skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech stack is pretty straightforward (Rails back-end, using Expo/React Native for the mobile apps).

The biblical texts are actually rendered in a WebView and the native code communicates back/forth to the WebView with a basic javascript bridge. I wasn't sure this approach would work at first, but it's actually worked out quite nicely.

Handling theological bias has actually been one of the bigger challenges (not technical of course). People have such drastically different views and prejudices of the Bible that I'm always walking a careful line of what resources are approved vs not.
I had to do something completely different. I drove a city bus for a year. It was a very rewarding experience because I learned about the struggles people have and how to be good to them no matter how annoying they were. Coding was fun again when I started back up.
Fair enough...

But the other side of the coin is miners trying to reduce the energy consumption and use green sources. Again, everyone just wants to point at a vocal minority and call it good.

edit: I should probably point out the trend to move away from PoW to 'Staking' (PoS) solutions that are more energy efficient. The crypto community isn't ignoring energy usage issues.
Not long ago this kind of technology and anyone working on it would have been given a pretty rough ride on this forum, no matter how well designed. Now it's those raising concerns who are being hounded out with down-voting. How times have changed.
It's actually kinda interesting/terrifying to imagine religious technology... like those "safe driving" apps for insurance, but instead monitoring your whereabouts to comply by some arbitrary mythology and inflicting social punishment whenever you stray. But, of course, the preachers themselves wouldn't be forced to use it. What would a polygamous Tinder look like? Or a Hadithpedia? Bible camp MMOs? Whereas China tries to steer technology towards secular collective capitalism, I could see religious states using it to identify, track, and segregate populations by religion. Israel, looking at you.

Some of the world's most enduring sci-fi/fantasy worlds are religious works, and to see them brought into the modern secular existence is both sort of jarring and fascinating.

Profit-wise, this has all the same potential as the echo-cesspool of Twitter/YouTube, but under guise of God. That potent combination of money, God, guns... yeah, goodbye civil US society.
Interesting, any source? I wonder in what way he finds it superior.
Looks a bit too much like "fascism" for my taste.
Someone who enters a conversation blindly calling a person an anti-vaxxer isn't worth engaging with - completely unproductive. You're aware mRNA vaccines are new technology for vaccines or no, and that vaccines usually take 7 years to go through approval process - and this one was fast tracked to 1 year? There are perfectly healthy teenagers dying after this vaccine; true statement that you may dismiss whether you believe it or not. Are you aware too that the inventor of the mRNA technology is trying to sound alarm bells for the problems with the spike protein with this vaccine?

And, digging through my comment history, it was 3 or so comments below the comment I made saying to reference it - but you assumed and instead put more effort writing this reply than to actually quickly look to see if your assumption was correct or not. But since you're relatively lazy - making assumptions - here, I've gone into my history and pasted the links for you:

Related links on Ivermectin:

https://covid19criticalcare.com

https://bird-group.org/

https://vimeo.com/562724784

https://vimeo.com/557811163

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyAovuUxro
From the article (not that far in!): Signs and symptoms of an alpha-gal allergic reaction are often delayed compared with other food allergies.
> US manufacturing industry is relatively dead

Here's where we need to be spending our tax money. We should be buying overseas firms and onshoring manufacture.
I really wish they gave just a little more detail on what this attack looks like.

> "Kokatsu showed that if a web application creates a Blob URL with attacker-controlled data, it could lead to XSS attacks – even if the site is protected with strict CSP policies"

Does this mean that your application had to already have the code for Blob URL creation present? Or did it need to have some sort of XSS already available and this attack could be used in conjunction with it?

The former would be amazingly bad coding practices - to let users control what is in a Blob/Data/etc URL via attacker controlled parameters. For the latter, I'm trying to imagine a scenario with "Strict CSP" that would allow you to create and write a Blob URL. With CSPs you have to specify a 'unsafe-inline' value to allow inline Javascript to execute, which wouldn't be allowed with a "Strict CSP".
Won't the nukes and EMP's fry the electronics which make them useless?
No. Prions are misfolded proteins - they replicate by inducing correctly folded proteins to misfold when they come in contact. As a result, misfolded proteins build up in the brain, continually inducing even more proteins to misfold, eventually building up to a critical mass and causing neurons to die.

By contrast, alpha-gal seems to trigger an immune response, which induces the immune system to create antibodies against it. It seems that something in red meat is similar enough to alpha-gal that it also triggers this new immune response, causing an allergy. But it doesn't cause a build up of alpha-gal in the body over time.
> You also have to blame companies/hr for being so reactive

Have you read his original published written apology [1]? I can't think of a company that would want to keep someone who in their own words was a "Shitty, Creepy, Sexual Predator" at recent work & industry events.

[1] https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...
Wow, just tried this and can confirm it pulls the wrong airport info. Interestingly searching KBST directly does not have this issue.
Or maybe teach people to drive better, and make the US driving test (because I doubt the UK wants to ban left turns...) worth more than the paper it's written on, instead of the pathetic excuse for a "test" that it is.

- No hill-start or hill parking

- No emergency stop

- No driving on different types of carriageway

- No higher-speed driving

- No reversing

- No reversing around corners

- No 3-point-turn

- No distance measurement ("how far away is the red car ?")

- No use of the hand-brake (or parking brake if you prefer)

All of these were on my UK test. None of them were on my US test, which consisted of exiting the DMV, turning right 4 times around a block and turning back into the DMV. Seriously.

And the written "test" was a walk in the park too - one of the questions on mine was a picture of a stop sign, and the multiple choice answer to "What does this sign mean" included "You must stop at the sign"... [sigh]

Also, if you take your test in an automatic car in the UK, you get a restricted license that only allows you to drive an automatic car. WTF is up with passing on an automatic and then driving a manual car. Half the skill is in the clutch balance, and hill-starts are a lot harder.

I'm sure there are places in the US that have a harder test than I took in California. I'm equally sure there are places that are easier (though come to think of it,... I mean, how?) But a lot of people think they can drive when in reality they've never really been tested
Was hoping the term alpha-gal syndrome referred to something I have observed where alpha females can be so competent and drama free that their organizations and projects become too boring for others who live on adrenaline and intrigue.
I'm not convinced React Native developers are cheaper than C/C++ developers. At my last job, the Python and C++ devs were on identical salary bands.
I would note that while Nginx itself doesn’t natively support Redis (and so you have to script things yourself in that case), it does have full native support for memcached (or rather, the memcached wire protocol, spoken by several backends, though sadly Redis isn’t one of those.)

See http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_memcached_module.html for details.

Basically, you can hand off to memcached as if handing off to an upstream, and then if memcached doesn’t have the key, continue on trying to resolve the response through your actual app-server upstream. (This is essentially the same thing you’re suggesting doing through scripting, to be clear; it’s just easier to implement for the memcached case.)

This type of middleware-level “read-aside” caching is really neat, because it enables push-based response caching: rather than having a read-through cache that expires items out of itself, where an expired item potentially leads to a thundering herd of clients all trying to grab the expired item and so generating independent requests to your backend (that can hopefully be coalesced into a single recomputation, but that’s unlikely in a distributed environment), you can instead just keep the cache always-populated, and every once in a while — perhaps on a schedule, perhaps in response to discovering new primary-source data — recompute your denormalized/report resource, and atomically overwrite what was in the cache with the new data.
your example is interesting.
I assume the reason is that it's an in-between situation between stateful and stateless: aka shipping using 3rd party api is a transient state of a complex process that can be ultimately recreated from the orders stored in the DB, but better not for speed reason.

I wonder if there are other patterns like that.
T440s - love it. Apart from a few problems. It won't shutdown properly but restarts every time. And if I leave it unplugged and the battery dies, I have to open the back and disconnect/reconnect both batteries to power it on again. Also the touchpad is a pain - can't use the trackpoint because there are no buttons at the top of the trackpad, to click you have to press the trackpad down far too much. Still, even with these problems it's a handsome machine and surprisingly capable of running intensive programs (Blender, Adobe Animate, Krita)
The rails community were keen about performance? You'd never have guessed.
> I'm amazed at the amount of discussion, period. The article factually laid out the small amount of information encoded in the QR code, walked through the data format, and showed it to be pretty minimal and well-designed. No URLs, no hidden trackers, no evil ad salesman selling your browser history. Yet here we are at the #1 spot on HN and almost 400 comments. Full of conspiracy theories, COVID-downplayers and anti-vaxxers. I'm trying to connect the dots between a QR code and the New World Order, and I'm coming up empty. I thought HN was above this and wish this stuff could stay on Facebook and Twitter.

No one cares about the qr codes themselves and I think you are willingly ignoring the main point. The problem is that you need to show a government issued "pass" to access almost any public space. You may be okay with that but please don't pretend it's nothing new and it's always been like that. Asking for a digital certificate to live your life normally is unprecedented, but I guess at least it's not ads? Who talked about that anyways, can't both things be bad? I guess what the NSA does is alright since it's unrelated to a new world order or ad tracking?

As for antivaxxers or covid downplayers, Imo pretending this whole apparatus is needed is the real anti vaxxer position. The vaccines work, and if someone doesn't want to take them the risk is on them. Downplaying covid now is the pro vax position, while yours imply vaccines barely work so we need precedent setting measures like these. I mean the comment that started this subthread is literally saying that vaccines work so the straw man you are building is absurd
Thanks for clarifying -- makes sense. Good luck with the project.

Maybe I'm weird about it but reading the Bible for me is personal enough that I don't want to use an app that collects my identifier and tracks usage data. I'd rather pay for something I can use offline or anonymously. Non-profits seem preferable for this sort of thing as well imo.
I ask as I am back in the market, and have had 3 companies ghost me (2 from HN who's hiring) after either a couple of calls or for 1 I did a small "test" project (which I almost always refuse but this one was reasonable and very specific plus easily time boxed to an hour or so).

I ask as I have not been in the market applying for positions in quite awhile. I have generally been the hiring person for the last > 10 years, minus going from founder to employee 5 years ago. Even then that was only the second company I talked to that time so never got ghosted. I am not claiming I am perfect, there were people I never got back to as well, but it was a tiny fraction of people we interviewed, so just curious if this is common today; if not I guess I need to figure out what to adjust.
My first exposure to IOS was telnetting into a 7513.
Show HN: Bubble launches as new social platform for video comments and reactions
We started with a very basic observation: Social media provides us with endless opportunities for sharing anything online or watching snippets of other people’s lives. However, most of it has evolved around self-promotion and the goal of getting more likes instead of real interaction: While some became ‘influencers’ - most stayed ‘followers’. The result is a huge imbalance between engaging content by a few and an endless feed of comments and messages by the rest of us.
As an alternative, we are currently building Bubble and I would love to get your feedback: Bubble is a social video platform that allows users to create, share and react to video comments on top of any content. You can use Bubble to comment on a photo, a screenshot or a video and request a short video comment from your friends. You can create your own private bubbles or join public discussions around topics that you find interesting.

We built Bubble to be a space for authentic and engaging interaction between real people around real content. We believe that the most intimate connections emerge through people’s faces and Bubble allows everyone to merge with the content they are sharing. Instead of browsing through anonymous posts, you can now hear and see others while they discuss opinions, raise questions, or just laugh along with you.

We are currently launching a test flight version of this and I would be excited to receive and discuss any feedback that you might have!
You raise a very good question. Why are social media platforms Okay with some conspiracies but then totally complicit with other conspiracies, given their stated policies?

I think this shows their hand. That they want to defend some interests (political, social, economic) but others that don't affect their positions are okay.

When people bring up the possibility of Aliens in our vicinity, I ask them what laws of physics would allow this kind of interstellar travel. What strategies would they use to travel these vast distances and given those constraints what purpose would a visit have? If they are probes, how would information be sent back that is not stale and would be useful to presumably a future generation of theirs.

Maybe I'm not being open enough to the possibilities. I'm all ears.
That's a good point. I'm still trying out different ideas for the homepage. The actual app does have a side-scrolling carousel like that for people to access the videos (not auto-scrolling though, people have to scroll it manually).
Comment moderators should focus more on hate speech than profanity, study says
I'm talking about people like me or my grandmother who want to verify that the guard at a club uses application that works fully offline and doesn't save any data - the QR code we're handing over contains our personal data and on top of that we're actually cryptographically verifying our whereabouts while using it, so I want to be absolutely sure the government doesn't have access directly without a court order. // yes I have had a real, serious problem with the government using data it got for other purposes against me for its own gain (I won the court, but it nearly destroyed my life and I'm still not where I was before and won't be for a long time).

I'm pretty sure the guard doesn't give a flying fuck about my personal information, just like the programmers - so how do I verify myself? Or am I to stay at home forever if I care about my privacy? The EU said very different things about these issues, is that forgotten now? The same goes for the other identity-related EU initiatives, where did all the talk about privacy go? Was it just propaganda, because it certainly seems so now, as there are so many so obvious loopholes it can't be an accident?
Something akin to this actually exists in Saudi Arabia. Specifically there is an app that allows man to keep track of their wives, who must get approval from their husbands to do things.
Yeah Obama was weak in this regard. Actually I've read that Biden had some of the most hawkish views on CCP in the admin. Obama was too naive, he believed in the good of countries etc. And I say this as an Obama support who voted for him.

Realistically though what could he have done? They should've been airtight on the CCP since the 80's 90's.
They first sold it to a US company without a vision (Google).

If Google can't figure out how to get a messaging app right, there's no way they can make sense of this purchase.
Italy, for one! If you ride by car, you don't need anything; going by train, you'll need an antigen test, which you could do in Munich, for free, before boarding the next train heading to the Brenner pass. On your way back, you don't need a test either way.

(Source: came back yesterday)
Glad to know it's windows and not my fault. My boot time went from 15 seconds to 30-45 now. I used to be able to reboot my computer and by the time I'd gotten a drink or tied my shoe it would be back to desktop. Beautiful. Now it's slow as hell.
I've read quite a bit on this, but not Sethares, do you have a recommendation for starting on his work? thanks!
Measuring the privacy benefits of privacy threats (2017) [pdf]
Yes.

There may be a portion of these items that is excess or obsolete and cannot be otherwise disposed of.

There are accounting rules (which are both reasonable and justified) which force companies to write down this kind of inventory (i.e. it hits the P&L). Additionally, there are real costs associated with keeping these items in the warehouse which justify their disposal.

I once worked on an E&O project at a large public company, and finding reasonable ways to dispose of this type of inventory was very difficult. Most ended up in the trash.

In any event, the reporting on this subject is, once again, pretty inadequate and reads as borderline advocacy in the media's opposition to all things Amazon.
This opinion is downvoted because it comes from ignorance.

Yes, its true that if global population was 10 million and all lived in 50-ppl villages you could shit in the streets and still not get the Plague, pollute to your heart's content and still be fine, practice slash-and-burn agriculture and still have forests left.
But then you wouldn't have most products of civilisation in the first place.

Once you start getting cities, you cant shit in the street, you need suers and restrictions on pollution
I've just barely begun learning about the APL languages, but I have this tab open that you might be interested in: https://wjmn.github.io/posts/j-can-look-like-apl/
Quake Shook the World: Quake Turns 25
I'm an author cited by the original bitcoin paper. I considered becoming an economist rather than a mathematician.

Cryptocurrencies are a carbon-load environmental crime. Figuring a way around this is the major unsolved problem in the field. Are you a vegetarian in the crypto-crowd? You'd be doing the planet a favor to start eating meat and abandoning cryptocurrencies.

National currencies used to be backed by gold; now they're backed by the nation's resolve to support the currency. Cryptocurrencies are not Ponzi schemes; they can stabilize, while Ponzi schemes collapse. Cryptocurrencies however are backed entirely by convention. One could argue that nations are conventions, but they are bound together by a constellation of motives beyond their currency. Cryptocurrencies are isolated conventions. That is their appeal and their vulnerability.

We are a cripplingly conventional species. Our ability to organize allowed us to scale past the Neanderthals. However, many of us don't trust convention enough to trust cryptocurrencies.
Wow! This is so awesome.
In the US context I would say this is a privacy violation. It's another avenue of obtaining identifying information about you, to abuse with no restrictions.

But one of the main benefits of the GDPR is making it illegal for businesses to keep surveillance records on you. This way you don't have to worry about keeping basic information like your name secret in the first place.

The US really needs something like the GDPR to restore some societal trust. As it stands, I'm planning on wearing a mask into stores etc for as long as I can get away with it.
Good question. I have a basic admin back-end that lets me review them before they show up in the app.
Took the words out of my mouth and then some, by a mile (In reality I only had ~ two of those arguments to make).
In particular, completely agree RE: the misplaced itch to ascribe some abandonware label to FOSS exclusively.

It is outright comical to place the locus of util loss on FOSS when deprecated proprietary software stacks are relinquished all the goddamn time (hi, bluetooth explorer in xcode tools!) — and usually without effort toward open sourcing the leftovers for continued community support. Just deadweight loss from that point and on.

Pretty clear there's a causal inference short circuit (charitably) in this blog post.
The Ministry of Health here have been commendable in the way that they've approached these apps.

The key re-usable components of the system been development in public and in open and made available with a permissive license.
Yeah, for some use-cases the Django Admin and everything-spawns-from-the-model approach can go from nothing to CRUD in a ridiculous time.

Phoenix is ludicrously quick to get from zero to realtime UI and interesting backend work such as polling, consuming updates, sharing state, collaboration.

Having done a bunch of Python I wouldn't discount Django but I would pick Phoenix almost every time at this point. The initial burst of Django doesn't seem like a long-term upside and Elixir/BEAM/Phoenix has a lot of long-term upside in my eyes.
There's an imperative for Intel to look less moribund and conveniently RISC-V has the potential to knobble the competition. So this all looks much more promising.
You may also want to cite the McNamara Fallacy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
The key competence of BD is locomotion on legs. There are plenty of other companies that make stationary industrial robots, and a few who make wheeled robots.

But there are still a number of areas where wheeled robots are at a disadvantage: inspection of complex industrial installations (like complex pipework and other hard-to-reach areas), firefighting and rescue operations, well, even delivery in places with steps and stairways.

Korea is more technophilic than USA, and Hyundai is well-connected. They may find a more ready market for such products.
Agreed.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=916326...

But to their credit they do provide external links with more details. Reading those now, because I'm running into the same questions/ conclusions as you.