skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with Nixery and I think it's a really cool project. It's extremely close to what I'd like but it's not quite it - it requires either relying on nixery.dev to be online (unacceptable for production considering there are no availability guarantees) or running my own instance (which essentially means that I'm maintaining a type of registry).

Why is there a need for an image registry? Part of the beauty of Nix is that Nix benefits from remote binary caches, but they are not required. Why not have a container runtime that, instead of downloading image layers, instead fetches from a Nix binary cache if possible and builds from source if not (with the caveat that production nodes should basically never be building from source)?

(Also Nixery is GCE-only and we're on AWS but leave that aside).
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> Are banks greedy

And Western Union.

*I've worked at one of the major remittance companies.
>_reck_orchid(): parses only a number as text

>Parses a text string which contains a decimal number. In practice, this number is always '1'.

Amazing.
Very cool idea, love the "neo-Tokyo" vibe. My only issue would be: how do you deal with some ads being "hidden" behind others (given the isomorphic perspective)?
> A simplification here means pushing complexity somewhere else.

And it is a good idea to concentrate complexity on a few small pieces of software that only experts are contributing to. Think your typical web applications and databases: your app doesn't need to think about how data is laid out on disk and how on-disk indices are implemented; all of those complexities are pushed into the database. It's a good compromise.
Thanks for sharing, brother! <3

I would like to take this moment to give a big shout-out to the USPS. NanaGram wouldn't exist without the postal service, in the US and abroad. Apparently, the USPS is struggling financially right now. You can help the USPS by buying stamps, which you can order online [1]. If you're new to the old-school hobby of letter-writing, I wrote some guides [2] to help you figure out how much postage you need for letters domestically and abroad (e.g. Canada [3]). Lastly, a delightful thing you can do for a family member or friend is send them old photos in the mail (just be sure to scan them in first if you're mailing originals) — I wrote a post about sending photos with stamps. [4]

[1] https://store.usps.com/store/results/stamps/_/N-9y93lv
[2] https://nanagram.co/blog/how-many-stamps-usps
[3] https://nanagram.co/blog/postage-to-canada
[4] https://nanagram.co/blog/how-to-mail-photos
> if not for the FDA to come down on operations like Theranos, then who?

Theranos was committing fraud - selling investors a product that didn't exist. You don't need the FDA for fraud to be illegal, ordinary civil and financial law covers this.

If Theranos weren't defrauding investors and actually had a product that worked, it'd be up to the market to determine if that product were worth paying for. Since different customers have different risk profiles there's no one-size-fits-all best balance between safety, efficacy and cost - let people buy different products that choose different tradeoffs.
I don't get why it has to lose money at all in the first place. Sounds to me like they're offering a unique, highly in-demand service, in a market that is currently booming. Perhaps they should consider reworking their pricing structure? Just a thought.
To be fair, I think the original also had that issue (central/eye-level "real estate" was more desirable), although you're right that it was at least visible.
That's close to "Hello World" in COBOL. Read a number and add it.
Not a US resident, but as an outsider, it does seem like the government is not doing all it can to save the postal service, especially given the corporate bailouts they're looking to hand out.
Another caveat: some people on that list became notable because of them dying of covid-19.
The link is not flagged, it was automatically hidden. Why show it when I am logged in vs show something else for user who is not logged in ? Isn’t that “shadow banning links” ?
Possibly, it may also be that the cloud providers are offering things they don't need. Maybe that's uptime guarantees, potential scalability or integration with other services.
You can rotate and move around with touch controls, works reasonably well on my current gen iPad mini
so this is a React clone...much powerful, such fast
Sure, but that's sort of the entire point of your business.

Joel's quote is more narrow, which is a subset of the dangers of being completely reliant on someone else for your business.
Nice to see there is a site for animators to post videos since youtube shafted them with their ad policies requiring longer videos
Ah, 'doh! I was just panning and trying to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel (didn't think to use my right mouse button).
The link was not flagged it was just hidden to other users but not shown to users who are not logged in. Please see my explanation below.
Very slick, great job!
I don't get why public infrastructure and services are supposed to make a profit. They are already funded by taxes, why are we supposed to pay them again?
Google introduces braille keyboard for Android
Neat but would be cooler if you could fly around it in an air car or something.
The U.S. Army does that for ammo, with big government-owned munitions plants. Many production lines are mothballed, but can be started up if needed. There's little demand for artillery projectiles in peacetime, and a huge demand in wartime.
The reason is because in 2006, a law was passed that required the USPS to fully fund 75 years worth of expected retirement compensation. That's not reasonable, and was designed to destroy the service so it could be privatized.
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Powerful and fast at doing what? From the title it could be solving differential equations or drawing phalluses on my screen.
Depending on the type of mail the USPS has to publish rates 90 days in advance, and there are regulatory limits to increases.
OpenDemocracy: “The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family”
pfSense + pfBlocker ~ OpenVPN because I'm pretty old - along with DNS over TLS & ICR what else.

Sidebar: I also have a copy of my desktop Firefox hosted as a RemoteApp on a Win10Ent VM, for the odd time I need remote access to a credentialed account while I'm away.
I focused on property & casualty but yes, the statute usually applies to health insurance, and I think the ACA further codified it as a requirement.

While I haven't done a deep dive recently, I doubt health insurance administrative expenses and profit are the main driving factor in health insurance costs. Losses (utilization multiplied by price) are the main driving force. You can look up rate reviews at https://ratereview.healthcare.gov/ and probably view the entire filings on the state DOI website, altho these filings are usually not really as accessible as they should be.
> If you have a system working with CBC+HMAC, what's the advantage to shouldering that additional risk?

The details you probably want me to put here are a bit fuzzy still, and I've solicited others' to provide clarity and insight into the specifics, so I apologize if this is hand-wavy, but your question deserves an answer.

Given:

Most smartphones are built on ARM architecture. At the very least, I'm confident about Android being ARM. I've never purchased an Apple product in my life, and can't rightly say much about their internals.

ARM before ARMv8-A did not provide hardware AES. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A

Adiantum cites the Cortex-A7 as one example processor that does not provide hardware-accelerated AES: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/02/introducing-adiantum...

"In order to offer low cost options, device manufacturers sometimes use low-end processors such as the ARM Cortex-A7, which does not have hardware support for AES. On these devices, AES is so slow that it would result in a poor user experience; apps would take much longer to launch, and the device would generally feel much slower."

Even for smartphones that use ARMv8-A and newer, OEM weirdness can get in the way of that. Without tearing a specific model of a specific phone apart, I can't really give you much more information than that.

The advantage to the additional risk of ChaPoly is to not cough up keys to JavaScript running in a web browser capable of leveraging a cache-timing attack against software AES, in the smartphones that most people can afford.

That is to say, while it's true that the CSPRNG failure mode of ChaPoly is bad (but relies on conditions the attacker probably can't control), the failure mode of software AES is equally bad and can be influenced by an attacker.

> In a new design, I'd recommend Chapoly too. But this isn't a new design. Changing things has cost.

If there is significant market share where the device has a reliable CSPRNG but not hardware AES (post-OEM tampering), I'd argue that the security gain of a ChaPoly migration is worth the cost of changing, in particular.

The ratcheting changes are mostly a hygiene issue and probably won't be meaningfully important. I was just being nitpicky.
Great points. Unfortunately, some people doesn't or just don't want understand async communication flow :)
In Table 1, BMI between 30 and 40 was also strongly correlated with hospital admission: 659 people in that group were admitted, 256 were not.
Instacart has no item limits but they also don't either provide order-time notice of or have any exemption from the item limits imposed by the actual retailers.
Responding to the sibling comment: they don't need to make a profit, but they should at least break even. Call it a price, a tax, or whatever, but it's capable of being completely self-contained where those using the service can pay the full cost of operating it.
All projects would be well served by carefully keeping their dependency graph small and conservative.
Show HN: Zealchain – cryptocurrency and alternate DNS root for the marginalized
My point is that it doesn't matter whether you see it as derogatory or not, because here we are arguing about it instead of Urbit (whatever it is), and therefore it is bad marketing.

The goal of good UX is to eliminate question marks, except for the questions you want people to ask. Usually those are, "Cool, how much is it?" or "Where do I get it?"

I still don't know what Urbit is.
Soldiers don't have access to the internet?
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You've linked to your site on at least 4 comments in this thread, which is really taking away from the comment experience. I am glad you're enthusiastic, but make sure the disclaimers don't take away from your (otherwise great!) comments.
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Does this mean the fda actually tested it or is it just the official stamp of not being banned (yet)?
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What will happen is that they'll continue to vote overwhelmingly Republican, as a bloc.

Edit: This isn't political snark, FWIW. The deleted parent comment pointed out that soldiers on deployment rely on the APO/FPO system under USPS to receive packages from home, and wondered what the soldiers would do if the USPS is allowed to fail by the Trump administration.

It's objectively demonstrable that those who end up worse off because of Republican policies are among the most faithful Republican voters, and that almost certainly holds true in the armed forces as well. Warfighters and their families will likely pay more, get less, and continue voting the same way.
And the magazine article (mentioned in the Twitter thread - "Dr digital" page 98 - 73 magazine 1984):

https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-05/page/n97/mod...

The online version is pretty much unreadable for me on Firefox/mobile, but the Pdf is ok:

https://archive.org/download/73-magazine-1984-05/05_May_1984...

Ed: corrected link. The article itself would be a great hn submission - a comparison of time (writing+execution) of a simple program in basic, Pascal and cobol..
This presumes that the person making the first statement was unaware of the pedantic part... that's the point of the pedant "missing the point"
200% agreed.

I learned to develop software [1] before the interwebs, where we would just kind-of hack things together in C/Unix. Manuals were our only (& best!) friend.

I then went to uni for a CS degree, and they had a very "holy grail" attitude about the whole affair.

I agree that:

1) an apprentice system would work better
2) we have got to get more powerful tooling out there, into people's hands

--

[1] founder of https://mintdata.com here, which makes me biased on the above

[2] I'm still reminded of a world where the bridge between creating & using software was much smaller (not to mention, user interfaces were much snappier!) Here's a virtual toast to hoping we can one day come back to that reality.
This only makes sense if you have a significant equity stake in the company you're working for. For the vast majority of engineers, they really don't care about the long-term profitability/success of whatever company they're working for. They just want to get paid, and hopefully grow as a dev in the process.

They'll learn more by building something in-house than by bringing in a saas and just writing glue for a living. If you want your engineers to make the decisions a founder would make, give them a significant equity stake.
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There's this really brutal and obscure documentary I watch about the Congo War in the late 90s whenever I need to appreciate life. It's called "Kisangani Diary." It's far more terrifying than any horror movie because it's real.

It's a documentary about a relief mission that goes out into the Congo using disused railway tracks in order to feed 10s of thousands of Hutu refugees wandering around in the forest fleeing reprisals for the earlier genocide in Rawanda. They are starving to death and being chased by militia who are shooting at them from time to time from the forest. Absolutely no one except for the people in this relief mission cares about what happens to them.

The movie begins with the narrator saying that almost everyone you see in this film will be dead by the end of the movie. When I rewatched it lately, I wondered about those lines and what the future holds for us. What kind of documentary are we in? What if ending shelter in place fails. What if a deadlier strain shows up? What if this is the early days of WW III? All things to contemplate in my opinion, because I've been watching this since January and every week I expected things to get better and they've just been getting worse.
I'd be interested to hear if this tool could be used to scrape malware hashes (or links containing malware hashes) from Twitter? This or any other tool really... it appears my brain has turned to mush today and I cannot find or get anything to work :(
Only if everything you do is in a terminal.

If you also need a browser, IDE, or any other non-terminal application open then i3 lets you tile those as well.

I haven't used it in a while since we switched to macs and ssh'ing to remote linux dev desktops but when I had an all-linux dev setup I remember i3 being pretty amazing.
I wish you hadn't led with a "this" but man you put words to my heart.

It is so brazenly unjust, it strikes me right at the firmament of my being. If this is AML and KYC and not the financial institutions, why aren't there advocacy groups standing up against this gross mistreatment?
It's not, in any way, useful. Advertising is the least productive thing we do as a species, it's just lying to get people to buy something they don't need in the first place, because if they needed it, they wouldn't need advertising.
Nvidia GPU drivers and CUDA installations on Linux. Got better recently but I've spent many nights fixing these installs, wrestling with nouveau etc.

Compilation of deep learning libraries from source on Windows -- don't do it.

Tikz -- LaTeX drawing "language". The images produced can be stuninngly beatiful, but the manual has 1200+ pages and it takes forever to become productive. If only journals accepted hand-drawn images...
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Society-wide, though, the Great Depression led to the New Deal, which radically reduced inequality, created our first social safety net, and set the stage for decades of public policy whose net effect was to reduce inequality. Hopefully we will see another silver lining with such lasting impact on society.

[edit: typo s/last/lasting/]
Absolutely. This is largely what I'm betting on with my latest project, that the time you spend spinning up all the "standard stuff" for a SaaS project is duplicated - and thus wasted - effort throughout the industry. Why write another user login system?

Though it sets up an interesting situation for me, where the "special sauce" of _my product_ is the 80% "off the shelf" for my customers.
I don't think that's an exception. It's just that encryption isn't actually core functionality for most businesses (even some that think it is).

And if it is core functionality, you should have staff qualified to roll their own, and you should all know why you are doing this (i.e. what differentiation you are going after). This really isn't limited to encryption, it's just a hard domain that bumps up against a lot of other domains, so you see more failures than some others.

Basically if you are going to build a startup or new program in a hard domain, you need to have the resources to do it properly, and you need to know what those are before you start. This is where being a team of smart and motivated individuals may just not be enough.
> I've had to learn the art of strategically choosing which things shall remain black boxes for the time being.

"For the time being" being the operative words, and knowing when the right time is to open up that black box.

But it's important to be confident about opening that box when it's time to do so, and knowing you will be able to figure it out.
There are dependencies to build a program, and dependencies to run it. Sure a static binary can run without any run time dependencies if written to run on bare metal (without an OS). Although, you could go further down that rabbit hole and say the hardware is a dependency. (better start writing stuff in VHDL and Verilog /s)

Both types of dependencies do come up. However, most people don't consider language dependencies. However, if you for instances need to port your code to a lot systems such dependencies can suddenly be very important. Especially if you have to do the porting. So to say: "Nobody says a C file has a "dependency" because you have to compile it." is a bit disingenuous. There is a lot of C code that require features only available in certain compilers. At which point that code now depends on that compiler.

However, JS seems to have problem with too many dependencies, at times these dependencies can be trivial that is makes someone ask why...
PyBuilder, a Python build automation tool, version 0.12.0 has been released
Why don't they talk about raising their mailing rates? I would imagine their demand is pretty inelastic.
You should only use v3 if you need v3 features and know how to use them. You should use v2 for local development if you're not using stack/swarm locally: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/4305#issuecomment-3...
In this case, the USPS is not funded by taxes. It has a nightmarish duality of both getting no public funds and being controlled by congress.
It's an interesting article, but...

Better title: Clocking a 6502 Simulator to 15 GHz. There are multiple efforts to recreate the physical 6502 CPU on modern hardware, this is not one of them and should not be confused with that.
Interesting, thanks for finding that time capsule. With java applets! Maybe Jared will find the time to snail-mail me a hand quilted version of Substrate ;)
> The USPS is a crucial part of the US infrastructure.

Mail delivery and shipping are crucial, not the USPS. There are plenty of other private companies that can and do show the ability to do what the USPS does - only more efficiently (and without consistently losing money). At this point in history, there's no need for us to continue supporting the tax-subsidized[1] money pit that is the USPS.

Yet another piece of evidence that private industry is more effective than government-funded programs.

[1] Make no mistake - the USPS might be able to claim they don't receive tax money for operations (technically), but the laws and other perks protecting their monopoly status have a real-world cost, and the net effect is no different from that of a tax.

edit: Ok, it looks like many people disagree. If that's the case, explain yourself instead of simply hitting the downvote button.
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I had this very same problem. I had to just force myself to read. There are no shortcuts.

I started with reading news reports and progressed to books. The one must is that it has to be something you are very interested in reading and you have to do it every day
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I tried to zoom out immediately and it felt constraining that it kept reverting to a zoom level. Let me zoom to the limits! Maybe then I'll buy a skyscraper "over there."
I used to love Outlook until my work switched over to Office 365 version of Outlook. Now it is driving me nuts. The small things such as the animations when switching between mail and calendar, the way it displays conversations, the way it searches. I could go on, but I think we are on the same sinking boat here.
Not more than the custom shell or slow refresh-rate :-) But that is E-ink for you right now.
Seeing your product shilled so blatantly repeatedly as one goes down the comments in this thread is pretty off putting.
This is only true for established brands, selling products that don’t change, in saturated markets. Even then it’s only partially true, because the markets themselves are always changing (chances are at least somebody in the world drank a coke for the very first time today). It also doesn’t account for the fact that even if all those factors are truely static (or close enough), that product differentiation strategies can still be used successfully (which is again something you see coke doing a lot). That paradigm really only applies to a very specific type of advertising, under very specific market conditions, and doesn’t apply to the majority of the worlds advertisers.
USPS functions almost exclusively to deliver unsolicited advertisements. Its "delivery confirmation" is outright fraud.
I think this is really moving the goalposts. It seems like a lot of people who are vehemently anti advertising and ask for alternatives aren't really interested in them. Being anti advertising is totally understandable, but it's weird to see people who don't truly want to pay for ad free content talk about how invasive ads are.
Congress controls USPS rate setting, as well as mandates the rate of healthcare and pension benefit contributions.
When I click on a building, I can't mousewheel to get out if it. Closed the tab immediately.
I would have it start totally zoomed out, then scale inward, Google Earth style.

The ability to "walk down the street" and use keyboard controls would make this far more interesting as well.

As it stands, it's a cool implementation, but I wouldn't expect it to catch on the same way as milliondollarhomepage did.