skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't be surprised though right?

Their whole business model is built around automation and removing human decision making. Yes, it's going to result in false positives that cost them 20+ year customers (and even $100k in spend over that time period is a blip of a blip of a blip to them) but it's clearly something they've thought about and can live with.
With Schools Shut by Coronavirus, Remote Learning Strains Parents
Isn't it well known that C++ templates are Turing complete? Aren't most metaprogramming facilities in other languages as well?
Also this is still confusing because you need to read it backwards. Pipelines are just better in every way, if you ask me.
Show HN: Android App – But Did I Do It: Build Habits That Matter”
Hi HN,

I built a personal optimization app, and it's now live on Google Play ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nxtmtn.but... ).

I've spent a large portion of my career and personal time optimizing things, and I've often wondered why it's so hard to build habits and get them to stick.

The main thesis behind the app is that people will have more luck building habits that matter to them. So, the goal is to help you connect your habits with your purpose, through an app that's easily accessible, helps guide the process, and tracks your progress.

Also, I've spent a lot of time in data science, so there are some graphs, though they're designed to be simple to use.

There's more information on the Next Mountain website ( https://nxtmtn.com/ ) and in the Google Play Store listing above.

I'm 110% sure that the app needs work, and I have a list of TODO's for the next release.

But sitting on the fence between releasing it and painting my own precious Picasso that never sees the light of day, well, I had to set it free. (It was a tough decision; in fairness, I just enjoy coding in Kotlin. XML's OK, too... And, TBT, I started building the app in 2016, with some pivots along the way, so it was definitely time. More to come in my next Medium post.)

I'd love to hear what you think about it!

Jason
Yes. A bunch of countries have entered (or are about to enter) this phase: New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan
China's Factories Are Back. Its Consumers Aren't.
“sucks less” does not mean “doesn’t suck” (under 40% trust)

Also amusing: weather forecasting in the top 5.
Visiting that link takes me to the store, but no buds listed there.

Maybe they're region-locked?

(Note: Not redirected. It's that same URL, but only lists other products).
Indeed, 'twas the city of Gralås, oft have I ambled it's cobbled streets in days gone by, smelling the sweet scent of the herb the soothsayers smoke thereon and listened to the ramblings of their visions.

Once I loved a woman there, her skin was red as the fires of the volcano of Taris.

Once I dueled with a man in the foggy morn at the royal park, I killed him, it was a fight over honor and I barely remember the particulars now.

But all that is gone, destroyed years past, you sir, are a scholar of deep erudition to remember the name of Gralås in this degraded age.
Have you tried comply-style foam tips? I feel pressure with the standard silicone tips that iems tend to come with, but I've been able to wear foam ones for hours without discomfort. The only issue imo is that the foam tips do wear out and break down over time. I haven't actually tracked how long they last, but from memory I think I get about 6 months out of a pair of foam earbud tips.
‘Life Has to Go On’: How Sweden Has Faced the Virus Without a Lockdown
That did happen. A good number of people in India only take things seriously when there is some degree of harshness from the administration.
"Phone a Friend" for Software Engineers
My firm specializes in building developer tools and partnering with outside companies to build great software for them. I'll spare you the details, but this is a new tiered offering model that we are playing around with and I'm eager to get some feedback. Times are tough during COVID-19, so any feedback or suggestion is super helpful! Thank you all so much.

A little about me personally, I'm involved in the NodeJS and GraphQL open source communities :)
So, closures are indeed poor man's objects.
Any context on what are you trying to get better at?

Farnam Street is my favorite blog about it. I would recommend 3 articles:

-- Second Order Thinking - https://fs.blog/second-order/

-- Implications of Second Order Thinking - https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/

-- How to Think - https://fs.blog/2015/01/thinking-about-thinking/

This should be a great start on how to improve your critical thinking skills. Then, I would explore decision-making biases and how to avoid deal (by yourself or in a group).
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Similarly, perhaps, many take for granted that the written version of a word, in current standard spelling is the word.
Disclosure: I work for Red Hat, who is a competitor of VMware, but I felt this way long before I went to Red Hat

I find this extremely troubling. While I am not a GPL purist (I think there is definitely a place for the GPL, but I don't think everything should be GPL[1]), I do think it is critical that the GPL have teeth. If violating the GPL is not a big deal, then there isn't a way I can think of to release free software with assurance that it won't be used to violate others' freedom.

I detest lawsuits, but the GPL must be defended.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
On the Dutch store the product is not even there. There's simply no mention of it at all.

The above link works, but just shows other products.
It’s hard to know. And that’s pretty much the problem.
And I guess these guys "could" be right also.
Don’t Use Boolean Arguments, Use Enums
Many parents are discovering that the problem with "why johnny can't learn" wasn't the teachers or the schools.
British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
Better product search means less money from search ads.
A pencil, a ruler and graph paper.

Tech is usually way more cumbersome to use.
Maybe there is but I'd avoid drawing too many conclusions.

I think the desire to monitor like this tends to be more about human nature and less about a given political ideology.
We have 5 kids in school. Every single kid has a different schedule of zoom meetings, different websites they are supposed to be doing, etc. It is a nightmare to try to organize. Hopefully this will be a wakeup call for the school district to figure out an organized way of doing this for the next time. Ideally there would be a single place we could go that would show everything for all of our kids on one page with what they should be doing that day and the links. Instead we are getting text messages from this teacher, emails from another, we've even received snail mail letters!
Audiophiles in Japan Installing Their Own Power Poles to Improve Sound (2016)
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India has one of the lowest police officers to population ratio in the world, with 144 policemen to 100,000 citizens [1].Significanty, large majority of the policemen do not even carry guns or even tasers. The public trust of the police is also fairly low.

People are staying in and following the curfew because thanks to a robust media ecosystem and insane connectivity facilitated by cheap data plans and accessible smart phones, most folks are aware of the severity of the challenge confronting the country.

There are significant issues, especially with testing and the plight of the unorganised migrant labour, with how this is playing out, many due to simply the massive scale and relatively poor Indian state capacity, as well as some political football from all players involved.

Nonetheless, a large reason why people are "complying" with the lockdown is (IMO) because of a lot of awareness and a high degree of social responsibility.

It is difficult to imagine how the microscopic "blue line", or khakhi line, in India, as it were, could "force compliance" in this situation if the society at large did not accept that it was required.

This argument that the large majority of the population is complying due to fear of the police or authorities is (IMO) a disservice to the maturity demonstrated by the Indian society.

I can only hope the Indian govt and political class can step up to the plate and manage the exit and restart of the economy with the same maturity and sagacity.

[1] https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-s-police-force-amo...

Edit: added link and clarified 2 sentences to improve readability
That article doesn't appear to support 2k fraudulent votes, and may not even support a much smaller number. I gather a news organization put together a story claiming 2k maybe-fraudulent votes, then were asked to provide some examples for the election commission to look into, selected 20, those 20 were investigated, and zero were found to be related to election fraud.
I'm not really a fan of the idea that any person (or company) can be compelled to give a platform to someone (or something) they don't want to. Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee you a soapbox, and it certainly doesn't guarantee you the right to someone else's soapbox. It sounds like a strictly emotional argument to suggest that YouTube doesn't have the right to decide what is or isn't allowed on their platform, and it breaks down under any sort of scrutiny. There are all sorts of other "legal" things that you, yourself, would likely draw the line on.

To some extent I think using the word "censorship" is disingenuous here as well. No one is censoring this video, they can post the video on their own website wherever they please. Just because you can't post the video on someone else's website doesn't mean you are being censored.
To add to what you said, the depth of field calculation relies on the circle-of-confusion that you pick (which is based on the viewing distance and the size of final reproduction), and is therefore also closely dependent on the resolving power of the sensor, and thus pixel density. In addition DoF also depends on the focusing distance.

>(Why do phones use a 6mm lens and not a 150mm lens? Because they don't have 150mm to spare between the lens and the sensor.)

That is not true for today's lens formulas. You're probably thinking of old singlet designs from centuries back. For e.g. reverse-telephoto lens designs allows you to make lens much shorter than their focal length. Its all about getting the final magnification by positioning positive and negative lens elements, and ofcource other corrective lenses appropriately in the lens formula. This is why you can use "tele-converters" on lenses to increase their magnification (and thus their effective focal length)
(I wrote the article.)

We use a single git repo with no npm packages defined, other than the package.json in the root because we have to put dependencies etc. in there. The directory structure for our source code is dead simple:

src/server
src/client
src/common

For example, the API endpoint definitions are common code, so you'll see stuff like this in client code that uses the API:

import * as quizApi from "../../common/api/pages/quiz"

The ".."s are annoying, but working around them isn't worth the effort. Even when we heavily reorganize the file organization, it only ends up taking a few minutes to mechanically update these imports with a vim macro, or even with sed if it's a perfectly mechanical change.

We run two copies of tsc: one for the client and one for the server, building to build/server and build/client. That results in a weird build directory structure:

src/server/db.js
src/client/app.tsx
src/common/endpoints.ts

build/server/server/db.js
build/server/common/endpoints.ts

build/client/client/app.tsx
build/client/common/endpoints.ts

If you need separate build settings for client and server, this weirdness is going to show up one way or another. However, we only introduced this build separation in the last month or so. For the first 1.5 years of the project, we got away with a single tsc process and tsconfig.json, with no build separation at all between client and server. If anyone who's newer to TS reads this, I'd encourage looking for simple solutions like that; you can get to the weirder stuff down the road if you need it (and you may never need it!)
The post I was responding to said:

> that odds are very high that all these kids here will live their lives without ever leaving this 40x6 km slice of land (large chunks of which are off-limits buffer areas), packed with 2 million Palestinians living cheek to jowl.

I was giving some other information. Don't assume bad intent. One of my 4 grandparents was born in Gaza City in 1909, and left in 1929 when he was kicked out.
> I think what you're observing is that monopolists tend to be more able to use loss-leaders, since their monopoly power gives them the ability to charge a premium on their monopolized good(s), which would increase the scope of profitable loss-leaders. However loss-leading is certainly not a monopoly-only strategy.

It's certainly a scale thing. What's notable about Amazon is they can run a losslead for an entire sector of industry, not just a single product. Note a grocery store could loss lead toilet paper so much no one can afford to produce toilet paper (maybe); but, could you imagine one which could afford to loss lead _all paper products_ to sell more coffee for long enough to wipe out all other paper retailers?

Because amazon can, and is, doing this systematically. And after that we no longer have fair-market prices, because there is no market but amazons for these goods.
Yeah, but a VHS tape is still not something people with disabilities can carry around conveniently, unless they fashion some straps for it. It'd still be nice to see how it gets progressively smaller as the tech is refined.
Sure, they are not a monopoly yet when you look at the whole of e-commerce. But Amazon effectively is a monopoly for at least books and probably electronics, depending on where you live.

Quoting from an article published in 2018: https://www.retaildive.com/news/amazon-beats-best-buy-as-top...

> 60% of every incremental dollar being spent online in North America is gong to one company — Amazon. No matter what you sell, Amazon is coming for you
Ha! FAANGTY
A more broadly pessimistic story from The Economist with some numbers around things like Internet access: https://www.economist.com/international/2020/04/27/closing-s...
> How did you handle identifying yourself to the police?

I never had the opportunity to find out

> Also, was this when you could still get a greyhound bus ticket without photo ID?

No clue

> Where you ever asked for ID when cashing or writing a check?

I don't really remember, didn't have much opportunity to cash checks anyway
it doesn't bother you for one appliance, but are you willing to install 6 apps for multiple things that can be charged or any other electrified infrastructure of the future? I don't think I have that much memory on my phone left

This really is a question of basic, national infrastructure and I think it should be treated as such rather than this fractured marketplace we have.
> https://language-compare.glitch.me/

Putting numbers to things like this is a fuzzy business of course, but I'd be interested in comparing notes on some of them:

- I'm surprised Go gets a 1.0 for thread safety, while Java only gets a 0.5. My understanding is that, at the lowest level, producing e.g. a torn pointer is not possible in the Java memory model, while it is possible in Go.

- I think C++ deserves at least a point or two over C for thread safety, for the same reason it gets a couple points for memory safety. The distinction between raw pointers and smart pointers makes it a lot clearer who is supposed to be owning what, and seeing shared_ptr in the code can be a good reminder that something is likely to race.

- Is Rust really harder to learn than C++? :) I'd normally give C++ a lot of points for familiarity, but that's already split into a separate row.
IIRC by the time a SARS vaccine came out, human transmission had already been stopped through other measures. There was no ethical way to do human clinical trials.
Remote K-12 education has given me a newfound respect for parents who effectively conduct home-schooling full time.

It also makes me realize how much kids are missing by not being in a classroom with their peers and a professional teacher.
Sure, I didn't express myself clearly enough sorry. That WHO quote is hers and therefore that of Youtube. But it was a general remark made before the removal or even the creation of this video. The article in this submission however [and to some extent the comment above] seems to imply that her WHO remark gives the reason for the removal.

Now it can of course still be that the WHO reasoning will at a later time be officially quoted for the removal of this video, but that is pure speculation. And also it would be a huge stretch. There is no official reason given for the removal.
Looks like Google is shutting down Makani: https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/alphabet-takes-the-wind-ou...
Raw Milk Consumption Risks and Benefits
Yes and no. It looks like since 2009, there was a max to the "FCF" policy, and it was entirely dropped in 2017:

https://searchengineland.com/google-first-click-free-replace...
Most parents are trying to juggle a full schedule of teaching and jobs at the moment. I don’t think it’s fair to compare that against an environment dedicated to learning (ish).
If your transmitter is closer than theirs, you can probably overcome this.
This article, dated May 2019, seems to be discussing the same material as a New York Times article from around that time - previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20018535
I've been watching this with some interest as the successor of NATS streaming. One question I have is how does it fair in potential-high-latency, geographically distributed situations? E.g. what if I had dozens of servers at the edge worldwide wanting to receive events from one another?
Because it's webscale, duh
Even humans cannot understand if something is directed towards them until non-verbal signs say so or your name is called. (Which depending on the name might have a lot of false positives)
Hydrogen gas can't really gather around your car. It disperses even faster than natural gas or gasoline vapors.
Lots of kids in LA seem to be spending all day skateboarding 20 people deep on the less crowded streets, playing full court basketball and soccer matches with hundreds of spectators at the supposedly closed public parks. Summer break began when LAUSD went online for a lot of kids.

And its no wonder. 15% of students have yet to be in contact with their teachers during this survey period (1). In south central, 16% of students lack basic internet access. It's hard to imagine this perspective for a lot of the HN demographic, where we imagine internet has been ubiquitous in the U.S. for decades, but this is still not the case for low income areas in one of the largest cities in north america.

1.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-22/getting-...
Secure cryptography, paper trail, and 2FA would be a start. So far most US voting machines have been laughably pathetic, like security on par with a mom and pop store and their MS Access database.
Author here. I started Liftbridge after working as a core committer on NATS and NATS Streaming (as well as my experience using Kafka in the past). In particular, implementing replication in NATS Streaming and drawing from that experience/lessons learned. Happy to answer any questions!
Afaict all of these rely on the axiom of Archimedes which is what I'm talking about, some of the proofs explicitly stating it and others implicitly. Unless I missed something.
> The central thesis of the film is that various people and organizations in the United States claiming to promote green energy have actually been promoting biomass energy, largely meaning burning trees instead of fossil fuels

Wood would appear to be 0.98% of the US's fuel mix, vs 1.58% solar, 6.51% wind. So, this seems like, er, a dubious claim? Maybe they're just really bad at promoting it.
Real Superheroes Are Made of Flesh and Blood and Pen and Ink
Why are food stamps (but universal, not means-tested) not a good solution?

They allow basics to have controlled pricing, and increased availability, while preventing abuse of the system (ie, alcohol purchases).

Having dispensaries (or dispensary-specific items in a general store) where you can use your food stamp money would leverage a working system we have now.
Your app is primarily a book!
If you're not limited to only the power of transmitter you can legally buy, then yes, you absolutely can.
This has sparked a few "connected moment" memories.

I was riding a bicycle downhill when a bird happened to fly next to me for a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity.

When my oldest child had just learned to run, and we ran across a field together for the first time, for no reason but to feel the wind, and look over at each other, moving as one.

There's definitely something about moving together that is wired to demand an emotional response.
Tripadvisor has been worse than useless in a lot of places for a while now. Even back in 2015 when I went to India every place was gaming it hard. In Costa Rica a hostel we stayed at offered free shots in exchange for a TA review.

Like Yelp, review sites are a weird niche where if you get too big, your subjects start working to game the system, and the value of your product begins to degrade. Stack Overflow has experienced a similar effect.
I understand that there are more than two political parties. I'm not that blind of an American. Just curious how most Frenchmen view their own leaders on the spectrum.
This is prime r/enlightenedcentrism material.
Life in embargoed countries: the Cuban case
Do you know how is to live in an embargoed country? Inventiveness and creative minds shake hands trying to help people to survive.

Let´s check the latest article at Coil explaining the Cuban case!!
I don't quite get the point of this.

It allows logging into the device using your Google Account... and? How does that affect usage in any way? What changes?
It all depends on the cultural context. In a place where people fiercely guard and take pride in their right to a secret ballot (such as many parts of the US) it’s not likely to be a problem. In fledgling democracies it’s more likely. So it would be foolish to pin it down to a single level.
I've always wondered what the learning outcomes were like for homeschooled kids vs. those that attended school (public or private). My assumption has been that homeschooling is less successful than sending the kids to school.
r/enlightenedcentrism
I’m in a similar boat though the school system where I am put mental health as top priority right from the start and very little emphasis on distance learning. The teachers do send resources in a do-what-you-want and let us know how we can help.

My kids do a bit of math with pencil and paper, some reading, journaling, art, and whatever creative or constructive activity they want to do. After supper they play video games, watch movies/shows/documentaries, play D&D, and FaceTime with their friends.

They do a lot more cooking and cleaning around the house than they would normally do. They’re becoming a lot more self-sufficient around the house.