skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I misunderstood! As far as I'm aware there's no curated list of best practices just yet, although that would be awesome! Most of this comes from past experience with things like Flask/marshmallow and a lot of trial and error. Maybe one day when I've shaken out all of the issues at hand and I've figured out a good way of handling various scenarios I'll write something up about it
As usual Matt Levine has a pretty good take on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/the-go...
Because JS. And somehow we the developers convinced each other that -any- attention to performance whatsoever is "premature optimization".
They didn't mention it at the start or end of the article but I do wonder if this post was paid for by the clinic that provides the exam.
They probably never will. It would be too easy for telemarketers to start using for spam.
How China built facial recognition for people wearing masks
I was pretty skeptical of the Surface myself but man I see them everywhere. At least a heck of a lot more often than I anticipated.
Much of the hate is that the touchbar wasn't optional, at least not unless you wanted to opt out of an Apple laptop. If the touchbar had been something users could choose, Apple users wouldn't have minded so much.

Supporting more options is expensive, so it's understandable that Apple didn't want to give their customers a choice. Still, it seems like a gimick. And it appeared at the same time as the butterfly keyboard, cementing the notion that Apple had lost its way.
>collapse under the weight of a natural disaster

This is flawed reasoning. They're not collapsing because of the natural disaster, they're collapsing because of a financial disaster of their own making.
Sure, eventually and corners will be cut to expedite that long development and testing window.

So, still Boeing.
To buy a bunch of precious metals which can be exchanged for goods and services! Much like actual money but less conveniently.
They only need it to be optimized for close range in most use cases. I wouldn’t say is neglected
Maybe I just suck like the blue unicorn.
New Paper just released by the same group:
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-
label non-randomized clinical trial
Gregory Rigano @RiganoESQ (posted to twitter 7am PDT 3/18/2020
Didier Raoult MD, PhD

https://drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9RqfsmEx55FDum4xY_IlWS...
Another reason why this is not a fundamental problem is that a user agent made for the user would have to violate and ignore most of the standards anyway in order to honor user's interests. Reimplementing all those corporate and ad tech driven standards is simply a waste of engineering, if anything it will only hold back anyone attempting to do it and won't let them compete.
That’s why banks have regulatory capital requirements, which have gone up since ‘08. There are no such regs for non financial firms sadly.
Yes, but since you can get 4k on everything from 24" to 84" you'll want to choose between more space or bigger fonts depending on the setting.
macOS can do 'fractional scaling' when the integer scaling isn't to your preference, but the implementation works by rendering to a much higher resolution internally and then scaling down which needs a beefy GPU to run without noticeably overhead.
What will UBI do that food stamps etc won't?
Pretty much every shell has its own mechanism for updating the title - the parent comment just shared the `powershell` way of setting the title. I'm confident that if you search for "set title from <your shell here>", you'll find plenty of posts on how to do it.
>He'll gladly bail out any company that supports his reelection, and play tough guy to any company that doesn't.

A more generous reading of this strategy is that Trump will do what the people want. I fail to see how that's any worse than someone in Washington saying they know what's best, or tat we need to "tighten our belts".

>He's fighting for 44th place.

In a survey of Californians maybe. You're sorely mistaken if you don't think Trump is popular, and might be surprised (again) in November. Will the Democrats blame the Russians again?
I suspect what will doom any such project is that it won't be designed for the primary usecase that made HTML/JS succeed: teenagers with nothing more than Notepad.exe and a search engine. It will be made super elegant and efficient and no one will use it because it will take more than three lines to make text appear, and a typo will result in a bunch of errors. HTML/JS are garbage languages and web standards are cobbled together trash, but their strength is in their utter simplicity and in how forgiving browsers are in interpreting them. If you don't have that, you've already lost.
Nice. Thanks. I do indeed want more ports than the current new XPS 13s. Looks like they come at a premium. 8th-Gen CPUs (vs. 10th in new XPS) with a few more ports for an extra few hundred bucks? I will keep looking though for their latest model. Thanks again.
I'm using a 4k display on a mac mini, but I've got it set halfway between the 'larger text' (1080p x2) and 'more space' (4k with no pixel doubling).

This doesn't mean I'm running it at a lower resolution - behind the scenes, the mac is actually rendering the display at 6016x3384 and then smoothly scaling it down to the native 4k of 3840x2160.

Because it's having to draw everything at a higher resolution than the actual screen, performance does take a hit, but I find everything still works perfectly smoothly and responsive (just don't try playing games at this resolution on the mac mini!)
Completely off-topic, but for everybody that maps Caps Lock to esc, how do you ctrl-tab? That's what my Caps Lock is mapped to, and I cannot understand how ctrl-tab can be any sort of comfortable to reach on a standard layout?
I don't see how ROS solves 'a real need for a platform-agnostic application layer above the native OS.'

It's not platform agnostic (works best with Ubuntu Linux) and is hardly a layer above the native OS, just applications communicating via standardized means.
I wonder what the next step is then. /local? /usr/opt?
> it is impossible to build a new web browser.

Mission accomplished. The W3C constituents have created facts with their own browsers, and then they burned the ladder behind them. The classical move to stop others to get to power the same way you did.
People seem to forget that when a business goes under, there's still something left.

If an airline goes down, the planes are not immediately turned to dust. The pilots and ground crew do not forget how to fly and maintain aircraft.

What happens at bankruptcy is that the claims on various assets are reassigned. The planes will get sold to someone who reckons they know how to run an airline, and the staff are likewise hired by new businesses.

This is worth keeping in mind when considering bailouts, because they tend to keep things in the hands of the same people, sometimes even on not much worse terms. And that's despite having steered the firm into the ground.

Don't forget there's value in this sort of reassignment. Assets and labor get moved around in new configurations that might be better.
I find https://got-paper.com/ much better in terms of functionality and UX.
The “advanced” options could use some better defaults.

For example, does anyone actually use “2 sheets per wipe”?
It would be good, if you could "invest" dharma into posts. So if you have a contrarian view, you can invest your gathered points into this view and keep it longer visible, even during downvotes. Of course, this could bankrupt one, so it would be a rare luxery - or you could gather a dividend on any useful discussion spawned below a controversial post.
Have used mac for many years. Never miss spotlight on Linux or Windows. First, you do have that functionality if you need it. Second, the spotlight indexing takes a non-trivial amount of CPU time and is honestly annoying when I need the juice to finish a render or compile code. My guess is you're just suffering from "unfamiliarity" syndrome.
The Lottery in Babylon sounds worth a read, thanks!
Ask HN: Far UVI breather instead of filter face mask?
Would a portable far-UVI breathing apparatus be a better approach to virus proofing than particulate filter face masks or respirators?
Background info links
https://www.hepacart.com/blog/effective-uv-disinfection-lights-4-benefits-of-far-uv-sterilray
https://fastlifehacks.com/n95-vs-ffp/
Seems to still be open as of 3 hours ago and sheriff showed up. [1] (Biased source)

[1] https://twitter.com/ElonsTruths/status/1240249636914434052
According to "The Balance" - https://www.thebalance.com/auto-industry-bailout-gm-ford-chr...

Taxpayers lost $10.2 billion. Are those the bailouts you're talking about.

There was a brief period where loans were paid back profitably but everyone crowing about profits was ignoring that the rest of the loans were booked against stock which was heavily underwater and later liquidated at substantial losses.

I don't know who The Balance is but these numbers seem consistent from other sources I just looked at.

Please correct me if I have this wrong (not being snarky) -- what I think I know is comprised of varied articles spread across years.
The plan is no new _features_ until 1.0. There was a good backlog of _bug_ fixes that were made since 0.9, so it made sense to push out an update with those, while continuing to work towards the eventual 1.0 release.
You can get a new Mac Mini and a Thunderbolt 3 eGPU for $1500 or less.
are you a doctor or why are you so sure? In italy they don't have space, ventilators or personel. As this is not a time-independent pipeline-problem with human lifes at stake, I don't think that it's really effective to say: just let's do one part after the other without even knowing that someone is taking care of the rest)
preach
You could make an artificial min/max of all types object that gets returned on empty lists
Well my throat's been feeling a little scratchy recently, so I think I'd better not. ;)
No prob. Another option for ultraportable with good ports, 10gen cpu and touchpad buttons (my personal obsession lol) is the Vaio: https://us.vaio.com

It's pricey but their SX14 is almost surely my next laptop. I'd buy one but they don't sell directly to Canada, and -- as of the border closure this morning -- I couldn't even go to the US to get one if I wanted to! Crazy times indeed.
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But we do know. Thousands of manual, slow tests are being run every day. The idea would be to collect those samples and their results for use in the model.
You can last infinity without toilet paper using this one weird trick I learned in India.
For those who want to understand buybacks, please read the first 7 pages of [1].

This is the leverage ratchet effect in action.

[1] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...
I don't understand this donation effort. It's not the US that needs help, it's Peru or Niger or Tajikistan, countries that lack resources and funds and don't have own production.

Few will die in the US, far more in Rwanda or Guatemala or Papua New Guinea.
Why your API isn't your competitive edge
That's efficiency from a certain perspective. That's this wonderful efficiency that makes the world extremely sensitive to the current Covid-19 situation. That's the very opposite of antifragility. We need resilience, too.

This has absolutely nothing to do with isolationism or tribalism. Gee, I hate this sort of strawman argument.

Our globalised, ultra-lean, efficient world was built on a humongous influx of fossil fuels and other limited resources that destroyed our climate while being so "efficient". Fossil fuels (and phosphates) that will become scarce at some point or another.
I use my laptops for my business for 3 years under AppleCare and Joint Venture protection, buy the top of the line, and migrate the old one to the rest of the family. For children, the laptops are fine for another 5-7 years. The current laptop has the old scissor keyboard, and I'm waiting for Apple Stores to open again to pick it up from depot-sent-parts Genius-repair under an AppleCare that just ran out end of February.

Unfortunately, Apple will only replace the butterfly keyboard for 4 years after initial retail purchase of the laptop.

I dread the eventual breakdown of the new butterfly keyboard after the end of February next year, when I'm on my own. I hope iFixIt will start selling DIY repair kits, or the cost to repair at Apple makes such a frequent failure a non-starter (in which case I'll turn it into a fixed-place computer in the house, with an external keyboard).
Once I got my ipad pro I basically stopped using my laptop for anything but programming and video games. The former is basically just waiting on tooling and the latter is only a problem because the specific games I want to play aren't available.

I think the iPad will be the long term winner here. Legacy OS's are just way too reliant on keyboard / mouse. Having owned a Surface Book, I can easily say that the tablet mode is not workable with the software ecosystem that exists. You can mostly make it function in limited cases, but outside of a small handful of programs built specifically for it the experience is poor.

On the other hand, the addition of a keyboard just makes the iPad even easier to use. Using a mouse is slightly more awkward since you can't use gestures, but you can always fall back to the screen that's right in front of you. The extra precision is overkill, but it isn't painful.

Another layer to add in the tablets' favor: kids these days are growing up using phones and tablets. That's the way they interact with computing technology. It will be increasingly easier to convince these new generations to buy something that's familiar, but with some extra power and utility, as apposed to something that is foreign.
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I'm aware, I'm saying there are others who don't have the convenience of saying "actually I'm white" when they get accused of being fifth columnists simply on the basis of their names. Because of that, maybe the mods should actually call out this type rhetoric instead of ignoring it like dang has.
The problem is all of the employees of said companies. It's not their fault the company makes the decisions it did/does, yet it is their work that generates the money for the executives to do what they do. So my suggestion is for the bail out to go through, the entire executive level (however deep that needs to go) must be replaced. Keep the actual working employees.
I’ve been super nervous about what Will happen and what I should do.

I wrote out a list with all of my “what if scenarios” and chose what I would do in that situation (ex. Lose my job? I’ll move in with my gf and get her home cooking everyday!). After writing out all of the futures, it took a load off of me and let me focus more on the present.
Any specific complaints other than "has problems with some unicode characters"? Which characters in particular?
I have a 2012 air as well (i7, 8gb) that still runs quite well. I dont do much development on it anymore but I'm still impressed with how well it has held up.
I'd love to see a 4800G chip with 8 cores, 20-30 CUs, and 16/32GB onboard HBM2 unified memory in the $400/600 range (depending on RAM).
Using security features to do bad things: HPKP
Steve Lacy recorded his entire debut album on his iPhone into Garageband, and it's definitely fantastic.
Soon enough will still be around a decade - the development/tooling development for your average sedan is already 5+ years, and that's building off of previous experience and technology. I can't imagine what it would be for creating a vehicle bigger than a doublewide that has to be hefted in the air by 100k lbf engines from scratch
I agree. The software needs support for this too. I earnestly tried to use the iPad for a few weeks, and the placement of the camera was annoying (off center, angled up, no one looks good at this angle). But the software was the deal breaker. iOS and iPadOS disallow background camera use and there is no API to allow it except for FaceTime which does PiP in the corner when it’s backgrounded. Even side-by-side in the new iPadOS will disable the camera when you switch the input cursor to other app! Makes it impossible to review or take notes during video calls or look at reference materials.
But if that's the case then you could get source materials from one of these companies and give them to another manufacturer who normally ships from overseas, right? Like I'm saying in that case the issue seems to be lack of sufficient source materials in the US, not US manufacturing capability?
I'm a simple man -- I see an open source Flutter app, I upvote it.

Thanks for publishing this, I always appreciate seeing examples of full-fledged Flutter apps for reference! The app looks really well built and intuitive to use.
I think you still didn't get the point? He's just saying he wants to help with a global project not the ones focused only on US
> As an ex fund manager, what would you say to the theory that large financial institutions have sold a great deal of precious metal-backed securities ("paper" PMs) over the past couple of weeks to cover stock market margin calls, flooding the paper market, while the physical market is seeing shortages, indicating a price disconnect between the security and the good itself?

Plausible. I had no idea where gold even was stored back when I was speculating on it. By and large, people who speculate on the price have separated the actual assets from the claims representing ownership in them. It's normally the effective thing to do.

> What happens next?

I get the feeling the news out of the US, with its health system being what it is, is going to get worse. There's no way we avoid the news being flooded with more and more issues related to the virus.
Kudos to the creator for building this tool. Personally, I wouldn't trust it. Men and women use drastically different amounts of toilet paper.
I support this idea. Other operating systems existed when Linus started on Linux, and it turned out not to be wasted effort at all.
Run Your First Chaos Experiment in 10 Minutes
> Then something like WASM, but avoiding the 1.5x or so slowdown over native. Perhaps WASM is the answer, but with improved runtime.

Once we are done with WASM we will look at it, compare it with Java Applets and say: Look, we already had that!
Universal Automation v1.1.0
Coronavirus offers “a blank page for a new beginning”
"Half truths are lies". The pp is saying they're lying because they didn't admit fault. What's wrong with a company trying to sell a product by outright honestly saying "yeah, we tried to balance usability and thinness, and we went too far, we heard your complaints, and we've gone back and refined our old designs". I mean, they can tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth in an even more markety way if direct honesty is too much.
Did you make sure that your turbo button was pressed? Honestly, this is why I just stick to naturally aspirated CPUs.
It’s not about the children’s capacity to adjust. They always do. That’s what kids do.

I am talking about taking children into an insecure situation in a foreign country to the point where you have to scramble to find housing for the night.

That said, I have a friend who’s mom had a need to travel frequently when she was young. She’s been all over the world. When I asked her whether it was worth it for her her, she said that it wasn’t. She just wanted to be home sometimes. She just wanted her mom to be happy so she went along, smiling.
Same thing happened with quoting Marc Andreessen.
>You just have to be able to show that now is the time.

The right time often refers to available technology.
Andreessen often reference Newton and iPhone to convey what he means by “the right timing”
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>If he's not crucified by his base for letting the disease go rampant

For his small part in this, it was mismanaged, certainly. But if you think that the reason Covid-19 is spreading is because "Trump let it happen", you have an interesting view of how the institutions work.
I read the same thing. Glad to see others investigating their options.

I'm not sure a DIYer could accomplish this without compromising the filter media unless there were kits available or a crystal clear guide for the task.

I realize that you can just wash the mask to remove the salt and surfactant and in the process any pathogens will be killed by the salt and soap. However, if you have to wait on this to dry between uses since the washing will fill some percentage of the pore spaces with water then you haven't accomplished as much as you could have if you had simply microwaved the mask in a boil-in bag allowing the steam to do the same work. As a bonus, people already know how to use microwaves and most have them at home.

I'm not trying to say that salt and surfactant doesn't work, only to say that this is better accomplished in a controlled environment with equipment that can insure that crystal size is controlled and filter media is relatively unaffected.
perhaps, but it seems more like Musk is the sort to get sued, not the one to be suing.
I'm still rocking my 2015 MBP as well, and having the luxury of working on newer models through various jobs, I'm still not convinced to upgrade 5 years later. That said, the new 16" MBP has been the best Apple laptop experience I've had in a while.
Anything bigger than 24" or so and the blurriness gets bad. The pixel density just isn't quite there.
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