skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems pretty harsh. Some of his ideas have been hugely influential -- and practical. Like you, I'm unimpressed w an unencrypted page simply listing PDFs, but I do admire the "idea guy" himself - Bret Victor - for things like "Inventing on Principle" ^1 and "Up and down the ladder of abstraction" ^2

1. https://vimeo.com/36579366

2. http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
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I've had a startup business in the back of my brain for a few years that's driven by this syndrome:

1. It vendors would contract with IoTZombieCo to have their product covered. Like a form of insurance mixed with code escrow. They pay a premium for this and can put a brand label on the product that tells consumers it can't be EOL'ed. Vendor sells more product or can charge a premium price due to customer assurance of continued service.

2. My IoTZombieCo staff are given access to their code and ops resources (in the ideal scenario the vendor outsources running the backend services to us too).

3. When the vendor goes broke or decides to EOL, IoTZombieCo takes over the customer relationship, charges the customer a reasonable fee to continue providing service. Fee to be limited by some covenant that allows reasonable but not excessive profits.
Freelancer cashflow management: a lightweight method and spreadsheet
CDC Steps Back from Broad Recommendation to Refrain from E-Cigarettes
Not quite true. I took our car in for a weird noise and they rebuilt just part of the transmission. The noise happened again and then they decided to replace the entire transmission. Both repairs were under warranty.
Hosting a Legacy Python Web Application on AWS
Is It Peacetime or Wartime in USA? (2014)
Had I known in time, I might’ve personally.
The Gambia where sex beasts are buying African children and toddlers to rape
Show HN: Privacy conscious, discovery focused search engine – Whize (Alpha)
Boeing Finds New Software Problem That Could Complicate 737 Max’s Return
They are solutions, but would people choose them? This story is about what women are choosing to do with their lives. From what I gather, they’re not choosing the hard, inconvenient, uncomfortable way without a good reason.
Meta: I did editorialize the title as "America" is not as clear as "USA" and I don't want to confuse people.
I do actually remember self-grading in at least a few classes in school, and it was quite effective. You learn more from grading your work (i.e. finding the errors) than if someone else does it for you.

This wasn't for final exams obviously, more like quizzes and such.
http://archive.is/msasv
I've had the same happen to Wifi plugs bought as recently as three years ago. They all seem to use different (buggy) apps and route the signal to the plug through some obscure website (usually in China). Of course these sites and domains will go down from time to time. Plus, they all use different, undocumented protocols so homebrewing a new controller app is a no-no.

Lesson learned, I now carefully research any smart home stuff I buy now to make sure it has an accessible API I can use if the cloud stuff goes down.
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You really do have to wonder about the sincerity of such an article, especially coming from such a prominent publication as the Economist. Why don't they just admit what they are instead of using subtle propaganda to influence people into their political ideology? Even more concerning is how half or more of the people in here seem to actually agree with it.

"Demoralization now reaches such areas that previously, not even comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans; thanks to a lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized, he is unable to assess true information, the facts tell nothing to him. ... Only when a military boot crashes into his fat bottom, then he will understand."

The Western world has maybe 20-30 years left before serious political upheaval turns our way of life on its head. Call me a cook conspiracy theorist or make fun of my old quote from a kgb agent being pushed around in dubious circles today.
It only works if it flies under the radar. I don't see that happening here. The second they rename the planes there's gonna be lots of articles written about it, and many people are gonna be thinking "the newest model 737s are unsafe", regardless of what that model is actually called.
Coding Blocks
http://archive.is/B5ERA
How is a mortgage payment different from a rent payment. In one you rent the money to spend on bricks, in the other you rent the bricks directly.

The only difference occurs if asset/land prices rise - which is nothing more than a transfer from the have nots to the haves and should be dissuaded by policy. In any functional economy houses would depreciate as they age - just like cars. And you lease depreciating assets.
Make no mistake: USA owns that other factory!
https://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/environment/product...
What if it never receives certification? What if the way they mounted those big engines on a short plane proves to be a fatal design compromise?
I wouldn't be so certain that setting up a fake cell tower would escape detection. You'd have people triangulating your position and preparing enormous fines as soon as you turned it on, well before controlling a drone with it.

Unless you were being sarcastic? It's hard to tell on the internet.
Thanks. Yeah not too worried about it to be honest. They're more worried about me leaving so there is no way they'll pick a fight over trivial stuff
I have a phrase "topless computing" which for me is allowing the data to be accessible in an onwardly usable fashion. Not assuming the use case you have in mind is the final one - someone will always have a better more specific use case

It does mean we all need to become proficient at using those data flows - to become coders as we are all readers and writers today.
"an echo chamber is when anyone disagrees with me"
Wtf is a search engineer?
I posted a link to https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love the other day. In addition the repo, they run meetups where they discuss the papers.
I still have a copy of bash-httpd laying around, if any of y'all remember this: http://frakir.org/~morty/lue/bash-httpd.html
This is incorrect. There is no supply/demand relationship for pricing services. Doubling the number of trained physicians will not decrease healthcare costs, it will simply drive down physician annual income.

The main driver of inflated healthcare costs is administrative waste: hospital management, insurance management, government management.
I liked actix and did a little free time unfinished project in it, when it was updated frequently. Ultimately I lacked the energy to read anew the tutorial and update my code. Still, I liked to use it and think it probably became better over the time I did not use it.

I don't know what kind of licence actix-web had. Seems to have been some open source license and not a free software license, according to the "postmortem" readme file, where the author says: "I am done with open source."

What stops anyone from using a fork to develop further? Did the license not permit that?

If somehow that was not permitted or not possible, because no one created the fork before it was moved to "private repos", then I think the author did something quite childish , taking away the possibility for others to continue developing the software, just because he is fed up with enduring the criticism. "You don't like how I run the project? Meh, I'm going to take it all away from you!" (That's how it sounds, when you move a repo to private after and because of criticism.) Ideally any author, who works on an open source project, knows, that they give up some control over the code and would not act this way.

I do not say, that the shit storms were justified or good in terms of their social aspect. However, if all of this managed to make actix-web safer, then at least that aspect was a good result.
I see. Filed an issue for further improvement:
https://github.com/theonedev/onedev/issues/22
The Evali and Youth Vaping Epidemics – Implications for Public Health
I think most informed Economist readers already are aware that they are, to some extent, being influenced by the “subtle propaganda” of the publication. I believe it’s part of their “thing”.
lithium has an electronegativity of 0.98

potassium's is 0.82.
I suppose the color coding was a cost issue - that is: I'm assuming the technology to reliably and legibly print small numbers on somewhat irregularly shaped cylindrical objects was more expensive than applying color bands back when this became a common way to do it.

I dislike color bands for two reasons:

1) I can never remember which color is which digit (it follows the rainbow, but not quite).

2) The colors can be hard to identify due to varying color shades, and quality ("is that read or brown?"). It also doesn't work well for people who are color blind.
What controls do state actors in Britain have over otherwise banal tech orders from China, in order to trace them post hoc?
EVALI: e-cigarette product use–associated lung injury
Optional Chaining: Say No to TypeError
Well... the company actually owes me money for travel expenses (which are the four digit numbers) that I had to pay upfront.
> having co-workers with qualifications similar to one’s own is costly, having co-workers with complementary qualifications is beneficial.

This seems like a pretty obvious conclusion no? Wouldn’t you guess this was the case?
Cloud is dead.

Games stop working, lifelong memories are erased (yahoo groups,photo sites), watches stop being smart (pebble) and even smarthomes become a complete waste of an investment.

Bare-metal will always be sexy (and higher maintenance), but prosumer tech is not there yet to fill-in all the gaps in smarthomes.

IMO, once we start seeing inexpensive 10TB-100TB home storage appliances, we'll start to see more tech engineered for decade+ operations.

Over 99% of tech is disposible. Just the data is carried over, so you're lucky if you get 5 years use out of any device nowadays. 10 years is pushing it, even for smarthomes.
Airplanes were much more dangerous back then, and those 3 accidents happened over a much larger number of flights (orders of magnitude larger) than the 2 Max ones.
I can't see what peddling he's doing here. Perhaps he just keeps them there as a library, and someone else shared the link.
Google has 3D models of cities nowadays. 20years ago we only had 2D maps. Why do you think this trend will not continue?
mysensors.org devices, but old 433mhz with rflink does a good enough job as well.
China had a 99.9 percent conviction rate in 2013
First, let's separate Kotlin's adoption on Android and on the Java platform. Android has never been Java, it is now very different from Java, and while adoption of Kotlin for Android is high (~60% according to Google), adoption of Kotlin for Java is quite low (less than 3% according to Indeed.com).

Second, records and Kotlin's data classes are not the same feature and they don't have the same goals. Records are primarily about adding named product types, or named tuples, not about reducing boilerplate for mutable objects, while Kotlin's data classes allow you to add properties that are excluded from equals, which is, IMO surprising, and in any event means that data classes do not serve records' goals. That's also why there is no deviation from a naming pattern, because this concept didn't exist in Java before. Records are not beans, and there is no need for them to follow a naming pattern of something they're not; even if there is some benefit in doing so nonetheless, there is also a disadvantage.

It's perfectly OK to disagree with Java's designers and think that Java should have added Kotlin-style data classes instead of records and while neither satisfies the others' goals, you think that the former's goals are more important, but that is just a matter of taste. Like Boilerplate Billy, you can think that reducing boilerplate in itself is a big benefit. But I don't think you can point at any evidence that shows the decision to implement records is wrong. So yes, Java could have added a different feature, but it chose not to.
Ask HN: How to deal with an MIT license infringement?
Hello,

I am the author of a Python wrapper around the App Store Connect API: https://github.com/Ponytech/appstoreconnectapi published on PyPI at https://pypi.org/project/appstoreconnect/
I started the project in November 2018 and licensed it under the MIT license.

I have just stumbled upon a project that is clearly based on an old version of my work (same README and same code with small tweaks) but it's not a Github fork and it has removed the license file and credits: https://github.com/WHDevLab/appstoreconnectapi published on PyPI at https://pypi.org/project/appstoreconnectapi/

How would you deal with this? All I ask is to be credited for my work.
It's necessary! E.g. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uighur-monitor-home-sh...
Checking in third-party dependencies is not always abuse. It can be a useful habit for certain kinds of reproducible builds.
The Buck documentation even endorses keeping your dependencies in your monorepo along with your own sources.
...I'd reject any job offer in IT requiring certification anyway, and while I like spite as much as the next gal, I don't think it's worth as much as a certification costs.
I was, yes. You're either using CDMA over the cell network so you can be far away, or you're using a $50 radio that has a 20 KM range itself.
Some past HN discussions:

Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (John Backus, 1977) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159792

A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Claude Shannon, 1948) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079826

Vannevar Bush symposium: Closing Panel (1995) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457056

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (Seymour Papert, 1980) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18361665

No Silver Bullet (Fred Brooks, 1986) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22084137

Opening the Hood of a Word Processor (Alan Kay, 1984) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16352020

The Tyranny of the Clock (Ivan Sutherland, 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995966

Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language (William W. Wadge and Edward A. Ashcroft, 1985) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233054

Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution (Lynn Conway, 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18140297

A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (Larry Tesler, 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20670877

Robust Design Through Diversity (Gerald Sussman, 1999) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9984899
Which is your (daily) favourite RSS feed?
In the last few months I started reading RSS feeds again. Unfortunately I only have three in my reader. My focus is on programming, electrical engineering, science and computer science. Hereby I ask you what your favorite RSS feeds are, whose authors post daily. Please do not use feeds from popular magazines like Techcrunch or Gizmodo etc.
> Low density housing requires more infrastructure and higher transportation costs such as longer commutes.

This does not appear true in the real world. Low density housing requires more mileage of infrastructure, yes, but it's drastically cheaper miles. (You can wire 200 low density suburban houses with electricity across a dozen square miles, for less than the cost to wire up a single building in Manhattan)

Density makes infrastructure exponentially more expensive, because the largest costs of infrastructure is in labour and complexity, not the literal length of wire or piping or whatever.

> Because what’s valuable is not the house but the infrastructure around it. Low density housing requires more infrastructure and higher transportation costs such as longer commutes.

This seems to contradict your own point. If low density housing needed more infrastructure, and houses were valued by the amount of infrastructure they needed, then low density housing would be the most valuable housing.

But it's not. In the real world, low density houses are the cheapest housing, and have the cheapest infrastructure costs. High density housing has the highest construction cost, highest land cost, highest infrastructure costs (despite less per-mile infrastructure use), and the highest transportation costs per person (when including total personal+government spending)
While the plural of anecdote is not data, my director of engineering started as an individual contributor on my team. As a single mom, she has been promoted multiple times. She works two days from home and leaves early to beat traffic so she can do kid stuff. She is also very good at each role she has had.
Not saying they should move, just pointing that theres a great opportuniy many don’t see or are aware it exists where moving can buy you a whole lot more in terms of quality of life, healthcare, property.. For that money they could move together with family and still have plenty of resources left. Cali is no longer worth it with everything that is going on right now. Just saying not imposing anything...
It's harder to walk away from a mortgage than a rental home. It's more work to sell a house.

Since the mortgage-payer owns the house, has made improvements on the house, has an emotional investment in the house, there are strong biases such as sunk cost that make the buyer much more reluctant to get out from under it.
I've been writing to 65816 lately, so it may be that they're extended mode instructions. But does the 6502 not have PHX and PHY?
Another Boltzmann brain can pop up with the result of whatever decision the previous brain could have made, the actual decision it made is irrelevant.
Contact them requesting attribution, if they don't comply send DCMA takedown notices.
I had the same error.
Did you try to provide your name as "--own-name <your-name>"?
That fixed it for me.
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While the interoperability of IoT devices sure does suck there a projects like Home Assistant[1] which make this less of a pain my advice is stick to locally controlled devices that follow existing standards (ZigBee, Zwave, WiFi) and shit like this can't happen.

There are of course alternatives that have been around for decades like Control 4 but they cost serious money.

1. https://www.home-assistant.io/
Reminds me of some of Netgear's newer switches that don't let you access much of the configuration until you register it to a Netgear account...

https://kb.netgear.com/000061528/GS108Tv3-GS110TPv3-GS110TPP...
The problem is that normal people no longer have a machine at home that’s always left on. As much as I dislike apple, their Apple TV might be one of the things that pushes everyone in the direction of owning their IOT network.

There’s also (IMO) a serious lack of open source tools for managing IOT devices. Right now a lot of the cheaper ones speak PnPP but there’s only one functional client I was able to find for this (a buggy and obscure GTK app.) There are a lot of good libraries though so maybe that will change.
> That's what I meant by "foam".

Oh sorry I didn't catch that (not a native speaker). When thinking of "foam" I see a uniform, homogenous noisy structure and I was pretty sure this was the name given to our former such view of the universe. My bad! (although I'd say, if "foam" is used to described these pictures, it's a pretty bad choice of adjective by scientists imho. "Galactic tissue" or "tissue-like walls" makes more sense to the layman imho).

Indeed, it's not "probably" dark matter, it is by the very definition of what we call dark matter. It's important to keep that in mind, when we name unknown phenomena it's just a 'placeholder' so to speak. Like X. So X explains the motion of galaxies, and we intuitively called X dark matter. Assuming there is an X, then there is dark matter (what it actually is is another question, could be "white energy" or fluffly creatures from the 6th dimension for all we know, but we call it dark matter for now).

So based on this, I always wonder: is it our observation or maybe interpretation thereof that's flawed? Are there 'effects' that make us see and infer things that are slightly 'off' maybe? (like the discrepancy with dark energy measurements for instance, it appears recently that there might not be accelerating expansion and the increasing redshift is due to errors in our calculations, i.e. we created "dark energy" out of a mistake and now it's possibly going to "disappear" as an idea because it's not needed anymore to explain anything).

As for inflation etc. These are also mathematical concepts that fit the observation, the clues; it however might not be the only possible model that works, we also might not have a correct interpretation (layman words) for it. Like we've got QED/QCD and we're still unable to describe in layman terms because it's illogical, paradoxical. Sometimes our idea of "simplest interpretation" is just that, an idea, and reality is a bit more complex, even if the simple equations may work as terms simplify (see how we "add" zero-value or unit-value arguments to some equations in physics to solve the math, it really begs the question if the "thing" you add actually exists, speaks of a real phenomena). I know Einstein was pretty unhappy about the picture painted by Λ... ;-)

About supraluminal anything (I assume you mean speed > c), I personally don't think it wise to postulate things that physics rule out explicitely. Inflation doesn't do that though, since it's spacetime expanding and that's not constrained by c.

[1]: https://youtu.be/blSTTFS8Uco
Groceries in WA have no sales tax unless it’s something produced by an employee on the store (sandwich made on the spot) or alcohol.
There always were electric delivery vehicles in the UK, e.g. milk floats.
So for example Finland and Sweden are third world countries?
Cyclone, a Rust predecessor safe dialect of C, in a VM
Our team recently started using Notion for similar reasons. We all heavily use Google Doc’s but sending a link to a read-only or comment enabled doc gets messy for discussion very quickly.

Notion enables you to embed any number of Google docs along with other media: screen captures, screenshots, etc.

The trick is creating a documented process to moderate the discussion.

Jury is still out on long term viability as a tool, but we’re super happy with it so far.
> No, it isn’t, in a country of laws these things have weight and meaning.

What is your point? Even if noone cares about what that piece of paper says, it still has "weight and meaning"? Or are you just repeating what I said using slightly different words, i.e., in a country where people care about what that piece of paper says, what that piece of paper says has weight and meaning?

> If, on the other hand, we are talking about complete anarchy and the end of laws as our guiding principles then, yes, sure, in that case words on paper do not matter. Until then...

So ... a dictatorship is complete anarchy then? Or are you saying that it is inherently impossible for a government to selectively ignore individual laws or sections of the law? Or is it just yet another rephrasing of what I said, i.e., only if sufficiently many people act to recognize, demand, and enforce the rights, will there be rights?
By helping city and infrastructure planning it should help get more resource efficient, so hopefully yes?