skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an app really needs the feature it will have to distribute a native binary (like you have/had with some web video/screenshare) so do you prefer to have some applications that each one has to offer a Windows and Mac binary (no Linux or mobile) ?

IMO this API should be off by default. Then you would get a native popup when an application is trying to access them for an user to approve it, like this was something Falsh did many years back when you attempted to access the webcam or microphone. Speaking of Flash there were pages that had to use an invisible Flash player(or Java apple) to work around missing features of browsers. So personally I would like if it would be possible to have a browser based, cross platform wideo chat, screen sharing or other cool application as long is using free standards(I mean real ones not Chrome/Google wants it so is a standard now ) . Sorry for the long response.
Sadly your right, I am sure the student we had on our team is now some one senior in the French civilservice.
This is a good thing and is a mark of progress, it seems you're arguing we should lower wages and living/working standards so that people are willing to do these jobs. This is close to a backward and selfish line of thinking that 'people should be willing to do things for me for less money'.

Why should essential jobs like caring for people be paid so little compated to jobs that provide little value to society like banking and PR? It's essentially the 'Bullshit jobs' argument made by David Graeber
I think you may be right:

Its actually IEEE and NFPA that recommend a maximum of 5 Ohms for the grounding system.

NEC state less than 5 Ohms for sensitive equipment, 25 Ohms otherwise. (NEC 250.56) - but as you mentioned, the measurement is only taken from first rod and a second can be inserted without testing (so it could be over 25 Ohms still, but based on the code it doesnt even matter....)

As an aside, its 200 Ohm in the UK (but it HAS to be measured - cant just blindly drive 2 electrodes and call it a day).
But if you'd otherwise use border-bottom hacks, this is a good reason to stop doing those and just have Chrome users live with the not-terrible default underline until Chrome supports those properties as well.
Agreed, I'm speculating. I'm just coming more and more to the conclusion that very few phenomena that disbenefit the rich are allowed to persist for very long.
Regarding quick evacuation - both in urban environments and rural, cars may not be the great option that you'd initially assume they might be.

In rural areas with few roads and sudden population movement, those roads can quickly become congested. This was a big issue for the city of Paradise during evacuation from the Camp Fire last year[0].

In urban environments, large vehicle movements can also become a public safety issue. Try commuting out of a major city at 5pm on a Friday and you'll frequently find delays and congestion at freeway entrances - exactly as you would during a mass exodus.

That's not to mention the rush on gas stations[1] which can occur as a subset of car owners realize they have to fill up before leaving town. This in itself will lead to delays and congestion - and even if you yourself have set aside plenty of fuel, you still suffer as a result of those who are less prepared.

Neither of these urban problems affect cyclists who can continue even in the presence of road traffic. I'd imagine they'd in fact be more at-risk from frantic and desperate vehicle owners who suddenly realize that using a car is failing and that they want a plan B.

Regarding CVS at 2am -- cycling at night can be surprisingly enjoyable since the roads and surroundings are quiet. In some places with cold/wet weather - or with larger distances to travel - it might be less pleasant though.

[0] - https://www.apnews.com/e856b9efef7b426a90fd175510cd54dd

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781922/
WeWork Isn’t Worth $47B Anymore, but Its Rent Bill Is
IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy
How can I watch the video?
I think I'd argue that calculus (like all of maths) is a tool used by science rather than a science itself.
Mirror Maker is fine for small scale, or you upgrade into https://github.com/uber/uReplicator ... region-homing data is generally more practical

You should provide examples of either better or cheaper to substantiate your claim.
It may seem tangential, but I think that biking culture can’t really take off in the US without universal, good quality healthcare. I’ve had a couple of friends suffer some serious and very expensive accidents and it has certainly made me hesitant to ride as much. When combined with the fact that US car culture has created circumstances in many states where you can kill bicyclists and more or less get away it, seems like a losing bet.
From a user's perspective I feel sorry for all the people who bought, full price, App Store versions of games like Civilization VI which are not compatible with PC, and Steam versions.
i am very very eager to test and use this. FF is my main driver but it's a heat machine on my mac 10.11.6. I wonder if i gain something to upgrade my macOS (4g ram :()
I started https://www.virtualhere.com about 10 years ago, it provides a good income. I developed/sell/support everything myself. I felt there was a need for this type of product 10 years ago and with cloud computing/gaming its become very useful for a lot of use-cases now.
Australia ,like a big country town.

Best of luck with your venture!
Don't use this year style trend if you want to make your brand recognizable. Also you'll have a problem next year because it will look dated.

I had this issue coming up a lot when I was doing more graphic design projects. Never really understand why small clients really wanted to look like everyone else. I always thought the aproach should be the oposite, the lower the budget the bolder you must be if you want anyone to remember you.
Revealing the nanostructure of wood could raise height for wooden skyscrapers
Ask HN: Any good charity donation APIs?
Hi all,
I’d like to integrate donations to charities into my product. Ideally people would be able to choose one among a comprehensive list of charities. I’ve found OrgHunter but this is exclusively for U.S. charities. Have you ever worked with any interesting APIs for that purpose?
God this, my number one share contact is my ex, who i broke up with almost 5 years ago, and literally havent contacted in over 4. This person isn't even a contact in my contacts anymore, yet still top HOW.
You make it sound like white collar crime is unprofitable.

Lots of history seems to disagree, with only the occasional person having bad luck.
I can relate. Everything is always a lot more work than the usual "I can build this on a weekend". If it's a good product, there are so many details and edge cases the software considers, which aren't obvious if you simply build a clone. Only a true customer feedback and improvement cycle can make a product better.
> It feels like there's no one at Apple (or other companies) like that anymore.

There certainly are people like that, it is just that unlike Jobs they have no voice on the matter.

Same with other companies.
PS you are right about the 3rd party logging and that's also why the others will be more successful.
"How dare they make this lowbrow entertainment for the masses that packs in audiences and makes tons of money for the studios! These "films" (if digital projections can be graced with such a title) are no better than the tired, clichéd superhero comic books that inspired them! We must demand nothing short of the highest of art cinema, just as we insist upon the nutritious, gourmet food that is typically served and consumed in movie theaters."
Sprint had an “app store” where you could buy J2ME apps for feature phones.
Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
There are historical antecedents the Royal Society (London) and the Lunar society (Birmingham) in the UK.

You can also see this at work in the games industry there are tons of small games companies clustered around Nottingham because of games workshop - its called the Lead belt.
The Whistleblower Executive
How to identify release mode in Flutter with kReleaseMode
Without having read the paper, is the claim that it would take 10,000 years to emulate the results on a classical computer?
Yes, I mean vs bricks and mortar.

It’s completely different, but the App Store severely lowered the barrier of entry to writing commercial software. Even I made a few grand from it.

It sucks that some types of apps will never pass review, but I’m not sure that 30% is too much.
I think he refers to https://webkit.org/status/#?status=not%20considering
Most customers are indeed businesses. Great shout on some sort of team/business plan - it's on my to-do list!
You don’t have to have a paid developer account for app signing, your app is never reviewed by a human, and Apple doesn’t get a cut of your app sales.

So how is it “similar”?
Looks like some people haven't heard of Route 128 and not the Johnathon Richmond song either
I have family members who work for similar groups in another country - they pick up the seniors in a van every morning and have activities at a comfortable base location that emulates a sitting room. It's a non-profit supported by the community, knowing that mental health leads to better physical health: ultimately leading to lower hospitalisation rates, catching problems early due to good communication, and therefore lower costs. It's extremely beneficial for all involved, and the women who run it tend to be older themselves nearing retirement age, as it's undemanding work for those who don't have much education or were "home makers" (being an older generation of women).
A $20 poncho and some rain cover for your shoes -> you're good in most temperate places.
Mazda unveils their first EV, the MX-30; EU orders open now, delivery next year
Ironically, the lights in these "green" houses will be anything but green precisely for the reason that greenhouses are called that in the first place!

Most leaves are green. This is to say that green light is reflected, and it's the OTHER wavelengths that are absorbed by the chlorophyll. So you need a light that is brighter in other parts of the spectrum where the absorption is strongest. Hence, a NON-green light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5
Interesting refutation by IBM here:

In the preprint, it is argued that their device reached “quantum supremacy” and that “a state-of-the-art supercomputer would require approximately 10,000 years to perform the equivalent task.” We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity.

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-suprem...
> So Mozilla thinks that laws proposed to voters are so immoral that we should purge people over them.

He wasn't purged by Mozilla, he quit. He did quit because of the pressure put on him because of his donation but the idea that he was purged by Mozilla is at least an exaggeration if not an outright lie.

> “He had it coming to him”, they’ll say, justifying the purge, for defending that a child need two parents of different sex because kids are enriched by both viewpoints, which is as perfectly valid as an opinion as saying that speech should be censored aggressively when not agreeing with other viewpoints.

Bad ideas should be purged. Don't you agree with that?

> I’m for democracy. Mozilla isn’t supporting equal democracy... for Christians.

How so?

> In my opinion it is more complex than that, Mozilla probably have little opinions about this problem but buckles under specific powerful group pressures and agrees to implement their purge, without due process and fair trial.

The man quit... should have Mozilla rejected his resignation and forced him to participate in some kind of "due process"? What do you have in mind for this process?
How about we just provide WebDMA instead and call it a day?

Clearly nobody cares about the security of the user anymore anyway.
Google scientists say they’ve achieved ‘quantum supremacy’
KDE experience is far better that Windows 10
> we default to easy and comfortable when given a choice

Yes and that's exactly where 90% of our pollution/climate issues are coming from: convenience.
It's in the second paragraph.

"Our machine performed the target computation in 200 seconds, and from measurements in our experiment we determined that it would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to produce a similar output."
Who tips best on Uber? Economists analyzed 40M trips
This is a great book/website https://use-the-index-luke.com/
> Valve basically single handedly created Linux gaming.

Valve's influence has been immensely positive for Linux gaming but saying they created it is ridiculous. I was playing on Linux just fine before Steam was ported. Valve's contributions very much stand on top of the efforts of those that came before them.
>Sony/Microsoft is 30%, no negotiations.

How about Nintendo?
There was some criticism of an early leaked draft (e.g. [0]), can anyone comment if the issues raised have been addressed?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167368
Can you quote the relevant paragraph that you have to pay to get an app notarized?
By opening the link OP posted? There's an embedded youtube video right there on the page.
Hence that magenta...

At least they can do the Avatar palette.
‘Don’t leave campus’: Parents use tracking apps to watch their kids at college
Ah, you're right, thanks - I had that mixed up anyway because until now I wasn't interested in using BT in my hobby projects at all. So that's a nice excuse to order an ESP32 or two or three.
What are we maximizing for?

I guess it's a multi-criteria decision problem. On one hand we want people to get where they want to as quickly as possible, on the other we want the city to be "liveable" and safe.

Only "livability" isn't measurable here. IIRC the Dutch maximised mostly for safety.
Good idea. Are the articles teaching how to use your software to solve an issue people have, or do you just mention/link to the the software in the end of the article?
Big data technique reveals previously unknown capabilities of common materials
When hot water was retrofitted in many homes, it was stored in an open top basin which would collect rats and whatnot. Thus the cold water was kept separate in order to be more clean.

Why any newer install has it though, nostalgia?
it was inexplicable for me as a native too - although I recently discovered that it was specified by older regulations as they were worried about contamination between the hot and cold-water supplies. The hot water supply was traditionally fed from a header tank in the loft (attic) and so wasn't safe to drink.
Two words: Signal Protocol
> Yeah, this is probably best practice for people in regions that are projected to be left mostly uninhabitable

I'd go as far as arguing that _everyone_ should prepare for what's coming. All of us will be affected, be it directly or indirectly, through things like the (most likely) inevitable refugee crisis, or increased food prices and lower standards of living.

> but civilization itself has never, in history, collapsed

I meant individual civilizations and not civilization itself, although I read the original comment as something happening to "our" civilization and not all of them. Total collapse of civilization itself would require something cataclysmic happening on a global scale, and that the effects of said event are so severe that all of humanity fail to restore itself within the time span of several generations.

Some of the more alarmist reports about global warming are indeed pointing at that scenario, although it's more likely that progress will be slower, and that humanity as a whole will be able to adapt in the long run.

Regardless, I am convinced that even if we were talking about the actual end of civilization itself, it would not necessarily be evident to us until it was too late.

The fact that there are alarm bells ringing about the climate now is an indicator of climate changes being either:

a) survivable for humanity as a whole by doing what we can to prevent it and prepare for what happens if we fail

b) the end of the world and it's too late to do anything

This turned darker than I planned. :D
Envs.net – a new minimalist, non-commercial shared Unix system
This guy is on a roll!
39 People found dead in truck container in southeast England
I cannot believe that you make more from such a niche dev tool than your job at Google. I always thought people who use clojure/scheme would be using their custom setup in emacs or vim.

I'm interested to learn more details, how things were when you first started out selling the app and the trend.
Does the Chrome team go over every bug report? It seems like it to me, though I've only filed a few.
The problem would be that those narrow band glass filters would also block those narrow bands in daylight needed by the plants. They would have to have those LEDs on 24/7 which means a greenhouse is no better than a basement with no daylight.

I think they should simply use curtains or shutters that close at night. I'm surprised a modern country like Netherlands has no laws regarding light pollution.
Their prospect would be around similar to prospects of older daughters or sons. Who are not bitter, poor and boring.

They would not be in loose loose "we blame you for not choosing this and then blame you for consequences of choosing this" situation.
We can't give everyone a quantum computer(yet)

But could we use this quantum processor to aid the rapid design of far more powerful classical computers?
Crypto Extortion Using Botnets Is Growing
The latter. The articles teach people about the niche domain/subject. The app is merely mentioned as an option to make life a bit easier.
Does the page not render for you with an enormous youtube embed in the middle?

here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
- VR will make it, and become commonplace

- Deep fake ai type technology will allow for quasi automatic generation of landscapes, castles and people making creating your own video game or movie a matter of story writing, and letting the computer fill in the details.

- China's growth will slow down drastically as more and more reach the middle class.

- Most middle eastern dictatorships will get into trouble with the loss of oil money.

- South America grows as a market, and becomes more stable
Which is why some distros like Ubuntu are moving to replace them.
More LOLs, Fewer Zzzs: Teens May Be Losing Sleep over Social Media
I think declining transit ridership and bike commuting can both be partly attributed to heavily subsidized rideshare services. Once those things hit prices commensurate to their actual cost of operation you might see that trend reverse.
> If an app really needs the feature it will have to distribute a native binary (like you have/had with some web video/screenshare) so do you prefer to have some applications that each one has to offer a Windows and Mac binary (no Linux or mobile) ?

Yes. 100%. And I say that as a Linux-user.

If someone needs access to low level system and platform specific stuff, I would like to have that confined and isolated in an app 100% separate from my browser, which is already having a hard time staying secure.

That will also make such apps harder to make, so people will not make the decision to require such APIs lightly, or “just” to profile a user.

This is the same position I have on WebDRM, and the way WebDRM has gone only solidifies my stance.
I believe what the spammers have started doing is presenting these captchas to human users on more illegitimate sights, such as those to watch free sports broadcasts, etc to gain access.

The user solves the captcha for the site which then uses that solution to fool the actual Google captcha.
You call it playing politics, others call it effective communication.
Itty-Bitty Satellites Take on Big-Time Science Missions
there are hundreds of proofs for the pythagorean theorem, surely some of them using the axioms of geometry
You could use the 'chromecast' flow. Where it creates a WiFi network the user has to connect to with another device. And then serving a webpage with configuration.
LED lightbulbs are different from the bare LED's on a bike light, they use blue LED's under a layer of phosphor that absorbs it and re-emits a variety of shorter wavelengths simulating white light and different colour temperatures.
Sounds more like it's easy to prove but we just don't care enough/don't have the pacience required.
Debian stands with the GNOME Foundation in defense against patent trolls
I think the alt credentialing space is extremely promising: that is, anything that solves the problem for employers "How do I know that this person is better than anyone else in the world at this problem set I need?" Without the usual leaps of faith and logic necessary to think a Harvard degree means that.
I launched ToDesktop back in April, I'm ramen profitable and I'm working on it full-time.

I don't know if I would call it a success yet. I want my revenue to reach six figures annually before I call it a success but I'm seeing good growth. Most of my growth now is coming from organic search engine traffic. I've posted some high-leverage page speed + SEO tips on Indie Hackers here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/marketing-tools-are-damagi...

I'm a product/tech person with some graphic design experience but I was really weak on sales/marketing before I started working on ToDesktop. If you're like me (strong on tech/product, weak on sales/marketing) then I would highly recommend Julian Shapiro's guide on growth marketing. It's zero-fluff and written by someone with a technical mindset: https://www.julian.com/guide/growth/intro

A one-person business is tough, it's lonely at times. It can also be tough to work on the things you should be working on (as opposed to the things you want to work on). This is enjoyable sometimes though, for example, I made my test suite dance to Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk. Totally unnecessary but it renewed my enthusiasm and made for a fun tweet. https://twitter.com/DaveJ/status/1167386564240056321

Self-promo for those interested: ToDesktop automatically creates a desktop app from any web app. It's like Electron-as-a-Service with code signing, installer, auto-updates, app notarization taken care of. https://www.todesktop.com/
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You can make a problem that is hard to compute but easy to verify. You can also go by known big-oh computation complexity estimates how long it would take you on a classical computer. Not too hard to prove.
You are correct, but there's a couple of mitigating factors in this:

1) I have a fairly substantial network, but most of them know me as a manager, not a tech. I'm an excellent manager (people still ask me for advice), but I don't love it. I love being a coder.

2) Of the fairly substantial coding work I've done, almost all of the work (that I can talk about) was done for NPOs, as open-source for organizations that don't have a pot to pee in, so that network is a bit dicey for me.

I am doing something that is not usual. I'm reinventing myself in-place. I've done it before, but that was back when we actually respected folks with gray hair. Running into the ageism issue has been...enlightening.

I'm also not very good at pitches. I do demos; which means no pigs in pokes. I tend to not take the wraps off of things until they have reached the MVP stage, and I'm not particularly interested in getting funding.

I just want to do what I love: write code. I'm an excellent architect. My systems tend to last for decades, but that isn't really something that folks care about, and I understand that. I need to re-tool my architecture focus as well.

I have history writing demos that can't be ignored. I'll need to build a new network, but I can't do that until I have something to show (not talk about -SHOW).