skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bat and exa also have ~19,100 and ~9,300 stars, respectively, on GitHub and (presumably) even more actual users - unless your project is that popular, I honestly wouldn't worry about it.

If your project does get that far, it'll start popping up in all of those package managers. To be super blunt, if you're interested in building and sharing CLI tools written in Rust, I'd just start building and sharing CLI tools written in Rust and stop worrying about all the different package management solutions available. crates.io is the standard for the Rust ecosystem and is more than sufficient until your project has hundreds or thousands of users - most package managers won't even accept your package until it has a decent amount of popularity (e.g. in use by more than 50 people).

Once the project is popular enough that it warrants placement in package managers, you'll know because a user will either file an issue requesting the project be added to a package manager or they'll simply do it themselves :D
> It's fine for veterinary medicine, and maybe prisoners and keeping people with hidden symptoms out of crowded places, but for regular people,

Excuse me but did you just compare the application on prisoners and animals versus whatever "regular people" are supposed to be? What the hell?
Ask HN: How to fund an organisation for open source hardware support?
The world needs a well-funded organization that does the work needed to enable open source operating systems to run on consumer devices. Enterprise device vendors are currently incentivized to add open source support to open source server operating systems, since open source is popular among technologists. Open source operating systems are much less popular on consumer devices (such as routers, phones, tablets, TVs, cameras, robot vacuums, washing machines, fridges, scanners, printers, cars, voice assistants etc) so their vendors have little to no incentive to properly support open source on their devices. Every year a multitude of new consumer devices are released that need supporting.

The work that is needed falls into several categories: helping hardware vendors support open source, security research and exploit development, reverse engineering proprietary hardware support, writing new hardware support based on that and cleaning up vendor forks for mainline inclusion.

Once the initial hardware support is available then tinkerers can work on user interface and other projects that enable other folks to make use of the hardware.

How would you fund such an organization?
That "sounds" good :) Glad to help.
Yes, LIGO observes the actual merger.

They report two initial masses, the final mass of the merged black hole and what as a result was radiated in energy.
> So the problem you have is that you think (but don't know) that your product is much more valuable to your users than they think it is (since they're only willing to pay $20 for it).

No, the problem is that whatever you think your product is worth is irrelevant. What matters is your costs, that puts the bottom on the price, unless you want to burn cash for growth. Your customers expectations are the ceiling.

Of course all your customers are not alike and maybe there's 10% that would pay so much more to outperform the other 90% in revenue. That's when upselling comes into play, or maybe you want to focus only on the 10% entirely.

> If your program is actually worth thousands of dollars to the user, but they're only willing to pay $20 given their current knowledge, you don't want to tilt their expectations by "a little bit". You want to tilt their expectations by a couple of orders of magnitude. Which, as noted above, is not doable by hacking how your pricing is presented on a web page.

It's not doable at all. Nobody who expects to pay $20 for something will shell out $200 for it, unless they have looked everywhere and figured that everyone else charges in the same ballpark, or that you are the only option and they really need your product.

Anchoring isn't magic, it's the same kind of trick that makes $9.99 appear substantially cheaper than $10.00. It'll give you a slight boost.
It solves the alarming number of people without yet another buzzword on their cv/resume.
It may also have a higher footprint.
> if the system is air-gapped, how does the malicious software get there in the first place without being detected?

USB pendrives, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
I think you could do the same thing but put the real time in place of --:--. Then when the command is run, overwrite the time with the current time. You'd only be able to see the time the most recent command took with precision, but that's usually what matters.
To be fair who can out debate him.
It's possibly as of the proxy in Go 1.13, but this was not well-documented, suffers from competing implementations, and introduced in a way that probably broke more builds than it helped.
> We should have gleaming skyscrapers and spectacular living environments in all our best cities at levels way beyond what we have now; where are they?

There are lots of dense cities, with beautiful buildings and streets, 5 story high.
And what would it solve? If you can enter the market but later on you are judged in the court for doing something wrong - you are better to be forced to think about it before you even start it.

The problem here is growing complexity, which governments doesn't recognize as a problem for some reason. There should be some institution in the government body, which primary goal would be to reduce complexity of governance.
List cloud notifications services with push, SMS, email, slack etc.
What are some cloud notifications services that offer an HTTP API to initiate a notification and can send it to push (iOS, Android, browser), SMS, slack etc.

Nice to have: support some escalation rules and feedback from the receiver of the notification.

Preferable with a free tier or at least low cost tier.

Thanks
As I have already told you the yelling fire thing is essentially a rhetorical device, that has been used to promote suppression of free speech to a much larger extent.

I don’t think I even care, but please be honest about it and tell people why and what you would ban.

I am sure that, like every one using the arguments you are using, you would suppress free speech much more than that!

Be open and direct, we still have free speech my friend!

No need to hide between rhetorical devices.
you might want to try this one: https://github.com/naver/tamgu/wiki/7.-Lisp-Interpreter
Yes, but it's only when the black holes get extremely close that they produce gravitational waves powerful enough for us to detect.

You're correct that for many years (millenia?) the black holes have been orbiting each other much more slowly. We can't detect that though.
> There must've been a lot of intellectually frustrated people.

This is funny. As if they were just hanging around with the luxury to want to be challenged.

They didn't live very long, their lives were harsh, they were probably banging out kids at an unbelievable rate.

There's something just fantastically out of touch about your statement here. Very silver platter.

Even now, there are much more intelligent people than you or I with no time or resources for intellectual pursuits, and following that, no particular drive either.

If you're hungry and your living conditions are risky, you probably don't care about lacanian this or knot topography that. Much too busy.
One thing they only mentioned casually towards the end is that they mapped the city beforehand. So the car is starting from a position where it knows all the intersections.
What even is not engineering?
Thanks for the link! My question was more into the direction whether permanent damage can occur in mild/asymptomatic cases and it looks like it is not the case. Anyways, if I am wrong and anyone has better information on this, please share it.
The Digital Antiquarian - A history of computer entertainment and digital culture

https://www.filfre.net/

It's a treasure trove of computer history, gathered from countless sources. I've spent many happy hours in the company of the author, amused and educated by the stories.

---

To give a glimpse, some of my favorites:

Will Wright's City in a Box - https://www.filfre.net/2016/06/simcity-part-1-will-wrights-c...

The Lemming Effect - https://www.filfre.net/2017/10/games-on-the-mersey-part-5-th...

Xerox PARC - https://www.filfre.net/2013/01/xerox-parc/

Macintosh - https://www.filfre.net/2014/02/macintosh/

The BBC Micro - https://www.filfre.net/2012/10/the-bbc-micro/

A Tale of Three Languages - https://www.filfre.net/2012/03/a-tale-of-two-languages/

Pascal and the P Machine - https://www.filfre.net/2012/03/pascal-and-the-p-machine/

Eliza - https://www.filfre.net/2011/06/eliza-part-1/
If you like MOOCs and video training, checkout this introductory course for absolute beginners:

"How to Code: Simple Data" on edX, by Gregor Gregor Kiczales from the University of British Columbia.

https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UBCx+HtC1x+2T2017/...

The course teaches the Racket language, but proceeds at a rapid pace. It follows the "How to Design Programs" methodology developed in the 1990s (?) at MIT (and elsewhere). This is a test-driven-design method, AFAICT. (I think the MOOC author co-developed it while at MIT).

https://htdp.org/2003-09-26/

Someone has ported all the SICP exercises to Racket, so you can follow along with that book, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...

There is a follow-up course, "How to Code: Complex data" but I didn't take it.
There's a Windows setting (I know you're on a Mac but maybe other people got here after a search) in:

right click start - settings - Ease of Access - Audio - "turn on mono audio".

Or start typing in the search bar "ease of access" and select audio.

Just double-checking that you've seen a doctor, and had a referral to audiology for hearing tests, possibly an MRI, and a hearing aid?
as an extreme example

if Remdemsivir cures 100% of all Covid-19 cases, halfway through the trial, they would have enough data to show a net positive benefit. They don't need to finish the whole trial to declare Remdemsivir useful

the fact that they are running the whole trial to finish, most likely means the effect of Remdemsivir is not too noticeable. They need more data to get to statistical significance. Hence, they want the trial to run to original planned finish date.

my guess is

Remdemsivir probably has some positive effect. Say, 10% lower death rate if used during 1st few days of infection. Still great, much much better than our current situation of nothing. It would not cure Covid completely, but it would help substantially, especially in large populations of infected
The yelling fire one was (partially) overturned in court in 1969. Such speech can now only be limited if it would incite imminent lawless action (such as a riot), and so that example does not count.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
Hey, this page is outdated. It is basically a list of APIs from ssb-server and some other related plugins, but there are entries there that are old and haven't been kept in sync with the actual modules.

https://scuttlebutt.nz (nee https://ssb.nz) is a better link for all things SSB. The protocol guide at https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ is your friend in understanding our little garden.

Be aware that SSB grew much like a garden. It is not a protocol and ecosystem designed by committee with a cold and effective process. It grew from simple stuff into more complex stuff, and yes we all understand some of the challenges pilled upon all of us due to bad decisions in the past.

There is a lot to love in SSB. Instead of going "npm install, meh", you should try it out. You don't need npm or nodejs to try SSB out, you can just pick any of the clients listed in the first page I linked.

I develop one of those clients, patchfox, but it is not a full client so you'll need to bring your own ssb-server.
> Writing Basic programs (I'm teaching my son Basic) reminds me that there was once a time when I used to be impressed when my programs were long. Look at all the work I've done, I used to think.

I am glad I am not alone I thinking that BASIC is still a great language to teach young kids to program. I love how there is not a lot of boilerplate (for example the parenthesis for the print call in python and indentation).
>I expect this essay to be the target of criticism.

It smells like an utopia. Chasing utopias already ended very bad.

One of the most important points of the communism was that everyone should have all goods and services he needs.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" said Karl Marx

>Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own!

My proposal would to let people, society and humanity live according to their natural rules and cycles. Trying to coerce people to do something "for the greater good" would never end up well.

Capitalism has it's problems, but we don't know any better system. And capitalism has the great advantage that it's a natural system, fitting society in an organic way.

To be sure that capitalism won't do much harm, we just have to make sure it is fair: no monopolies, fair competition and so on.
Ask HN: What are you doing to develop immune system?
Marc's essay should come with a personal commitment of funding or some other concrete effort towards the future he wants to see. Without that, it's yet another elite op-ed.
The key part is that the court system can correct for a bug before the law itself is changed; it's a way to fix things as the code is being executed for a particular case, before the developers have even identified how/if the bug applies for other cases and figured out a general fix, much less implemented one.
Not sure that is how the cookie crumbles, rather: it will be decided that chemical X is harmful at a certain dose, which leads to some permissible concentration Y of X, and that Y can then be used for regulation of disposing X.

A place that needs to dispose a certain volume of X with concentration >Y then pays a sort of a mixologist to dilute X to a concentration <=Y before dumping it all anyway (unless it would be less expensive and more practical to react X away).
An old colleague had a silenced .22 with sub-sonic rounds and it still sounded loud as fuck without hearing protection (we were dumb young people), but more like a car horn next to your face than an explosion, so my hearing is probably OK.

I also remember that game and the "pen click" description and I thought when he fired it the .22 would just click like that!
The Death of Privacy
“Realizing this, he pursues the case anyway since abandonment disadvantages the small fraction of clientele that are legitimate“

Let’s not attribute to well intentions what can accurately be attributed to entirely selfish monetary reasons. He pushed on because doing so meant he didn’t loose millions of dollars invested, and would net him millions as well as recognition and power. At no point did he give a damn about the numbers being fake or the people involved. The fact that he had someone to throw under the bus let him comfortably continue the scam. That seems extremely obvious.

The only reason the repercussions of people being pulled off the list is mentioned is because it would open up him to suits from the affected people because he knowingly included them without their knowledge in the first place.
What if you wanted to return early in the component? E.g. a hook has returned a certain value and you now want to stop all other execution and return null. With hooks you can't as that would change the order.
The $20 figure may be more appropriate to the average consumer, but the same principle applies to companies. However, then it gets way more complicated because more people are involved in the purchasing decision and the users aren't necessarily the ones deciding the purchase. Getting a small purchase through is exponentially easier.

Most companies aren't actually all that efficient, they are very good at creating busywork. Lots of human factors are at play. Changing workflows is a tough sell.

Also, what's a "demonstrable" saving? Sure, I can sing the praises of my product, of course I will. I can bring testimonials. The person at the other side will not take it at face value.

They have a budget, they have an expectation of how much to spend. They can't just add my promised savings to their budget. Nobody is getting fired for wasting money on the purpose it was already budgeted for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x_pIgvDLcg

Is that so clear? This Dr. Peter Daszak, described as a coronavirus expert who apparently worked with the lab, said (4:50~) "There was no viral isolate in the lab, there was no cultured virus (..) anything related to SARS-COV2 so it's just not possible."
The CA part is incredibly easy if you don’t need to consider security.

The difficulty then ramps up the more secure you want (or need) it to be.
My App Failed Even Before Making It to the AppStore
An Update to Libra
>with patience and focus the trolls can be steamrolled.

I agree with your observation that trolls are a problem that comes with scale, but I've never seen an online community solve it. At best you can only slow them down.

If anybody has some examples of large online communities that did solve trolling I would be interested to see them.
My experience is that a good chunk of that comes from the limit on background processes.

At least in Android devices changing that parameter made them much snappier, although some apps would work, because they absolutely required more than one background process.
I never said that. The alternative isn't no lock of course. It's the free lock that's equally safe to the one with the green "this is safe" sticker that you pay a premium for.
Well then, California is california-sized as well, so if that approach does not work for USA in its entirety then perhaps it can fix the healthcare system in California?
Wow, I thought the post was dead and I went to sleep with it having only ~5 votes and I find out today it exploded!

Didn't think it was possible several hours after it was posted. I'm reading the comments and trying to reply now.
Elon Musk’s "alien dreadnoughts" I think was just referring to future Tesla factories rather than every conceivable kind of product.
Shouldn't Bennett and Leibsohn be attending anti-lockdown rallies? Or going to the beach in Florida or Georgia? With their immediate families and grandchildren?
Why Russian soldiers are finally replacing foot wraps with socks (2013)
Relevant organizations exist already. See Purism[0], Thinkpenguin [1], Technoethical [2].

[0] https://puri.sm

[1] https://www.thinkpenguin.com/

[2] https://tehnoetic.com/
For me this pranayama works :

https://libre.video/videos/watch/c4b30e57-0c23-47fa-aae2-8c5...

And several studies done on this pranayama

http://www.aolresearch.org/published_research.html
I know, and that's very unfortunate... But very few people choose to or even understand the implications of giving away your privacy.
I’m painfully aware that the rest of the market is worse.

Apple is the best practical option, making me a resentful Apple customer since ~2018. I was a resentful Microsoft customer back in the early 2000s as well, for similar reasons.

If there was a better alternative, I would “vote with my wallet”, but unfortunately there isn’t.

I feel it’s important to note, primarily because Microsoft never claimed their customers were filled with joy and delight from their magical products, while Apple continues to do so.

I have no joy, or delight, from using my Apple products. I get even less joy and delight each time I give them more money. If there was some other product range that solved my needs at a similar price point, I would already be there.
Exposing my body to all sorts of environment from radiation to a high level of stress and observing what is the outcome
> Why would it be spread in certain areas and not others?

I would guess because of different social distancing practices.

> Why would knowing who has antibodies hurt the economy when everyone is already secluded?

Knowing who has antibodies is going to be conflated with who has covid-19, because the general public is not going to get the nuance. And everyone is secluded right now but that will change.

However, I don't understand why you are asking me to prove the premise of the parent poster. I thought I was answering the question why he might have been downvoted, not whether what he was proposing was feasible. Maybe you could explain why you are asking me this. It seems you agree that a map targeting certain groups of people as likely of having covid-19 would be a bad outcome, isn't it? If so, you could probably understand why he might be downvoted.
Yep. we site itself. An as burk96 said, it's the current Firefox. I'm assuming the vimeo player asks for VR access just in case it's a 360 video. I took a quick look at their API and help site and it doesn't look like you can turn that off. In fact, even their own support site is riddled with it :/ Seems a glaring issue on their end!
You do realize the "lock" in this analogy that you claimed "does not help in any real way" is the EV, not the encryption?
It's possible to use BASIC on the ESP8266 / NodeMCU boards: http://www.esp8266basic.com/#

At the moment primary school age (5 to 10) children in the UK seem to learn some flavour of Scratch. And then (in the UK) they also tinker with boards like Crumble or CodeBug or BBC Micro:Bit (which use blockly or MS MakeCode or something a bit like Scratch).

I don't know what the next step in progression is. I'm curious about what HN readers would think good stepping stones would be? Direct to Python, or something else then to python?

BBC Micro:Bit https://microbit.org/

Crumble https://redfernelectronics.co.uk/crumble/

Codebug http://www.codebug.org.uk/
Buy hardware vendors which supports open source hardware development.. for eg. Purism, system76 ..
Ask HN: A hacker's books on pregnancy and childbirth?
In light of the discussion on pg's parenting tricks, I thought this might be a nice Sunday Ask: Can anyone recommend books on pregnancy and childbirth the HN audience would enjoy?

Books on the journey to birth and its immediate aftermath. But not opinionated tutorial/self-help guides - rather, ones that are relentlessly and neutrally informative on the technicalities of it all, and the envelope of common practices and complications.

Books that chart and canvas the scene. Books for learning.
I honestly respected that comment more than a lot of the others, because at least they showed an attempt at understanding. Though I'm not sure whether to attribute their comment on daytime temp in contrast to the articles focus on nighttime temp to their misunderstanding of the projects intent, or my misunderstanding of chickens.
Long time emacs user. I tried vim. Shut it down, and merrily went back to my motor memory.
Donald Trump is what gate keeping led to. We are now over the cusp. Enjoy.
The choice of not breaking the law in collecting names in the first place, of not knowingly going ahead with a case he knew was bogus.

His work was a scam from the start, he had the choice to stop or come clean at every point of the way.

He’s supposed to ensure the people represented exist. That responsibility shouldn’t go away because he paid some poor runners 10$ to write down the names.

Imagine a rule of law where that was a legitimate escape from consequences.
I could sue your boss in your name for some made up bogus claim, and when you come out saying: “wtf, I never had any say in this!?” I could walk away clean with a “oh yea, that’s true and I knew that was the case from early on, but I paid this hobo 2$ to write down your name, and I had to carry on, just in case you’d want to actually bring the suit anyway”, while pocketing my cut of the case costs.