skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking to build a UI recently too. I want to rewrite BloomRPC to be reflection-only and native.

Something I've been struggling with is choosing a UI platform with a drag-and-drop editor for most UI frameworks. This available in Lazarus and Visual Studios but that's about it. Nothing works well in the Java/C/Python space with a visual editor.

Why is that? Do people not find visual editors useful?
I have a few ideas for disability aid applications.
Validity of these findings aside, a brief look at the headlines on the source site (psypost.org) suggests it may be a news outlet that plays to confirmation bias in order to generate shares on social media.
You're on to something.

Low code platforms, at their core, allow you to define the software with data (from predefined components usually through UI) and that's how they enable super productivity, until you hit a wall.

Data Declarative programming paradigm could potentially achieve the same levels of productivity without its limitations but it's very difficult to get the right implementation.

The most interesting development in this area I had found, is Fulcro Rapid Application Development Tools [1] - a fullstack clojure framework that's performant, declarative and extensible.
RAD is still alpha but it bases on battle-proved Fulcro. Once you hit the limits of declarative RAD you can easily extend it with regular Fulcro components which are, in their essence, a cheap abstraction over React/React Native components - offering industry standard performance.

[1] https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-rad
It has been tried a few times. Sometimes the first edition is interesting, but in the second or third the people run out of ideas. It's usually better to post and discuss each idea in a separate post.
That's an interesting suggestion I've never heard before, but your link appears to be down. I'm getting a 404. Is it possible this passage is referring to the reciprocal Pythagorean theorem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#Reciprocal...
And did you try again later? Works fine.
Yes, I thought this was a lawsuit all along. I only realized it was not after reading your reply.

Is it normal for companies to file trademark commentary, like Apple is doing?

+1 for using "begs the question" properly
Something stinks with this paper.

I don't personally think Black Lives Matter people are sociopaths for protesting during a quarantine, I don't think people trying to live their lives, and keep their business open, and feed their families, are sociopaths.

I would love to find out if this paper underwent peer review and see if it's reproducible before I believe it.

It could be bunk and agenda driven like the hydroxycholoroqunine paper which was retracted.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Thanks, it's been on my to-watch list for a while. Maybe it's time to bump it up the queue a bit :)
> There's no exemption that allows innocent people to resist lawful arrest.

It's a bit murkier than that in the US. In some states you can't even resist unlawful arrest, but in all states you're allowed to defend yourself against _excessive_ force.

In practice that's probably a bad idea, but if you survive the retaliation from somebody who's armed and who has already proven themselves prone to excessive use of force then you might win the ensuing court case.
If the author had stuck to the sentences you quoted, I'd agree. The problem is, they had to throw in the comment about it being a bunch of old white men, as though the color of someone's skin tells you everything you need to know about their background. I'm white, and I frequently got in disagreements with military leadership who were also white because we came from different backgrounds, and had a different perspective, especially regarding the use of technology to enhance effectiveness.
Bringing Roman statues back to life with AI
There are many instances of police officers arresting paramedics, nurses and firefighters for ridiculous reasons while they are trying to do their jobs as first responders. That includes refusing to break the law, such as when a nurse knows performing a procedure without a court order is assault.

The administration of medically unnecessary ketamine does not belong in the toolbox of things that the police request, or more realistically "order". It is irresponsible to assume police will defer to judgement of professionals with training and a code of ethics, when they are solely focused on making a person comply.

There are enough terrible public policy decisions where people later claim "we didn't know". People are saying now this is a recipe for abuses and unnecessary deaths.
What point did I miss exactly? I explained why the article would call the design anachronistic (which is what GP complained about) as well as — expecting your sort — why it made perfect sense anyway.
Ask HN: How to set up home wireless for reliable WFH
I have a wifi network at home, with my cable provider's highest tier of service. I have a nice wifi routers. My cable provider sometimes has outages. As with many city homes, there are many overlapping networks, and I do run into wifi issues on the other end of the home.

I'd like reliable, robust internet. Ideally, I would have:

1) Cheap cable service and some kind of cheap backup services (e.g. DSL) as a seamless fallback

2) Some kind of mesh network which covered the whole home with reliable wifi

I am interested in having a secure router, which won't get compromised tomorrow, and which firewalls the house. I am uninterested in having a cloud router, which spies on me, and sends off my internal data to Google or some company in China.

Any recommendations on how to set something like this up?

I don't need a ton of bandwidth. I do need reliable ssh connections which stay up and have low latency.
You can flag submission when you have 51, downvote after 250. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented Those links are otherwise hidden, but not really secret because the features are mentioned in the FAQ.
At least they say that ketamine must be approved by a physician first. Also a bit weird that I can’t find any other articles saying this. Maybe I am searching the wrong thing
Either he is an extreme genetic outlier (by definition the rarest of the rare) or he exaggerated to enhance his reputation (a trait baked in to everyone and so pervasive we all do it without realizing it). I know which one is more likely.
Most modern browsers should consider http://127.0.0.1/ or http://[::1]/ as trustworthy.

See https://www.w3.org/TR/secure-contexts/#is-origin-trustworthy
"The top" of the military is very small, and considering the majority of the military is white anyway, it's expected that it'd be mostly white. Anecdotally, I saw much more diverse leadership in the military than I've ever seen in the civilian sector, probably because no matter your background, everyone starts at the bottom in the military.
Realy " To access the internet, I had to jack my computer into the wall." yes well even in a declassified space id expect that and have mac filtering.

And the death by PowerPoint meme is very widespread in the US military
In South Korea, where avg price is $10.94/GB and min price is $0.43/GB, mobile data plans are so much segregated that the goverment had to push cheaper MVNOs to the wider public. For technologically aware people it's more like $2--3/GB and telcos tend to exploit who are technologically less aware.

Given this and that telcos are universally known to be not super customer friendly, average price seems a pretty limited metric and distribution analysis should be required. Unfortunately their raw data has no actual data points for each plan...
> The decorative aspect is actually a major piece of it's function here. It's intended to be highly visible

Decorative doesn't mean highly visible, it means the only value is in the looks.

Star forts in europe are purely decorative, they don't have any function aside from looking rather neat (and the historical context /value I guess).
Launch HN: Depict.ai (YC S20) – Product recommendations for any e-commerce store
Hey there! We are Oliver and Anton, and are founders at Depict.ai. We help online stores challenge Amazon by building recommender systems that don't require any sales or behavioral data at all.

Today, most recommender systems are based on a class of methods commonly called ‘collaborative filtering’ - which means that they generate recommendations based on a user's past behavior. This method is successfully used by Amazon and Netflix (see the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize). They are also very unsuccessfully used by smaller companies that lack the critical mass of historical behavioral data required to use those models effectively. This generally results in the cold start problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_start_(recommender_system...) and a worse customer experience. We solve this by not focusing on understanding the customer but instead focus on understanding the product.

The way we do this is with machine learning techniques that create vector representations of products based on the products’ images and descriptions, and recommend matching using these vector representations. More specifically, we have found a way to scrape the web and then train massive neural networks on e-commerce products. This makes it possible to leverage large amounts of product metadata to make truly impressive recommendations for any e-commerce store.

One analogy we like is that just as almost no single company has enough sales or behavioral data to consistently predict, for instance, credit card frauds on their own, almost no e-commerce company has enough data to generate good recommendations based only on their own information. Stripe can make excellent fraud detection models by pooling transactions from many smaller companies, and we can do the same thing for personalizing e-commerce stores by pooling product metadata.

Through A/B-tests we have proved that we can increase top-line revenue with 4-6% for almost any e-commerce store. To prove our value we offer the tests and setup 100% for free. We make money by taking a cut of the revenue uplift we generate in the A/B-tests. We have also found that the sales and decision cycle gets much shorter by being independent of customer's user data. You can see us live at Staples Nordics and kitchentime.com, among others.

Oliver and I have several years of experience applying recommender systems within e-commerce and education respectively and felt uneasy about a winner-takes-it-all development where the largest companies could use their data supremacy to out-personalize any smaller company. Our goal is to build a company that can offer the best personalization to any e-commerce store, not just the ones with enough data.

Do you think our approach seems interesting, crazy, lazy or somewhere in the middle? We’d love any feedback - please feel free to shoot us comments below or DM, we’ll be here to answer your thoughts and gather feedback!
ParallelColt (high performance scientific computing in Java)
Machine translation is increasingly effective, to give satisfactory results in real-time. This article explores the value of learning a language in a world where we don't need to learn a language for its functional utility.
IntelliJ has GUI builder. I believe Eclipse has it too, but I last use Eclipse more than 8 years ago.
This is, like, just wrong, at least for the implementations I’m familiar with. The intent of the decentralised apps used in Europe is to supplement manual contact tracing; I don’t think anyone has claimed they can replace it. They’re useful for the case of, say, the person who was sitting behind you at the restaurant for an hour, who is at risk but who the manual tracer won’t find.

I would agree that dodgy non-state-sanctioned centralised ones are a problem, and should arguably be banned. But they’re far from the whole story.
I tried Prolon’s starvation diet so you wouldn’t have to – MIT Technology Review
That's literally what Epic is asking for.
I believe that Chrome treats all localhost connections as secure now. Not sure about other browsers.
There's no shortage of open area to put solar panels. If we put a (nearly) continuous strip in every highway median, that would be a huge step forward, and still take up practically zero useable space. Even 1% of the federally owned land in the sun belt would generate an enormous amount of power.
For motoring, commercial POIs, and address-level searches. For walking/cycling and non-commercial POIs, OpenStreetMap is consistently better in Europe.
> So you expect the same government that passed DMCA, COPPA

are you familiar with the concept of "non sequitur"?

are you obsessed with those topics?

You keep posting them over and over, are you ok?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245096

> You really want the government controlling which apps can go on your phone?

at least I can vote for politics

can I vote for the Apple board of directors?

> So more government control is your definition of a free market?

Fair regulation is, yes.

There is no free unregulated market.

Regulation is a government duty.

BUT

as someone else already told to you

"I'm unsure how [...] it is related to any of that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245153

p.s.: is a Nobel laureate in economic science good enough to explain you why the faith in unregulated free markets is silly?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/upshot/faith-in-an-unregu...
I'm very happy with the VNote UI, which uses Qt. It's an open source markdown note-taking app. Check out the dark themes.
Since the '70s it feels like law enforcement (and juries to some extent) are informed by two movies much more than the Constitution and case law: Dirty Harry and Death Wish.
Ask HN: People with custom domain names: what's the plan if you lose the domain?
There's a thread right now on the front-page, titled "Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245817). Many on this thread are advocating for using a custom domain name, to front email communications (and thus reduce your dependency on services such as gmail).

People who currently do this (or those that plan on doing it): what is your plan in-case you end up losing the domain name (either temporarily, or otherwise)? How do you prepare for this, reduce the risk, etc?

Losing your domain name can happen due to any number of reasons: hacked account (at the registrar), social engineering, etc. There can also be issues with registrars going bankrupt, increasing fees (see recent dot-org case [1]), laws changing (especially with ccTLDs - see the dot-EU case with British citizens post Brexit [2]) and much more...

[1] - https://www.eff.org/press/releases/org-domain-registry-sale-ethos-capital-rejected-stunning-victory-public-interest

[2] - https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
Why are you on it? Covid insomnia?
Python's import system would be my biggest complaint about the language. I've used Python for more than ten years, but there are so many pitfalls with regards to imports that I still have to look things up on a regular basis. What makes things even worse is that packages sometimes even meddle with how imports work. (See e.g. Tensorflow – I recently had to debug the import magic they're doing. It was a nightmare.)

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Python! It's my go-to language for both small and big tasks. But sometimes I do wish Python had a function like PHP's require()… (Obviously for package-local imports, not for importing other packages.)
Looks like an interesting podcast! Unfortunately, my podcast client doesn't load anything earlier than episode 22, and Spotify doesn't either - it looks like the RSS feed doesn't contain the earlier episodes. Is that expected behavior?

I was particularly surprised to learn that Moodle is open-source. I used it in school before the world of software development and open-source was on my radar.
Interesting. Perhaps this will only work if directly supported/promoted by YC.

I think there's definitely value in this; could potentially save a lot of time for the makers.
Solo founder here.

I have a bunch of happy beta users that had previously tried and given up on Mylio. You're certainly welcome to try it out!

https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/
I added a clarifying edit to my toplevel comment; briefly, the axis of my distinction is that of symmetricality.

I expect the next major geopolitical era, following the post-Cold War interregnum which we seem now to be exiting, will be characterized by one of two paradigms: either oligolateral hegemony of the sort in which the US and the Soviet Union competed after WWII, but with different players, or whatever follows a violation of what has since August 1945 been the de facto single rule governing nuclear warfare - that is, thou shalt not. I don't have a good idea of what comes after such a fundamental shift, and I think neither does anyone else.
I go for a 5k run in the morning. Despite it taking a little time from your morning, it'll pay for itself threefold in terms of productivity throughout the rest of the day.

Also, if you work alone and get stuck on a problem or need a little help with being creative (ie: UI design, marketing), try smoking a joint! It might not be as good as bouncing ideas off of someone else, but it's definitely helped me think of ideas I might not have come up with otherwise.
I think flag/vouch is at 31 and downvote is at 501. The change in the color of the topbar is at 251.

Anyway, the mods can change these numbers without warning, but IIRC they have not changed for a long time.
Agreed. My general position is that, creatively applied, the weapons we have are good enough. This is not in a relative sense, but an absolute one.

I do not wish to spend my limited time on the planet improving the fundamental rate at which we can kill one another. We, as a species, are already excellent at that task.

I am a physicist. If we are involved in a protracted conflict, there will be plenty of opportunities akin to MIT's Rad Lab or the Manhattan Project to which I might contribute. R.V. Jones is a personal hero. Until then, I would rather contribute to preserving life or chasing down nature's secrets (my day job through 9/16, when I cast off on a new odyssey).
I've worked on some applications like this, and it works pretty well. But be aware that a port on localhost is accessible to any local user - depending on the application you may need to prevent other users accessing it.

Running inside a real browser also limits the keyboard shortcuts you can use, because you don't want to clash with the browser's own shortcuts.
> devoting instead a portion of my time to non-proliferation work

This is very interesting to me, what line of work are you in such that you are able to devote a portion of your time to non-proliferation work? Having previously worked at one of the NNSA labs it's my understanding that non-proliferation work is often classified, but I'd be interested to hear how normal technically-minded folks can contribute.
Air Force General Thompson interviewed Elon Musk at the Air Warfare Symposium this year. [1]
It was, in a nutshell, a reality check for the Air Force's combat pilots, who were present in the audience, that they were no longer top dog, and had to either get on board with the new mission of drone warfare, or get off the train.

1. https://youtu.be/sp8smJFaKYE
It’s a candidate for safest only if it’s being used where required by a trained administrator. And those two factors probably outweigh the choice of drug in their effect on lethality.
Fascinating. The end of the CNN article about this is incredible:

> Richard Harris, the Australian anesthesiologist, was one of only two cave-diving anesthesiologists in the world. "I didn't think it would work at all," Harris told National Geographic. "I expected the first two kids to drown and then we'd have to do something different. I put their odds of survival at zero."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/04/health/thailand-boys-cave-ket...
The fact serial killers get marriage proposals does not mean that people who are not serial killers necessarily get marriage proposals.

I suspect if somebody is hideously deformed and does not have a working penis, they're going to have a lot of difficulty finding a romantic partner. Presumably there are large numbers of people who have those and similar issues. I think they should be allowed to talk about that, and not have people respond by comparing them to Elliot Rodger.

That these things didn't (Ok I don't know about the penis thing) apply to Elliot Rodger doesn't mean they don't apply to anybody.
True. But not in this case.

FB and most sites which have a bias against, say conspiracy theories, regularly find themselves against conservative forces which for, whatever reason, have a willingness to expound and accept conspiracy theories.

> https://phys.org/news/2018-12-political-views-people-false-d...

Can't find the original articles which showed how conspiracies thrive in different political groups.

This then creates the new phenomenon that people here are trying to explain.

IF BOTH groups were equal, the bias in action would be then on FB's end.

Both groups are NOT equal, and frankly American conservatives (as a group) are far more often to be targetted and spreaders of conspiracy theories and misinformation.

This means they are also the subject of far more actions.

Since they are the subject of far more actions, this creates a political opportunity.

As you can see in this discussion, there is a difference between Perceived Skew of Moderation, and Actual Skew of Moderation.

Now people can say "See, we need to deal with FB in congress, because they do more against Conservatives! We suffer more action!".

Since FB is also in california, and accused of being "liberal" this accusation is even easier to sell, since it is already believed.

FB responds by giving them extra passes, so that they don't get called out or forced to handle new legislation which complicates an already complicated field.

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Its really interesting to see how the argument here hinges entire on people's perceptions of what the world is ("both sides are the same") and reality (one side is more affected than the other)
For a solo founder, the bottom line is neither traction, recurring revenue, nor monthly active users. The bottom line is emotional health/fitness.

For example, as a solo creator, anytime I resolve my single-biggest source of stress I get in a flow producing my best work. I'm more open to looking at problems from new angles.

Without the typical external structures, emotional fitness dictates everything: ability to make decisions, ability to forecast, willingness to learn a critical new skill/approach, persistence through challenges, willingness to take risks, etc. Basically, if it matters, being mentally/emotionally healthy fosters it.

I don't know if it's a saying, but it should be: Great products come from great teams, whether that's a team of 1, 10, or 1000 people.
No. I want to be able to Ctrl-S and it save the changes I made to the file (for example, but this is the most annoying thing for me) That doesn't work with actual browser.
It should be noted that Japan is not the only country that frequently disregards technical constraints, units of measurement and other cultural circumstances from outside one's own country or seaside metropolitan area.
>I was always curious why the website told me to register, felt very suspicious. Some torrents are restricted to users, weirdly.

That was mostly to control ratios, and force people to seed torrents and stop them from leeching (downloading and delete the torrent/not seed).

If you had a bad ratio, your access to seeds was also limited therefore the speed at which you downloaded was capped.

Some trackers eventually started to monetize themselves by offering "premium accounts" that would bypass the ratio, and allowed users to leech.

Mind that this is my knowledge from almost 20 years ago.