skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got to be honest: I'm getting the picture the police here aren't very competent. I know I know, POSIWID and maybe they're very competently aiming at the current outcome. But don't they just look like a bunch of idiots?
Yes I agree with you, but maybe I did not express my point with enough clarity. I mentioned this two species because they count as food of negligible caloric value (sidewalk amaranth is mostly useful because of the edible leaves). As far as I understand, human caloric needs at present population levels require the large scale conventional methods of production (including the Haber-Bosch process). But caloric needs aside, there are populations, which are not consuming enough greens or fruit, even when it grows in front of them. I have seen it in the (warm and tropical dry) countryside here, they think they have to eat lettuce, when they have lots of hibiscus plants growing in their garden. It turns out the leaves of hibiscus aren't just edible, but their nutritional value is similar lettuce (I suspect higher in Mg since it's a lot greener). The answer of some technologists to this problem is to grow more lettuce. Another plant that grows plentifully here certain months of the year is Ipomoea Triloba. I don't think anyone should try to produce them at scale following the conventional methods. In the case of cities I imagine there could be gardens with a synergistic diversity of plants, which try to keep a high total yield, but not a high yield of any specific plant.
not a single person, but the sum of all people looking at the different parts. that's how open source works.
I don’t use Excel, but what’s wrong with LibreOffice Calc?
Firefox prompts for your permission to read from the clipboard:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

But I'm not sure if that's always been the case.
That's a pretty broad brush stroke there. Without more qualifications I'm having a hard time taking it seriously with respect to Sturgeon's law.
In this case we're talking about apps monitoring the copy buffer when they aren't foregrounded. Your example of monitoring a comment box isn't what we're discussing. In the copy buffer example, I think a privacy model of "an app in the background can't read what I'm copy-pasting in other apps" seems very reasonable and fits my idea of what a "standard user" would expect.

Personally, I would prefer a world where nothing can pull from the copy buffer, it needs to be actively pushed by the user. It seems crazy to me that that isn't the case.
This is one of the reasons why I think microbenchmarks are either not very useful or completely misleading --- they'll favour things like insanely unrolled loops or aligned data with lots of padding, when in fact on a macro-scale those things will certainly affect performance negatively due to cache misses.

My preferred approach when optimising is to go for size first; then if more speed is desired, carefully apply size-increasing optimisations to areas which may benefit, testing with a macro benchmark to judge any improvement.
My very first apartment in Boston was on the fourth floor of an old building and management controlled (and paid for) the heat. The building was so inefficient that in order to heat the lower floors to a temperature just barely above freezing my unit would regularly be 85 degrees or more with the windows wide open.

I’ll never forget my first big winter storm thinking I was going to die of heat stroke because I had to shut the windows to keep the snow from blowing in. Some people on my floor would leave their window unit air conditioners in year-round to counteract the heat.

It was so wasteful and almost no one in the building had a comfortable temperature in their apartment all because it was cheaper/easier for management to just keep burning a ton of oil instead of investing in a bit of insulation.
Linking ownership and maintenance to justify rent is a fallacy for two reasons:

1. You said it yourself: a homeowner who simply owns and does no maintenance is a blight. This includes people who charge rent, and then use a portion of that rent to pay someone else to do the maintenance. In this case, the landlord is contributing nothing: they're just using the artificial scarcity of the property they own to insert themselves as parasitic middle men between the resident and the maintainer.

2. Maintenance is valued far less than ownership. Even in cases where landlords do maintain the property themselves, they are paid far more than we would pay a super or a handyman. Think about it: if you owned your own home and didn't want to handle the maintenance yourself, would you pay someone $1343/month[1] for the few hours they have to work on maintenance? Obviously not. And landlords agree: supers are paid only a small fraction of what the landlord makes in an apartment building. Let's not pretend what you're paying for when you pay rent is maintenance.

[1] https://www.abodo.com/blog/2019-annual-rent-report/
What Schools Can Learn from Child Care Coronavirus Safety Plans
Didja Hear the One About the 3cent MCU?
Sad if this article says true. I want every tracking (including analytics things) to be disabled.
1. Private sector unions can exert the same kind of authority, by lobbying for regulation of their employer's labour practices.

2. There is no guarantee that the candidate you helped elect in your district will be the person responsible for negotiations. Other politicians are supposed to be a counterbalance to this, if they are doing their jobs, and actually give two figs about conflicts of interest.

This is largely a theoretical concern.

The concern I cited - that management is part of the union is not theoretical. It is one we've seen played out again and again.
Let’s see, Dodge and Kia and Chevy on top with Honda and Toyota in the bottom half. I am instantly suspicious.
https://visionscarto.net/enquete-reseaux-hft and google translate for the backstory.

bandwidth is a few bits per message, a few messages per second.

yes you can do more with more bits and more messages, but you can do quite a lot with 2 bits!
Now that the crowds have left, I'll offer an addendum.

The odd part about calling it a "reactionary blog" is that part of Scott's early notoriety was for being an anti-reactionary on Less Wrong, a blog that had a lot of neo-reactionary support. In particular, he's the author of the "The Anti-Reactionary FAQ (or, Against Moldbug)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6585715. Unfortunately, it's hard to link to right now, as it disappeared along with the blog. Archive.org has a download in an odd format, but no preview: https://archive.org/details/perma_cc_49D9-R67Y. I haven't read it recently, and thus can't summarize, so perhaps it reinforces your belief.

From one of your other comments, I don't think I agree that "No one can really dispute that there is at least one frighteningly racist piece of work and at least one frighteningly sexist piece of work we can all point to from SSC." Or rather, I'd agree if we are to include all the comments written by others on the site, but I probably do not if we are to consider only things Scott wrote himself.

This may be because I probably tend to different definitions of "racism" and "sexism" than you. I'm guessing you might feel it applies to almost all claims that one race or sex is statistically different than another, whereas I tend to reserve it for personal discrimination against individuals for belonging to a particular class. Thus, I don't feel that Charles Murray is racist, or that Larry Summers is sexist, at least not for the reasons that they are generally accused.

As a result, I don't agree that defending Scott implies 'that writers who write racist material have a "right" to not be called to task if that's financially damaging', unless we're using a definition of racism that assumes "everyone is a little bit racist". Rather, I think honest discussion of race and sex include discussion of the possibility that there are genetic differences in intelligence --- as well as discussing the alternatives that the tests are flawed, that maybe there aren't actually any measured differences, or that the differences may be purely cultural or environmental. While there are risks and downsides to this discussion, I think the societal effects of prohibiting the discussion are even worse.

I do appreciate your responses so far, though.
And thus you would need to trust those people.
Ask HN: Solo devs, what’s your choice lang/library for rapidly making REST APIs?
Solo/freelance developers (or developers who work in small teams), what is your favorite language/framework for rapidly developing REST APIs. Or, what framework do you find yourself to be most productive in? Curious to hear your thoughts and opinions.
Survivalist Epistemology
I too have felt the benefit of complete social isolation.
From time to time I use reddit on the mobile. The links for accessing the comments are so tiny, that I'm marveled at the fact that I hardly miss them (Guess the touch screen on my phone is really good).
Founder of Glide here! Thank you for the vote of confidence :)

We’re quite excited to see the no-code space heat up with Amazon joining the fray.
World Building in Blender
I think the author is referring to things on the client that are outside the developers control, like network issues, script blockers, origin restrictions, firewalls/badly behaved proxy servers, outdated browsers etc.
What's the distinction? They both have a community and social features. Commenting, upvotes/liking, posting links, user profiles. HN mainly lacks private messaging and groups.
The supposed reasoning being: it’s in the contract that you willingly agreed to. You could’ve not paid for and installed Windows, but you did, then agreed to the EULA. So you’re out of luck.

It’s a perversion if what a contract is supposed to be: negotiable, but it’s what it is right now.
No, this is untrue.

I cannot speak to "Vertical Farming" and silicon valley types, but I live in the heart of a modern agriculture zone. It is catastrophic.

The environmental devastation is breath taking. Yes there is a lot of industrialisation, but of the wrong things and at a very high, and completely externalised, price. Instead of innovating farmers are using technology to do what they have always done, just more of it.

The enormous cash flows generated (but not profits, land prices take care of that) have corrupted the political system and farmers use their power to fight off any innovation that would reverse this catastrophe.
The main advantage of "coding without code" that I could see is not dealing with the server and software configuration issues that come up when you code. This can range anywhere from:

- Updating the server the software's hosted on
- Dealing with system errors installing software
- Setting up software on your company's webserver (and dealing with firewalls)
- Installing necessary plugins which may require installing new software that's not compatible with your version of Linux, etc.
- The fact that a lot of web software is designed for a Linux environment and can be completely foreign for someone with a Windows background
- Updating the software you're coding on
But, why not? If you believe Dominic Armato is that good, why not try to convince other people he's worth looking into?

(I agree that in any case, making rankings of writers isn't very useful.)

Aaronson wasn't trying to make an appeal that Scott Alexander should be elevated to the level of Mark Twain. It was just his honest opinion (or, maybe, hyperbole - I'm not in Scott Aaronson's brain), stated while discussing why doxxing Scott Alenxander is bad.

If that - speaking your mind on the level you believe someone to be at - is bad, then it certainly isn't obvious to me.
As I've said for months, the sooner we get to herd immunity, the better.

The US literally can't do testing and tracing to save their own lives. Yet people still pretend otherwise, like the tulip or bitcoin manias.
I think this is what happens when you start to push for something without talking with local authorities, they need to remember that it's all about the politics and that's everywhere.
Apple has long echoed this line (part of the reason their purchasing of fleetsmith, not jamf, is surprising).

A sampling of MDMs that large companies you've heard of use:

- vmware workspace one

- bare metal micromdm

- simplemdm

- fleetsmith

- kandji

- jamf
Fun question although probably not really on topic.

NetHack

MUDs, MOOs, MUSHs

Dwarf Fortress

Kroz

Brogue

Zork (looks best on green phosphor screen).

Midnight Commander.

Trade Wars 2002.

If you explore the right platforms and eras then you will find many tens or even hundreds of thousands of text applications, many of which look "good" in my opinion.
I deleted them, but eventually I made new accounts. Sometimes I just really need to get in touch with someone via Facebook or Instagram, though not many WhatsApp users in my sphere.

I hardly ever use them, but sometimes it comes in handy.

For example, at least twice I found someone's wallet or ID and was able to contact them quickly using Facebook, because their name was the same.
Show HN: Typesafe code generation by converting go code to AST
Hospital administration has a pretty good idea on the capacity of their ICUs. And it shouldn't take an expert to look around an ICU with 4 empty beds and suspect they might be overwhelmed if more cases come in.
I haven't seen that much hate for Perl on HN. I personally used it for quite a while and liked it a lot. But I think it's reasonable to consider it a legacy language these days, next to Fortran, Ada and TCL.

Are these languages still used in some niches? Certainly, TCL is still big for scripting ASIC/FPGA design tools last I checked. Similarly Perl projects will still be used and maintained for a long time, it may well outlive us all.

But it's very hard to defend using Perl on a new project these days. I know I wouldn't. I have very little love for Python but I'd go with it instead of Perl almost every single time now. There was a time where CPAN was the killer feature of Perl. Now Python caught up while, as the parent points out, CPAN is slowly rotting due to unmaintained packages. NPM being a mountain of trash is entirely irrelevant frankly. And it's not like in its heydays every single CPAN package was a marvel of software engineering either.

>The care people put into packages like DBI was incredible, compared to anything I've seen on NPM.

See, even you use the past tense. There's no argument that DBI is great. That's not the point. Languages survive not because they're good or bad, but because they have community and corporate support. That's why PHP holds up pretty well while Perl slowly falls into irrelevance. We can lament it, we can try to fight it, but can't deny it.
If those websites are still using flash, they kinda deserve to get cut off.

If it's legacy, that's sad, but it's still better then the alternative. If it's not worth the owners time to port, is it worth keeping around at the expense of a major attack vector?
use golang.
use grpc.
Also something interesting to note about Russia is hot water is provided by the municipality and not through a hot water tank in your own apartment like in North America. This would certainly reduce heating costs per person by offsetting them to the state.
Not being an Android user, one of the negatives that was often talked about (maybe no longer true?) is that a lot of phones could not upgrade to new versions of Android. Is that still a thing, or was that limited to the lower tier phones?
FBI got access to the phones in question. And you can do quite a lot with physical access to a device, including restoring messages from local cache.
I don't know the technical details, but googling for "forensics whats app deletes messages" yields several interesting articles.
It is like mathematics in set theory, as set theory can be used for a foundation of mathematics; however, it is not like real analysis, because real analysis cannot be used as a foundation for mathematics (without torture.)
Many education websites still require flash.
Interesting take on The Cauldron! I find it surprisingly Jungian, personally.
Thanks! Still trying to wrap my mind around use cases :) What is the main adoption path for the tool do you see?

People who use flat files and they are large enough and/or need some provenance?
Or people who already have Postgres and they want to version it?
Or is it about production use case (like Docker) - make snapshot to deliver it consistently?

Btw, regarding the FQA - thanks! From my take on Splitgraph though one the main DVC's difference is that it deals with flat files. From software engineering perspective - it is very close to Git lfs on steroids + some higher level features similar to makefiles, ML metrics, etc.
Yes and no: they still allowed developers to do it for a very long time. I remember years ago when a social app was chastised for uploading your entire contact book to their servers without asking, because at the time there was no permission barrier for it.

In this instance, apps have been doing this for years. Apple knows this. It’s not entirely clear why they only decided to act on it now.
Reminds me of [1] "c" a utility which allows you to execute C code as if it were a script. It's a shame the name is almost unsearchable in Google though...

[1] https://github.com/ryanmjacobs/c
Especially when its taken 14 versions to get this information.
Better test environments with "replay" of production traffic that I can easily hack on locally. Right now, we have some very robust tests. But getting all the containers into the right state can sometimes be a pain. Every now and then, you nuke the entire setup from orbit and re-spin everything back up. But this is still all artificial data in the tests. We spend too much time making a robust test environment when, if we could just say "make this like prod but with my binary in place of this other one and let me replay traffic to simulate a bug or load or whatnot" and to allow this to have a very, very tight loop. In the order of seconds between saving a change (maybe an added log line) and hitting the change with simulated traffic.
These demos are useful to help understand the limitations of these security measures, but hardly invalidate them.

E.g. from the first article you linked:

> the attack is only really useful against unconscious victims, requiring both physical access and the tricky move of placing glasses on their face without waking them up.

All authentication mechanisms have limitations, BTW.
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I grew up in a scenario more similar to this, though my parents didn't have the foresight to plant hardwoods for harvest (Though we did chop firewood to keep the house warm in the winter from our woods). My father still sends a supply of maple syrup each year, which is important because the syrups sold in stores are pretty questionable (The texture is too thick and the sweetness is one-dimensional).

Definitely a tension I've found in life between working in an urban software world and a more bucolic, fostering atmosphere of a farm. I hope more people find a balance in life like your friend, seems they have found the best of a couple worlds.

It is still hard, though, to scale this approach in the way that modern factory farms (Or even small family farms, to be honest - harvesting 400 acres is still non-trivial compared to the average of 150 acres in the 30s [1]) have done with the monoculture.

I would probably assume your friend has a small family style farm, which is what 90% of the farms in the US are [2]. Total farm output has tripled [3], a top of the line tractor costs nearly half a million, it really makes the equation of making an integrated farm a much more complex scenario. If I start doing a more bespoke culture, these tools are probably much less effective - that's the core challenge I think that needs to be solved, how do we increase output of heterogenous cultures.

If I had to bet (And I don't go to Vegas often for a reason), there's likely an inflection point where micro-technologies come to farming in a more direct way, possibly supplanting the way we do a lot of things today. I hate the appeal to nature, but it does seem prescient, in that a bunch of small organisms (Bees, butterflies, and birds) contribute so much to the overall health and harvest of an ecosystem. Maybe there is some, excuse me, cross-pollination to be found between that world and the one we've constructed.

Postnote:

Interesting history of farming I found https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-american-agriculture-fa....

[1] http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/AgCensusImages/1969/02/...

[2] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2017/march/large-family...

[3] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
The magical cross device copy and paste is one of my favorite unsung features.
China's GPS rival Beidou is now fully operational after final satellite launched
I've said this before, but the dogmatic belief that open source automatically means something is safer just isn't true.

In theory it means something could maybe be safer, but it far from guarantees it.
I haven’t bought from Amazon in years. A few weeks ago my toddler left a rubber ball in our waffle maker and we didn’t realize it before turning it on and melting the thing. It ruined the non-stick coating.

After a bit of research I found a new waffle maker to buy. The place I found it had an Amazon affiliate link so I clicked through to price check — $94. Then I checked the manufacturer’s site — $69.99. Ordered it on Monday and it’ll get here tomorrow, free shipping.

This is a pretty common story for me. I almost always check Amazon out of curiosity and most of the time it’s more expensive then other options even when factoring in free shipping. I really don’t get what the upside is supposed to be.
It’s for two factor auth tokens. When I fill in a password it copies my two factor code to the clipboard, then ~30 seconds later it restores the original clipboard content.

All pretty silly all things considered but I can’t think of an easier way to do things.
Better than trusting a black box from a single business.
We still officially recommend USB3 but USB2 is still functional.

> after reading bunch of problematic reviews for cheaper cables I ponnied up for the Oculus cable since I didn’t want to deal with potential problems.

That is your choice as the consumer to make. A non-trivial amount of users are using USB2 cables & there are lots of successful reports on the subreddit discussing cables that work.

> but my point was that Quest needs a bit more accessories than Index, so it pushes the price a bit up.

In my experience I haven't observed the need for these accessories personally but YMMV. Still, even with all the extra accessories, you're still $300 cheaper than the Index. I wouldn't put them in the same pricing category. The pricing disparity grows significantly if you consider someone knew to VR without a gaming PC. The TOC for just trying VR content is significantly higher as is the setup complexity.

> I sure hope you’ll fix the problems because some VD users report better colors (deeper blacks specifically) and better latency (hard to believe, but still). ;) ;) ;)

I have not heard any feedback that indicates that VD latency is better than Link. There are some color differences. IIRC VD uses the wrong color space for its rendering (intentionally or otherwise) which can make things seem more vibrant, but that reproduces if you compare against Rift/Rift S as well.
"Deeper blacks" generally wouldn't be impacted by anything in the Link stack & this is the first I'm encountering of anything like that.

If you have any actual links to such reports (lower latency, color issues) that would be helpful so we can make sure to be talking about the same thing. If you have links for reports of these problems that would be helpful. Given what you've described it's hard to link it back to anything actionable.