skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What nobody is saying is that covid is not going away. This is highly irresponsible of Google given they have all the research in the world showing that. They already have the ideal situation set up to mitigate the risk of getting and spreading it. The vaccines aren't and never claimed to be 100% effective against covid, and as new variants have emerged, it's looking more like covid is going to be the next annual flu, except with all of the worst symptoms of covid, which can include death.

Our administration needs to pass legislation to prevent companies from forcing people back into offices. This is rediculous.
>The cover flow clearly emulated flipping through a stack of records or CD books.

It also cleverly makes albums take up a small amount of space while being identifiable. iPhone Safari tabs are similar.
Ask HN: How to decide which design pattern to choose for my applications
Hi all,

When I start developing my applications mostly I prefer to start with MVC pattern.

I have difficulty in deciding when to choose a different pattern and which one. The books that I have read mostly describes how the pattern works. But I couldn't find resource that can help me decide in which scenario I should change my pattern.

Can someone please help me point me in the right direction?

Thanks.
You can beam the energy to the spaceship from a planet or satellite for the first leg of the voyage in many physically plausible configurations.
Amiga.com
So many Googlers are stuck a decade or two back. It's astonishing to see considering how innovative and forward thinking Google used to be.
My impression is that Clubhouse makes people feel like they're part of a special privileged group by artifically and arbitrarily restricting access to a small number of dedicated (if not outright sycophantic) listeners.

It's ultimately a system which benefits highly privileged people who have a lot of free time and flexibility while excluding people with more restrictive schedules.

Digital media can be consumed at any time and in any way you chose, while this seems like it's reverting to the terrible legacy model.

The true master grifter has this outstanding ability to transform the simplest of ideas from a 2 minute explanation into a 20 minute diatribe. One must really love the sound of their own voice in order to spend so much time yaking on endlessly without saying anything of substance.
I never understand why long commutes aren't "Pants On Fire" emergencies for people. If you're driving two hours every day, and not spending all your free time wondering how you can either change jobs or change housing, well, it's a finite life that you're pissing away.

I'm certain that there will be an outpouring of hundreds of reasons why people cannot move, and I'm sure all of those reasons have merit. But it doesn't change the fact that long commutes are a huge detriment to work/life balance.
At the beginning of the pandemic, their policies seemed aligned with WFH. Surprising to hear the opposite so soon.
This is the thing, right. The problem isn't remote or office per se, it's the commute to and from the office that's the issue. I can definitely focus more at home, but I really miss my 30 minute bike commute.
IMO, an atomic-resolution cell simulator would be extremely useful.

If you have an atomic-resolution cell simulator, you can add lots of automatic interpretation to layer up the information. For example, you can use relatively basic inference software to get a list of metabolite interactions (and their rates and derivatives). An additional layer would contain inferences about the way those metabolites move inside the ER and so on.

Even with those layers, the amount of brain power needed to understand anything would be significant. We may not have enough experts or expert-years to accomplish much. Perhaps a further step would be to make the models more accessible to people with less specialization. Even find more playful names for cell metabolites, the ones we use right now are utterly unpronounceable.
Commute length and comfort is often inversely proportional to income.

Sometimes you end up in a job with no good transit routes from where you can afford to live, so you have to drive hours a day. Search the web for stories about "supercommuters".

Compared to any of that, a 30 min bike ride is downright lovely.
You can't turn it off in the EU. The configuration is reset as soon as you power off the car. Considering this, assuming your claim is true, there should be vast amounts of damage to vehicles in the EU, which there isn't. In other words, the stop-start system causing significant damage is just one of the many myths popular among motorists.
> All in all I think Google has shown it's true colors here. They don't have a damn about their employees.

That's exactly how I feel.
The article argues for a public housing model for trailer parks. Because of the pseudo ownership model where you don't own the land but still own a house sitting on the property that is expensive to move, the operator of the trailer park can just increase rates. It's exploitative compared to the rental market. You basically lose your housing investment unless you can find another trailer park and you can afford the moving fees. Renters can just move on to the next apartment.
Alternate title:

Quality Control and Safety procedures (put in place to meet medical manufacturing regulations) prevent a bad batch of vaccines from entering the market and potentially harming patients.
It’s the time of year again. Wack April Fools antics.
These actions are only pushing people out of the 'general public' to pure extremist platforms.

Even people with moderate views are frequenting those websites; because that's where the guy who 75 million people voted for last October can be heard.

What's next? AI to ban any pro-Trump content and only allow anti-Trump articles and user comments to remain online? The tech for that already exists. It's chilling how far we're come from just 20 or even 10 years ago.

Now that the right is kicked from the 'mainstream' tech world, they'll have no choice but to acquire the tech and develop their own platforms.
Well, to be entirely fair, Chinese engines up until very recently were severely lacking.

Beyond that, there isn't really any country besides Spain, China and Russia that will trade openly with Cuba for fear of indirect American sanctions, so maybe in the lack of any open market option they decided to go with what they knew best, which are American engines.
Debatable. They are harder to repair than ever, they eat disk IO for breakfast as swap and there's no native Linux yet because Appe can't be bothered to move a finger to help in that front.
The encoded Arecibo message to space was one of the earliest memories I have of science being amazing. I wonder if that project will continue on another facility
I'm in no way defending US internet providers, but is 5 Mbps really that low for video-conferencing?

Up until late last year, my parents' connection was an ADSL that could only do 4-5 Mbps download. I could watch 1080p videos on Amazon Prime without any issue, and the quality was much, much above what I can possibly expect a good webcam to provide. Hell, I remember watching Star Trek in 480p on a MacBook Pro Retina in bed and being impressed by how good the image quality was.

I understand that real-time compression isn't as good, that movies have better cameras, lighting, etc.

But that's the thing, though. Maybe instead of pushing a ton of random garbage pixels per frame, a lower resolution will be just as good.

Instead of pushing for a 4K 60 fps or more webcam, let's make a damn good 720p one. Maybe add some diffuse light to it, like the Razer Kiyo. It will probably improve the perceived quality much, much more than an ultra high def one fighting with backlight and other suboptimal environment issues.
The president od my small local hospital is paid $985,000 per year. I looked it up.

My local hospital also cuts lots of corners to save a buck. I know some nurses who work there. They understaff while they overcharge patients and play absurd games with billing.

I think this is pretty normal in the US. The ratio of hospital beds to population is unusually small for a developed country.

As soon as my kids are a little older, I am getting out of this country. I am healthy now but as I get older I get more concerned about getting caught in the US healthcare system.
Ask HN: Best home automation hardware / software
Hi all, I'm looking for the most "hacker friendly" home automation software and hardware. Preferrably open source or standard stuff that does not require cloud subscriptions to work. I'd like to control cameras, appliances, watering systems, pumps etc.

Any geeks with experience in this area? What's the most open and modular kits?
It's both. As you might imagine, some in each group don't get along well with the other.
Public housing has most of the same problems - poorly maintained, high crime rate.
TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge
This feels like convenient timing with the all of the recent talk of raising broadband standards. Its also convenient that this seems to not actually measure quality by anything other than “good” which sounds an awful lot like the language used repeatedly by shady isps who were fighting against this last time. I clearly remember their constant usage of “...good enough...”

They give us nothing, not even simple bitrate or resolution and fail to tell us really anything.

I’ve grown incredibly skeptical of anyone who says internet speed of X is “good enough.”

It wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if we were to learn this study was funded by AT&T or Verizon.
This is why we need unions. Do employees get to sue Alphabet if they get covid from the office?
Show HN: Blogging by 1MB – The Easy Way to Host Your Website or Blog
> thanks haha

What's the joke? Lots play OSR, and they are generally more serious and sophisticated gamers than other groups (IME).
You can have that to a certain extend. When people are saying you should build more they don't mean modern style 10 story buildings next to a single family home. They mean a duplex or triplex that fits in with the rest of the neighborhood or a 2-3 story apartment with a nice facade that is in the spirit of the neighborhood.
480p, 720p, 1080p says nothing if the lens sucks. If have seen sharper video from a 720p camera than from some 1080p's.
It looks like the author is talking about command line tools that use env vars for things that should be arguments. In the comments on the page he admits that for example key credentials are valid usages for env vars.
I think the difference here is that conservation of mass was an incomplete understanding of what was going on, and conservation of mass-energy was an evolution of the law.

If the EmDrive worked, it would mean that several foundational things are just wrong. Not incomplete, just completely wrong.
“I'll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies
I wish there was wider adoption of configuration services. Something like Enovy xDS protocol, but for general configurations.

Puppet & Co did it to some extent, but for the whole server. On boot it asks centralized service for a configuration, providing just server identity and some basic attributes (datacenter, rack, stage) and receives full server configuration. Implementing this pattern for a service itself, would make it easier to configure swarms of services.

I experimented with using Open Policy Agent, where it dispatches exact configuration based on client identity and quite liked the result. Only downside is that it requires polling.
North Korean government-backed entity: This reminds me that one of the approach of the "western" agencies was to hide themselves as coming from North Korea to run their operations.

I would just write it as: "an entity" is trying to target security researchers. But it has less marketing power.
Giving my SSN to my employer seems reasonable because that’s how I pay in to social security.

SSNs are fine as IDs (with time bound assumptions), the problem is using them for authentication.
>Tragically it never seems to be available on streaming services

It appears to be on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/tntvillage_541011/Switched+On+Ba...
> An environment variable can only contain a single null-terminated stream of bytes. This is very limiting.

The same is true of command-lines and files. Computers can only use bytes.
> $2,691 per month

per year, I suppose.
Privatize gains, nationalize losses. One of the oldest plays in the book. It has been applied to resource extraction, service providers, psychoactive substances, and more. Somehow the public always ends up holding the bag.
“Sub-exponential” is a statement of the problem space, the solution is log(n) :P
You can have both: write your code in a way that you pass it’s configuration. This makes code more testable and reusable.

Now in the outmost layer where you start your program you get the environmental variables and pass them.
Yeah I just totally hate sarcasm, has nothing to with /s being overused where it's super obvious.
When in reality it was invite only because Bob down in the data center couldn't wheel in hard drives and network switches quick enough..
they don't care. this was done to prevent every official Joe Biden video getting 10x the number of dislikes as likes. go check any recent one
I came here for this comment. I'm a developer and I have been using env vars for quite some time after I got burned numerous times by other options. I just can't see why I would use anything else.
> First it's network effects, then it's the existing actors preventing you. Make your mind up.

That's two sides of the same coin.

> Then use a Pinephone. That nobody else you know uses it, and nobody develops for it isn't Apple's fault. Apple's 30% appstore cut isn't bringing people from Pinephone to iOS, if anything it should be pushing the other way. I know they have negligible market size - the point is Apple iOS has big market size by being good and your plan to respond to this is to make it bad from sour grapes.

I'm talking about the mobile app market, maybe one day the Pinephone will have enough market share to be considered a competitor, right now it does not so you can't count it.

> Fortnite was not competing with Apple though? Epic gave people a way to buy Fortnite on Steam, and then a way to install Fortnite free on Android, and people didn't want that. So Epic came after Apple and blamed them, irrelevantly, and the judge was leaning to Apple's side.

Fortnite suffered from the duopoly and the app market failure.

> Except you can sideload anyways, as evidenced by the fact that you can. What it tells you is that /people don't want to/.

No, it tells you that the restrictions Google put in place so that users don't sideload (the developer menu being hard to access, scary warnings and the difficulty of update your app) are enough to keep out even the most popular game in the world to use that option.
Neat idea. How much energy do you lose (assuming a vacuum)?

You could imagine some kind of dish that catches the energy, but that's the extent of my knowledge -- I don't know how you'd convert it back to propulsion.
Yeah, I do agree. It's odd that FB are doing so differently from them, though. When I worked in a FAANG, they had lots of issues with senior level engineer retention. Generally loads of people left when they wanted to start a family.

I guess FB must have seen the same thing, hence full remote for senior engineers. It's odd that Google haven't experienced this issue.
How does the performance compare to TLA+? Especially curious if you've run it under PyPy.
I personally haven't ever done it, so this is a genuine question. Don't you have to have to have a setup that has the correct IOMMU topology for that to work?

Seems this might be a more plug-and-play solution that works more broadly, or as mentioned in the sibling comment, can be shared with the host?
Sorry to disappoint.
But what if it turns out that the experiment showed that cars really are faster in reverse? It turns out that by driving in reverse you create anti-drag in front of the car which pulls it forward. It's so simple yet powerful. How did you not think of this? Now everyone must think you are stupid because you were being so negative while everyone believed in it. Time to open the internet to see the reaction... Wow, no one cares. It turns out unless Apple releases this in their new car as iEM Drive with exclusive iEM Aqua car paint finish no one would know or care about this.
Just in case you were operating under the illusion that tech giants are run by forward thinking executives who are immune to the usual politics and problems of corporate life. Nope, most of their exec layer is a bunch of people who cut their teeth the industry in the 90's, and are operating within a thick fog of local workplace politics. I guarantee that behind this move is an executive who believes that developers need to be physically colocated to be productive, because that's how it worked when he was coming up at WordPerfect or whatever. Backing it is also a group of people who have a lot to gain from it politically.

At my employer we have some pockets of embarrassing leadership like this, but thankfully I haven't seen it in anyone senior enough to make global policy like this. My department is letting go of remote teams and only hiring in a handful of cities around the world, while ramping up office space spending. It's more expensive, less flexible, and less productive... and everyone knows it. But I guess it makes some people feel important, and it's how some others remember developing when they last did it 20 years ago. So it's happening anyway, and many of their best engineers are now on the market.
I cannot agree more. If I have to choose between spending time with my kid or actual friends vs sitting in my car commuting it is an absolute no brainer. Thankfully I have been a contractor for a while and I don't need to put up with this nonsense anymore.
Well the trouble is if you tell everyone that you are data-driven, and do so in most cases, then people are definitely going to ask about what data you used to make a decision.

If you're explicitly HiPPO based decision making, this tends not to happen.
eBook sales show no sign of slowing down in 2021
SafeBrowsing blocked redbean downloads for a day (https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html) and it was the #3 top Show HN story of all time. Google put a real chill down my spine when they did that to me, not being able to download files from my own website.
I'd like to think if funded properly, public housing would improve but I'm not confident. I grew to in a trailer in a trailer park and honestly, it was good for my family. We had 3 loud, boisterous, boys living together and we needed our own four walls. I think it's fair to say subsidizing this kind of private housing might be a bit selfish. After all, why does everyone in a park get a yard when people are just trying to find a studio or a rentable room just to work in the city?

But I think that's the wrong question for two reasons.

1) The choice isn't usually between dense urban developments or trailer parks. I don't even think this type of land use comes into conflict all that much. Occasionally a park is shut down to build a shopping center but most parks are at the edge of cities. They are not usually blocking density.
2) It goes beyond market rate housing. Parks are often limited or banned. Perhaps encouraging parks is manipulating the market but so is what is happening now by law.
I read statistics where 40% of young people do not start family, do not date, and basically withdraw from society. In interviews they blame it on long working hours and rigid rules in society in general.

So maybe there is no conflict, but it is hardly functional.
Kudos for spending four hard years to publish a negative result! It will hardly make any of them famous, while it still is a very important result. Hopefully this means that we can leave the whole EmDrive debacle behind us once for all.

And to those that says that the outcome was given, and that they wasted their time, I'd say that we do have to sometimes try for the really long shots. In addition, it is important to show that we don't sweep any controversial results under the carpet just because they don't align with current "dogma".
> Now suppose you are a car mechanic in all this .. the disadvantages in air flow

Not sure a mechanic is better than anyone with understanding of car dynamics, but the "air flow" argument is the key to this.

Who are the experts on emDrive tech, and what principle does the emDrive violate? If you can't say, then you are indeed a pessimist.
Give it a try. You will find there is a lot to discover and close connection to the music. Then try looking at the booklet of an album. Pro level: read the liner notes.

It will be amazing how much information there is and to learn about the thought process of the artist while creating the album.
Background on Alison Collins: she’s an activist who historically railed against parental choice and charter schools, got elected to the SF education board due to her activist stripes, dismantled merit based admissions at the best SF public school (Lowell High School) earlier this year, then got in trouble for a series of tweets she made in 2016 that were racist (against Asians), then refused to really own up to the tweets and apologize fully (she claimed they were taken out of context), was removed from her position via a vote of no confidence, and is now suing the district and her colleagues for $87 million ($12 million in general damages from “each” defendant — the school district plus five board colleagues voting against her — plus $3 million in punitive damages from each of her five board member colleagues).

The interesting twist? She’s claiming that the vote against her was a violation of her first amendment right to free speech, as she was a private citizen when she made those tweets. This is a person that is typically against the idea of free speech and for censorship/deplatforming/cancel culture as a progressive activist, so there’s a bit of irony/hypocrisy here.

As for those problematic tweets she made in 2016:

1. She claimed that Asians “use White supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead”, which is clearly insulting and false.

2. She claimed that Asians benefited from "model minority" perceptions to the detriment of other groups, basically parroting the claim that model minorities are a “myth” because it is inconvenient for victim narratives on racial inequities.

3. She said “Talk to many Lowell parents and you will hear praise of tiger moms and disparagement of Black and brown 'culture'”, essentially discounting the culture of hard work and academic focus that results in disproportionate success for the Asian demographic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Collins
https://meaww.com/alison-collins-top-officials-including-may...
> There are now over 200 mobile manufacturing units in India

That's a bit of a stretch.

The prime majority of them just assemble from knockdown kits to circumvent India's tarrifs, and bureaucratic phone registration scheme. Though I see more of them going for a more complete assembly in a few years time.
"This is the way we have always done it so it must be correct!" != "This is the way we have always done and it works perfect for everybody!"

I want to use env vars because:

* I want to reuse builds and my systems have different behavior on different environments.

* I want to override the default config sometimes

* I don't want to expose sensitive configurations, and yet have them explicitly configure in my project configuration

The post it's very opinionated and lacking any valuable point IMO.
Exactly! Using GPS etc to navigate actively inhibits your ability to learn to navigate yourself. A friend of mine got a car with satnav built in years ago. After living in the same city for more than a decade he still can't get around without it.
Since it uses its own ssh library I assume it won't support ssh agent/unix socket forwarding this way?
Also checkout the chipophone, Linus Åkesson rocks