skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just checked how many implementations of drawRect there are in different apps:

Pages: 63

Keynote: 81

Numbers: 61
In the US the police can legally lie to you about evidence, potential punishment, charges, etc.
The apps and server are both open source. There is also free hosting. The bit that is not open source is the "Extended" paid subscription which includes all this: https://standardnotes.org/extensions

Open source is split across multiple repos:

https://github.com/standardfile/ruby-server

https://github.com/standardnotes/web

https://github.com/standardnotes/desktop

https://github.com/standardnotes/mobile
Yeah if that is true then the business is inherently unprofitable and they are just playing accounting gimmicks to obscure this simple fact.
I think the author is actually making a very decent point: when you're looking at how close we are to solving a problem 100% it's not relevant to say "We're at 98%" because 98% of the problem could well be 1% of the work and the last 0.01% is 98% of the work. Having said that, Musk seems to be saying they've done 98% of the work which frankly I would find laughable - because if that were true then Musk owes his share holders a proper update on self-driving. The key for me is the caveat - we'll have it done by EOY but regulators. Let's all look forward to Elon Musk calling the regulators pedofiles and cucks because we know how that story ends.
No, a good (not turing complete, easy to use, with types) DSL is a good thing. Meson does it right.
>I have never considered the "unreasonable effectiveness" and "considered harmful" to be equivalent?

I didn't downvote you but as an fyi...

When gp wrote "in the same vein of", he wasn't saying the phrases meant the same thing. He was pointing out that they are the same classification of rhetorical device which some call a "snowclone". (See examples.[1])

The "unreasonable effectiveness of <x>" is re-used as a text template similar to "<x> considered harmful".

For another timely example, the current #1 story on HN is ""Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace"". I think many readers will recognize it as a snowclone of the Kubrick film title "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

The snowclone is: "<X> or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love <Y>".[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone#Notable_examples

[2] More examples of previous HN submissions that used that Strangelove snowclone: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=or%20%22how%20i%20learned%20to...)
The Dollop (comedy/history podcast) did an entertaining episode about these psychopaths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38R-OOVfz7A
Coroutines in pure Java
no such prerogative
Common e-cigarette chemical flavorings may impair lung function
Sort of. There's ceramic in the coating, but it's a minor component. More specifically, the coating is referred to as sol-gel ceramic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%E2%80%93gel_process?wpro...
I'm facing the same experience. I see how it's exhausting and depressive the feel of "failure". I quit my first job trying to clone some successful idea to run it in my country with no background in marketing or business. I was driven by dreams and hoped to be independent but there was no business vision. After two years, i returned to work with other companies, but i continue to work in side projects. I think the worst error that we made is the pursuit of "perfection", trying to do what big sass companies does with hundred of engineers. Big companies fail and fail a lot but they can surpass that by other resources. To summarize, i think the lean startup is the basic of any business (in software and all other business fields), it consists on building an "ugly" solution ( for a real problem) first than sell it and than continue till perfection. We can learn a lot from yahoo and nokia ...
This is the problem with our current approach to safety testing; it takes decades of statistical analysis across the population in order to determine whether there are long-term effects from these chemicals. By the time there is evidence to make PFAS illegal, a new alternative will be found. Who knows if this alternative will be turn out to be better or worse that PFAS in 30 years?

This is a hard problem; in general you don't want to shut off all new technological development, and presumably the worse something is for you, the faster the harm will become apparent (e.g. thalidomide). But I'd be interested to see a full-system cost/benefit analysis of e.g. PFAS. If the cost is "with X probability, cause Y QUALYs of harm to the population over 30 years", and the benefit is "improve convenience of cooking by making pans non-stick", what are the maximum values of X and Y that we should be happy to agree to?

It doesn't seem to me that society is currently well equipped to make decisions in this way.
The infrastructural humiliation of America
Perhaps it would have been better to phrase it as "an 'understanding' of chinese exists in the room"
Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.21 Released – OpenSSL for TLS Fixes
For comparison, there's old-school Flash, where the permission box for camera/microphone would be overlaid on the bit asking for said permission instead of modally blocking the page, and if you didn't give permission, it would still work fine, just with blank camera/microphone feeds.
Who/what is "rms"?
right, but you basically can't get a job there, unless you live in Virginia.
The study your citing doesn't say what you are claiming it does.

> It is also important to recognize that the five external costs calculated in this analysis do not encompass all possible external costs associated with vehicle ownership and use. For example, noise pollution imposes significant costs.

Not only does it not even attempt to put a total cost per mile - which I read as the main reason why you cited it. It directly contradicts you when you say "Noise is also a rounding error".

It specifically excludes some of the biggest costs

> Based on his review of the transport-cost literature, Litman (2002) believes that the largest external costs of automobile ownership and use relate to land use impacts [...] However, these costs are, to a large extent, indirect. In other words, they are a result of auto-oriented travel patterns and will not vary much by vehicle type, make and model. Thus, they are not examined here.

Another quote to make it extra clear that this study really doesn't say what you are claiming it does

> Many other external costs associated with driving exist, and many of these have been characterized at an aggregate scale, rather than by make and model. For instance, [...] disposal costs. Water contamination [...]. However, like the noise and land use costs described above, these other costs are difficult to distinguish by make and model. Thus, they are not covered here

A quote explaining what the study is about

> While certain studies have analyzed other types of external cost, beyond the five quantified here, these studies have been aggregate in nature, focusing on passenger vehicles as a whole, or cars versus light-duty trucks. In contrast, this work looks at likely variations across specific makes and models.
I agree with you. SaaS is in my opinion the hardest way to make money as a developer. Not only do you have to make working software, you also have to do every other thing a freelance business requires.

The path I often see is:

Developer builds an app in private with no monitization strategy or "we'll put on ads", releases to crickets/not very many users, and nothing then happens.

The question is then asked "why won't anyone buy my software?" Answer: "because you made something nobody asked for."

My recommendation is, instead of starting with a SaaS you come up with yourself and try to sell it to people, start with the audience. Learn about them and try to find a problem they'd pay money to solve.

To make things automatically twice as easy, sell to businesses instead of individual non-business owners. You can sell a $500 a month service to a business that solves a business problem. My family values software at less than $1.

If the problem you are solving is something the audience might also want to learn how to do, start a mailing list around the idea and teach them about the thing. Make info products, and services around helping them do the thing. Create a consulting service to manually do what your SaaS app might do automatically. Then build an app to automate the process.

Audience -> Freelance/Consulting -> Info Products -> Software.

Each of these steps are necessary for all the following steps anyway. Building a SaaS first is like jumping into senior year as a freshman - you _could_ learn everything all at the same time but that may take a lot of effort and frustration.

This is one of my soapbox issues because I have spent so much of my side project time flailing around doing exactly the opposite of what I said above and never making a dime from it.
See also Hoogle [1], a Haskell API search engine that allows you to search by aproximate type signature. It works really well.

[1] https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
nice. refreshing to see this
No attempt at rational argument is made by the author.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Isn't the whole point to keep the private keys in some kind of secure element that is tamper resistant and never exposed? On iOS you can't even export private keys generated on the secure enclave, which is exactly how I expect it to work. There are other ways to securely transfer accounts without creating vulnerabilities.
I agree. You would be better off, if you have a private key per device and increase your logic on the server side (multiple devices per user), to allow for easier revocation of stolen devices.

“Linking multiple devices” via their public key is still fine, since the user has to login once with email/password (or by some other means).

If you were to have the requirement of needing multiple private keys to decrypt a message, that would be a different thing - maybe to ensure in a group chat only the current group chat members can decrypt the messages. And whenever a member leaves/joined a new group secret gets generated based on all private keys of all members. But then what would be the benefit of this ?
Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization, 2019
Legos apparently have a higher rate of return than gold or stocks
"I feel like I live in a different universe from these people."

It's the same universe. Remember that it is difficult to get a person to understand something when their salary depends upon not understanding it.

The real paymasters behind the leadership of the FCC expect the FCC to continue drawing the distinctions that serve their interest. Any understanding of the matter that is contrary to "the FCC can't regulate broadband" is, therefore, incomprehensible.

It is simple, bald-faced regulatory capture.
Ceramic is no teflon... I accidentally proved this by leaving an empty ceramic pan on the fire. It took take an amazing high temperature with the aluminium underside discolored a bit but otherwise perfectly fine, still use it today.
And how we used to think whatever the latest in graphics was, was oh so realistic and amazing!

I played MUD’s for a few years when I was younger and in hindsight it was amazing: while the writing wasn’t typically as good as a book, you still filled in the world and characters with your imagination and it was both interactive and social. I still have some vivid memories of it that are as clear as if it had been a modern game or movie, despite that in reality I was reading text.
>In the Wonderful fields, he tells me, at least 80 percent of the workers carry no documents or documents that are not real. U.S. immigration has little say-so here. Rather, it is the authority vested in Wonderful that counts.

Interesting to consider in this context how illegal immigration has facilitated a continuing and escalating cost to society by subsidizing labor and environmental externalities for inefficient (and ultimately ill-fated) industries.
Still happens in America today. I refilled a glass jug at a local brewery today. $5 deposit on a 750ml bottle, can return for the deposit or just leave it in the car and get it refilled at just about any brewery, even some liquor stores, restaurants and grocery stores.
> Wasn't Perl 6's Parrot kind of meant to fulfil that role?

Yes, that was an original project goal. You can see this as far back as Larry's State of the Onion 2003:

https://www.perl.com/pub/2003/07/16/soto2003.html/

... the "Parrot: Some Assembly Required" article written by Simon Cozens in September 2001:

https://www.perl.com/pub/2001/09/18/parrot.html/

... or, if you trust Git commits rather than articles which could have been edited in the meantime, the same article revised as introductory docs in the Parrot repository in December 2001:

https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/9bc8687beb5180e4cc8971...
Superman Could Save More Lives (2011)
Why did we end up like this? I returned last week from Dubai to San Francisco, and have been trying to mentally rationalize why this place can’t be a tenth as good (in terms of infrastructure).
Reminds me that people make stuff up. People like you. Here's the actual joke:

A jew comes to his rabbi and tells him it's hard to live in his tiny apartment with his wife, kids, and mother in law. The rabbi tells him to get a dog and check back in a month.

The jew comes back and complains it's even worse. Less room, the dog runs around, the kids are crying. The rabbi says to get a goat.

The jew comes back in a month - it's even worse. The goat is shitting everywhere. Rabbi says to get a cow.

The jew comes back and tells the rabbi he's always had respect for the man, but his advice has made his family life completely intolerable - save me! Rabbi tells him to sell the dog, the goat, and the cow.

The jew comes back the next day glowing from happiness. Thanks rabbi - life is great now - there's so much space.

Source: I'm a Russian-American Jew, and my family is from Soviet Moscow.

EDIT: and here's the actual joke: https://www.anekdot.ru/id/-301115039/
Unemployment is low only because 'involuntary' part-time work is high
Ditch the Lodge, don't even think about the artisanal cast iron, and go straight for the DeBuyer Mineral B. It's much cheaper than the crap artisanal things, much more options in pan sizes, and finished better.

More generally - if they don't sell it at a restaurant supply store (or a store catering toward the restaurant business), you are going to be overpaying for it. This is true for almost everything you really need in the kitchen.
It always pisses me off when I have to build a GitHub project or something with cmake. Just use a Makefile and autoconf, dammit.
I often hear this stated as "regulations are written in blood".
This is a much better Wikipedia article on the subject, one that actually explains why it's so dangerous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanesulfonic_acid

There are major swaths of the country where PFAS and PFOS doesn't need to be defined: it's common knowledge and the terms see daily use among the general population as they drink filtered water to avoid ingesting it. But spelling out the name doesn't tell you the story, so if you're discounting the information because the name isn't spelled out, you're missing a major disaster slow-rolling the industrial Midwest right now. The long form of the name is the least interesting part of the article.
A separate database/vault for user encryption keys is also useful for backups. This way you can delete (well make it un-decryptable) user data individually on cold storage. Known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-shredding
No, I think parts of this are very true. Apple Retail doesn't pay their staff commissions so there's no incentive to drive expensive sales that the staff personally profit from (partly I guess because of just how expensive and seasonal Apple product sales are?).

Myself, and a few other developers, refuse to monetise our third-party apps for the video game Destiny because doing it for free means we have no obligation to any customers. If I was being paid to do this, I would enjoy it a lot less.
Pulling of a free, volunteer-ran conference for many thousand attendees year after year is incredibly impressive. I thanks all the volunteers making FOSDEM happen for their hard work.
I would have appreciated if your post would not have been a personal attack. I was suggesting limiting login attempts based on a particular user account, not an IP address, and I have never talked about a pending message system for forums.
Probably, but I’m not Google. Feel free to research yourself.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that the devrooms are run very autonomously by the corresponding communities. I actually spend full days in a single devroom, and get the most out of FOSDEM that way. But I can also see how it's different for many people.
Much of the best work I know about was done as people’s hobby projects, self-selected school projects, self-selected projects funded by some kind of patronage system with money not directly tied to output, etc.

I don’t employ anyone, so you don’t need to worry about whether I would hire you to keep doing your hobby and kill your love for it.
Would you mind developing a little bit? How would you sell the idea and get your customers first? I kind of get it, but it would be nice to have few examples.
Sample Efficient Adaptive Text-To-Speech
I think that’s grossly unfair given the American products you refer to are also manufactured in China. So they clearly have the knowhow to produce high quality products - even if they often prefer to target the non-premium market (which probably makes better financial sense when it comes to selling hardware domestically)
This is the case in most (AFAIK) of the US. Wikipedia has a map[1] summarizing required inspections state-by-state. Only ~1/3 have safety-related inspections. Emissions inspections are a bit more common, but nowhere near universal.

I know where I live, it's common to see vehicles that would be unsafe driving at highway speeds, but no one cares as long as they work well enough for local driving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
Is there a reason you wouldn’t use one of the many more comprehensive monitoring solutions e.g. Zabbix?
Could you please give the source when you're not on mobile?
California is a special place. No where else in the USA/Canada do you have such a wonderful climate where you can have so many growing seasons (6?). It is the Bread Basket of NA.

It would be worth helping find a solution to provide this area of the country with water.
I don't understand what you're responding to in what I wrote, sorry.
I dunno, I just cringe nowadays reading stuff this leftist-activist. But I was also disappointed because I thought it was an article telling a success story. That's the thing I appreciate the most on HN, except purely technically interesting stuff.
Every HN front page post of last 3 years
This is the best response of all. It hinges on the idea that the program is simple or trivial. That a simple recipe that a human might carry out would be able to pass a Turing test. The entire premise is a strawman.
I don't understand the premise of the Chinese Room argument. The human in the room is a red herring - he's acting as a computer executing a provided program. A computer can be made from integrated circuits, discrete transistors, vacuum tubes, mechanical components, or even a man in a room following simple instructions and writing down the results.

The man is not the source of the intelligence, the program is (or rather, the execution of the program in an emergent manner - obviously, if the program does not get executed, it cannot "understand" Chinese). Remove the program and the man is unable to process the Chinese input, just like a modern CPU if you remove a program from memory.

The choice of conducting the experiment in Chinese is just another misdirection. The only thing that the experiment is truly positing is, assume a human is executing a program that passes the Turing test rather than a traditional silicon computer.
I have a lot of strong thoughts and feelings when I think deeply about this experiment. But one thing bugs me just about the way it's posed. You're told to just assume you've got a functional database of Chinese symbols; maybe it's just a big shelf of old dusty boxes with helpful headings. And you should just assume you've got this book of instructions; maybe it's so big you need a stepladder to read its big pages. But it is, as you've been instructed, to be just a book. And when you use them together, just assume they do something amazing.

Haha, I fooled you dummy, something has to be missing here; the thing it does can't really be THAT amazing, because you were told it was just boxes and books; you can get those anywhere.

You're told right away to imagine a set of comprehensible mundane objects, assume they can do this thing in the form you've been given, and as a result, the thing must be mundane and incomplete.

I know there's more depth to it than that, but I don't think you need to go that deep to find large flaws.
It seems to me that the argument is not meant to address the value judgements of people doing work in applied ML.

The basic idea of the Chinese Room is that the Turing Test is inadequate—such that even if a machine could pass the test, we would not be permitted to infer that such a machine is intelligent. This is significant for the distinction between syntax and semantics, as well as any mechanical account of mind that integrates the results of computational logic. And indeed it does seem like many people do wonder about the nature of machine intelligence and about whether we can give a coherent account of the mind from a mechanical perspective. So perhaps some people doing work in applied ML do not care about these questions; but it does not follow from this that such questions are without qualification uninteresting or worthy of being considered.
Oracle contributes about 90% of development (80% of the issues, and almost all new JEPs). Red Hat contributes ~5%, and IBM only 1%. So the recent Red Hat acquisition improves their position a lot, but before that Oracle and IBM paid for the majority of OpenJDK salaries the same way Bill Gates and I combined have billions of dollars.

* https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/building-jdk-11...

* https://youtu.be/wHoRBvt3U6o?t=830