skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all pay for software, but it's the amount that really shapes decisions. Most organizations have a dollar limit where we can just charge a purchase card and when they have to seek approval. In this particular case, the software costs are higher than what can likely go onto a p-card, so now it becomes a real pain to acquire. In fact, the software is so expensive that it's cost would like eclipse the cost of the computer itself. So basically, we're looking at a decision where the client can use a more performant library and save $100k as long as they stay off of Apple silicon.

That's really the point I'm trying to make and not to criticize anyone for using a GPL license. Moving to these new chips, in many cases, will be a much larger cost to an organization than just the cost of the computer.
Nah, FOSS in 2020 is "give me free stuff slave!" while meanwhile making money off it by using it to run for-profit SaaS.
It's funny when people post things here that are written in go, they always want to let you know that. Nothing wrong with that, I just don't see it as much with other languages.
Child of divorce here: Thank god my parents split. Knowing them both as adults, it’s sort of hysterical that they were ever together in the first place. They were happier people separate, and I would like to think that helped them raise happier kids, even if I had to swap houses.

Stability is not impossible in divorce; in fact, it can be easier, depending on the marriage.
Perhaps a naive question, but where does one acquire antibiotics without a prescription? Whenever I've needed an antibiotic, I've seen a doctor and that doctor's prescription seemed necessary to purchase the antibiotics at a pharmacy.
If you have guns and nothing to take you have a commodity that is very valuable among the people who have things to take but no guns.
Like the title of the github repo suggests ArchiveBox can be used. You have to manually import your browsing history though....

In theory you could also use yacy... But that is intended as search engine and not as archive.

Edit: while looking into it I found alternatives [2] and Memex [3] seems to be interesting.

Edit2: I remember 2 Show HNs. One recorded your entire desktop and made it searchable. Can't remember what that was called, but the AllSeingEye I found [4]

[0] https://archivebox.io/

[1] https://yacy.net/

[2] https://docs.archivebox.io/en/latest/Web-Archiving-Community...

[3] https://getmemex.com/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886270
If R is a reasonable tool for a given problem, C# or Swift or Java almost certainly will not be. The realistic alternatives to R are other numerical analysis packages, Julia, and Python. “The” answer for any given person or project is likely to be a function of your colleagues and peer group, your problem domain, your library needs.

One of course is allowed to learn more than one thing. Maybe play with a bondage and discipline language to expose yourself to the concepts the parent comment is advocating for.
That was my first thought too, but if I think I might go septic soon, I'm gonna take that risk. Additionally, I believe if the imprint codes match on a commercial product, you can be reasonably sure it was forced to go through all the same process: https://www.drugs.com/article/imprint-codes.html. I'm not a doctor, obviously. Sharing my possibly flawed understanding, not giving advice.
One should never drill into the battery, regardless if it is inside the body, or inside a box. It's dangerous, but so is drilling into a gasoline or LPG tank. Car mechanics are trained on this topic, they know.

Compared to current battery-in-a-box construction methods, I expect that for crash safety the embedded battery may actually give more structural rigidity, and more freedom to incorporate crumple zones on tactical places.
Milton Friedman says it is a really bad thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHdq_2EUk4

He talks more about it in the series, Free to Choose. I forget which video he does so, but all videos are fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcm84hKEpyZQfhxhVFB8r...
I used to be Mormon. From what I recall they sell their bulk supplies to the community in bishop storehouses. Not sure if that is US only or everywhere. Given they own 2% of Florida and several other massive ranches and farms, as well as take emergency preparation as an article of faith, you may find some luck there.
> should I actually invest any effort into large-scale problems that occur at scales longer than my life when there are risks that are far higher around which I can make direct changes?

Yes.

The relevant number is not p, the likelihood of the event.

It is something like:

EV = p * consequences

If the consequences are high enough (eg, death), then it is still rational to prepare for low probability events. Especially when the prep cost is low.
Serious question. How does one know that any secure communications provider is secure? I use tools like Signal and protonmail, but this article has me thinking that those might as well be government ops.

Presumably the governments who purchased systems from Crypto AG had people educated in security do some due diligence on Crypto AG's products before purchasing them. If they didn't realize that the products were compromised by the US, what chance do I have?
Something like this https://github.com/rossant/awesome-math ?
I worked in the news industry for about 5 years, and, once I left the 24/7 cycle, I sort of instinctively understood the half-life of information and began to stop paying attention to the news. I was later pleasantly surprised to see this concept formalized in a few places, notably from Morgan Housel[1], Nassim Taleb[2] and Samuel Arbesman[3]. These men’s writing really crystallized what I had learned from experience but didn’t have a framework to explain.

It is of course a privilege to ignore the news completely. I don’t advocate totally unplugging. But once you better understand the material value of information, you can make better decisions about what to consume.

[1]http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/expiring-vs-lt-knowled...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
If you deploy to app stores you have a slow deployment process and there is not much you can do about it.
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you are right, as of now i am not into outreach/SEO/marketing at all, but will learn in the process

for challenge 2 i can handle it, i am a web developer and can implement all that stuff

but as you said, i need to showcase the benefit of that saas and get traction on it

thanks for the insight, appreciate it
This post has made me angor;
Every part of the innovation chain has understanding of the difficulty of their own link. Without every link, it doesn't work.

Consider the SR-71: Is it the pilots, the crews, the administrators who secure funding, the voters, the integrating engineers, the test pilots, the supply chain, the metallurgists, the engine designers, the manufacturers of test equipment, the standards bureau, the aircraft architect, the people who specified the initial requirements, the tire manufacturers, the refueling crews, the avionics manufacturers, the chemical suppliers for the bespoke starting fuel, the aerospace engineers who did the fundamental research, Chuck Yeager, the Wright Brothers, Bernoulli, the thousands of spouses who sacrificed to support their partners, or the fundamental researchers who ascertained the physics necessary to make the aircraft fly and evade detection?

Every one of them, and more, can lay claim to the statement: If we hadn't done what we did, the SR-71 wouldn't have flown.

I'm a fundamental physicist who has spent the entirety of this century trying to get at the bottom of things because it is the foundation upon which our understanding rests. When we make a measurement, however, even those experiments rest upon work and resources provided by a vast array of engineers, suppliers, manufacturers, administrators, support staff, physical plant, custodial support, funding agencies, and taxpayers.
I agree that things like 'thin blue line' and 'support our troops' have a political element that would be out of bounds in states with these laws, but its not clear to me that the example cited in the story approaches this level of explicit political meaning.

If it is what he says, then it was simply a copy of text that all soldiers swear to when they enlist. The U.S. Army is not a political organization and contains people from all backgrounds.

What really seems to have happened here is that the author was able to reasonably infer this police officers political affiliation from his clothing and that is not what is prohibited in these laws.
Just use S3
Likewise, I have all-electic heating and no gas service to my home, but a carbon monoxide detector only costs a few dollars so I still have one even though the risk is very low (most fires would probably trip the smoke detectors first I think.)
> I don't understand why someone has more financial assets than their partner would marry. It basically means if something goes wrong, you loose half your life savings, and potentially half your earning potential forever (until the other partner re-marries).

Pre-marital assets are generally not community property, so, no. You could lose half your during-the-marriage earnings, but you specifically mentioned pre-marital financial assets.
No price is given for this. It doesn't have FSD. The range is too short (the current Tesla Model X goes 371 miles, and by 2022 will go much further).

Too little, too late.
Have you actually seen any of it, or did you just watch it on entertainment news? And what leftist government? If Bernie Sanders ran for government in my country, we’d need to move our current scale to the right to even reach into how conservative he is compared to us, and we’re mainly social democrats, still really far from actual communists.

I don’t think prepping is actually that stupid. But the the thing is. Society never actually collapses the way American preppers think it will. Even in places like Syria or Liberia where you have really terrible situations, you’re just not going to make it on your own. People always gather in communities, gangs, whatever, and eventually the more stable of them tend to win. At least that’s how it’s been throughout the entirety of human history.

The traditional American prepper is just building a stockpile of stuff that’s going to get robbed, and would be much better of having learned some useful trade. So that even in the worst case of all the shitty cases, ISIS would have needed you, to keep the water running. Much more realistically, you’ll simply want to build and secure your local town and food production with the people from your local town, and being the paranoid loner with lots of guns and no useful skills isn’t who you want to be.
a €1.909,00 laptop(Cost of macbook pro 13 inch with 16gb of RAM) is not entry level. It's not even mid-tier. That is a high-end laptop. Entry level would at least be sub €600 laptop.
Ah, that brings back memories. Didn't Palm OS have something similar? I think it was Plucker [1], but I'm not too sure.

[1]
It's worth noting that SF isn't especially noted for extensive new construction.

Though implications for rebuilding following a future natural disaster might be interesting.
A lot depends on what failure modes you're preparing for and protecting against.

At the time of the original virus shutdown in the US, I saw a ton of essentially panic buying of things (like canned goods and rice) and bottled water that seemed to be aimed at a complete infrastructure breakdown. Yet, I'm guessing that most of the people preparing to hole up for months lacked many of the other things they'd need if they actually lost electricity and water for an expended period of time.

While of course they would need many other things as well, if you actually believe that there's going to be widespread societal breakdown, you probably do want a gun and ammo in addition to food, large quantities of water, and so forth.
Is there somewhere on the site that has something of a supplies list to build a kit? Water, first aid and food is all I know, are there other things I should think about? Are there foods that work best for stock piling up to a year?
I totally agree that it is a very efficient and powerful tool for ad-hoc data analysis. It's just not what I would view as a responsible choice for production / publication code.
Thanks, I've reported that to the current maintainers.
I'm not sure which field you're in, but at least in electrical engineering, the situation is very different from your description. EE academics are deeply enmeshed in real-world problems, and justifying real-world impact in publications is considered more or less essential. This is also enforced by the bottomline: a lot of research is sponsored by industrial consortia or even individual companies (Intel, Microsoft, etc). Furthermore, many though not all academics at some point spin off some part of their research into commercial ventures, and for some that even becomes their primary concern.
> I predict that in 5 years Dell, HP and Lenovo will be struggling. Time will tell...

I mean most casual users don't use laptops already, either preferring their phones or tablets. Those that do, need it for work (or a nicher crowd - gaming). And there's no way in hell the primary buyers of Dell, HP and lenovo computers, companies, with no reason to pay the apple tax will pay for expensive 1000$+ MBPs for each employee
I may be a javascript programmer, but I am also an expert on virus airborne transmission, political polling, and now, US governance of corporations. Let me dig into my Wikipedia files and get back to you.
Considering some of the major events that we've had. I would hardly call this prepping. We've had major fires, lots of civil unrest (2 major riots in Chicago and some minor conflicts), and the pandemic (which might I add is still going on) which has stressed supply chains. (Minor news articles are saying that we're starting to see limits and stresses on retail.. Christmas is going to be insane)
Hey thanks for the insightful comment! I'm sympathetic to your thought here on having an external service and going with a simple approach.

Situations with a slow deployment process has been a big motivator for building Config.ly -- and I've seen it happen at companies with medium-sized eng teams (taking hours to swap values during incident fires), and I know it's a problem _all_ iOS developers have due to the app store deploy process.

I also think there's other value here... For instance having a UI means non-technical folks can update it. A lot of my time as an engineer has been spent making copy tweaks (I've felt existing CMS products were too heavy-weight and difficult to plugin).

Also, having turn-key libraries mean you don't have to copy/paste hardcoded values among many clients (or store on the server build an API for _every_ constant). I'm a big fan of DRY.
Question: What keeps an organization from hosting it's own package mirror internally and only periodically fetch the diffs from the central registry?
Economists, the famously recognized scientists! Meanwhile protectionism lifted china in less than 30 years to the level of a superpower.
> What matters is not what's written, but rather that folks in power choose to abide by it.

And whether the other folks can make them abide by it.

Take Trump, for example. He seems to be an authoritarian at heart, and has several times tried to be. The difference is that the court system didn't roll over for him, and society (and the power structure) followed the courts rather than Trump. So even if Trump wanted to be a dictator for life, the levers of power existed independent of him, and were enough for his opposition to prevent him from doing so.

In China, the levers of power are all held by the Communist Party. And the Communist Party will do whatever Xi says. There are no non-Xi-controlled levers of power for any opposition to use to block what he wants. (I suppose there may be limits to how far the Communist Party will follow him. And there may be limits on how far the people can be pushed before they will revolt against the Communist Party. But those are the only limits on his power. No independent judiciary, no opposition party that controls one house of the legislature.)
Milton Friedman describes how tariffs only cost the imposing country here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHdq_2EUk4
TLDR -- PGO reduces build times by 10-16% but is not straightforward to realize in CI.
The users could, but what can you do as a maintainer if they don't?
Only people who don't understand tail risk think disentangling infrastructural dependencies is "nonsensical".
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Very interesting project.

I wish this was actually (optional) built-in behavior for browsers when bookmarking pages, or at least when adding to a "read later" list like Pocket/Instapaper etc.

Pocket seems to offer something like this, but only in the premium version, so the "permanent archive" ironically seems to go away when unsubscribing.

As a workaround, what if bookmarking a (public) page could actually ping it to archive.org for archival?
If the apocalypse was happening outside my bunker a little extra amoxicillin would be the least of my worries.
No price is given for this car. It doesn't have FSD. The range is too short (the current Tesla Model X goes 371 miles, and by 2022 will go much further).

Sorry BMW, this is too little, too late.
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I literally went all the way back to "pre algebra" when I started down this path. It bruises the ego a little bit, but as you say, it goes faster the nth time around. And it really is important to have the prereq stuff down, or you'll start flailing with the later material, not because it's conceptually difficult, but because of not remembering how to do the "easy" stuff.

In one of his videos Professor Leonard says "Calculus is the class you take to finally fail Algebra". I think there is some merit to that.
Slashdot did this - and possibly still does, no idea since I left that site aeons ago - although the limit was lower than 140 characters. It led to people adding random nonsense to their comments to keep the comment filter satisfied. Since everyone knew there was such a content filter and the added guff was marked as such it did not lead to those comments being down-moderated, i.e. all it did was clutter up the site.
In this situation, I’m hoping to barter my computer skills
Vault/k8s secrets for sensitive data--but you know, it really depends on the context for sensitive data, there isn't a simple answer to say what I've done across the board
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The DI-based configuration system can be configured to do exactly that. Though yes, the configuration is maybe harder than it should be simply because it isn't on by default.

A lot of the complexity in the configuration system exists to enable a lot of configuration options. I have some ASP.NET applications that get some configuration from Environment Variables on the host machine, some from environment-specific config files, some from a configuration service (specifically Azure Key Vault), all without any of my DI-injected downstream components specifically needing to know which source provided specifically which configuration key. For the DI injected things it is just `config["db-url"]` or maybe type-safe class if I DI-inject an IOptions<T> (or add my type-safe classes directly to the DI without the IOptions<T> wrapper, which is another configurable option).

It's absolutely a very complex system, but with great complexity comes great flexibility (to badly paraphrase the Spider-Man mantra).
> we've never seen roaming gangs of bandits

In the last 2 months we've seen roaming gangs of bandits looting stores and burning down buildings. (Causing over $2B in damages - the most expensive riot insurance payout ever, more than the King riots)
Actually it does need to involve guns, or else everything you’ve spent all that time prepping will be stolen from you in the event of a major catastrophe.

Take this with a grain of salt, as there’s no way to verify it’s real, but supposedly someone who lived through the Bosnian War posted about their experiences on a prepping forum, and the stories are pretty disturbing: https://prephole.com/surviving-a-year-of-shtf-in-90s-bosnia-...
I certainly think of it as a hobby I may want to take up because of recent events. Like, "supposing supply lines X Y and Z run out, will I be ready"? Self sufficiency is just kind of a cool thing.

And this year we had a tiny taste of how our economy is not invincible. So I wouldn't say bad outcomes are impossible.

BTW I tie free software, self-hosting, open data etc into the "self sufficiency" thing as well.
> How does one know that any secure communications provider is secure? I use tools like Signal and protonmail, but this article has me thinking that those might as well be government ops.

We need independent crowdfunded external audits for that like the one performed for TrueCrypt.
Oh, that makes sense. I like the solution you arrived at!
I think the "copy our tech" angle is interesting from a legal standpoint. Patents and copyrights are a legal framework to prevent importation of infringed materials. I'm not sure the answer, but interesting problem none the less.
I think we can probably stop at people in this context :)
>I stay clear of anti-biotics anyway.

You certainly shouldn't pop them for no good reason. But antibiotics can absolutely be life saving in the event of an infection.
Dogs' personalities change over time (full paper))
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I could smash in the audio visual, as my platform is all about archiving and being the origin for a CDN-fronted open offline-first platform with minimal resources that can go into a boat etc. tinydatacenter.com, Github / harlanji / ispooge,tinydatacenter, biz@harlanji.com - need $375/wk.
Your description sounds like the plot of the movie Red Dawn... which is probably not a coincidence.
Was skeptical about a Slate article but they pretty much nailed it.
It kind of depends on what you are looking for. It sounds like it's improving compilation times while you develop so you can get errors messages from the compiler and so on faster which SBT incremental compilation should help with.

Are you guys currently using SBT? If so, is incremental compilation not working for some reason (or are you not aware of it?).

In terms of time, it would really depend on the size of the project and what is currently in place. It could be a couple of hours to a few days.

BTW my email is in my hn profile you want to discuss more privately.
I think what those people were trying to hedge against was a short term loss of basic infrastructure like water or power. It wasn't meant to last for 2 months, it was meant to last for a few days.
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Sounds like Briar[1] might be what you want?

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproje...
People are vetting Signal, so unless you are the target of a directed attack against you, you are better off.

The Crypto AG phones were from a different era.
TrueCrypt Rest In Peace.
Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases?

I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when I prod, it's usually just out of curiosity, not because they actually need it in real life.
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I'm on the CS side. Was surrounded by people who love math but seem to believe that programming code is somehow dirty and less worthy than equations. The difference is probably that EE academics have an engineering background (are engineers themselves)?
"With sources"? You gave a source for what Bitter Winter is. That doesn't give reason to think that anything else you have said is true. You might, for instance, give a source for your claim that the Uighur issue is "propaganda nonsense".