skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Collaborative Road Trip Planner
Time to make a new clock/flashlight/garbage game app I guess!!!
Multiple dark themes, if possible:
Solarized
Grey dark
*Pitch dark (also swap the roles of blue and yellow, except for the yellow light seen in the CI)
SQL optimiser works out that this is a cross join and renders execution path as such. Cross join implementation is streaming with pre-determined result set size. We would not be able to render this much data this quickly without optimiser :)
Very interested in trying this.
Yeah, and then there’s a choice between building for iPad OS and porting it with Mac Catalyst.
There is no particular reason, that part is certainly cultural. There aren't even seven, they are twelve equal slices, called semitones. There are infinite slices an octave can be divided into, we just picked one kind of division completely arbitrarly ~2000 years ago because we needed to build organs that sound good together and those people then thought those divisions were enough to express all kinds of emotions. Of course that process took a long time to finalize to what we call now western music.

The ear doesn't care too much about which frequencies, but that they are the same ones. That said, an octave is the doubling or halving of those frequencies which we identify as them being the same note. So, I find it very hard to believe what the article is claiming, also because one reason we can listen to music in low quality speakers is that our brain fills in the missing fundamental[0] so the doubling/halving part seems to be integral to our perception. I don't see how such a psychoacoustic effect be trained or be culturally based.

But on the other hand, tuning into a particular division is very hard to get rid of, westerners can't hear scales that have more than 12 semitones, arabic, indian and eastern music in general is like that and to a westerner ear these sound mostly dissonant and you need to spend a lot of time listening to start appreciating the expression.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_fundamental
That just means moving from the ISP in a prime position for snooping to various CDNs being in that prime position.

You traded one master for another.
I live in the rural South. This is a message that will resonate with my representatives.
Discord and Figma are two standout examples.
You are talking about markets that already exist - if you can build a cheap rocket, clearly there is already a market, because people use expensive rockets. Cell phones existed before iPhones. Cars existed before Tesla.... you get the point. In those cases, yes, the startups of interest are changing what is possible. But for many startups, it is something so new that you really do not know if people would pay for it because people are not already paying for a similar product.
Where would you go? You don't have a car, don't really like public transit. Taxi fairs are higher. People will pay more and some will leave the net effect would be higher profits short term.
Really neat. I still need to evaluate it more, but this is the kind of thing I've looking for for small infrastucture that isn't likely to grow (like home services or small office, etc).
What I've found is that outside of these fields (civil/mechanical/chemical engineering), people greatly underestimate how much math goes into projects like these. I'm a programmer now, but I used to be a mechanical engineer in aerospace. We used far, far more math in a hands-on way in the latter. We'd calculate bolt stacks: https://www.dimensionalconsulting.com/bolt-stacks.html on every bolt in a helicopter. There were a lot of bolts.
The government being able to use HTTPS on their sites is not logically inconsistent with a requirement that the government be able to get through any encryption.
And that means that you can deduce something about the danger of something from the reaction to it because...?
there are many stories... but they were debunked and you remember the headline. You never see the retractions or the debunking.

Whatever happened to Martin Tripp?
He mentions that as an option in the video, which is possible since he is located in the relatively remote areas of northwestern NJ, but you still need almost 2 months to let the hive re-queen, and there's still the possibility of them finding unsuspecting victims (e.g. hunters).
Show HN: Headless-mermaid – A mermaid.js handler for server-side rendering
A.k.a. the "Eastern" genre (as opposed to "Western" movies).
Is there data for hours spent per MVP? It seems the authors were working full time on this. The amount of time to create an MVP must vary.
The GPS that your automated combine uses to guide itself is space tech, not earth tech.
I didn’t say truth seeking was not valuable. I totally agree what you said. I would just not assign the professional title of journalist to Assange. I’m not sure if there even is a proper current term for his professional-like activities.
Solitude During Covid
The WSJ, WaPo, and NYT are not analogous to the state media of Russia or the Soviet Union, however fun that might be to say on a message board.
There's a plethora of air-gap malware studies from Ben-Gurion university [1], abused channels range from thermal, acoustic, optical, to classic TEMPEST.

The interesting thing is that there's no escape from such covert attacks, since machines are bound by the laws of physics that demand energy dissipation and generation of noise, heat, etc. If it leaks, then it computes.

[1]: https://cyber.bgu.ac.il/air-gap/
So, something like Magic Leap?
IRS Sent $1.4B in Stimulus Checks to Dead People
I've been using postgres, cassandra, redis and mysql/mariadb on aarch64. Only ran into issues with MySQL, which we rootcaused to some weird atomic locks not working as expected on the first generation of ARMv8(.0) a couple years back.
Show HN: Tag a small landing page for everyone
What about the "profile" (i.e. the model) of me that is created based on the history? i.e. https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en

I'd think thats more valuable - raw data would not really be necessary unless they need to re-learn things.
Has anyone tried asking politicians who are all for this kind of legislation if they've thought about how it might affect them? I'm assuming they're not using government networks for private communications with friends, family, donors, mistresses, etc. Someone might suggest to them that once a bill like this passes, those silly "LEO-only" limitations will be hacked pretty quickly and the entire world will be reading their messages too.
> The thing is all those three letter agency’s make heavy use of civilian contractors and commercial products.

Using Ed Snowden’s autobiography as a point of reference, I’d say the IS agencies have probably 25% of the staff or higher as contractors, so definitely heavy use.
Morality is out the window once someone's mortgage is in the mix.
As someone who grew up in the Eastern Bloc and went through the usual hipster phases in my youth, we used to think of movies made in the West as "commercial" movies - as in, they had to make a buck, and were forced to make compromises for that reason.

The truth is somewhere in between, and everywhere else at the same time, of course, but that current of thought was quite prevalent in my social circles back then.
On signup, it also tries to autofill my credit card number when asking me what my full name is. Maybe it is just a chrome UI issue and it will only give the form my full name and not my CC#, but it is a little bit concerning.
A typical chess position has 20-40 legal moves. The complete space of moves for the model to predict from has about 1800 moves.

For comparison Leela Zero gets around 60% accuracy on predicting its own next move.

With this sort of accuracy you can reduce the search part of the algorithm to an effective branching factor of 2-4 rather than 40, nearly for free, which is a pretty big win.
> However, I think Apple has been a far greater threat to Linux adoption than Microsoft. Why? Because it gives techies the *nix environment they want, with the software and hardware support no one will give them on Linux.

With WSL, you basically get an actual Linux userland (with WSL2, I think you get an actual Linux kernel too), not just a Unix that's like Linux but different enough to be annoying. But I'm not sure that will be enough to convince people to move to Windows.
C#/.Net. I've outlined the tech stack in more detail here (aimed at a non-techie reader): https://www.smart-edit.com/Blog/Post/TechOverview/
>"As always, we don’t sell your information to anyone, and we don’t use information in apps where you primarily store personal content—such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos—for advertising purposes, period."

Wait, what? Is this some weasel word soup going on?

I do not believe this for one second.
But encrypted conversations, by definition, are recorded.

With a warrant, law enforcement is permitted to search a safe containing written records of a conversation; why shouldn't they be allowed to search an encrypted consumer electronic device containing the same?
I agree that react/vue/etc. aren't necessary, however this approach is not diametrically opposed to using a JS framework.

For example, if you use a framework like Stencil or Next.js w/ React, you will be able to pre-render your page into static HTML to serve to clients, but you also get the benefit of having rich JS components and code sharing. And then you avoid a lot of the issues they seem to have around lack of DOM diffing and the like.
Share Your GitHub
Post link to your GitHub profile so rest of HN can see it.
Subjectively, I may prefer the risk of the false positive scenario to the risk of the missed diagnosis and early death. This is not reflected in statistics, because it is a personal preference.

That may or may not be informed by additional information, for instance a person close to me may have had an early death from colon cancer and therefore I value the relief of having done the screening higher than someone else.
I do something sort of similar, also using git to maintain the inventory of what to run on what machine.

In my case, I'm using docker-compose.yml files for each machine, and then running:

docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

We initially wanted to use Watchtower, but it didn't work well for us.
Hi, first of all I made this for fun and still bare bones.

If you submit your Instagram username or email I will contact you, make your page and send you the link :)

And you can use it as a landing page
If the contractor illegally adulterates the concrete mix to save money because they're politically connected and know they can get away with that, it hardly matters how good the building design was.
Everything in business has an element of luck.

But if your product doesn't provide value or customers aren't willing to pay for it I'm not sure you can overcome that with luck.

I would look at it more as you can have product market fit and your product not grow fast or even fail without some luck.

But your product will eventually fail without product market fit even with lots of luck.

Check out Rob Walling's new podcasts.

8 Things You Must Know When Launching Your SaaS and 10 Things You Should Know As You Scale Your SaaS.

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The part about product market fit starts around 2:00.

Rob talks about using this method to quantify your product market fit.

https://justinjackson.ca/product-market-fit-survey
> I still don't understand why we need to go to space.

I'm sure you don't need GPS. Or care about researching the Climate. Or care fundamental research on physics. Or want to use the internet on planes. Or care about defense. Or ever use earth imaging made from satellites. Or care about people in disaster situations find a route to flee the region. ...
>Who exactly would be "qualified but not licensed" at a commercial airline?

The mechanic.

Maintaining a commercial license takes money and hoop jumping (not that a private license doesn't but commercial takes more). Small commercial airlines (like what you find in Alaska) are littered with people who let their licenses lapse (or were medically disqualified) or never pursued a commercial rating but are rated to fly that type privately. They're working in roles other than pilots. It's not a stretch to see how someone who usually turns wrenches or haggles on the phone for their paycheck might be willing to be the co-pilot on a flight and cook the books for a buddy.
Reimagining the Dog: New DeepMind Models and Tutorial for Physics-Based RL Tasks
> it specially does not equal an official position of the UN

I don't know how you cans ay that, when the UN press briefings literally refer to them as a "UN expert".

Yes it's a financially independent position to remove as much bias as possible, but it is very much an official UN position.
How to Zero Trust
Interesting because this page specifically disclaims it:

https://hey.com/policies/security/

"Our application databases are generally not encrypted at rest."

Particularly interesting would be a discussion of how they can index content with Elastic while preventing system operators from accessing that index, and with strong auditing of any such access.
I'll start off with mine: https://github.com/jafarlihi
You're not wrong on any count, but it's impossible to take your arguments seriously when you say "congresscritters"
From some light research, it looks like 120,000 Japanese-Americans were put in these camps for 2-3 years and 1,862 died. In the country at large, if I'm reading this [1] right, 1,459,000 people died outside of the camps in the US, which had a population of 136,700,000. That's a ~1% base death rate per year, which would account for ~2/3 of these deaths in a year.

This could be investigated further; was the average length of imprisonment less than a year, were the causes of death different than in the larger population, did economic conditions and racism increase the base death rate among Japanese-Americans in the first place, was the age distribution different among those the US bothered to move to camps, pushing their base rate lower?

Evidently people died because of these camps, and it is incredibly likely that many of those deaths were racist hate crimes committed by US employees on US citizens. Even that aside, it was very much wrong it imprison innocent civilians on the basis of their race. 'Thousands died' does seem like a substantial overstatement when the only number I can find is less than 2,000 (it's from the US, so it may be biased). Probably a few hundred died as a result of these camps, mostly from disease.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1943_2.pdf
> The best class of startups is where the key risk is not "is there a market?" but "can this be technologically pulled off right now?"

I worked for a group of assholes in 2011 or so who basically had Zoom'ish host-guest videochat working by 2012 and they wound up petering out. These were big-exit veterans making a kind of moonshot for the time, but for whatever reason ran out of gas (it certainly wasn't a money issue given the history of the founders).

The market can't be counted on to rise to the occasion.
User-Defined Webhooks in Puppet Relay with Knative and Ambassador API Gateway
Ditto. I think it would be great if one could use Google and set to autodelete after 3 months, but still periodically download and import the history to a private instance of a similar service. Same goes for the Search History.
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Many things in the past were made to a higher standard then they are now. I'm sure freshly picked watermelon grown organically for royalty, was pretty awesome.
Crucial piece of tech for many products like VSCode, Slack, Discord, etc.
I am not quite sure the difference between "not interested" and "don't show me this channel" option? Does the first affect the recommendation engine, and the 2nd only blacklists a specific channel from being shown to you?

Also, I don't know about anyone else with the same preferences/obssessiveness (I admit it's a bit futile in the bigger picture), but I've tried to give Youtube very strong/steady feedback about the videos it suggests to me (mostly in the negative direction), and it seems I've almost painted myself into a corner with being shown the same videos every day on the YT front page.

I have no idea how long the feedback to their recommendation engine lasts or whether it tails off with time, etc... Or whether it's really worth me continuing to do so vs. opening videos in incognito mode, etc. is more effective.
Integrity Pays Honest guy gets rewarded by vendor
> I have never heard any articulation of how the minimum can actually be zero that is anything other than a straw man.

I'm going to start out with the disclaimer that I am not personally opposed to all power relationships in the very broad sense used by some anarchists. I believe that there are universal natural rights, including both self-ownership and property, and that people have a right to enter into ongoing power relationships with others so long as they do so voluntarily of their own free will. So instead of "power relationships" the rest of this comment will use the term "force" or "aggression"—by which I mean power relationships involving violations of the individual's natural rights without their freely-given consent, except as a proportional defensive response to actual or imminent aggression by the other party. This is more-or-less the standard libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, or voluntaryist definition of aggression.

With all that said, the answer depends on whether you're talking about the minimum amount which is actually present or the minimum amount which can be considered "legitimate". It would be nice for both to be zero, of course, but I think we both agree that some amount of aggression is inevitable in practice—we aren't likely to eliminate all violent crime, for example, no matter how hard we try. The minimum amount of "legitimate" power, however, is trivial to simply define as zero. We are under no obligation to consider any act of aggression legitimate.

The distinction between anarchism and minarchism lies in how much aggression is deemed legitimate, not how much is present. The anarchist recognizes that aggression exists but does not consider any aggression to be legitimate, even when the goal is to reduce the overall level of aggression. The minarchist is willing to sanction a certain amount of aggression in order to achieve what they consider to be a greater good.

In my opinion the minarchist approach is neither principled nor pragmatic. It makes you an accessory to the aggression, normalizes it, and sets the stage for others to argue that ever increasing acts of aggression can be justified "for the greater good". Humans readily justify atrocities on the basis that a society organized "the right way" would somehow be free of violence or other ills. It doesn't work out well in practice. Better to aim for no aggression and consistently oppose such acts wherever you may find them rather than making exceptions.
Reading this almost instantly modified my opinion of wiki leaks. I can’t believe they published something so sensitive without justification. Is there a wider context that the leak occurred in, maybe via some oversight? I know they used to publish large dumps of email exchanges from large corporations - did this get mixed up in one of those?

I’m honestly upset that this sort of information was released
> > If those ten unnecessary treatments cause two deaths, I think the outcome is fairly clear.

> No, it isn't. Deaths are not fungible. My life is not someone else's life. If I get a diagnosis, there is always a chance that it is wrong, that the treatment will kill or injure me, and so on.

Yes, and we can objectively measure what those chances are. Also don't forget, the process of diagnosis often also has consequences. Some percentage of people die on the table during surgical biopsies, for example.

> That doesn't mean I shouldn't get a diagnosis. I'm the person to make the decision here, I can always choose not to get a diagnosis, or to ignore it.

Sure, if you wish to ignore all objective evidence when making life-and-death decisions for yourself as a way of showing off just how gosh-darn free you are, that's your prerogative.

> It should stand to reason that no one can assess something objectively that is inherently subjective, like my own value perception of my life and (risk) of death.

I'm not sure how you've concluded that your perceptions cannot be objectively measured.
The experience might vary a lot depending on ping times to their servers, if most interactions require a server round-trip (and if they don't have nice animations to hide the lag).
> 1 year after iPhone's release, Nokia released 5800 marketed as iPhone killer; guess what?

I guess beside its resistive screen, Nokia 5800 has much more power than iPhone 3G:

- J2ME apps;

- Python for S60 apps (+ Pys60 IDE);

- Qt4 apps;

- Voice input;

- Built-in voice recorder;

- Video recording;

- Frontal camera for video calls;

- 3.2 Megapixel camera with zoom & flash;

- 35 hours of work in music player mode;

- Changeable battery;

- And much, much more.

Here is good comparison list (in Russian).[0]

[0] http://mobiltelefon.ru/post_122880924.html
In your post you made it sound like most SPA frameworks will take care of this for you.

> With a SPA framework, it could add it to the local list of emails and push to the server in the background, so it would transition instantly regardless of connectivity. It would also work offline.

None of this happens automatically with SPA frameworks, and it requires a custom implementation of offline functionality in the context of the business domain (what to store, what to send to the server when connection is reestablished, which data to re-synchronize). It's hard to do, which I think is why most SPAs don't do it.

Moreover, it's clear that DHH is not interested in even something like basic PWA support, and will instead spend his time attacking Apple for not approving their app on the app store.
Not sure how I was "putting words in the other person's mouth" by making that statement.

I agree that Steve Jobs is more powerful than even an influential blogger, but they are both public figures. Who exactly is allowed to do the calculus about how much private information is appropriate to publish about someone according to their level of power? To me it seems to be a binary: are they a public figure or not.

When it's a breach of journalistic ethics to publish information about a blogger that's provided on or linked to from said blog (I think it is a breach, he made a specific request not to) it's much more egregious to publish an apparently forged health record of a CEO.

At no point do I think that not caring about someone's privacy means it's acceptable to publish false information about them.
Every language in this category will have bindings to domain specific high performance modules. This is part of why performance doesn't matter all that much - we can always push hot operations into another language.

Perl generally outperforms python in core language features.
Government and the military should absolutely be encouraged to write their own in house tools. That would dramatically improve quality of service and simultaneously reduced government expenses.
> Regardless of your view on the 'realness' of those who actually were communists, the point is that it was largely speculative who was part of them.

No, the argument was that "the threat" was "mostly made up". I assure you, it was not.
A beautiful book. I have all my students read it and I use its ideas every day in research.
Nitpicking: Why pull separately? it will pull if no image stored locally or even if the `docker-compose.yml` changed.