skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern systems have NVME SSDs which can easily fill a 10 gig connection, both read and write speed. It would be nice to see higher speed ethernet on more hardware. I have some 10 gig equipment but it's a couple generations old ebay special.
SEC Quashes Dreams of Bitcoin ETF with Another Rejection
Only for the free PR, it was worth it...
Exploring Facebook's Physical Network
You'd be surprised if you tried cycling at -20.
I have, it beats cycling in 30+C.
Just don't forget cold protection and you'll be fine.
skraight savage !!
Market timing is a bad idea. Daily gains don't matter.
Looks good, Sam! I'm going to tuck this away and use it next time I need a tree view.
I wish i was a part of this story
Even if you don't talk to others, being around people is very comforting. It meets a basic need we have as humans.
Thanks. This is pushing me towards Piwigo.
It's much safer and easier to navigate around in a wheelchair without cars zooming by honking and splashing you.

A world designed around cars is extremely hostile to the elderly, disabled, and children.
Gravity batteries!
Now that is an unfortunately named company.
This is very cool! I am currently working on Webase [1] and it feels important to have a great spreadsheet/data-grid view in addition to other customizable views.

Your demo above is key to making it easy to understand the idea very quickly! Lots of sites could benefit from that including something like IndieHackers.

Nice work.

[1] https://www.webase.com
>Can we enumerate some large finite space of possible arrangements of atoms into molecules and then copyright them all, without putting any effort into analysis or experimental testing to see if any of the proposed molecules are fit for any purpose?

Pharma corps do this (with patents), ostensibly, but IP rights have a reasonable cost to them so they pre-filter.
Anecdotal, but I've observed quite a few in-person usability studies. After the the third or fourth person you've usually discovered all your're going to with your current test script and stimuli.

You probably could design a study that would continue to uncover new issues after many tens of people, but the test would probably be two hours long and would be unreliable based on that fact alone.

The NN Group article linked by the sibling comment holds true in my experience.
Please don’t increase your energy consumption just because you are generating an excess. As a world, we need to lower our energy use (as I’m sure you are well aware). I’d urge you to consider those extra watts as a much needed contribution to the cause.
Completely agree. My persona at work and at university are two separate things. My persona when I come home and interact with my kids is different to my persona when I'm arguing with a colleague about database schematics. My political views are relevant with my friends but could cause problems with my employer. In reality we have many hats but Facebook restricts us to one and lets all our friends and family know our every interaction, too, promoting a false sense of ourselves. Zuckerberg said, in the OP's article, that (to paraphrase), it's only friends and family that know what you like/what you've been doing. Do you ring your nan every time you take a dump? Or text your brother when you're feeling horny? No. Facebook is blind to the individual facets of our characters.
https://www.techradar.com/au/news/apple-macs-could-ditch-int...
> in which case the first statement is no longer true.

Why is that? What would be an example of an infinite program that could not be represented by an infinite byte sequence? Indeed, it seems trivial to map an infinite series of machine code instructions to an infinite series of bytes.

Edit: It seems like the first statement is false only if you use a different understanding of "possible" for "possible byte sequences" and "possible programs" where the former excludes infinite length and the latter does not.
You're absolutely right that limited data access and pagination exclude certain types of modifications.

So far, we've decided to defer thinking about that limitation, and first focus on other questions like getting the spreadsheet interactions right. We're making new site adapters every week and finding that we can build lots of useful modifications for ourselves which work even with only one page of a paginated list. For one example, see my demo of modifying HN front page [1], which I find useful even though it only loads the current front page articles.

At some point, we're considering adding more features around fetching subsequent pages of a table (as explored in Sifter [2], which sorts an entire list of search results across pagination boundaries) or scraping each detail page from a table (as explored in Helena [3]).

[1]: https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1229251217118892032

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1145/1166253.1166274

[3]: http://helena-lang.org/
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What’s the rationale behind barring 1000+ attendee events but allowing up to 1000 attendee events?

If you have an infected person at a <1000 person event that can still result in a pretty large graph of potentially affected people.

I don’t think there is a magic number other than 1 where transmission is quashed, but I don’t see how this could have a blunting impact.

More effective might be temporarily barring all international travelers as extreme as that would be.
Oh wow - that's quite the difference.
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I honestly just use tmux as a tabbed terminal with saveable state. For someone who works remotely from multiple locations, attach/detatch is life changing.
Yeah, it is and I remember being annoyed by that when I lived in Germany. Who thought it was a good idea to put vehicles on the road that are forced to go just 5kmh below the speed limit?!
Safety becomes a big issue for this kind of thing. It might make sense to start by leverage a platform like couchsurfing which has a personal review system.
Why is no-one commenting that nearly half their expenses are in salaries and wages. They have 354 staff. That's ~130 000 USD per person.
Agreed. Forms have been a pain in ant up until now. I'm looking forward to upgrading as the new API seems more sensible. I haven't had many experiences with the table rendering though, as I've been using ag-grid for my data tables which has been an awesome experience.
God bless the satirical VC Twitter accounts
Princess and Monster Game
The Chicago El cars have a hard floor with channels that run lengthwise down the car that conveniently channel urine through the entire length of the car down the center aisle. Probably makes it easier to hose it out the back of the car later on.
Definitly. Best soltion i have seen to track it is some kind of Matrix where
Y: tasks worked on
X: das of month
Cell contains spent time
Below x is the sum of each day

However with over 100 tasks per month it gets complicated

There are jira addons for this
One thing this entire website is missing is screenshots. I have to literally download the press kit to find them. I shouldn't even have to do that. They should be on the front-page or the downloads page, or both. Sublime Text does this, VS Code does it, Atom does it. It's just good to know what an editor looks like long before anything else.

Screenshots tell you a lot about an editor.
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I worked sub-minimum wage for a decade or so; I don't think poverty is an impediment to creativity. It is an impediment to using that creativity (particularly to generate value and/or income), however.

Not disagreeing, just trying to add some complexion.
Seems like you have never really worked on a large web app with lots of complex UI requirements, or else you would know what bootstrap is and when to use it and how much developer hours it saves. I am not saying it's the best library out there but it's pretty neat and gets the job done.
Programming the PS3 only really took off when Sony released PhyreEngine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhyreEngine

Here some videos how it looks like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOptZgaPrSk&list=PLd4fN5qM6i...
Well, sure. It's just that large, fast reactions to relatively sudden events seem harder to justify than large slow reactions to continual events, at least when it comes to an investment with a long timescale.
"As of 2020, there is no cure or protective vaccine for SARS that has been shown to be both safe and effective in humans."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
Robert Martin – The future of Programming [video]
This is true of fonts, as per the copyright office's
"Policy decision on copyrightability of digitized typefaces".

However the example here, and the situation with fonts seem different. It is the case that font data is viewed as utilitarian and uncopyrightable. So we have a copyrightable program, producing uncopyrightable data. The argument here seems that we have a copyrightable program producing copyrightable data.
> There is nothing inherently good about democracies.

Besides the fact that we naturally evolved toward them since everything else we tried so far was worse ? And the fact that people are fleeing authoritarian regimes risking their lives to get into democratic ones daily yet the opposite never happened ?

> After all, democracies have exterminated continents full of people, democracies have practiced race-based slavery and the only form of government to have nuked civilians is a democracy. Hell democracies have attacked and destroyed more democracies around the world than authoritarians have.

When you put lions in cages they're still lions.

> Instead of focusing on silly labels, why not focus on deeds/actions/results/etc.

Right, open an history book and it'll be painfully obvious that the vast majority of authoritarian regimes are worse than being "not inherently good".

> It's funny how we conveniently forget that even nazi germany rose from a democracy.

It's neither funny nor forgotten. It's also pretty clear germany and their neighbours weren't better off after being under dictatorship. It's almost as if desperate times lead to desperate measures... more than democracy leading to authoritarianism.

> the only form of government to have nuked civilians is a democracy.

The US is as far away as you can get from democracy and still call it a democracy.
I've been speccing something like this recently and you will definitely get a nice server for not much money. However the CPU performance may not be great compared to specifying a new low cost Ryzen with ECC Ram. And the power consumption will probably not be great either. Ryzen has made some great home server configurations quite affordable with its great performance, low cost, and ECC support.
Oh my god thank you
There seems to be an alternative interpretation the State Steet project and its failure here: https://www.wbez.org/shows/dynamic-range/the-short-sad-life-... but you have to listen to the recording of a radio program for all the details, which I didn't do.

Anyway, I live in Vienna where we have had pedestrianized shopping streets since 1971. Before every single project there is a huge discussion that this will kill all commerce, and in these 49 years that has never happened -- quite on the contrary. These projects are so successful and popular that recently even the chamber of commerce, previously a huge opponent, called for more of them.

Is the US that different? Maybe. Or maybe it just needs its own learning process.
They've been around for a while though.
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> it's a massive negative impact on the people effected by this.

The people who switched are the people at the margin. Previously, taking their cars was slightly more convenient, now it's slightly less. Anyone who would be massively inconvenienced is still driving, because they still have that option.
Would have been more interesting to link to complaints about the Friends API.

Check out this post for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9454734
I fail to see any evidence for how 'direct democracy' is the primary, or even relevant social artifact which drove the special directive highlighted in the article (i.e. cancellation of public events), or even any evidence that such 'direct democracy' provides superior social organization.

It's really odd that someone would even bring that up.

Switzerland was the last country in the modern world to allow women to vote (1971) - and it was direct democracy that specifically blocked women from voting; a popular plebiscite in 1959 (obviously by men only) specifically prohibited women from enfranchisement. So much for popular progress? In Canada, women could vote in 1917. In Turkey, 1934. Finland, 1906. India, 1950.

The reason that Switzerland will be able to address the Coronavirus pandemic effectively will not be 'direct democracy', it will be wealth. Switzerland became wealthy largely due to a national economic strategy of banking secrecy, asset protection, and of course enabling evasion of taxation and other authorities. At almost 10% of the economy relative to assets under management, the banking sector in Switzerland is indeed substantially larger than other sectors relative to the sectors of other nations [1]. In the US it's 1%. Canada 2%.

Luxembourg, in the last 70-ish years, went from a backwater to even wealthier than Switzerland on a GDP/per-capita basis for similar reasons: it became a tax haven, a policy driven by no less than the outgoing EU Commission head JC Junker who was the PM of Lux. There is no real economy in Monaco, of course, but its high-income status is also derived from its special variation of tax haven. Even Irleand's massive economic renaissance in the last 20 years has largely been driven by asymmetrical tax benefits for large American tech corporations. And of course, Norway's sovereign wealth fund which owns 2% of all public stocks in the world is derived from another existential special economic bit: Oil.

When Corona hits, the 'rich' countries will be the safest (I think the US may possibly be an exception), and I think it will have little to do with their relative forms of government. Aside from their deep social ties to China, I think Singapore, for example, would be one of those ideal 'safe places'.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267352/size-of-the-banki...
LibreOffice font blurriness in macOS fixed with byte change
How to unblock social media in Turkey with a VPN
No just no to NIH syndrome ?
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Photographs reveal the unintended beauty of machines
How do you deal with weird machine-readable values which you'd like to make some sense of yourself, like a Unix timestamp or a base64-encoded value? Some Bash nerds do "echo ABASE64ENCODEDVALUE== | base64 --decode" to read the encoded stuff, others hit F12 on whatever web page they happen to be at the moment and type something like "new Date(1582889280 * 1000)" (don't forget to x1000 if it's seconds!) in console to see dates (Bash nerds have their "date -d @1582889280" for that), the rest google "base64 decode online" and use some random web tool.

So, this is another random web tool for those tasks and few others. At the moment it helps with URLs (parses & transcodes query values), JSONs (formats & converts them to YAML), Base64 transcoding (including files!), has few crypto functions and, of course, a timestamp converter. There are plans to add a CSV<->JSON converter, a JSON transformer/mapper, a JWT parser/validator, probably a HMAC tool and more.

And the main feature, so rarely found in developer tools, is it's UI. Unlike all the similar tools out in the web, which look like they have been designed by professional programmers, this one is made by a professional programmer who used to date a professional UX designer, so it has both smooth operations & neat looks. There are hotkeys (not many at the moment, but I'm aiming at having full keyboard control over the thing eventually), a sharing feature and data reuse across tools.

We, backend developers, deserve to have nice things too.
Give it a shot, I hope one day it finds it's place among your favourite tools.

/!\ Please mind it works only in desktop browsers now. I see not much use for this thing on mobile, but maybe one day a mobile version will follow.
The whole concept of IP is absurd, and there are many absurd consequences you can derive from it.

But there are degrees of absurdity, it's one thing to do that when there's 26^100000 possible combinations, it's another when there's just 12^100 (and if you only care about melody it's overestimation, most songs will use much smaller subset of that).
It can be argued that since the melodies were generated by an algorithm, they are not a product of creative process and therefore not subject to copyright.
Scientists spot the biggest known explosion in the universe
I recently used html5 sumary/detail to implement a treeview and it was the best experience ever solving such problem on the web. Very simple and easily customizable via css, and if you render it on the server, you don't need javascript at all.
Okay this blog is wrong. The freq domain representation of an impulse is not sinusoidal. The spectrum of an impulse is spread continuously over a broad frequency range. Maybe the author was playing with an FFT library that they just didn't understand properly.
The technical name for this is "context collapse", and it's not just Facebook, but social media more generally.

https://indieweb.org/context_collapse
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/12/08/coining...
https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/01/10/context-c...
30km exclusion zone?
You can target these users with Facebook's advertisement settings if you're buying ads from them
"Calm. down. breathe. We hear you," site founder Zuckerberg wrote in a message responding to the protests.

They heard, they just didn't care. Condescending as well.
Yes, some traffic is being taken off Market but it's a long way from being made into a pedestrian mall. I'm not sure you'd want one on Market anyway. It's not a very pleasant stretch of the city for the most part for reasons that are only somewhat car traffic related.
Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks
This is basically the idea behind Aspect Oriented Programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming
It's very difficult to read on mobile..
I have seen it on the system bar, very useful there.
Cool to see these system level programming tricks being done in Go.

This kind of dirty tricks is sometimes used to mock binary libraries for testing.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/detours/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/isolating...

Yep, questionable, but sometimes that is the only way to match those QA metrics.
.. which doesn't help unless you tell all your friends to do that as well, and unfollow those that don't.

(I've managed to kill the bringing of other's likes into my feed somehow, which keeps it usable)
This is more of a authority thing. All events over 1000+ people are now under the control of the "Bund", as in they decide if they take place or not. Cantons have the authority over smaller events and can individually decide to cancel or not.

They stated the closing borders would cause a shortage of doctors and staff which commute over the border every day.
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People kept asking for a license so they could use it, so I added a license that clarifies that this is not a project that should be seriously used.
it's disturbing when you are thinking about maybe leaving, or waiting for someone and then you need to leave right away but now you are committed to stay.

otherwise, i watch others stuff instinctively even without bring asked. like neighborhood watch. you just keep an eye out for each other.
There is definitely. Particularly for some applications requiring the highest possible frequency (Ryzens are available in higher frequencies than Epycs). Plus Ryzens support ECC so there are fine server CPUs.
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I didn't make a request. My post consists of two observations and an aside.

Thanks for your wonderful feedback though.
"I invented this later but independently" isn't a valid defense, even if you can prove it. So it's not actions (like copying or plagiarism) that is prohibited, it's the result.

That's the problem with IP law.

In effect you give people monopoly on numbers. When the numbers are big nobody is bothered by this, because chance of arriving at the exact same one is effectively zero. But for songs the numbers are pretty small (depending on the encoding used to compare the songs), and the absurdity is evident.
Now all we need is some “head cheese” [0] to generate the same thing using human neurons

[0]: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=687
https://www.linkedin.com/company/covid-inc./

https://www.linkedin.com/company/covid-19-com/
> I don't think poverty is an impediment to creativity.

Poverty may even trigger creativity at times. But stress is the major impediment, and therefore living in long-term poverty does not favor sustained creativity.
That's not what non-renewable means.
That makes no sense. If the energy is here, what's the benefit of not using it?
Outside of a few first-world countries, safety is rarely the primary concern for people choosing a vehicle.
The rational, and actually communicated suchly, was that they had to draw a line somewhere.

And it's not that smaller events automatically go forward, but that the cantons, where those events happen, together with the organizers need to perform a risk assessment and decide if the event can go forward.

> More effective might be barring all international travelers as extreme as that would be.

No it wouldn't for a variety of reasons. For starters, Switzerland is an extremely interconnected country and dependent on such connections. In addition It's part of the Schengen agreement and just shutting down all borders with its neighbors is legally, let alone logistically not feasible (and, IMO, not desirable).

Also, what do you do with citizens who have a legal right to return to the country at any time. Throw 'em all into quarantine camps?

I think that the governments reaction is heavy, but overall measured and reasonable.

But sure, as a Swiss citizen flying home from Bangkok tomorrow you may accuse me of being biased.
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What? Right now people are being forced to the outskirts. Especially the elderly, the poor, etc. A healthy supply of non commodity housing keeps them in the neighborhood.
> each line has a unique fabric

The article you linked explicitly disproves that. There are 15 lines but only 10 distinct fabrics.
We got a memo about hand-washing and no-handshaking, a co-worker coming from a weekend in northern italy was asked to work form his home for a couple of weeks.

Otherwise mostly memes on Slack.
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MacOS has built-in file versioning since Lion. Whenever you save a file, it creates a version. You can browse and restore an old version using the program that created it.

Admittedly, this only works for applications that use the API. For anything in plain text you should probably be using a git repo though.
I really don’t think that’s what the amateur/professional distinction means. You’re taking it a bit literally.
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Sure but if the border is sealed, then, if they contain any patients testing positive, there would be no need for those physicians. It’s a kind of a reverse catch-22.
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