc.) makes me discard this point entirely.

Again, curious what others think, lots of smart people here.
For a demo version drop some acid. :)
Where do they work well? I still have to pull out my phone and switch to the camera app, open a browser to whatever link is in the qr code. This process is already too many points of failure.
Yes, we have multiple physical and virtual servers. Why? Because I don’t like the added abstraction from hosted solutions, and costs.
See answers & comments in https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4185354/
How is NFC on a phone more convenient than tapping a card?
This might be a better argument for the crash than any of the 7 the author presented. (later edit: except for the 70% voting rights that Saylor still has – just read this further down)
Keep in mind:

1. a non-verified approach can have many problems in the (informal) specification + implementation errors

2. the verified approach is likely to have less specification errors (because the specification had to be formally written out and matched against an implementation) and implementation errors with respect to the specification will be almost impossible (minus faults in the compiler, OS and hardware).

There's a huge jump in security guarantees between 1 and 2.
For a screen dependent worker they're making life very hard. Had them for 8 years and was struggling every day. They did not get smaller, nor break up, was feeling crippled.

VIM on dark background helped a lot!

I got lucky and had my lenses replaced and the eye fluid completely removed (Vitrectomy). A somewhat risky operation, considering my myopia, but my vision is completely clear now.

I think Vitrectomy is the only sure way to get rid of them. Simply because they get sucked out together with all the old fluid.

Beware though, the floaters could be a sign of some retinal trouble.
> Another difference to Python is that you can't add new methods post-hoc to types in Python.

Yes, you can. Heck, you can post-hoc add new methods to instances in python, too.
Brains are incredibly adaptive. There are tons of experiences where people have had diminished or lost access to one of the senses and recovered surprisingly well.

I had a colleague once who had a stroke and described his vision afterwards as looking though splintered glass. After a while, he explained he didn’t perceive it anymore and that his brain just decided to “workaround” the issue making new connections where needed.

I think having some “sense” of magnetic fields could be very subtle, like just a feeling of which direction you’re facing when you’re turning around (you could argue you already use the position of the sun this way, subconsciously).

People into body mods who get a magnetic implant often describe it as a sixth sense [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_implant
Bitcoin is pure capitalism. No real work, no real goods and no values of something and not benefit for human kind. So it is just gambling. I've a bad impression of crypto-blockchain-digital-coin stuff which purpose is to make some minority richer. The founders of Bitcoin stated they want free free us from central-bank-money? The central-banks are hopefully the only institution people can trust in stability a little. Politicians should look up their laws, most countries only allow their official currency for trade and should limit exchange to official currencies of other countries.
I agree and disagree.

Bikes are the best transportation for small trips. No questionning it.

Unless you can't use a bike because something's wrong with your body. Then you need a car. For some people, it's obvious: they have a broken leg, or no legs at all. They'll get a pass (and boy do they need it!).

For other people, like me, it's less obvious. I still have my two legs, my two feet, but some bones are broken, and it hurts to cycle or walk just a few kilometers.

Essentially, as much as I hate it, I need a car. Otherwise each day ends in pain and misery. And public transportation doesn't solve it, since I need to walk to the bus stop.

So yes, cities need to have less cars, but please don't forget about people who don't have another solution.
There is more to GDPR than cookies banner. For example, data portability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371
As a resident of Delft (and originally hailing from Mumbai) I can vouch for the subjective difference in average noise levels one would be exposed to - coming from a bustling city filled with "layers" of various sounds (trains, honks, crowd, etc.) to a town where most of the sound seems to come from people, the difference is considerable.

Naturally, Delft cannot be compared to Mumbai (whose population is more than the entire population of the Netherlands), but having had first-hand experience of spending a considerable amount of time in both places, I simply cannot overstate the peace of mind felt with extremely low noise levels. As far as a good solution to noise levels in cities like Mumbai goes, there's a whole lot to be done - and a Delftian approach certainly wouldn't work.
Telegram Introduces Support for Group Video Calls and Many Other Features
Mate Selection for Modernity
While this article contains a lot of hypothesis, evolutionary psychology does have ways of proving conjectures. This includes ethology, the study of animal behavior, and comparison of modern-age cultures to more primitive ones.

For example, he's right that higher status individuals experience less stress. In chimpanzees, lower status animals have higher levels of cortisol, the stress hormone. They are more often attacked by higher status individuals and need to remain on guard. Lower status chimps are attacked more often by higher status chimps because their hierarchy is party based on physical power (agonic) and partly based on their ability contribute (hedonic).
You have obviously never tried to move money on the public blockchain. Bitcoin is actually slower and more expensive than it used to be.

Need to send a wire? Locally (within the same currency) I can send 24/7 with an average time to hit the other persons bank account of around 5 seconds - cost is $0. No blockchain involved just old fashioned brick and mortar banks.

Perhaps you need to change banks.
Laminated menus that you can spray and wipe off would make a lot more sense.
I honestly do no see the point of code CAD for anything but a couple limited cases. Designing is an inherently visual process and you lose a lot by working with code.

In modern CAD software one already does 'programming' by specifying geometric constraints. For a great example of the power of this approach, see Ivan Sutherland's sketchpad. Specifying geometry using equations as one often does in code CAD is a much more difficult process than specifying geometric constraints. For example, specifying that a hole is some distance from the edge of a part is quite difficult with code CAD.

In addition, there are already multi-user CAD approaches for doing CAD design as part of a team. BYU's multi-user CAD system is a great example of this. I can't find a video, but it claims to be google docs for CAD, allowing users to edit the same CAD model in parallel using extended versions of commercial CAD software.

Honestly, I think the only reason why code CAD is popular at all is that no good open source CAD software exists, so manual use of CAD kernels is filling the void. Although, FreeCAD is continuing to improve so this may change.

BREP is not necessarily futureproof too. At the current time we can manufacture more complicated parts than we can design. With additive manufacturing we can make very, very complicated parts. [0] gives a great example of some. At the current time there are printers which can make centimeter scale parts with micrometer-scale geometry and there's good reason to believe that the same printing process can be scaled up. Describing a 1 meter cube with a micrometer scale lattice structure using triangle based formats takes something like 500 TB.

Additive manufacturing is also capable of printing multiple materials too. In some cases you can even mix material together, to say have a gradient going from soft to hard material. So there is now a need to describe material composition and be able to describe how that material composition changes in 3d space. Things get particularly weird if bring composites into the mix too. There are number of very different approaches to solving these problems. Some proposals include voxels with 3d textures, volumetric-representations, and even some approaches based on functional programming[1].

[0]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317614395_Nanolatti...
[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00104...
There's usually reasons for the specs looking like they do. The reasons are the same that make that beautiful pure 4 line function 150 lines after being battle tested in different environments and on different platforms for a few years.
Very interesting comment. Having initially taught a more theoretical software engineering course and now teaching this one, I've realized that grasping the theoretical aspects of software engineering without practicing them in a realistic context is difficult and results in pretty shallow learning.
Specialized IoT controllers are massively oversold. Most people don't need one, including hobbyists and HN commentors. I've developed this opinion after several years of work in IoT.

At the link layer, just use WiFi. If power is an issue, there's 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN (bridged to WiFi). At the network layer, it's a regular LAN. Lastly, at the application layer, most devices stand on their own. 90% of the value in a smart doorbell is derived from its connection to your smartphone, not whether it can talk to your thermostat or smoke detector.

To evaluate the truth of this statement, walk down Home Depot's "Smart Home" aisle and count products which support complex multi-device interactions, or advertise these interactions as core features.
> it's just as likely that they are talking with each other in a group chat alongside a few other non-present participants in the same group chat

To me, that's just as bad. Spend time with the people you're with while you're with them. Text the others later. But different strokes!
To add more detail, I seem to remember, that "persistent" in that book means the following:

Once you have a handle on the data structure, you can perform any pure operation, which is intended for that data structure and your handle will still point to the same data structure, because "modified" versions are not really "modified" as in someone performing a mutation on the data structure, but actually new instances of the data structure, which might share parts with the original one.

This property is very nice to have for working with the data structure.
> Connect to the wifi, get a captive portal

> Need to put my phone number in to connect to the wifi; there is no signal, so I need to go outside, to receieve the confirmation code.

Somewhere around these steps is where I would leave. It’s the equivalent of sitting at a table for 15 minutes waiting for the waiter to give my group menus[1] - they don’t want me as their guest.

[1] It happened, both the waiting and the leaving before ever getting menus. That restaurant taught me that if the service is bad before even ordering the food one shouldn’t be afraid to leave.
> On Firefox and Chrome, you can add support for eth domains via a Metamask extension

This has never worked for me

Is there supposed to be some advanced setting not on by default in Metamask that allows .eth domains to resolve?
I can tell you there are plenty of those in NRW now, but they usually bring a paper version if you ask them.
Maps Of Matter
What are you going to do if there’s a breaking change to the API between now and when the native version is released?
One plus for restaurants seems to be they can make you pay prior to, rather than after, your meal.

I'm a bit worried this practice will live past COVID simply because of this.
[Citation needed]

Most analytics serve no other purpose than fill colorful dashboards for various middle managers needing to prove "impact".
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I've had an OK experience with just demanding the bill when your table's last plates are being taken away.