skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're both on to something.

Like the parent says, there are absolutely going to be people who will be defeated by Honeycode (or any other solution no matter how easy) because they simply can't or don't develop a model of the domain that an app can serve as an interaction point for.

As you say, there are absolutely going to be people who can do that, with Honeycode or something else, but are put off by the specific arcana of some language/dev environment. Just like there are people who don't think of themselves as developers but do an awful lot of spreadsheet work.
Unix's design issue of device numbers being in stat() results for files
I've never heard of this "wuffs" project before, apparently it's a programming language. It looks like a wild project, does anyone have any details what this is?
"get the data", https://evictionlab.org/eviction-tracking/get-the-data/
I think the intro description introducing entropy is missing something. If the shoe closet sorted by color and the chaotic one are both composed of the same set of shoes then they have equal entropy. You can transpose any two shoes of the same color to achieve an additional microstate whether or not they're arranged by color.

I suppose it's technically correct if what you're interested in is the ways shoes can be positioned in a closet, but why bring up color then? The example sets up a comparison between some small finite number of ways to arrange shoes on a shelf and potentially infinite ways to arrange them in a pile. Better, I'd say, to stick to a grid in both cases and compare the number of microstates in the "all black" macrostate against the number of microstates in the "half brown half black" macrostate.
This is an excellent summary of what's going on.

Firing, cancelling, and silencing anyone with a 'bad' opinion doesn't convert them to a 'good' one. Instead it makes them more hostile and causes them to double down. I'm pretty confused how America keeps going down this path even after an actual 50% of the entire population revolted against the 'good' ideologies and voted in Trump with religious fervour.

Pretending that people with different views don't exist, or that their views don't matter, doesn't make those views go away. Marginalising and attacking people for views they hold just hardens their resolve.
I'm working on static site generator for using plain html...

https://findingmyhtmlgoddess.com/

https://github.com/jonascript/htmlgoddess
> hydro

Okay, the power company is named Toronto Hydro, but it buys electricity from whatever is available on the grid, be it hydro, gas, nuclear (Darlington wasn't built to power Ottawa...), wind (hello Chatham farmland!) or solar.
The first example says the school didn't make it mandatory for white people to stay home, it was just highly recommended. It doesn't look like he broke any rules, the school had just hoped everyone would fall in line and he was fired for not agreeing with them.
I'm sure the data is still there on a server somewhere for legal/marketing reasons, but now the show_history_to_user field is just set to FALSE.
Yep, the potential for abuse here is insane.
Try go, you might like it. I did.
Yeah, I manually unfollow all my “friends” that I don’t really know that well/care about the first time they post something annoying. Done!
Facts: (a) water has risen 6 feet above the warning level; (b) satellite images show that dam structure has moved a bit over the years.

Disputed issues: (1) "State experts said the dam had moved a few millimeters, but within the normal safety range.";(2)Independent concrete blocks are not connected to the bedrock below, they’re just sitting on top it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting_machine#Knitting_asse...
This “untouchable” had to get elected to Constituent Assembly from reserved seat from East Bengal thanks to Jogendranath Mandal because the one-Anna Congresspeople were still mad about Poona Pact. To a neutral observer does that sound like someone who was about to be put in charge of drafting?
> Instead, the government can require the system to be redesigned.

No thanks.
You're comparing McCarthyism to the Nazi genocide, the Red Terror, the horror of Stalinism and the Cultural Revolution?
It definitely shouldn't be allowed as the main evidence - perhaps the answer to skin tone is to use the data and see where the algo starts to get too many false positives..

The largest - over arching idea - is to get everyone to think twice by making the majority think twice - If white people think 'its only for us!?' it'll make them really study the effects.. (I'm white.)
Called it, but it took longer than expected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18141918

The Safari team do move slowly.
Has Bezos surreptitiously done that at the WaPo?

Bezos New Roman and Bezos Sans.
> Do you assume men weren't involved in the textile industry?

It certainly seems that way, at least for garment workers in industrial era (and this assumption may be inaccurate). But historically, I don't think that pattern really holds at all before the industrial era. I wonder why this was the case?
First step is to get people thinking using WSL is a good enough reason to not give full desktop Linux a go.

I've a number of friends who are like "but now I don't need to use Linux because I have WSL", which in concert with some of the improvements MS has made to it make it seem increasingly like a honey-coated embrace-extend-extinguish move.
Jon Stuart Mill “On Liberty” full text:

https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/liber...

Has anyone read it? I found it eye opening for these kind of discussions.
There is a difference between something you can't rule out as impossible because it isn't a violation of the laws of physics and something you can't rule out as implausible based on the observed past behavior of the entity responsible.

If I told you that an operating system has just been caught doing that, would your first guess be Windows or Debian?
Have you ever tried being a landlord?
Yeah, that trope is regrettable. Don't forget the entirely fictitious scene where Costner's character "ended" segregated bathrooms by taking down a "whites only" sign.
Software can kill if we put blind trust in it and give it full control over the situation. But we shouldn't do that.

Even if it was correct 99% of the time, we need to recognize that software can make mistakes. It is a tool, and people need to be responsible enough to use it correctly. I think I agree with your general idea here, but to put all of the blame on software strikes me as an incomplete assessment. Technically the software isn't killing anyone, irresponsible users of it are.
The explanation is simple, twitter and facebook rely on ads to make profit. to maximize their profit they need to have people spend as much time as possible on their websites.

The most efficient way is to infuriate people. Hence the business model of these companies is to have people outraged and infuriated.

This is a similar strategy to using the media spread fear so people consume more. Simply said someone who's happy, live a fulfilling life free of worry does not feel the urge to buy and consume.
An explanation of what an interaction circle is would be helpful. Otherwise its pay $0.99 or wait 15 minutes. Got to tell people what the site does.
On Liberty (1859) [pdf]
Your comment doesn't address the comment it's replying to.
Not sure why you’re being down voted, unless it’s by racists or people afraid of change. I like the idea.
Canva Used SEO to Hit a $6B Valuation
Pattern matching in Python is such a mess.

Python 3 eliminated the ability to match on tuples in function heads.

For loops can match on tuples, but lambda headers can’t.

As an Erlang fan, it’s maddening.
Time for more corrections, I don't keep up with Apple stuff. The 855 has ~5-6MB of L1+L2+L3. The A12X/Z has ~18MB of L1+L2+System cache. That's ~2x the performance and ~3x the cache against the 855, and 10% worse performance than the 4800U where AMD has 30% less cache at 12.5MB (L1+L2+L3). The 6 core A13 has 28MB of L2+System cache and is maybe 10% faster on single thread than the 15W 4800U with just 12.5MB! of cache.

Here's a I can haz cache meme for you: https://i.imgflip.com/468v8g.jpg

You want to compare Desktop systems with a mobile chip, but get blown out completely by the multi-thread performance, and then when comparing to a laptop chip when people point out the cache amounts say but look at the single thread performance. Who is the fanboy here? Apple can spend the money on die size/cache if it wants for single thread performance, but the rest of us care about a complete multi core CPU+GPU system. More cache means somewhat lower clocks and power use too, big surprise.

AMD 4800U FP16 4TFlop is 8TFlop for FP8 which is what Apple has, so enough of that. The 8 AVX2 units in the 8 core 4800U will do another ~1TFlop of FP32 if needed in 15W. The A13's AMX seems to have about 1TFlop more of FP8, which is like dual core AVX2 and not 8 cores of AVX2.

Audio/Camera and Video decoders/encoders all do the same stuff anywhere and are basically a commodity for any number of standards, so enough of that too.

Just to be clear, you and other Apple fanboys just can't handle what Apple has currently in CPU is no real way better than a 4800U. Single thread performance (with loads of cache!) is important to JS in the web browser, but by now even most AAA games will do better with more cores, and most real world tasks also do better with more cores. I'm just comparing reality, and you and other fanboys are the ones that aren't.

The 4800U is being generous for multicore CPU+GPU, the A12Z is about equal to the 12 Watt 4 core/4 thread Ryzen 2300U in multi threaded+GPU tasks, it's a 2 year old cheaper processor, and Apple is selling the same performance currently in a $1000+ iPad, I guess this is only possible because of fanboys. Even this is impressive to me given it's an ARM processor+in house GPU and Apple has been making chips for all of a decade now, but I lost all respect for people touting single threaded performance (with loads of cache!) 15 years ago when consumer dual cores first came out. The 2300U will run Shadow of the Tomb Raider at ~30FPS for reference.

Sources:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/qualcomm/snapdragon_800/855
NASA seems to have started a pattern of naming things after people featured in movies, rather than those who contributed deeply to its achievements. Re-naming the Dryden Center to the Armstrong Center appears to have been part of an unfortunate trend.
> you can't "push" errors somewhere

Why? Can't you push the Error object or stack trace into an array to await processing?
A messaging tool is by definition a social network.
I dont know if feeling threatened but aware this person’s contribution was not the reason for the naming but the fact that black people were supressed. It’s a generous move but not highly meritocratic. People might have a problem or two with that. I want to remind them we dont live in a meritocratic society anyway and the powerful snatch the merit away like a giant magnet.
It will naturally bruise some egos and pump up some other ones and appear to make a bit of justice. The question is, will black americans be treated as second class citizens in 10, 20, 50 years from now?
DOJ, states eye potential U.S. antitrust probe of Apple
I agree and I’m not sure who’s downvoting you except people afraid of change.
For most houses in the south, if your having humidity problems in the 75F range your system is to large. AKA, flipping the AC on, and blasting a lot of air with a 35F drop into the house, then cycling off for 70% of the time doesn't remove nearly as much humidity as just running a smaller system closer to 100% of the time. Further most homes not built in the past 15 years are hugely flow constrained and mis balanced. So the AC runs, but doesn't provide even airflow so there are hot/cold spots.

For areas where its not 90+ out for 8+ months a year, a large part of the comfort of the newer systems (and their larger SEER ratings) is that they can run at 1/2 speed (or whatever) to keep the AC unit running longer. Plus they are frequently sold with duct work upgrades.

This is also why a "properly sized" system with a high EER can frequently save money over a high SEER system with a lower EER in FL/TX/LA/MS/etc.

The problem though is that pretty much 100% of AC companies are just going to put in the same size system as they took out, and the home builders are just seat of the pants overspecing everything. It should be possible to determine heat load, and TXV flow/etc over a year, and then come back and resize the condenser/evaporator/airflow to go just slightly over the worse case. But no one is going to do that, and if they mess up and the customer can't keep the house at 78F when its 110 out, its going to be a costly problem to fix. So, better to just overbuild everything and deal with the significant efficiency decrease.
The idea of code generation is not new - but it seems like the new crop of software developers are learning the same concepts and lessons all over again. Hey - state machines are so hot right now.

Back in the day there was this cool concept of creating a bunch of UML diagrams for your business logic and them BOOM - press a button and here is your C++ code. But then architecture astronomy hits the asphalt and you realize that most of the hard work is still ahead. So things like IBM Rational Rose were only sold to suckers.
I misread that as Twitter's Dutch rival. MessageBird would be a hilarious name for a Twitter competitor.
If https://fake-bank.example/ persuades you it is your real bank you can just type your TOTP code into it, and now the crooks operating it have a valid TOTP code. Nothing stops you doing this, it relies on you to know it's the wrong site to protect yourself and that's not reliable.

Machinery to take that TOTP code and immediately plug it into the real bank (since it's time sensitive) exists already.

In contrast WebAuthn credentials are tied to the domain name of the site. Your iPhone doesn't have any credentials for https://fake-bank.example/ so it won't sign you in, and even if it did have credentials for fake-bank.example they'd be completely useless on the https://real-bank.example/ web site. There is no way to give real-bank credentials to fake-bank, it just can't work because the cryptographic material used is tied to the domain name.

Google deployed an earlier iteration of this same technology and reported zero phishing for accounts protected this way because it isn't possible to see how to phish it without some grave security bug somewhere. This is the penicillin of web user security, it's a night-and-day difference over what we had before.
If curious see also:

2018 (a bit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17331168
Free outlook.com (Hotmail) account includes OneDrive (live) and Word online.
lol. Which one?
This is NTD which is very tainted news that even calls the coronavirus pandemic by a different name
I was a (remote) consultant for several years, but in Malaysia. We're kind of like the middle ground, somewhat higher quality than India/China, cheaper than developed countries.
Yeah, that was annoying as a demo day participant.. I had flagged messagebird as the one I was most interested in to put my $25K check into. And then found out they already had like $50M in revenue I think it was?! Oh well, now I guess I’ll be able to invest soon..
Show HN: Generate realistic Instagram captions using transformers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616255
The closer you get to the equator, the more you're likely to see these. When I was visiting Turkey, I didn't notice them in Istanbul because most rooftops are not visible from the street, but then I visited Safranbolu, a small tourist town, and there almost every century home had this recently-made metallic hot water tank on top which completely destroyed the bucolic architectural character of the town.

One of my uncles here in Canada built a passive system by just putting a giant 1" PVC tube coil on the backside of his roottop to heat up water for the swimming pool, since the swimmable season is pretty short anyway.
I think of so many human problems as the "sugary food" class of problems now. Internet addiction†, pornography, gossip, sensationalist headlines. All sugary food. Our brains are wired to seek out that hit of glucose or dopamine in resource scarce environments and it's maladaptive in the long-term for resource rich ones.

† which is why I'm here on HN, if I'm honest
Thank you very much for your explanation!
Yes. you are missing the part where it's used for surveillance, for collecting personal data and exploiting it, for giving a false sense of security, and so on.

Basically facebook being facebook and doing facebook things to the people that were escaping its grasp.
Modern air source heat pumps can be effective down to -25C (-13F) in heat pump mode, and will automatically switch to resistance heating if needed.

I'm building a house where it can get to -35C at times (but usually above -20C in winter) and we will have an air source heat pump for hot water, heating and cooling [0]. Combined with good insulation and 10kW of solar on the roof, we should generate more electricity than we use over the year, and no need to burn any fossil fuels.

My wife has insisted we have a wood burning stove for atmosphere, so that will function as a backup heat source if needed, but most likely it will generate too much heat to be used regularly.

[0] https://www.daikin.eu/en_us/product-group/air-to-water-heat-...
There's a certain size threshold for applications where a statically typed language becomes extremely valuable. Static proofs that things are "connected" properly become very valuable, even if, as you say, the benefits aren't universal. Constraints sometimes simplify things, sometimes they increase complexity, but it's hard to argue that large systems with many authors would be universally better if they were unable to use static types to constrain programs.
Chinese investment money is everywhere so they try to control the narrative. I have seen for sometime that on HN, we are open to criticize but don't take a standpoint unless its something to do with western government.

I think this is due to the flame war or rating system of HN, where active discussions are relegated to oblivion. Instead of trusting biased and funded media - we here need to introspect, without us being silenced.

May be we are mostly left so we don't have a much stronger opinion unless its right - is that the case?. Just curious - why the slack?.
That's a good point that it is more nuanced. The issue I think is that organized crime and unscrupulous governments are getting better at connecting these things so they are not as cleanly separated as they have been in the past. Just look at China. Essentially spyware and viruses are installed at checkpoints on people's phones and biometric tracking is becoming very commonplace. I don't think it will be long before organized crime begins to get better at this too. As such, being able to change that "something you know" is a very powerful countermeasure.
Yeah, I live in one of those countries that consulting companies outsource to. PHP is quite cheap too, about 1/3 to 1/2 a Node.js salary.
I used travelingmailbox while I lived overseas for a couple of months. I can recommend it.
I've had these inspections deplete single-use links such as a Slack magic login link. I actually side with "GET should be idempotent" but it's still annoying.
Why is there programmatic access to my clipboard at any time other than when I click paste?
Firefox Extensions – Most Users
But pretending JSON or YAML is something you can safely "change one string" on is a recipe for disaster unless you have total control of the whole pipe chain, input to output.
As someone who learned python first - the idea that `myfn(@xs)` would call `myfn(1,2,3)` is... unnerving. Implicitly splicing in arguments makes me wonder what other kind of syntactic oddities are going over my head in my code.
> But for now, Google Analytics users don't need to worry about Safari

That’s too bad. Wish apple had the guts to stand up and do the right thing for end-users.
We're a for-profit that sells a SaaS product to (so far) state and local governments. Our stack is Elixir and Ember JS, running on AWS.

We're currently involved in a lot of COVID related efforts in the eastern US (SMS delivery of test results, etc – we haven't had a chance to update our page, been too busy). Still a product but each customer has custom needs to integrate with their systems, which we do via APIs and custom data ingestion code.

We do guide local governments in bootstrapping all the data on our platform but it's a multi-tenant system and everyone's on the same platform.
Thanks, that's insane. Sometimes I look at the HR group where I work and I'm astonished at how much (relatively easy to automate) work is still done manually or semi-manually. For example, today I had to send an email to a specific individual for what should be a simple form in the modern & best-of-breed HR system we use.

After reading your story, I am very glad that we probably have in aggregate 2 or 3 full-time employees doing things that might be automated away. It's not like that prevents mindless bureaucracy of all sorts, but something like your situation would certainly never happen.
I want to make a similar point.

Suppose you will forevermore remain a boring person who never has anything to hide. So you knowingly use spyware, because you're an open book.

That enables common software to be spyware. If people are willing to use it knowing full well what it is, it continues to exist and be popular. Then people who do need privacy for legitimate reasons don't realize that, or don't have any good alternatives because the better options are niche and make them stick out like a sore thumb. And then dissidents get killed.

Don't get dissidents killed. Just Say No to The Cloud.
You are probably safe with your setup, but be aware that windows has peer-to-peer update functionality, so if another more up-to-date windows installation gets within reach of your benchmarking machines, it could potentially update them.
>Do you know how China powers their much larger smelters?

Looks like largely coal. [1] This surprises me, as China has some truly massive hydroelectric generation stations which would be ideal for smelting.

>And do you know if these possible difference in aluminum smelting is considered when the carbon footprint for something like a mostly-aluminum Tesla is made?

I'm sure it's considered, but really don't know more than that. There is a big push in the manufacturing field to get ISO 14001 (environmental) certification. Many large manufacturers are requiring that of their suppliers. I'm unfamiliar how well the certification would allow tracing back emissions. Even if there were a higher carbon footprint on production, some of that can be cancelled out by better energy efficiency of the vehicles. The cost per pound and cost of repairs can be higher on aluminum.

Tesla, in its push to be economical, appears to be going with steel on the Model 3 (compared to aluminum on Model S).

>Chowdhry highlighted the key advantages of steel over aluminum as being the lower production equipment costs, the lower worker training/skill needed to work/operate steel, the lower compensation and cost savings of steel workers versus aluminum workers, and the lower repair costs. [2]

We've seen significant increases in aluminum per vehicle [3], though much slower than estimates from 40 years ago would have said. The CAFE standards implemented in the Obama era seemed to kick things into gear, notably with the Ford F-150 switching much if not all of its body to aluminum.

[1] http://www.world-aluminium.org/statistics/primary-aluminium-...

[2] https://evannex.com/blogs/news/112953413-tesla-model-s-vs-te...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/496185/pounds-of-aluminu...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
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