skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they pay. There's no IP transfer here; you own your own IP.

That said, I'm hoping that, via donations, there will be spots for those that can't pay anything at all. But that's a lot of speculation for something that is still very much up in the air.
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It would also be a nightmare on a curved brick wall, or curved cement structure. The point of the shown technology was the experiment and the potential of it, not the specifics of this single architectural design.
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> "It’s the return of freedom"

Seems like a low bar of what constitutes freedom.
The Streisand effect at work. I'd never heard of Droidscript before, but now I want it. Thanks Google.
I was taught "UML" at university (UK, 10 years ago). I say "UML" because while that was the name given, we probably only had a few hours on it in my entire degree, and it was essentially boxes and arrows, with class names and methods, and the basics of sequence diagrams.

I think it was valuable. I suspect many engineers use simple diagrams in notebooks on a regular basis, and by introducing it very early in the degree it gave us another tool to help think about the code we were writing.

It wasn't actually UML, but I think it's a good thing to cover at the beginning of a course.
Regardless, Pine does not look like a product I'd put my faith in. Perhaps someone else, sure, but Pine inspires no trust from me.
Coronavirus vaccines, Intellectual property, currency value and Bill Gates
I may be missing some nuance in my evaluation here, but I wanted to bring up what I think may be an important point about how we treat intellectual property and our philosophy about sharing it with other countries.

I recently read an article where Bill Gates (as it was written in the interview transcript) seemed extremely certain that he did not see value (and perhaps was very against the idea) in sharing intellectual property with other countries so they could ramp up additional production of coronavirus vaccines.

He, of course sounded off as though he's concerned about the "manufacturing process" and how it needs to be carefully managed, which I don't disagree with.

But here's the thing, which I think is an extremely important issue human civilization is going to need to grapple with over the next several decades:

But let's start with currency value. One thing that I find extraordinarily ridiculous about our current (mostly) global economy. It feels counter-intuitive to me, but countries are not in a race to strengthen their currencies. They all seem happy with the idea of weakening their currencies in order to continue to be able to export to other countries. Why not, instead, try to strengthen the weak countries? I mean of course there need to be boundaries because there are plenty of corrupt governments out there who would love to take advantage of such a situation. But the point is that MOST countries SHOULD be capable and we should be willing to help them strengthen their currencies. The only way we can do that is by helping them strengthen their economies, and really let's be honest in a technological civilization intellectual property is perhaps THE THING that these countries need more of in order to make that happen.

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Hey, congrats on launching this. Worked like a charm and overall looks really polished.

I'd be interesting in using this but if I understand correctly this works by replacing the search functionality which means all my searches go to jumprope. I am not sure if there is a way around this in chrome but for me it's a deal breaker.
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True. The question is if that is just a temporary thing or the new normal. I suspect prices will be back to 'normal' in a year
Interesting that these were the four types of businesses called out:

1 - B2B SaaS sold on the low-touch model, like Basecamp

2 - B2B SaaS sold on a high-touch model, like Salesforce

3 - Mobile apps

4 - Ad-supported websites

What happened to B2C website where the C actually pays the B for a service?
I would say that 90% of my pc resources are consumed to execute JavaScript code. If we need dedicated hardware to execute this more efficiently so be it. We do it anyway for so many other domains. Video, graphics, encryption etc.
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We could then argue about the potential pitfalls and how these countries may not be "ready for it" yet, but who's to say one way or another. If we're going to have a global economy our goal should be in STRENGTHENING our economies not weakening them. I mean the stock market is doing great and all but a lot of that is (at least right now) because our currency is so weak compared to what it has been historically.

You might now be asking yourself, "But, what about corruption. Even countries we consider 'allies' can end up with bad apples in powerful positions". I'll then ask you the same question. Even we ended up with Trump in office, which arguably is going to hold the US back for decades to come in terms of foreign relationships.

The real point here is whether or not human civilization truly believes that human civilization is by nature good. Do we believe these countries will use the shared intellectual property for good rather than evil. If we as a civilization have by now come to the conclusion that human civilization by nature is bad, then what are we protecting? It's all going to eventually turn to shit and, really, why do we want this wonderful planet to be primarily inhabited by an inherently evil species?
As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you've publically released an SDK and invited third parties to form businesses off of developing software for your device, you have no right to represent the device as an appliance. At that point it is obviously a general purpose computer.
Seems Mondragon does just fine.

> cooperatives tend to last longer and are less susceptible to perverse incentives and other problems of organizational governance than more traditionally managed organizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Yes, but bricks and coffee mugs are kiln fired, so this 3d printer would need to somehow accomplish that baking process or add something to the mix that would cause it to harden without being fired.
I feel like things have felt pretty good in the PC world since NVMe SSDs and approximately Sandy Bridge.

But, I do agree that there is a lot of jank in software that we write these days. Over the weekend I started writing an application that uses glfx + dear imgui, running on a 360Hz monitor. The lack of latency was incredible. I think it's something that people don't even know is possible, so they don't even attempt to get it. But once you know, everything else feels kind of shitty. This comment box in a web browser just feels ... off.
When I left the UML world 15 years ago what was being worked on was the model. Not everything in the model has to be expressed in the diagram(s) - that simply makes the diagrams unusable. The problem is UML "grew up" being diagram-based, which can't be round-tripped. Too many people rejected the model approach and the two factors I identified were then able to kill it.
This is pretty cool, and it probably works very well on other platforms, but the compiled-to-WASM isn't great. For one, text boxes don't actually focus while capturing input, so my keyboard shortcuts kept firing while I was trying to type into their text box.
Just speaking personally, if I cared enough about efficiency to get a dishwasher, I'd rather instead have a bigger sink and setup a wash and rinse bin for dishes. Its the classic way to preserve water at a campsite when doing lots of dishes.

A tub setup would be more environmentally friendly considering the resources put into a dishwasher these days. Certainly drying via a towel is better then an electric heater.
For transferring bitcoin?
Inflation is low measured by the CPI and that is because most of the things measured in that index are made by people that are NOT increasing their wealth. It is a large transfer of wealth to the more wealthy who then benefit by lower tax rates for these capital gains.
Here[0] is a guide that explains syncing ipynb <> py files with Jupytext. I also add ipynb to `.gitignore`. It works well, although the file browser in Jupyter becomes cluttered with every notebook file being doubled. It'd be great to hide the underlying py files.

[0] https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/master/docs/paired-n...
Rain can be torrential in the desert.
Basecamp bans all political talk at work
Changing the Definition of Soap
You touch on what I think is an important consideration. A lot of people want to get into diving but just don't have the time to do it consistently enough to be fully on top of it. They have a few days vacation and go do a nice destination and expect to jump right back in at the same level they have done before, or even worse they buy some new gear as if gear makes up for practice. Like with a lot of things, there is no substitute for time in the water as a diver. Good decision making and technique come from lots of consistent practice, that most people don't have the time to do.
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Maybe not enjoyable, but also not anxiety-inducing like certain foundational design tasks can be. For procrastinators, writing a small unit test can be a near-mindless, easy activity to get going.
Sometimes I honestly wish I could be a bit like this Durkin guy. I feel anxious when I owe a grand or two, I can’t imagine how I’d feel taking over property with the owners’ own money. But in practice, as it says in the story, crime does pay; this guy likely stashed away a few millions in the Caymans and will retire sipping daiquiri, while the honest families getting conned will keep struggling to the end of their days
No one keeps track of inflation for anything other than consumer goods. Inflation is floating around 1-2% according to the Fed. They conveniently don't track things like fuel prices or food because they are too "volatile". And things like asset inflation simply isn't considered in the equation. But the reality is that upper income people have 401ks with stocks in them and lower income people live paycheck to paycheck. Since 2008 when the Fed start QE, the stock market has gone through the room, including companies like FANG.

If you're not exposed to the stock market or housing market, then you're fucked.
We Shouldn't Trust AI to Tell Us What We Feel
> Running electrical, plumbing, air conditioning etc through this structure is doable but much harder

Have you seen architecture in like, any warm part of the world, especially Italy? Masonry/concrete techniques dominate.

If anything, this is far easier to integrate with utilities, since it can be incorporated into the 3D design.

It also seems easier to drill through than traditional masonry/concrete.

This technique is even more labor-saving than filling formwork with local materials, because formwork is very labor intensive, and you can't readily incorporate unusual utilities, windows, shapes, etc.
In Portland retail stores require you to hand sanitize every time you enter which becomes a bit cumbersome if you enter a few stores during a trip. And yes, the extra effort has a cost, because I've been told to sanitize in front of employees who are interacting with groups of customers at close distance (while masked tbf). At the end of the day humans have a small set of things they can juggle in their minds and that focus should be on ventilation, spacing, and masking instead of wasting focus on unnecessary surface cleaning.
And I would. At much much much lower prices
> On top of this German Chancellor yesterday said that "we allowed India to become a pharma powerhouse but now we have to rethink". This is because India is producing cheaper vaccine.

They are worried the surge in India will delay shipments to the EU. The EU wants cheaper vaccines! That's why they took so long to negotiate the contracts. They thought a vaccine wouldn't be produced in record time and because of that they felt they had a lot of time to negotiate.

> “We now have a situation with India where, in connection with the emergency situation of the pandemic, we are worried whether the pharmaceutical products will still come to us.” [0]

[0] https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/angela-merkel-laments-they-a...
Many businesses are incapable of thinking more than one financial quarter ahead.
"In the case of fdroid, apps that violate open source licenses are not allowed" ...on the main repository. AFAIK, there's nothing stopping Google or anyone else from setting up their own F-Droid repository to distribute apps with proprietary code. The normal F-Droid app should be able to use a repository like that just fine.

EDIT: Addressing the "PS" that was added...

> Google advocates always make the argument that endusers "can just root their phones and install the APKs anyways" which is similar to f-droid with an external repository. Most non-technical endusers simply won't do that.

Android skirts around the criticisms fielded towards iOS by technically allowing users to install and distribute third-party apps. The real problem with Android is that the default distribution platform (Google Play Store) is a walled-garden, proprietary app with such a massively disproportionate market share that most users don't even realize there are alternatives. And Google ensures their store will always be the default because they hold their proprietary Google Play Services for ransom. And Google Play Services is so valuable because it provides many convenient features and functions, including some which used to be part of the operating system itself.
Weak.

The console tab of Chrome's developer tools allow arbitrary code execution. That example is not a security violation, ergo arbitrary code execution is potentially but not necessarily a security violation.

A valid remediation requires more than just arbitrary code execution, such as privilege escalation or leaking containment.
I can't take her reasoning seriously if she doesn't understand why Lyft and Uber don't get charged the 30%. Apple guidelines on why physical goods/services are not charged vs. subscriptions or digital goods is pretty clear.

When politicians can't or are willfully misguiding in interviews like this they really lose a lot of my trust.
The Cloud is just someone else's computer.

As a self hoster, nothing irks me more that more software that takes control from the user to some random third party.

And I fail to see why anyone would use this, you need high speed internet capable of streaming 4k for one and if you have access to that, then chances are you also have access to a sufficiently powerful computer capable of running chrome locally.

Coming to security, this is a complete disaster. All your traffic including passwords are going to a third party server and you have to trust that server to not do anything shady.

This cant be economical either, or will be too expensive.

And the testimonial on the website, I find it hard to believe that a CEO of a company cannot afford a powerful computer but can afford a (presumably expensive) subscription service giving them access to a video stream of a browser running on powerful hardware.

Like another user said VNC can already do this, and much more without the electron wrapper.
I had similar experience at a Semantic Web startup.

> I was young and realized only afterward...

If I could give young me any single piece of advice, it'd be "OMG STFU. Just smile and cash the check."
I really don't know how the Fed will unwind all this nonsense. It is sad that the Fed had to step in because we can't get the fiscal policy changes we need.
From business growth perspective: if you have paying customers - then such low cost savings are counter intuitive, for a one man shop.

A one man shop with paying customers shouldn't spend time on optimization, unless it's just for fun.

If I'm a customer - I'd rather see more value added functionality, rather than cheaper data storage.

But that is my opinion, hope that your customers appreciate you spending time on this.
> Muslim (fundamentalist) society looking down on appliances that do 'womens work'.

That's extremely condescending, not to mention plain wrong.
Show HN: Parquetify – A web tool to convert JSON/JSONL files to parquet
More info here: https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
They get a gigantic boost in internal datacenter performance if they can jam a bunch of Apple Silicon chips into a rack mounted server and boot Linux on it. If they can get a similar boost in performance at lower power efficiency in the chip that is going in the Mac Pro, taking that chip and putting it on a board with Ethernet and Power wouldn't be a ton of engineering cost and then they could massively reduce the power consumption and cooling costs of the datacenters.

And then they could resell the box they designed as a server, either with Linux support out of the box (unlikely, but since in this mystical scenario they'd have to write kernel patches for Linux to get it to boot...) or with a build of macOS that could be set up headlessly, in order to recoup the development costs. Apple shops that want machines to run Compressor or Xcode's build server would eat that up.
Ah TIL, that’s too bad.
FlightStats / Cirium have an API for airport data[0] that I’ve found to be mostly complete (sans a few rural Australian airports). It includes historical records for airports that are no longer active, such as Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport that previously went by the HKG IATA code.

FlightAware have a similar API[1].

These aren’t free or open mind you, but are at least readily accessible for those that need/want it.

[0] https://developer.flightstats.com/api-docs/airports/v1

[1] https://uk.flightaware.com/commercial/aeroapi/
A pixel is not a pixel
Forgive the snark because my suggestion is obviously not an improvement or even a match for target audience, but org-mode files with inline org-babel code-blocks is what I consider to be perfect version controlled notebook.

Pity Emacs is not the best on-boarding experience.
The problem is really just a matter of scale and the unwillingness of Google to sacrifice any of it's margins.

There are plenty of other companies that have many more humans in the chain where problems like these eventually get resolved once proper appeals are conducted or someone physically walks into a business and participates in whatever verification method is required.

The idea that Google is somehow special is laughable. Compared to some other industries that are directly consumer facing the number of apps and developers is actually small.

Also, they're not doing it without pay. They're taking a 30% cut from an industry approaching a trillion dollars in annual revenue. Again, the idea they can't solve this problem if they were willing to spend the money is absurd.
Note that the project is in v0.0.6 so adjust your expectations accordingly.
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For linux, the 'date' command is used for manual setting of the system time (read the 'date' manual page for details). Obviously you have to log in as root to set the system time.

Or, follow the details from other commenters here to get ntp working, and let the system set its own time.
You can look at this as time wasted on premature optimization. That time could have been spent on building valuable functionality, that would actually grow the business.
The takeaway for me from the back-and-forth on alcohol consumption is that the effect size of moderate alcohol consumption on all cause mortality is close to zero. So whether or not you decide to drink alcohol in moderation should hinge on other factors. Do you enjoy having a glass or two of wine in the evening and suffer no noticeable ill effects the next day? Great, then have at it. Do you not enjoy drinking alcohol in any quantity or feel noticeably worse the next day even after one or two drinks? Great, then abstain entirely and don't worry about missing out on any alleged health benefits. Do you enjoy drinking alcohol but have a history of alcohol dependence in your family or find it difficult to stop at just one or two drinks? Maybe best to abstain.
I much prefer two monitors. I run each one as separate desktops, which means I can have "left screen apps" and "right screen apps" and cycle them independently. It also means I can switch desktops on my left screen while my apps on my right screen stay where they are.

Also, with two screens, I can adjust the angle between them to be more or less severe.
This should be mandatory for a lot of sports, honestly. Assisted climbing (lead, top-roping) comes to mind. Kinda crazy that in many gyms you can get on a wall with no verification that your belay knows what they're doing.
They're selling at near-cost for developers. The pinephone is not ready for end users.
You don't have to comb the NTSB records - they're aggregated by various groups.

A lot of them involve loss of control of some form or another - typically in instrument flight conditions, often enough by someone who either doesn't have an instrument rating or is badly out of practice. A VFR only pilot in the clouds has a lifespan measured in minutes.

Running out of fuel for some reason is depressingly common - and while an off-airport landing isn't automatically fatal, "pilot failed to monitor fuel in flight" is a pretty stupid reason to crash.

And avoid light twins. They're a lot more demanding when an engine fails, and typically don't handle off airport landings very well. There don't tend to be many injuries with twins - either you handle everything properly and land safely, or the aircraft leaves a small smoking crater in the ground.

A lot of it is simply looking at the sky, forecast, and deciding "You know, this just isn't a good day to put a small airplane in the sky." I consider night VFR to be fairly risky too. Clouds are invisible, visual illusions in sparsely populated areas are common, and it's hard to find a nice flat area to land if your engine quits at night.
Some past threads:

Why American Construction Costs Are So High - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19313042 - March 2019 (158 comments)

Why US Major Infrastructure Construction Costs Are So High - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19308481 - March 2019 (2 comments)

An adjacent one for good measure:

Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High? (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618134 - Nov 2019 (140 comments)
Wonder if one could use this to bypass geolocks on Netflix content.
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I wish they actually gave latency statistics instead of just saying "we worked really hard don't worry about it".

There's definitely potential to do well on latency, if for example you have a server in NYC and your client has FIOS the inherent network latency could be 3ms and the only challenge is the encode/decode latency. It's possible Mighty has done something better, but every other remote desktop system I've tested spends more time on encode/decode than in the network, while claiming they're great (without giving numbers).

If you have figured out encode/decode latency, show me a high speed video (including the user's hands, not a screen recording) of say a Macbook on residential internet in NYC separate from your servers clicking things, compared to that Macbook running Chrome locally. Your numbers will almost certainly be worse for local interactions like typing in a text box, but you can show how it's better for things like clicking links.

Another issue other desktop streaming systems have is that video compression makes text ugly, especially when scrolling. This isn't as big of a deal for the game streaming systems but is noticeable on a retina display desktop. It's plausible Mighty has the codec settings cranked up enough so this isn't an issue though.