skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A company I contract to for backend and server stuff made the jump from static HTML to client side rendering with react. They did it because the consulting company they went to receommended it "because it was the future", and I am sure in no small part because that was what the consulting company specialised in.

It was the worst decision they have ever made. The site they ended up with was incredibly slow, and given the relatively few pages on the site you never really make for that initial load in time saved later.

It's also incredibly hard to write well, requires a special third party service to show anything in Google and is incredibly hard to manage.

They don't realise this of course, and are now attempting to solve the management and initial load issues by splitting the app up into three distinct apps. It won't help.
We really do need some process where by the accounts of large companies are reconciled with reality. I understand completely that this is not possible for all the numbers investors want to see (Profit is made up after all). But there should be a requirement to report certain hard numbers (cash revenues and cash held for instance) that should be audited and correct to the penny on a given day. If a business claims to have received 1m $/£/E in cash sales, they should be able to show their accountant credit transactions for that amount and 0.1% of those should be checked by calling the customer and confirming they paid the money. The same applies for cash on hand on a historic day.

Nothing will make fraud impossible, but right now it's just so easy...
Lockdown definitely causes deaths. But how many?

I think to see that one would just have to view the big picture and understand how everything is related together.

Are you suggesting one should not try to calculate this at all? Or are you suggesting that it's 0 deaths so there's no need to calculate it.
To all the talented developers and researchers who work on this kind of tech. Please change careers and do something useful.
Xbox is a thing, and Microsoft is the sole gatekeeper for that platform. Obviously the Microsoft Store is also available on Windows, though it's easy to go around it there, of course.

It's decently likely a ruling around app stores will have impact not just on mobile and desktop, but the console world as well.
Can IMAP snooze messages?
Introducing linear regression with gradient descent can also be really confusing for a newcomer. Gradient descent solves a problem (nonlinear optimization) which does not exist here.
I would argue that their non-standard implementation will make transitioning away from their service impossibly difficult.

The fact they don't support the widely supported IMAP means no easy way to move away.

This is vendor lock-in to their walled-garden. This approach should be killed, dead, before it ever makes it to the end user.
We are 2 indie developers trying to build a sustainable business. We are trying to compete against Google. The idea that the open-source package is responsible for our success is ludicrous. Our success came from thousands of hours of work. You’ll believe the narrative you choose. You’re entitled to that. We will always be “liars” to you because we chose to spend our time building up the paid service. You feel like we should open source all of our code, that’s fine. This conversation isn’t productive, and you seem spiteful, so I’m retiring. And I hadn’t realized that you were the creator of DB browser, that was just a recent example I’d been discussing with friends. Good luck with your chosen path. Please hug your family and take some time to relax.
this is a lot of energy for an inverse laplace transform
I'm not entirely up-to-date on the annotation spec, but if all that's needed is to host the annotations somewhere, then Solid should already support that.

It's just not really clear to me how a user should find out that there are annotations about a page available somewhere.

(I work with Solid.)
IoT enabled baby crib that gently rocks babies to sleep
That is a good startingpoint, but also something SEO can very easy hack. Obfusicating the usual hints of a popular CMS is not hard.

I wonder whether doing a parallel search on google and filter out by their top-results from your own results would be a feasiable solution? Add a filter on the top 500 websites, and whether known ad-sources are used and you might get slowly there.

Maybe instead of a smart searchengine it would be better to focus on a dumb focus which gives access to all the metadata of a page too, and allows people to optimize for themself. Fulltext alone is not the only relevant content for good results. Google knows it and uses them, but has very limited acces to it for the enduser.
You're not the only one. It's just that people who like to impose their will (or style) on others are a lot louder about it, unsurprisingly.

They use the excuse of the linter sometimes highlighting potential bugs to impose their preferred formatting style wholesale over everyone. And it's purely an exercise of power of one person over others -- the computer doesn't care about your style.

And it's not enough, some people will ask you to move sections of code around and start arguing about naming once they have no inconsistent white spaces to complain about -- that's how you know it's not the linter or formatter that they want, they want to control people.
Hello there. There is always a way out, don’t feel trapped. I was in a similar situation recently, although as an employee. I turned down some job offers earlier in the year. Then coronavirus hit, my job became stressful and it is not easy to find a new job now.

I used Tim Ferris’s fear-setting principle, you can find it on YouTube. I evaluated the worst that can happen if I walk away from my job. I lose my income, and lose face with family and friends. In your case the loss of your hard-earned equity.

Then I computed my monthly expenses against my total savings. To see how long I can go without earning a dime. In your case you should include the amount you send to your mum as essential... Please don’t consider it a burden. For family and friends, they will all be fine in the long run. At least those that really care about you.

This steps will give you perspective on what will happen if you lose everything overnight.

That is on the most extreme end.

You are not trapped. You can take a break from day-to-day tasks, for a day or a week.
You can speak to the other shareholder, of the need for a CEO, or someone or two people to handle the task you don’t like. Or they can only come to you for decisions that are extremely important.

If the business suffers as a result of any of these. That should be an acceptable price to pay. Please find a way to accept that.

Also please leave the house more often. I find that morning or evening walks are good for the mind. And some form of human interaction can improve your mood instantly. You can find opportunities to volunteer in non-tech endeavors, where you can interact with people that have a common goal and more positive outlook on life.

I hope this helps you. If you want to talk to anyone, you can reach me through my bio.
Show HN: Rick and Morty Characters
Find your favorite Rick and Morty character with search and filters without any hazzle. E.g. Find robot Rick from dimension Citadel of Ricks.

Source code: https://github.com/ShahAnuj2610/rick-and-morty-characters
Nice, if streamers exposed this to public with some moderation it could allow viewers to choose what they want to look at.
Pretty sure all major powers either have or will soon have the capability but don't feel the need to blab around about it.

The issue I have is when this gets actually exported to countries that may want to use against civilians (to squash opposition) though it was know for a long time this must happen.
This. I can't wait until we are rid of Trump, but this honestly just seems like somebody was ignorantly copying and pasting symbols.

Why would a campaign intentionally risk the political fallout of using Nazi imagery when that candidate is already the established favorite for white supremacists? There's enough factual shit to be disgusted about regarding Trump, we don't need to be fabricating conspiracies out of geometric primitives.
Envato takes a 55% cut from creators who don't sell exclusively on their site
Yes, but that is in no way limited to .xyz
It was the the same with .info in 2001/2002
and .biz and whatever else.

The point was that there never was any "vetting" ever.
Bulk-buy, spam, abandon. That's what spam was and is.
And 20 years from now APPL could be lobbying to end a different monopoly that they don't benefit from
With respect, I do question whether an auditor overlooking financial irregularities is actually acting in their self-interest.
“Never threaten to cost someone more than it would cost to have you killed.” is a reasonable rule to live by.
Just for the record, Deutsche Bank is a private company with the majority of stocks owned by non-German investors. It is not to be confused with the Bundesbank, which is something like the German FED.
Last time I checked, underage slave labor is illegal? Kinda, sorta different. But good try.
What does this have to do with technical literacy ? They're not writing an RFC and there's nothing technical about section 230 of the communication decency act.
Done.

https://github.com/LibriVox/librivox-catalog/blob/master/CON...

Have fun, and many thanks!

(I'll try to make time this weekend to drop GerritHub as well, and convert what I currently have there to PRs)
I still remember Microsoft's chokehold on the entire industry in the 1990s, their "embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy, and nearly total monopoly.

But even during those times, you were still free to install/mod whatever you wanted on your computer, and even now it is (just barely) possible with Windows. Apple has always been far more controlling than Microsoft, although the latter is slowly moving in that direction too. Maybe this is finally a welcome change in direction, but I doubt it...
Epson PaperLab
> Their whole "filtering everything out until you whitelist the sender" approach

Unless I'm missing something about what they're doing, this is a basic SIEVE script that filters anything not explicitly whitelisted into a folder.
Actually didn't catch much of a summary at all there. Just winners and losers?
You can check out https://usertrack.net, but it's currently $99/life. I do plan to add a free version with some limited features (no heatmaps, no session recordings, no multi-domain, etc.), but the free version should be anyway better than most of the alternatives (fast interface, segments, quick user filtering, easy to install).

If you want, you can contact me on Twitter to tell me what the free version should contain for you to consider using it, or if the current price for the lifetime version is too high for you.
Hey I'm working on exactly this with https://histre.com/
For those who aren't familiar, the envato market includes themeforest and codecanyon- a commonly used site for web developers/programmers to source assets.
Bringing Modern Transport Security to Google Cloud with TLS 1.3
It’s called “salary compression and inversion”

https://www.payscale.com/compensation-today/2020/05/what-is-...

Inversion is just the extreme. When new employees come in making more than existing employees with the same experience.
The naming is a little strange. I would call them Homicide drones
A 6 hour old account spouting off about how moon landings were faked.

Low effort, IMO.

The serious trolls and professional shills have accounts that are years old and have longer post histories.
Do you know any regulators?
How does this new algorithm compare to https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1355451 ?
I’m working through Joel’s book and implementing the solutions in Swift:

https://github.com/melling/data-science-from-scratch-swift

Of the last 5, only the Linear Regression chapter is finished:

https://github.com/melling/data-science-from-scratch-swift/b...
Text contained in the apps is hard to read, very blurry on HiDPI/retina displays.
> If there aren't very many white supremacists, where is all the racism coming from?

Where is the ubiquitous racism being seen? I am in no way trying to be facetious, but we need to be accurate here. Only reason I ask is because I see racism being thrown around at people who aren't racist, and only because they disagree with a narrative. That word doesn't really mean anything anymore.

I haven't missed it, I just don't think police brutality is purely a race issue. I think it comes down to poor training and not enough vetting so psychopaths like Chauvin don't get the job. There's also not enough accountability for those in charge to fire these cops after multiple civilian complaints are filed against them.
Actually a lot of people in China also agree they should joint the CPU battle since this year.

In China, there was always an ongoing debate on if we should design our own chip for quite a while.

From the economical perspective, there's no point in making our own because it would cost a lot, for the first few years there would be no profit, and the very likely not cheap to produce while not as fast as Intel and Qualcomm.

From a risk management perspective, of course, it's useful if China was sanctioned. Actually, there were several attempts many years ago, and the government invested in those projects. Eventually, people called out those are frauds because they just re-label existing chips from those well-known brands without doing anything. After several times of this kind of scandal, people started to lose trust and faith in this, and the debate died down for quite a while, until now.

While a lot of people in the US are debating if they should bring critical industries back to the US this year, Chinese people brought back the debate about if they should develop their own chip almost as soon as Huawei was listed on the 'entity list'. This time more people seem to agree that they should have their own chips, and many people even think it as a threat to the Chinese nation because it seems to be one throat to choke (China become more or less a nationalist country during the suffering century of humiliation, plus some communist legacy, thus the sense of crisis and the reaction).

It says that Huawei is already starting to build its own chips. My personal guess is the government would strategically invest resources in this field as well because it just seems to be too important.
> The issue I have is when this gets actually exported to countries that may want to use against civilians (to squash opposition) though it was know for a long time this must happen.

Turkey wouldn't need to export it to anyone for it to be used against civilians, that's a pretty common thing for Turkey.
Kingdom?
They basically do this now (or are supposed to) but only once a year for the annual audit. It gets complicated when you have related party transactions, where separate private companies that are secretly controlled by the CEO can claim that they owe money to the main company. Eventually these things get found out, like in this case, but by then a lot of investors can lose their money.
> And just to be clear, it's entirely possible to be concerned about both police brutality and arson.

Well, first of all, "police brutality" is not the worst problem or the problem that incited these protests. Police murder is.

Second, if you're concerned about both of these things, then there's no reason to talk about putting protestors in jail. She didn't set fire to a police car because she didn't know there might be consequences. She set fire to a police car because those consequences don't matter to her. If you care about both police murder and arson, then you should be talking about stopping police murder, because that's the cause of the arson.

Focusing on the violent components of the protests is part of a strategy that controls the narrative. At every turn, kneeling on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while he begs for his life and slowly dies is being downplayed--calling it "police brutality"--the same term used for slamming someone against a cop car while you handcuff them. And at every turn, things like burning a police car are being played up, calling it arson--the same term used for torching a city block with children inside. And in fact, people in this thread won't even call it arson when Philly PD actually did torch 61 homes, killing 5 children[1]. Where are the people insisting that we call that arson and bring the perpetrators to justice?

So yeah, it's possible to be concerned about both police brutality and arson, but "police brutality and arson" is not what's happening. "A police officer murdering a man and a woman setting fire to two unoccupied, isolated police cars" is a much more proportional description of the events. And if your main concern here is making sure that the woman who lit the police cars on fire is brought to justice, you aren't proportionally concerned about both these things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing
Late stage capitalism in a nutshell.
Which is exactly the usual audit procedure - a sample of account balances and turnover is tested (i.e., confirmed) with the counterparty as part of testing.
> But maybe there are strings you can attach.

You could tie the debt to revenue. I think this happens often, but not often enough. You'll see "bond measures" on the ballet. "Raise sales tax by X, to pay for the bond X for purpose Z." I think this works, though you don't want to run every spending measure by the public. Maybe some of them can be more automatically applied, or within the discretion of the local council. But the key is the tie between future revenues and future expenditure.

> you should never allow debt for operating expenses or maintenance

Except these are perhaps the most important expenses. Maybe this requires something like automatic state-receivership or some other loss of local autonomy. Or the shortfall is picked up the state under some set of rules (something like state-wide municipal operational insurance, where in times of surplus everyone is kicking-in)
They argue that GAEN is part of the Play Services on Android. And that the app was designed to work at first with DP3T protocol which (I'm not sure) requires only access to bluetooth on the device. But DP3T was replaced with GAEN.

(This just my understanding from the web page and wikipedia, I'm not familiar with all of this :) )

To justify such exclusion, SwissCovid promoters argue that GAEN is part of the operating system of the phone, or sometimes part of the Bluetooth communication interface of the phone, and that it is not common to require to disclose the source code of such parts. We deny that GAEN is any such part of the phone, at least on Android phones. GAEN is part of the Google Play Services which are independent of the operating system and of the communication interfaces. We could actually run a pre-standard version of SwissCovid on an Android phone which had no Google Play Services. However, this phone had the Android operating system and could use Bluetooth. Furthermore, most of the former DP3T protocol which was implemented in this pre-standard version disappeared in the current version of the app since an equivalent protocol is now in GAEN. We conclude that there is no founded technical justification for excluding GAEN from the components of the system.
OK, I'd never heard of this before and now I'm questioning why we have all these JS templating frameworks like Mustache, Pug[1], and the rest.

[1] I actually use this one and it's just fine - great, in fact - but seeing M4 does make me feel like a lot of people may have spent a lot of time reinventing a wheel.
And, perhaps ironically, that domain name cannot contain the necessary apostrophe to be spelled correctly, so it itself also has a typo.
It’s more like: a market says we won’t have anyone selling weed, and there are stalls selling weed, and someone says “hey, you’re selling weed even though you say you won’t”

And unlike a market, which is generally not owned by a single entity, this market is owned by the richest person in the world, so it certainly has the resources to enforce its policies.
How to scope work: a journey from the vague to the precise
I don’t see any authentication on this? can’t any website just make requests to my obs via localhost if i install this?
I find the problem with writing tests for Python is twofold:

- Most Python programs I write start their life as tiny scripts, always with the certainty they'll never grow (Narrator: they always grow). I don't know many people who write tests for their scripts...

- Testing in Python means too much effort in the wrong places. Consider that most refactoring problems would have been caught for free by a language with static typing. I've experienced runtime errors because I changed the return type of a function from a single value to a list (or viceversa). A statically typed language would have let me know of my mistake for free, so that I could focus on tests that really matter.
Hey, I can't tell if this is irony or not. Then again, you probably won't read this if it isn't.
Top UI Interactions of the Week
funny how they cut the camera right before hitting the target. Probably cause it's not doing much at the moment.
I also remember their much more recent attempt to funnel Windows app purchases through their own app store and take their own 30% cut via Windows 10 S, a version of Windows intended to be pre-installed on cheaper laptops that only allowed apps to be installed from their store. It failed, and that's presumably why they're taking such a strong stance now against the companies that succeeded in this business model.
No you cannot do this. Apple does not allow you to put a higher price on iOS than other places. Also the issue is Apple's inconsistency. Netflix and Spotify do the exact same thing HEY is trying to do but Apple has done nothing for them because of this bullshit distinction between consumer and business apps??? Why do consumers apps not need IAP but business apps do?

What they're doing is exactly what mafias do. Look for the weak, force them to need your help or else, then extract as much money as you can.

I love Apple and all their products but this services growth strategy is putting a bad taste in a bunch of people's mouths.
> Also last year Deutsche Bank gave the CEO a €150 million personal loan using his Wirecard stock as collateral.

That kind of stuff is pretty common though, Elon Musk has about 15 billion dollars, 100x that amount (!), of his Tesla stocks posted as collateral for personal loans: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/8/21252487/elon-musk-persona...

And Deutsche Bank is a big player in this kind of business, remember their involvement with Trump?
They committed the cardinal sin of design - not keeping it simple. People will think IT IS A TYPO, because it looks like one, especially in the age of zero attention spans. Very few will go on a quest to figure it out.

With new products, humans need an anchor to familiar features in order to feel comfortable.

What Makes Things Cool
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/what-ma...
Thank you for clarifying your point.

They touched on multiple points of "better" in this article... one of which is "Comfort", "For example, Stanford researchers are experimenting with wearable devices that pump oxygen into masks to make them more breathable."
2 Billion? Isn't that just a regular burn rate for a fintech startup? I'll assume this company just gets some funding then continues on its way.
How is that different to the rest of the application of advanced technology to war? (e.g., radar, missile guidance, shaped explosives, etc)

I don't really disagree with you, just asking.
I track my numbers. Tracking, maintaining and improving any number gives me tremendous motivation. (This works for me but it may not work for you!)