skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting, but ultimately bad. You can do all of these things in a konbini because Japan's technology is so far behind the times.

Need a pay a bill? They don't have a web presence. You can't put many of them on auto-pay, and if you can, it's through a bank transfer, which incurs a fee. Most of them will not accept credit cards, even at the konbini.

Hey, they have really amazing copy machines at the konbini! Ah, right, because you have to print everything. They can fax things from the copiers! Yep, because you often are required to fax things.

You have to pay to have the konbinis accept deliveries, and it's only for people who can't accept deliveries at their building because they work all the time, and their building doesn't have lockers. It's kind of a regressive tax on the poor.

I love the konbinis and when I leave Japan I'm going to miss them, but a lot of their convenience stems from businesses offering low-tech services to fill technology gaps that other countries have solved with good technology.
Yeah without a doubt
Reporting people's activities to the government: crackdown on crypto?
Europe's fastest-growing no code companies
Right.

If A and B are coupled so tightly that one cannot exist without the other, you don't really have two modules. You have one, AB. This is a common problem with improper application of the idea of modularity as well as OO concepts (in particular, breaking things into classes and thinking it creates a module). The latter is particularly pernicious in languages which don't have a clear separation between classes and modules (Java, for instance, or historically I think this has changed).

The reality is that there are two (at least) kinds of modularity. "Syntactic" (I need a better name for this) modularity like Java classes, or C's translation units (why I need a better name). These act as modules, but don't necessarily define a real, proper module. And then there are your real modules which are comprised of the things that must exist together (like in the earlier example), regardless of the project structure or language's notion of a module.

I had a team try to convince me their code was "modular" but their GUI portion was directly tied to the DB portion and other logic. Nothing could be instantiated separately, so it wasn't really modular, it was just using the language and build system's notions of modules to create the illusion of modularity (C++ and VS in their case). In contrast, another team had developed a collection of libraries (C# and VS again) that were used in multiple applications. That was real modularity.
The coffee shop hacker culture belives there is such thing as good and bad companies, hence why Google has been able to fool them with "do no evil" crap.
Pretty sure it's not his twitter following that could get him a replacement
Thin-atmosphere-optimized is a thing, and lets you get most of the benefits.
rrally depends on your setup. When I used Vue Router it prefetched all the route components (so frst page load isn't affected but total bandwith is for the whole app), or if the app is a PWA, the whole app is downloaded in the background.
> 2. Get at least a single regiment on their side, and raid stockpiles, which I bet are still full of union's surplus hardware enough to arm the entire population few times over.

This is a very, very bad idea, and I say this as a former reader of /r/syriancivilwar/ in its "heydays" (~2014-2016). Afaik by 2016-2017 many of the Syrian simple citizens just wanted peace, they were tired of the war, they were tired of politics. What you suggest is equivalent to civil war.
It’s probably unlikely given that the cops pressed them at all, but it is a valid concern. It is quite clear that the e-bike shop owners know very very well that they’re trading in hot merchandise, and they’re probably facilitating it.

I would love to make “enemies” of these guys and see how far the dominos fall.

Unless as a society we push these criminals, we’ll end up back in the heyday of organized crime and mafia run cities. Corruption is a constant battle.
Nothing you’ve stated contradicts my point. You are also misunderstanding the chemistry in the passage you quoted.

Sulfur is commonly used to bootstrap exothermic reactions, largely based on its strong affinity for oxidizing metals with relatively low activation energy. In gunpowder, you need the potassium nitrate to release the “nitrate” part so that it can oxidize the carbon but for that to happen you need to offer potassium something more thermodynamically attractive to bind to. Charcoal (carbon) cannot serve that purpose. Sulfur provides that thermodynamically attractive outlet for potassium such that it will happily release the nitrate. Sulfur, in this case, would be termed a “sensitizer” but the mechanism of action is as a metal oxidizer. Sulfur/metal complexes are often used to bootstrap hard-to-ignite things such as thermites.

There are many metal oxidizer salts that become so sensitized in the presence of sulfur that they become dangerously unstable. In the case of potassium nitrate, it becomes more sensitized but still stable enough to be useful. For most real industrial applications, metal oxidizer salts have long been replaced with ammonium oxidizer salts which don’t have any metals to worry about.

The “sulfur-free” formulation uses an organic fuel (gunpowder does not), which provides alternative potassium sinks thereby obviating the need for sulfur.
> The entire Western world could be within a decade.

It could be, but it's unlikely to be. People in Germany and Japan are quite opposed. In the US, it doesn't make economic sense. Not going to make it to 85% of the western world without those countries on board, even if you don't consider Japan to be in the west.

Regardless of the merits, people don't want these generators near them, and there's not a lot of site options that are close to transmission lines and other important needs, but not close to people.
Is the average cop that old?
You wouldnt make it compact, so the new dreaming intern joining your codebase would be able to gloriously produce changes rapidly and get hired under the well intentioned smiles of the rest of the team.

Instead, in the kdb team I joined recently (a one-letter, symbol heavy language used by quants), nobody can remember what things do, nobody has time to teach you the insanity of code older than 2 months, and you re instead spending weeks "learning" under the heavy sighs of everyone suffering from the new burden guy.

Why do you want to do things compactly rather than with clarity?

I wish google could search for one-letter language specific symbol so I could ask "what does -9! do on type J vs type C" (nonsensical exemple, I cant remember types without looking at the type table, but I think -9! transforms a bit array into an object)
What to do if you find an AirTag or get an alert that an AirTag is with you

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227

To disable the AirTag and stop sharing your location, tap Instructions to Disable AirTag and follow the onscreen steps.
Do these laws specify that you're not allowed to make features that encrypt data?
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New Font {poly Butterfly} Opened in Galaxy Store!!
> The reason is that Vue is miserable to debug in the browser. It is really clever to use proxies for values but then you have to make an extra click to see the actual value and it really slows you down. Recreating the state of the app inside your head can't be done quickly because you have to manually evaluate everything you need to do that.

With https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vuejs-devtools/nhd... ???
When I am just yet another dev in the team, I use whatever the FE team decided upon, however on my own projects I use Web Components with lithtml.

The browser underlying stack is always going to be there regardless of what is fashionable to wrap around it.
How does the Airtag communicate when it's out of range with the host iPhone? Does it piggyback off other iPhones network connections?
I'm not actually sure that you could, AirTags are so cheap and easy because they can tap into the huge network effects of Apple products for free.
I love

{ __proto__: null, foo: 'bar' }

That creates a clean prototype-less map/record object. I always wish they would add special literals to create such objects.
These people really hate you and think low enough of you that they feel they have a right to rummage through your personal belongings anytime they wish. America feels like its over. The dream is dead. The supreme court full of weak people that will rubber stamp the rot. People feared AI, and they got laughed at. But its literally AI bots manufacturing consent on twitter and social media to this authoritarian slide.
I think it's possible to acknowledge that there are different levels of privilege.
What's the discovery with the jeather jacket? Other than being a jacket, an outer layer, what is good about it?
> If it's detected, their parents will be notified and have the ability to view the pic in question.

There are some other steps in there. If such a photo is detected the minor is notified that it may be intended to harm them and the subject of the photo may not have consented to sharing it. They are asked if they are sure they want to view the photo.

If they say they are sure and they are between 13 and 17 they are shown a blurred version of the photo. Their parents are not notified.

If they say they are sure and they are under 13 they are told it is their choice but their parents want to make sure they are OK and will be notified so they can check.

If they then elect to view the photo they are shown a blurred version of the photo and their parents are notified.

This is all off by default. Parents have to expressly opt in to it when they set up a child's device with Family Sharing.
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Impressive!

> High performance, extremely low memory footprint.
> RAM usage (avg.): 21.5MB
> Binary application size: 600KB
I would highly recommend the Vue browser extension. It makes the state/component hierarchy entirely transparent.

I wish people would stop saying things like "is just JavaScript". All these frameworks do fancy things with JavaScript, and they're all just as much JavaScript as each other. Also they _all_ use DSLs; Vue, react, and svelte.
You can remove the speaker from airtags.

https://mashtips.com/remove-airtag-speaker/
> If you want what's on your device to stay on your device, I think you have to live in a place that doesn't exist - namely, a world without governments or the internet.

This isn't true quite yet. It's pretty easy for me to keep some of my data truly private (e.g. on a secure Linux machine with an encrypted disk, if I'm really paranoid) while still participating in modern society, using the internet, and so on.

Apple has simply removed itself from the set of vendors whose products don't preclude uncompromised local data security.
If you are insured enough, you probably also don’t want to find your car again. Better be reimbursed by your insurer than getting your car back in chunks.
Software Gardening and playing the right game
You can burn your rocket engine in short powerful burst or in long gentle burst, but delta-v calculation still applies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v
> And since nobody builds their executable from source

How many people build gnupg or gpg-agent from source?

> Whatever entity

Seems like something your local apt/pacman repository mirror host could do too.

It's a fair concern. I'm not trying to be disingenuous, sorry if it comes off that way. I'm just focusing on Signal because you wrote "modern IM software".
Indeed, my girlfriend's motorbike was stolen, parked nearby to a police station, and the police station surveillance cameras even had the whole scene in their footage.

To this day she is waiting to get any news from it, case closed and archived.
Neat!

Pushbullet also does something like this, and more!

https://www.pushbullet.com/
Without the apple network, you need some way to geolocate and connect to a cellular network. This immediately makes your product bulky, expensive and and with a short battery life.

The airtags are by far the best tracking devices ever created and can let you locate your tag with tenth of a metre accuracy on a coin cell battery that lasts 1 year.
In theory this might work only on poorly designed electronics in which the supply lines the leds are connected to aren't properly decoupled by capacitors of the right size. In practice, lots of modern devices are lacking in that field.
Italy breaks up fake EU Covid pass schemes
I don't expect D to change the way it does things. But I think your security concerns lack merit.

It doesn't make sense to produce an executable, not execute it, then go audit the code. Just audit the code in the first place. And like I mentioned earlier, virtually no project is purely static code. They include shell scripts, make files, and tons of other things. Working with untrusted code is dangerous, period. Making compile-time programming a little safer is just passing the buck.
Interesting. Can you link to the case?
Google's Android backups claim end to end encryption.

> By design, this means that no one (including Google) can access a user's backed-up application data without specifically knowing their passcode.

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
Yes, exactly. It’s something you’re asked whether you want to enable when setting up a new iphone. The location is encryped with a key that only the host iphone can decrypt, so supposedly apple doesn’t see your location every time you walk by an airtag
> The hard part would be getting the US security apparatus to allow it. This is why ALL the major storage providers DON'T support end-to-end encryption.

I don't think so. The reason is there's no money to be earned with being simply a storage provider. Additional processing, indexing, workflow tools etc. is what people pay for. That's not possible with E2E encryption.
> Svelte is just JavaScript

I would argue very much against that: Svelte looks like Javascript, but behaves completely different. I don't think it's a bad thing, and quite enjoy it, but I don't think it's valid to call a language that happens to be valid JS syntactically actually JS.

> It is trivial to use any JavaScript library because it requires no integration wrapper to convert that library to Svelte. Just use it as you would without Svelte.

What do you mean by this? Of course you can use a standard JS library with any other framework! What makes Svelte different here?
"Disabling it" is just an animation that shows you how to pull the battery out of the tag. Likely not what they want to do.
I personally love Vue 2.6. I'm not a huge fan of the composable API.
What's the backdoor that has been implemented?
It doesn't matter how "nice" the people on the lower levels are.

An organization is determined to act like the management wants. If management consists of jerks the organization they lead will always behave accordingly.

A fish rots from the head down…
It's not just different organizations working together, I'd call it more... working with what you have. In the event of an earthquake the disaster staging area isn't going to have a nice assortment of police, fire, EMS, and other employees--they're going to get whoever was in the area at the time and need to try and organize and allocate them to do the most good with what they have. Not everyone is going to be going back out to do the job they started the day with.

In that sense I could still see some value around the ideas of organizing based on whoever actually shows up when the 3AM call goes out, adjusting roles on the fly as the situation evolves, and assigning out specific people responsible for updating management, interfacing with vendors, etc. And I think it puts people in the right mindset to do all that.

But yeah, I wouldn't like... plan on sending all my staff out for ICS training next week or anything. I think there'd be some value in sending a couple people responsible for creating and implementing your disaster planning to take it though--there are a lot of good things you could copy, some you could modify, and some you could throw away to make a pretty damn good IT-oriented response procedure.

And yeah, as far as I've seen our city actually uses ICS any time the emergency operations centre is activated. That's whenever there's a large-scale emergency that requires more centralized coordination, but also sometimes just if there's a large event that requires coordination (e.g., a festival with 100k people showing up at the beach). It's not just for practice, but because it's just a system that everyone's already familiar with that can respond to the situation if it evolves. Nobody needs to make the call that "we're switching into emergency mode now" and stop everything to reorganize, they simply respond.
The gravity video was instrumental in me finally understanding years of physics classes.

And the YouTube algorithm was actually really useful and made discover this series of video on special relativity: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoaVOjvkzQtyjhV55wZcdicAz...
Java new operator leaves C++ new operator biting the dust.

But then you allocate C++ objects in the stack, and that's a couple of orders of magnitude faster.

It really comes down to if you can use the stack, or you have to use the heap.
You could trivially make that chip the main controller. The device is then worthless without the same chip with firmware on it. With the read protection on modern chips it is feasible that you could make it close to impossible to find a replacement chip with firmware on it. Especially if its a no name brand and every brand has its own custom protection.
Should I sell my $15M ($5M EBITDA), 15% YoY Growth startup?
Hello HN. I could use some advice.

My co-founder and I have a b2c saas business in the fitness space. We have a website and a mobile app where we sell subscriptions and one-time physical and digital products. We have about 100,000 DAU across both web and mobile. We are at $15M topline, $5M ebitda (caveat: team size (20) and marketing budget (2M) are very small).

We have a serious acquisition offer from a big company at what I feel is a low valuation - 6x EBITDA, 2x rev. We do not have other interested parties so it's unfortunately, not a competitive situation. With co-founder, employee equity + investors liquidity preferences, I would personally bank $10M before tax, $7 after tax. I've been working on my company for 8 years, and my entire net worth is tied up in the company (I was not born into wealth so this is my only nest egg other than $100K in stock from past jobs). I have navigated the company to grow profitably and as of last year, it's finally starting to throw off some cash. We made $4M in profit last year and should be at $5M this year, revenues $13M, growing 15% yOy, but, the issue is, user growth is stagnant as churn is high in the fitness space and so it's hard to grow quickly, we tend to just swim in place, from a MAU perspective. We have not cracked the code on customer acquisition. We have gotten better at monetizing our base (by increasing conversion rates, raising prices, offering more SKUs), but we have not cracked the code on how to increase our K factor and/or find explosive user growth. Our acquisition strategy is basically just buying FB/IG ads at pretty high acquisition costs and targeting spenders. The only reason the marketing is positive ROI is because we price our products on the high side, given how competitive mobile acquisition is these days.

One thought I had was using the $5M in profits to buy out the investors (we only raised $1M) and run the company as a lifestyle business and pocket the dividends while I potentially start or invest in other ventures. This could earn me more in the long-run than the $10M I would get up front, as by 2026 I could have earned $10M by aggressively profit-sharing/paying out dividends and still have a company I could sell at that point in time, with revenues presumably higher ($25M-$30M). That being said, we do not have that many acquirers in our space so I'm a little nervous when that time comes we may not have any interest if we're on the same linear trajectory.

I guess I am looking for some perspective on if bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, even when you have a nice cash flow business on your hands as your other alternative option. I have the company pretty plug and play so it does not take too much of my time, maybe 20 hours/week. I wouldn't say I'm burned out, as a lot of stuff is still fun for me, but I am definitely not putting in the hours I used to.

Sorry this was so long but it's been weighing on me and I would really appreciate hearing how other people would approach this in case it helps me get clarity on one path vs the other.

Thanks in advance
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Panasonic has duplex document scanners in various price ranges, starting from about 300 €, and they are all Linux compatible with one sane SANE driver. They scan super quick and easy and work very reliably.
Damn. The problem is Octocrylene. The safe limit is 10% and the sunscreen I favour is on 8% so Its under the schedule, but now.. I don't know what to think.

https://www.taren.com.au/assets/brochures/171050.pdf

(this is a really good, unscented, 50SPF sunscreen which rubs in easily, and dries transparent. I've been using it for a decade)
I really like Svelte and, as you point out, less community adoption doesn't really impact developer UX and productivity. Though, I have found that debugging is a bit painful, as the compiled JS code doesn't really map so well to the source, but debugging seems to be a problem with virtual DOM frameworks too
If the dataset mostly contains edge cases, model performance on the dataset is going to be poor, but it's not an issue I think.

But how could the real-world accuracy be computed? Is a separate dataset needed for that purpose?
Why say, "significant other" then refer to her as female? Why not just say girlfriend like a normal human being?
It's not MAD at all. It's akin to perpetual proxy war, which has rarely stopped between all the various powers.

It's Iran killing US soldiers in Iraq. It's the US killing Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan. It's China or the USSR killing US soldiers in Vietnam. And so on.
> If you (or your company) are paying cloud fees for hosting your services (including serverless), you are absolutely throwing money away

You're almost certainly not. You almost certainly are nowhere near the RPS limit. You almost certainly are bottlenecked on your own code far more than your framework/language. You're almost certainly running at a performance level of "just barely not bad enough to spend time improving" and would almost certainly be doing the same in any other language. You're probably using a slower framework than the fastest python or ruby framework, so the fact that faster frameworks exist in your language is irrelevant. And if you are in the (rare) case where you're handling enough requests for this choice to matter, then you're big enough to benchmark some proper prototypes that measure the kind of thing your application actually needs to do.

Almost anything is a better use of your time than looking at the benchmarks. And if you are going to look at the benchmarks, you shouldn't look at the RPS total; what you should do is first estimate how many requests your app needs to handle and then apply that as a yes/no filter to the frameworks you're considering. "It can handle 1000x as many requests as we need instead of 100x" is not a good reason to pick a framework, much less a language.