skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has direct implications in head-to-head games.

In fighting games, this observation leads to the following advice for someone playing against an opponent with weaker fundamentals: "play it safe until you give them enough rope to hang themselves."

Instead of going in as aggressively as normally would be required against a skilled opponent, just sit there and defend, and give your opponent free reign to try to crack your defense. The more they try, the more chances they give themselves to slip up and make a big mistake, which you then take full advantage of.

If their execution is worse than your defense, this is seen as a less risky strategy than going in on the offensive and hoping you don't make a mistake yourself.

Also applies to chess in the same way. Weaker opponents tend to accidentally "hang" their pieces a lot (i.e. move their pieces directly under attack of your pieces) just by poor observation, so it can be a good strategy to just stall, keep to your side of the board, and wait until your opponent slips up and makes a crucial mistake. Once they've made enough mistakes and you have enough of a material advantage, moving in for the win becomes completely trivial.
This was first thought after reading this post.

Hope that everyone is informed that they don't need a license to use the images.
This sounds like the kind of problem where you want to take humans out of the loop, not add more.
Well, please note that the entire of U.S.A has tested like 500~ people in total. Some expect there to be many more undetected cases that we're missing simply because we are not testing.
Our world is filled with viruses, and we have set measures to fight it. I'm afraid Covid2019 might became a reason for another Patriot act, seizing people's rights and freedoms even more.
Is intentionally using meta when you are bad at it a good meta?
The unfortunate part of modern American medicine is that the pharmacy isn't likely to know all the medications the patient is on either. I'm currently going through a minor situation but have discovered that health insurance has, in some cases, switched to a model of partnering with specialized pharmacies for certain treatments. You're forced to use a specialized pharmacy for one specific condition while your day to day corner chain is completely excluded.
You can already run Linux in a container on your Chromebook. I haven't tried it but it seems like it might be a nice developer environment?
If the answer is the former, why are we using the same insurance companies and systems to manage Medicare and Medicaid?
> It boggles the mind that there was absolutely no mention of COVID-19 preparedness at the recent Democratic debates,

The Presidential term start in late January 2021; “preparedness” isn't a relevant issue, the issue will be response to a situation that we have no clear picture today of what it will look like. Aside from knocking Trump on lack of preparedness—which is more of a general election issue that a primary debate issue—there’s not a lot for campaigns to do at this point.
This probably says something interesting about have design—but I'm not sure what exactly!

One thought is that there are some games where the metagame becomes important at earlier skill levels. Magic the Gathering comes to mind: fundamental skills are certainly important, but understanding the format—even in formats where you don't need a pre-built deck—is important even at a middling skill level, well short of any competitive level. I feel this pretty keenly because that's the level I play at online!
All these are why I think Bobby Fischer was so dominant in his time.
Show HN: Feedback/change requests as post-it notes, that sync Jira/Trello tasks
We've built an extension that works with Jira, Trello or Asana (more to come if people find it useful).

Clients, stakeholders or team members post change requests or feedback, in the style of digital post-it notes.

Its a 2 way integration that automatically creates a task in those apps, and updates as the task progresses.

For Developers: the request is in context - easier to understand (also includes screenshot and browser details). Other stakeholders see what's been requested - reduces duplicate or conflicting requests.

For Project Managers: Easier to get feedback or approvals, full visibility of everything being worked on, way less emails and status updates.

Currently in public beta. Keen to know what people think!

https://getsifta.com
Water plants need people to run them. And power, which means power plants need people (or fuel trucks to refuel their generators if the power goes out).

If those people are sick, the water may stop flowing.
To save 6 hours of driving?
"There have been no confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco to date"

There also has hardly been any testing.
a megacorp that stiffs employees on health care gets into health care. Cool story, Walmart, hope the Walton children enjoy their slice of that $3.5 trillion pie.
Do you mean applications? Making sure they are easily containerized and follow 12 factor guidelines is all you really need imo You should be able to run minikube on whatever dev machine you are already using.
The cost of Germany turning off nuclear power: Thousands of lives
Typo! Should have been “normal emergency kit”
The iOS runtime product allows you to write native libraries, but not do UI directly.

CAPI supports at least Mac, Windows, and Linux.

BTW, it just took me about 40 minutes using CAPI to reproduce what took a couple of hours this morning doing the same UI in Swift and SwiftUI.
That's extremely unusual, I've been a patient at probably 20 different dental practices and I've never had a dentist do the cleaning, only the dental hygienist.
As someone who is just starting out on synths on the software side, I think the barrier of entry is more on how to operate this things.

The amount of things a layman needs to learn is mind blowing.
Intro to Rustc's Self Profiler
A physician's $0.02 - The clinical relevance of FB's work is clearly stated in the blog post: "While state-of-the-art facilities today use 3 Tesla MRI machines, scanners with lower-strength magnets (1.5 Tesla, for example) are still commonly used around the world." Considering that a 1.5T MRI machine costs about $1M less than a comparable 3T model (+/- the cost of warranty, support, and installation), FB's work in this area has the potential to make a BIG positive impact on the lives of millions of patients. Which is why I will be cheering them on.

If they reproduce their results in other clinical settings, the immediate impact on patient care includes:
1) accelerating diagnosis (and treatment) for patients with traumatic brain injuries (by effectively up-scaling lower resolution scans)
2) healthcare providers in developing countries will effectively get a low-cost "upgrade" to their existing equipment
3) cancer patients in rural America could be monitored for treatment response in a setting that is closer to home (because rural communities tend to be resource-poor in terms of medical technology).

If we consider that a logical extension of their work could be to develop a compression algorithm for MRI data, then it's easy to see an even broader impact that includes: 1) connecting rural patients with high-quality radiologist services (i.e. remote MRI interpretations), and
2) decrease the cost of long-term storage, access, and retrieval for MRI data.

On the topic of FB's issues with privacy: I agree that FB has a long way to earn my trust as a doctor and a patient. That being said, it's important to give credit where credit is due. It seems that FB gained access to the imaging data by working collaboratively with NYU on this specific project. By comparison, it's an open secret among those of us in the biomedical informatics community that over the course of many years Google Cloud has quietly gained access to the personal health information of millions of Americans. So, when it comes to privacy concerns, it's important to avoid being myopic - the concern is valid, but the primary threat may not be as obvious as it first seems.
That ship had long sailed with string formatting anyways.
Using these images may not be so easy on established media platforms. Amazon, for instance, screens ebooks for PD content.
Just like the freedom act, many things in politics are named for popularity and not clarity.

"Declaring a State of emergency" sounds better than "begging for more federal money"
The optimal strategy for winning the game you're in is the most-winning strategy that your skill level allows you to execute. The optimal strategy for the game itself requires you to develop your skills to allow you to execute it.

One of the problems when you discuss strategy and meta is that most people blur the lines between the two.

If you plan something based on opposition research (like at the pro esports level as an example), you are approaching that game with a specific strategy in mind. Your chosen strategy should keep the meta in mind but the strategy and the meta are distinct.

The meta comes from knowing the various strategies that are effective against other teams/players who utilize the same general pool of strategies. Each strategy in the pool comes about because it works with reasonable reliability against the other strategies in the pool. That's why unexpected plays, 'cheese,' or 'hard-counters' come into play at the strategic level (often saved for specific opponents or situations). The meta is more about knowing what situations you're likely to encounter. You know the meta, then you optimize your strategic approach for your unique situation (such as the skill-set of the various players on your team, specific tendencies of the opponent you're preparing for, or even choosing not to optimize to win your next game to keep a strategy hidden (among other reasons).

Ultimately, the strategic evolutions of iterated games is a ridiculously deep and nuanced topic, making it difficult to really get into the meat and potatoes in forums. Maybe I should make a blog post or something, but I don't know how interesting it would be.
I've taken the opposite approach to you, I guess. I take 10-15 mg dexamphetamine every morning, first thing when my alarm goes off.

I've never particularly had a problem going to sleep once I'm in bed though, and have just struggled rolling out of bed within a reasonable timeframe (apparently a very normal symptom of ADHD, which I'm prescribed the dex for), causing me to stay up late to try and get things done, causing my sleep cycle to be pushed back even further. At one point during university, when I had nothing I needed to be awake and on time for, I was doing 20 hours up, then 10 hours in bed.

Now instead of taking 1+ hours to get out of bed and get going, it takes me 20 minutes. My brain just needs a bit of a jumpstart in the morning.

I can't recommend enough getting professional help for chronic issues like poor sleep patterns, if you're in a country where it's affordable. The worst that can happen is they say there's nothing they can do, on the other hand, it might be that it might be as simple as medication.
This is an interesting case - probably the only time your lawyer would RECOMMEND blowing! :)
isn't participating in culture fun!
> the C# application is 10x faster written in PHP

My interpretation of this is that the parent commenter thinks the application runtime is faster in PHP than C#..

Modern (dotnet core) C# often beats the pants off go in webserver workloads (Golang likely has the edge in compute and certainly in anything that values startup time).
I really don't see a universe where idiomatic PHP beats out idiomatic C# though.

> I love it when you change one line of a shared lib in C# and it takes an hour for the application to recompile

Here they switch gears to developer productivity. My employer has an extremely large (LoC in the millions) C# codebase that does a from-scratch compile (including C++ dependencies) in ~30minutes. On developer environments, this is incremental and while not as fast as we'd like, it only takes a handful of seconds per iteration if you're actively developing on it. If you aren't familiar with C# tooling or really value a REPL, other stacks _will_ likely be more productive. But like you're saying, at that point why PHP? Why not reach for Ruby (is that still hip?) or node or something?
> In fact he should do that if the people are preventing the implementation of the President's lawful policies.

I believe the unwritten assumption was that the president was firing people who disagreed with him when he made unlawful policies.
>To see what I'm talking about, just run something extremely lightweight like mspaint, then right click it in your task bar...

>I'm looking for a snappy UI.

Problems like these I think stems from poor design decisions made at Microsoft as a whole.

Take ARC compared to Garbage Collection as an example. Not sure why Microsoft chose a Garbage Collector design when implementing .NET, but given how Garbage Collection works, there's always risk of it causing UI stutter when it's doing its thing. Apple in comparison chose an ARC design when implementing Swift to avoid potential responsive UI issues... even if ARC is overall less performant.

Then you also have the decisions to support backwards compatibility and you have a mess on your hands.

Frankly, I hate it somedays when I click on my windows calculator app and it opens a blank window and just sits there. I have to kill it and restart it 2-3 more times before it actually opens up. Stuff like this should never happen!
Walmart actually made a big difference in the health market years ago when they introduced the $4 prescription program, something like 300 pharmaceuticals that are available for $4. Even for people with health insurance this is lower than many insurance providers' co-pay pricing.
This question is extremely relevant, because it can help us evaluate all policy options.

The current status quo in the US Healthcare system was not some crazy accident of the market, rather it was the inevitable result of a series of policies passed at state, local, and federal levels over the past half century.

The fact that health insurance isn’t portable, and is rather tied to employment is a consequence of the WW2 era wage ceilings imposed on private corporations, followed by the tax benefits enjoyed by employers that provide group insurance, followed then by the mandate on employers to provide health insurance. This is in contrast with other countries that employ private insurance, like the Netherlands and Switzerland, where insurance is tied to the individual, not the employer.

The lack of price transparency logically follows from the fact that patients never really care how much their treatments cost, since employer sponsored insurance covers everything anyway. Large corporations are less price sensitive than individuals, which exacerbates the price inflation over decades.

Certificate of need laws, where local hospitals get to decide if a new, competing hospital can open, and the residency system requiring 10+ years of schooling to practice resulted in inevitable supply constraints.

Medicare, which provides healthcare for free for the elderly, removed the most engaged buyers from the market, suffocating the price discovery mechanism. Not only that, the elderly tend to be the richest people in the country - those above the age of 55 account for 73% of wealth in America. Boomers are disproportionately rich, and yet they also enjoy some of the most generous welfare on top of that.

There are number of ways to approach solving this problem. One way is to add yet another band-aid on top of the system, burn down the system entirely, or identify the root causes and disentangle them from the system. This is the political question.
It sailed long before that.
So? It's a sport. Are basketball, boxing, and wrestling and bullshido because they'd lose in an MMA fight?
Firefox has no issues with local domains and DoH. It makes a DoH request first and when that returns nothing it tries regular DNS.
Blame desktop OS vendors for insisting on parallel universes instead of getting together and coming up with a standard API. We have standard APIs for everything but UIs it seems.

Even huge companies find it prohibitive to develop an app two or three times. For smaller companies and indie vendors its unthinkable.
Nope. It is 11 of the Premier League so just over half.

Football and betting is totally symbiotic. Betting is the reason the Premier League is the world's league. You can watch and bet on it everywhere. More money is bet on the EPL in Asia than in Europe. I think there is a problem with advertising but that isn't anything to do with the league (when the UK changed the rules on tobacco sponsorship it was a law, not a regulation of the league...and most of the issue isn't with shirt sponsorship).

I get that lots of people live somewhere where betting is illegal and there is a connection with organised crime. That just doesn't exist in reality.
"Medieval Christian and Muslim travelers such as Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta expected to find marvels along the edges of their mental maps, spinning tales of roc’s eggs, “mellified man", or elixirs of life."

And down the rabbit hole I merrily go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
I think my friend and business partner put it best when I told him I didn't really care for the sport - he asked "Did you grow up watching it with your dad? [No] It's a lot like religion."
I'm not sure I understand, could you explain more?
Many people believe that:

- markets are an efficient way to allocate resources between competing ends

- many activities cause negative externalities (costs that are borne by neighbours/society in general, and not by the entity that benefits from the activity)

For people who believe the above, taxes on externalities (e.g. a price paid per unit of pollution generated) are a way to improve the overall outcome for society by ensuring that, e.g. polluting activities are only undertaken if the added value exceeds the cost to society.

"Taxes make it so only the rich can have certain privileges the rest can't."

In the children's book 'The Lorax', a man becomes rich and, in the process, destroys a local habitat for fish and other wildlife. If his polluting activities had been taxed:

- he may have produced less

- he may have been incentivised to find less polluting methods to make his products

- he may have done the same, but the government could have used the taxes on finding a new habitat for the fish/whatever

In the story, the man and his family became rich. It was the ordinary people and animals that lost out.
purchasing a corporation with the intention to liquidate it's assets for profit, often found seated next to "leveraged buy out" & "pharmaceuticals price hike" in the American Lexicon Association.
"Writing technical documentation is hard."

So true. Good documentation can make or break a platform. I think a big part of the success of C++ is that Stroustrup is an excellent writer. A lot of the posts I have seen from Linus were also very well written. In the 90s Apple had documentation that seemed written by people who actually knew how to develop software. Nowadays it feels less so.
If you need to parse semi-structured documents using Spark, Quenya-DSL is much better than SQL, specially if you want to flatten the data.

https://github.com/music-of-the-ainur/quenya-dsl
Your typical tape from that era was simple FSK, 256 byte blocks + a checksum. You may want to start with trying that and simple variations on it. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out the FSK frequencies from the audio using a good scope.
Won't help if cloudflare sticks the resolver on the same IP range as regular cloudflare sites. Countries would have to choose to block most of the internet.
What does this do on duplicate keys? Keep one? Take a predicate?
He also donated money to prop 8 to oppose gay marriage.
We already have mail order pharmacies, so it's not too big of a stretch.
Looks like you one needs to use a search box to view images. Though it is being provided free of cost, and one shouldn't count the teeth of a gift horse, it would have been better if there was some type of catalogue to see what exactly is in the dataset.
Easy as A, B, Chromebook
Show HN: Get text summary of your Gcal availability in seconds
Oh man, if this had some WebRTC in there so we could all paint on one canvas that would be awesome.

Love it any how!

Edit: Just noticed under Extras there is Multi-user. Bravo!
I think it's all about the shitty public transportation system. I live in one of the biggest cities in the world yet I can't get across town, about 10 miles, in less than 1 hour and that's 1 line. If I need to take more than 2 lines that's an easy 2 hours one way. If you try that on the weekend that's going to take 3 plus hours simply because the city's transportation system reduces the number of buses running. It sux.

Lyft and Uber are just filling a need. The first thing the cities need to do is fix the public transportation system. We can then criticize Lyft and Uber.
And it makes mistakes, even with pure Latin script!
It wasn't my intention to make an inflammatory comment.

My statement was strongly worded, but it is my informed opinion as a subject matter expert: As someone who worked in ISP networking for over a decade, worked at Mozilla, and work on network protocol, I feel that I'm entitled to have a strongly stated opinion and I believe I substantiated it in my post. I'm also happy to have a polite discussion justifying it further.
> CEO's don't have to build consensus

Yes they do. Becoming CEO of a company like Disney is just as political as becoming President.

> They can, and do, purge their ranks of dissidents.

So do Presidents. Every 4 (or 8) years a new President is elected and they replace the entire cabinet. This is probably more disruptive than a new CEO coming in and replacing a handful of disliked executives.
Opinions are obviously split here among HNers about the merits of Brave and what it's actually trying to achieve.

I can only speak for myself but I find that Brave as a daily driver is a wonderful browser. Since it's built on Chromium, it has all the common extensions I use with Chrome (Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, etc.). It has built-in Tor and a rich set of default privacy features. The ads it provides are opt-in and the way that it allows the user to choose which website/content creators to reward allows a level of freedom to users that other browsers typically don't.

I don't know about the ethics behind everything Brave is doing - but this built in functionality of 404 redirects with the help of the IA/Wayback Machine is, to me, an interesting and welcome feature. I did not know, before reading this thread, that other browsers had plugins/extensions available for this. The fact that Brave is simply building it in natively seems to be a bold move. If other browsers adopt similar functionality natively, we'll know that it was a winning move. When all is said and done, despite any missteps Brave may be making, it is trying a different approach, and I think that in the end, whether or not Brave succeeds, that's healthy for a competitive browser ecosystem.

Edit: One thing I'd really like to see for Brave's mobile browser in the future is the ability to use Chrome extensions - it seems completely strange to me that this hasn't been implemented yet (if I'm slow on the uptake and this capability has been added, please correct me)
Sure, but “don’t panic” is not an extreme sentiment, nor does it imply you shouldn’t prepare. Panic over an illness that has infected a grand total of less than 100,000 people...out of 7 billion, is probably an overreaction, in almost every case.

The amount of absolute garbage information flooding the internet right now has caused a lot of folks I know to freak out, when the relative risk of this virus is lower than any number of other things they do on a daily basis without a second thought.

So yes, wash your hands more, try to avoid large crowds amd have a plan for when they cancel your kid’s school or whatever, but don’t start a run on canned goods at the local grocery store. It’s important to maintain perspective.