skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the infant mortality of the USA (6 per 1000) is double that of Germany (3 per 1000).
I thought I’ve heard that name before. Anish is also one of the teachers of Missing Semester of CS [1]. One of the best courses I have taken as a college student!

[1]: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
I don't remember specifically what they were anymore, but I do remember back when that happened there were still 2-3 features in Firebug not in the official tools that I used regularly. I think one was around ajax requests, the other around CSS. I ended up holding off on the Quantum upgrade for about a year for them.
I started Yomi.ai just two months ago. It made a few hundred dollars so far. I am trying to develop the number one resource for Japanese language learners who want to improve their reading skills.

My ideal customer is has a good command of the English language and is trying to pass the Japanese Language Proficiency Test on the level N1 or N2.

Since it's such a niche, I don't talk too much about it.
Does it need to be solved? Is it an actual problem? I'm not clear what the issues is with eating them.

What's the difference between mites in this cheese and bacteria in yogurt? they are both intrinsic to the process of producing respective foods.
If you were fortunate enough to get multiple jobs in Silicon Valley - even if they didn’t go as well as they could have - it’s hard to honestly claim the cards are stacked against you. Most people drew a much weaker hand.
Zoom is harder to use initially - you have to install it on desktop. Meet.jit.si you literally just go to the address.

None of our extended family c.20 people from teens to elders (c.80yo) needed help - we've been using it daily amongst us since the pandemic broke out.

People who have used Zoom several times still need help; it's more complex (that's good and bad).
Turbolinks takes a day to learn, tops, and then you just build more SSR and it continues to work. And the abstraction rarely leaks.
> wealth will disperse.

Wealth doesn't necessarily disperse. See simulation by Norvig:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economic...
Yes, there were backdoors in the US. I didn't say there weren't.

You sidestepped my main point, that US/CCP is a laughably false equivalency.
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. Tech content is no exception. As the article points out, the corollary is that you have to think for yourself, assessing every piece of content you come across.
Huh, I thought I did add that. Will do!
All the market capitalisation shows is the closer you are to the customer in the supply chain the more value you can derive.

Also, Market cap isn't cash. Amazon could not recreate Arm despite their market cap.
Has anyone else faced the raw existential horror of how many programming tutorials there are online for a single question? Look up how to concatenate arrays in JS, and there are just so many sites that it almost makes my head hurt. I guess complexity and competition are necessary tenets of capitalism, but I feel some sort of terror at people just churning these articles out when there are so many already.
Is the parachute dispoable or does it get returned?

100km is round trip right?
I wonder how the FDA feels about civet coffee.
I don't see how R of all languages is a useful counterexample.

It's as far a way from a general-purpose language as it can get while technically still being one, in both scope and intended use/audience.
I just switched from logic to reaper a few months ago. It's an incredible piece of software that does everything and more that I need from a DAW while also being able to load all my plugins etc.

It's lighting fast and completely customizable too. Oh! And the video tutorials with Kenny Gioia are incredible.

The only criticisms I'd level at it are that it's initial configuration is not that user friendly. You also lose a lot of software synths and stuff that you'll need to buy if you are migrating from logic (I already used Native Instruments stuff so it wasnt a big deal for me).

For $60 it's hard to beat. Way better than pro tools imo.
This is even more alarming as:

1. the dummy accounts are spotted mere days after mass protests against a controversial (to say the least) Anti-Terror Bill was passed, only awaiting the president's signature for it to become law.

2. said bill allows law-enforcement to arrest and detain people on mere suspicion of being involved in vaguely-defined "terrorist activities".

Here's a supplementary article: https://www.rappler.com/nation/263156-lawmakers-fear-fake-fa...

Note: "tanim ebidensiya" roughly translates to "planted evidence". Also noteworthy is that a few days ago the UN released a report on Rodrigo Duterte's bloody and controversial drug war, revealing that the same evidence (a gun) was found in multiple cases where a drug suspect was killed. This "evidence" that the suspect carried a gun is used to bolster a self-defense narrative the cops use to rationalize the outcome of their operation.
I wish there was a site that listed releases in a certain country by release date, in a simple table. This comes close, but you can only view the last 7 days for some reason.
If helium is a precious resource (it is), we should use federal dollars to incentive better management and recycling of it by academic and research users. Very similar to how we incentivize energy efficiency with grants and tax policy.
It's an interesting challenge. Could something like AI help people in the future? A more consistent, selfless human?

But if you need help with these kinds of issues right now I think computers and networks are the wrong place to look. They are ok as tools to get work done. But apart from that, technology is like some fascinating individual that takes up a lot of your time until one day you realise their perspective is off. And perspective is everything.
The per capita expenditure on Medicaid and Medicare in the US is substantially higher than the per capita expenditure on the NHS, but Medicare and Medicaid only cover about 20% of the US population.

On top of that UK private insurance is much cheaper because it is 'top up' - you're usually expected to see NHS GP's first etc. and use NHS emergency rooms.

As such while it is possible to end up paying more if you're very high income, very few people in the UK will pay more even with private insurance.
> But would you have found product-market fit if you had been able to iterate faster, try more ideas out and didn't spend 50% of your time fighting fires? Almost definitely.

I wouldn't say definitely, but your chances would be way better.
Transparent images can also be a problem outside emails, image viewers can have different background colors.

I had this issue when I was working on a embed project (similar to embed.ly), some websites had transparent image (in open graph or schema.org) and not all of them were expecting white background, so I have to crawl the page and try to detect the background color best suited for the image. This didn't work well (and required crawling the page) so I ended up doing edge detection on the image (easy with transparency) and average the resulting color to find the best background.
People sell cars because they don't like them. But they crush cars because they become too expensive to fix.

If your smelly 20 year old EV is still rolling someone will buy it for a couple hundred bucks and drive it until it fails.

How the claims of superior maintainability for EVs vs ICs turns out, well, we'll see. There's an awful lot on an IC car that can go wrong that will send a well-used one to the junkyard, since repairs are so expensive. But there's also a lot that are kept on the road by driveway mechanics that have more time than money... and the EV future will be less friendly to that. I can do valve guides in my driveway, but I'm not replacing battery cells.
For anyone wondering the scale of this, it's hundreds of millions of USD.
What’s more, I think the incentives are not aligned. People who write content nowadays don’t usually have the reader in mind, but instead focus on promoting something (a tech, a tool, or their personal brand): https://angryscript.home.blog/2020/05/08/in-2020-all-content...
This is what they are trying to argue: "Information processing in organisms should be understood as the process whereby the organism
compares its knowledge about the world with the observable state of the world at a given time; in
other words, the process whereby an organism weighs possible future outcomes against its present
condition. While the larger the number and the more accurate the processed observables from the
environment, the better the predictions and decisions, organisms cannot spend more energy than the
total return received from information.".
Maltron looks and is amazing from what I hear.

I’m looking for something cheaper and smaller that can be used easily for setting up new machines etc. without needing to lug around a huge device.
That’s a good idea.

There are many ways automation can help. Data, self sufficiency, labour, water, environment etc. for me..I want to focus on small urban Ag and labour saving tech automation. Our challenge here in the states ..California..is labour. Labour availability and affordability.

I also envision that plant breeding and hybrids will be integral to any kind of farm automation. I am already working with a couple of plant breeders on this. But only for a few main crops. Lots of work to do.
"No regularities" is one of those things that sounds like it's saying something, but isn't. What does it mean, the laws of physics change every 5 minutes?
One would think a country and mature government does in fact act responsible when it comes to preservation and nature preserving. So here to the buck is the villain. Not good Canada.
The 'z' is important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz
I'm not a philosopher nor a political scientist, I'm not making a technical argument.

Are you asking about the inter change ability of the state and collective?

Did George Floyd benefit as much from the apparatus of government as Donald Trump? That's the difference between the state and the collective in my mind.

Or are you asking about inter change ability of individual and collective? I think it's pretty obvious...
Ask HN: What is wrong with my bookmarking tool?
Hello! A couple of years ago, I wrote a bookmarking tool to scratch my own itch. However, nobody wants to use it. My question is: why?

The tool is this: https://www.homepagr.com/

I ask because I've tried to create this as a small business using "textbook" techniques, but without much user feedback or traction. I'm interested to see where the formula is breaking down!

- I built a tool that I myself wanted

- Started with an MVP a couple of years ago, with a simple UX, and then iterated to where it is today

- Put together a landing page, try to explain value proposition and collect email addresses (nobody signed up)

- Currently giving away the product for free - but even people who use it tend to stop after a week

There is clearly a market: pinboard.io, lots of positive feedback for raindrop.io, and I see bookmarking tool threads on HN very frequently.

Often, people ask me "why should I use this instead of x product?" I don't have a good answer: except that I like mine better because it has the features that I care about (an uncomplicated UX), and none of the features that, to me, are a distraction.

Could it be that this is, essentially, a tool which is too specific to my own preferences? Am I marketing or positioning this poorly? What am I doing wrong?

(Incidentally! This is not a complaint - the tool is something that I built for myself, and have been using for a few years, and will continue to use! But, I am very much interested in help debugging why this is lacking traction compared to others!)
This resonates with me. I use caution now, as much security (and cryptography) advice on StackOverflow is wrong and Perpetuates harmful patterns, yet is never taken down. What’s worse? It often shows up at the top of Google. Many devs don’t show the same level of caution until something blows up
Thanks! Will reach out! Yes..the farm is actually 136 acres right in the middle of Bay Area!
Re: 9/11

You and I are in agreement - that day set the tone for America's future in:

* economics - on his way back to the fed reserve in NYC via helicopter in autumn 2001, Greenspan saw the rubble of WTC and decided to drop the fed funds rate, and it eventually hit 1% in 2004, which is why asset prices (real estate, stocks, bonds) are so high today and why we had a housing boom during that time (2004-2008)

* international policy - never ending war on "terror" (not that they decided on "terror" bc when you have a war on a country, you can define the end of the war; a war on "terror" can go on forever bc you can redefine "terror")

* culture / politics - democrat vs republican (and media fed into it bc it culture wars drive ratings)

Yeah...looks like al qaeda did more damage than we thought.
Super interesting, I like how the minimal skeleton for product development has been broken down.

Overall, I'm mostly aligned but it seems to me that it's very focused on low level product delivery. I feel like it's ignoring the bigger picture of how these "tasks" come to life and where they go after they're shipped.

Shipping software is much broader than moving tasks from "to do" to "deployed". If that was it, then yes, all you need is a flat & ordered list of tasks with an assignee for each. But it's not:

-How do you decide what do build in the first place? How do you make sure you are working on what's most meaningful?

-When you've prioritized the right problems to solve, how do you collaborate to come up with the right UX?

-How do you perform user research and user testing to validate your assumptions?

-How do you handle the feedback inbound you receive from stakeholders and customers? How do you take these inputs into account in your prioritization process? How do you then complete the feedback loop?

-How do you work with customer success and marketing to ensure everyone is informed of what you've shipped?

-How do you balance demonstrating product velocity while working on meaningful projects that take several weeks or months to ship?

What I'm saying is there is a broader context to shipping software beyond "accessing a prioritized list of tasks and getting them done". It's good to climb fast but if you're climbing the wrong wall, you're just getting to the wrong place faster.

That's the reason why my co-founder and I built Cycle (https://cycle.app/) – an all-in-one tool that helps engineers, designers, and product people to better collaborate in the process of shipping good stuff.
Harvest would be brutal. Can’t automate that!
The low-tech economies of China and America are integrated, but what about the high-tech ones? Can American companies create sub-apps on WeChat like Chinese ones can?

As far as I know, US-Soviet trade was not comparable in scale to US-China trade. Did a lack of trade prolong the Cold War of the 20th century?
https://technode.com/2020/04/13/is-zoom-crazy-to-count-on-ch...

I'm on mobile, it was part true. I really had no idea I needed to click on that tiny i and didn't have time to do a search by title.

Typing in mobile is really fast type days. I have a full keyword/small phone. I started training myself to type faster on mobile by coding on a mobile editor a few years ago. It is so much more difficult at first but you become more focused with time. Add in a free editor app with ad popups every few minutes for additional challenge.
It's all good and makes sense that the code or projects you work on should in the long run contribute to something meaningful that others can use. But choosing projects and developing software with just "that" aspect in mind leaves me with no motivation to consistently work on it. Perhaps other people find it easier to focus on work with this "good for humanity" ideology but personally I can't identify with it. I need that "intriguing" drive in the short run to build a sustainable motivation.
You’re already making the right decision.

I think introducing new tech is fine as long as it solves a new problem for your business. If you haven’t yet used a cache, but have a need for one, introducing Redis or Memcached makes sense. If you have a new need for pub/sub workflows, introducing Kafka or a webhook dispatcher makes sense. Same with Elasticsearch or whatever if you’re building out your first search feature, etc.

What rarely makes sense is introducing new tech that heavily overlaps with existing tech. You don’t wanna end up on MySQL and Postgres and Mongo. Python and PHP and Go. Django and Flask. EC2 autoscaling and Mesos and Kubernetes. Even worse, you definitely don’t wanna start building your own versions of tech that there’s a good off the shelf solution for. If someone tries to build their own UI framework, ORM, service discovery system, etc., kill that IMMEDIATELY.

Introducing new tech that overlaps with existing tech should only be done if you’re going to migrate OFF the existing tech. Obviously this is often a major effort, so the new tech has to be a HUGE win.

My current company was pretty immature for a long time in terms of tech decisions, and the costs are massive. For service-to-service communication we use REST, gRPC and this terrible in-house re-implementation of HTTP over ZeroMQ, complete with hand written clients and server frameworks in multiple languages. We’ve been trying to migrate off that for ages, at massive cost. We’re almost done, but even then will still be stuck with both HTTP and gRPC, when we only need one. Similarly, we use PHP, Scala, Go and Python on the backend. With multiple server frameworks for each. We use MongoDB and MySQL. Redis and Memcached.

The cost of all this is massive. Developers have to learn SO much to be productive in our stack(s). Every time we want to write some middleware, tooling, etc., we have to write like 15 versions of it, because we have about 15 unique combos of backend language/network protocol/framework. Losing a few immature devs who care more about using shiny new tech than solving business problems is a very, very small cost to pay to avoid this situation.
2050 isn't too far off things will start to get unbearable by 2030 - 10 years time.
Reminds me of the 2005 movie Stealth with Jamie Foxx.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_(film)
"boring" is OK "less surprises" is better, for me I think of it as "less risky". Everything is risk management.
> I try to avoid notebooks with tearable pages, because I found them to be too fragile.

So in my experience Rhodia (and other "higher-end" perforated) notepads are pretty sturdy and tend not to fall apart even with rougher than usual handling (mine haven't). There is a slight price premium however.
This is true for all types of content - the art is to develop a sense of smell for quality content. And to do that you have to first have been exposed to a lot of bullshit.
The word "most" is mostly used between 60% and 90%, or more precisely greater than 50% and less than 100%
>> The electromagnetic spectrum is in use pretty much everywhere someone can build a radio to operate on that frequency.

Well, first of all, "the electromagentic spectrum" is "in use" everywhere in the universe, and includes things like radios and the sun. What I think you meant to imply is that humans have been living with mm-waves before for extended periods of time. Which is absolutely false. The problem is that mm-waves are attenuated by air, or clothing, or buildings, or the atmosphere, or what have you. There are some mm-wave sources that humans have messed around with, but always for short durations (usually on the order of hours/days) and nearly always with a strongly attenuated signal (air, cars, buildings in the way.)

The reality is that no group of humans have ever lived their normal lives with a mm-wave source, period. The closest you can get is police speed guns, the vast majority of which are in the 10-25 mW range at 10-35 GHz. They are pointed away from the user; either you're the cop aiming them at someone, or you're the person in the car being tracked (if you're in the car, 35 GHz won't penetrate.) Even if you're a cop that decided to just point the radar gun at your face 40hr/week for ten years, that's far, far less exposure than someone living in a city equipped with 5G.

So nobody's lived their lives with a mm-wave source, OK. In order for mm-waves to ever actually get -to- your body, you would have to propose a new massively expensive system deploying massive amounts of unprecedented power mm-wave radios closer to humans than ever before: in other words, 5G.

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fylingdales (and the rest of your comment)

Come on, that's completely different from what we're talking about here - that's a centimeter wave system. Humans have lived with the presence of centimeter waves for a while, and we are fairly sure they're safe. Cell phones, microwave ovens, RC cars, everything uses centimeter waves.

>> I have quite a few of the papers that 5G nuts cite, and they are not convincing in this slightest

Well, I'd like to point out I'm not a 5G nut. I typically don't bother clicking on those weird rabbit holes of conspiracy blogs tied together with red string based on some inconclusive data. I'm also not saying 5G is dangerous. I simply believe it's unknown. We simply do not know, as a species, what living our lives bombarded with unprecedented amounts of mm-waves will do, as nobody has done it before. Likely it will be harmless; however, there is a chance it will not be. As with many things, it may be the cumulative dose over many years that is harmful.
Sturgeon's law.
Do you have a source for 11 kW base stations?

Assuming we are talking about RF power output here, that is far higher than anything I've ever dealt with, and I'm not sure that it's at all right. A typical macro cell has 20 Watts of RF power output (for example).

The relevant international standards are those from ICNIRP, and they've recently updated and expanded on these in great detail around safety margins of various frequencies.

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, recently did a safety study of actual deployed equipment, looking at measuring the RF output from base stations.

Therefore I'm not sure where figures like 11 kW are coming from. Maybe there are some very hot (and inefficient) early base stations somewhere using 11 kW of mains power to produce 20 or 40 W of RF energy? But considering Huawei is heavily advertising 5G as being "greener", that wouldn't seem likely either. But even then, this is far higher than even the wall socket consumption of the equipment I've dealt with.
Life is a noise ratchet.
Can we not have opinions on trade and economics on social media now?
Seems to be a mistake, possibly automated:

>On this post, Twitter messaged that your account is temporarily blocked. You are seeing this message because some unusual activity has occurred from this account.
From personal experience, including reading a lot of HN, I think programmers as a species are especially biased towards putting forth opinions in the hopes of being validated for our experience or intelligence, even when we know we don't know much about the subject. The fact that IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer) [but...] is a common enough statement in these circles to deserve its own acronym is telling. We often throw out unchecked opinions in hopes they may be right, because that would feel really good, and just let others tell us if they're wrong. When those opinions take the form of a blog post, rebuttal often doesn't exist in the same place as the content, making it seem more authoritative than it often deserves to be.
They should've just color coded the connectors to capabilities... Like with USB 1/2/3 as black-white/blue/red

Now they had a new form so they could've just used black for charging, blue for some data and red for display. I guess that ship sailed already though.