skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people chose names for tools or libraries starting with "Yet Another...". I know naming can be hard, but anything can be better.

Want a name, here are a few: Camel, Druid, Beetle, Quetzalcoatl, Omaha. You can even use a random website name generator, or character name generator to get names that don't mean anything but are readable.
Feels like a bit of a shameless plug but...we're building a bionic eye to restore a sense of vision for people with blindness.

https://bionicvis.com
With full details for all the participants etc and revisions the scientific data is probably quite a lot, so I can imagine that the blanked "we want all documents!" is actually the claimed 300k pages by some metric. But obviously "and it's ok if we only prepare 500 pages per month for release" is a very questionable position to take in such a situation, even if legal. Smells like usual bureaucracy crap, with no sense for the somewhat special situation here.
Unions have, and always will, take the excess profits of Ford/GM for themselves. Even if Ford is a better car company, its shareholders will never get to see the money from it.
Maybe, but 3DMF is a 90s QuickTime/QuickDraw3d file format from Apple. Since this is /also/ a model format, you wouldn't want that.
The work i do can be pretty boring and behind the scenes for the most part, but i figured i'd share a few tidbits nonetheless...

I'd have to say that probably developing the page over at https://apturicovid.lv/#en

Back when vaccinations hadn't even started properly, contact tracing was viewed as one of the ways slow down the spread of COVID, so around 100 professionals in my country got together and worked on developing the Latvian contact tracing application "Apturi Covid" ("Stop Covid"), in which i also got to partake in.

Sure, creating the site wasn't anywhere nearly as impressive as working on the actual back end which some other people got to do, but i'd say that it was still pretty useful, since it served as the first point of contact towards getting to know the initiative for hundreds of thousands of people, allowed embedding the ToS and Privacy Policy in a web view for the mobile apps and also allowed various companies and media organizations to access visual and audio materials to inform their clients about the app.

On a more personal level, it was proof that you can leverage modern technologies pretty effectively when you're not dealing with projects that are in maintenance hell and that have endless amounts of technical debt, or a restrictive governance structure.

Furthermore, it was proof that a team of capable people can work together pretty efficiently, in stark contrast to the "e-health" system in Latvia, which has cost about 15 million euros to develop to date, and still doesn't even work: https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-e...

I guess it also got recognized in the local industry somewhat, since the app itself received an award as well: https://likta-lv.translate.goog/pieskirtas-ikt-nozares-balva...

Well, it's either that, or fixing production issues that block the work of healthcare organizations. I actually once went to visit one such institution to get an idea about what the problems with their system were in person and saw the queues of people forming, none of which could receive the services that they needed.

Fixing those issues by ripping out the neglected components of that outsourced project and replacing them with something that actually worked was satisfying, since i had a direct experience with the problem that i was solving by doing so. That "boots on the ground" experience was pretty humbling.
Ericsson enters into agreement for USD 6.2B cash offer to acquire Vonage
Does Kotlin have the equivalent of GeneralizedNewTypeDeriving or whatever is required to make math operators work without boilerplate?
Sounds like some blue state in the US. (gunshots = USA, reference to progressive policy ruling implies blue state)
When Yale Harbored a Nazi
> Also, if there's one thing retailers care about it's products that look shiny and colourful and entice people to buy them. They're hardly going to give that up.

Wrap the plastic in paper. More and more products here in Germany do this.
Learned something new. Thank you.
This puts a name to something I've found very strange the few times I've visited America. Places like the "stroad" picture are everywhere and they have a strangely desolate feel to them. It's not an environment I would want to live and work in.

I have to take issue with this, though:

> We like to call them "the futon of transportation" because, just as a futon is neither a particularly good bed nor a particularly good couch, a stroad is neither a particularly good road or a particularly good street.

Futons (good ones, at least) are fantastic beds. I've been sleeping on them for over 20 years entirely by choice, having plenty of space and money for the alternatives. How anybody came to consider them a form of couch is the mysterious bit to me.
It proves that they keep shifting goalposts. Once Ryzen was starting to dominate, they were against benchmarks[1]. Now they released CPU that is only good in benchmarks (expensive platform, per watt performance, limited software support, further fragmentation avx-512).

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/311275-intel-doesnt-wa...
Show HN: The platform to create universal robot controls (github.com/roboportal)
Any comparisons and/or benchmarks with Traefik or NGINX?
Well, regarding drug crime, you can look at singapore.
What’s in Kubernetes client-go – Part 1
Geekring
Not true. Tesla could also profit more per car than all others. They could achieve this simply by being non-union. Or they could achieve it by winning the autonomous vehicle wars. They could even achieve it by not being a car company (e.g. a battery or charging station or solar company). It's not as simple as adding up all the other car company valuations.
> Sweden readily admits that its approach was a terrible mistake.

It does?!? Funny, how can I have totally missed something as big as that?

I'm a Swedish "expat"; I have now lived abroad for just a little longer than I lived in Sweden (26 vs 26.5 years), but I've always followed Swedish media and I still travel there regularly. All I've seen is some hemming and hawing about "Perhaps not totally optimal"; far from any flat-out admission of "terrible mistake". And when I spent a long weekend there three weeks ago, the populace at large certainly didn't seem aware of any such thing.

Got any handy links to this admission by Sweden?
There was no async in those days, we exchanged data through hidden iframes, just dont close the page because progress was gone.
Hah, I knew a JS wizard would come up with an easier solution after I posted that. Perhaps I'll have to re-sub to that site to see if they've changed their DRM scheme...
<enso-fanboi mode="on" disclaimer="&employee-soon;">

Have you seen https://enso.org? Personally, I'm strongly hoping for it to become a modern contender in such space (of making programming easier and faster, for non- and programmers alike)
What is encapsulation in C++ programming
Can you see the mites, though?

The monks had a kind of sieve to filter out small animals from drinking water. There is a famous story when some of them developed extrasensory perception and realized the water they had been drinking contains millions of tiny beings invisible to the naked eye. They went to the Buddha and asked what they should do. The Buddha answered, if you cannot see them, that is fine.

I like this story because it shows there are some limits to how much we can avoid taking life, otherwise we couldn't live at all.
Replacing property is still depriving others, just in aggregate, rather than on an individual level. Are e so divorced from the concept of how property is obtained that we think we can magic it out of an infinite pool?
The problem with this is that when they fail to predict you usually end up having to repeat the whole argument, to explain it to them the subtle difference between what you where trying to say and what they thought you where trying to say. Usually wasting more time and infuriating you.
The Camphor Shoot Borer Beetle (2019)
Some cars have a blind spot on their right. Also, the convention is passing on the left, so people are generally less aware of things going on on their right. Of course bad drivers are almost by definition unpredictable, but if some bad driver is going to absent mindedly merge into you, they will probably do it while you are on their right. In particular, distracted people whose texting has been interrupted by their GPS telling them to take the next exit...
Thanks for catching that! It's pretty disheartening to see people doing something like creating a shady site that pretends to be the real thing.

Thankfully uBlock at least warned me about something being off, though having some sort of a reputation plugin for webpages would be nice too, with more details about what exactly is going on.
I only have one GPU and not a particularly hot one (rx5600) at that, but I've found that moving it to a lower slot helped a bit. On the first slot it practically touched the CPU's heatsink.
Boomrang – Automated Intelligent Prank Calls – Indie-Hacking Corona Project
How to Download a Windows 10 21H2 ISO from Microsoft
Is wikipedia itself sentient?
In case you're using CMake instead, you may want to take a look at the `hello_sapi` example (https://github.com/google/sandboxed-api/blob/main/sandboxed_...).
Other build systems will be significantly harder to integrate with.
Hi HN,

Boomrang is a one-man product built in about 1 year, next to my job. It provides automated prank calls with an AI component (The prank calls actually listen to people).

The system consists of a backend in Golang running an Appengine, a web FE in React & Next.js (https://www.boomrang.app). And an iOS and Android app written in Flutter. I’ve also build data pipelines for daily reporting purposes (BigQuery / DataStudio)
All systems have their own repo with CD, so there is almost no manual work in getting things live.

I wanted to show HN members that a single person can build a backend, web, and apps in their spare time these days.

Some background on traction. It currently has around 50k users, and 10k MAU. I’m currently mostly getting users through ads, but it is profitable. So I’ve left my job to focus on this!
>However, since that time, all modern CPUs have turned RISC-like, by internally using a reduced instruction set and translating the ISA opcodes into internal commands, some implemented using CPU microcode.

Is there a way Intel can expose microcode and commands to outside so compilers can directly target them instead of X86 instruction set?

If yes, would there be anything to gain or lose?
Also, ligatures ("ﬃ" -> "FFI"). Here's the 102 single Unicode points which, after upper(), map to more than one point:

>>> for i in range(1_114_112):
... s = chr(i)
... if len(s) != len(s.upper()): print(i, s, s.upper())
...
223 ß SS
329 ŉ ʼN
496 ǰ J̌
912 ΐ Ϊ́
944 ΰ Ϋ́
1415 և ԵՒ
7830 ẖ H̱
...
8188 ῼ ΩΙ
64256 ﬀ FF
64257 ﬁ FI
...
64279 ﬗ ՄԽ
Yup, the only place where you can go over 140.
Some of those countries don't even have any Amazon distribution centres. A lot of those are protests by activists - not workers, and not related to working conditions at all. The title is not just misleading - it's completely wrong.
> According to a potentially revolutionary theory
> proposed by Ituro Inoue, a professor at the
> National Institute of Genetics, the delta
> variant in Japan accumulated too many
> mutations to the virus’s error-correcting,
> non-structural protein called nsp14. As a
> result, the virus struggled to repair the errors
> in time, ultimately leading to “self-destruction.”

I know it's been 50 years since its publication, but please don't spoil the plot of The Andromeda Strain likes that, Japan Times.
I assume lobsters are capable of suffering because that’s low cost for myself and has the potential to be correct, but “they respond to harm like a human would” is surprisingly weak evidence given my own reflexes will respond to pain well before the sensation reaches my brain, let alone passes through enough of my brain to reach the level of conscious awareness — if it was otherwise, I wouldn’t e.g. remove my hand from scalding water or stream fast enough to avoid injury.
Good point. I was thinking the concept of "beauty" is comprised of both pure aesthetics (cleanness, composition, ratios, etc), and symbolism. For example, some heavy metal music might be perceived as "unaesthetic" or unpleasant, yet it carries deep meaning for someone who's best friends hear that music. Or went to a festival and met wonderful people there. All this meaning gives it "symbolic beauty".
If you have to travel by chemically-propelled rocket your only chance of escaping Earth's gravity well without falling back is to obtain an escape velocity of 11km/s (~40,000km/h) within a short time span before the fuels burn up. Anything that orbits Earth has a comparable speed, only directions will differ. Meaning "just so much dust" is a particulate stream that will hit you with a speed of many thousands of kilometers per hour. At that speed even the lightest insects hitting your windshield turn into non-trivial projectiles because of E=mv². It's not like idling through a cloud of dust, it's more like being subject to a very powerful sandblaster. That will wear off that pretty NASA logo pretty fast.
æ, œ, and ﬁ are one or two? They’re one glyph, obviously, but when you ask ‘how long is “ ﬁsh “?’, it would seem odd to answer “3”.
>>since you cannot check the silicon...

READ.

The microcode is opensource..
Secure Open Source Rewards
we ran into it recently, basically when running microservices locally the different services were running on different ports, obviously don't need all running but there was a collision. The main problem is that with Apple's normally great communication skills about what they do, it takes a while to figure out what has all of a sudden happened and then change your port. And then you're mad at apple for making you waste some time.
Who is 'we'? Large parts of the world are fine with partially effective vaccines. India does mandatory BCG vaccination for tuberculosis despite a fairly low efficacy. The goals with vaccination cannot be 100% effectiveness because viruses and bacteria mutate, and well, people themselves change. What may be effective in children may not be that effective in oldies. The immunity usually wanes with time at different rates in different people. The aim of vaccination is often to bring r_0 under 1. Thus, any outbreak will die down rather than spread. Vaccines themselves, can and do have terrible side effects at a low rate. It is about balancing all these objectives.

Somehow COViD has changed a lot of people's ideas on what vaccines can do. Mandatory vaccination for a range of conditions has always been there for traveling to many parts of the world with endemic diseases. COViD is just another addition to the list, not the first disease against which vaccination is required.
> How anybody came to consider them a form of couch is the mysterious bit to me.

Apparently someone saw a futon and figured “we could use [cotton-filled and somewhat foldable mattresses] instead of rigid split mattresses for sofabeds” and so “futon” became a style of sofabed (obviously shitty since it’s a sofabed).
It was more of "If I would have to make sure there will be a steady revenue stream in the future, I would also try to achieve a limited time protection effect".
> Sure, if you just compare it to Norway and Finland, it is very true that Sweden has worse values, more than 3 times as many dead at minimum.

More like 6 (Finland) and ~10? (Norway), by my calculations.
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From the start this looks very promising from more than one angle, including as an ux review done by an actual user:

> If someone who contributes to Nix ever actually sees these blog posts, I hope that they take them for what they are: a weird kind of user acceptance test. Not demands or complaints, just the story of one person’s experience.
Some parts of the 3MF are actually good. I like the spec documents winding order of the meshes. The format includes units, and these optional 4x4 transformation matrices — both are useful.

As for need of the new formats, for one, modern CAD formats are insanely complex. These IGES/STEP/BREP files require many megabytes of very complicated code to deal with, such as this library https://github.com/tpaviot/oce These formats may even contain proprietary extensions. Also, they need non-trivial processing power to handle. Many people wouldn’t want a Core i7 with gigabytes of RAM in their 3D printers, inflates hardware cost and software complexity.

Besides, we now have high-resolution 3D scanners, and CAE software which algorithmically optimizes models by running numerical simulations. They both output triangle meshes instead of CAD files. Scanners often output point clouds one can convert into triangles, but hard to convert into CAD formats.

I just don’t like the 3MF implementation too much. XML is fine for kilobytes of data, but not many megabytes. If I would be designing that format, I would probably made it binary. Maybe EBML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Binary_Meta_Languag... would work for that; it does fine for MKV videos, which is also a huge pile of structured data with non-trivial performance constraints for producers and especially parsers.

Another minor thing, it was not the best idea to make name start with a digit. Most programming languages forbid identifiers like that for their classes / functions / namespaces / modules.
Agreed. It makes no sense.
FWIW in Germany the vaccination center I was at had ads for a free official app for tracking symptoms post-vax in scheduled intervals. The app explicitly insisted you list all symptoms even if you believe them to be unrelated. If you got the flu a week after your shot or get digestive issues from the all you can eat two days later, those symptoms go in the app. Since the base rate is generally unknown, it's safer to track everything and then list side-effects based on frequency.

This is all normal and unconcerning. The only thing unusual is how much data we have on the vaccines because we have literally billions of people vaccinated world-wide and an intense public and political interest in observing the outcomes.
It depends on the person. In my country it is popular for the poor to sell flowers or snacks at stoplights, and I usually always buy flowers. But in the US it seems most at stoplights are bumming for drugs or alcohol.

That said, I think donating is something that helps you more than them. Generosity makes you feel good, and it lightens your mind.
Is that actually true? That's absolutely true in SF, but the Bay Area is bonkers for lots of reasons, housing prices is a well known one so I want to be careful about extrapolating from there.
I heard it‘s not uncommon to approach companies that maybe could make use of the patent in the future or that are already potentially violating your patent. You approach them and suggest they license your patent to avoid a future lawsuit against you.
That's an ideological concern, not a financial one. The fact is that regular people can do very well investing in real estate, and inflation is very good for real estate investors.
Not me.

You need more than web-dev skillz to become a millionaire. If you want to be a millionaire, then you have to focus all of your attention on becoming a millionaire. Apart from single-minded focus, you also need certain other personal attributes - ruthlessness, an interest in running a business, and an eye for the main chance (a.k.a. "luck").

These aren't the attributes of your typical web-dev.
English speaking world has developed intuition about strings due to ASCII which simply fails when it comes to Unicode and that basically explains a lot of these pitfalls.

String length when defined #2 is also fairly complex when it comes to some languages such as Hindi. There are some symbols in Hindi which are not characters and can never exist as their own character but when placed next to a character they create a new character. So when you type them out on a keyboard you have to bit two keys but only one character will appear on screen. Unicode too represents this as two separate characters but for human eye it is one.

त + या = त्या

Following code will print 4

console.log("त्या".length);
> If zlib goes in to an infinite 100% CPU loop, perhaps due to a zip bomb, you're still screwed as far as I can tell

You can set CPU and wall time limits and the sandbox will be killed if it runs for longer.

> A full RPC abstraction also gives you the opportunity to change out the backend implementation that this doesn't.

Absolutely, but the RPC mechanism in SAPI is an implementation detail and ideally not something you should have to care about. You can of course just use the Sandbox2 part of Sandboxed API and implement an RPC layer yourself.
There is no market in factorio and supplies are produced at nice constant rates.

It’s pretty much the exact opposite of supply chain management because the supply chain behaves perfectly. There is no uncertainty.
- Time well spent. I have a habit of debriefing at the end of every day. I ask myself if this day was sustainable. If I'd be satisfied with 100 more days like this one, it was a good day.

- Giving to your future self. When I'm too tired to start something, I'll prepare my workspace and "ingredients" for the next day, a bit like a cook's mise en place.

- A position of "fuck you". Free time and disposable income give you independence of thought and action. Peace of mind is the best thing money can buy.

- Money as time. Measuring spending in "time at the office" makes you question what's really worth your money.

- Evolution through mutation. Progress comes from experimentation. Try new things. Better risk an occasional bad meal than eat chicken nuggets for the rest of your life.
It is simply the truth, I'm not trying to win any argument here.

I don't know anybody that died of COVID, meanwhile a colleague of mine knows 6 persons that died of it. It's just random distribution I guess.

When I say KNOW, I mean someone that I have met at least once. Not someone that I have heard of.

I don't know anybody with long COVID either, nor even hospitalized for it. All the people I know that got COVID were very sick from 2 to 4 weeks then recovered on their own.

Among all these cases I was the least affected, I was sick less than a week and was able to get back to work (I'm not remote) after 7 days.

Here are the adverse effects I know from the vaccines, citing myself:

> I know one man with thrombosis and another one with Guillain Barré syndrome. My sister lost conscientiousness after the second shot. One of my cousin has extraordinary abundant periods. A colleague told me that his running times were much lower than before, he feels always tired since he got vaccinated.
https://archive.md/EgcC6
Would it possible to share your findings?
Hm? Futons fold up into a softish furniture for sitting on. How is that not a couch?
Yes, GP is pointing out that the climate argument is missing in the movement.
Catch 22: Either the hardware could still be used in some system, so used stuff is expensive because some companies pay through the nose for spares, or the hardware is way too old for that, in which case it's an expensive collector's item. If it's very old and common it goes in the crusher.

This seems to be universally true for all kinds of UNIX workstations and servers.
sigh...it's not really about the weather. get it. extroversion is not about talking, but socializing, warmth, dominance etc.
Berating someone for having an idea is never the point of a brainstorm anyway.