skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, financial education. Simple things like paying off your credit card before putting money into savings, when it's worth fixing your car or not, or just the basic principals behind how things are priced. I heard a lot about an item only costing X amount of money to make in materials, but the company was charging X*10 for it; many people never learn how and why things get priced the way they do.
>> The EM spectrums are already nearly full - is that not proof in itself?

... What? I have no idea what "full" would be, but by any definition they are certainly not. Just a bit of air is enough to attenuate mm waves of even high power. (That's why we need so many towers!) There is not a lot of ionizing radiation out there, that's why we're not all dead (and why x-ray film even works.)

Maybe you're thinking of outer space? But it's not even true there - for an obvious example, visible light, which there is very little of by human standards pretty much everywhere in the universe.

"The military used it for some time and nobody died so let's put it pointing everywhere in our homes and offices" strikes me as a very weak argument for something's safety. As just a simple counterexample for why you cannot use that to demonstrate safety, consider that while mmwaves do not penetrate the adult human dermis, babies' skin is thinner and is easily penetrated by mmwaves.
> But to say that fast must necessarily equal "bad" I'm not really sold on.

In a perfect world, you'd make all of your decisions along the Pareto frontier of speed-vs-quality tradeoffs.

In the real world, you don't have perfect engineers, and the Pareto frontier isn't immediately obvious.

Generally speaking, the more experienced engineers are better at getting closer to that Pareto frontier of speed-quality tradeoffs from the first iteration. It's the less experienced engineers who end up somewhere less efficient on the 2D spectrum of speed/quality. This is where experience pays off the most.
but terraform can talk to the docker daemon and orchestrate containers.

what can you achieve with nomad that you can’t achieve with terraform?
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Wait if the county police become your police if there's no other police department, then why does any city spend their taxes on their own police? And presumably if there's no county police the state police have jurisdiction.
I couldn't have said it better myself.

We're also severely under-tested. Given our fickle social distancing and isolation, I highly doubt we "only" have 600K infected people. Our flagship universities (USP, UERJ) have already estimated that the real number can be up to 16 times higher.

The population is encouraged to reach out to the health service only when they have the most severe symptoms, since the public health service is at the edge of collapse in many states. The number of people dying at home, and dying from severe respiratory syndrome is abnormally high. It all adds up to an even grimier picture.

About our governors and mayors, I personally think most of them are doing what they possibly can do. They're facing an immense pressure to roll back lock-down measures in order to "save the economy" partly because of the finance minister's catastrophic failure. Businesses had a hard time getting credit, and the people in need were left scrambling for that ridiculous $120/month benefit.

We're living in a failed state.
> a good chunk of the HN crowd sometimes lean too much towards denialism about the coronavirus

I don't think that's true at all, I've never seen anything like that downvoted here. HN seems to be a generally well-educated, scientifically-minded crowd.

Please post, por favor!
Online I see that described as a 'hammering sound'. Not our problem. We have an extended thrumming that lasts for many seconds. And it can be delayed from the event by seconds. Is that definitely the same thing?
Imagine this on any significant scale. The richest become a law unto themselves. They become the de facto government by virtue of control over the largest armies. If you didn’t like the 1% before, why would you give them absolute power and the monopoly on violence?
I did exactly that a couple of years ago, turned out it wasn't hard to translate J expressions into the equivalent numpy code and then eval it in the current context. I'm afraid I've lost the code, otherwise I'd post it.
BTW Spain is using the same tactics to basically say there are no new deaths. But there are.
Ages ago, Robert X. Cringely (an earlier avatar) had a column about just this. It concluded, as I recall, "So weep not for IBM. They may hold a patent on it."
While poverty, racism, and addiction. are a factor, the root cause of crime is over criminalization of society [2] that creates a cycle of crime that once started it is very hard to escape from.

The thousands upon thousands of sooo called "victimless" crime that it used to dump millions of people in to the criminal system which then society punishes for the rest of their lives by denying them opportunities in all segments of life from Jobs to Housing to access to government assistance.

Often time people have "no other means of making money" due to this cycle of over criminalization, they were busted with a small amount of weed, from that point they were a "convicted criminal" where by many employers will deny them a job, schools will deny them admission, landlords will deny them housing, etc.

We have a narrative in this nation that a Misdemeanor Conviction Is Not a Big Deal [1], this is a false narrative one that the legal system pushes because they often over charge individuals with felonies then "allow" them to plea out to a "lesser" misdemeanor to improve the efficiency of "justice".

The biggest flaw in the system is that we have created so many criminal laws that we need to make the "justice system" an assembly line of contract negotiation

[1] https://time.com/76356/a-misdemeanor-conviction-is-not-a-big...

[2] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/overcriminal...
I would like to see statistics on inconsistently or seldom enforced laws. Those seem to be a vector for corruption and should be considered for repeal. Minor drug crimes seem to fit this profile, but so do certain occupational regulations (certification to braid hair?). If we end up with fewer things for police to do, it sounds like a net win.
No apology requested or required. I was expressing a preference that I hoped you'd agree with.

Thank you for having an open mind.
Not available in my country, sadly, and I don’t think I’d qualify due to the consultant/service provider exclusion.
> Almost every high-tech startup starts with conquering the US en EU markets even though double-digit growth of economies is now mostly happening in emergent markets.

I would inject a healthy dose of scepticism here.

To the chagrin of American HN readers, I'd say that while the total digits are incomparable, the number of technical enterprises is certainly bigger outside of USA. Most of those companies can't find a single reason why they have to be in USA.

USA technology sector is overcrowded, and overfunded, and I am not the only one person around who can make this observation.
Not much progress at all. They just announced the end-to-end encryption will be a paid for feature. Free users won't get this feature because as CEO Eric Yuan says "Free users for sure we don't want to give that because we also want to work with the FBI, with local law enforcement in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23437573
Seems like it would make more sense to change that aspect of the system rather than to defund the police altogether, no?
The police are doing a job. They are doing that job in a risky, high-stress, lots-of-ways-to-fail environment. They are dealing with profoundly uncooperative people. They have a totally reasonable expectation of being treated with respect and to go home safely at the end of the day, an expectation shared by all workers.

If someone in a crowd is throws a brick at them, and the crowd has up to that point been a united slogan-chanting sign-waving entity I am on board with the police treating the entire crowd as hostile. It is not acceptable to throw a brick at the police. Or anything else for that matter.

I can see a good argument that if someone throws a brick the police should be as targeted as possible in responding. But it could easily be the point where a crowd disintegrates into an unruly mob and the police would have my total support for not being optimistic and trying to push into the crowd hoping it works out OK. Once a brick is in the air, the crowd is an unruly mob. Bricks are not a civilised tool of discourse.
Keeping in mind that different users have different priorities, I still don't understand why Firefox doesn't make market this as their number one distinguishing feature.
I'm at -3 above. Good conversation here. A rational, nuanced crowd. LOL.

As to the quote, is it wrong? It isn't actually wrong at all. We constantly look to his sketches and say "look at that flying machine" and other contraptions -- inventions sometimes centuries before their time -- but that's retrospective matching. His drawings, though brilliant, did not lead to actual progress.
I noticed this too, the news is the news, and I guess it's ordered chronologically and not necessarily importance.

Not saying BLM protests aren't important exactly, but what happened to climate change, corona virus?
Since when was Nautil.us paid, I've now only got two free articles this month? I don't even know I want this one yet, I've just clicked!

The new owners (a "group of fans") said it would still be free for online users (assuming it was before) in this very forum:

I’m one of the new co-owners. All of us are longtime subscribers. This is about love for the magazine and its mission first and last. We’re not going to change Nautilus. We just want to get it into the hands of many more people.

So not so much then, or am I misremembering and it was limited before?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21404342

I'm not suggesting they don't have the right to charge, I was just under the impression it had been unlimited before and they said they'd keep it the same, but I may be wrong on how it was previously.
prefer open source and end2end encryption

... oh wait your premise disqualifies that.

Well Arabia and Russia are starting to force data being processed and stored in their territory by blocking foreign comm-tech. But i don't think that is a solution, that is just digital nationalism driven by fear of espionage and demand for the power of mass surveillance.

What "the world" should do is lobby against nation-states and mega-corps having their noses in everything, because it is a central building block of totalitarianism. Even if the state doesn't go all out authoritarian, it opens back doors that leave people vulnerable to abuse by bad actors.
How did they “lose money”? They aren’t selling them to other vendors. The only fair way to compute a “loss” is whether they save money in the long term from using ARM vs x86.
I have mentioned this already folks. Nobody has the authority to break the law - not a general nor the president nor a judge nor a district attorney nor a member of parliament. A law remains the ultimate authority until it is voted out of practice.
It has been done in variouse degrees in Central Europe after revolution of 1989. Old structure has been disbanded, new formed under new leaders, policemen went through verification and many with record of violence has been let go.

It had sent a signal that police is to serve civil society and not be part of oppresion apparatus.

https://www.dcaf.ch/transforming-police-central-and-eastern-...
Hell no. My local Makerspace has various low end CNC machines ranging from an old 800x800mm XCarve (3 axis only), that's useful for teaching people and using cut-offs from the wood workers.

We have a donated 4-axis machine as well, we've been getting up and running. Replaced the proprietary controller board with an Open Source one, and mostly just need to calibrate it and figure out an effective post processor.
The flag --disable-background-networking might break some sites:

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1320
I don’t understand. How can the same people hurt by this virus go around claiming it’s a hoax?
Quo Vadis, Scrum Master: Remote Work and Distributed Teams
This is nice, it adds another dimension to the audio experience of the bridge-bay 'composite-system'
Why do you think there is a risk to babies? What are you having that on specifically? It seems like you are reaching for something "untested". Also microwaves use 2.4Ghz, heat lamps are infrared, 5G is a wide array of spectrums, so what specific frequency and power do you think will harm babies and why?

(Also if something just affects babies, it doesn't make sense to talk about the cumulative effects over decades)
They're unique. Zettelkasten titles can be quite long: "Practices for nurturing healthy brain development during pregnancy" takes up a lot more space for a link than a 14 digit ID. You may say to just use a keyword of the title instead of the whole title, but then it is no longer unique and you must come up with another way of identifying which note it links to.

Also, using IDs means it is very easy to visually scan a note for links. The [[##############]] format stands out vividly.

I like it, it doesn't bother me. Do whatever works for you.
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This work seems to have made much cheaper a couple of those "nines" for the logic correctness metric.
Allergic is a bad analogy, a person can't choose to have an allergy or not.

Try:

A big thank you to those who are starting to support people like me who are entitled fundamentalists for vague, unsubstantiated reasons of security, efficiency, privacy, and general control over our own machines.
> The Second Law of Thermodynamics: The world tends towards disorder. That’s why your room becomes messier and messier over time

That's not how the second law works.
In general the fewer technologies you need to bring into the mix the less failure domains you need to consider. Let's also add that having an option to provide this natively allows for safe/sane defaults that prevent someone from botching a reverse proxy authentication setup which is by no means trivial to your application developer.

I can't see someone making a meaningful document level ACL outside of the db without some serious effort, nor would I consider home-baked external authentication for replication simple for the same crowd.

A side note I don't think it's good practice to expose your db to the internet, but if you look at Mongo's Atlas this doesn't seem to be as big of an issue as it may have been in the past.
And he wasn't a nobleman. Much of his letter writing railed about his being abused and belittled by the aristocracy for being a commoner. Hard to get any traction that way.
> but if it's properly classified as an error in specification, that is extremely valuable information for process improvement.

For a few companies, sure. The chance that he's working on one of those is zero (based on what he has written so far).
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
Because you're talking about free games? They're all designed to have some grinding element that you can skip for IAPs.

And pay once games can be boring and annoying, that's why you don't preorder or buy something without looking at reviews.

Impossible to play unless you can put in 20 hours a week sounds like the free games you're defending though :)
Unless your startup is building some new tech product (like a new database technology, or a crypto/blockchain system) that is going to be sold to customers, software code quality doesn't matter much, at least initially for sure, and may be ever too.

Most likely you are startup building a software application service that is augmenting or automating or orchestrating some real-world interaction (like an e-commerce shopping or supply chain systems), then you care most about getting your product market fit figured out.

What this means is testing your understanding of the potential customer's needs, selling your product value to those customers (switching them from their existing way of life to your way of life), figuring out the business model (what costs are you optimizing, how much it costs you to run it your way, who will pay for it, can you cross-subsidize something, how does your business scale, at what scale your business becomes viable, at what point do you make profits etc).

This usually requires a lot of experimentation and product iteration. For this, you need to have very high feature developer productivity with very low costs for getting experiments wrong. For the past half decade, this is achieved by not building any IaaS/PaaS stuff in house and using stuff from some public cloud platforms.

Today, a new movement is happening – it is #lesscode or #nocode movement – you use frameworks and rapid application development tools that allow you to write very little or no code to create your applications and iterate quickly with very low software engineering skills. This allows a startup to go very far with very little burn while hunting for product-market fit.

Once you know you have a good product that is on the cusp of scaling, you can revisit your choices and figure out how to optimise costs through in-house software development. The bar is raising every year for what makes sense to build in-house.
> I lost another family member yesterday. A young mother of 2 girls.

I'm deeply sorry for your loss.

> the military government will start to fudge the numbers even further

Just to clarify to those who aren't familiar with the political scene in Brazil, we don't actually have a military government in the sense that the armed forces are not in power. Our democratically elected president Jair Bolsonaro [1] is however a former retired military officer, and his running mate Hamilton Mourão, our VP, a retired Army General [2].

Bolsonaro is a polarizing and controversial politician, his views and comments can be described as far-right and populist in nature and draw both praise and criticism in Brazil. He has several times openly shared his supporting views on the (U.S.–supported) Brazilian military dictatorship.

His popularity has been severely affected by his hanlding of the covid-19 pandemic. But he still enjoys a large and "loyal" support base.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Mour%C3%A3o
> There is a real opportunity for you to learn here though.

That comes off as condescending. You assume I don't already have a set of well thought out values around debt that I am quite happy with.

It's not that difficult. I just live the same way I would expect someone to live if they owe me money. That keeps me honest on both sides: I treat my debtors with empathy. And I treat my debts with the same seriousness of a contractual obligation that I would hope my own debtors do.

But if you decide your five star hotel holiday can't somehow be downgraded to a smaller budget while simultaneously defaulting on loans, the average person will have zero sympathy. The problem with "allowed to live a full life" is that too many people define that as something that is far beyond their means.
It’s pretty amazing how short the list of countries like that actually is.
> The United Nations predicts that the global population will soon explode.

No, they don't. They predict it'll plateau at 11 billion by 2100, and believe that the fastest growth is behind us.

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Lin...
The Waste Land was heavily influenced by radio. It’s as if you’re flipping through different channels.

Also Eliot included rigorous footnotes. Still helps to have a guide, but the footnotes go a long way.
Oh cut it out. Everybody is made of water. Even babies. Nothing penetrates.

"Think of the children!" is getting pretty tired sounding.
This seems like a reasonable analogy. What about it do you feel is wrong?
Console #2: How to Write a JVM
I’ve seen it many many times. Considering the wealth gap, there is probably a correlation between MBA-types who are in the startup world in Brazil and know about HN, and being right-leaning.
I’m totally out of the loop on Hungary. Who’s hoping for Orban to fall, and why is that problematic for Hungary?
Not sure if you read the article, but different people mean different things by "defund the police." One thing that's obvious is that pretty much every police department is going to have some amount of defunding, due to state and local budget problems that are expected to arise due to decreased tax revenue. My concern is that not enough leaders will try to reimagine what gets built in its place, given those budget constraints.

Not to say there isn't any consideration. Some people say that poverty, mental health issues or lack of quality education is a driver of crime and that we need to divert resources. Others, people like me, want to experiment to replace some of the things police do, study it, follow the evidence and maybe eventually build something entirely different.

What I love about this debate is it's causing people to think about, often for the first time, why we've set it up this way.
https://www.ft.com/content/77eb7a13-cd26-41dd-9642-616708b43...
Show HN: I am selling source code of this app, good for passive income
I have made a flutter project that uses Natural language processing to keep track of things that a person forgets about. I am selling its source code because I couldn't publish it on Play Store or app Store because of some reasons . I have explained everything on the sales page . If you are interested , click the link . I am open for negotiations
I've generated approximately 400,000 views across 6 videos published in total.

I haven't done anything besides drive referral traffic + create a thumbnail that pops out.

I believe referral traffic is the trick.

YouTube's goal is to keep people on YouTube as long as possible.

Your newly published video is an unknown.

If you can warm up the engagement data with referral traffic, YouTube will begin showing you in a small % of searchers.

As you get more clicks, more watch time, and more comments / likes compared to other videos YouTube could show, you'll begin to be showed more and more often.
Deploy a Godot game in seconds with ballparq: getting started
There's a name for not paying debts - deadbeat. No thanks.
The most stable codebase I've worked on, at a successful startup that does a great job delivering business value to its customers, didn't have a single automated test during the 7 years I was there.
I, much like I imagine you to be, grew up in a country where guns are restricted and rare.

In the US, that's not the case and any attempts to restrict gun ownership meets huge political hurdles. Even if those restrictions are what other countries would deem to be common sense, e.g. Switzerland or New Zealand.

I think it's all kinds of crazy to sell guns in supermarkets with next to no checks on who owns them, but I get why police would want to have guns in the US.
I think this is the correct link:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=Fusion_Ex...

The change was mentioned to me by one of our local Makerspace members a few days ago, who was considering learning CNC and asking about machines.

There's further discussion of the specifics (eg 4th axis) in the Fusion 360 forum somewhere. Found it a few days ago, but am not seeing it now. :(
Multipath MIMO can effectively beat both Shannon, and Nyquist through utilising multiple spatial channels.
I was called a denialist on Twitter because I thought my local government did a reasonable job in a serious situation with the information available at the time, and prevented a lot of deaths.

This was shocking to the person who was convinced that the government was secretly trying to kill hundreds of thousands of people by using 5G to beam viruses into people through radio.

So, I guess it all depends on what denialism means these days.