skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So it shouldn't really be necessary to have any of these arguments based on speculated future scenarios when you can look to Canada, the UK, Australia, etc, and see that slight increases in surveillance, censorship, gun regulation, health care availability, etc might actually have some benefits and certainly don't necessarily put you in the instant quicksand toward fascism/communism/scary scenario X.

There are a lot of benefits to living in countries with different governance approaches from the in many ways ultra-laissez faire approach taken in the US, but I don't think you'll find many takers here for the idea that the physical and internet surveillance of the UK and Australia are a model to which to look forward.
I want to say something glib here but straightfaced I will ask if you are referring to reliably improving the speed and efficiency of the courts' 99.965% [1] conviction rate because that's a number that makes some of my softwares vendors' SLAs look rickety in comparison to.

[1] https://www.chinajusticeobserver.com/a/what-is-the-convictio...
This looks very much as if the font renderer is aggressively hinting to the pixel grid vertically, but not horizontally. That’s a known trick for getting a decent compromise between crisp text (along the baselines and tops of letters) with subpixel horizontal kerning.

I doubt the Android renderer is really broken and no-one has noticed until now, so I’d guess the font either has bad hinting, or more likely it’s just being displayed at an awkward size and vertical positions are being rounded in an awkward way. You can see the slight deviations from the baseline in the iOS screenshots, it’s just much more subtle as it isn’t being hinted.

(Source: I contributed a little bit to font rendering in Urho3D, to fix some similar text aliasing glitches: https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D/issues/1953)
Reflective roofs combined with radiative cooling/night sky cooling is one of the most cost effective way to reduce heat indoors. Along with that, India needs to start mandating energy efficiency standards for new construction. Insulation is extremely poor for most houses, leading to very energy intensive cooling requirements in the summer months.

Ancient Indian architects already knew how to passively cool buildings - pools of water or stepwells at the base of the building (https://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/28/world/asia/ancient-air-co...). It was used in Jaipur, Rajasthan but may not be that effective in humid Chennai, however.
> Slippery slope fallacy fallacy

I believe the poster you’re responding to is making a joke.
Unsupervised Transformers and HPC Advance Protein Structure/Function Prediction
I wish this post was carved in stone in every consumer tech office. It is crazy to me how often companies produce negative value by redesigning their UI just for the sake of it. It's one thing if functionality has changed and you need to make a UI change to accomodate it, but reworking the UI for the exact same functionality is the equivalent of saying, "Our previous design was so bad we needed to burn a bunch of our and our customer's resources to recreate it. But trust us, this time we've got a good feeling about it".
Looks fantastic!

A bit of apples and oranges but I am looking for alternatives to Moodle which is the granddaddy of LMS - learning management systems.

I have to integrate youtube videos, quizzes, interactive learning materials, etc.
This doesn't follow since the argument would apply to Tether even if they weren't doing shady things. If you don't think unregulated stablecoins should exist in general that's valid but it doesn't answer the question of what specifically Tether is doing.

Like rake them over the coals for lying about having assets they didn't but if Tether had been from the start open about holding only a small fraction in cash would it be a problem?
Ask HN: Looking for a Hardware Startup Mentor
I have launched a bootstrapped hardware startup and found product market fit. Launched small and trying to keep up.

I come from a B2B software world and so my mindset is programmed differently. Im looking for a mentor that can answer a few questions over email once a week. Probably would take you 15min. Questions will vary. From business, marketing, customer support to maybe more production related stuff.

Im looking for someone who has been there and built a successful B2C hardware business to 7-8 figures of revenue at least.

Would love to chat and feel free to let me know what a fair compensation would be.
Melting Mongolian ice reveals fragile artifacts
In practice, it doesn't matter what an "actual" extension looks like, but how your product is viewed by customers, because those are the ones you want to lock in. And judging by HN comments, to very many people, Git means Github, making it an extension, if not outright a synonym.

And their extending has nothing to do with open standards, which is worrying due to the potential to create lock-in.
> Which email services have stronger brands?

None. No "Email service" (let's say newsletters specifically, because obviously gmail exists) has a strong brand - that's my point, it was a blank canvas to start and they've spent a ton on paint with little to show for it.

> Why would an email platform for business be a household name any more than would the top HR software?

Businesses are made up of people. Look at Salesforce, Workday, Zoom...
The Arc of History Bends Toward Emotional Support Peacocks
Chen makes it very clear that their threat model only includes attacks costing less than the attach rate of the system (about $600). He doesn't consider it an achievable goal in the general case.
Which cities didn't?
The Romans lasted 100s of years. Us Brits made over 100. The US is flagging barely 30 years after outlasting communism...
Got any more info on that? I don't recall the PS3 refusing to play movies.
I have a userscript running for HN that bumps up don’t size and line height
Stjepan Filipović
SemVer FAQ [1] specifically recommends starting with 0.1.0.

[1]: https://semver.org/#faq
Except the man arrested in this case was opposed to social housing for low income residents. What the police did was obviously wrong, but it doesn't really fit your narrative.
This is awesome. I’m going back to sf soon and all the antivax people will have fled. It’s like a utopia.

Sf doesn’t do everything based on best current scientific knowledge, but if I had to choose one topic for a region to manage based on evidence, it would be how to manage a viral pandemic so this is great. If it makes those unwilling to follow scientific guidelines flee to Texas, even better.
US real estate a safe haven for billions in dirty money, report says
No guilty plea (More than 97 percent of federal criminal convictions, 95 for state) and prosecutor being selective (only prosecutes case that open-and-shut) means very high conviction rate.
>I overthink everything all the time and there are still many things I miss and do wrong

Maybe you are just thinking? It only becomes overthinking when you have been at it for "too long". As in, it is not reasonable to guess that thinking more about it will be of value.

Of course, knowing when that is the case is hard. IMO we should spend more time figuring out when it is overthinking than warning people about overthinking.
Your entire iPhone is a black box. If you don't trust Apple, there are so many points in the chain where they could backdoor you. The fact they are out in front of this is a good thing.

Also, I'm willing to sacrifice a tiny bit of privacy to stop child porn collections.
Sevilla. Last week in TV. Measuring soil temperature in a modern sterile clean park made with lots of granite and a few street flowerpots with small plants here and there, nobody at sight. Designed by machines for machines. Soil temperature: 55 Celsius.

Near old fashioned park with trees, fallen leaves and dirt, people sit under a big sycamore, maybe 80 years old or more. Soil temperature 21 Celsius.

Is as easy as that. You will have what you sow.
Out of curiosity, does your revenue stay in Pakistan, or do you transfer it to a bank in the USA or elsewhere? I find it interesting I can use Wise to send money to Pakistan, but not from Pakistan. Just wondering if y’all have a similar challenge and/or how your deal with it.
I was confused by not seeing an explanation of where the attraction comes from (there shouldn't be any). Sounds like the top and bottom layers push the electrons together and the electrons settle into a hexagonal grid like a flat arrangement of balls would.

To me being able to measure/observe a thing like this is a whole other level of amazing.
I fail to see how MathML is inherently safer than SVG.
Samsung stopped mobile phone production in China since 2019. They are heavily in Vietnam.

Apple is just doing something wrong is all.
> Tether might be a scam in the sense that they don't actually have the backing assets they claim

> They are absolutely running afoul of banking regulations

> the only thing Tether actually needs to do is keep the trading value of their coin near $1.

How do you propose Tether do that if they don't have financial backing to create a watermark below which the value won't fall? Increase the scam?
Regardless, they’re ignoring a massive demographic.

Besides gaming, when consumer software stops support for macOS, it doesn’t look good.
The article also assumes there is one audience which is also false. The English language page for a Japanese subject will inherently need to describe things differently for a western audience to understand than the Japanese language page would. Trying to merge these would make things worse for both audiences.
Connecting in the Metaverse: The Making of the GTC Keynote
You also just described the USA.
Extreme weather variations aren't good for crops. Consistency is.
Geometric Deep Learning Course: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges
What kind of spam do you refer to exactly?

I have just checked out your forum and it does not seem to have any sort of form protection (stuff like hidden form inputs or captchas to solve). This tells me that it would be pretty easy to create some automated script to overload your backend. Well, unless your backend has specific checks or ways to prevent this.
I wouldn't blame the flatmate. No one should be expected to be available on the spot.

There are a million reasons for them not to be available.
Yes exactly that's what I'm worried about, I'd say if that happened it would be targeted and the chance of me being targeted is small but I also don't want to ever leave myself open to such a thing (also because I've lived in autocratic countries, I don't automatically think all governments are trustworthy).
The big drop in American poverty during the pandemic, explained
Haven’t read the paper yet but there are a numbers of consensusless protocols out there already: AT2 and Fastpay. Since there’s no total ordering you can’t do smart contracts on them, but payment is fast and scales. I have a feeling the payment chain of Avalanche (X-chain) is something like that as well.
Just asking that, you are not familiar with the horror of turbulence. I put those quotes in for a reason: some very great minds have stared into the abyss of turbulence. The Navier-Stokes equations have a "smoothness problem" where some values sometimes go to infinity. Error bars on infinity ...
huh? Nothing compelling here.
Both Victor's, and your point is completely incorrect.

The point is, whatever survivor's of thirties tell, thirties were a terrible time, even if they were living in a relatively well off Moscow.

That's the only truth, not that of lunatical historians which have nothing, but digits to look on, and imagining things well knowing that pretty much nothing in official economics documents from USSR' reflected reality.

Stalin, and his industrial proves is another busted for 100th time trope, straight out of original propaganda. A thing glaringly obvious to any Russian citizen who had at some time a surviving relative who went through that time, but not to people who purposefully keep returning to it for search of their worldview validation "alternative facts"
Without sounding like a dick … I totally would have let one of my old flat mates chill for a bit! No immediate danger there, and potentially kinda funny, but yea every situation is different.

The more worrying thing is the alarms button seemingly does nothing
:-)

That did fleetingly cross my mind as I was writing it. And yeah, I suspect I may have done that a couple of times - taking over someone else's codebase is not unlike watching the pilot parachute out of a flying plane with a "it's all yours now". Sometimes you have wings and engines and radio, sometimes the port wing is on upside down but the joystick is jammed starbd so it's all ok. But you really need to know that as the pilot jumps.

All in all, I think understanding someone else's codebase is like taking over writing a novel halfway through. It's why we all like a rewrite.

(And maybe why film scripts sometimes fell like they were written by committee)
It’s not a fallacy at all under Bayesian reasoning; it’s a very powerful heuristic.
It works well for me, but I have a personal preference for command line tools. I use emacs as my editor and am able to do everything I need on my Linux server (this is strictly for personal/hobby programming). There are a couple good source code aware (but not project aware) text editors for the iPad that work well with Working Copy, a really nice git client for iPad. On occasions when the Linux server was not enough, I set up Github Actions to respond to commits made through the use of Working Copy + an editor (Textastic in my case, though I'm not ecstatic about it, it does get the job done).

I'd prefer a real IDE on a few occasions (work is C# and Java). Trying to do some side projects to relearn or expand my knowledge of them and their libraries was infeasible on the iPad alone.

In the end, my conclusion is that if you don't need an IDE and can use a CLI or git-based workflow, then the iPad is a fine tool for programming and writing in general. I'm not even stymied by the relatively small screen, it's still better than the monitors I grew up with. The fullscreen and split screen modes also work well with my particular manner of maintaining focus on tasks (I use fullscreen/split screen on my MBP almost exclusively as well).
Type 2 Diabetes: Symptoms, Treatments, Causes, and Much
> What is actually bad about Tether that doesn't apply to USD and the current largely functional banking system?

You answered your own question. There are no

1. regulations
2. regulators
3. capital requirements
4. backing insurance guarantees
Jimmy is only willing to spend less than he'd spend in the cost of games. Even with a large amount of Jimmys there might not be market without getting the cost of an individual attack low enough.

On the other hand, there for sure is a market for cloud based attacks, and nation states that can apply a stick to go along with the carrot of millions of dollars in "consulting fees".
keeping this company in my library of saas's to use.
Strava Web and App Is Down Despite Status “All Systems Operational”
This isn’t unique to one party. This is American politics. You can’t simply ascribe it to one party because you lean the other way.
I don't think there is a way to say that without sounding like a dick.
Yeah, their scenario is a fantasy unless the party signing the NDA has more leverage, which is never the case.
Unique+No-Charge+Opportunity+To+Grow+Your+Client+Base
Access to sexual experiences is something I would count as a great liberation of the past decades. When a man got desperate for release not all that long ago, they didn't hop online for an outlet, they drove to the seedy part of town and visited a strip club, went to a porno theater, solicited hookers, etc. Those things are still around, and there were some possibilities to "phone date", but lack of options made things overall less secure and discreet for everyone involved relative to today where the man can just look up an Onlyfans or prowl Tinder profiles. 1980's teen movies like "Sixteen Candles" were OK with date rape as a concept, and that was just the tip-of-the-iceberg. We're doing better.

This goes even more so if we speak of the spectrum of LGBT identities, which in 1991 was in the midst of losing all continuity with the past because so many died from AIDS; many folks then would stay closeted and quiet because coming out was just too threatening. Casual homophobia was everywhere, and the "gay neighborhoods" of larger cities were somewhat exceptional even within that city. Now it's hardly unusual to be out, though generational acceptance remains rocky.
How does that work? You mean wash trading?
Or eli5 how tether could be abused to raise btc prices, and does it work the same way for eth?
Thanks! So surprising how hard it is for companies to handle these requests. Love to learn more about your experience with it!
That’s a fair point, but I’d argue that for cases where the app really needs notifications (for example an alerting system) or when the users want them, building a web app is not actually an alternative even if Apple considers it one.
> The mere act of having to verify yourself when going into a mall, restaurant, bus, train gives enormous tracking and control capabilities.

Then they messed that up quite well here. And that doesn't seem all that great a payoff at all. And way easier and more reliably achieved by getting position data from smart phone OS vendors. There is zero cost benefit analysis in the world that would make this pandemic a useful strategy to get easily falsifiable, hardly enforecable, coarse location data on the population.

> Well, simulating lots of sick people is very trivial, ever since the idea of asymptomatic disease came into play. Feel completely healthy? Better get tested! You could have entire populations being completely healthy, but the tests could still report diseases and you'd have an asymptomatic pandemic going on.

I was talking about sick people in hospitals (hence the mention of hospital staff being complicit or the need of people simulating being sick and possibly dying). That might not have been very clear of me.
I'm referring to my personal experience of working in China over the last decade and having come in contact with IP law related issues frequently.

I'm also not at all sure what some statistic about conviction rates in criminal cases has to do with the quality of litigation, arbitration, IP law and the commercial court system. This is a real "I just pulled a random number from Google" take
Life improvement is more free time. Free time is time free from necessary work. This includes free time from cooking, cleaning, etc, life support activities at home, too. In total, the number of working hours on average is higher than in 1990, I think, for full time workers. For some workers the work day increased to 12 hours/day, from 8 hours. It is unlikely the worker will be able to use his free time after long work day so even with non-work productivity improvements, he may not see the improvement. It might be that just 1 hour of additional free time is a better life improvement than anything. Universal cable, he list as a life improvement, is hardly worth longer work day.

I want to say that IMO: the workday should be lowered. It is possible to produce all necessary things for living in just 2-4 hours/day, including houses, cars and many more. See productivity growth. Free time can be work too, but it should not be seen as necessary work, everyone should be able to make a choice: work necessary time (2-4 hours/day) or longer. If you think something worth your free time, OK, work at your free time. But what happen is that you try to tell me that I have to work each day 8-12 hours/day so you can have an universal cable or a new video game, etc. Not cool.
The west usually does not:

> Arrest people who report freely on a unjust case

> Arrest & incarcerate the lawyer of the accused

> Forces the accused, by threatening his family, to confess to crimes on video

> And then lifestream those confession videos to the world as "evidence"

> The western government do not have much control over their "justice" systems as in, they can not turn on & off cases as they feel

(Although they wish they have, and they have watered it down, by creating crimes that everyone automatically commits in recent years + selective enforcement laws)

But yeah, the west needs to get better. It always does. And so does china.

But lets take something objective- the "were does money flee towards and were from" as a measurement of law and lawlessness and watch the crypto bleed out of china were it can. I rest my case on the scale of law and lawlessness.
Contra Hanania on Partisanship
That's disappointing. I had similar issues with The Mars Trilogy. I've yet to finish the last book, and the middle book took a long time to slog through.
> So they're name dropping Google in the title for clickbait

We're talking about The Register here. Clickbait is foundational to their business model.
That post is excellent and is now in my bookmarks.

I'm glad I asked for clarification because when you mentioned licensing, I first thought that you meant things like software licenses. Now, I know you mean things like engineer licenses.

Up to this point, I personally would like licensing, but only for the most critical projects, such as avionics, nuclear power plants, crytography, and perhaps even foundational projects like compilers. But only those things.

So I am glad you made me aware that people who want licensing tend to go overboard with it. That means I will need to reconsider my position. I wonder how the engineering world has solved that problem, or if they even have.

> I think that "supply chain" dependencies (like standard SDKs and libraries that are used as a "baseline") are juicy hack targets (think SolarWinds).

Yeah, this is one reason I wiped all outside code from the repo where I am building my software. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

> Software needs to be flexible. It's very, very difficult to have flexibility and Quality shacking up together. In the company I worked for, the hardware people insisted that flexible software was automatically "bad quality," so we were forced to apply rigid hardware development methodologies to software development; with ghastly results.

I think that this can be done with good design, which is the reason why my Design phase part of process is so long.

I have many reasons to think so, but a good intro to my thoughts is "Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain" talk by Runar Bjarnason. [6]

Of course, this only goes so far, but I have found it works in practice.

A good example is the bc/dc I wrote. I constrained its behavior a lot with assertions and maintaining the assumptions that the assertions test. I also implement a lot of the code with respect to constant data, i.e., I use constant data to define the behavior of code. (An example of this is the list of bc keywords, or the translation between characters and dc commands.)

The end result is actually a program that is fairly easy to extend: I simply relax the assumptions or change the constant data, with some exceptions where extension is harder because of bad design, like [7].

Nevertheless, you are completely right: software needs to be flexible, and flexibility and Quality often hate each other. Maybe that's what makes software a harder thing to get Quality out of than hardware, or architecture, or engineering?

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/commit/31b97508f

[2]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/commit/dd1cc3795

[3]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/commit/2ba7c20a9

[4]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/commit/4560fb115

[5]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/commit/3c4bce0bb

[6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw

[7]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/commit/8a1d001dcfc
There's a little more information about the British evacuation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/taliban-claim-...

Edit: and the USA https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/us-others-layi...