skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you're talking as if these are mutually exclusive?

I'm in Canada, where midwives are publicly funded, but still not that common (there's a waitlist and not everyone gets in). The midwives have hospital privileges, and are basically the "primary care provider" (instead of an obstetrician or family doctor). They still do ultrasounds, and if there was a concern, they can turn over care to a MD.

We actually did the birth in the hospital, and were just alone in the room with 2 midwives the entire time (no nurses / doctors involved). Our midwife did warn us that if a complication became up - especially at the end - that the room could get very busy very fast if they had to call in people, but thankfully that didn't happen.

We have a friend that had their kids at home. The midwives notify the hospital and ambulance service this is happening. They actually had to go to the hospital for one kid who had a complication, and my understanding is the ambulance was there very quickly and things were turned over to the medical team for birth, then after everything was ok, care turned back to he midwife a few hours later.
Suspect he's just being prudent. No reason to have any interaction at all with the IBM legal team.
V8 Sparkplug – A non-optimizing JavaScript compiler
I mean it's not like web development tutorials and blogs haven't filled the internet with free content for years to learn everything you could possibly want. freecodecamp will take you from nothing to hirable, for free.
Some good ones:

http://avc.com/

http://paulgraham.com/

http://www.moserware.com/

https://believermag.com/

https://blogmaverick.com/

https://fs.blog/

https://juliagalef.com/

https://marginalrevolution.com/

https://nav.al/

https://sive.rs/

https://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/

https://vitalik.ca/

https://waitbutwhy.com/

https://www.lrb.co.uk/

https://www.metafilter.com/

https://xkcd.com/
Dave Winer
- http://scripting.com/
It's also a side effect of good abstractions, so since they own all the stack they are able to iterate on their own APIs. I would even argue it helps debug those abstractions, you are basically swapping the last layer of user-computer interaction.
Awesome. I'm happy to support MDN.

My only hope is that they make it a "pay what you wish" with $10/month as the minimum price.

Frankly I would be happy to support "regular" MDN in such a way as well. This is an important cornerstone for all front end developers. The promised "premium content" is a cherry on top, but is not necessary for them to have my support.
I keep wondering where this ends up.

I don't think, as a society, we can preserve complete privacy of communication and also have a justice system that is seen to be just. If the bad people can trivially conceal all their communication, and yet we require evidence of wrongdoing in order to convict someone of a crime, how do we balance that?

Things like establishing intent (for murder vs manslaughter) have hinged on what the accused said prior to the act.

For white-collar crime, proving collusion has hinged on communication evidence.

If all the documents that prove fraud are stored encrypted with no way of getting to them, how do we prove fraud?

If we can't procure the evidence, how do we convict bad people of the bad things they've done?

Do we just prosecute the stupid people and allow anyone with an ounce of technical knowledge to do whatever they like?
I started doing professional web development in 2011. It was very clear at the time that not using HTTPS for any site with a login was an BAD practice that made your users less secure. There were clearly people and institution still using bad practices, but risks were clear to most web developers.

What was shifting at the time was developer views on using HTTPS for non-secure, unauthenticated portions of websites. This is where the "HTTPS Everywhere" plugin and other such movements came in.
The magical bit is that they have hundreds and hundreds of cooks in the kitchen, who all need to justify their existence by creating tons and tons of little one-off UI screens for obscure features that hardly anyone sees or uses.

This kind of team structure also causes other strange-looking technology choices, such as CSS-in-JS: they have to do stuff like that because they literally cannot prevent different members of the team from writing CSS class names that collide.
Tangent: Use an RSS reader to subscribe to these to support RSS! I have been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader... recently and enjoying it
I actually was one of the people who did performance benchmarking of 3D XPoint before it came out. In app direct mode, you can maybe eek out 70% of the throughout and about 3x worse latency. Also, not all apps support app direct mode.

Many customers try to use 3D XPoint as another part of the cache hierarchy in-between regular ssd and ram. It's actually pretty neat for faas workloads which want containers to be "warm" rather than "hot" or "cold"...
I don't see how a writer has to or should be limited to the false dichotomy of what they know or only to magical realism and fantasy. Mix the two however you like.

Furthermore, I wrote a few almost "novella" drafts in the throes of COVID lockdown due to isolation, loneliness, and "cabin fever" where my mind began auto-generating fantastical stories in the imagination comprising different people, places, and nearly outlandish, but still plausible within the suspension of disbelief, plot-lines. One centered around Latinx polygynous (I would call that a sizable cultural taboo) tensions between two respectable families and criminal one.

PS: Currently rereading One Hundred Years of Solitude. Coincidentally, there are still Márquez banners up at UT about the archive exhibit.
I was not trying to make a joke about the beginner devs. The list of choices a novice developer needs to make is reflective of our industry (why would there be so many choices). It is easy to make an error and bring the whole system down which in turn is the joke about "senior" people who instead of reducing complexity - increase it, and make it fragile.
Capture One Launches Native Support for M1 Macs
Drug dealer identified by cheese photo posted on encrypted message service
no that's latin
HTML is the only bug-free language
Pretty sure that the C compiler writers, writing their C compiler in C++, probably don't feel the same way. Especially as they're also the same people as the C++ compiler writers.
That's to avoid trademark infringement.
It used to be the same case with CentOS early on. Check out the "CentOS Overview" section in this version, with references to "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor": https://web.archive.org/web/20050322010830/https://www.cento...
That’s probably okay if the code is I/O bound anyway, but in Go it will run a lot slower than doing multiple steps within a single for loop.

For loops may be unfashionable but they aren’t hard to read.
1,2,4 are already occurring so I’m not sure what you’re on about. The third is completely irrelevant and seems fairly pseudoscientific, leave that to philosophers, we’re not trying to create souls.

> advanced statistical methods

Furthermore plenty of methods in machine learning, including some methods of training neural nets, are completely astatistical in nature. Unless you want to grow the definition of statistics to be so large as to consider all of maths and every science as ‘statistics’ these will rightly remain distinct fields of study (though they do overlap just like stats is used and overlaps with most sciences).
They aren't charging people different amounts, they're testing waitlist signup interest at different amounts. Presumably once they gauge interest a single level will be applied to everyone.
Twitter Thread: Wuhan Propaganda from MSM Laid Bare
> You have an embedded graph database? Why? This is just a symptom of developers general disrespect for the depth and complexity of databases.

I disagree. This is a recognition of the fact that the line between database, programming language, and operating system is very blurry. It's not that the programming language has a graph database tacked on, it's that the language is a database and leverages that fact to provide features impossible or hard to come by in more conventional languages (e.g. transactional updates, time travel debugging, what-if scenarios, etc.). Still, nothing would prevent you from using whatever database you want in the usual way.
This is what the net was supposed to be.
Bank of America back in 2005 (timestamp from the annoyed email I sent them) refused to load the front page over https. I think it even redirected https attempts back to http. The form submission was over https.

The solution was to enter garbage for the first login since the "re-enter your password" page was served over https. I think they fixed it before 2011, but don't have an exact record of when.
ITrapped: All the things Apple won’t let you do with your iPhone
https://www.evanmiller.org

Discusses:

- Programming
- Applied Math

And some random stuff like: Evaluating splatoon's ranking system: https://www.evanmiller.org/evaluating-splatoons-ranking-syst...

Really recommend it ;)
If it's a one man operation, sure. If you're actually running a foreign business, that depends.

Eg. I may start a company in Dubai, access the local talent and pay 0% corporate rate tax. Depending on the country I'm residing in, I may have more or less difficulties in proving things are actually run in Malta and not in the country where I am residing.

Having employees, directors, shareholders meeting in the country could be helpful in doing that.
I don't recommend doing it while resident in some countries that are particularly terrible for this kind of setup, such as Italy.
I need a system that:

A) Let's me and other users add annotations to a document.

B) Allows me to view all the annotations added to a doc.

C) Automatically, or semi-automatically merges annotations from the "version 1.0" doc into the newly released document for "version 1.1".

PDF covers (A) and (B) but I haven't been able to find a tool that does (C).
the people in this supporting police are fucking idiots, and i can show you why. i can have all of these people implicated in crimes they've never been a part of with 1 25% chance of having them incarcerated. good luck
OFC you are right - it would be fairly career limiting to try to talk it down I would think! But I am concerned that the REF should work by the reviewers actually looking at the material, rather than looking at where the material was published...
There is also SATySFi[1] (another typesetting system in Ocaml), it is active but mainly in japanese.

[1] https://github.com/gfngfn/SATySFi
Reminds me of OOP.

"Misrepresentation of the REST architecture has spread so far and wide that "REST" has come to be informally understood as a synonym for "HTTP"."

Misrepresentation of OOP has spread so far and wide that "OOP" has come to be informally understood as a synonym for using class based languages.
Not really, but aside from the functional aspect that tends to come with them, all generics are really saying is "this operation will performed on a type to be named at runtime", optionally with a constraint that says the type-to-be-named-later will adhere to a certain interface (contract).
I didn't know it was possible to turn off the laptop screen while it's in use. How is that done?
> Mr Mosseri said there had been a "polarised" reaction from creators - accounts which make money through brand partnerships and advertising on the platform - but that the new feature didn’t affect revenues.

Considering how many people make a living directly or indirectly on Instagram and/or other social media platforms, I wonder what shape the opposition will take to these steadily growing measures of user "protection". I understand Instagram/Facebook, at the end of the day, will not take actions that will harm their expected growth or revenue, however, that does not mean influencers won't get shafted in some way.
Does anyone have a recommendation for English translated collections of Persian folklore and mythology?
beads is girlfriend
Palisade, Minnesota to Gulf of Mexico is quite the trip!
I recently had some industrial training that made the same point. The recommendation there was to immediately hook up an AED.

You can go into tachycardia or bradycardia (fast and slow heartbeats), so feeling sort of okay isn't the end of it.
I also like the minimalist style of his site.
Keras: English-to-Spanish translation with a sequence-to-sequence Transformer
Naturally the article (which is an opinion piece written by the author) makes a case in favor of the author.
Oooo that's good info, thanks! I seem to recall reading it somewhere, perhaps as context after the publication of AppleDesign: https://www.amazon.com/Appledesign-Apple-Industrial-Design-G...

Really appreciate your correction here!
What this showed is how woefully unprepared national defenses were for a bioattack, even though NBC is a core of military planning.

I would expect Congress to reallocate DoD budgets, from trillion-dollar planes that stop flying if you look at them funny, to building enough PCR monitoring infrastructure and vaccine-generation capacity to nip any such future pandemic in the bud.
Implementing iterator combinators by eagerly evaluating them into temporaries is a bad, naïve design that results in the issue illustrated above.

A much better design is to do it lazily which is possible if you can store closures as fields of a data structure.

Not sure what fast compilation and execution or dependencies has to do with this. Implementing iterators that way is the worst possible solution that results in slow execution that can blow up the stack and crash a program. It would be better not to have iterators at all than to require them to be eagerly evaluated.

You can support functional features without being a Haskell...
the people supporting police in this thread are fucking idiots, and i can show you all why. i can have all of these people implicated in serious crimes with a 25% chance of incarceration, and a 100% chance at a lot of mental health side effects and monetary side effects. atm i believe that's a good idea and it's worth testing out. if they want police, they're gonna get them right at that there. best of luck everyone, enjoy the games
> This is about the tax rate - nothing about whats legal or not.

I am not sure I understand your point. Taxation is part of our legal system, and is expressed in law. Not paying a tax would be illegal and would result in fines or jail time. Implying that a law can be applied retroactively means that people can be arbitrarily turned from law abiding citizens to criminals.

> If the government decides to confiscate something, it will do that. Retroactively or not does not really mater.

My point is that a free society needs to have private property rights. If a government can casually alter the law and have it apply retroactively, it means that people don't really have control over anything - such as the transactions they undertake voluntarily between each other - because the conditions of their actions and the consequences of their actions can be altered arbitrarily.

Is your point that the government has the power to do this and will find a way to do it? Or that it is allowable and just and desirable?
So, the two wrongs make it right.
Right! And qucsStudio is Windows only, I believe.

Qucs runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
Show HN: Arrived – Easily buy shares of rental properties
Hi HN! We’re Ryan, Kenny, and Alejandro, the co-founders of Arrived (https://arrivedhomes.com), a real estate investing platform where anybody can buy shares of rental properties in under 4 minutes.
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This is the first time that anyone (including non-accredited investors) can buy shares of individual rental homes online. Arrived acquires properties in the top markets, rents & operates them, and allows investors to invest any amount from $100 - $10,000 per property. We think it’s pretty cool :)

On Arrived, investors can browse individual homes (just like Zillow) and then purchase shares with an easy e-commerce checkout experience. After purchasing shares, investors earn rental income quarterly and watch their investments grow as the home appreciates.

We’re working to remove the main points of friction to real estate investing so that more people can access this asset class.

We've just opened our 2nd market and we’d love any feedback from the HN community.

Thanks! Ryan
Reading this brought back so many good memories.
Yeah, the ship has sailed. None of the points or pedant in this very informative article are ever going to matter.
Yeah, except didnt they just get rid of most of the team.

"Deep Dives" can be farmed out to contractors and you dont have to worry about paying employees.
I happen to agree with you. I think alot of modern zeitgeist is encouraging closing your mind off from the world.
Thanks for the information! But I did some research recently plus one of my friends got into VR not so long ago. I should have expressed myself more clearly. By “visually immersive” I meant “virtual representations of real places so realistic that many people in many cases wouldn’t want to bother with visiting a real place afterwards”. I still think that: 1) graphics is not “realistic enough” (especially if we are talking about more consumer-oriented systems). 2) there’s not enough content yet.

When I will be able to visit a museum or to travel to some real place (or to a place that is inspired by a real one and retains “detalization”, for example, various small objects that you’d find in a real place) that will be interesting to me.

Games, on the other hand, do not really sound so compelling.
> Tell the lab to stop gain of function research.

There's still no evidence, anywhere, that this lab did any gain of function research.

The only gain of function research that was know was done was on American soil with SARS-CoV-1 in mice, where it gained function in mice (and most likely lost function in humans).
Brandur's deep dives into tough topics are always great!
I did a blog on using OpenTelemetry with Python/Google Cloud Run and source code here if anyone is interested:

https://davidgildeh.com/2021/03/08/running-python-openteleme...

I need to update the code as I didn't use the BatchSpanProcessor and as a result all my calls are taking 2-3 seconds vs. a more reasonable 300ms.

My only issue so far is the stability and maturity of the project. Now they're at V1 stability of the main SDK looks better, but the instrumentation libraries are still all over the place and need some cleaning up/maturing.

I like the vision though and we're keeping an eye on the project as it matures.
Occams razor is that it's what you see. It's not like he's out of the company, he's still chair of the board, but it makes sense that he does less of the day-to-day minutia and more broad strokes. He doesn't need to do that anymore, and it's probably best for the company that he doesn't.

Besides, he has his space company hobby.
You mean for installation on macOS? For current versions of Nix and macOS, you just invoke the installer with an additional command-line flag at installation time, per the manual[1]:

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume

I don't remember whether I actually did this on my system. I think I manually created an additional volume for /nix, but encrypted it. That approach is also now described in the manual, should you prefer it.[2]

(Unencrypted should be fine anyway, as the Nix store is designed/assumed to be public (world-readable). Packages and tools in the ecosystem never put secrets there.)

—

1: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#sect-macos-installation

2: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#sect-macos-installation...
Show HN: Piano Gym - Spaced Reptition In Browswer For MIDI Pianos
Hi there!

My name is Logan, and I’m the creator of website Piano Gym!

https://pianogym.com

You can see a quick demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4

Piano Gym is a free website where anyone can use a real Piano to learn music theory and performance in the context of actual sheet music. It uses different types of flash card tools to teach topics, and all of it is managed for you using spaced repetition.
You just have to show up and do your reps!

Piano Gym provides courses and lessons using the Mayron Cole Piano Method.

Currently we have

- 4 levels

- 128 lessons

- 214 pieces of sheet music

- 384 flash cards

Educators and learners can also create their own content too!

The overall goal is to support learners in completing their daily reps through deliberate practice while having fun!

I’ve been working on Piano Gym for a long time to make something that can grow with its community. I would love the chance to have anyone interested sign up and try it out!

Piano Gym is very strongly in beta, and on its way to being fully released soon!

We’re on
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/PianoGym

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You can watch me use Piano Gym on Twitch. I like to stream myself using Piano Gym, and streaming myself programming the website! In this way you can actually watch Piano Gym grow.

We have a Patreon where you can donate money to help me focus on this full time! (It would be very cool to work on this 100% full-time!)

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Lastly, since this is Hacker News, I can’t do this all on my own, so if anyone is interested in helping a free website grow, please feel free to reach out directly. I’d love to chat :)

If you made it this far, thank you for reading and I hope to see you at the gym!
With existing tech? No, not really.

Most of those lab values are more or less worthless outside of context - which is why so much time is spent on training docs on physio, pathophys, and history taking. I know that it's frustrating to hear, but it's why every "helpful" tech solution to date has resulted in increasing doc griping and burnout.
Portugal still requires you to actually have a foreign business, not just setting up a company in a remote country.

A popular setup is living in Portugal and setting up a Maltese company and pay 5% corporate tax rate - and several accounting firms are more than happy to setup such structures.

If your company doesn't have a reason to be incorporated in Malta (clients, employees, shareholders' meetings), Portugal could argue that's a Portuguese company and that you should pay taxes in Portugal.

I haven't heard of Portugal pursuing this people, but it's not unheard of countries cracking down retroactively on businesses evading taxes, especially in times of crisis.

Estonia's e-residence is not that attractive for one man operations for similar reasons.
In his defense: I think the logic of his programming language and the pattern match works just fine: it's a mod over bounded linear range checking a remainder. He's just showing off that he can check "mod 15" against a list of potential values, or at least that's my reading of it.
Isn't that just Microsoft Word with track changes on?
Why? A priori there were 5 fewer, they saw an opportunity and entered, and likely more will too, and eventually it will saturate and balance out. Startups providing liquidity can be a good thing.
I don't know anything about it, but being just one island over I've heard of the Pacific Science Institute, which may be something like you are trying to do ( https://www.pacificscienceinstitute.org/)

There's also some great online research communities, like the https://futureofcoding.org/ slack.