skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an opinion. I'm an engineer who also trained as an economist, and I know the answers to these questions. It's just math.

It's all about the money supply. The elite want to bail out because it inflates the money supply.

You can bail in instead of bail out. Bankruptcies happen and equity holders lose, but the problem is that bankruptices reduce the money supply. Money effectively disappears when debt is restructured.

The problem we now face is that equity holders today have decided that bail outs are necessary politically. Equity is the most speculative ownership of productive capacity, but you wouldn't guess it with the way it's discussed. Wouldn't you expect that that kind of security to lose value in an unforeseen circumstance like this? The system eventually doesn't function if the government hamfistedly tries to alter price discovery to such an extent that markets stop working. That's where we are today.

So bail in. Give everyone free money. I give you an ID number and a bank account number, and I receive cash every month. That's a hell of lot simpler. Nationalize healthcare. Wouldn't a nationalized system be simpler? The lines of code per person have to be higher in a country with fifty different systems. It will cause inflation, but we don't really have a choice.

Sorry if my tone is a bit flippant, but someone has to argue for sanity here. The United States is going down a dark path in nationalizing so many USD assets. Somebody has to try to explain why.
> I think before the digital age, it must have been hard to do it irl or not?

Eh, not so much. By the time I cared to, I had communications outside of supervision.

Some tactics change, but every generation thinks they invented parental subversion. Hint: this means your parents are probably not as clueless as you think they are.
Wag may be overvalued, but it definitely provides nonzero value.

Anecdata: we use it (and Rover) almost weekly to find someone to sit or walk our dog when we can't get home in a timely manner due to work or social events. We've kept the contacts of several sitters but it's so much easier to use a platform for scheduling rather than playing are-you-free with 3 or 4 people that we'll pay the markup. Having access to those services is a huge QoL improvement.

It also enables a pretty easy additional income stream for people in a position to do the gigs. From what I've seen, it's straightforward to support yourself and even make a good middle-income wage just because dogs are a little simpler to parallelize than, say, taxi rides or food deliveries.
Yea I kind of agree. The antidote to fake news should be an educated population, not banning fake news.
I have twitter, facebook, instagram, reddit all blocked. I seem to benefit from a feature in iMessage where Apple will proxy the content to show the preview in-line, but I’m not able to click through to the actual site. This is nice, because people can share funny tweets with me and I can respond to that person only, without getting sucked in.
If I'm understanding this right, this app was written by the Australian government. Does the license for any libraries or other outside code they have included even matter?

Generally, governments have what is called "sovereign immunity" when it comes to civil lawsuits. They can only be sued if they decide to allow it. Some countries waive their sovereign immunity for specific laws.

For example US copyright law waives it for the Federal government, and so if the US government used your library without permission you could sue them for copyright infringement. It does not waive it in regard to the US states, however, and so if individual states used your library without permission you would probably not be able to do anything about it.

I have no idea if Australia has sovereign immunity from Australian copyright law. Google, Bing, and Duck Duck Go are all insisting on just returning results about the recent US Supreme Court case that said the waiver of sovereign immunity in US copyright just covers the Federal government, not the state government.
Windy?
> I didn't say I could get 100-1000x on a regular basis. What I said was:

I know, sorry for misrepresenting that. I just assumed that this happens often enough for you to mention it.

I would be happy with any random 1000x improvement or two you've encountered over the years (imagine something like Java/Kotlin baseline for comparison).

I don't really buy the regular 10x improvement either though (as in something achieved by other means than different form of formatting). Happy to be proven wrong though, my lisp experience is limited to some clojure.

> Most programming languages are Turing-complete so nothing is "fundamentally impossible" to express in any of them

Sure, that's why I said "fundamentally impossible to describe concisely", as in something you can only express concisely in lisp (because of prefix notation? macros? I don't know) and it is bound to be 10x verbose mess in a c-like lang.
AWS charged me $500 over 4 years for a “free” micro instance
AWS "free" offerings can cost a lot more than you think - I tried out a "free" t2.micro instance in 2016 and received a surprise bill for $500 recently.

It turns out that AWS does not terminate unused free instances when the 12 month free trial runs out - they will happily bill you until the end of time, irrespective if you ever log in to their service, run code, etc.

When I got in touch with AWS customer services about this they just told me to get lost.

Legally AWS may be skirting around consumer protection regulations with the way they market AWS free as free credits rather than a free service.

There are laws like 15 USC Ch. 110: ONLINE SHOPPER PROTECTION §8403. "Negative option marketing on the Internet" which are designed to prevent companies from automatically and silently upgrading customers from a free trial to a paid product.

Companies like Amazon will keep doing this for as long as we let them get away with it - do what you can to protect yourself from outrageous costs; use a prepaid credit card with a limited balance when signing up online, and spread the word about AWS' bad behavior.
Ask HN: Is Building a Unicorn a Myth?
I have been trying to build something people want since 2006.

My last venture - saas app - got attraction but still making a very small revenue, but seems to be going to have some relative success, which means I expect it to make $25,000 MRR after 18 months from now.

I got refused from ycombinator though, and other programs as well,and I don't expect to be able to raise fund.

Still, it doesn't mean it will be a unicorn but probably a multimillion dollars business instead.

Shouldn't we stop talking about unicorns and instead start trying to build a million or multimillion dollars startups instead?
Isn't it more realistic?
DragonOS LTS (Lubuntu) with preinstalled SDR programs and video tutorials
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth... sooner or later, that debt is paid."
There's only one sure way to eliminate fraud in advertising: stop advertising. Google is attempting to make it more difficult for malefactors to use its systems, but this disregards the fact that advertising is not a socially beneficial activity and all advertising is an attempt to psychologically manipulate the public.

Therefore, a harm reduction justification is insufficient as it presumes there is some benefit worth the harms being introduced. In fact, there is no benefit and Google is only reducing harm slightly.
How? Revue shouldn't be passing any information along to Facebook on that page.
> I was there for about 10 years, and a few months ago my account got temp-banned because I said a naughty word.

What was the word?
I'm a member of a private club (not in ny) that allowed smoking well past the law disallowed smoking in the public places. Business started struggling several years back, finally, they realized that the problem was they allowed smoking so they voluntary banned it and now business is much better.
Mindfulness meditation linked to a hue-cycle, like Night Mode for mindfulness. The cycle fades into the unconscious while you work (perceptual adaptation), but you can shift your attention to it for light-guided meditation.

Currently in beta, looking for feedback and happy to answer any questions.
Yes, the WHO was incorrectly relying upon information provided by China. Since then it has become an accepted fact that asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is not only occurring, but is one of the primary transmission vectors.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2008457
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how provocative another comment was or you feel it was. I can understand how that bit could have rubbed some commenters the wrong way (it affected me that way too), but confirming the point is not a good way to respond to it.

By HN standards, let alone internet standards, the thread was unusually mild. Of course that provocation made it angrier, but I'm sure it was unintentional.
Ask HN: How to go from desktop app to minimum web app
As a side project, I wrote a desktop (python/cython) software application in computer aided engineering. I am trying to turn this desktop application into a bootstrapped SaaS company. I am a mechanical engineer by trade, so my knowledge of web frameworks is negligible.

For the minimum product, I need to have a way to create an account and accept payment. Once logged in I would like the user to be able to upload a file, have the website run the python operation and then return a new file for the user to download (from the python operation). I imagine it might look something like this: https://smallpdf.com/word-to-pdf Additional relevant information, the process currently is relatively process intensive (working on it), currently names in terms of time, so think of it as input file, come back in an hour or the next morning to get result rather than an immediate process.

What are hacker news recommendations for tools/resources for learning to build this minimum viable web product? In terms of languages, I know python (and also C/Fortran) so there is a preference for that, but if another webframe work is superior, I will learn it.
Great list. I'm a video-game enthusiast too and similarly compile news. A few days ago I made a static site generator that delivers me my latest feeds: http://fdg.gg/news
It's really early stage but feel free to use in your own journey.
You mean ubiquitous testing forever? It only took one guy in China to infect tens of millions of people. This virus is bound to come back again and again. I am not sure this is a long term solution.

And it is possible that this virus goes away by itself (ie it won’t be reimported). Apparently some viruses do. But if it is the assumption it should be stated.
In modern competitive gaming, I believe it’s fairly rare to remap away from WASD. Other keys get remapped, but not those ones. Since these expensive keyboards are catering to the (wannabe-)pro-gamer crowd, they tend to focus on that cluster.
Well I was saying that they don't seem to need bill 101, since you were saying that bill 101 was created to protect the only French speaking group in America.

Québec is not the only French speaking group in America and bill 101 is only a Québec law, that's what I wanted to say. Maybe that wasn't clear.
At various points in the series, the motives of different characters are shown to be driven by external incentives:
- the chief scientist wants to pass this test and get promoted
- the manager guy received a medal for completing the reactor construction early. he also had to maintain output to meet quota for the month
- the local council decided to not evacuate because the would get some recognition.

There are many characters that are so caught up with their own rat race that they are oblivious to reality.

I find this somewhat analogous to large corps and middle management. (a recent example is Well Fargo and the multiple accounts scandal).

It's interesting how these types of structures (i guess i'd call it bureaucracy) are independent of political and financial systems.
Appreciate the feedback - I use Airtable to organize a lot of my own information, so I figured it'd be useful for sharing articles as well. Unfortunately, it's not the best medium for mobile.
This wasn't the case already? I could have run a controversial ad to ruin someone's name?
Let's for simplicity apply Occam's razor:

When we didn't have modern birth control solutions cultural rituals were an effective measure against women giving birth to seven children from different men.

We removed that natural health taxing consequence of having sex. Could you elaborate on your fence a bit because I'm always curious about unknown unknowns to me.
> Then why write a book? If there's no inherent reason to bind your ideas into a single package (which is done for purposes of selling a single item), how do your ideas benefit from having a book structure?

To quote Seth Godin, the book is just the souvenir of the idea. And it builds credibility, so you can leverage it for consulting or to do public speaking.
>a few fringe groups and Greenpeace said 93,000

yep, pretty close. The cancer rates in the Gomel and Mogilev (2 regions where the majority of fallout happened) are significantly higher - like for example breast cancer is about 2 times - and that means several thousands extra deaths per year.

People talking about small/mild background level miss the point of the fallout. It isn't about background level, it is about radioisotopes, especially alpha generating ones, getting inside the body.
This is exactly what I did with my first book. It is available for free on Leanpub, but I charge minimum for Kindle/print using Amazon KDP.

I just wanted to get my message across and learn something on the way. It also sells relatively well, but that is a side-effect of my initial intentions :)
Yes you absolutely can just install nix[1] it should work on any Linux, I used it in OS X myself and some things are slightly less smooth than Linux, but it still works well. I also highly suggest to start with Nix Pills[2] it goes so by step how to create derivations and conventions in nixpkgs.

Once you get familiar, you can see how you can make a reproducible dev environment, the author has a blog how to do it for rust[3] but many things still apply, I for example did a template for python [4], I eventually plan to put a less trivial app with unit tests once I get some free time.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/

[2] https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/index.html

[3] https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-nix-2020-03-08

[4] https://github.com/takeda/example_python_project
Interestingly, that's apparently not quite correct. From the ESA link in the article:

> Rosetta's original trajectory and engineering design did not include an eclipse, but unavoidable launch delays forced the trajectory to be replanned. Mission controllers working on Rosetta have spent months carefully planning and testing a low-power configuration which will allow the spacecraft to safely operate on batteries.
It'd probably work. They cite cost as a reason for not going third party in the article.
Hah I'd say that my experience was more in line with yours than anything close to the OP. Went to HS from 2008-12', couldn't have given 2 shits about school and was just trying to get some weed and get laid. Similar mindset with all my friend since we all just wanted to go to the state school.

High school (and I'd argue undergrad) for 80% of people is a joke and a waste of time and for me was a time to learn how to network without networking. Always felt kinda funny sitting next to people in my hs,college, and now workplaces who had 'done everything right' their whole life but lo and behold were in the same place doing the same thing for the same pay. But thats probably just me being a douchebag more than anything
The USSR was responsible for spreading death and oppression through out the world. It finally collapsed due to its failed economic system. Subsidies delayed that collapse, delayed the freedom of hundreds of millions and allowing more deaths.

No one was nuking anyone, the Soviet leadership was just trying to maintain their decadent lifestyles at the expense of their peoples.
Do you mean the 222nm (far UVC) thing? (Which seems safe.) Or am I missing something? Or something dumb that Trump said?
Maybe something like Fortress? [1]
1: https://web.archive.org/web/20060819201513/http://research.s...
German labour minister wants to put right to home working in law
Amazingly, the web folks seem to be doing OK on this front. They often manage to miss the xkcd#927 trap. What I see (admittedly the simplified public version) is more like:

- Here's a standard that kind of works and everybody is using it.

- Hey, we invented this cool new thing that isn't part of that standard but people seem to like it! (XHR, Canvas, ...)

- OK everybody let's put that into the standard as well so we can all agree on how it works. Thanks!

There was no way to "force Microsoft or Apple" to make a web browser, either, and yet they both did, and made it part of their operating systems.
Your account was created almost a decade ago. Is this really the first and only comment? Why is this? Another user called you "mike" in their comment. Are you famous or noteworthy in relation to this story somehow? Why should your comment have weight behind it?
Yes, absolutely correct. We just don't always have time to wait: Doctors must take action now. Knowing a majority of people that end up ventilators will die means the balance of risk weighs at least a little more heavily towards novel treatments than in less critical cases.

Case studies of those attempts are exactly the kind of data points that can provide a great deal of information and hypothesis generation for more systematic studies.
Django ModelForm – Video Tutorial
As a sibling has noted, joins across database hosts with SQL is somewhere between hard and impossible. So it made sense to discourage and remove them on that basis, given that the datasize was growing/has grown beyond what can be managed reasonably on a single host.

Another reason to avoid joins is that they it can be difficult to consistently write joins that execute quickly. Often, a poorly performing join can be written as a sequence of queries which each perform well, and joined with reasonable performance on the client side. Usually, it's easier to scale the client (webserver) tier than the database tier, so moving work to the client makes sense for that reason too.

Of course, this has to be considered in the context of the service. These days it's pretty easy to get a database server with 64 cores and a couple terrabytes of ram, and several terrabytes of fast SSD storage. You can do a lot with that, and you may never need to shard.
That's an appealing image, but we can see which of the those is easier to legislate... my instinct is the populace will voluntarily educate themselves only if they can feel the negative effects of 'fake news' in their lives in the short term. Given that we haven't seen much of an uptick in educated discourse online, I would hazard a guess that hasn't happened yet.
From my experience of getting ~30 of those notifications per week for a handful of JS repos, I can very much assure you that it does exist.
I'm a Ukrainian jew.. Good topic :) Are you jewish?
> such refusal [of reality] is not only a Soviet phenomenon

Indeed. A few recent US lies that caused many deaths and made millions of people suffer in the Middle East :

- Saddam Hussein had mass destruction weapons. (Iraq)

- The USA want a new relation will the Muslim people of Middle East, not with their dictators. (Egypt, Yemen)

- Chemical attacks would cross the red line. (Syria)

- Libya was about to massively kill rebels, so some countries will bring airplane protection.

- Iran is a terrorist country.
This article[0] on LWN seems to suggest that Linux has no kernel support for checkpoint/restore because it's hard to implement (no arguments there). But hypervisors support checkpoint/restore for virtual machines, e.g. ESXi VMotion and KVM live migration, so it seems like these technical problems are solvable. Indeed all the benefits of VM migration seem to also apply to process migration (load balancing, service uptime, etc).

0. https://lwn.net/Articles/293575/
AFAIK, in Israel women serve less time and in less dangerous roles.
The only culture that I know of, which seems to have somewhat equal burden of war fighting are the Peshmerga/Kurds.
"I adopted the attitude that those bar boys are all assholes, that they aren't worth anything, and all they're in there for is to get in your pants, and they're not going to give you a goddamn thing"

it's universal i think
Thanks! Too bad :/ Last week it seemed promising...

(I have no idea who would downvote your comment.)
Well, an object with a then() method is a promise.

Promise.resolve({then: () => console.log('called')})

Promises autoflatten since you can't have Promise<Promise<T>>, so you'll see that this code prints 'called'.
There was also middle class and people who are not wealthy, but can afford to met have 12 years old responsible for whole family.
'shard user scale data, centralize or mirror small scale data' (the A1 A2 B C D E diagram) is a useful point

'obvious in retrospect' I suspect to a lot of teams that add sharding to their system
> the fact that advertising is not a socially beneficial activity and all advertising is an attempt to psychologically manipulate the public

That's not a fact, that's your opinion. Advertising is a form of communication and like most communication, the person originating the communication often has a goal or desired outcome in mind. That you or me might not like their goals or the message that they communicate doesn't mean that no one finds it valuable, nor does it mean that we should ban all communication.
That seems like kind of a cherry pick. Of course small cheap household goods like basic cutlery aren't gonna be much better on Amazon, if ever, but plenty of other categories are still better on Amazon than most B&M stores.

Like, good luck finding decent USB batteries/chargers locally, they're usually 50-100% more expensive while being substantially worse than the Anker/Aukey/Ravpower brand items popular on Amazon.
> get things checked by a credible authority

Who decides what's a credible authority? How about critical thinking instead?
I'd assume a lot of the losses would be the same across all devices - e.g. GSM and associated preprocessing will result in dynamic compression in a uniform way regardless of placement, no? It's an interesting idea but it seems like you'd need a mixture of different compression types.
Show HN: Publicly-traded SBA Paycheck Protection Program Loan Recipients
That hardly worked against Big Tobacco. It isn't gonna do jack shit against an adversary that is nowhere near as transparently evil.
What's the value proposition over something like Debian where it Just Works(tm)?

Maybe if I was a sysadmin managing a herd of boxen I would like this, but for a guy with only two Linux systems (plus my mac, plus my windows boxes, plus my openbsd pcengines etc.), it seems like a lot of fuckery with text files for little to no actual improvement in my UX.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955606
https://www.pipiscrew.com/works/source-code-organizer-net/

-has sync, by file
Ask HN: How do you imagine the US in 50 years?
Its further biased by how many iq tests the testee has done before.

Honestly, iq tests are pointless unless you're selecting for people that are willing to invest time into worthless knowledge in order to win in a contest.

Which is a valid criteria, considering that these are the most motivated people... Its just not "intelligence", though that itself is just as pointless to measure.