skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I learned while living in Tokyo is that the two major risks here are not the disasters themselves, but the "side effects" of those:

- Earthquakes, yes some houses fall down and people die, but in general the bigger risks is the fires that spread from broken gas pipes and broken water pipes. Oh, and tsunamis.

- Typhoons, some people die from a direct hit from flying debris, but it's normally the floods and earth slides that are the issue and kill most people.

I'm from a quiet calm part of the Mediterranean so I'm not used to this at all. Many of the cities around there even moved the rivers away from the cities to avoid floods in heavy rains.

As for prep, I can live 1 week easily in my home (lots of water, enough food). Which I hope not, but might need those if the coronavirus hits Tokyo as strongly as China. And I'm thinking of buying some more just in case since some companies are sending their workers to work from home for 2 weeks.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in search engine for finding your next project?
https://i.postimg.cc/cJkJ9fXq/image.png

I am building a search to aggregate complaints/pain points/wishes/general feedback etc from multiple sources to make it easier for you to find a product fit. I think I will build a crawler to directly fetch pages next.

Do you think it will be useful for you?

How much time do you waste on collecting information about fields and products?

How much your time is worth?

Any current tools you use?

Which websites or places do you visit for it?
I think there is difference in the way top loaders are build in US and EU. US top loader is basically front loader put on it's back, that's why it have to fill all the way up. EU top loader have the drum sideways so it works in the same axis as front loader and you put your clothes trough the doors in wall of the drum.
Indeed it's a compliment. And also a humble request because I'm interested in this subject. Perhaps my way of expression was not the best? But I'll take some time to see what other resources are available there.
Have they ever released how much money they earned off those affiliate searchers/clicks?
Not really but usually i send them to me in my chat in telegram
> Skeuomorphic design is a great enabler for Human Computer Interaction and allows the layman to quickly grasp things.

It was a lot of fun working on apps during the Skeuomorphic design era, but I'm not sorry we've moved on. For one thing, we used to have to ship apps with a lot more image assets, which increase the bundle size substantially, but only really serve to delight the user the first few times they open the app and become invisible after that.

Also skeuomorphism was a lot easier to achieve when there was exactly one screen resolution to target. We used to really count pixels when designing screen layouts, and it pains me to think how many different asset versions we would need now to support all devices cleanly.

Ultimately I think it was a useful metaphor when touch screens were new, since it gave people useful information about how interacting in this format differed from a PC or laptop screen. But the thing which is really unique about touchscreen interactions is how the content can move and react to a user's touch, and it's much easier and less costly to do interesting things in that realm with simple lines and colors than with fully textured surfaces.
Looks interesting! Good job
We do (or did) have modular options. The Chromecast audio was almost perfect in this regard, a $25 dongle that could be added to any amp/speaker setup and do all the 'smart' you needed including multiroom. Google have pulled it though, presumably the margins aren't there for $25 dongles vs $150 integrated devices. Given nobody else has stepped in to fill the void left by chromecast audio, I'm guessing it just isn't commercially viable.
Ask HN: Do you emoji-code your contacts?
For example I prefix my 'old' contacts with the 'zzZ' emoji instead of deleting them. That makes it easier to dismiss them in a search.

I tried to use groups but (at least on the iPhone) I find this method better.
Capture Invoices Using Deep Learning
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I had assumed Amazon was paying for the Amazon "app" in Ubuntu (based on gut feel) but it looks like it might have been part of a Canonical's web-y vision for the Linux desktop future [1]. Does anyone know why the Amazon app existed in the first place?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/what-happened-ubuntu-uni...
The plots in the linked StackExchange question were created using Wolfram Notebooks.
Actually my reasons for installing Ubuntu were:

- Better support for the programming tools and languages I use.

- Free (as in, no cost)

Sample size one though, so YMMV. I'm sure there are more than enough distros you can use instead.
I don't know, Coronaviridae have neither oil nor WMD?

There might be cause for some concern like for any form of disease, but calling it a war is ridiculous and inappropiate to describe the situation. Even a well intentioned reading of the statement leaves much to wish for.

The common cold kills more than 50,000 people a year. 90% of media reports are intentionally worded to dramatize the situation, so I don't think anything warrants this classification with respect to the people deceased.

This reaction is precisely the reason why some might think about restricting information about infections or simliar health hazards to the public.
Useful! Thanks
Excel mis-identifies CSV files whose first column is named "ID" as SYLK files.

But who would EVER think of naming the first column of a spreadsheet "ID"?

https://www.optibrium.com/community/forums/6-general-how-do-...

>Q: I have saved the result table from admensa into .csv format. However I am not able to open in excel. It is said that SYLK: file format is not valid. Do you have any experience on it? Thanks.

>A: This is an Excel 'feature.' I would guess that the first column of your data is entitled "ID". For some reason, Excel interprets any CSV file beginning with "ID" as an SYLK format file (not really sure what that is!). If you edit the file in, say, Notepad and change the name of the first column in the header row, you should find that it will load without a problem.

>This will happen if you save a CSV file from any application with the first characters "ID". So, unfortunately, there's not much we can do about it, other than to recommend that users don't call their first column "ID"!
Do Quarantines Even Work?
Right... but the point is that you _don't_ need fancy neural networks, you _only_ really need someone with an actually not that uncommon skill.
The end-user experience is definitely better on iOS. Gestures are ideally suited for navigating a touch device, especially as phone sizes continue to grow. It's a shame that Android cannot implement swipe-to-go-back because it conflicts with the navigation drawer UI.

But the development experience is not as impressive for Xcode. It is far slower than Android.

Deploying an app to the Play Store is ridiculously fast and frictionless while deploying to the App Store feels like installing Windows XP
What we get here in the rest of the world, is something that allows for control of both temperature & water flow. Usually (but I can't really speak generally) with a freely-moving showerhead connected by a metal-jacketed rubber hose (which can be placed on a fixed position to the wall for overhead showering)
You just made my day!This is really smart and easy way to managing contacts!!!
Fourth Spy at Los Alamos Knew A-Bomb’s Inner Secrets
> Sonos could start to become a SaaS company and largely lease their speakers.

Funny you mention this, because they recently launched this: https://flex.sonos.com/
What exactly makes PowerPoint so good? I’ve never really used either, I’ve mostly relied on pamdoc’s Beamer generator and google slides.
The developer kept whole world infront of our eyes to pick the destination country
I'm really interested to try something like you describe. Do you need beta tester and first users?
And privacy badger automatically blocks 15 (!!) different cookies in there
>article makes no mention of the followup experiment where it seems a hospital invited a repetition and then claimed to have found 40 or so fake patients during the agreed period

'a hospital' - which hospital?

Makes sense to carefully re-examine the other claims of the paper.
Motorola explains how to care for your Razr as pre-order begins
Are hair dyes safe? Health worries are increasing interest in the go-gray style
Thx for sharing this
We rather do not call Julia a Lisp lest people notice.
Superstar Cities Are Driving People Away
Ask HN: 2015 MBP users, what machine have you upgraded to, or are planning to?
I've got a 2015 MBP, and unfortunately after constant use every day for the last 5 years, the screen has started to flicker, and I've finally had to admit that I need more RAM for things like Docker/Vagrant. Although the amount of spec you get for your money has always been a bit of an insult from Apple, the latest 13" line-up (not a fan of bigger sizes) seems insane.

My current laptop cost around £1200 new (5 years ago), and came with a 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. The current cheapest 13" MBP costs £1300 and sports a tiny 128GB SSD and still 8GB RAM.

If I select the 3rd (of 4) most expensive laptop, which has a reasonable CPU (albeit 8th gen), then bump the RAM to a realistic 16GB, and the SSD to 512GB, the price is £2179, which is insane. From Dell I can get the same spec, with a 10th gen CPU, for about £500 less.

I've used Mac for the last 18 or so years and would consider myself a Pro user, but it feels like madness to spend over £2000 on a machine that's on an older spec CPU than most competitors, for a lot more price.

If anyone from Apple is reading this, screw you for making the emoji bar mandatory and not giving the 13" MBP a physical escape key.
American toilets essentially suck water, pulling everything with it. Euro toilets just dump water from above. The disadvantage of Euro toilets is that they become dirty, which is why there's always a brush nearby. Also having that step with all your poop on it just sitting there is unpleasant, at least to me.
Nice job, Ars <3
I can't find it, but a while ago there was a post on some StackExchange page (SuperUser maybe?) and reddit that had the following problem: Whenever a specific person passed a specific cubicle, one of the monitors would turn black/lose signal and turned back on after the person was away again. I don't remember how it got resolved or rather what the problem was. Since it only happened on a specific person people were guessing it was about static electricity from the specific clothing(-style) or similar in the early process. Maybe someone else had heard of this or can find it?
> To test the hypothesis we propose here an experiment, predicting that the mass of a data storage device would increase by a small amount when is full of digital information relative to its mass in erased state.

Isn't a disk in its "erased state"--whether storing zeroes or random values--still storing information?...

> An example of true erased state would be an array of bits in a magnetic data storage memory, in which the erase operation does not imply reset of all bits to identical magnetized state, but total demagnetization of each bit, so neither 1, nor 0 could be identified in any of the bits.

But if you instead think of the drive as a ternary storage system, now it suddenly would be storing actual valid values, and you can also always define the magnetic readings to be a fully analog storage: so this definition of "information" has to be flawed for being subjective.

Something with a lack of information would need to be something of high entropy--essentially the opposite of information--and thereby more indistinguishable along some axis towards a chaotic gas or whatever.

> From (6), mbit = 0 at T = 0K, so as expected, no information can exist at zero absolute.

Isn't this the exact opposite of correct? Information is maximized at absolute zero, which is used as the definition point of minimal entropy (which is, again, the lack of information).
Is it common for sub-domains to have sub-sub-domains?
SGI always had the coolest looking computers
They use the map emoji (️), the display is implementation dependent. New Zealand appears for me on my Mac, though I have to zoom a lot to see it.
That sounds like a feature if I could somehow tie it to my boss
Why don't people plan for potential disasters?

It's not a high enough priority for them. People might occasionally think about low likelihood, high impact events. But they rarely make a detailed plan for how to reduce the risk.

"Risk management" is not just for projects and organizations. If you're a parent you probably do risk assessments (https://teamsuccess.io/risk) every day, without realizing it. And ultimately, just like managers, you too as a parent, are ultimately responsible for managing risks. :)
To Kill a Community
It's not that wasteful if you consider for much water is used by a toilet flushing after a wizz.
Big Tech Gets Put on Guard by Antitrust Police
Hey, 1hakr, fellow indie hacker!
Thanks for the correction. Probably others have also confused these two features.
Yes. But I think there is another way to look at this: You _don't_ need fancy people with a not so uncommon skill, you _only_ need a bit of computing power.

Point is: I totally agree! The entry level to fake something is really low. No matter the technical value or skills you bring to the table.
Also, as a secondary question, is there any physical difference between a US MBP, and a UK MBP, other than the charger? The same £2179 laptop in the US (with taxes) comes to £1792. I have some family in the US that visit annually, so a saving of almost £400 would be nice.
Brilliant! Thanks. I Will start outputting recfile format from now on.
They're looking for a few very specific toys, so that won't really be a problem.
That is not the goal of mGBA (or any GBA emulator for that matter), btw. If you wanted to reproduce it faithfully, the emulator would be unusably slow.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulation_Accur...
That's why I let it stew for four or five pees before I flush.
Its a pity Apple don't support this by endorsing it somehow. Trademarks/copyrights don't get weaker when you officially authorise usage[1]. Ideally it should be under the Apple domain etc.

A better path exists than takedowns and related legal actions. Apple's reputation comes across very poorly from this in my view. This usage isn’t modifying the content or remixing it. Its simple preservation[2].

Forgetting the past means the worst and best lessons aren't learnt from. Kind of like self-induced corporate dementia.

[1] feel free to disagree. But provide specific example why its impossible. Companies can license usage for many reasons without losing control.

[2] or should be. Museums are about preservation and keeping context from the past accessible.
Recursive Descent Parser Implementation for a Recursive Language
I only recently switched to HTTPs.
https://darian.af/
To be honest, I think it's about crossing the lines of emulation and simulation. In emulation, we mostly consider instruction level behavior as good enough, but here, we'll have to venture below cycle level and integrated hardware effects to copy the behavior.
I used to publish[1] guides/snippets a lot more frequently, but sort of feel the audience for these things has dried up and naturally favour a StackExchange result instead. I now do it to help that 0.01% of people who find a post, or as an outlet to produce/create something when other things are a little slower on that front.

[1]: https://www.kdobson.net
Could you explain a bit more about how you implemented it?
Can you share your website to see how it actually looks like?

I've read a lot recently about the Activity Pub protocol and I've been following Mastodon / Pleroma for a while but never really made the jump
Canada Wins, U.S. Loses in Global Fight for High-Tech Workers
Fair enough, but hardly a problem. Open source the non third-party code, and give instructions about how to link to the third-party blobs that you have already distributed as part of the original firmware.

Will it build as-is? Probably not.

Will it build if someone really wants it, and is willing to spend some time to get it to work? Likely.

Will it have the exact same functionalities as the original firmware? Possibly not.

Does it give users a way out of planned obsolescence? Yes.
I built my own service and client as a hobby project to scrape and categorise articles for myself. I realised throughout the project though what a monumental pain scraping article content reliably is and have have spent less time on it lately, I still dogfood it however.
OMR Scanner software: How it works? What are its pros and cons?
Some years back I had a case where a co-worker complained his mouse didn't work in the afternoon. Eventually I went to have a look, and he demo'ed the issue; sure enough the mouse was completely unresponsive. Luckily I guessed the issue immediately and quicky demonstrated - with a shrug - that the mouse "works fine for me".

Thing was I'd spotted there was strong sunlight through the window hitting the mouse; guessing it was probably swamping the optosensors I made sure I covered the side of the mouse with my hand when using it. His puzzled looks as the mouse worked for me but not for him were priceless (I did let him in on the secret after a few minutes).
I personally don't use Ubuntu if there's another choice (e.g. Debian) because of this very reason. Amazon app and whatnot in desktop editions and Landscape advertisements and other small web-connected push in server editions just drive me away from Ubuntu.

If I feel too lazy to install Debian, I install Ubuntu in a VM to try something for short term then either migrate to Debian or delete the VM, that's it.
Its easy to generate complex vector graphics as well as presentations. Orders of magnitude increase in productivity compared with Latex or Beamer. This might not be felt in the coding community, as their diagrams are standardized and hence simple .
What are some examples of Lovecraft's racism in his published short stories?
Nice and clean design. Does this come as a theme for Lektor or did you do it yourself?
I worked on a react native project a year ago and hated it, mostly because of the story regarding interop with native code or SDKs. I imagine my experience would have been a lot better if the team didn’t “eject” from create-react-app-native, but I’m not sure how feasible it is to develop an app with ejecting.
When Insurance Won't Cover Drugs, Americans Make 'Tough Choices' About Health
This can’t be a significant factor. The seats per plane allowed by pitch difference is about 11% (at maximum using 28" vs 32") seats in a two-aisle plane.

Spirit base fares are often less than half what a United or even Southwest are charging for same route.
Linux 5.6 “Hwmon” Changes Sent in with Big AMD Improvements
Fascinating story, even more amazing nobody died when you realize barges were sucked down into it and the ocean water ran miles(?) inland to fill the void. Saw this documentary on TV a decade or so ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_iZr2-Coqc
Yes, this is why you should engineer things properly. Not duck tape them together with shell scripts!
Yes, recutils comes in 3 forms: a c library, command line utilities, and an org-mode plugin.
LibreOffice is able to create presentations in PDF format, and that's all anyone needs from presentations.
has anyone used duolingo for an extensive period of time and can confirm it helps with actually speaking a new language? my experience with tools like these is that they help build vocabulary but you can't actually hold a conversation for a long time...
I am not convinced that having a vocal blockchain skeptic (Mr Gerard has written the book "Attack of the 50ft blockchain" and has written many articles critical of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies) as an arbiter of Wikipedia pages on cryptocurrencies and blockchain is necessarily a good idea. For example, Mr Gerard will refuse to allow the addition of well-sourced articles on popular projects even though they are reliably sourced in major crypto news publications. As you can imagine, much crypto news doesn't reach the mainstream press, so this blocks a lot of useful information appearing on Wikipedia.

Also, major projects, such as IOTA, don't even have a Wikipedia page or stub, despite the project having a multitude of academic papers and reliably sourced news. Mr Gerard will say this is because of the huge amount of spam on the pages, but other crypto pages, and non-crypto pages, have plenty of spam and they still manage to appear on the site.

As an analogy, imagine if climate deniers were in control of Wikipedia's climate change pages.

Mr Gerard simply has too much influence on Wikipedia's crypto pages. There is certainly a crypto spam problem on Wikipedia, but it seems like he is actually censoring information, which for those interested in crypto, is somewhat ironic.
Here is mine! https://jaack.me
Built on Jekyll and deployed on GitHub Pages and Cloudflare.

Blazing fast, my creature!
Pinboard.in and/or Trello
Burnout is real and here's how to handle it, according to experts
I'm using this website for a long time. But I need one feature here to compare multiple countries' VISA.
to be fair the quote you quoted says "popularised most famously by Chuck Berry"

which is pretty uncontroversial I think, no one claims he invented it

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is awesome but T-Bone Walker is probably the more direct antecedent for Chuck Berry's guitar style and stage moves
Because it hints presence of a bigger iceberg beneath that harmless looking tip.
> Apple ships a very old magic file with macOS

I particularly relish the way it identifies macOS disk image files as VAX executables. I hope they never change that.
Yeah I'm struggling with that bit also; shouldn't information content be defined as the difference between a storage device with all bits set to the same 0 or 1 value, vs. a device with all bits set to purely random values? And can you isolate a measure of information content from the system that generates that information?
@dunkelheit, thank you for the link to the course. I'll give it a try!
China's Citywide Quarantines: Are They Ethical and Effective?
Interesting! Could you elaborate on this please?
Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behind recent cy
China Cancels GRE, GMAT Exams That Students Need to Study Abroad
Filter down email alerts for IT Pros – Cut back on alert fatigue
https://superuser.com/questions/1406140/monitor-screen-that-...

Also, some reddit makes it seem like a Titanium pin in his shoulder was to blame: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/2rsivw/monitor...
I love Google Slides, it allows me to get make slides without aditional complications, I do prefer simpler slides, and to be honest I kind of dislike it when people have animations that take literal seconds! The way I see it, slides are an aid, they're there just to help me stay on track and to guide me. That does NOT mean that you should read of of it... Sorry, it's just so many people get presenting SO wrong... It angered me so much that when I was in University I decided to make a presentation about making presentations, in hopes that maybe the students would learn a thing or two and make start making better presentation.

tl;dr;
Google Slides is web-based, thus it works everywhere
I was refering to plain text as the interface to the machine, not the file formats. When your primary interface is through text, it makes sense that good tooling would develop.