skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weirdly, the thing I find missing most from this discussion is finance.

If we take the premise that information is valuable (decrease inputs, improve yields) and that equipment is valuable (automation), then there's a very real return to be gained by using these valuable products. What's nuts to me is that we would ever ask the farmers to bear the risk of these products. I mean, sure they could I suppose (better returns overall!), but it concentrates all the risk in the worst places.

I feel like there's a much better opportunity here for a targeted financial product. "Implement our methods with our data, and we'll skim a percentage of your profits." Imagine if the risk of buying a new tractor was gone, because it was provided by the company. The risk of data integration was also gone, because it's guaranteed to work with the provided tractor. And the risk that the data is crap is also gone, because the financing and return risk is borne by a diverse number of institutional investors. Almost like weather / crop insurance, but much much bigger.

For the farmer, the sale is simple: Do our thing, and you don't have to worry about paying for stuff that may not be valuable. You might make slightly less total profit in the good years as the price of offloading that risk.

For the investors, it's also a great story: look at these great startups! Wouldn't you like a piece of that productivity and return?

...and maybe the startups are wrong, and the equipment doesn't work, and everyone learns a lot while they go bankrupt. Everyone except the farmer, who offloaded the risk.

Surely this is a thing that someone is working on?!? I'm sure it's available in bits and pieces, but a unified financing and operational solution seems like it would be a slam dunk.
Do these get opened by UPnP?
I feel like if even on a purely technical level we eventually achieve Lego like reuse that the business and social layer of things will ensure that somebody always requires an off brand Lego block to be shoved in there. It's almost human nature.
Yes and No. PHP (Perl for Home Pages) main starting point for popularity was that it was easy to make into an Apache module that could be used on shared hosting. Perl's Apache module was a single interpreter for the whole server. Great for business sites and such, not good when you have multiple unrelated users using the same server. PHP was just something that you could turn on and uses on your shared hosting.
The fact that Samsung won't even provide Android 10 for my Note8 should be criminal, even by their policy of only updating their devices for two "major" revisions. They shipped it with Android 7 when Android 8 was already out.
- No Linux support

- No Windows support

- No Android support

- Synchronization is not reliable

- Very pricey, and free tier is too small

- "We're going to take all your documents hostage in our cloud, because you've got only 100GB space left" (after taking the space by APFS snapshots).

It might be fine for some casual users, but not for any device than stores anything serious.
Not that I necessarily agree with the GP commenter, but this doesn't address his point. Things "used to" be this way during a time period with a billion less Internet users, who've come largely from the poorer parts of the developing world. The claim is that a high-quality free email service doesn't matter as much to someone with lots of disposable income in the first world as it does to people who aren't as fortunate.
this is sad, but could see it coming, which camera company will be next?
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This is exactly what I'm working on right now. My approach is a little bit different. It's about building a community, where people share LEGO pieces(I call them Assets), but they also share where and how in the code they've made the connections. After some time there will be enough connections so users will just re-use them. Only time will show how well it will work.

I wrote about it few weeks ago: https://skyalt.com/blog/dsl.html

>I have a plan on how to do that on paper, but because connecting assets together can be complex, it's better If most of the users don't do that. The key thing is that users don't share only assets, but also how and where they are connected to each other. It's like when someone makes and publishes a library, but also example code for how to work with a library. But in SkyAlt, asset connections will be automated. This is also why it's very important to build and grow the community - more assets, more connections, which means easier to use.
My signals for suspecting this Or something like it being a near future outcome are a result of not connected observations.

1) the amount of sharing we already do. 20 years ago my family / social interactions would find it nearly impossible to even bother entertaining the current status of privacy. The idea you basically HAVE to have a cell phone and email to get any decent paying job, traffic cameras everywhere, and now corporations pushing their black box ML and hardware into municipalities / vetting with police support

2) volunteering approx EVERY biometric a person has to skip a line at airport screening (Clear, the company facilitating this)

3) political adversity to privacy and encryption

4) hacker news. Where I hope and aspire to participate in the best most curious and supportive manner. I held the conversations here in high regard and told outsiders of how productive and intelligent the conversations are (they are). Yet I frequently find many downvotes when I comment in opposition to Facebook, slightly less common re google etc.

5) in takeaway I have observed cultural changes, market, political and security practices changing... all in a direction of - whatever this possible, seems not good, and seems highly unlikely but valuable to entities in power - might actually happen.

Thanks!
I think you're correct that the person was not an owner or clerk. IMHO the salient point is that the person was not any sort of eyewitness but merely comparing the same grainy photo as the algorithm.
In the interest of intellectual honesty, it's possible that I'm an extreme outlier in this respect. I've spent the last year traveling around the world, I find it really easy to share emotional vulnerability with strangers, and I've made meaningful connections with people in every country I've lived in for more than a week.

This is likely not true for most people.
Is it really "selection" though anymore, when it comes down to a throw of the dice what you actually get home when you order?

A wide random selection is still wide I guess.
For all Apple's faults, they're pretty open about how their Secure Enclave works. I think they consider privacy to be a key differentiator, particularly when compared to Android and Windows. you can see this in how they didn't open a phone even given an FBI request.
> Because, eventually, they'll leak.

All of them will leak? Seems like if each key is in possession of a different party, and you need all keys to decrypt, and at least a few are air-gapped only available for warrant holders via manual retrieval... the probability would be vanishingly small.

I agree it's impossible in theory, but in reality nobody has put out significant resources and made an honest effort to try, imo.

I bet I could come up with an encryption scheme that allows decryption for warrant holders only, but the scheme to decrypt will be very onerous for the warrant holder and will require manual retrieval of air-gapped asymmetric keys and lengthy background checks to establish trust (i.e. is this person who they say they are and did the judge really grant a warrant, etc.).
Amazon traded their quality for being a market platform and taking a cut of a much larger pie with more selection

Unfortunately they also completely ignored counterfeit issues which has sabotaged their reputation. I think this is just damage control because I'd they're selling coungerfeit goods with some knowledge of the issue they mm at have some Liabity.
If your nos are correct and if desalination was done at the scale of Israel in US, it would mean it would be able to provide 10% of the irrigation needs via desalination.

This is off course not a big deal in USA and desalination and economics of certain agri crops if reassigned can lead to better outcomes. However i am sure India can do with the level of desalination Israel has (scaled up to its population size) as can other middle Eastern countries. If not today, then may be a decade or 2 in the future. This can enable habitation in many areas in land and water scarce countries.
It just gives them the "environmentally friendly" excuse, which the masses will unthinkingly accept with much joy.
They've been doing it for a couple of years. Remember when Swift was launched?
Watch the video where he shows the JavaScript APIs being called: the website sees a standard public-key process using WebAuthn. You can use anything which can perform that protocol with zero change to the system — if someone steals your phone, you don't need to change your face since the new phone will generate a new key and the biometric data is only used to unlock that key.
You're underestimating the appeal of a "rant against Google". That's all that Occam needs in this case. I looked at the votes and they seem organic to me.

I'm afraid your comment breaks the HN guideline against insinuation of astroturfing/shilling/etc. without evidence. It's extremely common (well over 99% of these cases) for people to see something they find incongruent, massively overinterpret it, and jump into the internet to accuse others. We don't allow that here, because it poisons discussion and community. That doesn't mean real astroturfing doesn't exist (I blasted someone for it yesterday [1]). It means that we have to have something objective to go on—and if you have that, you should be letting us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate.

Plenty of past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for anyone who wants it. Here's me saying the same thing 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9986042.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23619453, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23619595
Possibly, but this bill isn't (publicly?) supported by Democrat leadership.
You guys are just now getting to Perl 7? I'm already on Perl 11. http://perl11.org/
That's the point, not many do
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True, I played with Rhino, Jack / JSGI early on, and did a couple projects with Aptana Jaxer around 2009. It was not really an option most developers would even consider, though.

Node came out in 2009, and writing server-side JS was still a fringe practice for a couple more years, so 2010 is me being generous to avoid comments on the exact timeline ;) It really picked up mainstream adoption around 2011-2012.
Linking biometrics to cryptographic authentication is difficult. When I worked on this problem about 5-6 years ago somewhere else, it came down to adding a separate applet for the biometric verification to the secure element, which then authenticated itself to the user authN applet, which was then authorized to generate the user authentication cryptogram.

Biometrics are probabilistic samples of data, where cryptographic verification requires deterministic inputs. They are apples/oranges and that's what made this hard, so you need a connector for them. The attack on such a scheme means spoofing the biometric authenticator's validation message to the cryptographic authenticator, which, if this all occurs between applets on the same secure element, raises the bar for attacks.
How do forms require Javascript in your view?

My experience is that most of the Javascript used for forms is for fancy custom controls (where a standard one would be fine), weird editing flows (like click to edit), or other functionality which isn't actually needed.

That's not to say that JS with forms is evil. HTML validation is better than nothing, but complex data requirements may require custom validation logic in JS as a convenience to the user.
If a criminal is that unsophisticated, there should be other ways to catch them? Mind you, there are better ways to tackle drugs than a Law & Order approach.
A similar post was link earlier today but the link was from the NYT. Most of the comments went to discuss NYT intentions in publishing this, instead of the boycott. So i am linking the guardian and hopefully discussion will be about facebook/ads/boycott and maybe opportunistic marketing.
Whatever happened to the neophyte raising him/herself up to level of the master? Programming seems to be the only profession in which the beginner is excused learning the language thoroughly and, worse, that he/she expects the language to be dumbed down to make it easier to learn. Can you imagine a budding musician complaining that musical notation should be made "easier for beginners"? If you want to grok Perl learn Perl ... thoroughly.
> First, they are driven significantly by amount of testing.

Daily case numbers in Illinois, at least, have no correlation with the increase in testing. I'm certain all we've found with the extra tests is people who never had it.
I just wanted to clarify that this comment was meant to illustrate a thing... ONLY

nothing more. It was not worded in good taste.
That makes me wonder what HN's archive will look like in 30 years.
Agreed. Google did something similar with Android a few years ago and I haven't come across an app that takes advantage of it yet.

Businesses want to offer apps so that they can collect more information on their customers, not because an app is the best solution to the problem at hand.
It's funny how much bashing Google gets for monopoly with Android, pushing users to use Chrome, Play Store and whatnot. While all of that is relevant, Apple's stranglehold seems much more and worse.
You don't need haskell to make applications compose

See JVM (garbage collection), React, Datomic

Functions and scalar values is probably enough
They're hearing about notable accounts being closed in Google. Don't underestimate the exposure provided by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and a dozen other small sites who are also covering many of these "my account was lost/stolen/closed" stories.

They know (often better than I) when a service is relegated to Google's graveyard.

They wonder why their crappy 5-year old Lenovo laptop struggles with Chrome but not Firefox (which I installed for them too).

They notice Google's suite of apps popping and freezing and "just not working" and gripe to me with comparisons to Word and Excel.

Not being tech savvy doesn't mean they're idiots - they recognize when something isn't working well, or when something has become stale, just as well as we do.
Might not be good for agriculture economy, but more farmers means more people with the means to feed themselves. Sounds like something I want.
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Also worth noting that the ore is shipped from Australia and other places to the nordics to get the cheaper smelting. But these large ships are not subject to regulation of emmistions or fuel in international waters. And so they burn bitumen like oil fractions that are very cheap.
The reason for this is that LEGO has a tightly regulated interface that each piece must adhere to. This interface regulation doesn't exist in software to that degree, nor is it necessarily desirable.
Every Windows shell (CMD.EXE and PowerShell and even File Explorer) has always accepted / paths. \ paths will never go away due to backwards compatibility. Most Windows apps happily work with documents that are CR only, including Notepad since Windows 7 IIRC. CRLF will likely stay the default for backward compatibility reasons, too. You can blame IBM for both of those things as IBM mainframes were CRLF and IBM thought / a better option prefix key than a path separator.
The 10 MB limit is going to be very interesting, because it would instantly preclude the use of many SDKs that apps bundle these days "as a given". Unless there's a massive shift, things like Facebook login and analytics frameworks are just not going to work…maybe it'll cause developers to drop them from their full apps as well?
The webkit engineer behind "Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention" on Twitter confirmed when asked there have been no changes to how it blocks GA in the new version, it just is now visible in the report. And details, ITP doesn’t block loads, it blocks cookie access, deletes cookies and website data for sites you don’t interact with, downgrades referrers, and more. Its cookie blocking applies to all third parties." I responded that it seems all the new sites are reporting that GA is now being blocked/prevented in the new version are incorrect then. And these headlines appearing on Hacker News it looks like will only further unintentionally spread that misinformation.
Any project that runs on a computer (not a microcontroller) that doesn't need a hardware accelerated multimedia. But even if the later you can always use sdl2.

My last three perl projects (not counting throwaway minor scripts): The control interface of a galvanic vestibular stimulator for VR motion sickness. A GUI for doing the required quirky edits to text files for text to speech smoothness. A comment system for a static website.
classic propaganda
The strange thing about SARS-CoV-2 is that viral load varies in human tissue. You could have small concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 in cardiomyocytes, for instance.
Stationary batteries in general aren't common. We don't have enough transient power generation for them to be very lucrative. (What, is very obviously going to change in the near future.)

Added to that, for molten salt batteries, there are old designs with bad cost and density properties and new ones with dangerous materials and patent minefields. I don't think anybody was ever able to sell a Na-S design without being destroyed in some court.
The "new features" ethos is really harmful in business apps.

Business users want focused things like accurate budget vs. actuals reports where you can flag and fix deviations quickly. There's an overall design--of course--but great enterprise software is the result of attention to very granular features related to specific work practices.

In this case the devil really is in the details.
Ok, I'm not here to discredit mask usage because I fundamentally believe that plays an important role in fighting the virus.

... But, this article is a mess

* The numbers it provides are cumulative. That doesn't really give us a sense of this uptick.

* According to IHME[1] infection counts across Washington haven't spiked, they have been constant throughout! (With a slight dip in April but the data is spikey)

* This Yakima county has a small population (~230,000) and it's not clear how much beds they actually have. My guess, very little.

Anyways, masks are good. Wear a mask.

[1] https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/wash...
Ya, after reading the page I would think the developers agree. They even wrote "Deta is building a cloud for the developers with less build bells and whistles". Sounds like a simpler version of Heroku? But why not use Heroku?

They also make it sound like the problem they're solving is that YAML is hard... but it's really not
Is it really 2FA if your password and your token are on the same device?
They've been fairly open about how it works, and since then the binaries have been disassembled and backed up what they were saying.

It's a pretty modified L4 (I want to say L4::Pistachio off the top of my head) that for some reason has had Mach-O support added and pretty much just acts as a keystore with a secure but upgradable boot sequence.
You can MITM a https request and send an unencrypted 302 response to redirect the browser wherever you want it to go.
> Yes, but we are not talking about an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment, we are talking about the use of police force to prevent vandalization,

If it is objective unreasonable (which disproportionate force is) in the circumstances, use of police force is an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment; that's the holding of the Supreme Court case I cited.
>When study is nothing but rote learning, who doesn’t lose their appetite?

Interesting that this first criticism is commonly leveled at students from the People's Republic of China. Does the language barrier force students to rote-learn to keep up?

I know from personal experience studying overseas that rote-learning was my default mode to try and keep up.

Are all the critiques of PRC students for rote-learning when studying in the PRC false? It seems an extraordinary claim give personal and abundant reported experience.

>If you are wearing yourself out every day, you naturally embrace the spirit of “minimalism,” in which you do as little as possible, and once you’ve finished something you go to sleep, loathe to take the initiative on your own to explore anything else.

Seems language struggles could be blamed for this.

>it makes no difference if you don’t go to bookstores in the US, but if you bring this habit back with you, it means that you don’t go to bookstores in China either.

The third criticism seems a spurious addition to the next two.

> you wind up really lonely, which makes you appreciate the vitality of life in China. When you come back, you’re like a bird let out of a cage, and your only urge is to fly. Who wants to study?

There are many places in the PRC even today that has never seen a foreigner. Exposure to foreign ideas and ways is limited even in the cities. The result is a massive culture shock when going overseas. If there is a language barrier then it is going to be hard to connect. The result is the PRC students form small and impenetrable cliques. That has to be a lonely experience.

>trying to think in a foreign language is like trying to scratch an itch through your boots

This is why a lot of PRC students now study abroad before going to an overseas university to avoid these cultural and language difficulties. If they have difficulty after that then there are other problems.

>if you live abroad for a long time, you will miss many theoretically interesting things happening in China

There are big changes afoot in the PRC. If the student is unprepared to gain the most from an overseas education then they shouldn't go. Since the U of C was mentioned, the US has been underestimated many times in its past. Time will tell which was the better choice.

The seventh criticism makes no sense to me. It seems wrong or, worse, self-effacing in the worst way for a young vital student.

> because of various difficulties abroad, you wind up feeling rebellious, and spend your days arguing with foreigners.

This engagement is precisely why you go abroad and is a big part of Western thought.

Can't say that everything is wrong but the solution is not to pull back but to study outside the PRC with the proper expectations and preparation.
I don't know if it's a "nowadays" thing. I joined Google 10 years ago and was there for a while, and I remember getting the distinct impression both internally and from looking at our products that we had world-class engineers and incredibly bad PMs, compared to the competition.
The site is edited by three Canadian history professors.

"This web site is devoted to the subject of intellectual life in contemporary China, and more particularly to the writings of establishment intellectuals. What you will find here are essentially translations of Chinese texts that we consider important, together with discussions of related issues and a number of reference tools that can help those interested to navigate the project."

https://www.readingthechinadream.com/about.html
Perl does not have grammars (at least, not built-in). Raku (formerly known as Perl 6) does: https://docs.raku.org/language/grammar_tutorial