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For the folks who check the comments first, this is worth reading:

>But then something happened: the average knob with a lock has a fair amount of internal complexity, but the beauty has been completely stripped out. We no longer think of knobs, hinges, latches, or locks as things worth making beautiful, and we think this at a time when it should be easier and cheaper than ever to make such things beautiful. When they were difficult to make, iron latches and handles resembled hands, lions, flowers, gargoyles, etc. Now that a latch is easy to make, they look like nothing. It is worth carefully pondering this, I think, beyond the words of this article and well beyond door knobs.

This is from part 2 https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/designing-a-new-old-home-pa..., linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901248
Agree with you. I think this blog post is about the same.

Whatever Ford said, this quote is famous (most likely he did not say that, btw)
Show HN: Real-world stats and audits of web technologies on the top 100k sites
This presentation almost definitely passes the Turing test: if it were posted here without any further context, people would definitely be arguing about whether coding was really "so simple even a monkey could do it".
Sadly, no. It's been left to the states, and almost none of the states are planning on using apps[0].

This boggles my mind. Sure, it will take a reasonable effort to get widespread use of these apps. But the impact would be huge. Even low rates of app use have a real chance of lowering the reproduction rate significantly, and reasonably broad usage bring it less than 1.0.

The technology is designed in the right way, where anonymous data is being collected with no app required. People can download the app right after they get a positive test and report themselves positive retroactively. Same on the other side, you can download the app and know how much contact you've had with positive cases retroactively.

I'm no longer surprised the US federal government is doing nothing to push this. But I expected more out of the states.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/13/covid-19-exposure-notificatio...
This is a website I've been working on for the last month.
I've run Lighthouse audits (performance, a11y, best practices, SEO, ...) + analyzed the used web technologies on the top 100k sites.
Then aggregated the averages of websites per each web technology.
You can sort technologies by the audit values or filter them by category, or see which technologies are often used together.
Few audits also include CrUX metrics (data from real Chrome users).
Keep in mind that these stats show values of the average website using a specific technology, not the technology itself.
Looks awesome! I love this images. There is a documentary on NetGeo that narrates this journey to Mars.
I was really happy with my Filco Majestouch with blue cherries, loved the clickiness, it was a bit tough though, but I used it until I couldn't anymore due to bouncing (bad firmware, they had forgot that switches start bouncing a bit more with wear)..

The red switches are non-clicky, they activate somewhere around the lower half of the travel, they are super sensitive which takes some getting used to after being used to being able to more or less rest your hands on the keys without them moving :P I usually press them fully down anyway and that feels nice and tactile..
WASD also offers to install rubber dampeners on every key, I've not tried that and can't say if I'd prefer it.
I think that's a misquote, there are other versions that are the straight quote.
I also think many people in high risk categories (age, preexisting health issues, essential or health care workers, teachers, other professions involving crowds and risk) will be very eager to vaccinate. It doesn't have to be mandatory for high demand and high use.
Thermal shipping labels : Yes, probably, even if not tested

Apps besides iZettle and SumUp : No, unfortunately the development is tailor made for those two apps.

But if you need anything specific for some given app(s), it might not be very heavy to adapt current code base. The most difficult part is to achieve to retrieve data. Here I hacked the system by using iZettle and SumUp APIs (i.e. my application does not communicate with iZettle and SumUp applications on your device but rather through the public APIs of these shops).

Do not hesitate to contact me if interested.
if people are freaking out with fake news now, just wait a few years
They can probably count the stars and the can probably count the Hydrogen atoms. It is a very good guess that they understand the "natural" numbers.
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>give it a shot at some nice quality, XXI century interpolation

I think it has been done?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMntZ6_R78Q
Excellent long form piece that covers several of these topics as well.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/23/the-secret-sha...
the way my and my partners look at this is an infrastructure problem. our hope anyway is we can build tools and methods (better mathematical modeling, better bioinformatics software, faster/more accurate sequencing, eventually standardized gear for continuous process chemistry) that can serve startups of a bioengineering bent while also making it more practical for independent researchers to work outside academia. the biologist of our team is particularly interested in longevity research herself so partly we're trying to make the things that she'd need to do her own research 5-10 years down the line

I'm pessimistic about institutions but optimistic about people. I think the academy is an impediment to a lot of interesting and necessary projects, not just here but in general. risk-averse, prestige-obsessed, heavily bureaucratized. most of the institutions in our society are like this, hollowed out. there's a lot of basic research that needs to be done, so I think the highest leverage thing we can do is knock down barriers to more people being able to do it. route around the institutions
I dunno. Seems like most Marxist efforts thus far have pretty much made poor assumptions about human nature, causing their collapse or transformation into something less hopeful. Heck, the USA barely survived its first hundred years, and it might be the best example the world has of a long-term plan that's mostly intact. I think the hubris mentioned above is to believe that one set of ideas from a small handful of people are so correct, and their conclusions so obvious, that all of humanity will immediately shift gears in their minds and hearts to conform to them. We can look at history and see this this sort of thinking leads to the necessary killing, enslavement, or exile of human beings who - for some unknown reason - disagree with the ideas.
“but for some reason it has fallen to the states to provide apps that work with those APIs”

https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/download/Exposur... gives you that reason:

“In order to use the Exposure Notification APIs, You must be a government entity, such as a government health services organization, or a developer who has been endorsed and approved by a government entity to develop an Application on behalf of a government for COVID-19 response efforts. Entitlement Profile(s) are limited to one (1) Application per country unless the country has a regional approach, or as otherwise agreed by Apple.”
I think the glaring issue these days of being constantly connected, is simply balance. I notice that many who are getting too anxious/stressed/nervous/scared are doing way too much of just reading news and doom, and doing almost absolutely no other healthy activities of healthy family meals, exercise, walking, etc. In all things, find balance.
Then, GPT-4 will be using this blog to train, and will be able to reproduce even this. Oh wait...
That would probably be easier, yep, thanks. It's more straightforward to just make a partition on it and rsync twice a day.
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The comparison with banks is fair. I wonder if people can sue Twitter over this shit show.
This is a "both sides"/whataboutism argument. China is absolutely worse than the US in this regard. Chinese military intelligence actually conducts offensive espionage on behalf of Chinese companies to steal IP from western companies.

The US has a court system that reviews National Security Letters, and can accept challenges to them, and while that court is secret, it's still bound by rules that are established by elected congressional officials. ...and perhaps most importantly, they are still somewhat rare.

Chinese companies on the other hand are required to cooperate on all requests, even international subsidiaries of any Chinese companies. No "letters" or court orders - you either do it or the CEO goes to jail, no trial, no judicial review.

It might seem like the results are similar, but having judicial and congressional oversight makes a world of difference in tempering how/when it can be used and, more importantly, rolling it back when it's no longer necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter#Doe_v...

It's a night and day comparison.
Do you mind explaining precisely what you mean by "NSA has all my emails"?

Suppose I sent an email yesterday from my Gmail to a friend's Gmail, are you saying the text of this email is stored on an NSA machine?
Bloomberg terminal is the worst form of financial software except for all those others that have been tried.

Or Word, or Windows, or Salesforce, or Zoom, or....
Yeah Volcker destroyed manufacturing and busted the unions. Reagan Admin started the Iran Iraq war which drove down the price of oil. Inflation problem solved.
This is better than many presentations I have been subjected to over the years.
From my robotics point of view, probabilistic programming looks really attractive, and this paper seems to give very interesting/neat examples for control and Kalman filtering.

I wonder what has prevented these languages from being widely adopted by the robotics community? My suspicion is that it's always easier to work with general purpose languages, but even then "probabilistic programming libraries" for Python, e.g. Pyro or Edward, haven't really taken off either... Most people write SLAM algorithms in C++ and don't pay much attention to what the PPL people are doing.
The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes

https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kuber...
Landscaping seems to be the biggest source of flooding! Here in the Midwest we don't have as much moisture as the northwest, but we do get frequent large storms in the summer which cause flooding. I'm grateful to be living on top of a large hill!

It wasn't something that I thought would be too important buying this house, but if we ever buy another house I will absolutely look to make sure the landscaping is good to prevent flooding. Not much is more expensive to fix!
This bold claim requires proofs.

We have no counterfactual than anarchy in a developed country would cost lives.

We can see that the government "organization" of covid tests, messing up their official tests while forbidding private alternatives, costed lives.
Here's my problem with people that have heard a few popular quotes and think they understand the whole story: for the first several years the Model T came in several different colors. It switched to black only because of demand, then eventually they went back to offering multiple colors when they could.

Ford only switched to making black cars only when the demand was so high that the production lines couldn't keep up. It wasn't contempt for the customer that made him do it, his choice was either to streamline the production process or to raise prices so that demand would drop. The selling point of his cars were that the common man could afford them, not that they were colorful. He made an appropriate business choice, not some user-hostile choice.
You're both right. Most modern homes are designed by builders or their terrible architects. If you're going to spend $1 million on a home, hire a good architect and get a nice home. Builders (usually) "design" terrible homes. They have goals at odds with the eventual home buyer (as the poster points out).
Stated another way: Listen to your customers, but don't feel obligated to do exactly what they say.

> Just ask “What is your top problem?”

People will answer this question in the form of imagined solutions or improvements to existing systems, so it's not a matter of simply asking a different question, it's a matter of digging into the answers and needs.
Can't ceiling height have a climate control aspect to it? Summertime in the south gets hot, air rises, have vents at the top of the room?

I don't need 20ft ceilings, but aesthetically, I think 9-10ft feels a lot less claustrophobic.
I think the UK's decision to switch to Google and Apple's framework was actually the right decision, although it's all rather moot and a waste of money as I can't see any contact tracing app work if nobody downloads it (see France).
Thanks for responding! Makes sense about the IBS reference where it is, but presumably this can be replaced by a more current quote in time.

Regarding reviews, I think people are pretty jaded about this. Most of my startup friends whose apps had good reviews had gamed the system. App reviews are more meaningful for established companies like Box or Dropbox. In that case, you already know what the company does and you're just getting a rating of how well the mobile app of that company works. That is, if Dropbox had 2 stars and Box had 5, you'd figure probably something is better about Box.

But when it's some rando new company, the scale of reviews is so small that it could be 95% the founder and their friends/family. If there were a way to show what reviews were paid subscribers, that would be much more valuable. Sort of like Amazon's Verified Purchaser reviews. Still possible to game, but it would require the company to launder money through Apple (and lose 30% along the way).
Unfortunately I'm not at liberty to discuss details of our communication with Team17, but from my perspective, the outlook is pretty good!
There is already a tool in place that handles much of it, chain of custody for evidence. The video evidence would need corroborating evidence to "pin it down" essentially. Just showing say Hillary Clinton making infant stew wouldn't cut it without a chain of evidence proving there was a location, time, that a camera would actually be there, and there is some actual physical evidence of her murderous cannibalism.
I assume you a real keyboard for this?
Only a part of the mission, but there should be ambitious action taken to dramatically improve education and provide truly equal opportunity for all in the US. Pay teachers properly, give a proper education in all schools especially impoverished neighborhoods. The US should be ranking higher than it is in Math/Reading/Science scores compared to other countries. Other special programs to remedy the huge racial wealth gap from the slavery/Jim Crow/other institutional racism legacy. The US can and should do a much better job at providing better education and opportunities for all of its citizens.
+1, and I’m eagerly awaiting Mullaney’s follow-on (in progress) about post-typewriter text entry.

An odd but interesting related book is Unger’s _Fifth Generation Fallacy_. If you ignore the dubious framing about 1980s Japanese AI, there’s a long discussion of kanji text entry (including computer text entry) with some kanji-specific references that _Chinese Typewriter_ necessarily skips.
Which municipality?

New York Public Library provides access at their Business Center [1] curious if other public libraries have something similar.

[1]: https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/bloomber...
China did what Germany did in the 19th century and Japan did after World War II but differently. Germany and Japan copied and made own things until they were experts and made better things than the original. China did that differently, they invited western companies through cheap labour and made officially those things, copied it then and became experts and eventually made their own products, which at least as good or better than the originals.

It is also helpful, that the Chinese government can just do things w/o any meaningful interference. In the 1960s and 70s, German cities wanted to build huge motorway like road through the city centres, which would have destroyed the cities, many of those project could be prevented from happening. Thiel would have critised those protests as a barrier for progress. Like he does, when he is mentioning zoning laws prevented a high-speed railway in San Francisco.
> It's a really fun feeling when you notice that someone posted something because they read the same thing you read and it sparked a similar association.

Someone please tell us the German word for that. There must be one. (Or maybe a French phrase.) ;-)
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It's interesting you ask, because that implies that the search feature and the most popular submissions do not reflect the "best" submissions.

In my opinion that's a flaw in the feedback loop of the upvoting system and should be improved.
On this topic, Douglas Hofstadter's book Le ton beau de Marot is organized around this and related topics: poertry, translation, language and literary play, and the challenges and freedoms offered translators, all woven in typical Hofstadterian fashion with a breathtaking array of topics and observations. One of my favorite books, and it may interest anyone who, as you say, is fascinated by translation and its difficulties!

Fair warning: the book gets a bit dark in parts (he wrote it after his wife's death, and covers that a bit), but not overwhelmingly or throughout.

ETA: To address your original question, Hofstadter's book is organized around the challenge of translating "Ma mignonne", a very tight little French poem by Clément Marot (hence the book title), and goes into great detail about the challenges it presents, with lots of different approaches and translations. He talks about many other significant challenges to the translator -- the one that comes to mind is La disparition by Georges Perec[1] -- a novel famously written without appearance of the letter e. It was translated into English by Gilbert Adair as A Void -- also lacking that most common of glyphs. Other unpublished e-less translations exist, as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
In contrast with sibling comments, I think it would be just fine. VIM was designed for high latency, and even the modern versions do pretty well with a second or two of lag. Issue a command, wait for the response.

The big thing is not depending on the screen keeping in perfect sync with your typing. I know this causes an issue for me when it's related to talking - an echo off by a hundred or more milliseconds will absolutely throw me off the rails - but it doesn't bother me so much when typing. A mental relic of writing code in terminals connected to distant servers, I'm sure.
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Next up on Hackernews: Satan, Literally the Devil, on Ethics and Morality.
Robotics and AI have the ability to transform a great deal. We have still not fully explored Crispr and what's possible with biotech. AR & VR I think, once they reach maturity, will also transform society. Finally, I do think cryptocurrency will change as much about society as double entry bookkeeping did in the 14th century. This change may not be as radical for 1st world countries, but I think it will allow many developing countries to catch up much more rapidly.
And in the worst case, buy another.

As a customer, the question of the legality of the license key is not my concern.

I purchased it, Microsoft checked it, while knowing my IP address, and decided it was good to go. The fault is theirs: if they don't want volume keys to work outside some markets, add some limitation like geolocalization.
The contrast ratio will never make it good for text. I have used the so called high res ones and I would take a 720p LCD any day. They are trash.
Fiat currencies (that is, currency that has no intrinsic value) has existed for at least 1300 years, if not longer. They are not based on air, they are based on trust in an institution and its ability to maintain its value through whatever means it has available.

Rare metals are natural exchanges of value even then gold has no utilitarian value for most people because they are scarce and the quality in circulation does not usually change dramatically. Thus, it can become a medium of exchange. Government backed currencies have similarities, but instead of mining the earth, a government (or corporation in the case of company stores) can "mine" its coercive power to produce more currency.

The point is, fiat currencies are ephemeral, but so are intrinsically backed currencies. The inherent power of exchange for something like gold is not especially more powerful or reliable than the inherent power or reliability of the US Govt with regards to a medium of exchange.
I don't know how to avoid heap memory allocations in haskell or make sure memory is on the stack, but both are very easy to do in C++.
I'm kind of confused.
What is the purpose of this document? Did Peter Thiel put this together? Is the target audience people that like him? Or is the target audience people that are critical of him?

Or just plainly, is there a particular reason why I should care what a tech billionaire thinks about culture?

I'm not a fan of Peter Thiel in the slightest so maybe this isn't for me. I think it is a bit weird that at least one person finds his lofty opinions about stuff to be so important that they painstakingly collected them for... some purpose. Again, did Peter Thiel put this together??
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This is largely a moot point. All names of departures and international arrivals are sent to the Department of Homeland Security via the Secure Flight/APIS data pipeline. This returns to the airline authorization to board, select for additional screening (SSSS on boarding pass), or inhibit boarding (unless overridden by a TSA call center), as well as, for international flights, authorization for who can even overfly the country.
What, nothing about NATO's JANUS?

> JANUS performance has so far been evaluated by many collaborating partners at centre frequencies from 900 Hz - 60 kHz and over distances up to 28 kilometers in waters all over the world.

> JANUS packet and bit error rates have been computed as functions of the signal to the noise ratio (SNR) and time spread over periods extending from hours to months. Signal correlation times have been computed and long-term experiments by CMRE(external link) in 2008 and 2009 have helped quantify robustness during variable environmental conditions.

* http://www.januswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=About+Janus

Toolkits available under GPLv3.

* https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...

* https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/nato-de...

* https://robohub.org/janus-creates-a-new-era-for-digital-unde...
Took a look, nice job!

Would be nice:

1. Clearer setting for notification email

2. The ability to target an area for an element change without knowing what the elements will be. Example: filter for recent items without foreknowledge of which items will appear.

3. Ability to traverse up DOM (to select parent/s) based on a selector that was too specific. Encountering this quite a bit.
Hm... sounds a lot like the scientific process and basic research :)
Actually I like the results a lot. How does the logic behind it work, is it just the output of GPT-3? Do you need to parse it somehow? If it is just GPT-3 its kind of amazing how good the results are, since it was never trained for that. A bit scary to be honest.