skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is both true, and humorous. A lot of advances in mechanical computing were driven by the needs of WWI and WWII artillery battalion colonels, and ship captains - hitting distant, often-times moving targets at different elevations, and in various wind conditions.

For example, the Mark I mechanical computer[1] could, when pointed at a target, measure its distance, altitude and heading, its own ship's speed, pitch, and heading, current windspeed - and combine that with the chosen projectile type, weight, propellant type, and current temperature - all to compute a firing solution that had the best chance of sinking ships adorned with swastikas, or a rising sun.

Not a general-purpose computation machine, but work on these sorts of devices heavily overlapped with work on programmable computers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Fire_Control_Computer
Haha yea, my brain really wasn’t functioning enough anymore at 7am when I was submitting the app. I need to be a bit more creative with the icon. I will decide on something better in an update!
Security of Smart Manufacturing Systems
It’s like if someone told you they just had a great trip to France and you said, “What, have you never even tried going to Spain? You sound like someone who has never even tried going to Spain.” The author could prefer an MS tablet for all we know, it’s beside the point. This is a retraction of a previous opinion on a product that has nothing to do with any other product. This article is neither a universal endorsement of Apple nor an universal or incidental dismissal of MS.
> Intelligence is highly heritable and negatively correlated with fertility.

More accurately, intelligence is negatively correlated with fertility in women in the Western world. The correlation is still positive for men.

Generally it's believed that the negative effect on fertility is due to intelligent women getting more education, rather being a direct negative effect of intelligence.
Great comment, if you allow I would summarize by rephrasing one sentence making it shorter:

What you have instead is knowledge debt as engineers turn over, and the once intuitive and elegant parts of the codebase are utterly alien to the new hires who learned their craft in a totally different way. This isn’t tech debt because engineers can’t intuitively anticipate the business’s future.

That is it! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Agreed. It's a great design.
For timing side-channels specifically, they basically assume them away. For example, they say that WASM guarantees constant-time 64-bit arithmetic, but conflate providing the semantics of 64-bit arithmetic with how it's actually performed on the hardware. An odd claim considering in the previous paragraph they show how Emscripten has to synthesize 64-bit arithmetic using unsafe 32-bit primitives, as-if no WASM engine would ever do the same or something equally problematic.

They play semantic games elsewhere. They say that there's no undefined behavior in WASM therefore it's all good. Well, there may not be undefined behavior but there is unspecified behavior, both explicit and implicit, which is functionally equivalent. And by making assumptions about unspecified behavior based on observations of the few existing implementations they (and others) recapitulate the very same judgments that made unspecified and undefined behavior problematic in C in the first place.

So many newer languages and advocates simply conflate the absence of the phrase "undefined behavior" with the absence of the underlying traps. Some of them may be gone, but not all of them; they don't disappear just because they're not explicitly identified as such.
I agree that a lot of the unremovable difficulty in programming is translating natural English into something precise.

But I also think git often makes the problem worse by splitting similar operations unnaturally across different commands. I believe that was the motivation behind mercurial.
I tried using github pages with fastly, however it appears when a new site deployment is done, github does not invalidate the fastly cache, in addition to fastly independently caching resources on the site, which can cause broken site deployments for several minutes where it is using mixed cached resources from old and new deployments. I opened a ticket with github support, and they said it was expected behavior. It makes it partially unusable for me.
To add to this, I have found the source code of 'grumpy.website' a nice example project:
https://github.com/tonsky/grumpy
For some definition of "code" where half of it is documentation XML, other text files, and hardware databases.

Edit: More relevant are these:

Language Files Lines Blank Comment Code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C 890 465499 101077 24438 339984
C/C++ Header 583 48434 8857 8481 31096

(That seems like a surprisingly high number of blank lines)
can you step down from something that is for life?
Andrew and I have been working together for 4 years on different things, we're just starting to put all this together and wanted to test the waters. But Andrew is Legit. I mean, his first and last name is right there in the username. So is mine.

As if you guys haven't copied terms from someone else...
I wonder how is this different from Thanos or Uber's M3
Maybe they have a version just for you ;)
The bridge Hollywood loves to hate: Golden Gate Bridge destruction, ranked
Working class might've been a better term
1) I don't mind paying for games. I just don't want the game mechanics to be designed to divert me towards spending more money on the game.

2) It's 12 games to start with. I'm sure there could be more later on.
Show HN: Bulk Image Quotes Generator
Speaking of cemeteries...

At the end of this March I was in Stockholm. One of the most unusual "highlights" (I consciously choose to visit this place for its nature) of the trip was the breathtaking woodland cemetery called Skogskyrkogården[1], located just outside the city.

I spent 3 hours of walking and reading there. It's one of the most beautiful and serene nature places I've ever been to. When you enter, there are no graves in sight — a sign that nature is the central focus, not the graves. These are mainly located in the depths of the woodland.

It's a UNESCO World Heritage site; this was their justification[2]:

Outstanding Universal Value:

Skogskyrkogården, located south of central Stockholm, Sweden, is an outstanding early 20th century cemetery. Its design blends vegetation and architectural elements, taking advantage of irregularities in the site to create a landscape that is finely adapted to its function. [...] Asplund and Lewerentz’s cemetery design evokes a more primitive imagery. The intervention of footpaths, meandering freely through the woodland, is minimal. Graves are laid out without excessive alignment or regimentation within the forest. Asplund and Lewerentz’s sources were not “high” architecture or landscape design but rather ancient and medieval Nordic burial archetypes.

Skogskyrkogården is an outstanding example of the successful application of the 20th-century concept of architecture wholly integrated into its environment: the chapels and other buildings there would lose much of their meaning if isolated from the landscape for which they were conceived. The Woodland Chapel is intimately integrated into its setting, whilst the impact of the later group of chapels is heightened by the use of their landscape as a background. In both cases, the architecture has a quality of austerity that is appropriate to its function and does not compete with the landscape. The success with which Asplund and Lewerentz integrated natural with artistic and architectural values gives this cemetery an outstanding independent cultural value. Considered to be of the highest artistic quality, Skogskyrkogården has had a profound influence on cemetery design in many countries of the world.

[1] https://skogskyrkogarden.stockholm.se/in-english/architectur...

[2] https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/558
WebKit, but WebKit identifying itself as a desktop Safari implementation rather than a mobile implementation. For example: I should be able to open docs.google.com in iPad Safari and not have the site reject me.
I had a lot of fun hacking with these: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Wikireader-Adventures
That calculation double counts US public healthcare spending, which makes up about half of that 17%: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-.... It also leaves out Germany private health care spending, which is about 2% of GDP. So it’s more like 37% versus 40%.

The calculation is also irrelevant to the question of what taxes should pay for the 9-10% of GDP you want to transition from the private sector to the public sector. Right now, healthcare premiums are effectively a social insurance tax capped at a certain income level. Paying for universal healthcare with an explicit social insurance tax, like in Germany, would keep things within the norms established by Europe. Paying for it with income taxes or corporate taxes, like the left wants to do, would obliterate those norms, catapulting the US to the top of the charts in terms of income or corporate tax burden.

I feel like you’re arguing against a point I’m not raising. I think we should have universal healthcare. I think your calculation shows why the effective tax increase wouldn’t be as big as you might think if you account for the cost of healthcare premiums. My point here is completely different. It’s that we should follow European norms in choosing what taxes we use to fund that transition. Doubling the SS payroll tax would raise about a trillion in revenue, about 5% of GDP. A 10% federal VAT would raise another 5% of GDP in revenue. That tax increase would fall on the middle class, but would largely be offset by savings from not having to pay for health insurance. And the overall ratios of different types of taxes would stay within OECD norms.
I wonder if this has something to do with the timezone/location? Does your front show you different than what you see if you go to https://news.ycombinator.com/front

?
I think you might be talking about deeper elements of design than the basic fact of delayed feedback through logic gates implementing memory.
Hello! I bootstrapped a year ago a micro-saas ideal for social marketing.

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It has been a long journey, and I really enjoyed it. I have 2 average buyers per month, which is enough to maintain it itself. I want to clarify that ViralQuotes is a side project, I am working on it with experimental purposes, I'm not hoping to become rich with it, just learn as much as I can about being a founder and ship my own product to the world.

It would be great to hear about other founder experiences, I appreciate any suggestions, critics, ideas, etc.

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10 years on and that one still gets a laugh from me.
And yet Robert Duvall lost his case when an angry neighbor shot down hos trespassing drone. No federal charges there.
Software engineers are white collar workers[0]. As far as I know, hourly employees no longer get equity[1], and I would guess they comprise most of Amazon's blue collar workforce.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/amazon-hourly-workers-lose-m...
We didn't quite invent everything. We didn't invent spreadsheets, and there's actually a good lesson in that. I think the reason we didn't invent spreadsheets is that we didn't have any use for them, since we didn't do accounting. - Dr. Butler Lampson, on Xerox PARC (2016)

... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
It would be cool if the 3d model was also an emulator.
Look at the implementation of Secure Enclave, FaceID, Apple Pay and ML models.

They build these very carefully to keep your data secure, on-device and inaccessible to third parties. They definitely could've implemented these much quicker and arguably better (e.g. ML models) if they had a device-cloud hybrid.
Okay, but the same applies to eating pork.

As long as we actually understand the underlying reasons why these practices were forbidden, and have addressed them, then it's okay to eat pork.

These issues have been studied, and composting is a pretty safe form of disposal as long as it's done properly.
I would also find a replacement for deadlifts too. As great as they are, it's fairly difficult to find a place that would accept them. Most gyms don't like them because they create a lot of noise and possible structural damage if the weightlifting equipment is not on the ground floor.
The article is by KIRO7 news staff. Is KOMO News also a "right wing hackjob of a publication"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
Ask HN: How to handle sales tax for SaaS side projects?
I just realized how complex sales tax is. It seems to be a huge overhead for small projects. How can I handle it with ease?
HOY, River Plate vs. Atlético Paranaense EN VIVO Ver Fox Sports
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https://www.afa-wa.com/forum/education/directo-vivo-river-plate-atletico-paranaense-e-n-directo-online-gratis-tv

https://www.afa-wa.com/forum/education/streaming-river-plate-atletico-paranaense-e-n-directo-online-gratis-tv-05-22-2019-1

https://www.thegridforhumanity.com/forum/the-grid-community/directo-uhd-river-plate-atletico-paranaense-e-n-directo-online-gratis-tv

https://www.thegridforhumanity.com/forum/the-grid-community/directo-hq-river-plate-atletico-paranaense-e-n-directo-online-gratis-tv

https://qiita.com/fubotv24/items/df89559fce2a26707ae5

https://qiita.com/fubotv24/items/c13601d2e9bc27d5816e

https://qiita.com/fubotv24/items/068e6dc1916e045ffbb8

https://qiita.com/fubotv24/items/de4b63f6f999ae0eb821

https://www.afa-wa.com/forum/education/assistir-atletico-pr-x-river-plate-ao-vivo-online-gratis-tv

https://www.afa-wa.com/forum/education/assistir-hd-atletico-pr-x-river-plate-ao-vivo-online-gratis-tv

https://www.thegridforhumanity.com/forum/the-grid-community/ver-atletico-pr-x-river-plate-ao-vivo-online-gratis-tv

https://www.afa-wa.com/forum/education/beinsports-river-plate-atletico-paranaense-e-n-directo-online-gratis-tv
RTFA:

> The first proposal would have made the company stop offering facial recognition to governments unless its board determined sales did not violate civil liberties. A second would have requested a study by September of the extent to which Amazon’s service harmed rights and privacy.

There is no world in which you are not disgustingly greedy, unempathetic, and immoral to reject sales of facial recognition technology to abusive governments.
Skyscrapers go straight down into bedrock - the Prudential and Hancock in Boston are built on landfill in the Back Bay, but it doesn't matter, because their foundations go way past the mud. There are a few architectural/area combinations you want to avoid (you probably don't want 4-story rowhouses in the Marina in SF, for example), but most of the land area in these cities is solid. Western SF, for example, is actually at a high elevation immune to most reasonable sea level rise projections:

https://ss2.climatecentral.org/#12/37.7341/-122.4540?show=sa...

(The East Bay and Palo Alo are screwed, but that's not the subject here.)

Also, expensive high rises benefit the working poor by giving rich yuppies a place to live where they don't bid up the same housing that working-class people have been living in for decades. If you put up luxury condo highrises in SOMA where tech workers could walk to their offices, for example, then maybe they wouldn't be bidding up the price of 1BRs in the Mission to $4k/month. Landlords are generally unwilling to let housing go vacant, because even a 2-month vacancy can destroy much of their profit for the year. So one way or another, if you build enough housing the price will adjust itself to the point where everybody gets housing.
It's popular to make fun of Excel in some circles, but it really is a nearly perfect tool for innumerable real-world business tasks. It's intuitive enough that newcomers can do some work with minimal instruction, and powerful enough that you can manage a half-billion dollar book of business with it.

More than any of the iterations of Windows, Excel is Microsoft's great contribution to software, and I say that as an old-school MS hater.

I think people too often forget that "useful" is the key ingredient in killer software.
On the contrary, most of us are usually far too reverential to outdated traditions. We've very, very slowly abandoned the ones that resulted in completely unnecessary human suffering. But it doesn't mean the remaining ones are any more useful or justified than the ones that caused more direct or obvious harm.
How old school! <chuckle>

There is even a key for it with win7+ win-uparrow.

There is also the option in the shortcut to automatically run any random application maximized by default. That has been around for ages (XP/2000 at least).
Likely to arrive in iOS 13, already present via "accessibility" interfaces and remote desktop (e.g. when using Windows remotely from iPad), https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/05/ipad-mouse-support/
You can put Linux on top of Chrome OS, I believe.
The way something looks can definitely change based on its rotation -- see http://thatchereffect.com for example.
No one cares about your sensitivities but you. You act like you're some martyr ever time your virgin ears detect an off color remark, and yet, for all your fragility, you're the burden that needs to be thrown overboard for the benefit of society.

Your whine is pathetic. Your boundaries make you weak. You pine for billy club and hand cuffs, so you can police the world according to your rules, and yet no one wants them but you.

The rest of the world hears a naughty word and moves on. You stew in your juices and find all the wrong reasons to imagine a world of oppression. The knee jerk belief that it's about superficial qualities is a telling reality about your own inability to look past things like race, sex, age and culture.
The going rate for a used 3DS XL is about $110.
Well, maybe fileinput is meant to be used for making shell one-liners using the -m switch or so, like in the link you posted, or like perl/awk. Does that play nice with Python's block syntax, though?
The theory is that much of Theia was absorbed in to the Earth and the mass that was ejected during the collision became the moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)
not that i like systemd, but the output of cloc tell shows a very different measure: http://ix.io/1JMg

Presumably this more than double the number that phoronix came to is because it is including duplicated files or possibly others that cloc could have ignored as not being code?
We have about 75 years of testing on that, don’t we? Communist states such as China, USSR, and were a living laboratory. You could meet wide swathes of society with essentially the same income, but there was still the same kind of range in IQ you see in wealthier societies. I recall no studies showing different IQs vs. the free market (and hence more unequal) cohorts.
I honestly expected your question to garner a half-dozen nerds replying pedantically about how they wouldn't mind eating corpse-eating pigs, and that the human body is just organic matter blah blah blah, and I'm shocked that it didn't :-)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms
EMR sounds awesome, thank you!
The headline should read Bezos rejects facial recognition ban.
Where's the SDK? That's what I'm interested in. I don't wanna be limited to just twelve games.

Edit- looks like an SDK exists, it's just not available quite yet: https://play.date/media/
In other words, we are willing to sell out our privacy and security for MONEY . . .

or as Ben Franklin stated: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary (elusive) Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
get a surface pro
Exactly this. Also some SASS sites have mysterious bugs that don’t occur on desktop safari on a mac. Am talking about layout bugs, or buttons not working, or a text cursor vanishing.

You can get around this with icab mobile, but having desktop safari would fix a lot.
the iPad's biggest weak point by far is Safari and its inability to do anything in the background (slow pages should load and render even if they're not in focus; I should be able to download things in the background). But it is pretty great for hobby coding.

I use Blink for mosh (ssh connections get closed if you leave the app in the background for too long) and Wireguard for VPN to my Linux VPC (it's so good!). I started using a code folding config in my remote vim so I can fit more stuff on my screen.

I recently started using Juno for Jupyter notebooks on my iPad. It's 15 bucks and requires a bit of work to get SSL certs set up on self-hosted instances, but it's actually usable unlike Safari.

The Logitech smart keyboard is far better than the Apple keyboard IMO but I don't think they've made one for the newest model iPad Pro yet. (I have the 2017 model)
Actively producing and selling the tools to strip human rights is far worse than standing by while someone uses said tools.
Muslims in re-education camps sounds a lot like systematic high-rate incarceration of minorities to me.

Look at something as mundane as cash bail in our justice system. It's something that systematically knocks poor and minority people into a tailspin of financial and life woes. Rich people systematically walk free, poor people who can't pay, wait in jail, sometimes years for their trial date. Compared to China, I would agree that the US crucially does have more political freedom to change things like this - but the actual state of things means we need to exercise those freedoms while we still can.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
If it was a problem, wouldn't game controllers in general be a problem? There's always the assumption that left things (buttons, joysticks, etc.) are for movement and right things are for actions. Would it be better for a leftie if there were mirrored versions of game controllers?
Synth Repairman Accidentally Gets High by Touching LSD Left in Vintage Buchla
FB's had way less users than 1M when they raised seed A, but that was in 2005. In 2019, you'd need at least 1M, with a high retention rate (i'd say at least 65%+ 30-day basis). Also show high growth rate and a daily use greater than 5/10 mins per user
> A really good definition of government that I've heard is "an organization that has a monopoly on force." There's probably more that I'm forgetting but I think that definition is important because it's something that people often forget or choose to ignore.

Max Weber, although his definition is a bit more nuanced:

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

> Weber defined the state as an entity that successfully claims a "monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory".

"Legitimate" is a tarpit, but in practical terms it's pretty much what others recognize as legitimate. That's the difference between a warlord and a dictator: One controls an armed gang, the other controls a military.

This poses some problems for people claiming that anarchism can work: If a region declares itself anarchist, but the majority can and will enforce its rules by force, is it anarchist or majoritarian? Is there any practical difference?