skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have attempted something similar for some time, but always have issues making a habit of it. My solution is to use a physical piece of paper that I can always carry with me. The physicality of it is a great reminder for me.
> Good experiments define success up-front.

This is absolutely critical. If you're not defining success up-front, you're not running an experiment. You're just doing a staged rollout. You can use the data to craft whatever story you want for most changes.
Doesn’t version control largely solve this problem?
They're nonsensical. There's no legal definition of journalist. You don't get a license from the government
Honestly you guys, we really don't care about the money, take it and fund another Uber or something if you can find a loophole that lets you do it, we live and breathe this stuff.
There's a specific technical reason (latency) for why Melee players prefer Sony Trinitron displays over anything modern.

Likewise, magicalhippo helped me understand the specific technical reason for why some people describe vinyls as being warmer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22275611
This is pretty much true of any online community built around the opposition to something. People that had a positive or simply ‘meh’ experience don’t tend to spend time talking about it online.
In the last few months Ive moved to a single vc'ed text file for work notes and a notebook for tasks and calendaring similar to the typical bullet journal but broken into weeks instead of months. I love it far more than shucking my life into 2-5 productivity apps because I can change my system on a dime. Sometimes my week calendar is a quarter page, sometimes its 2. Having my work notes in git makes them constantly available to my team and eventually Id like to let them contribute. I dont think id even consider personal info management in any other way.
https://youtu.be/ALQTdCYGISw

Neil Ferguson of Imperial College estimates the current rate of new infections per day in China is 50,000.
That comic is hilarious!
Because that would be an eye-poppingly ridiculous response?

Seriously, this breathless "plague!" nonsense absolutely must stop and its purveyors should feel bad for doing so. Bubonic plague has an untreated mortality rate of fifty percent! This, on the other hand, is a nontrivial though increasingly global outbreak of a disease that is unlikely to seriously harm healthy people--CFR rate of mortality seems to be about three percent--and is predominantly a threat to the very young and the elderly.

If this sounds familiar that should be because it maps rather closely to the flu. There are 650,000 deaths per year from the flu--who's suggesting closing the airports over such a Threat To Humanity?

Turn the news off. If you have a brain predisposed to low-information panic it is bad for you.
I used to use time.is, but recently it's gotten more and more ads. Now, this new version of time.gov has the feature that compares device time to correct time, so I think I'm going to switch over.
For those who don't yet believe this, may I kindly recommend reading this (1999): https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases...
This article doesn't even bother to explain the proposal
The Accessibility of HTML – HTML is not accessible by default
PSSL doesn't need to be emulated, it's compiled offline to machine code binaries for the GPU. The DirectX -> OpenGL wined3d backend is similar inspirit, but the bytecode (DXBC) in D3D is a much, much higher level, so better compilation is possible. Untangling machine code into good shading language is not easy.

Additionally, GNM is a lot lower level than even something like Vulkan, and you can pass pointers directly between the CPU and GPU, they share the same memory space. It's this that makes emulating things tricky.

> Though I wonder how feasible would be trying to pull graphics driver from PS4 firmware

There is no "graphics driver", in the traditional sense.
I do exactly this, but with the sticky notes application. I find it easier to shuffle and tweak the raw text than moving around and editing discrete todo items, and I have it covering the next 2-3 weeks at any given moment with longer term stuff noted at the bottom. I've also started carrying around a small notepad that acts sort of like a buffer for the todo list, both incoming items that occur when I'm not at the keyboard and outgoing data/thoughts for meetings. It feels more like a natural extension of my memory than any todo app I've tried.
Big Apple
For a while, Time.gov was one of the poster children for Lazlo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLaszlo), one of the more interesting cross platform toolsets back in the day (akin to Haxe nowadays). You can see the LZW (lzx) files in older versions of the site in Archive.org Wayback (2007 or so onward). The team translated their purely Java portion into Lazlo then cross compiled into swf for Flash. So, it went from CGI (perl) to Java to Flash to HTML (still via Laszlo) to a few revisions here and there to work around browser changes to finally this latest revamp. See some background in https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50644 from 2007.
> Nobody is supposed to just wing it with SAP. You are supposed to learn how to do your transaction with SAP, and that transaction is then meant to be super efficient.

But many employees have to interact with SAP only from time to time. They're not supposed to be specialists at it, just get one action done from time to time.

Everyone in my company has to enter their hours in SAP monthly. The interface is terrible; is everyone supposed to learn how to enter a few numbers in a table once a month?

Or say there's a process I need to approve. I just need to read the attached PDF, and click I'm ok with it, maybe a couple of times a month. Where is the benefit of making me learn a complete new and arcane way of validating a task?
>Cryptocurrencies, except BTC and a couple of others, are doing it right. A transfer should cost a fraction of a cent.

Most people would prefer to not be out all their life savings if someone swipes their card number. Combating and refunding fraudulent transactions takes some cost.
> Probably only they will ever know. :)

Today's your lucky day ;)

> In context, I think it's clear that the intended update for readers was to raise the possibility that tomrod's indignities were self-inflicted.

It wasn't in reference to tomrod's experience at all. Mystery solved.

> It could be that the poster was trying to smear tomrod

Absolutely not! And I find that suggestion reprehensible.
? Spotify doesn’t require Facebook
Is geocities still around?
Regarding your edit, I believe I more properly characterize my thought in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22276276
This is a slippery-slope argument, assuming judges are automatons who can be iteratively led to violate the separation of church and state.

It turns out a lot of them are pretty smart and understand how to treat each case on its own details. Their profession is about picking out exact details to unpack exact consequences, not being swept along by generalities.

The basis of the exemption of churchs is due to the historical development of trusts and revenue law, going back at least as far as the Charitable Uses Act in 1601 -- long before the US Constitution was drafted and adopted. Religious purposes were exempted because at the time genuine belief was common.

Charitable purposes as a concept therefore has a shared origin across all of the common law countries, including the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and others. But common law is subordinate to new legislation, and so is historical legislation.

The reason churches are given a free ride is that nobody wants to pay the incredible political capital it will require to fix this relic.
Find me the executive team of a multimillion person company with hundreds of billions of assets making the living stipend of the (relatively few) ecclesiastical leaders of the Church and your argument will have more weight.

IIRC, the living stipend for members of the Twelve was around $100k? Or less than the salary of an intern at Google...
Doing that would be a massive overcompensation. This virus is bad, and it's awful for the people that have it and their families, but it's not shut-down-the-world bad.
On Facebook, anti-vaxxers urged a mom not to give her son Tamiflu. He later died
Fair enough I enjoy my relative anonymity here too. The whistleblowers do allege that the profits from investing have not been charitably distributed. But the issue in my meager understanding is not the amounts, it’s whether lds is acting charitably in its totality and I believe that’s fairly undeniable even considering the other controversies mentioned above. But let’s see...
Yes, you do need to call ahead and let them know that you visited areas where nCoV-2019 might be endemic. This lets them prepare wrt. any issues, and you're more likely to get tested quickly. Which is very important because getting results takes a lot of time and those are needed to decide on the best treatment.
One of my favorite passages from the New Testament is this:

Matthew 19:16-30 New International Version (NIV)[1]

The Rich and the Kingdom of God

16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing
must I do to get eternal life?”

17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One
who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

18 “Which ones?” he inquired.

Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you
shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony,

19 honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

20 “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”

21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and
give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow
me.”

22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great
wealth.

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for
someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of
a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked,
“Who then can be saved?”

26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God
all things are possible.”

27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then
will there be for us?”

28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when
the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will
also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother
or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as
much and will inherit eternal life.

30 But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

This is what comes to my mind each time when I hear about people, who call themselves Christians and their love for property.

[1]: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A16...
I guess you could say the same about people that look to stoicism or people that believe in res publica.
> Most diff programs don't have what you describe.

That’s why pipes were invented.

> And in a lot of cases you don't have the easy ability to "do stuff" before running the input through a diffing algorithm.

Well, in that case you’re not going to be able to meaningfully compare two JSON payloads because neither order nor white space have any semantic meaning in JSON. I’m really curious what you’re talking about though, since if you’re working on the shell you can easily use jq to do as I describe.
For people on the go that need somewhat more organization I like iAWriter for iPhone (let’s you use md files for notes) and then you can also edit the markdown files directly on your laptop in the iCloud folder. Everything syncs up nicely in a nonproprietary format it’s seriously life changing
There's a simple, practical way to do this: don't make the images public. Limit them to some degree of separation by friend connections.

I think this should satisfy most friend-finding use-cases while eliminating comprehensive large-scale scraping.

You can still reconnect with that guy you saw at a party a few years ago or that teacher from high-school. Chances are they're within 2 or 3 degrees of separation from you.
One more data point.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51425702

Five Britons have tested positive for coronavirus in eastern France, the French health minister confirmed.

Four adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with a British national who recently returned from Singapore.
This rings true to me. I decided to make a thing that keeps that text right in your face as often as possible though:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goal-board-vision-...

Maybe other folks will be into it too.
Singapore seems to be the worst affected country out of China. If you read the news the virus is spreading person to person there in an uncontrolled way.

Considering the relatively small size of the country and its high population density I agree that it might be a higher risk that China as a whole.
Yes, I’m asserting that they are mutually exclusive.
Having grown up in the USSR (not that this fact necessarily gives me any special points in this discussion), I simply look at it like this: a lot more nationalities contributed to accomplishments and failures of the USSR than Russians. For example, it's not just the Russians that helped defeat Germany in WWII, and it's not just the Russians that made Chernobyl (in Ukraine, BTW) the disaster that it became.
I bought my last two cars via SEPA, the first from an individual, the second from a dealership. Both were used, but still significant sums. In both cases I of course had a signed contract in hand before sending the money, and have done a bit of due diligence on my business partner (I met the private individual at their home address, and checked out how long the car dealership has already operated there and whether there were any signs of imminent bankruptcy). And of course I got hold of the vehicle immediately after the transfer went through (which is guaranteed in a single business day nowadays; when I bought the first car it was still in the area of 2-3 days).

As for the $1000 TV, I would probably pay that at an electronic payment terminal with a debit card. If buying from a retailer, that's usually the way to go, no matter how small.
> It's an organization which does not allow you to leave with your dignity intact.

This is definitely not true. It may have been the case for you, but my dad and brother/wife all left years ago without any problems at all. We are still on great terms.
Not claiming this is the result of, but this article is the wet dream of Facebook lobby groups. Facial recognition won’t go anywhere, that ship has sailed, but regulation might restrict which data you’re allowed to use for it and oh boy would Facebook love monopolizing their throve of data and use regulation to fend off any threat to their leading ability to profile individuals.

In the topic of restricting access to others the author says:

But I ask myself: How difficult can it be for a billion dollar revenue company?

Pretty difficult when the law prohibits you[1]. Hopefully that forces regulation to cover the weaponization of technology not access to data. Right now this comes off as; you’re not allowed to enrich uranium, unless you own the land.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
Like others, you seem to have completely missed the context, set up by the grandparent post.

The comparison is not about investing $X and making $Y profit. It's about selling $X with a given profit margin.

The actual capital requirements to sell $X are assumed to be roughly the same for both scenarios.
Battling the Coronavirus: Alibaba and Baidu AI Accelerate Vaccine and Drug R&D
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Notepad++ for me, love the auto save and tabs for other temp notes. Sync with OneDrive so its always backed up
It certainly is if you read the news reports.

Latest new case there is not known to have been in contact with any known contaminated person, which is bad news.
"that is unlikely to seriously harm healthy people and is predominantly a threat to the very young and the elderly"

I feel like we've seen at best mixed information about that. I'm not sure that is the case.
If anybody asks you "what would Jesus do?", remind them that turning over tables and whipping money lenders is within the realm of possibility.
No, you misunderstood the parent, as well as the facts: experts are saying that the widely parroted “2%” number is an overestimate, and that the real infection rate is lower.

Deaths are easy to count. Minor cases of the virus are likely the most common sort, and never show up in a hospital at all.
At the moment, way more VC money is going into later stage deals as companies stay private longer... that is the chunk that if securitisation becomes mainstream , where VCs will have competition. The impact of this could be really fascinating - VCs would be forced to go even broader in their earlier stage investments, or VC’s own funding will start to reduce as it won’t be possible to deploy the capital at the same return. Maybe it’ll turn out that funding more pre seed companies will be successful - why stop at YC’s 200 every six months. The switchover period would be an entertaining time to be a founder, that’s for sure!
This is philosophically interesting, but little of this really is about _running_ a good experiment. Perhaps it's about choosing which ones to run?

Kohavi's book will probably provide much more value than this kind of abstract post. See https://experimentguide.com/ for more details.
You broke the site guidelines badly with this comment. We ban accounts that do that, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.

HN is a highly international community. Someone having an opposing view to your own is evidence merely that the community is divided. People here need to assume good faith in the absence of some objective reason not to. Merely disliking what someone else says doesn't come close to an objective reason.

I've written a great deal about this if you or anyone want more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, because it destroys what this site is supposed to exist for, so please don't do that.
Have you ever tried to watch a live event on a streaming service like YouTube, and found yourself a few milliseconds behind the action? Have you ever tried watching digital TV have frames dropped completely because the signal got weak?

If you were going analog, you would be watching real live action, and if the signal got weak you'd still be watching but there might be some "screen fizz".

Vinyl is like that :D what you see is what you get, the sound is right there in front of you, all you need is a needle -- much like all you needed was an aerial in olden times.
You bet or do you know? Just sounds like you're accusing people without any proof.
Spotlight does have a bad habit of finding applications in your Time Machine backup though
Do you really think former heart surgeons and company executives are making more money now on the general authority stipend than before?
> disposable protective overalls

I’ve asked for clarifications and was told that yes, the outer layer is indeed disposable, but medical staff need to wear multiple layers of protection, and the dressing and removal processes do take an hour or more each.
I found this article to be a much more informative read on the recent discovery: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/305718-rising-seas-water...
I have been using nvALT. Its very fast and searchable - wish it connected to my iphone though. On my iphone I use notes.
Coronavirus Total Cases Forecast
Ah, ok... thx!

I guess the number of serious condition jumping from 5000 to 6000 since last I looked yesterday or the day before was what startled me...
Is Appfolio known to be problematic? Been paying with it for over a year with no issues.
> I’m pretty comfortable assuming he would have made more money in his life had he not accepted a calling to full-time ministry.

Two comments.

[1] The Mormon church is a corporation sole, meaning presently Nelson is the sole controller of all assets. He could reasonably set up his family for life with beneficial contacts and contracts. That is worth more than (now probably expired) intellectual property associated with open-heart surgery.

[2] The leadership of the Mormon church tends to come from the same set of Utah-based families. Not 100%, but certainly a high representation. It's a social network that has been extractive on the work and labor of their membership for over a century, benefiting these few families greatly. This doesn't mean the organization hasn't done good -- it has. It's just that good doesn't blot out bad, nefarious, negligence, or other societal negatives.
Why is it that everybody is using sources other than the official reports? I mean it can't be that difficult to just go to who.int, right?

Maybe the best HN could do, is to help the WHO to get their Corona Virus content right on top of the Google search results. Also something Google could do.
It is different by that many zeros. They require much tighter tolerances and higher quality materials. They're also not mass produced.

You can get cheaper laser tubes but there is a difference between them.
Luminar 4 “calls home” to Facebook
"One big text file" was a big deal a while back. Here's a post by Merlin Mann:

http://www.43folders.com/2005/08/17/life-inside-one-big-text...

For notes, I keep trying all kinds of apps and approaches, but I always come back to a single big text file. It's surprisingly easy to search. The main thing is it's just so convenient.

Edit: This is a better link https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/
I reserve the right to change my read if CFR spikes significantly or if infectivity proves higher than currently suspected, but, as I understand it, a 3% CFR is indicative of mortality through immune deficiency or populations with genetic vulnerability/predisposition to the infectious agent in question.

It is certainly worth watching, much as SARS and H1N1 were serious health concerns that needed to be managed at state and international levels. It is not worth John Q. Public panicking about. It is certainly not worth stopping the world over. It is not bubonic effing plague.
> Religious orgs are a time-tested model for providing sustainable and widespread social cohesion

I think we have read different history books.
How about Spotify? It doesn't require FB.
0. Deepfake testing (likely)

1. Shaking trees for funding of a pet project (likely)

2. Over-classification elitism (likely)

3. Exaggerate capabilities implicitly through news media hype (likely)

4. Actual advanced tech (doubtful)

5. Actual UFOs + panic reduction (very unlikely)