skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Can you link the world getting better with capitalism specifically? (Are we more able to feed and heal the world because the discoverers of new techniques were motivated by profit and capitalism enabled them to do their work? Norman Borlaug and Alexander Fleming would probably disagree with that.)

2. How would Russia, China, and Venezuela have fared if it weren't for US sanctions and military threat? We don't see communism in a vacuum, we see communism spending all its resources defending itself from existential threats from "capitalist" countries with significant (taxpayer-funded) militaries.

3. Hasn't poverty gotten worse in Russia after the transition to capitalism?
Why is College so Expensive?
I did something similar as in my Bachelors end project. A manufacturer of industrial printers wanted to generate API bindings in multiple languages from a single source of truth.

We started with just transpiling data definitions based on Apache Thrift [1], but later expanded it to also be able to transpile code checking invariants on the data and integration tests.

Jetbrains' Meta Programming Studio (MPS) [2] was a really great tool for this, as it does a lot of what is mentioned in the article for you. It makes it really easy to define new nodes, syntax rules, parse rules from text, ast-to-ast transformations etc.

[1] https://thrift.apache.org/

[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
i am really glad to read this. it is great that freeBSD continues to improve this way. we all win.
This seems like a really hard problem to solve - but it's some pretty cool progress. I do wonder how Mongo decided building a high-level transpiler was worth their time though. Is the business value of translating those queries really that high?
No that’s an excellent idea. I was doing this for a bit with my “old” bank and thinking that Tangerine was the only good no-fee bank with the best interest rates so I had not reappraised that lately.

I just looked and there are other options available. I think this might be the excuse for me to go to Wealthsimple and start taking a more active role in making that money do some work.
They do say what I think they say, but yeah, I should have clarified that I meant the public, not healthcare workers. (I addressed this more clearly in another comment on the same submission.)
You missed one critical feature: tabs.
This is too easy. What this needs to do is be able to generate songs that are already written within some amount of error %. Then extend the application (a method or conclusion) to an unknown situation by assuming that existing trends will continue or similar methods will be applicable. (extrapolate)
Change in Google Search Is Killing It
And the explanation of the "shaking reference frame" is wrong. It borders on conspiracy theory ("1000s of prominent physicists didn't understand this, but I do").
See : SPAM
Ask HN: Revolut what a idea behind this service?
There a another batch of news about Revolut startup.

But, can somebody explain me, what a idea behind this startup.

For me, this looks like yet another white label bank app. And this looks usesles for me. Who will use this instead regular bank app which have all that features for decades?
Medevac, top tier hospitals around the world (except US, lol) in network.
Very annoying. I've stopped using the mobile version for a while and then replaced the web version with the RedReader app from F-Droid.[0]

Hopefully, APIs won't be closed.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/
I'm in the process of moving all my organization stuff into org-mode. This includes agenda, todo lists, project management and notes. This is a long process with a lot of fine tunings and try/errors. But, for me it's like what you said about writing : it's in the process of doing it that you think. This helps me understand my actual needs. And emacs/orgmode is so powerfull and customizable that it's a very goos tool to do that.

Some weeks ago, I read your series of articles about org-mode workflow. I was especially insterested by the one about zettelkasten. This was a trigger for me to switch my notes into org-mode. So I would like first to thank you for your good quality articles !

What interests me in your new package is the automatic link/backlink detection between notes. This is a really great feature I was missing that in the other packages. I'm currently using zetteldeft and I insert hashtags into my notes to be able to search them by tag.

I would like to try org-roam. My question is : in what way should I modify my current note files to be compatible with org-roam ?
Looks like they read the Watt & Brown book.
They want money!
Note that the title is wrong. It's a circle on a map, not in real life and thus it's not a "2 500-mile radius". A sphere in real life would be distorted in the map. In fact, all the meridians and circles of latitude are circles in real life but on the map they don't show up as circles.
No, you don't need a search engine for that. Blogs and YouTube channels commonly link to similar channels and content. A search engine is a form of content discovery, but it's not the only one, and technically we already have a form of federated content discovery.
The Struggle to Save Heirloom Rice in India (2019)
Is that so different? The natural next step is implementing the reverse, other languages to yours, and then suddenly yours is an intermediate language that can be used to go other lang to other lang.
I'm saying that's already how it is, and that it might as well be made official, i.e. law.

To be clear here, I tried to do this, and all it earned me was ostracism. It is not a virtuous act at all, despite what some may like to give you the impression of.

In Finland, Internet access is considered to be a human right, and it's not feasible to do a lot of things otherwise, such as banking errands. Considering Facebook == the Internet to many people, I don't see why the same rules can't apply there.
Understanding the Half Life 1 splash screen
The fact that this article exists actually makes me sad as well.

But because Alexa isn't eavesdropping on us and believing this is the tech equivalent of antivaxxers: "If you don't believe it, you're part of the conspiracy"
Well, in RSA you have to choose two prime numbers, multiply them, and keep them secret. p and q: pq =n . And n is made public.
I wonder if this probability, maybe coupled with concrete implementations, makes it for a more restricted set of guessing p and q.
That would be it.
I guess that given that this only introduces 'restrictions' on sequential prime numbers, doesn't really help at all, given that p and q should be random. Unless there's a shortcut applied in implementation that you find a random p and then q is the next prime number.
Hence my question to the community. But I only know that both RSA and DH rely on prime numbers.
I'd like to flip this around for a second. A note to management/leadership:

1) Never assume the person(s) writing the code will be available in the future.

2) Any given sprint should auto-add task/time for documenting and such. An hour or two now could save 5x, 10x or more later.

3) The more critical the feature/functionality, the more important #2 becomes.
> We describe the development of IRONSIDES, an implementation of DNS that is provably invulnerable to remote code execution exploits and single-packet denial of service attacks

Sounds like famous last words. How can something be provably invulnerable to RCE? Wouldn't you just be able to prove that it's invulnerable to known RCE's?

From https://ironsides.martincarlisle.com/globecom_2012.pdf
It says the clearance includes head scanning, but could this also be used for things like orthopedics? Current MRIs are prohibitively expensive and bulky for all kinds of things outside head trauma that could benefit from tissue imaging.
I've never understood the purpose of price regulation without the government being involved in the market.

Let's use rent control as an example. The government is setting an upper bound to prices. The limit may not be high enough to justify building more units. Therefore there is a perverse incentive for the government to enact a bad policy because it is shielded from the outcomes but gains public support because visible indicators (like average rent price) look normal again.

There would be a simple way to make this system not horribly broken. When someone wants an apartment and wants to pay the regulated price the government should be responsible for building that regulated unit or subsidizing the difference between the regulated price and the market price. This aligns incentives because now the government is on the hook for actually solving the problem and if it fails to do so it will be financially punished because setting an artificially low market price will cause the government to lose money.

In Germany there are city owned housing associations that are responsible for providing low cost housing. This system works very well but I think cities like Berlin are not utilizing it correctly. They just want a quick political band aid and make the problem worse by avoiding responsibility.
This has been exactly proven out by Amazon - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcin...

If Amazon can make a server class ARM chip that is competitive or better with their custom designed Xeons, I take it as a truism Apple could do the same for mobile.
Your experiments show that when we pick numbers from a uniform distribution, each digit from 1 to 9 is equally likely to be the leading significant digit. This is perfectly fine. Numbers picked from a uniform distribution indeed do not obey Benford's law.
2 is definitely no “alien”. More like a legendary prime god amongst countably infinite odd primes. 0 and 1 are two sides of an extreme that either generates a meaningful number system through their separation and extremis from one another or no system at all if 1=0 is assumed true. They’re like a Jekyl and Hyde god.
You got me curious so I checked my records. Looks like I remembered incorrectly and paid 2300 SEK.

From https://bbstockholm.se/content/practical-information:

> Each new 24 hour period cost 100 SEK from the time you arrive at the clinic. Your partner/labour support person is charged 600 SEK/24 hours from the time the baby is born. Food, towels, sheets, sanitary products and diapers are all included free of charge during your stay.
Also available on ebay for 59.99 along with hardware to connect it to a raspberry pi.

edit: Of course all you get is the display. Paperd comes with a battery, esp32, buttons and so on plus I'm guessing examples of how to code the things.
PyPy and CFFI have moved to Heptapod
Yes it would probably produce a lot of unidiomatic code (see for example c2rust [1], which generates semantically equivalent Rust code, but with raw pointers and unsafe everywhere). In the worst case you could even just emulate the origin language in the target language, everything is turing complete after all.

With enough effort and smart transformation passes however, I think you could come pretty close to something resembling "native" code. It might not always be worth it to spend that development time though.

[1] https://c2rust.com/
Don’t forget, once you reach “senior” level (about 5 years experience), you’re expected to be able to do this in a day or two, regardless of codebase size or complexity.
That's really his problem for working in secret for GCHQ. Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman are the ones who are rightfully lauded for bringing public key cryptography to the public sphere.
"Scrap the government incentives and we will achieve the inevitable."

Government incentives helped overcome the industry chicken-egg problem. Purchase subsidies are effectively R&D dollars towards what is inevitably the future of cars.
Mike Bloomberg ON SALESMANSHIP:

"Make the customer think he's getting laid when he's getting fucked. A good salesperson asks for the order."

It's like the guy who goes into a bar, and walks up to every gorgeous girl there, and says 'Do you want to fuck?' He gets turned down a lot --but he gets fucked a lot, too!

"By definition, a salesperson thinks tomorrow's always going to be better. It's the only way they can take the continuing rejection."
This is true and is the reason I break my own rule in this case - because of large companies that are only willing to pay through an annual PO/invoice process. None of our customers are quite big enough to require the use of a preferred reseller, but I've heard of that arrangement as well.
Not a Spanish specific thing really.
Cash price. Based on how the thing was billed, I am 90% sure it included interpretation, but at this point I can't remember for sure. I don't know whether the prescription is mandatory, but I'm sure you can email/call them.
Replied on your comment thread.
Alibaba, Yahoo Japan, SoftBank Corp, ARM, Boston Dynamics
Nice, thanks for sharing. Hadn't seen any of those before!
A project by Avaaz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaaz

Please listen to this podcast episode where they explain the concept of "correct the record" and why social media platforms should implement it to battle disinformation: https://radiopublic.com/function-with-anil-dash-GEvN2g/s1!df...
I don't see how this can be cost competitive. You would have to add a percentage on every purchase high enough to cover the entire overhead of the store, including property and employees, while at the same time maintaining a large enough selection to get people into the store instead of going online in the first place. There's also no guarantee that people won't do what they do today, which is browse in the store and then go straight to Amazon on their phone to save money instead of using your scan approach.
[Removed]Help pay inequality by sharing your salary (open source project)
Reading Books Helps Your Brain Recharge
Every entrepreneur and CEO should be able to answer these question without thinking. Eventually every output is caused by degree of focus and this document is an example to amplify meaning from effort.
Just today I tried to open a post on /r/haskell in incognito mode (because there’s a markdown/commonmark mismatch on code sections between old and new reddit, and hey, I’m the dumb one insisting on the old version so I accept that I’m the one who has to work around this.)

And then I get hit with the his garbage???

Seriously, the assholes at reddit responsible for this shit should resign in shame and vow to never touch a computer for the next ten years.
A history of population within the circle would be interesting.

The population of China since 2000 years ago appears to have been a series of plateaus with brief periods of increase and a couple of brief decreases. The plateaus represent populations at the limit of agricultural systems. The increases are due to introduction of new systems, such as rice cultivation further north, double-cropping of rice and so forth. The decreases are periods of famine, disease and war. http://www.china-profile.com/data/fig_pop_0-2050.htm

Possibly other civilizations within the circle follow the same pattern of stability, innovation and crises.
Seconds (and thus all time units derived from them, e.g. hours, nanoseconds) are officially part of the metric system.

But yes, it is still worthwhile to keep in mind that despite nearly all countries officially adopting SI, a much lower percentage of humanity uses SI exclusively in their day-to-day life.
Surely households are billed by metered kWh?

> Some combination of the two (time and energy) is ideal to prevent station hogging, though.

That's a good point; in the extreme you wouldn't want someone sitting there trickle charging for ages when already charged.

If it were up to me it'd be tiered like:

t <=30min: £V / kWh
30m < t <= 2h: £W / kWh
2h < t <= 4h: £X / kWh
4h < t <= 8h: £Y / kWh
t >= 8h: £Z / kWh

where V < W < X < Y < Z, and probably per daily billing period rather than per charge, to avoid cheating it by unplugging and re-plugging if you were nearby at work or a motorway service station say.
If it even can be tested. I’ve spent decades now dealing with beginning Java programmer’s preference for the relative simplicity of static initializers; that is, code that starts trying to connect to a live database as soon as you run it in a way that can’t be mocked out without making dangerous changes to the code in the first place.
> Hogwash. We have harassment, stalking, libel, defamation, and slander laws in meatspace for a reason. The fact that doing it on the Internet exempts you from these laws because enforcement isn't "cost effective" is a problem.

All those are illegal online too. But if I go to the pub and discuss some harassment with my friends that I'm going to do later, the pub clearly isn't held liable for this. Why? Because even if he owns it, the pub owner has no responsibility for what is said inside of the tavern walls.

So, what is taking place on these forums is rarely illegal.

> The question at this point is whether we put laws in place such that individuals can seek cost-effective justice, or whether we wait until so many people get burned that they start clamoring for the government to step on the Internet with jackboots.

And then they move to mailing lists, or FMS. Then what? You going to shut down Tor as well?

My opinion is this: people should grow thicker skin. Those who fail to do so pose a threat to society, insofar as they call for further censorship. Therefore, anyone who is harmed by these people can post-hoc be considered to have deserved it.

It used to be the case that people were recommended to not use their real name on the Internet for basic safety reasons. Now they are encouraged to do so, and whoever doesn't is branded a 'troll'. Who is really at fault here?
Ask HN: Tools of the Trade, 2020 Edition
It has been 20 years since Joshua Schachter started this thread on HN for discussing hosted useful services.

The contribution in the thread introduced many interesting SaaS services which can immensely help in deploying services as well as development.

These days, lots of that stuff is available as SaaS. What are the tools and services people use instead of hosting their own?
Well most people have chosen to forget the fact that either way for Apple's NeXT vs BeOS decision, Apple was close to being bankrupt anyway, had it not been for Microsoft bailing them out for $150 Million due to competition rules. The decision and terms was up to Microsoft. [0]

So Apple was very 'lucky' for this generous investment, without it would have seen them join the local museums and nostalgia meet-ups, like Amiga, OS/2 and BeOS.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0806/
Yes, Wikipedia is one of the better ones! But even so, I still find myself switching to the desktop version whenever I need to link a specific section, or get more of the text in view, or view the article in a different language, or not lose my section when come to a page via the back button.

I checked out Guardian.co.uk (assuming that's what you meant), and yes, it is a pretty well designed site that works great on and doesn't seem to even distinguish mobile vs desktop users. But still, this is about the only mobile site I couldn't find anything wrong with. This isn't the typical 99% site.
The law definitely has a human psychology to it. When stock prices are close to say 1000, it will like gets pushed over to the psychological level.
It clearly says " 2,500 miles in diameter" which makes it 1,250 mile radius.

pi * 1250 *1250 = 4,908,738 square miles or ~5 million square miles.

That is < 10% of the earths land mass.
Is it web scale?
Vaccines can't be remotely enabled to spy on you. For example, if you buy a laptop from the internet and the CIA or NSA wants to spy on you, they can easily intercept the laptop in shipment and tamper with it.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-lapt...

They could also compel Amazon to install an update that makes your Alexa record everything.
I think 1on1s are the managers Swiss army knife and the best way to support employees in their development.

If possible I do them as walk'n'talks, people are more open and ideas often flow better when walking outside the office.
The Human Hemisphere (2015)
How many businesses started in what America calls the third world that feed products and services into the first?

I think this article misses the massive amount of real world growth that has occurred were Twitter users cant see it.
Ask HN: How to tell X years of experience vs. one year X times?
It also omits Antarctica entirely
I don't have the app installed but I'm assuming you can record video in it to post on Reddit? If that's the case I can see why it requires access to the microphone. That's the only way I could look at justifying it.
You would have less leaks with Oracle because you would not be able to afford the database in the first place. Can’t leak anything if it’s not stored
Can’t people use this law to defraud? I bet the more sophisticated ones already are
1. i wonder, what makes people and politicians think that an employee who is not certain to find a new job within 6 months and who doesn't have 6 months of savings is capable of creating a sustainable business or a startup? And why creating business is less "draining" than looking for a job in already familiar area for that person?

Looks infantile to me.

2. I would imagine entrepreneurs and even more business owners statistically should be right-leaning. Especially, when they start feeling how socialist government "loves" them ;)

3. yes, i was wrong. didn't think it through. hackers can be left leaning. probable today's hackers are naturally left-leaning from what i can see from the comments :)

"The problem with socialism is that it runs out of other peoples' money"
> you can save bandwidth by putting static assets / the framework in the app and only load content

Is the browser cache that unreliable? Especially when you can use localstorage or something fancier to hold a few megabytes of code.
> I thought a a group, ring, etc. was precisely an example of a "universal algebra".

No, this is incorrect. A specific group is not an example of an algebraic structure. A specific group is an example of a group, and group structure is an example of an algebraic structure.

> You seem to contradict yourself, at times agreeing with this statement ("even though one is an example of the other"), at times not ("a group is not an algebra").

The terminology is confusing, yes. I guess I didn't do a great job of explaining it. There are two things called "algebra" here and one is an example of the other, while also having examples of itself.

I'll try to put things in more concrete terms.

The real numbers, with addition and multiplication, is an example of an algebra.

"Algebra" is an example of algebraic structure.

"Group" is an example of algebraic structure.

The real numbers, with addition and multiplication, is not an example of a group.

As an analogy--

The apple I ate for lunch yesterday is an example of an apple.

"Apple" is an example of a word.

"Table" is an example of a word.

The apple I ate for lunch yesterday is not an example of a word.

> Edit: Wolfram Mathworld agrees with me: "Universal algebra studies common properties of all algebraic structures, including groups, rings, fields, lattices, etc." http://mathworld.wolfram.com/UniversalAlgebra.html

It does not agree. Note that we could add "algebras" to that list: "Including groups, rings, fields, lattices, algebras, etc."

We are not talking about common properties of algebraic structures, we are talking about a specific algebraic structure, which is called "algebra." Universal algebra is a distinct topic from group theory and a distinct topic from linear algebra. The three fields are different studies.

Yes, I know the terminology is confusing.
A lot of them probably deals with timing and some correlation type analysis