skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something that has been worrying me for quite some time. Considering how many folks use Notion as a knowledge base for their personal and professional lives, I'm sure others feel the same.

Since their API is in public beta, I'm building a tool to back up and restore your Notion data to a storage provider of your choice:

https://notionbackups.com
Its a static site (Gatsby) hosted on Amazon CloudFront.
Almost everything is inlined.
Yeah, if he doesn't want a bank account anymore yet has thousands of dollars in there ... not sure what he's expecting here, or why he's blaming Simple/BBVA specifically for a predicament of his own creation. He complains about "days" of limits for withdrawals, so we're left to believe this is at least mid four figures or higher in balance.

At the time, he may have had issue with walking into a "branch" of Simple. While BBVA was the parent bank for Simple, their branches had zero insight into Simple bank accounts. When the transition happened, BBVA branches were getting hit hard by Simple customers expecting sudden service. However as far as the BBVA branches were concerned officially those customers weren't theirs -- no BBVA account number, just Simple, which they never had insight to when it did exist.
Great project Daniel! Really cool that you're venturing out of software land. Looks like you would have learned a lot about Arduino from this!

I've recently been playing around with 3D scanning, but using photogrammetry. You could record high res video or take high res photographs of a scene, and then use the program Meshroom or colmap to convert those photos (cut video in to 1fps stills) in to a 3D model. If you want to play around with dense scans that may be worth a try.

Doing it with a LIDAR is nice though because it is the correct scale, something photogrammetry inherently fails at without additional sensors.

I'm a very project oriented learner, and I'm always making things and learning stuff and then pivoting with my projects. I've been doing that for 20 years and it's great because I learn whatever the hell I want and after I get good at it I can get a job in that area. So keep up the hardware projects! This one looks great.
You must have defined "stealing" interestingly
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I don’t get why the original response is downvoted. Of course you can run those in docker containers, but it is generally suggested that you don’t.
From my experience i would run stateless services in containers and persistent storages in vms, dedicated servers, or cloud services.
It's a single-page application, the entire site and content is loaded on the first load.
Tink was my favorite budget app with automatic connections to my Swedish bank. Until they decided to just close up shop and leave all their users hanging.

Now I guess they took all that valuable market data users provided by classifying all their purchases and signed a deal with visa.

Or at least that's one negative assumption I can make as a former happy user of the Tink app.
I'm not familiar with the 3d scanning tech, but my first thought when looking at the examples is that they do not look really detailed. What is the max "resolution" of the machine? Can it scan objects with a higher number of particles?
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"Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective" by AI researcher Kenneth Stanley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI
Wow. That’s zippy. Anyone know any engineers there we can ask for an AMA?
Launching to websites that are full of people who aren't likely potential customers is basically a waste of time. HN is full of relatively wealthy, technically-minded people who are interested in tech and startups. We're mostly "tire-kickers" - we love to see what people build even if it's absolutely no use to us, just because we like to see what people build. Unless that's your market then a Show HN isn't likely to result in many customers.

If you want actual customers then you need to find out where your potential customers hang out and post there. Putting something on a personal finance forum or a fintech forum will probably yield much better results.
That is very interesting data. I always assumed that USA commutes are longer.

It would be interesting to get a breakdown by means of transport.

My commute is almost 25 minutes: 10 minutes by subway and 15 minutes walking. I could make it faster, but that will require to use two buses and the subway. I prefer to just walk, sometimes I even walk all the way up home.

But, it could be reasonable that taking public transport people has to walks more and it takes longer to get to places. For car oriented cities you can just park at your office parking lot and you are done.

update: Also Netherlands is its own category. "Cycling is a common mode of transport in the Netherlands, with 36% of Dutch people listing the bicycle as their most frequent way of getting around on a typical day"
Did a similiar thing with ToneLoc in 1993 or 1994 (not 100% sure of exact year, but 1994 at the latest as i still had my 286)
using an USR 14400 Sportster in Finland also, but my scan was limited to the 9800/0800 1xxxx set which seemed to cover most
of the freephone numbers. (I believe 9800 and 0800 were mapped to the same endpoints back then, memory slightly hazy.)

I do recall getting far more modem pickups than your run, perhaps it was more popular back then.
One that made me wonder back then was a modem answering stating it was a 'Cray Communications CMX',
sadly now decades later i know that it has nothing to do with the supercomputer manufacturer.
The rapid evolution (gain) between the wild virus and Alpha and then Delta and now Delta+ indicates to me that if there was a gain of function experiment in the evolution of this virus then it was stopped far too early!

Also it seems tuned to infect Mustelidae - like the Mink in Belgium and Holland, and Ferret Badgers. The thing about that is that why would that be if you were passaging it through mice? Mustelidae are going to be a pretty difficult lab target in comparison to mice (they bite, they're big, they take a season to mature). The fact that Ferret Badgers were sold for meat in the Wuhan market is pretty interesting in this context (although none of the animals tested had Cov19).
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Congrats on building this!

Is the source under an Open-Source license? Can it be seen anywhere? Do you accept contributions?
Did you really just whip up a placeholder site because of a Ask HN post?
Convenience and higher (perceived) safety of the google app store?
When running inside a docker container this won’t be much use though as the container handles the port forwarding. It would be a much better default to ensure authentication by default, considering how widespread exploiting of this has become with bots.
> testing more applicants directly

Testing anyone, whatever his achievements, may attract many candidates and therefore cost more than a bit of efficiency.

Moreover testing also induces biases, those of the people who specify/conduct/assess the tests. I'm not sure it is less subjective than meritocracy, especially meritocracy with commonly-accepted (long reviewed) criteria.

> Accept more redundancy. Take chances with people.

I agree, however it doesn't condemn any selection method which can be applied, as usual as a sieve, while retaining a larger fraction of selected candidates.

> Fire politicians

I fully agree, recall elections are a must-have and a tool to alleviate bad choices, however it also doesn't particularly plays against meritocracy as a selection tool.
Play store works too well. They've hardly banned anything. They handle payments well (Inc refunds, reminders of upcoming charges etc). Why bother going elsewhere?
The problem is that we have no handle on what "excessive amounts" really is.

A slice of cake is, in fact, an "excessive amount" - it's more food than a pound of cheese.

Eating a pound of cheese does, indeed, feel "excessive", while a slice of cake (or two) is just a chaser after a full meal for most people.
TCP/IP faced a lot of competition (e.g. from token rings), but won out probably due to simplicity and robustness.

The current dominance of HTTP is largely due to firewalls, NAT, and possibly developer familiarity (e.g. proxying, debugging via cURL, etc.).

I wasn't online in the 80s, but I remember networking in the 90s being a mixture of HTTP, POP, SMTP, IRC, FTP, Telnet, NNTP, etc. The noughties saw an increase in protocols for P2P, instant messengers, etc. These days those seem to have consolidated (e.g. BitTorrent, XMPP, etc.), are often tunneled through HTTP, or are displaced by something newer which tends to use HTTP.
This explanation disregards that the gimbal was observed across aircraft and across sensors. The Aircraft were chasing something that the ships too "saw" (using dissimilar technologies).
I don't know what you're expecting to accomplish as a rugged individualist if you're incapable of holding your own land against more organized outside forces.
This is it. Wrap it up. Shows over. This is all that a parent needs. Fin.
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I think “too trusting” is more like “too scared of committing career suicide.” Any reasoned discussion is drowned out by culture war BS, false dichotomy thinking, misrepresentation of statements to fit narratives, etc.
I agree it's a single-page application, but while you are navigating content appears to be loaded just ahead of time. E.g. pop open some of the menus, then while you're thinking what to click, they appear to load the different pages that you can navigate to from that menu. They don't load the rendered pages, rather their content as "data", which the single-page application knows how to render.
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I'm not really answering your question here, but sideloading allow alternatives with different goals than google play.

For example F-Droid is actually very big particularly with users trying to get rid of google services on their phones.
But it's a marketplace for opensource apps and services, which most commercial apps are not.
Have you attempted to run Linux on it? What’s the experience if so? I’m really, really compelled to get Gemini PDA or Cosmo Communicator but I’m concerned about hardware compatibility.
Cool project! You could also have used a 2 Axis Brushless Gimbal Stabilizer for most of the mechanics stuff, coupled with either your Garmin Lidar Lite module, or a 360 degrees Lidar module.
The only thing interesting about this is the flight time. Everything else is trivially achievable with a custom build from parts one can order over the Internet. 150mph multirotor, 300mph fixed wing, control and video link range of 100km.

Not particularly relevant but fun to watch: a purpose built, turbine-powered rc aircraft flying at 450mph and executing turns that would probably kill a human pilot.

https://youtu.be/DPGDAZyQ44k?t=150

Onboard: https://youtu.be/H74rXkQBeR4
The pop-up menus also have a very fast transition (compared to many websites) which aids in the feeling of snappiness. I don't know why so many sites insist on very slow transitions
> The lab leak proponents dialed up their rhetoric to 11

No. The media reporting on those proponents' theories dialed it to 11 to get clickbait titles for their articles.
Care to share what did you use to benchmark it, curious to reproduce the results?
Because we've been working pretty hard on batteries pretty hard for over 200 years, it will take a 10-20X improvement over current technology and we're not really seeing anything that is exponential like that anytime soon. I mean obviously it could happen, it's just unlikely given the past 200 years of steady improvement and not step function improvements.
I'm seeing many json calls that return the content showed in the page.
Do I have to pick just one?!
Ask HN: Learning Android development and I'd like some guideance
TL;DR
Recently learned React, a bit of Flutter, but instead of learning React Native, I'm learning directly native Android Development after finishing my first app on Flutter. Doing this because I'm developing some apps for myself and also publishing them for free (no ads or any crap) on android only. Should I consider React Native instead since I already know React?

Long version:
I'm a 43-year-old freelance designer art director who studied to be a sysadmin (this was before dinosaurs got extinct to be fair) but ended up working in advertising.

Past five years or so, my mother got sick (brain stroke) and I had a really hard time keeping up with my freelance business whilst I had to take care of the recovery, accompany to rehabilitation, doctors reviews, or help at home because I couldn't afford to hire a full-time nurse, so I've been mostly living from savings and a few sporadic jobs.

Nevertheless, the thing about this is that while I've been taking care of all this stuff, I've had some spare time, waiting in the hospital for hours or waiting between rehab sessions, you can have an idea. I took the opportunity to dedicate this time to re-ignite my nerd-self and started a web dev path with react and typescript. Also a few months ago published my first android app done in Flutter.

I have a friend with lots of experience who asked me Why I'm not learning React Native instead since I know already React and he pointed out like that would be the "correct" path.

So with all this, am I really making a bad call going with the android route or Should I consider React Native? Maybe because I don't have plenty of years of experience there is something I'm not foreseeing?

The intention of this is to gather some insights about the topic and sane debate, not start any holy war Native vs Not native. Many thanks!
Its gotten so bad, I would pay to use HN.

I would say that compared to a news paper subscription for example, the mental stimulus provided by HN is far greater.
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> Everyone expects a law firm to nickel-and-dime.

It's something they are expected to do for their clients, so within reasonable limits doing it to their clients is expected and shows a serious professional attitude.
When every moderately successful app is launched in a separate company will Google say, "it's the rules that are broken there's nothing wrong with lowering your play store liability by following the rules."
Awww, I love SMAC so much. It's one of those games that I play every 2-3 years for a bit, but I'm not even sure if it'll run anymore.
Umm, no. Plenty of people have outward personas that they can maintain through extreme intoxication.

Guy Burgess was well known when a British diplomat for protracted alcohol binges accompanied by all sorts of poor decision-making, but he never let slip that he was a Soviet spy.
Similar thing happened to me on side projects a couple years ago. A docker update (or something like that, I don't remember the details) rewrote iptables config and opened my mongodb to the world. I didn't notice and the whole thing got ransomed over and over...

Had some fun using mongodb but I don't think I'll ever use it again =/
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I wish it would just support "proper" Markdown where line breaks aren't treated as hard breaks. Makes it so much easier to copy stuff from Vim etc. I spend an inordinate amount of time J'ing lines together in Vim just to copy something to GitHub.
It's json yes but not an api. They are serving json blobs from their cdn which are prefetched.

It's a good site, but nothing particularly clever going on.
Maybe 50-70 years ago? yeah. Now? no. USA barely does anything in Central and South America any longer.
All their announcements read like fees will be automatically reduced to 15% for the first 1M$, and even the linked article implies that:

Starting July 1, 2021, the service fee for each developer will be 15% for the first $1M (USD) of earnings you make each year when you sell digital goods or services.

However, when you read on, you realize that it's an opt-in that you need to take action on:

To officially enroll for the 15% service fee tier, you must: [list of requirements and steps]
I use "nmap" for this.

$ nmap example.com
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
1119/tcp closed bnetgame
1935/tcp closed rtmp
You could, but profit still needs to be larger than real interest rate. Also, in that circumstance you like would invest it in Taiwan, as it would give higher returns
This works less and less as you earn more. At some dozens/dollars a day (I don't even mean homeless, I mean when you pay the rent and only have some crumbs left - I have a lot of experience living this way) every additional dollar makes you happier. As soon as all your basic needs are covered you (I) lose all the emotional interest in money and only feel interested in experiences, free time and increased security.
Are the autopsy results in already? If not... no.
Samuel's nonchalant reply to this is highly disturbing to me. I'm a Newsblur customer and as far as I can tell, my feed data is in the hands of some hacker and he doesn't care at all. I am much less concerned about the service being restored, which seems to be all that he's worried about, and more about knowing who has my data.

On top of that, I used to use his "forward newsletters to Newsblur" feature for a long time. I've long stopped using it and deleted all the feeds with newsletters, partly because it never worked very well, but mostly because I more or less had an inkling that something like this would happen and it's just not worth it, too many email newsletters leak personal data all over the place. However, I have no clue if those were really deleted or if they stuck around in MongoDB.

Clarification what exactly the ransom is (did he just dump it locally and encrypt it? or did the hacker download it and is threatening to leak it?) would be very welcome.
you think universities focusing on gender are affected by this?
The RK3566-based Quartz64 boards currently getting released have been explicitly stated as the dev-platform for any upcoming devices. So barring something very unforeseen, I would expect a next-gen RK3566 pinephone being announced within a couple of years and released within 2-4y or so.

Keep in mind Pinephone is (at least current gen) primarily intended as a dev device with a long lifecycle.
Criticizing another country behavior is not xenophobia or racism. There is a totalitarian regime in China that controls the bahaviour of China.

Modern censorship has the protocol of calling names to ideas or opinions that they don't like, prior to "cancelling" them, like calling homophobic the people that disagree in their opinions about homosexuality with what mainstream media says the opinion should be.

The theory of lab escape was very obvious from the start for experts in the field. I talked with laboratories chiefs after the pandemic and every single of them told me it was the main hypothesis. But none of them went public about it at first because simply the West needed China in order to fight the pandemic.

The fact is that China did wrong here, but there is hypocrisy in the Western world. The West put taxes into CO2 so energy prices go through the roof but China does not pay taxes so it has a big competitive advantage over the West. The West buy products made in China because they are cheaper(because they don't have taxes on CO2 or pollution regulation[regulation exist but nobody complies with it in practice] or protection against verbatim copying products).

Lab research is controlled in the West with very stringent set of regulations, so the West subcontracts China research because it is way cheaper and the safety measures are a joke, not in my backyard.

The US financed (outsourced) the lab research done in Wuhan. Bill Gates and so many others did too. While the West is arguing about ethics, China is doing experiments with human embryos because in China there is no such a thing as ethics. So Western companies put money in Chinese laboratories to do what they are forbidden to do in their native countries.
So you are surprised people are combative if you challenge their beliefs? How is that weird. That's seems completely normal to me.
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Thanks, appreciate the feedback!

Currently I'm just using the hosted AWS Cognito offering straight out the box (just as a temporary measure to enable people to sign up). I hope to have this looking/operating a bit better down the line.
It was used extensively in classic computer vision descriptor matching including most image lookup e.g. google image search today. There are many reasons it not much used in recent computer vision. The first is that it does not work when the descriptors themselves are explicitly designed to make visually similar features descriptively distinct, and the second is that it generally works poorly for binary vectors which dominate.
With regards to ml, its been tried, but the datasets are either too small or not available to researchers, and the result would be far too slow compared to the current approaches. Its actually one of the areas where deep learning hasn't reached parity to my current knowledge. It would be a great project, the dataset issue aside.
F-Droid architecture is terrible (it could take them weeks to build an app, and since they build all apps updates are severely delayed) and their app is a buggy mess. In other words, F-Droid not being widely used is not an indication of people not wanting to use a third party store per se even if it only carries open source apps.
true but in the case of 'Not fitting any "known" DoD drone means absolutely nothing.' I found that text enough to pinpoint the logical error in the original argument, to wit, every DoD drone was at some point unknown and thus not recognizable as such - whether or not such drones had any particular security clearance attached to them.

I think point 4 was argued against with some actual reasoning.
The Taiwan government would probably welcome some US military/naval bases.
In addition to what other have said, the app begins fetching page data the moment you hover over a link, helping ensure the content is already present in memory when you actually decide to click.
I thought Cali was killing off hydro by attrition because they say it damages river ecosystems?
If I were to take a guess, it might be because the quoted text comes across as conspiratory and opportunistic. It's not that Weinstein shouldn't be free to post tweets about what he likes. It's just that it had no relevance here.
It is hard to make revenue from an app store, because most downloaded apps are free ones, and a large percentage of them use Admob to monetize. A qualified competitor needs to provide significant amount of bandwidth for the free apps.

For paid apps, Google could always cut less than you if they feel threatened.

And Google controls the Android OS development.

BTW, there are tons of Android app markets in China. No monopoly there.
A well written and interesting article, but I strongly disagree with

> There are many reasons why, when it comes to SaaS startups, having a SPA front end that's powered by a REST API is better than having a monolith where the front end is a mix of templates and javascript.

If your SaaS isn't something that depends on highly dynamic data, like a stock trading application, then it often isn't worth it.

I'm firmly in the DHH camp, that a "monolith, with Javascript sprinkles" is easier to begin with, especially considering testing (UI testing is more brittle, compared to asserting against templates) and validation (SPA introduces the need to validate both in the frontend and server side).

I've seen projects get completely lost in the overhead of Javascript tooling, adding no value over what can be achieved using server-side generated HTML templates.

I would, however advocate keeping controllers "thin", passing responsibility to a service layer, so you if you need a JSON API in the future, you can build this out using existing services.