skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sanity as a developer
Low code is targeted at app building experience for non-developers/citizen coders. Curious if you have personal experience with the Salesforce platform and can provide details on some of your biggest gripes with it.
I have used it with great success in building simple “textbox on database” applications that are easy to maintain and change.

> hearing Salesforce alone
What do you think about heroku?

I am genuinely interested in alternatives that is cheaper and don’t charge per user.
This is not a critic. This is a complaint that that dominance sucked up a lot of mental freedom and dareness to break out established regime. That's not even complaint to most people who are doing professional research, i.e., modern professional research is just like any other industrialized profession, it requires profit. Of course, with that comes conscious or unconscious desire to follow the lead. That inevitably manifests into low esteem to some prominent figure, but when you look closely, that low esteem is nothing but a sentiment towards the lack of resources; you almost never see any well regarded openly criticize people without different views, because intellectual ideas being different is just the inherent situation of any academic research, everyone knows that, otherwise one would not actually want to be in that profession in the first place.
Saying false things which hurts other people is tortious, not criminal. That's why we don't need to talk about mens rea, or whether or not metaphoral mom meant to be false or hurtful.

When we're talking about Section 230, we're talking about torts, and when we're talking lawsuits, we're also talking torts.
“ Shashua said the bank will use artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies to meet customer needs.”

AI for banking? Something like ‘our ML system said you don’t qualify for a loan’? Sounds so futuristic!
How widely adopted is .well-known? I had never heard of it before.
Ask HN: Does the FCC still prohibit cell phone use on unmanned balloons?
This rule is rumored to be a legacy carryover from analog cell networks. How then are student project unmanned free balloons (UFBs) using cell phones to locate payload wreckage? Are they violating 22.925 or using many hour delay scripts to turn off airplane mode?

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FCC 22.925:

§ 22.925 Prohibition on airborne operation of cellular telephones.
Cellular telephones installed in or carried aboard airplanes, balloons or any other type of aircraft must not be operated while such aircraft are airborne (not touching the ground). When any aircraft leaves the ground, all cellular telephones on board that aircraft must be turned off. The following notice must be posted on or near each cellular telephone installed in any aircraft:

“The use of cellular telephones while this aircraft is airborne is prohibited by FCC rules, and the violation of this rule could result in suspension of service and/or a fine. The use of cellular telephones while this aircraft is on the ground is subject to FAA regulations.”
That's why people should be permitted to print their own. Legalizing counterfeiting would solve all our ills.
It’s full of pretentious people trying to sell themselves. Not very nutritious to me.
Unicorns are not built by outsourcing dev. Change my mind.
My first post ever on HN. Would love to hear the opposite point of view.

I reasonably believe that outsourcing is not good at all for creating a product. Especially the product. Or even, PRODUCT! (all caps!)

Why not:
1. The main task of the outsourcing team is to implement the request, so to speak, to complete the task. This means taking money from you for hours spent, but NOT for MAKING a product that will be able to solve market problems and make money.

2. Outsourcing DOES NOT care that you may be able, or perhaps most likely, do not have the ability (what a weirdly polite way to say it) to create detailed and well-planned technical documentation that will lead to the desired results.

3. An outsourcing team as an entity is NOT a partner. To create a product, launch it and make it profitable, a Partner (capital P!) is required.

What instead:
1. Find a partner. There is no short cut here and as the actual experience proves, alone one does not create a truly great (because let us agree you dream big!) product.

2. The partner must have real experience, but not the same as yours. Since we are talking about an IT startup, then search among people within IT experience.

3. You did not find a partner? Then just do not start. The probability of losing money is too great!

Until you find a partner:
1. Set a goal to write documentation for your project. Write. Re-write. Shorten. Repeat.

2. Show the basic documentation you have created to familiar market experts. Especially try to find those experts whom no one loves for their eternal criticism of everything!

3. Finally, you can indulge a little bit with outsourcing development teams. Formulate the task for minimum viable product (MVP). Find good UI / UX designers from among your friends and create a little prototype.

Outsourcing is acceptable only for simple one-time-use solutions, and outsourcing is quite cool for a small app that allows you to run between investors not empty-handed.
If you want to be guided on that lonely and cold road by nothing but a false sense of superiority then it ain't on me to stop you. Just don't be surprised when, or fail to realise why, people judge you right back for your behaviour.
TSMC trucking water during drought
Farmed fish isn't necessarily sustainable. It depends on the species. For some species, e.g., eel, they are farm raised but they are wild caught when young. For eel, we have not been able to get them to lay eggs that could be hatched and they take 10-25 years to reach sexual maturity [0]. Eels are not doing very well at all.

Moreover, farmed fish are often fed wild fish, so that could have some strong negative impact on ecosystems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_fish_feed#Sustain...

https://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/food/cooking/The-facts...
lol, ok, then the power cost per block of 3 transactions. Multiply by 3.
If the artist is themself selling the art as an NFT, I believe so.
I believe this is the right way to solve the ergonomic issues SQL has. Once you have something like this though I think there is a real risk of it becoming more than just a sugar/ergonomics layer where it’s trying to optimize or rewrite queries. Perhaps the write approach is to take a similar stance to the TypeScript compiler and draw a line in the sand.

Also I like the syntax for defining the schema - it reminds me of GraphQL.
Open question: why are multi-dimensional arrays, and matrices specifically, so neglected in almost every other language?

They map well to practically freakin' everything, for what seems like.. not that much effort on the language design side, but an enormous amount of tedious, duplicated effort on the user side.
> Though it's not a place that a non technical user would think to go, and I expect it's not really as simple as it promises.

Exactly and you also don't own the data or have any expectation of privacy.
I have the Fellow Stagg EKG EU.
I have been using it daily for almost 2 years and I love it. Trully wonderful piece of equipment.
It does not fit the criteria the author desired but it fits all of mine.
Good pour-over spout, PID control, precise, fast, holds the temperature for 30 min since the last time it was touched not set, great UI, elegant, reliable.
However, it's small, very expensive, and doesn't have a filter (but I only use good water in it)
Pretty common. Let's Encrypt uses it, few other things I've run across, Matrix homeservers, etc.
Art + money laundering = regular fine art world[1]

So really this is just adding crypto to the mix, because "everything's a little bit better when you sprinkle crypto on it"

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/art-money-laundering...
I'm against UBI largely because my understanding of human nature (which could be wrong) suggests it won't work, but will take 1-2 generations for its failure to manifest.

I have a lot of empathy for others. Enough so that I'm unwilling to back polocies that I expect will cause more overall suffering in the long term.
Because Pandas is built on top of NumPy and NumPy has never had a proper NA value. I would call that a serious design problem in NumPy, but it seems to be difficult to fix. There have been multiple NEPs (NumPy Enhancement Proposals) over the years, but they haven't gone anywhere. Probably since things are not moving along in NumPy, a lot of development that should logically happen at the NumPy level is now happening in Pandas. But, I agree, I find it baffling how Python has gotten so big in data science and been around so long without having proper NA support.

https://numpy.org/neps/#deferred-and-superseded-neps
"relatively benign infractions" is the key part of my reply.
Can anyone break down for me what it is they are accessing in these attacks? Is it just the user's browser history that's meant by "website fingerprinting"?

I read the paper and it's not clear exactly what privileged information they are accessing.
Ah, it's sad that minix-vmd.org is down. It is not maintained by me, but I'll see if it can be revived.

That said, the sources on minix-vmd.org are quite old.

It seems that last time I put something online is also already awhile ago: http://stereo.hq.phicoh.net/Minix-vmd/images/
Also a similar point, Congress keeps summoning them and putting pressure on them so it’s almost a damned if you do damned if you don’t scenario. I am greatly opposed to censorship (other than say content that harms children or is fraudulent) and a platform having a stance on what is “truth” or “disinformation” is quite terrifying, but I also get that it’s an unfortunate side effect of the risk aversion song and dance they are being forced to put on.

To be clear about freedom of information in general, I think competing theories on things like coronavirus and election fraud should be entirely tolerated, especially when the only apparent consensus comes from blindly “trusting the officials” who are just other human beings. It’s very ivory tower and dystopian of them to want to push a narrative of stability when really there’s so much we don’t know.

The idea that we aren’t adults who should be able to question and audit things and have free agency seems like it’s not even on the table anymore which is sad. We’re all walking our liberties into the grave just to avoid uncomfortable topics.

Like Cypher in the Matrix, ignorance is bliss, plug my body back in!
Because there is absolutely nothing wrong with using Fortran for what Fortran is very good at.
I'm not sure what they are talking about, but windows comes with a built-in sandbox now. Adds a little bit of overhead, but besides that works very well.
Given china's rise, it would seem the argument is that scientific management with expansive powers in the western world didn't actually go far enough.
And people panic when there are discussions of population decline as if these levels of resource extraction are sustainable.
This is a great question and I hope you get an answer to this.

The number of woeful ad-hoc solutions I've seen to people handling matrix data in Java/C# for what should've been otherwise very basic analysis ...

Something with pandas-like capability in a lower level language would be amazing.
Corruption and regulatory capture are big ones in Israel. Small population and area also means harder to find a niche
Lower-income people when they are borrowing, are borrowing at very high interest rates (credit cards or payday loans) and inflation doesn't help those situations at all.

The wealthy are systematically benefitting from low-interest loans being reduced in value by inflation -- in the form of corporate bonds and leveraged trading (shorts, forex, margin accounts).
> Woe betide the working-class kid who arrives in college and uses Latino instead of “Latinx,”

I wonder if that still happens even when that working class kid is Latino?

Among US Latino adults, 76% say they have never heard of "Latinx", 26% have heard of it but do not use it, and only 3% use it [1].

Among 18-29 year old US Latinos, that rises to 42% have heard of it and 7% use it. It's got 14% usage among 18-29 year old women.

https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
Cancelling π
I think I get your point, and to be honest reading the thread again now I cannot say exactly why I felt so strong about it, but that was my reaction at the moment. It feels patronizing and wrong to assume that en_US language and accent (or en_GB, or whatever) should be assumed to be _the actual standard_, and something too foreign should be adapted without the involvement of the actual speaker.
I don't think this is about reading for pleasure. This guide is about how to read non-fiction efficiently.
Researcher in Nuclear Engineering chiming in with a similar experience. Much of our code is the same way, and in fact our field more or less invented many computing methods used today. One widely used simulation code called MCNP [1] can trace it's origins back to running on the ENIAC at Los Alamos in the 40s(!). At some point, it was considered a major upgrade when it was rewritten into fortran90.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_N-Particle_Transpo...
I think you have to start citing your sources. My sources suggest that Cromwell was hugely popular and pretty much not allowed to leave his post, which is why the restoration did not happen until after his death. He was even pushed to accept the crown himself - that's as popular as one could get. Also he was not into regicide, and King Charles I was only axed because he stubbornly refused to pare down his ambition from absolute monarchy to anything less, and with full agreement of the Parliament.

Sources: The Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan.
> people judge you right back for your behaviour.

If certain people judge me back for promoting proper English then it’s highly likely their association with me is undesirable in the first place. I prefer to surround myself with people who value excellence, your opinion of what is excellence notwithstanding.

Btw non-native speakers are perfectly capable of speaking proper English and in no way does having a high bar for language exclude them. It is not uncommon for a non-native speaker to speak English better than a native speaker either.

In reality, people can and will always be judged not only for the content of the message but also for their presentation. It’s important that young people learn and accept this to maximize their chances of success.
The problem is that without section 230, it becomes impossible for any website to have user hosted content. If websites are responsible for shit their users say, no website that posts user content can exist. No one is going to risk being sued over something a user says.
I know someone who was seriously trying to start a bank. After all his research he concluded that starting a bank from scratch was cost prohibitive. However buying an existing bank was way easier.

For the US the amount of regulation that banks have to comply with is enormous. I'm not entirely sure all of it is value add. In contrast bitcoin has almost no regulations or controls around it. Is there not anything in between?
If they're both "pretty bad for something so simple"... then it seems like a classic example of a problem that you could just release a solution for; then there would be a non-sucky solution available!

Unless it's actually not that simple?

You could at least make constructive criticism instead of just dismissively saying that all solutions suck. ("Tons of dependencies", "complexity", and "perplexing" are not actionable criticisms... they're highly subjective opinions.)
As I understand it, there are two ways to approach emulating a console that has a firmware, whether it's a BIOS or a full-fledged OS:

- You could emulate the hardware only, on its lowest level, and make the user provide the firmware dump. This makes the emulation more faithful, but sourcing the firmware isn't always easy.

- You could instead go up a layer emulate the firmware interface that games see. This might get you performance benefits, because you now have the freedom to optimize the low-level implementation details for your particular host platform, but that would mean the emulation itself would not be 100% accurate.
Depends on their daily active user count. It could become a hybrid podcast platform etc... the interactivity is interesting. I'd expect them to get bought at some point. I mean twitter could build their own but it makes sense to buy the audience and early adopter enthusiasm.

Take as an example, even with the TikTok clones tiktok is still on top.
This is really interesting. The biggest problem with digital nomad-ism is tax compliance. Companies like Deel are solving it on the employer side, but there aren't many great solutions for small-scale entrepreneurs. I think there's a massive market opportunity here if you can do it right. It would also help to get some political buy-in from the destination countries (which shouldn't be hard, since it means they collect more tax). Try to get some hearings organized at parliament and present your solutions, etc.
> major banks already offer a competitive digital platform.

Did this improve a lot recently? Only 2 years ago, the Wall Street Journal described the inconvenience of Israeli banking this way:

> Banking occupies a special place among the complaints of Israelis. Banks refuse to give out the phone number of a designated representative. Most basic functions can be dealt with only in person at the branch where an account was opened.

> Tech workers - many of them American and European immigrants who came of age with mobile banking - can toil all day on some of the world's most advanced projects, only to find they can't email their bank any documents. Many Israeli banks demand documents in person, sent by mail or by fax.

> when [Aliza Landes, a] 35-year-old American-Israeli [,] recently tried to send money electronically to pay for her wedding dress, the experience was less than high tech. It took two hours on the phone, and then a trip to her bank branch, where employees manually added the send-money function to her app.

from https://archive.is/EongN / https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-the-hot-device-in-startup...
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Problematic is just fine, brah-- with usage dating to the late 17th century and with a pretty clear connotation of "presenting numerous problems" instead of just being undesirable/bad.
Ha. I see what you did there. But I'll take it literally and for others who aren't aware there's an IANA site describing all 'legal' and 'official' .well-known URIs[0].

[0] - https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-...
Since they ID you by telephone number then they need at least the phone numbers in your contact list to let you know if people on your phone are using the service. I agree that step should be optional though and allow you to manually put in someone else's phone number and never need WA to rifle through your contacts.
> It is about "tragedy of the commons", not any specific feature of industrial fishing.

I am certain the TotC is a feature of commercial fishing, and I am perplexed how anyone could separate the two. Overfishing, driven by greed ("Take what you can; give nothing back" [1]), itself is a specific feature of commercial fishing. [2] But I agree with your second statement, though the situation is more complex than merely the problem of fishing all of the fish and the collapse of entire species. [3] What I also believe is desperately needed is an indefinite moratorium on fishing anywhere beyond coastal territories. [4]

[1] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003 (though this phrase actually originates from Caribbean pirates, though the original meaning concerns lines: when pulling a ship into a dock, to pull in as much slack as you can and don't let it go. In only a literal sense it seems it very much applies to commercial fishing.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing#Examples_and_evide...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_fishin...

[4] https://e360.yale.edu/features/a-global-ban-on-fishing-on-th...
Most rich are asset holders. No poor people are (by definition). Therefore higher inflation (to a point) is better for poorer people.
This is very troubling "Messages that are highly forwarded can only be forwarded to one chat since last spring. That led to a drop in 70 percent of these messages. More recently, we are additionally showing you a link to the Google search on those messages, to let you check the facts directly." Earlier he claims they cannot read messages but somehow they can filter out the RNA spam? It makes no sense. What am I missing?
Your list is a lot like mine. Giving the basics a higher priority for the longer term, and teaching these to young ones, along with appropriate norms are how I intend on playing it all going forward.
Can Economic Growth Last? (2011)
None of that is relevant to vaccination.

I agree it's a political problem - a political solution is proven by Asian democracies and Australasian democracies. As you say, it was pretty obvious that a 21-day lockdown with appropriate testing and follow-up would have resolved this issue in any country.

The people's right to have an opinion does not change the truth, that an indefinitely long half-lockdown is a bad compromise between opinions.
Besides the three excellent authors I've already mentioned above, I can share a selection of what I found curious. (Not all books I wrote down were mentioned by name; I picked some based on combing through the index.)

If you've completed Behave, these can be worthwhile. I haven't read them all, but slow-juggling a few of 'em over several months. These range from neuroscience to game theory to primate behaviour to human culture and more:

• Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio

• Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene

• Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal

• Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga

• The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

• A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness by Pumla Gobo-Madikizela
In your view does this apply to all algorithms or just ones that discriminate based on the content itself (ie use content as an input).

If the algorithm simply prioritizes say the most upvoted comment, is that the same? Or how about prioritizes the most watched/liked video?

I ask this because it’s basically impossible to not prioritize content unless a website is a mere directory of user information with no search box. Where do you think the distinction lies between being responsible for user engagement and not?
FYI, non-hire is the type of phrase that should be hyphenated.
Why do Intellectuals oppose Capitalism? (1998) [pdf]
And excellence is only achieved by having a thoroughbred grasp of the english language? Damn. Sucks to be a non-native speaker then!

I would also add that the truly excellent people in this world would probably not want to surround themselves with you at the first sign of your rather patronizing language superiority complex.

You should judge people for the content of their message, not the exact method of delivery. And in that regard most people will find you severely lacking despite your Flawless Usage Of The Proper Way To Speak English.
North Korea 'not responding' to US contact efforts