skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Discounting it as you seem to be is a recipe for unnecessary deaths. Overestimating it is as well.

I would agree with this but enough time has passed that we have enough numbers to confirm that the vast majority of healthy (with a small theoretical chance of outliers) will shake COVID off even easier than influenza. ICU beds in all countries were filled predominantly by very obese people or end of life patients with serious health conditions. Basically stop being fat or at least don’t make your unhealthy eating habits the problem of healthy people. At this point it’s clear that we are destroying young lives to protect some people who don’t want to deal with the consequences of their own life choices. There is no way we can protect people without harming others with this virus. So if we have to choose who has to suffer then surely it’s more ethical to let people pick up their own bill rather than punishing people who are innocent and not even in danger. We put people in danger who shouldn’t be in danger. It’s disgusting.
Well, Google could made it via licensing.

When OEMs install Google service and other apps required to install Play store, they need a license from Google.

Look at custom ROMs not bundling Gapps (Google apps) because they do not have the license from Google to pre-install and ask you to install from open gapps.
You should revisit this comment after you have children.
The communications are not the problem (IMO). It might be a convenience for government actors if laws and technology allowed the government to monitor everything, but it’s only the deeds that harm us.

I try to think not only of what good my like-minded government might do with these expanded powers but also what ill my opposite-minded government could do with these powers.
The local library here makes a point of never keeping a history of what books you’ve checked out. It’s actually been a problem for me when trying to remember something I read a few years back. They’re pretty big proponents of privacy.
This is the millionth article on lunar far-side telescopes I've seen that conveniently fails to explain why you'd want to place a radio telescope on the surface rather than just at the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point (i.e., the point on the far side of the Moon that orbits with the Moon around the Earth and keeps the Moon between itself and the Earth). I'm sick of not having this obvious question answered, so I dug into it.

Like the lunar surface, a telescope at L2 keeps the Moon permanently between itself and the Earth to block incoming radio waves. For a fixed telescope size, going down into the Moon's gravity well increases costs tremendously. And, although doing construction in a vacuum is never easy, it's a lot easier when you're in zero-g and you don't need a crane! Unlike the far-side surface, L2 has exposure to sunlight for power for ~90% of the time. (You would still need a relay satellite in a different lunar orbit for communications, of course, just like the far-side surface.)

As far as I can tell from browsing the article

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12689

and the much more helpful analysis of the lunar radio environment that they cite

https://sci-hub.st/https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.IA...

the only benefits to going to to the surface is
(1) you get better shielding of the extremely low frequencies (≲ 1 kHz) which are long enough wavelength to diffract around the Earth, but don't think those are detectable unless you have a telescope that's many kilometers in size.
(2) you avoid radio signals from satellites in geostationary orbits, but these should be very small since the transmitters are pointing toward the Earth.

Indeed, the faculty member who is advising the undergraduate intern lead author says

> “The first SETI observations that are done from the lunar farside will be done from orbit, there’s no question about that,” says Andrew Siemion, the director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center and the second author on the paper. “I think eventually we absolutely want to do something on the surface because we want to build a very large aperture telescope, but even when we’re at that point I don’t think that would negate the utility of doing things from orbit as well.”

and I think he's downplaying how tremendously costly going to the surface would be for very little benefit.

EDIT: Note that the FARSIDE array on the surface they mention is much better justified, but it's not SETI, it's an array, the surface benefits from solar storm shielding, and it probably only makes sense because it piggybacks on high bandwidth connection for the NASA Lunar Gateway. More details here:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/leag/white-papers-astronomy/FARSIDE...

https://twitter.com/di_goldene_pave/status/13123915724079554...
Before science can get off the ground, certain assumptions need to be made:

> that there is an objective reality shared by all rational observers.[19][20] […]

> that this objective reality is governed by natural laws;[19][20] […]

> that reality can be discovered by means of systematic observation and experimentation.[19][20] […]

> that Nature has uniformity of laws and most if not all things in nature must have at least a natural cause.[20] […]

[…]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)#Provid...

Not all world views accept these axioms. Some think that what we perceive is an illusion or that the material world is 'evil' (e.g., Manichaeism); some that the forces of Nature are governed by capricious spirits or deities; others still that the natural phenomena do not have innate causal powers themselves but their actions are divinely willed.
Why Sweden’s Ancient Tradition of Calling Home the Herds Is Women’s Work
Does he love Indian food?
Managers just have to do what they're told or find another job. This is another example of OCD from above (like most data dragnets.) When prevention costs 10x more than the disease.
This seems like a variation on fractals.

We’ve established that the experience of time can fully stop. When stopped, infinite fractals can play of the same moment.
Apple has a history of complying with government requests. They opened up NFC stack when UK requested it. Added SMS spam reporting integration with TRAI in India. And all the changes they do for complying with PRC
I'm in the office twice a week. Sadly no good way to set that up and if I try it says something way too high I think.
... or they could just create a PWA and publish it on the free and open web and have the app be available globally in 40s w/o any regulations or artificial restrictions.
> In the 1950s, physicist Léon Brillouin published a landmark paper refuting the idea that adding a single diode, a one-way electrical gate, to a circuit is the solution to harvesting energy from Brownian motion. Knowing this, Thibado’s group built their circuit with two diodes for converting AC into a direct current (DC).

So, they built a full-wave rectifier (albeit with only 2 instead of, say, 4 diodes)? Pretty neat to see electrical engineering fundamentals at work.

(also, for any who wanted specifics: article is at https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.0... ; abstract contains a couple of circuit diagrams)

edit: updated link, thanks for pointing that out
What an utterly biased article. No signs of empathy for the affected minorities and groups at all.
> NASA has highly accurate models that could run on a computer that tracks the ship's movement using similar parameters to the calculations they do for space flight today

any website about this ?
There's a NASA funded lunar colony simulation game for MS-DOS circa 1991. You begin with $10K ;)

Playable on archive via DOSBox:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Moonbase_1990
It doesn't work like that. iPhones weren't sold officially in Argentina for many years, but still there are many local iOS apps. There are many iPhones and most importantly, the wealthiest people generally have iPhones.
Lived experience is certainly anecdotal, and I agree that anecdotes don’t simply transform into data when aggregated. That’s not the point I was trying to make.

You ask, “Does the mere existence of people whose lived experience contradicts that of the aggregate majority suggest that we ought to upend our systems?” First of all, I’ve said nothing regarding “upending our systems.” More importantly — just as anecdotes != data, neither can data replace the role of lived experience. If many people feel like they’re struggling today, that doesn’t contradict data saying that they should be making more money in less time - to me, it suggests that there may be more to the “equation” of positive lived experience than income.

In other words, while I don’t think that it’s feasible to precisely compare the “difficulty” of living across different eras, it’s certainly possible that people can be making more money than ever before and also struggling en masse. The whole of life can’t be explained by simple economic data. Scratch that - the whole of economic life can’t even by explained by economic data... I expanded on this concept in a reply to another comment of yours, but you may not have seen it.
What a $300k College Might Cost a $200k Family
India has a following issue with Android ecosystem, almost everything not owned by Google, is owned by some Chinese co.

GetJar - sold to Chinese

PayTM - Chinese shareholder

Flipcart - Chinese shareholder

Zomato, swiggy, + 10+ others online delivery/logistics apps. Some used to be reskins of Chinese apps. Some only have Indian C-levels.

20 something messengers - all except FB, and Twiter are Chinese

...

I believe they quickly realised that to ban Chinese apps, they have to ban a lion share of apps in daily use, and here this app store comes.

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P.S. As I understand, a huge amount of Android phones in the third world doesn't have Google App store pre-installed, as manufacturers don't bother to go through arduous Google certification for low end phones, or provide OTA updates. This is why things like GetJar are still a thing there.
What I’m suggesting is irrelevant is pointing out that percentage increases are lower in absolute terms, because that’s universally true everywhere.

If low-end wages double, you have to look at how low-end home prices did, not median home prices. Housing is a positional good.

> If wages and home prices move up in lockstep (which they haven’t)

These numbers are all inflation adjusted, and inflation calculation includes all of those costs:

https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1308799186301747200

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2019.txt

Even if housing costs have gone up more than overall inflation, other things have fallen, and OVERALL inflation rate is the best rough measure of "cost of living". Focusing just on home prices or healthcare is incomplete way of understanding purchasing power / cost of living. When we say that the median income has increased adjusted for inflation, it means that the real salary has increased even accounting for the increased prices of all of the stuff that needs to be bought.

And finally, re-iterating the point: these numbers don’t represent a single earner’s pay history. It doesn’t really make sense to compare a single individual’s fixed expense in the context of these distributions, because they represent different individuals at different snapshots in time. While the shape of the distribution may be (moderately) fixed, the composition of it changes dramatically.
I'm surprised that there aren't more comments. This was an article both humorous and informative about creating something (dynamite) which made the modern world possible.
Absolutism is a common sight seeing stop off on the road to regret
So many of these things would be attractive if only they had a couple of SATA ports (now it's a reliable RAID-1 disk server) or a second gig-E NIC (now it's a plausible house router/firewall) or both.
I find it difficult to believe anyone who can use the models listed on the repository effectively would have any difficulty using scikit themselves.

Abstracting scikit out into a configuration file only very slightly simplifies the actual code involved but I can see this being useful for some non technical users who don't care about the code and just know the ML terms.
maybe one way to fight this is by finding a way to abuse these SIMs/connections to use a lot of data en masse until they get cut off or dropped altogether.
The article literally says that a satellite in orbit is likely the first step.

Also, the further you are from the moon - the worse the shielding.
Could it perhaps be even faster just to build the entire stack in hardware perhaps with an FPGA accelerator or even a custom card? I know TOE[1] is a thing, but from what I read Linux doesn't really support it.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_offload_engine
Hi! Hetty author here. I was just experimenting with SQLite as we speak! While I like Cayley so far, I'm already hitting some performance issues when doing full text search/queries that need regex matching on large datasets. Given that HTTP request logging is perfectly suitable for a non-graph database, SQLite is probably more pragmatic. Also, I'm hoping that using a SQLite3 extension for regex (C) will be more performant than using Go's `regexp` package. And of course there's the added benefit you mentioned of a widely used DB with lots of (external) tooling.

The only downsides I see so far are that the project will need cgo, and thus cross compilation is a bit trickier for doing releases on GitHub. But already found a possible tool for making it easier: https://github.com/troian/golang-cross
This was suggested at some point, but the main devs did not really remember any details about how it was generated.

See https://packpng.com/timeline/.
Piholes just replace DNS results, so a device using hard coded DNS servers allows it to bypass that. This leads to people redirecting all port 53 traffic to the Pihole, which leads to devices/apps doing DNS over HTTPS, at which point it’s game over unless you can get your self-signed cert onto the device.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to think that they are trying to exploit this particular ad market, without lowering the markup on their hardware?

Samsung TVs are not cheaper than the competition. In fact, their mid and high tiers are expensive, compared to LG. On the low tier, other brands like TLC or Vizio are still cheaper.
i guess there's a right number. I love the idea of having an alternate solution to reach your market whenever you don't want to comply with apple or google guidelines for some reason
Spellchecker misfire. I'd mean to say "not an issue of lazy". As a sole developer of some commercial apps, I have often said "This is an IE app" or "This is a Chrome app". The business user of the app gets no added benefit from potentially twice the price of development to have it be cross-browser.
“Resolved This incident has been resolved. Oct 03, 2020 - 06:02 PDT”
From 60 USD, you get an Intel Atom CPU (x5-Z8350 “Cherry Trail” quad-core processor @ 1.44 GHz / 1.92 GHz Turbo with Intel Gen8 HD graphics @ 500 MHz), 2GB of RAM, 16GB eMMC flash storage, Ethernet/Bluetooth/WiFi, and 40-pin Raspberry Pi compatible header. Dimensions: 85 x 54 mm.
Seems very clear to me that this relates to the npm client and backend services.
ChatOps: How to Build Someone You'd Want to Have a Beer With
sokoloff is right.

This is why warrants exist. If those private conversations turn towards criminal action, then the government can take action. Until then, there is nothing to act upon - speech is "free".
As an OSS maintainer, for me it is not snotty, but also not necessary.

My biggest issue are people that come and leave comments like "why isn't this fixed yet?", or thumbs down my response that I'd appreciate some help fixing it, or adding the feature.
But yet I know if I sell an electronic device all my competitors will buy one and rip out all the code and reverse engineer it and I will have zero protection from this.
Milking stools[1] (especially the strap-on variety) can also be one legged.

> "[He'd] give a warning shout and run. So would everybody, you included."

reminded me of MAXIM 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503989

[1] another reason for single-legged stools: less likely to trip you up if you need to jump quickly away from a kicking cow. I wouldn't be surprised if nitro factory staff prized that reason, but told management they used them to not fall asleep.
It’s over 1/5 of homes in the US that aren’t connected to a public sewer system. That’s quite a bit more than what most people would interpret as “off grid”.
> Started stroking out on it

I've never heard this particular phrase before and I can only guess it's meaning vaguely from the context.

What does it mean?
That’s a tough one, that’s a really tough one, especially as I’m seeing my 5 year old niece and seeing myself in her... in her inability to remain focused and motivated. It’s tough because even I am sometimes biased against running to medication as sloppy fixes when root causes of ailments and a full safety profile of drugs isn’t 100% clear.

But with the information and experience I have, I think if you get tested by a professional psychologist and he okays it, I’d be comfortable with kids as young as 5 getting medicated.
Finally! I can call my uncle and get my app featured. Awesome.
$2000/month from passive income ? what kind of business ?
Wouldn't a Show HN post make more sense here?
I noticed that they tend to fare better (keep the interest active for longer)
Good luck with Apple
While I personally dislike to see an App Store coming from the Modi government, I wonder if there's at least some virtue to the idea of publicly funded App Stores e.g. in the European Union.

Of course there's a risk of easier distribution of state-sponsored Malware and censorship - somewhat similar to state-level DPI - but there could be an advantage in enforcing local laws.

As it stands, software distribution to european mobile clients seems to be restricted by:

* U.S. laws and regulations
* Policies by Google or Apple
* European laws and regulations

Independent App Stores could probably help with at least the first, if not the second point one as well. At least from a governments perspective.

For Free Software Users, https://f-droid.org/en/ is course preferable. Seems to be registered in the UK according to https://f-droid.org/en/about/
It's a textbook example on design and UIs, spread by professionals and teachers. Do you just dismiss it as a meme because you don't get it?

From your own post, it's more complicated already. With wheel/knob, you have an interface for time and another for power. A little twist means a short value, a long twist means a high value. If you know what you want to do, you already know how to use this microwaves.

I think the problem is it's slightly harder to use, eg you need to understand that more food needs more time to heat, that different cooking needs different power, etc. But you learn as you go.

I think the equivalent for a car would be to have a buttons for 'fast', 'medium', 'slow', 'bumpy terrain', 'road','long trip', 'short trip'. How crazy would that be?
Sunsetting the Azure Repos vs Code Extension
Except the ability to send push notifications, which is paramount to retention and revenue
Bay Area officials require employees to work from home three days a week
What business does the govt have with private app stores.
80/20 looks like almost a law of nature. Question is always which 20... and if it were easy to tell it would already be factored or priced in and you’re back to “which 20?” Repeat.
A lot of the time people just don't know about some feature or work-around to the problem. That's likely what's happening there.
If you are right that means the wrongdoings are on average minor and State has no justification for stepping in and increasing compliance costs on everyone.

Unless the primary objective is to grow the State apparatus. Which is really the only objective the EU busybodies ever had.
> If you work in tech, you probably have a YubiKey

I have worked in tech for 10+ years and I haven’t heard about this product until today.

I guess it’s more likely to own a macbook/ dell / hp / etc than a yubikey.

Still, if someone said “If you work in tech, you probably have a macbook”, they wouldn’t be taken seriously.
I welcome this.

It will be messy, it will open oportunities to corruption, lobbying, crappy user experiences, unsafe apps, government abuse, nationalism, ... it is really a Pandora box.

But mess can be a fertile ground for competition and innovation when excessive regulation blocks it.

Today's app stores are just feature development labs for Apple & Google. There is no chance that anyone will be able to create a big business within any app store and keep Apple or Google out. Just ask big players as Steam, Facebook and Microsoft how they feel about Google's and Apple's stores.

If you're in the apps development business then you're just looking for golden opportunities for Apple/Google and being very badly payed for that.
Dumb question: what if the pipes leak? How much leakage would render the system unusable?
Where I live we have a good public central library with a very broad selection, which also is offering electronic media. If you happen to be downtown you can get your stuff there, and then casually drop that into one of the many (much smaller) branches in the suburbs. Furthermore you can extend your loan easily and online if you need to (where the standard loan time is one month). I can live with that. Though haven't used it since March for obvious reasons.

I think it depends from where and when you look at it.
While for someone living "out there" the online stuff is an enrichment, for someone used to live metropolitan or at least some university town, it's only so so and not really overwhelming.

The same is true for (good) book stores dealing with dead wood. The haptics are simply different. You can stroll along there and find something interesting widening your horizon by random chance/serendipity.

The recommendations from sites like Amazon or Goodreads don't offer that, even if they are trying to emulate that.

Not the same, more like tunnel vision, and if something like "surprise me!" is offered, it's different from walking into some rarely or never visited part, quickly scanning a few pages and "seeing" how it's like.

The same applies to reading "on-screen", no matter which device, size, and display technology. The haptics are mostly WORSE.

Not having experienced the good parts of "dead wood" it may be excused, because not knowing it any better. Nonetheless there were and still are many good parts about "dead wood", and the ecosystem surrounding that. Just not everywhere.

/endrant
Via rust, obviously.
Test Spring Kafka consumer and producer with EmbeddedKafka
The MITM proxy feature is comparable to Charles, mitmproxy and others. Typically, in software like OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite (and now Hetty) the MITM proxy is only part of a larger set of features for doing research. E.g. the proxy is used initially for discovery of endpoints, and then the results are used for manual/automated requests/attacks on a service. Hetty doesn't have these features yet, but OWASP ZAP and Burp Proxy do.
You mean that us, developers, will have to choose the right fit between multiple options, in a competitive ecosystem?

That’s exactly what I want!
Is this based on the physics of the Seebeck effect to generate a voltage from a temperature difference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect#Seebeck_...
Is it? Indian and Chinese culture is very different. Apple benefits greatly from China's unquenchable thirst for luxury goods in general, not just phones but clothing, cars, etc. Signalling wealth through conspicuous consumption is important in China. I don't see that same characteristic in Indian culture; of course there is a market for luxury goods but it's not the same.
F-Droid previously banned Gab for being a “free speech zone” that will “tolerate all opinions”

https://reclaimthenet.org/f-droid-bans-gab-app/