skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cofounder of QuikNode.io here - this is kind of a “it depends” question/answer. What chain are you using? Ethereum? Bitcoin? EOS?

At a high level you could encrypt the data (URL) you want to send the webhook to, then (let’s say you’re using Ethereum) you could subscribe to an event & make sure you have the decryption key there to decrypt the URL & actually forward on the webhook.

In terms of the user auth question, you can use signed requests or just signatures in general - I love the localcryptos.com implementation of user login, for instance.

Happy to answer more questions like this, just email me: auston@quiknode
I said 10% average per year is risk free. If it collapses and never recovers for 50 years, then I'll agree with you but we both know that's not going to happen.

It's not going to happen precisely because the system is a scam and in reality there is no risk. The only real long term risk to stock prices is total societal collapse.

If the government keeps bailing out inefficient corporations, eventually they will get exactly that. Now there are many less painful options available, but by constantly brushing them under the carpet, the government and the fed are making total socio-economic collapse an increasingly appealing option to solve our systemic problems.

They could just try to solve the problems now, but instead they prefer to let the tension build... Just like it did before WW2.
Better if instead of a limited sw they bundled a tiny image of NetBSD/OpenWRT with ed(1) as the default text editor and spell(1).

A lot of people would hack it in order to run drotz(6) but that's a feature.
Differentiable programming allows one to specify any parametrized function and allows one to use optimization to learn the objective.

There is definitely some need for an EDSL of some sort, but I think a general method is pretty useless. Being able to arbitrarily come up with automatic jacobians for a function isn't really language specific, and usually much better results are obtained using manually calculated jacobians. By starting from scratch you lose all the language theory poured into all the pre-existing languages.

I'm sure there'll be a nice haskell version that works in a much simpler manner. Here's a good start: https://github.com/hasktorch/hasktorch/blob/master/examples/...

I think it's pretty trivial to generalize and extend it beyond multilinear functions.
Press release here: https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/researchers-modelling-the-sprea...

The researchers modelled a scenario where a person coughs in an aisle between shelves, like those found in grocery stores; and taking into consideration the ventilation.

Preliminary results indicate that aerosol particles carrying the virus can remain in the air longer than was originally thought, so it is important to avoid busy public indoor spaces.
I thought it was kosher goys, like Madonna and Cory Booker.
Quality wise Qt is way ahead of wxWidgets.
No. Look closer.
You are getting downvoted because you're arguing for global surveillance, which is not a popular topic on this board. And that doesn't include some real fears of actual dictator-ish moves, with COVID as a justification.
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Is there a reason then not to use a single column with JSON? The columns would then be "virtual" (the column jsondata would spawn a column jsondata.firstname etc.)

This question is your of pure curiosity, I do not deal with databases so I hopefully correctly understood your comment.
Some people have tried the demo version of the app. I work on the full version. I share some insight to find people who would like to work with me, especially people who would like to do the business side.
I agree, I don't recall anything in the Stoneship age being unreasonable. The one that stands out to me as being a bit crap is the tram.
> writing Rust like it is X year

Are you reacting to the talk about "editions," e.g., Rust 2015 and Rust 2018? Those are actual concepts in Rust, similar to how C has C89, C99, and C11. I personally don't feel compelled to rewrite working code in newer editions. I have, however, received at least one PR from someone else who felt compelled to do so without asking.
Federal Reserve to provide up to $2.3T in loans to support the economy
Show HN: Rewind – Your bookmarks, by date, with thumbnails and instant search
Rewind is a Google Chrome extension that displays the bookmarks you saved today, yesterday, last week (or at any date) on one page, with thumbnails and instant search.

It's totally free and it relies on your local bookmarks, you don't have to create an account on a website.

It's ideal if you use your bookmarks as reminders for cool links (articles, blog posts, websites) that you want to read later, but never really do.

If you synchronize your bookmarks with your Google account, you can add a bookmark when you're at work and check it out when you're home, or add a bookmark on your phone and check it out later from your desktop computer.

Also, if you have 100 tabs open, just add them to your bookmarks and you'll check them one by one later.
>> looking straight down at a flat screen seems like terrible ergonomics.

Real typewriters weren't much better though. You were basically still looking down at the piece of paper in the platen.
> That is precisely what taxation is. Taxation takes money out of the economy, government spending puts money into the economy. For all intents and purposes, government spending creates money, and taxation destroys it.

> The government doesn't need your tax dollars in order to spend. As the issuer of currency, it can will as much money into existence as it wants. So collecting taxes is simply a way to regulate the money supply, control inflation and provide a base level of demand for the currency.

A tax does not remove money from the money supply, it simply transfers money to the government. Taxes could be increased and government spending increased yet further, and the net result is an increase in money supply, disproving your claim because the only causal factor is what government is doing with the money supply. Similarly, in a non-fiat system, such as a gold standard or even just specie, taxation does not reduce the money supply any more than storing the money under a mattress. This is a distortion or at least a misconception of what money is. The better analysis of these considerations would be as Cantillon effects.
No pricing and no self-hosting option (either/or would be fine of course). A pretty neat tool for hobbies, maybe...
Seems cruel to say that to a young person who is struggling with a serious issue. Lots of people graduate from college without coping mechanisms tuned to the realities of adult life ... including you perhaps? Maybe it would be better to just say that things are rarely as bad as they seem and the world will continue to need young, enthusiastic programmers despite any economic downturn.
I generally agree with you. But many people say that software engineering de facto pays the best without acknowledging other options. I also think opinions are colored by media and public opinion. I’ve met many, many investment bankers, and 98% of them are really nice people that I enjoy hanging out with. Fundamentally I think people need to examine their skill set and the work environment in which they thrive the most in order to pick a career that will be most fruitful with them.
For me as a long-term C# fanboy these modern times are hard.
C# has benefits now because of the community and wide reach. That was always the argument against C# ;)
Creating Serverless React Apps on AWS
Fine, spring an fall break for farming.
"The abundance of helium-3 is thought to be greater on the Moon than on Earth, having been embedded in the upper layer of regolith by the solar wind over billions of years,[5] though still lower in abundance than in the Solar System's gas giants"

Sounds a bit different than, allmost unlimited.
Also, there are great quantities of gold in seawater on earth. That does not mean, we have those great quantities avaiable.
>tens of thousands of years. That's a blink of an eye evolutionarily.

I dunno about that. It seems we can gain major advances in evolution over just a few generations. Look, for example, at the rapid changes that have occurred in the West over the last century, particularly with regards to sexual maturation of healthier classes. This is clear evidence that evolution can happen a lot faster than we might imagine, even so.

I don't find it difficult at all to imagine that the human genome alters itself over a period of, even a thousand years, in order to respond to the changing environment. We see examples of these shorter orders of magnitude throughout our history ..
Wow. I keep reading that it doesn't scale to those numbers well but it sounds like you have a different experience? Do you enforce participants to use Chromium-based browsers?
Google removes offending VPN from its app store, but users remain at risk
What do you think governments do with the dollars they acquire through taxation?
Here is the clickable URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rewind/oghafdocdml...
Can you give some examples of minor changes that were rejected outright? Just curious.
When I tried it years ago, the GSuite version could not dial out to an external phone number to join them in. Is this now available to gsuite users?

I tried looking up the features on the Wikipedia page [0] and didn’t see a really comprehensive list. I reviewed Wikipedia because when I searched for google meet, Google’s top result (that seems like their product page) [1] just had an “open” button that linked out to the App Store to install “Hangouts Meet by Google.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hangouts
[1] https://meet.google.com/
> I'm only saying that your macro proposal only recreates the syntax but not the semantics

What do you think these semantics are? The only semantics I see is being able to compute the derivative of a function at some particular point (for some particular inputs). The proc macro solution has this semantics: it automatically computes the derivative of a function, and gives you a way to query its value at a particular point.
And here we see exactly why implementing a specific function on a specific instance of a monad isn't the answer - two users of two different, well-respected functional languages can't communicate.
Upvoted. Her book on Sissinghurst seems to be easy to get. Her other writings I know nothing of.
Yup. A lot of processes and reviews are put into place. But once the business demands something to be done at a certain date, all of that usually takes a backseat or even thrown out the window.
Can't both you and GP be right?
> Low level swift code (what's likely to be in TF) can be as obscure as C++.

True, but I didn't encounter it in the wild yet. Usually Swift used in "Python mode" is fast enough.
Second this, Refactoring UI is a good resource, Adam Wathan also created tailwind css and the authors of that book created Tailwind UI which is a collection of UI components based on Tailwind.
Ah yes, after they contracted Stanley Kubrick to make the moon landings, then went straight on to making chem trails.

Or have you other sources of information?
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> (...) I don't have any empathy for some privileged person who has remote work and a lot of protection (...)

What I meant is that I think it is self-limiting to be pessimistic about our future in the way you described. I think we agree on this point. As you said here:

> The same world that was all "Meh, not my problem" when I was homeless also doesn't want to hear "The world can, in fact, get through this."

There are two underlying problems here: lack of empathy / neglect and pessimism.

Being optimistic, empathic and looking for solutions is challenging. It is far easier to self-loathe but also destructive.

> But I also know from being on HN for more than a decade that people here literally don't care if I'm in danger of dying and they certainly don't care about my feelings about the whiny oversensitive BS that very privileged people have ridiculously big feelings about because they are too fragile to face a real problem, good god.

It saddens me that you experienced this. In the other hand you seem to have developed an immunity against BS through this hardship. I think many people crave for this kind of clarity on some level, especially privileged ones. I don't mean this in a cynical way. I think there is a real, acute need for people to free themselves of self-induced BS problems.
I'm also studying React for my project. I see that flexbox is mentioned in StackOverflow pretty often. Is it appropriate to use flexbox to define the relative positioning of large sections? (Like [Menu | App | Toolbox]).

Or should I only use it when I'm dealing with lists/tables of elements where I need to have sophisticated relative positioning?
Right Kidz Bop Agenda is the opposite of KGOY, obviously, that's the whole reason it exists, but the researcher argues the task is doomed to failure.

Also,
As bad as wealth and consumerism are, they are just as bad for kids as adults.
And all of them have cancelled their license contracts in the last days or announced that they will not buy any more licenses after Corona?
This is so effective.

I am not the type to spring up to rush to the gym at 6AM, but if I told a friend I will be there at 6AM, I will never miss it.
Model the worst-case financial scenario for your SaaS
We, as humanity, simply have to explore beyond Earth to survive in the long term (meaning really long term, like next 1000 years). Moon, Mars, and beyond. It's evident that Earth is not big enough for all of us, today. What about the next 1000 years? Our population growth rate over the millennia looks very much like covids spread ;) so I guess there's nowhere else to go than space.
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He's not wrong, he's just being mean about it.
I'm definitely not that person, but that level of dedication to religion is absolutely amazing to me. Outside of my family, and maybe that was the real motivator, I don't have a single thing in my life that I am that devoted to.

Humans are marvelous, fascinating creatures.
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Allowing prices to rise allows outsiders to produce with improvised thus inefficient means of production.

Pivoting a factory on a dime to make something else is hard, but often doable by the experts for sufficiently loose definitions of “on a dime”.

Pivoting a factory on a dime to make something else that’s cost competitive with the factories designed and built to do that something else already is impossible. It’s like trying to build a car from junkyard parts to run in F1 races. And old prices will reflect the cost savings those old factories were achieving.
I sense a goalpost moving here. The point of the blog post to which I answered to was: I have to redo all my programs to follow the "idiomatic" way.

Now we are at "other programmers could use new features, so I still have to learn them". And yes, that is true. And that will always be true as long as a language has new releases. Even if all those releases were library changes and not syntax changes/additions. The only way to stop this would be to stop all language development.
Agreed, rules exist for a reason, and good changes are planned and executed safely over time..

But there's still a delta of time during which old rules continue to be applied in a manner that can feel senseless, while new processes are figured out. :-)
My take on this - the guy's not boasting about accomplishments here, just trying to reassure some young people who will be feeling pretty anxious about their future. Why the hostility?
Is the number expected to be this high? I thought one of the core ideas of the stimulus was to prevent firing by giving small businesses a "free" loan if they retained their employees?

I've been trying to find a good authority on the economics of this stimulus but it seems I am always stuck finding the same "rehashed" news articles.
"I am easily distracted."

Well... I distracted myself with this awesome blog
As in Tom Lehrer's song "The Old Dope Peddler", which ends "It's the old dope peddler/Doing well by doing good."

It's not something I heard years ago, but then one heard "I'm OK" and "I'm fine".
I found `styled-components` lib and it's simple to pretty pick-up even for Frontend newbie. I wonder if it's good for learning purposes and I won't have any obvious problems in the future.

My learning app is pretty small and limited to the menu with several simple views on each tab.

It gives a nice default look and components are trivial to extend.
Why the Wealthy Fear Pandemics
You can download and use Qt desktop widgets for free in your commercial application.
For those who haven't read the books, the reference to the old man is that the author inserts himself in the books. It's always an old man showing up in the most unlikely place rendering aid to his main character. Sometimes he's a prospector or a treasure hunter or doing retiree things like traveling around in an RV. And then when he's gone, no one can remember his name.
Just you CSS Grid. You don't need a layout library anymore. CSS Grid is sufficient for all needs!
You're right, it sounds like BS because it's BS.

Swift was railroaded in Google by Chris Lattner, who has since left Google and S4TF is on death watch. No one is really using it and it hasn't delivered anything useful in 2.5 years
I meant to address that with my last sentence.
OEMs of Windows Phone for example.

My Windows 10 devices still get more security updates than a couple of Asus Android ones I have here lying around about the same age.

You are the one moving the goal posts to consumer OSes, in a failed attempt to protect Google's security story.

Well, if you want to go that way, then iOS has definitely a better security story than Android ever will.

Every iOS powered device has the same security hardware, and update story regardless where in the world it gets bought.

Android, well better have luck with the OEM device, despite what gets written in Google blog posts and demoed at IO.
Can't package managers distribute binaries? Besides, maybe the fact that a package can fall three years behind the stable release is a problem with package management, not the stable release.
I had a summer job around 1990 as a word processor using a Wang and a dictaphone. While this was definitely at the end of the era of the dedicated word processor, it was an interesting environment to be in. I was one of two dedicated word processors at the company.

It was quite a different world back then, because I would type up a lot of memos that would get physically posted on bulletin boards in public areas, and cc: (carbon copies), while no longer using carbon paper, meant that you were making physical cc's that were being distributed manually.
Agreed.

Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everyone compared kids online convos to real life, from memory:

Kids hanging out in a food court, gossiping about this and that, are talking to each other. Not to outsiders. And adults eavesdropping are creepy. They treat their online chatting the same way.

What I take away from Shirky's (many) observations is that social conventions haven't adapted to the new reality and that our new communication technology was implemented irrespective of social norms.

I haven't used Snap, so this is speculation: I think it's tech of short-lived messages tried to implement social norms. Which would be exceptional in the tech world.
I haven't used material UI, but if you want to start off with a layout design on Ant, I would use one of the example layouts and work my way into it. You can find them here: https://ant.design/components/layout/
Stimulus takes a long time to "trickle down"
What has happened is , a good idea which is supposed to manage both demand and supply issue was what helped Oyo grow, i am assuming they worked very hard with local Indian hotels ignored by bigger international sites. However like many other startups they grew too big too fast and the pressure to justify their insane valuation probably led to all kind of tricks as long as they can get away with it.

Is it legal to replace Hotel info with Oyo no ? I am assuming they do it because a lot of small hotels do not know or understand the significance and Oyo can probably do it at scale.
No longer true. New server versions let you enable ssl.
Show HN: Clean Statistics on Covid-19 in the US
I am the child of a “mixed marriage” from a poor family that faced a lot of real adversity. The worst thing anyone could have done for me was to encourage the idea that I was a victim of circumstances. You don’t develop coping mechanisms without adversity. Adversity is a good thing so long as it’s not perpetual.
I was gearing up to switch companies Q1.

That plan is definitely getting shelved for now.
I had been having trouble finding clean up to date info on the ongoing coronavirus, so I made this. Wanted to share it out in case other were looking for the same.
I see it picking traction. Probably won't happen in Bay Area but smaller shops worldwide are picking it because it has some advantages.

I don't expect it to takeover the world, I just want it to have enough success to keep me earning money and be kept up to date. Which kind of happens. :)
You don't have to build it though. Binaries are available for download.

This is the business model of TT. Standard functionality is available for free, but if you want to build custom workflows for it, you need to pay.
> Covid changes things yes, but the system is not static

Yes, it is. People literally cannot leave their houses. There are certainty some online/100% remote jobs that will hire you via webcam, but most don't. And I'm saying that as a guy who has been 100% remote for the past 5+ years now. All, every single one, of my remote gigs had me show up and interview in person. That's just not an option for huge swaths of the US, and may not be for months yet.

> Response and handling of it will get better and better week by week as people learn and adapt. Companies will restart work and hiring sooner or later. Look at S.Korea. They got hit by MERS. They learnt, evolved new plans and this time around were prepared.

They're predicting as high as 50% of the local businesses failing in my city by the end of summer, and I've heard similar doom and gloom about other parts of N. America. S. Korea is an outlier in most respects, and there is little reason to believe that the responses put out by other nations will be as effective. The UK lagged on their COVID response and now their PM is in the ICU. Sweden just isn't doing anything, and it looks like Trump is trying to cause a civil war in the US by stealing resources from the states.

The worse is yet to come, IMO, and these former Disney workers are right to curse their employer.
> C adds 2-3 features every 10-20 years.

This should be the norm for serious programming languages. Anything else is a hyperactive children's toy.
Points 1 and 2 are about introspection, which are hugely language- and implementation-dependent. IME, the languages with great tooling and error messages didn't achieve it by integrating every possible feature into the compiler. (Usually, it's closer to the opposite.) Even different compilers for exactly the same language differ greatly in their ability to extract intention, and present it to users in a comprehensible way.

Point 3 is simply that programmers aren't sharing interfaces, which is indeed a shame, but that's independent of whether you choose to put the interface in the language or the library. Didn't TensorFlow fork the Swift compiler?

https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/tensorflow

Forking the compiler is hardly my idea of getting all programmers on the same page.