skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember anekdata about Oakland, CA, from people who lived there. The theft from cars was rampant up to the point that folks weren't closing their cars. If the property damage is under $1000, the police doesn't even bother to try to act, etc etc etc.

Oakland isn't LA, obviously, but I'm curious to know if this could be a hypothesis as well: there wasn't spike because accounting now is different.
I had to use the secure knot: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

Not sure why, but single knots always come undone for me pretty quickly - including the Ian Knot you linked. I used to do a double knot and now the secure Ian Knot.
Yup! Way better to just be direct and say, “I think we should part ways.”
Imagine what it must feel like to be Apple legal counsel. Just going around searching for businesses that have nothing to do with Apple that you can capitalistically bully out of existence.

It would have to feel like you have no compassion or empathy in your body whatsoever.

Tim Cook directs these people.
Who said that makes very little difference for this discussion, or am I missing something?
Without Christianity, the West wouldn't have universities, hospitals and democracies.

You don't really know that because we didn't try it. What is certain is those institutions have been increasing in size and number whilst religiosity has been decreasing in many nations.

It also looks like the decline of Christianity in modern society leads to stagnation and mimesis.

It certainly hasn't led to economic decline, we have never been so wealthy. We have never lived so long. The chance of dying from violence has never been so low.
If you're truly stuck, then make it a certainty. That's where those $60k/yr upfront+overages support contracts come in handy and how a customer singlehanded funded your helpdesk team.

Very few rich customers aren't a handful. Let them make you rich first, then if you're lucky, you'd be surprised how quickly you outgrow them and have all sorts of tools at your disposal to deal with them.
I think this is because churches provide services that governments in developing countries cannot. People there are more likely to be religious because churches provide value to them.
Nice to see this upvoted considering all the whining here on HN about evictions.

Something could be said about double standards but I'll leave that to others.
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster begs to differ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster#/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster
The less you report the less crime you have.
The comment I replied to attributes the quote to Jesus of Nazareth, and presents it as evidence that he was an incredibly timelessly wise, even god-like being. Normally when people make out a person to be way too incredible, other people refute that with actual history.
Death is already the Great Equalizer. There is no need to invent one. Yet people still accumulate wealth, so desperately, unaware that they do not know how to use it after death.
I have seen pdf files swell to ~ ten times the original size when I edit them with Preview. Apparently, Preview will reencode images upon saving, often choosing a less efficient encoding than original. The most extreme cases I encountered would be files scanned in black and white, with Fax or JBIG2 encoding. Since I use such files a lot, I use pdfpen instead for all my pdf editing tasks.
I was watching this on my ipad pro and every videos was muted by default. Had to click to unmute on each of em’
Love the idea, have you looked at hashr.io?
Could you add your contact details on the site?
Also add details of timestamp on the message.
Maybe tag @patio11 on twitter?
Ask HN: Is it a good practice to provide open-source version of your paid app?
Hello hackers,

I am Prasanna, the founder of PrivJs (https://privjs.com) - Internet's first open-core software marketplace.

While building a few products, I was wondering if it could be a good practice to release a chunk of my paid software to the open-source community? Will that have any adverse effects on the product? Or will it benefit overall?

-Prasanna
I can see how many people will be upset about this. I honestly dont care at all. Call them whatever you want.
Esoteric communication interfaces and situations where you want to address a lot of devices in parallel.

It's kind of a stretch, but take a wall of addressable LED strips like WS2812s as an example. Color data is sent along one wire as precisely-timed pulses, 1.25us per bit.

You can drive a few strips using critical sections written in assembly, or misusing SPI peripherals if your clock speed can easily divide into ~2.4MHz. But you'd be hard-pressed to run dozens of parallel LED strips with a good framerate.

On an FPGA, you can just write an "LED" module and add as many of those modules as you can fit into the chip. You can also decide whether to include a simple CPU in the design, or use another method of processing lighting patterns.

They're flexible, but they are also expensive enough that it's kinda hard to find somewhere that they make sense. A "cheap FPGA" price point of $50-150 is still an order of magnitude pricier than a cheap microcontroller board ($2-10).
Surely there are provisions in or affecting such trademark law such that you cannot overstep bounds of reasonableness, e.g. by going after anything with the colour red just because yours is also red?

(IANAL)
> Without Christianity, the West wouldn't have universities, hospitals and democracies

All of these predate christianity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy

Not true. It has the highest capacity of any operational rocket.
> Be it an infra change or application. It should always be like:

> Staging -> Canary -> Production

Ironically, the author says exactly this when she presents on it. Why she wrote this article in this fashion is beyond me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPQCuotAr4
Your girlfriend might regret it when she is too old to have kids.
Frankly it started going downhill when they jumped headfirst into the version number dick-measuring contest with Chrome. They care about pulling in new users, not keeping old ones. Anything to make a news headline and generate clicks and downloads. Some asshat feature one percent of their users will try one time and then never touch again. Disembowling their feature set to make a benchmark run five percent faster so they can make a graph with the biggest bar. Moral grandstanding about Google so a couple tech sites give them a mention.

It makes me so angry. Firefox was the chosen one. It slew the evil giant IE. Then Mr.moneybags Chrome came around and scared Mozilla so shitless they completely forgot why people chose them over IE in the first place. Their solution to every problem is "be more like Chrome while being less like Google".

Newsflash, Mozilla: you really suck at that. Maybe try something else.
Yes, you might also want to take a look at this:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/23/medieval...
This is a big reason why I like Datomic so much. I get the benefits of a schema, but the schema is basically append-only, so it's very easy to reason about. Updating the schema is instant.

The last time I tried a project with a no-schema DB, it was a huge PITA. It sucks having a function fail on one single document because it had a number instead of a string. I love flexibility, but it is very valuable to have the right constraints in the right places. I quickly learned that a schema is just that.
There's no obligation to listen to user feedback. I get over a hundred feature requests from users a month but I don't even respond to most of them.
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I know many (my friends) who are in the process of losing their religion as they move up the salary scale.

Religion, for many, is a hope to be saved from their economic misery. Once they are out of penury then religious obligations become a bane on the newly found freedom that comes with money so the fallout is obvious. The developed west is a proof of this phenomenon. Software engineers in India would confirm the hypothesis in the next decade or two.

This quote from Marx is often misrepresented but I think he said it in a positive sense,

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people"
Hilarious how entitled the author is. It's delusional to believe that millennials, or anyone else for that matter, are owed living in some of the most expensive cities on the planet.

So many people just BELIEVE that if you fumble through college, you're magically owed an affordable, nice house/apartment in some of the most desirable metros on the face of the planet.
The link only talks about economic uncertainty. Clearly, there is more to it.

For example, I would say every single person is routinely perplexed by 50% of the rest of the planet (aka the opposite gender). That is a constant source of uncertainty, but doesn't cause us all to become religious.

Besides, even the richest substrata of economically developed countries just somehow automatically gravitate towards religion-influenced philanthropy. A lot of these philanthropy vehicles are predominantly religious in nature, e.g. a missionary to build schools in Africa. The economic certainty experienced by the rich folks isn't making them object to the religious nature of these organizations even if they themselves don't explicitly believe in religion. They could just stop donating, but something tells them the good outweighs the (in their view) bad.

I think there is a deep need for people to find meaning in their lives, but it is also a personal and subjective notion. Maybe richer countries are generally better set up for this because of the larger number of opportunities for people to find meaning in the way they define it.
They don't, they just get new ones (climatism) or choose technocrats and state to replace priests (statism)
Is it too much to expect that a commenter knows that the government went against WeChat and not WhatsApp?
It is a resources allocation problem.

Support is very linear in nature. More issues you have, more people you need to take in feedback and act on it. For early companies with very MVP products, support can just kill them, because they will spend all day long doing support stuff vs building. By definition their products are going to be bad.

On top of that reporting issue is just 1% of work, because you actually need someone to go and reproduce that issue. If it is a feature request, then it is another massive chunk of work to spec it and even decide to do it or not to do it.

Also when you post it in the forum, it is way easier to get back to and companies will ask to login support tickets with production accout details, so they can actually go back into the logs and match that data.
They perfected social distancing before it was cool.
Why not both?

As others have said, staging is useful for certain types of changes that may be high-risk and not time-sensitive. For other changes that are time-sensitive and are low risk (like changing some incorrect/offensive copy), being able to bypass staging is also useful. I don't mean to disrespect the author but it feels like the article was designed to take an extreme stance for views. It even reads like clickbait. I bet this article leaves a bunch of people believing that using an intermediate testing environment can never be useful.
Thanks! By the way, I don't think "tipped wage" is at all a known concept outside of the US (for instance, I didn't know it works this way.)
I love how the narrative is spun on these things.

It's not individuals making decisions about how to live their own lives.

Its they, the all encompassing shadowy cabal who wants to tempt naive young people into living in vans, and preposterous less then 5000 sqft houses, with their secret goal of impoverishing everybody.

Or maybe there are just people who prefer those things? Surely occams razor prefers the shadowy cabal though...

It's like an exaggerated version of the peasents from the Monty python sketch on the anarcho syndacislist commune.

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But DeepSpeech has already been trained with millions of data samples!

I'd feel way better about it if they went for a slightly worse DeepSpeech based implementation, but kept it working in the free software spirit they have been known about for many years.

Also, for desktop devices inference on DeepSpeech is cheap enough, so they could even go the extra mile and work on some Wasm magic to get offline recognition.

That's the kind of work I'd expect from Mozilla! Not wiring up your data collection to the Google Cloud APIs and call it a day! I'm genuinely disappointed with them...
Thanks, and apologies if it came off as needlessly combative. I probably could’ve phrased it better.
Good thing I am not making the laws and I’m just a random person on HN....
You typically cap this by some metric/tables based on the suit's magnitude ("I'm being sued for $50k") and court events (e.g., adjust hourly for "representation" in court based on how much you're sued for, and then just multiply the table value for that suit-value-range with the hours in court, add bonuses for court stuff that didn't require anyone to personally show up (i.e., mail/fax suffices)).
That's afaik how it's down in Germany.

Alternatively, you could cap the amount the looser pays to what they themselves payed, devising some sort of scheme to prevent exploits around lawyer-on-retainer/permanently-hired-lawyer on a large-entity's side.
US society, discourse, media, and government structures have sidelined experts to the extent we’ve finally managed to forget they exist. Instead we’re left with reporters who write articles that bemoan that since they’re lost and unable to determine truth in a sea of technology, we all must be.
“I am not a tech expert” != “There’s no such thing as a tech expert”.

Edited to add: all of science is beyond the comprehension of one person, but we wouldn’t say that scientists don’t exist anymore.

I think the shock experienced in these kind of hearings has more to do with leaders and law makers being hopelessly out of touch with common technologies that are used by most people every day; it’s akin to them puzzling over how to operate a flushing toilet. They don’t need to interact with the world as other citizens do, because they have layers of abstraction shielding them from it. Not a good thing.

The example of the B-2 Spirit is such a strange one, given the complete absence of civilian oversight to the programme. It was essentially built for military experts by engineering experts.

Non-experts are expected to provide oversight in highly technical issues, but they should be working closely with advisors who have cutting edge domain knowledge and can translate that into policy implications. The leaders and law makers do not need specialist knowledge, but they -do need to be on top of their brief as it relates to society and the laws that govern it. A person of reasonable intelligence can provide essential oversight to a machine like Google, even if they could not construct such a machine themselves. Nobody can even create a human being themselves from scratch, but that’s not an excuse for being a bumbling lawmaker.
In my company, developers write policies, but they have to be approved by someone with ops expertise (usually me). And the policies are often either too broad, or not sufficiently tested, and missing permissions for things it needed. Sometimes the same policy has both problems. I don't blame the developers. You can hardly expect every developer to become an expert on AWS's IAM system. Especially given how inconsistent it can be.
Good point! I can try but it's hit or miss whether it'll get any traction. I guess a couple questions you could help with are (1) are there any good resources for scoping the job market beyond putting "[whatever] jobs stockholm" into search engines, and (2) do you have any do's or don'ts for applying as an American not currently living in Sweden?

Thanks a lot for your perspective!
It's one of a series, even. There is The Theoretical Minimum, Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum, and Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum.
People who live in wealth have comfort in life. People in poverty do not. That's the problem for which the downtrodden wish for answers, because they didn't ask to be poor.

That death leaves both poor and rich in the same situation is of little comfort to the man shivering in the cold as he watches the rich in their mansions. There needs to be another chapter to the story, where the poor man finally gets his share. Religions can provide this because they tell stories of life after death that are comforting to the downtrodden.
What objective norm does this product violate? People should be free to share (or not share) their personal information any way they please. Is being "open-minded" about other people's choices in this regard so much to ask?
You think it’s perfectly ok for anonymous companies to extort consumers with fake debt?
The huge difference between spiritualism and religion is that religion is dogmatic and systemically organised. In my opinion freeing spirituality from the clutch of religion is the final step, not the other way around. So being spiritual but not religious is in my opinion not something that inevitably leads to religion, but if we do it right there is no need for oppressive religion anymore.
Plz add dart to your list :)
This is a deliberate misinterpretation of the previous point. Short, miserable lives and long rewarding lives are not equalised by death.
Very well written!
I see a number of problems with the methodology (eg. excluding data points after an arbitrary one-week-after-study-midpoint which author acknowledges as arbitrary, doing an averaging/smoothing of results per location first, then doing a global calculation, which compounds the error).

But the numbers do seem reasonable. Still, the difference with flu is that there is no protective vaccine to give to people at higher risk, nor do we know exactly what constitutes the higher risk, nor do we understand exactly how transmissions happen or why they do not happen.

Also note that we are already in a largely manipulated situation to be able to judge any "organic" data (we've been social distancing, hugely reduced international travel, and a stronger dedication to doing business online). While some will point at the number of people still behaving normally, I always point at the number of people who are not, reminding that this is a "game of statistics".

Finally, to me personally, global IFR and R0 numbers do not matter. I do not care how many people are affected, but how much risk does the infection pose to my close family and friends and me? It seems there is a strong correlation between heart-related diseases and coronavirus deaths, so I would like to see numbers for "extra coronavirus deaths over heart-related deaths" for an "unmanaged" first month in the US (eg. April had ~60k people, May-July another 90k). My parents, both with heart problems, barely made it through flu season a number of years back (they've been on flu vaccines since). Heart-related deaths in US average out at 600k/year or 50k/month (did not find per month averages to account for seasonal spikes). To be honest, I expect to see a huge decrease in heart-related deaths in these months, but I couldn't find anyone doing a study along those lines (or well, simply having access to current numbers)! Still, none of that helps me until there is (safe! still a year away likely) medicine to prevent or treat COVID19.
The problem described here is only tangentially connect to technology. All that is described is really the challenge of complex systems and that could exist in any domain whatsoever. The inner workings of oh so human system of the UK government sometimes baffles me. And it exists in nature where the complex interactions of many diverse organisms converge to form a complex ecosystem.

There might be problems of a lack of understanding in certain cases but what this journalist is describing is complex systems not technological problems.
Who do you think inculcated that narrative to millenials when they were young?
Some forms, maybe. But the first real hospital for strangers (hospitality) was by the Roman Catholic Church. That's why all hospitals in the West have the symbol of Christ.

The first real university was founded by the Roman Catholic Church and the first real democracy was a Christian nation.
too expensive for this application. The article is calculating with 2 ct/kWh and comes to the conclusion that it is still too expensive.
The point is, that Apple/Twitter wouldn't have that incentive to go into a battle with 5% chance of acquiring that trademark and 95% chance of being out a couple million.
Agree. I went as far as regressing to `watchexec` to re-run esbuild and cargo build on any changes. Esbuild is near instant compared to anything else.
The way I read the comment you could replace "Jesus of Nazareth" with any other name without changing the meaning of the comment substantially.
Could you expand on why you think TypeScript is a "front-end" language? I was under the impression that it just compiles to Javascript and while Javascript used to be a front-end language, it's nowadays bravely used for backend projects as well, for some reason.
I have an even better way, albeit a bit dirty. Take a vape pen and simply put your mask on before exhaling; "eyeball" the size and trajectories of the exhaled vapor, select the mask that wins, and call it a day.
The government was recently against WhatsApp as well over encryption.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/barr-whatsapp...

Not the worst mistake from OP.
That does not sound like minimal effort. I would say minimal effort means getting the cheapest lawyer you can find and having him comment on quick replies you draft yourself to any requests you get.
Hi @mikob, could I please ask what you used to create the SVG animation for your site?
I think the broader point is one that still stands: wearing literally anything over your nose and mouth is shown, by this study, to cut droplet by at least 50%. Even the cotton varieties cut it from 70% to 90%. So...people need to just slap something over their two air exchanging orifices on their faces before leaving the house and contribute to the our greater health.

You're right about the differences in effectiveness but 70% is still pretty good as long as many people are wearing something and not exposing their noses or wrapping the mask lovingly around their chins.
Please keep religious flamewar off HN. We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
it frees up a lot of agricultural land that is being used to produce animal fodder. that space can be used to do better agriculture, for example methods with higher biodiversity and lower yields.
Does pasteurization have any effect on the hormones? It deactivates enzymes, maybe it does the same to hormones?
Doesn't it bother you that they track everything you do, buy, sell, and know where you go all the time? That they have a forever record of your entire consumer life and potentially beyond? This is why I choose cash whenever possible.