skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a long list of reasons this is a bad idea: https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

Having used my fair share of labview i know such examples are reality. Common mistake of the model is the sentiment that because it's visual everybody can do it! Biggest wtf i experienced was when system engineers wrote half completed "reference-implementations" in labiew, which coders then had to translate to Java for production, to sort out all the edge cases, because these visual tools (and the people that use them) are very bad at expressing edge cases. They might as well have given us graphs drawn on paper because the references were so far from reality you could never run them.

Together with that, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Take https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/image/162487395171 as an example, it's actually one of the simpler graphs from that page. But if you take a look at it you see it's just doing standard function calls in a sequence, like trunctate(), toText() setText(), what's then the point of making it visual?! For simple signal control loops with only mathematical operations the labview model works really well, but when you start doing things like subString, groupBy or indexOf and don't realize you should change domain, that's when you get the worst spaghetti.

The benefit of a visual representation is that there are different ways to visualize things and you can choose which one fits the problem best. You have sequence, dependency, state, class, call-graphs, signals, lexical parsers, tables, charts, etc. Most visual environments only implement one of these and very soon you are using the wrong tool for the job.
And the cross product is used with vectors, which are either symbols like u or v, or written with an underscore / arrow on top, so there's zero risk of confusion.

(Also, the cross product is always a less elegant alternative to the exterior product, but I guess this isn't the place for that rant.)
True, but you can’t figure out what product will fly and which not unless you actually build it. So you are stuck ;-)

Granted, one can filter out 99% of product ideas on a whiteboard but the remaining 1% is still enormously huge. And that 1% is actually the stuff that nowadays gets started.
Ask HN: What is authenticator app you recommend?
Context:

I got an e-mail from RubyGems.org that you should enable multi-factor authentication (MFA). This MFA is only available using Authenticator app, not SMS-based authetication.

I never used Authenticator apps before. They recommend Google Authenticator [0] or Authy [1]. I check Google Authenticator on Play Store has no update since 2017. Authy is updated (last updated on April 2020). I found that Microsoft Authenticator [2] is also updated (last updated on April 2020).

The app should protect my data and privacy. I'm OK with open-source software.

So, my question, what is the app you recommend?

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.authenticator2

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.authy.authy

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azure.authenticator
UBI, by the way, is not necessarily a replacement for all social welfare programs. I don't believe that's the original or modern idea outside of right of center circles.

I've seen plenty of folks who advocate for it alongside food stamps, rent control, universal healthcare, social housing, etc.
Everywhere around the world, users of Maven Central facepalm.
Wikipedia mentions that autopsy might not have been performed.
Looking back at DTrace from a Linux eBPF world (some thoughts)
I'm studying Interlingua, a pan-Romance-English international auxiliary language that has the distinct Advantage of being able to be understood by Romance speakers at the first glance. I think it's much more "useful" since I can't speak any Romance languages at all at the start.

I tried looking towards Interslavic (Medjaslovanoj) and Intergermanic (Folkspraak*), and the former is interesting - Slavs can understand that register with quite a bit of effort, but the latter, sadly, is still in development and is fragmented.

For other areas, Hijazi/MSA is the standard of the Arab world, Mandarin is for Sinosphere, and... Malay for SEA, I think.

A worldwide international language is quite hard, because you need to dislodge the usefulness of English in some ways. A 100% constructed language is hard to learn for adults. A pseudo-natural conlang is... Impossible for the whole Earth.
Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research
Yes. And some time ago. It was like watching a completely preventable car crash happen in slow motion, even as people are denying it is happening. As the bumper crumples, then come the people saying how perfectly acceptable it is that this is happening.
Hindi's Meteoric Rise
It is nice tool for online exploration, but not as V-Tune.
The links at the bottom, unmangled:

http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC21617...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pitman
Lab made or not it's quite an interesting article on the structure to the virus and the various lab viruses that have been made.
> The number of developers duplicates each 5 years

You probably mean "double" here, but the bottom line is that there is zero data to back up that claim.

He literally made up that number out of thin air to make his talk look more important.
also need to take into account the decline in deaths from other factors due to quarantines, social distancing, and improved hygiene. less driving, less spread of other infectious diseases, etc.
In Assembly, even if you manage to beat the compiler, it might be a pyrrhic victory, because it might be lost when trying the same benchmark in another CPU or after getting a microcode update.

During the 80's and early 90's it was a different matter, because CPUs were dumb, hardware was relatively static specially on 8 and 16 bit consumer systems and high level optimizers were pretty dumb given the resource constraints of those platforms.
Which makes me wonder, internationally, if there aren't countries that would make them do that for their territory? I think in the Netherlands pretty much all kinds of tobacco advertising is banned, even the very creative ones (like opening a chain of bars named similar to one tobacco brand). And I just found a (Dutch language) site weakly referencing European rules around disclosure of product placement (though, in the context of television, that may be Netflix's loophole).
I don't think mac has any hidpi support at all. They just decrease the resolution.

Last time I used it, KDE had _proper_ fractional scaling and rendered fonts at full resolution compared to mac, which by default runs at lower than native resolution of my retina MacBook pro.
>this is very much still a thing for a large population

No, it's so radically different that while there is still zeitgeist related to TV, it's not wrong to say the "tv zeitgeist" is dead.

Following a TV show used to be even more in the moment than following sports are today. Either someone saw last night's game, or they didn't and you can't have a meaningful conversation with them. They might catch up watching the highlight reel but conversations will be shallower, and talking about one game becomes near-irrelevant by the time the next game airs. These days TV shows have the zeitgeist pattern of a recent video game release. Everyone works through the release at different paces, conversations are bounded by seeing how caught-up everyone is before getting into details, and the material has long enough shelf life that conversations can happen with months - or years - between different conversation participants seeing it.
Holy camole I'm not making an argument about 'states rights' and definitely not for the 'Confederate Flag' or for the 'South' - I don't care about any of those things - I'm talking about the term 'Traitor' as historically objective terminology.
Not moving away from public transit, but adding more viable alternatives to cars.
People are generally capable of cooking to nourish themselves. Learning enough cooking to cook for yourself can be achieved in one afternoon. The foodworker employment market is completely based on convenience culture. The software engineering employment market is very different to that.
Reminder that at that time, random synchronous chats with strangers was a thing. Maybe it still is an I just disengaged, idk
I am not a ML expert, so I cannot give you correct guidelines. But I do know that there are a lot of problems in kaggle. You can pick a direction/domain: cv, reinforce learning, nn, etc.
A peculiarity of Spanish flu may shed light on Covid-19
That's not the source, it's the claim.

There is zero evidence for his claim that the number of developers double every five years.
Why are So Many of the Words in This Comment Capitalised? Is it a Title of Something?
Makes a lot more sense then bailing out companies.
Cooking with Husband – Fun Cooking
Coronavirus tracing app COVIDSafe is so secure
What? Non sequitur about gerrymandering aside, capitalism is not "the foundation of our society" in either a historical sense or a sociological one. It's our current mode of operation, but it's by no means axiomatic.

We should be looking at the "black swan" events as systemic failures of capitalism and be looking for ways to replace it.
"Pointer latency". I'd have mentioned that, but it's the article's own title.
Milan, for instance, will dramatically reduce the number of people that can access public transportation.
Eventually this kind of approach would torpedo their company's growth. Every price hike alienates part of their base who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not accept the new higher price and they will jump to another provider who is the same or cheaper in price even if the product they receive is worse.

At some point the price difference between the quality product and the cheap product becomes so vast that the quality product company must shrink either by reducing the quality of the product, or by reducing the manpower necessary to produce the quality product.

It's better to first introduce ads into the current subscription plan, and then introduce ad-free subscription levels at a higher price.
Red line, nearly transparent old data, no link to source data... What's not to like? :) /s
Show HN: Kanmail – An email client that functions like a kanban board
After the announce of 100k yens per people (~$1000), they might finally become more serious...
I must admit I really only had a cursory glance. I didn't want to read the article as I already know how to use the basic commands. It's entirely possible I'm just a dummy and didn't see an obvious link. I wouldn't take my feedback too seriously, unless you receive the same feedback from others too.

I meant more that it would be nice if the website design itself clearly indicated the presence of other related posts. This is about post metadata which shouldn't be communicated solely in the post itself but also in the way that post is presented.
When would the actual function body need to change in this case? These micropackages almost never break because of the actual implementation, they break because they are unpublished (like left-pad) or because they change how they are exported (like in this case).

If the code is in your codebase it does not need a test.
It is now about 20 years old, but you can start with "Zen of Assembly Language" and carry on with "Graphics Programming Black Book".

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-zen-of-asm

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
I don't find it amazing. 1980 was 40 years ago. For context, the first commercial TV broadcast in the US was in 1941, and it didn't really get going until the late 40s. For the format not to have found it's most profitable show length for an hour long slot 35 years after it started, and for it to still be evolving 40 years from that point with a huge amount of innovation in the tech isn't really surprising.
Boa: Use Python Functions in Node.js
Smokers had no alternative as in no other place where to take their business. Smokers themselves were not banned from bars, just the act of smoking.

People of Vienna who wanted to go shopping in their cars could have went shopping in some other shops accessible by car.

There were no bars where the smokers could have went to smoke.
And agile methods are so powerful because they.. move fast and make broken things?
It’s market segmentation, they have to make it uglier. If Apple gave their “affordable” model the same internals and looks of their flagship, which costs about three times as much, they would effectively kill their premium line.
I don't think they're as cut-throat as you think they are. Has this been your experience with companies that size? The flip side of you're argument is that you are a dime a dozen and they go with someone with less ridiculous demands.

Also, my contracts have generally been open-ended. How much is 25% in that case. 1 month's wage? 1 year's wage?
They share cells. They move around at set times. They are not isolated.

The soap is expensive, they don't have it and masks are not allowed.
> And we still occasionally get bad weather. I predict that scooter and bike usage will drop extremely fast once it rains for a week or two, or, god forbid, we get a real winter once again, with snow and sub-zero temperatures

Live in the Netherlands for a week and you'd be amazed at the resilience of Dutch bikers in bad weather.
Ask HN: How many hires post-YC?
The founder of the Ocean accelerator in Cincinnati was recently quoted in a WIRED article saying that "a new business, on average, will hire three people in its first 12 months, 10 people by the end of year two." Got me thinking, are there any statistics like this about startups that were part of a YC cohort?
>Is this article I read a week ago not true anymore?

Your quote is about fatality numbers. Public policy to reduce transmission of covid19 is meant to keep the infection curve flat enough to avoid overwhelming hospitals. Unless Sweeden's hospitals are overwhelmed, the articles are orthogonal.
I installed andOTP.

Free open source software. Available on Google play and F-droid.

With features I like : icons, import/export, password to open, etc.
Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers
Arguably Game of Thrones could be the last series to ever capture the attention of the entire world at the same time. Everyone I know watched it, all ages, and all different genre fans. Bars used to play the episodes to a packed crowd. It was truly epic.

I don’t think these other series you listed are anywhere close to the level GoT captured. They win awards and have big budgets and fans spread the word, but still nowhere near.
I don’t see that happening enough to more than complement the traditional public transport. I do see a lot of people sick of battery powered scooters littering the sidewalks though.
We do not know if this is a hacker or not please tell us at techie profits
How to create a software without programming
I recommend botchief
You just give some clicks, then your idea will become an independent piece of software that you can manipulate or sell directly to customers and businesses.
In the context of the times, the late 60s-early 70s were a time of political concession from both the USSR and the US. This was the Detente period of the Cold War, when the two sides were trying to sign nuclear arms treaties to avoid mutual annihilation like they faced during the Cuban missile crisis as well as the expense involved with making tens of thousands of nukes, and the US was trying to pull itself out of Vietnam and needed good relations with the USSR to make sure they wouldn't have to fight a 2nd Vietnam war if the USSR decided to push the spread of global communism. The grain export deal was just one piece in the puzzle.
This person has equity in three properties. Are they equally invested elsewhere or did they over leverage their current properties? Because something isn't adding up - either they put all their chips on one number (real estate) or they are playing with a lot more chips than you are suggesting.
https://bit.ly/3aoNVwm
Did you have trouble breathing when you had the pneumonia? These are cases of people with 0 or low # of symptoms, and only knew they tested positive of the virus. I'd imagine they just didn't realize they were sick, and then they eventually start feeling fatigue and run down when doing 'normal' things even after the virus passing their system.

ACE2 is in high concentration in the testes too, could this cause fertility issues? Sure it'd be good for the environment but a lot of couples really do want and enjoy their children or to have some someday.

It'd be nice to know as much as possible before we open the flood gates.
Old? I feel like a dinosaur because I still watch shock DVDs. Still no ads. No DRM. No funky software needed, though, TBH, the bits are encrypted. Not sure how long optical media lasts, but I am hoping these things last a few more decades.
> people simply cannot sit at home or endure their spouse and kids); maybe it wasn't too solid to begin with?

Eh, I think this is a symptom of what I’ll call “Modern Excess Syndrome”: the idea that if unlimited amounts of something aren’t beneficial, then the thing itself is broken. I.e., if ‘more = better’ isn’t true for X, then X is undesirable or broken. It just illustrates the lack of nuance we have in contemporary western society.

You see this play out in lots of ways. Helicopter parenting is a good example: the prevailing assumption is that a good parent is one who spends as much time and resources as humanly possibly with their kids. Yet as a consequence the children have worse outcomes, are less independent, etc. And people are less likely to become parents as they perceive parenthood as an end to their own life as individuals.

The truth is: it is in the nature of some things to be focused, or sporadic, or limited in some way. Chocolate cake is a delicious treat, but eating it for every meal is both unhealthy and destroys much of its uniqueness.
I am not a biologist but biologists have discussed the idea that phenotype changes can occur without genotype change, since a long time.
Although genotype inarguably influences the development and expression of phenotype, selective forces ultimately operate on phenotypes.

The concept of genetic canalization addresses the extent to which an organism's phenotype allows conclusions about its genotype. A phenotype is said to be canalized if mutations (changes in the genome) do not noticeably affect the physical properties of the organism.

This means that a canalized phenotype may form from a large variety of different genotypes. If canalization is not present, small changes in the genome have an immediate effect on the phenotype that develops. [3]

Mary Jane West-Eberhard famously told "“The 20th century has been called the century of the gene, the 21st century promises to be the century of the environment.” ... ” Darwin, who didn’t even know genes existed, had it right, he left open the possibility that new traits could arise because of environmental influence." [1]

An example of such epigenetic and heritable trait changed in morphology without change in DNA is here [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_West-Eberhard

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-the-tree-f...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12483213

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotype%E2%80%93phenotype_dis...
There's a bit of truth there, not that my opinion means much, but Japan's biggest issue is that they haven't invested enough in the people, and by extension supporting domestic growth/consumption.

And when I say Japan here, that's Japan, the government, and more importantly what is called "Japan, Inc." Corporate Japan has amassed an absolutely staggering amount of money over the past 10/20 years, they haven't done enough with it, and Abenomics (though I think they honestly know it's an issue, and have tried to address it) hasn't managed to crack that nut.

Now, as to the second point concerning inflation, I maybe naively think that's easier to talk to. I think the first idea isn't that you want inflation, it's that you don't want deflation. Prices have to do something, and deflation tends be be very unfun, and has proven tricky to get along with. It's just that societies have found it easier to fight excessive inflation than any amount deflation, so you end up with 'price stability' being interpreted as 'inflation, but not that much'. Ideally imo you're running above 0 with some headroom.

I also think inflation is sort of is Darwinian-ly helpful (though it may be very uncomfortable/destructive) in that it kind of naturally gives a mechanism where everything is being constantly re-evaluated over time. In a world where everything gets more expensive over time, if you can't get more efficient, or maintain your pricing power, you're being compressed. And again, that's not very fun in the context of wage growth, it's people's lives and livelyhood. Debts also become nominally cheaper to service over time. A lot of stuff works out cleaner when you have inflation vs deflation, but there's still unfun aspects.

One thought experiment I have is a little about investment/consumption, and debt.
If you want to go buy something you need, and tomorrow the price will be higher (inflation ad infinitum), when is the best time to buy it? Now.

If you want to go buy something you need, and tomorrow the price will be lower (deflation ad infinitum), when is the best time to buy it? Never? How long do you wait?
If you’re still on their trial period, try Polypane as well and see which one you like better, that’s the quickest way to find out.

I think Polypane has more features but those can be copied (and are). With Polypane my goals is not to provide some fun tool, but to make you a better and more productive developer. More productive so you spend less time to get the same result, but better in that you’ll spend less time and end up with a more accessible and performant site.

So you’ll find a lot of features for things that are often overlooked and make those really easy to use, like accessibility tooling, or live reloading that works for any environment with zero configuration.

The latest addition in that area is that I wrote a completely custom element inspector that works across all panes at the same time and makes it really easy to edit styling and properties, live updated in all panes. It’s a joy to use and a major productivity boost.
They might introduce a cheaper tier with ads, like Hulu does.
I wish I could +1000 this. "Standups and Demos were all about self-promotion"
People had watch parties the moment episodes dropped for GoT. Bars would even air episodes in later years. Most of the world watched it together, both legally and illegally. It was definitely the same thing.
> Also, what happens if it rains?

I'm from Copenhagen. Almost two thirds of us use our bikes to get around. The weather is incredibly shifty on this island and during autumn and winter it rains pretty much every day. Not always all day, but there's a high chance it will rain during your daily commute.

So what do all the people here do? To cope with the weather we have developed advanced technology that negates the effects of rain. It's called: the raincoat.