skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those /r/unixporn screenshots are as real as a McDonald's burger in an ad.

Haha this is a great line! I'm gonna use this on my friends :D
Wow I wish I was paid anything near that. I don't know how many outside of the US get that well paid.
Ask HN: Where do you go for good privacy tools?
In light of Apple and ProtonMail, I've been making changes to my tools to find better vendors. What are others out there finding? Any good meta sources or communities?
> Right but they could have said "we can be compelled to log IPs, you should use Tor if that's something you care about".

ding ding ding. pin this comment.
> Mickey Mouse is in the Public Domain - 70%

Honestly, I think it's more likely that we'll have ALL of
- superintelligent AGI
- contact with a space faring civilisation
- the cure for aging

than I do that Disney will let copyright on anything go... :D
I ran the numbers last week. Things change fast, but the fact they're in the same ball-park is IMO all I need to validate my position. My point remains: there's a ton of ways to make money that you're missing out on every single minute, and Bitcoin's returns aren't unheard-of. It's just that in the crypto market everyone's risk-reward profile is set to "sweet mother of Jesus" whereas in traditional markets most people focus on capital preservation and slow, predictable growth.

If you set your risk-reward profile to "sweet mother of Jesus" in traditional markets you can achieve the same returns with less risk.
Did WSJ change their paywall again? I can't get around it.
Functional Programming to the Max
You don't usually realize this when playing but the scale in Quake is weird. Everything is big and bulky. There's just no budget for a lot of triangles. That makes navigating it a lot easier. It's closer to a driving game in some sense.

Stylistically it works when in a fantasy setting, or in some science fiction "tech base". But it wouldn't, if you had ordinary everyday objects like doors, beds or kitchens around.

If you've made Quake maps, you also notice that to make it playable, you should avoid things like protruding door frames, or the player easily and annoyingly gets stuck on the wrong side of it. The mapper must place clip brushes so the player smoothly flows over these obstacles. The player never notices these "nudges".
sounds like what google does with their analytics and google drive products
What's the next big thing?!!??
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It don't really care about nameplate power let alone the area covered.
Capacity factor is really not relevant either as it doesn't factor in the instantaneous market demand for power. What I'd really like to see is some kind of metric describing how much of power-demanded was actually covered by the facility at the right time.

This would make it much easier to compare intermittent energy sources with more stable ones. We always end up with MWh/$, but it feel that is hiding the true cost of solar and wind.
Can't you already hide your implementation details using a closure?
I wasn't defending Rocket.Chat's implementation. I haven't tried it myself.

Matrix is the practical solution, and Arathorn's sibling comment gracefully addressed my real criticism. Federation is absolutely possible on these applications, although tricky.
Preventive measure before vaccines were available. I think it was 0.1 mg/kg/week, so two 3mg pills every Monday for... maybe a couple of months.

Dosage is reasonable, safety profile is very good, the only doubt I had was if the veterinarian version is in any way worse. But the waters were already muddied even back then, so I could't find relevant info.

You may want to recall that before vaccines, we were all pretty afraid. Now the matter is academic - we have about the same risk as from a bad flu. But last year... I'd have taken pills with the picture of a cockroach on them, when faced with 20% of long covid. I still think it was a very sane choice.
Agree, that's why I post that the discipline and management is required, not some specific tool - no tool solves the people problems adequately.
This is a failure of bitcoin itself. The mining algorithm lends itself well to expensive specialized hardware. Normal people were cut off from the network, centralizing it.

People realized this was a mistake long ago. Monero was updated to use new algorithms to ensure CPU mining remained viable. It's easy to mine monero as a result. More people do it and as a result the network has a greater degree of decentralization.

Shame that bitcoin will never be dethroned. It's a shitty coin.
10 years is also a good point. As most of that in general have been bull market in economy. So we really haven't seen how will crypto do in proper bear market...
Why? People lie a lot about their skills. The fizzbuzz test was invented a first to filter candidates that said they knew how to code but didn't, and it was very effective at it.
Well, there's always value in enabling money laundering and purchasing of illegal goods. Bitcoin has lots of uses, I just don't think they're the ones the doe eyed idealists like to talk about.
You must still dedicate developer time to devices that aren’t used seems like a bad law.
The first thing is you will have to plan out your threat model. What are you doing? What are you wanting to do? Who is going to be bad for you?

If you are an "activist" vs a "person that just doesn't want their email scanned for ads" there are very different vendor pools.
Yeah it’s apps for me. I live my life by my Omnifocus setup. They have a browser-based “companion” that I can and have used occasionally but it’s not the same.

Airmail is the other big one.

There’s just nothing that supports Linux and iOS hah, and I want to keep similar workflows across them.

And I actually ran PopOS as a daily driver for about 6 months during the pandemic, I’ve tried!
> Every single day you're missing out on an investment that performs just as well as any crypto investment. Investment opportunities are like a bus route: there's always another one coming down the pike.

The thing is that crypto is the only one which doesnt have a huge barrier to entry.

In any event you are right, the only thing that matters is your confidence on what is gonna happen, then even if the movement in price isn't as big as crypto then if you are absolutely sure you can use leverage and make the same amount.

> right + broke, and wrong + wealthy are both completely valid outcomes

True but man, must be great to be individual with the lowest IQ in the hood and have the biggest house.

The happiest people on Earth are the people who succeed out of pure luck, but they are so self confident that they are not aware of that.
Clamming up when a patrol officer goes off script means nothing more than you know that he knows that you know he's off script.
same here. turns out an iphone 8 is a damn good phone today and I expect the new iphone se to be the TCO-wise budget choice.
Yes, but expecting a prospective user to read all your blog posts back to 2014 to discover a line saying you can be compelled to identify them is hardly transparent.
Like TeamSpeak
Managers need to be able to spot OCD spirals and keep things on track. Having perfectly realistic doors isn't that important - the end user only notices them when they break. TLOU2 is remembered most for being less great than TLOU and not for its superior door mechanics.
it's just a matter of time before the workforce will be replaced by shitty engineers who all grinded leetcode and are good at that but are not capable of actually creating anything good on the job. eventually, FAANG will realize they have a problem on their hands and fire everyone and hire experienced people who have no interest in leetcode, and the cycle starts over.
Sounds dystopian. But I appreciate the honest naming. People know exactly what they're voting for.
Speak for yourself. Middle of the desert is amazing given there is a source of water (aquifer, desalination plant etc.). Deserts are clean, nice and hot year round, not humid and extremely conducive to solar energy.
> The thing is that crypto is the only one which doesnt have a huge barrier to entry.

Have you met Robinhood?

> True but man, must be great to be individual with the lowest IQ in the hood and have the biggest house.

> The happiest people on Earth are the people who succeed out of pure luck, but they are so self confident that they are not aware of that.

Now that I agree with you on :)
I don't use social media, so I'm probably not the target audience anyway -- but I don't understand this at all. It just seems like an arbitrary and stupid limitation.
I wish they could add pattern matching statements.
It sounds like someone tricked you into working for free. I'm sorry that happened.
That may be because I'm young, but the idea of studying for a few months and get a salary that's triple of what I currently make, or double of what starts to be the high barrier in my country (France) is extremely appealing to me. I understand that I may not feel the same way in 10, 20, 30 years but until then it's a golden opportunity.
I generally agree about the surface area of attack, but this project was supposed to be aimed more at censorship circumvention. Algo may help with that, but I doubt it will get past a well funded government agency, e.g. in the Middle East or China.
Don't SSDs store information about how often they've been written?
Amazon, Google, Microsoft Vie for Work on ICE RAVEn Data-Mining Tool
they don't need research, they had that person who became part of the hiring committee overnight and who sold them all on the magic leetcode formula and they bought it.
Apple had job postings last year looking for Rust developers to rewrite a service that was written in C so it's not without precedent.

Job posting links are dead now, but there was a reddit thread about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/fkngza/apple_hiring_r...
Coming from ClearQuest, Jira was a breathe of fresh air some years ago. We can run projects with several hundred to thousand people with it (the on prem version) without problems and UX is ok IMHO. Maybe it's easy to screw up the config?
Show HN: Push2Calendar – send push notifications to iOS users via calendar app
The comment I was replying to said DC motors actually use AC internally. My comment was an attempt to design a DC motor that definitely uses no AC.

Solenoids have an inductor with a changing magnetic field that stores energy and eventually gives it back. I want to avoid the possibility that that changing magnetic field will induce a current somewhere that is in the opposite direction of the normal current in that place thereby producing AC.

By just using the DC input to make heat, there is no chance of inadvertently getting AC.
In order to do that, one would have to try to connect one to the other, which is usually sufficient.
Then all owners need to raise their prices while protecting their profit margins.

Or alternatively, fine, do it that way, but look at the owners' financials and wealth (not just income). If they are making $1.5 million per year, then lower that to $100,000 per year and get gold health insurance for employees, have employees work 40 hours per week instead of jaded sh-tty owners only scheduling less than 30 hours so they don't have to pay benefits and employees have to work 2 jobs, have them not treat employees like sh-t. That also works for me.

In 1965, CEOs made 20 times (2,00% more) the lowest paid worker. Now it is 300 times (30,000% more) than the lowest paid worker.

For most of the 20th century, the tax rate for the wealthiest was 70% to 90%. And this was NOT only during the war years. It was around there from 1918 to 1985, when the top rate was lowered to around 35% and stayed there since. That is about the exact time that the rich got richer, and everyone else stayed about the same, or went down, due to inflation.

And if you say that the owner took all the risk to start the business, fine, cool. Let them do all of the work without employees. I'm good with that.

What you say is yet one more specious argument to pay employees less so that owners can buy more yachts and bigger houses. But fine. Do all the work in 10 locations, all by yourself. Good. And good bye.
Electron is almost never a great choice for anything. It saddens me to see people on a website for nerds defend it.
Not at all. Network issues make everything in games more complicated, not just bullets going through doors.

Everything in games can be complicated: physics, doors, AI, network. Even the first line of that video description.

I think that just proves my original point: it's clickbait to single out doors as being exceptionally hard versus everything else in game design.
From the article:

Over the next year, a biosciences working group revised the program’s funding guidelines, stipulating in the final draft that it would not support any research into the first-order effects of genes on behavior or social outcomes.

The fact that this area is controversial suggests to me that it is worth exploration.

I’ve taught mathematics at community colleges for over 20 years and I’m absolutely convinced that not all people can learn algebra or calculus. To me it is obvious this is so since the mentally disabled can’t. There’s a level of “intelligence” that’s necessary to learn a given topic. Not everyone can learn all topics.

This belief of mine is considered heretical amongst leftist colleagues (I’m a liberal myself on almost every issue). As a college we act as if everyone can pass. Years of administration telling the math department that our passing rate is too low have led me to pretty much pass everyone who takes the final exam. Last semester 80% passed but only around 50% deserved to.
> will be built from scratch on a desert [...] with lush landscapes

Will be interesting to see how sustainable that is.
It feels disingenuous to start with this:

> Whenever the topic of Bitcoin's energy usage comes up, there's always a flood of hastily-constructed comments by people claiming that their favourite cryptocurrency isn't like Bitcoin, that their favourite cryptocurrency is energy-efficient and scalable and whatnot.

> They're wrong, and are quite possibly trying to scam you. Let's look at why.

And then, 20 paragraphs later, agree they are indeed not wrong:

> The only redeeming feature of proof-of-stake (and many other proof schemes) over proof-of-work is that it does indeed address the energy consumption problem

I think the author has a reasonable point about the centralization problem, but I'm not sure why they spend such a large amount of time discussing the energy usage just to eventually agree with the people they're criticizing.

I don't know that the average person cares about the centralization problem, especially if they don't use the currency, like they do about the energy usage problem. This seems like an odd attempt to connect the two.
I don't want to be "that" guy, but godoc in Go and how it works forces devs to write docs just beside code, which is one of my favourite things about the language
calling this format "secure" is not sufficient, here is a review that asked the right questions.

https://neilmadden.blog/2019/12/30/a-few-comments-on-age/
Unfortunately, the age spec doesn’t document its threat model or the security goals it is intended to achieve so I’m having to read between the lines to work out what was intended.
It doesn't burst because it's not actually a ponzi scheme.
you mean 3 months and then going through 30 cycles of 10 hours each?
Doesn't seem to work for me with Chrome on macos - Not sure what's the deal is - It shows me 4 empty rectangles and expects me to do something - potentially in the keyboard input field. However if I press for example CMD + P obviously it tries to print - So it doesn't catch the shortcuts.
What are you on about? More than 50% of Dubai is Indians and Pakistanis and not in a second class citizen way you’re imagining. Most businesses, LEO, administration are south Asians. Not sure why you’re latching on to the small minority of westerners that live there.
This is very relevant to our interests - specifically the part where prices of spinning disks more than doubled for a time earlier this year.

As we dove into the chia coin rabbit hole to figure out just what was going on, it came to our attention that people are using firmware tools to reset SMART counters on drives … rolling back the odometer, so to speak.

Just terrible behavior all around.
You could just give vendors the option:

- Release all code necessary for independent developers to provide updates.

- Release updates for 7 years yourself.

Then they can decide what is cheaper for them.
This is because in our society, it's more acceptable for men to drop out and get into some skilled trade, like plumbing or climbing telephone poles. People just won't accept that women can also do that. So there's a lot of pressure to make sure your female children go to college and get a degree.
Thanks for sharing. For me it's when I transition from the "presentation" part of an interview to the "discussion" part of an interview that I can catch my breath.
Reminds me of the argument this guy was making recently https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/link-global-bitcoin-m...

> "We look at, OK, what can we do to use this in a beneficial way … I don't want to say we're in the business of methane destruction, but we're in the business of beneficial use of that potential methane-generating source. You combust it properly. You don't flare it, and you control those emissions," Jenkins said.
Elliptic Curve Explorer
Shift isn't picked up on Firefox. Am I missing something or is this Chrome/Desktop only?
The problem are the SoC that often have weird peripheral and drivers that require patched kernels (and often it's to interface with proprietary hardware that's under IP constrains).
PoW and PoS tie wealth too directly to the "legislature" membership

There is that. But nobody seems to be able to make an alternative work. Etherium postponed proof of stake yet again. What was the excuse this time?

Amusing potential alternatives:

- Proof of Space. Nodes have to be some minimum physical distance apart, like a few kilometers, so you can't have "mines". This might be feasible via some low-orbit satellite network you can use to establish approximate location.

- Proof of Hate. Nodes are run by organizations that hate each other, so they won't collude.
This gives a good historical overview: http://www.bawiki.com/wiki/Waterfall.html

Wikipedia gives a shorter version:

In fact Royce, known for his 1970 paper from which the Waterfall model for software development was mistakenly drawn, demonstrated that while the development of large software systems required a more thorough approach, there was inherent risk in a single-pass sequential approach. He proposed an iterative approach and advocated that projects should pass through this at least twice.
Optimizing Netlify
I would assume that the ability to receive remittances at practically zero fees without any intermediaries and a monetary supply that can't be censored or controlled by the government is more valuable to the people of El Salvador than the fact that they are transferring Bitcoins over a layer 2 network (Lightning Network) instead of the much slower and more expensive layer 1 network (Bitcoin blockchain).
I feel exactly the same!
That's a good idea, thanks for the advice.
My grandparents and my brother already rent out property. There's risks to it of course but that's the case with all investments
Ask HN: What is the most interesting FOSS that most people don't know about?
I, like many people on HN, enjoy FOSS. Every now and then I like to just browse GitHub and see what I find, but I know there must still be thousands of repositories I haven't seen yet or that fall outside of my usual domain. What is a FOSS repository or codebase that, in your opinion, is significantly interesting/innovative/etc, but is also relatively unknown amongst the community?
How do you make a third-party pedestrian to sign the waiver?
It’s essays like this that make me realize that many detractors don’t get it yet. If users decide that a chain is too centralized, they can move to a different one, much more easily than moving to a different traditional financial system. In addition, a transparent plutocracy is better than an opaque oligarchy or dictatorship.
Thanks God the beaches are running out of sand!
>overhearing someone ask a developer, “where do you work?” When the developer responded with “HipChat,” the other person immediately chuckled and said, “oh — Atlassian... I’m sorry” — and then everyone around them also started laughing.

Wow, This is incredibly mean.
Yes, but I guess that a committed crook can clock drives just as they clock cars.
Android 5.0 is considered as the first version fully supporting TLS 1.2 according to https://support.globalsign.com/ssl/general-ssl/tls-protocol-.... It was released end of 2014, so nearing 7 years.

Wikipedia indeed no longer supports TLS 1.1, i.e. if the phone didn't receive any updates beyond security updates, it'd be broken.

This seems to have happened around 2019: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238038

I'm honestly surprised, I expected the overlap between "everything new supports this" and "actually turned off" to be bigger.

So realistically, after 5 years without updates, the phone would be a brick. That's still 3 more useful years for people who care about security, and perhaps more importantly, 3 years where people who don't know about the importance of security updates or can't afford to care remain secure. This also assumes no non-security updates at all.
> Software updates should be indefinite, like Linux distros, which can still run on 15 year old hardware just fine.

We'd need an open spec SoC for that.
Unfortunately Snopes miscaptions many things themselves. Where the fact checkers of the "fact checkers".
Is there such a method?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-scientific...
That might all well be true, but how do you explain its popularity? Someone should do a sociological analysis of the rise of cryptocurrency. Each generation picks its bubbles, for social signaling and competition. For millenials and the like, expensive houses and expensive cars etc (the old world's bubbles) are useless, and they re just baiting us to sustain them. We are increasingly aware of how pensions and social security are also unsustainable bubbles (at least here in yurop). So we bubble up the things that cater to new lifestyles, the phones, the airbnbs, some possibly unsustainable but cool bubbles like tesla. But if we really don't want to cater to the old plutocracy, we bubble up imaginary coins and thin air promises like NFTs. Why? because it's ours , not theirs and it's visibly possible that our bubbles will cause their bubbles to deflate , and we ll be free of the leashes that 90genarians are holding on the economy. So , as a signaling and generational wealth vehicle cryptocurrency can and will work, because it s a tool, and it doesnt matter if it's imperfect.
Word on the street is that they are resetting the SMART data with OEM firmware tools.
this brings up something I've wondered about, why not start a gig barber app? you sign up and someone shows up at your house/work/wherever and cuts your hair
> Its kind of like saying the only cars in the world should be ford pintos because we don't trust folks to safely drive faster cars.

Heh... The Pinto, for safety? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Fuel_system_fires,_...
I went through several cycles and did excellent on the SD interviews because of my experience. But none of that stuff mattered, it was all about answering some trick coding questions that were irrelevant for the job. So it seems that all the important stuff like experience is much less important than leetcode.
There is still one way to reach crypto adoption faster