skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of how you want to redefine the phrase trickle down, your use of it here betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the subject. If it's possible to reduce the regulatory burden of the approval process for biosimilar insulin so as to allow generic makers to compete more easily, this will REDUCE the monopoly power of the large incumbent drug companies. I don't know if you're being deliberately obtuse, but I can't say this any more clearly.

> Once again, it was one example, I was mainly thinking about hair loss or other male things caused by men, historically and still, earning more.

Right, so it was a bullshit distraction that can safely be ignored.

> My main point was that the profit motive causes this kind of skew...

Which has exactly nothing to do with insulin, or the larger problem of building a manufacturing base for complex biosimilar medicines that's big, efficient, and safe enough to not bankrupt us. Regulations are necessary and powerful tools that, if wielded clumsily, can easily kill that manufacturing base. Making sure those regulations are suited to the task is not "trickle down" in any way whatsoever.
"Why do people keep posting articles about people doing real work on an iPad?"

Because people like the author of this blog post keep saying that people can't use the iPad to get real work done.

At this point, it's become maddening. Do I still carry a Mac laptop around with me? Yes. Are there some things I can do on a Mac I can't do on an iPad? Yes.

But it goes both ways. Are there some things I can do on an iPad I can't do on a Mac? Unequivocally yes. Does that mean, in those contexts, I should throw shade at the Mac and say people can't get "real work" done on the Mac? No, that's absurd.

A smartphone != tablet != laptop != desktop != watch != smart speaker, etc., etc. Different devices for difference purposes, and the fact they all overlap in many ways is a nice bonus, not a problem to bemoan.
Pitch bend has been on MIDI controllers since forever, more or less. I'm super excited for this synth though, with per-note pitch-bend and multiple instruments reacting to key pressure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZ6SuWxBFg
I imagine it isn't impossible to rent a warehouse under some shell company and fill it with mining hardware in a random non-us country without anyone knowing the owners' identities.
>I used my own metric that is based on jaccard similarity. Which in turn is based on "users who posted to X also posted to Y" metric.

Is that really a good metric of similarity? Just myself, I post in several unrelated subreddits semi-regularly from programming to video games to music, art and even stone masonary, i've posted in subreddits for TV shows i've watched, or just completely random things.

I use reddit as a place where I can learn about and interact with people on nearly any subject or topic and I take advantage of that when I can. I'm sure my posting habits aren't that unusual. I'm just not sure that's really an accurate way to gauge similarity.
No. Designers and some devs hate web apps for minuscule reasons your average user doesn’t care about and doesn’t notice at all.

If an app helps them to get a task done, it simply doesn’t matter if the thing is native or not. At least, if you use a somewhat reasonable UI approach like Ionic.
Have you SEEN what happens when you give an extremely clever engineer some rope?
Nuclear is an expensive and slow to deploy 12g/kWh, so unlikely to match incrementally added renewables by sheer opportunity cost alone.

We need to reduce CO2 today. Your average nuclear plant takes 7.5 years to complete.

I don't think that in current circumstances the cost of reducing emissions is lower for nuclear.
I Accidentally Became Part of the 1% – From 20k to 400k
Why should he/she? If I support Godot financially, I'm not going to pick up issues. Yet, I should be allowed to raise concerns, shouldn't I?
That’s not true.

Back in 2007, Adobe claimed that they could get Flash working on the original iPhone if Apple had allowed them.

When they finally got it to run on Android years later, it required a 1Ghz processor and 1GB of RAM and it still barely ran and was horrible on battery life. The original iPhone had 128Mb of RAM and a 400Mhz processor. It wasn’t until around 2011 when there was an iPhone that met those specs.

Adobe was always late delivering Flash on mobile from Android phones and Palm phones.

It was so bad, that the Motorola Xoom was advertised to be able to browse the “real Internet” because it could support Flash. At launch it didn’t. Leaving it in the embarrassing position that you couldn’t browse the Xoom advertising page that required Flash on a Xoom.
You can build it out of Lego
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/sydney-opera-house-10234
Dino, meet Deno.
Congrats on release, but the title is incorrect, word 'decentralized' should be removed.

XMPP, like email, is not a 'decentralized' protocol, but a federated one. If you and your chat partners use the same server, it would be as centralized as WhatsApp or Signal.
I feel like a Wireguard-only VPN company might be viable and a hardware product would be a good side product
> As a contrast, none of the Top 10 most valuable Y Combinator companies use Java; largely considered the battle tested enterprise language.

I’m not sure what this is based on, but Airbnb uses Java pretty extensively.
As I asked before, which apps have you paid for, that would have been better as a web app, and that needed push notifications?
> And you don't think this would negatively impact the rate of drug development? I do. Price controls are also a very drastic step in terms of American law. They tend to have...undesirable side-effects.

I do think that will happen. Quite frankly I don’t care.

Access to today’s existing treatments at affordable prices would do much more for the masses then any new research will provide in their lifetimes. In short: its worth it

Longer term I think the prices will stabilize (higher for the world, lower for the USA) and research costs will align as well. Until that happens the common man would still be better off.

> If I were pondering general solutions in the area of what you are talking about, I'd prefer laws drastically limiting the amount and type of marketing pharma can do. And ideally supplement that with FDA-provided, more objective material for consumers and MDs about the actual, objective benefits and risks of various drugs.

I’m for eliminating all medical advertisement but still feel the lowest worldwide pricing is needed. Nobody advertises insulin but the average diabetic in the USA pays 5-6x more than in other countries.
The origin of client-side prediction in games
Progressive web apps can already receive notifications.
> With ZFS you'd have to iterate through all files, list block locations and check if one of them is affected.

I mean... you just described a scrub. I'd gladly sit through a scrub if it meant that I could grow a raidz vdev.

I'm suspecting there's some other hurdle.
Thanks!

I ran the `docker run ...` command you copy/pasted above and got the UI running quickly.

But, I couldn't install the agent on my Mac; perhaps macOS is not supported. This may be intentional, after all you're not building a desktop MDM tool, but I'd suggest providing a command to run an agent inside a Docker container (or something else).

This way people like me can start experimenting with DevicePlane without spinning up a Linux VM or EC2 instance.
Glad there's a modern alternative to big tech's walled chat gardens. It's tragic that this protocol has so much potential but the "last mile" of getting it out to users has prevented success since FB and Google ditched it.
Show HN: [JavaScript] IdleComp. Composing even when urgent
This is the right answer. You've got the web paradigm of the nav bar showing up when you scroll up (among other oddities). I think it would be very easy to have a mobile browser extension to show pages full screen in a special interactivity mode to make most mobile apps work on the web.
that's a strange kind of gatekeeping to assume that these metrics are the measure of a reader's enjoyment of this post.

yes this is a great post, and makes a great point quickly. why do you need to bag on those who haven't met these arbitrary metrics?
Maybe not admirals and generals, but perhaps captains or field officers. Eg Peter Noel Wylie-Buckwell.[0] From the Civil War era there's Arthur MacArthur Jr who made Captain by the age of 21. If you were to count brevetted ranks then he was Lieutenant Colonel at 19.[1]

[0] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55967860/peter-noel_wyli...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_MacArthur_Jr.
I thought the Y was most similar to the X? Am I missing something?
DuckDuckGo isn't based on lucene/solr but bing-api.
There has been a distinction between the two on iOS for at least two years.
PForms
They guided for $2.5 billion in capex, and only spent $1.3 billion.
This is because there is no native support on Mac for docker. Everything has to run in a virtualized environment that's basically a slightly more efficient version of VirtualBox. When people say docker is lightweight and they're running it on a Mac they don't quiet understand what they're saying. Docker is lightweight on baremetal linux, it's not lightweight on other platforms because the necessary kernel features don't exist anywhere except linux.
The Roman Empire was an overarching idea whenever it was fractured, but to Kaisers, Czars, Sultans, that one guy from Corsica and whoever else claimed spiritual succession it was just a claim to status without a trace of cultural continuity.

Rome has been a hugely important influence to many cultures and nations, but the identity fanned out into numerous branches to thin to bear identity:

The city itself, well, that's still standing but it's certainly no empire.

The (western) administrative network, in a freak turn of events that you couldn't make up if you tried, lives on in the Catholic church, headed by that one office of republican Rome that kind of still exists. Pontifex Maximus, head priest in charge of making up calendar rules to strike fear upon software developers.

The political entity, it lived on far into the middle ages. But how Roman can you be when you don't talk a word of Latin?

The various populations who did talk Latin: power positions taken over by foreign warlords with little talent for or interest in administrative continuity (which is how the church got to monopolize all clerical applications) and by the time they had assimilated with the locals, cultural identity had long transformed into something new.

The Frankish peregrine kings and their successors who occasionally got an outmaneuvered pope and the acclaim of bribed and/or terrified townspeople to declare them emperor? Not much Roman about them, not even much territorial overlap. The continued existence of the actual Roman Empire somewhere else did help either and those two certainly did not agree that they were one.

The brand that we think of when we hear "Roman Empire" is Cesar, Cicero, their language and their gang of pagan gods. But that's just a snapshot, it ignores centuries of Christian empire, the many centuries of Christian Greek empire. The cultural identity died before the political entity, perhaps this is pay of why the echoes of the cultural identity are so strong.
The males that produce only male offspring that survive are identical to males that don't. Both types of matings produce eggs that hatch larva. The females die before the eggs hatch, so they never see the offspring, thus it's difficult for them to "learn" anything.

The modified males produce only viable male offspring, so no female offspring survive to allow the evolutionary mechanism to work - all the females that live to adulthood are born from female and male parents that were unmodified, so there's no chance of the "modified" genes affecting female numbers.
The author sort of mentions this:

> The image size can be made smaller, for example with multi-stage builds, but that means even more work.

...which I really don't find compelling, honestly. If you want a smaller image, then yes, you need to do one of the major things that produces smaller images. Don't install a whole dev chain, leave it in the image, and then complain that your image is big.
Can you explain how that affects revenue?
I was happy to see they'd increased range to 315 miles.
When I view this link, I can see no activity.

Here is my secret: I deleted my facebook account several years ago. (before it was cool)

I love how links like this are (successfully?) attempting to pull people back in.
>Isn’t this also a problem of requiring the compiler toolchain at install time?

This isn't a new problem if you use docker. To address it you have to either use multistage builds or more traditionally you install the dev tools, build and install your artifacts, then remove your dev tools all in a single step. It's annoying, but it's a common pattern.
If that was a bad thing, no auto manufacturer would have more than one model.
Peltier eficiency sucks, so not really an option.
The 3B+ does though, IIRC (w/ PoE support too)
> With Bitcoin, where all transactions are a matter of public record, I'd hazard that 'should have known' is baked-in.

Who should have known what? After receiving any bitcoin (can't be before!) everyone is obliged to figure out if the coin came from a ransomware attack? How? And what do they do if some of the coin was so tainted?
Being a noob is more a feeling. You can have that feeling with two generations of experience while you are the most knowledgeable person alive in the field.

When you do not feel like a noob anymore, you might become complacent. That, I think is the main problem.
I use my iPad to babysit my kids for me. I’m pretty sure that qualifies as real work!
These aren't geostationary satellites. There's no opportunity cost to selling service when flying over poorer countries. Of course, the price has to include the backhaul, and even poor countries have rich residents, but in any event it would be silly to fly over whole landmasses in silence.
There's a "sync" button. It's in the top nav on physical Kindles and the hamburger menu everywhere(?) else.
iPad would succeed a lot more if there was no iPhone to compete with it. As things are right now, iPad is an afterthought for iOS developers mostly, and an expensive afterthought at that, because larger screen requires different UI. This creates a vicious cycle because there isn't really that much you can do with it, so there's no good reason to buy it unless a wad of cash is burning a hole in your pocket (which is common for Apple clientele).
New approaches to telescope engineering produce detailed solar images
Ocaml has way more paid development time than SML. MLton guys can't focus on everything, so they've decided final performance is more important than compile time. SML was designed with few ambiguities to the syntax (simpler for students to implement), so theoretical compile times could be very low indeed. If they had Google money behind them, compile times would definitely be better

The other thing is whole-program optimization vs method-at-a-time. A lot of SML devs use New Jersey for fast compiles when developing and MLton when deploying. You can get rid of a ton of stuff in functional languages once you do a whole program compile, but that will always take more time. MLton could really use a second, faster compiler, but I'm just appreciative of all their effort to make the current compiler output fast code.
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Not yet; but that's a good idea. Thanks for the nudge :)
Autonomic perspiration in 3D-printed hydrogel actuators
You can build self-contained Java JAR files for a while now.
I'd add that the SML dialect AliceML, influenced by Mozart/Oz, has incredibly nice lazy, concurrent, distributed, logic, etc. extensions. It's really sad it's abandonware:

https://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/
I don't think the purpose is to battle fiber and copper being laid on the ground. There are a lot of places where that is too expensive too do or the situation is not politically stable enough to do so.

Land-based solutions are going to be cheaper and faster for many situations and people, but this gives us another tool to expand connectivity.
Ask HN: Best offline translation software (Linux)
Hi all, I'm looking for offline language translation software for linux. Languages I need are:
Spanish <-> English
Russian <-> English

Chinese would also be nice.

I'm a developer, so a pre-trained deep learning model would be acceptable and I'll just write a simple app around it, but anything would be good.

Does anyone working in language processing tell me the current state of the art in open source?

Must be offline! I dont want this text being sent to a server I dont control.
Its pretty in between as far as size goes. But it shares many parts with the 3 and most importantly is much closer to the 3 on price. The 3 Dual Motor Long Range is about $48k and the Y is $50k. The X Dual Motor Long Range is $80k.

So if it will probably take some sales from both the 3 and X. But X sales aren't very significant compared to 3 sales anyway.
The Origin of the Word 'Daemon'
Another feature lacking in the mobile web are touch gestures.

I'm facing this problem right now and the best option for recognizing gestures seems to be HammerJS which adds 7.5kB gzipped to your app.

After that your app still needs to react kinetically (eg: the image moves while dragging it to the left and then the view transitions to the next image). It's a lot of code that needs to be shipped in the JS bundle.

BTW if you have a better solution than HammerJS please comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22184079
'A Tour of Go' inspired this. The format and some of the material come from there. I think it ended up shorter than the Go tour, and I was hoping it would be very easy to learn Standard ML from it, as I do consider it to be very easy to learn. You can pull up the CML examples next to the Go ones, and other than syntax, they should be the same:

https://tour.golang.org/concurrency/1

https://saityi.github.io/sml-tour/tour/03-01-spawn.html

There are differences, but once you get to that point in either tour, the differences shouldn't make it hard to read; if it is hard to read or understand, that would be welcome feedback, as I have failed in my attempt to present Standard ML well. :)

(I originally posted this as a 'Show HN', hoping for feedback, so it is totally welcome.)
Theres native platform support for that now with shared login context between browsers and apps.

e.g. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...
The simplified syntax looks pretty much like the C# syntax.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
iPad started cannibalizing Macbook sales ten years ago. Apple is doomed, we'll see them fail RealSoonNow™️.
Highly doubtable. Carbon dating is quite sound.
Damn. I was hoping the company would implode.

Instead a truly garbage human being continues to get thought of as a god by the incredibly stupid.

Elon Musk is a pedoguy.
Tesla Q4 2019: beats on revenue and earnings
No, I want there to be only one way to do something in the protocol and to remove arbitrary binary exchange, this is one pain point. It turns your "standard" into a Frankenstein's Monster of data exchange, and you'd think we'd have learned over the last few decades that ambiguity in specification of a communication protocol is just going to lead to headaches and incompatible/buggy hardware.

It's also weird to say SysEx is needed for backwards compat with MIDI 1.0. You can just require a translation layer between MIDI 1.0 sysex and MIDI 2.0 configuration/property exchange for backwards compat. Opaque binary as a part of the protocol does not encourage compatibility among hardware.
I tend to agree that the author is at best making some very specific judgement calls (particularly, I think that refusing to do multi-stage builds disqualifies any size-based comments), but your comment isn't very constructive if you're not actually addressing anything that they say.
Noticed that mike.bloomberg redirects to the Bloomberg2020 campaign, and then found the registration policies on nic.bloomberg.

This is the section that outlines the acceptable use of the TLD:

The Registry is intended to function as an online platform for the BP [Bloomberg Philanthropies] and BLP [Bloomberg L.P.] brands and, as such, the registration of Domains must support the goals and missions of BP and BLP and their brands.
I believe the ZFS deduplication consumes a ton of ram (somewhere around 1GB of ram per TB of disk) to keep the block checksums in ram. Said list is checked for every block write. I don't believe it's necessary to check for reads, since the file metadata already tells you which blocks to look for.

As a result ZFS with deduplication on uses a ton of ram and has slow writes. This is so big an impact that most folks just turn it off, despite the tempting lure of "free" disk space.
installing the right version of xcode & getting required libraries -- my experience may have been particularly bad because of the ios 13 / swift 5.1 release, but the fact that these tool versions are linked to the xcode version is the root cause here
i've tried out a fair number of the android tablets and imho they're all a long ways off from being as nice as the iPad.
The only tablet hardware that really comes close to the iPad for me is the Surface.

I really want android (or chromeOS) tablets to be as good, because i'd much rather use android apps than windows or iPad apps, but the hardware just sucks.
I think I was doing TLS at one point, but removed it temporarily in an effort to focus on other infrastructure stuff.
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I guess the hard to understand part is: how does a $50B company that is growing revenue at 1% annually more than double its market cap in 3 months. It's insane (ludicrous?)!
The harm is that Facebook gains control over prediction markets that they then sell to the rich and powerful to nudge enough of the population to their points of view. These points of view are often not in the general public interest.
> I thought the Y was most similar to the X?

IMO, all Tesla vehicles (so far) are pretty similar to each other.

On the one hand, Y is a less expensive X.

On the other hand, Y is a bigger 3 with a hatch back.

I'm not an expert in automotive consumer behavior, but I have to imagine that Y will cannibalize some amount of 3 sales. I also don't think that will matter that much - there is so much demand for Tesla vehicles that they are battery limited.
>Also some genes are known to actually "jump" between species.

Simple microscopic organisms, sure. Viruses, maybe. There's no evidence it's ever happened in something as large as a moth larva.

Even if these genes somehow (let's say a nice Sci-Fi virus) caused these genes to "jump" species... a gene that limits whether female larvae of these moths survive is unlikely to affect whether e.g. bats grow to adulthood or mate.

In fact, genes jumping from e.g. a moth larvae to another species (like humans) is rather rare... you haven't seen much on the evening news about humans suddenly developing moth wings, have you? Why do you think that is so?
Not to be confused with Deno, the secure JS runtime from the creator of Node: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102656
Another way to achieve this is to avoid the native apps for Twitter/FB/etc and just use the mobile websites. No access to camera/photos/contacts/location/etc.
Crazy contrast between Q1 2019 was vs Q4 2019. Tesla was in the hole so far in Q1 but it was because they were riding the fine line of bankrupcy to expand as fast as possible, and now it's paying off big time.
Slightly off topic: how do you know the DB is write only?? I've been looking for talks about the Kindle back end and haven't found any. I'd love to read about it, it appears to have solved some interesting problems!
Toki Pona: A Complete Constructed Language with Only ~100 Words
What kind of reminders to eat are you getting? Like "don't forget to eat?" or "don't forget, this is your plan for lunch"?