skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Cryto Currency's Community will Launch a Hard Fork to Get Rid of an Annoying Dude.

What continues to astound and fascinate me is how after all this time we still have so many different crypto currencies. Also, how so many of them manage to retain value after massive violations of trust and failures.
I don’t understand the relationship between the two companies, id and Bethesda. I see that they’re both owned by ZeniMax but nothing else. Is this just a temporary marriage of convenience?
From what I understand the virus breaks down with time at room temperature anyway, so you could possibly just get away with tossing them in a box for 10 days (or whatever time gets you 99+% virus breakdown). That would have minimal negative effect on the filter material and elastic straps.
> the Fed has been out in front of this since Dec

Ahem, I'm just gonna leave this here: https://twitter.com/LeeHolly81/status/1240223327811239936
Bowvie Weather – Accurate 5 Day Forecast and Tracking
It went up 30%?! Wow!
Math = good.
Code = good.
Example: given arrays A,B,C,D,E compute ABCDE.

Most mathy people just multiply left-to-right, while a person with some CS grounding will use dynamic programming [1]. If you are working with Dask-sized arrays, this is important.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_chain_multiplication
>In no moment have I equated specs to super computers on the bleeding edge of hardware engineering.

Don't know how you came to the conclusion that I implied that, but I guess I'm just completely missing the point you're trying to make here. You said:

>And specs make games, specially in what concerns game design.

And I'm saying that specs mean very little in relation to gameplay and story. Yeah, obviously you wouldn't be successful releasing the NES today, but no one would do that.

The switch has been beating the crap out of the XBOne since release. The reason is that it has better games. At the end of the day, consumers want fun games. All talk of specs and pretty graphics fades away if your console doesn't have those. It's like web devs who get all excited about their framework of choice. No one else cares.

Maybe I just read too much into that single sentence you first replied with?
Dave Trott is a UK national treasure IMO
Fabulous writing!
Ah yes, fork. My mind read that as branch as we barely ever use forks (enterprise environment and all)

Issue comment-triggered Actions have a write-access GITHUB_TOKEN, unless I’m mistaken. You could implement the /ok-to-test flow with that.

(I’m working on converting some of VSCode’s triage automation to Actions, for reference)
Exception, not the rule.
Show HN: Enforcing JavaScript code coverage with GitHub Actions
You pluck that one line out, describe it as a personal attack, and then complain about "wrongthink," as if you live in some Orwellian society.

Fine, suit yourself, here is my comment without the suggestion that you go to Florida:

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Let me see if I get this right: You are describing the response that is backed by every epidemiologist, every doctor, every functioning government in the world, as a "mob?"

That's a nice bit of mis-framing to accompany telling me to treat your ideas with more respect. The fact is, you are the one who agrees with the mob.

The "mob" wants to go to work. The "mob" will line up elbow to elbow to get into bars that are open. The "mob" takes cruises. The "mob" squeezes into economy class on airplanes.

How about this for politeness?

PLEASE stop framing the world's response to a lethal global pandemic as some kind of panic that is not grounded in facts, expertise, or experience.

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If you want to have a rational conversation, perhaps you should let go of suggesting that the response is that of a mob, as if the people who disagree with you are irrational and panicking.

Remember that you begun this discussion by bandying phrases like "witch hunt." And your tone has not become more rational and balanced. Ponder that when asking yourself why your ideas are not getting the respectful responses you believe they deserve.

If you want to begin again, my point at the top was that companies don't have a right to survival at any cost. That's what you suggested, and you have not spoken to it since.
I'm glad that the favorite son could do the right thing for the state of NY, particularly when their positive cases are exploding.
The metric you're talking about is called the "false discovery rate": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_discovery_rate

I also have a hard time keeping these all straight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity#Ap...
I'm curious about the behaviour of the very old in Wuhan right now, with other people's regular activity going back to something more like normal (If I've heard that correctly), are the older-but-healthy still staying home too? Whatever the details are, looking to their experience in Wuhan as the disease progresses ahead of the western world's experience is useful for thinking about these things.
This is good news for independent contractors who are struggling to make ends meet.
Well it's certainly not "just another flu" so I don't disagree with doctors there at all.

I mentioned it in another comment, but: the doctors are not the problem here. Of course doctors will recommend the best medical advice and I don't doubt the medical consensus. The issue is a broader one: what are the societal and economic consequences of total shutdown? Are these consequences better or worse than the estimated death count of the virus? Keep in mind that this includes death, too. Is there something we can do that attempts to minimize the negatives of both?

These are difficult questions and I don't pretend to have the answers. I'm simply noting that even suggesting an alternate path is shouted down.
While ZeniMax owns both companies, Bethesda is the publisher
Doesn't a PDF detector only need to check if the first few bytes are '%PDF-1.' ?

That is, do you need a "valid PDF" detector or "more likely a PDF than anything else" detector?
(Obviously it isn't them, but ...) it sounded like Laibach to me, so yes Eastern European.
Information on the payment deferral was posted 2 days ago:

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm948

There's a link to that page from the IRS home page.

The filing deadline was just moved to July 15 two hours ago.
A good proportion are losing their jobs, unable to pay their rent. These things won't even magically come back after the crisis. A lot of businesses are going to go under.
www.irs.gov shows conflicting info - on the main page there's a link to "Coronavirus Tax Relief" page that has the new deadline on it. However, also on the main page there's a link to "File Your Tax Return" page that still says April 15th. Left hand and right hand?
I wish I could. It only uses CPU on my machine, saying there are no work items for the GPU slot.
Can you explain your rationale behind your thinking? I assume you were being hyperbolic with "everyone", aka 100%. What percentage do you actually think will hit the dole lines? How confident are you in that prediction? What behaviors of yours have changed because of this confidence?

I've seen a lot of "the economy will tank because consumers can't visit shops". I've seen a lot of friends in food & bev lose their jobs.

I haven't seen much in the way of hard numbers. Seems to me that a huge increase in worldwide deaths and a huge increase in sick time absences would be economically worse than lockdown.
Sounds like a great and fun world, for a robot that only thinks in black and white about issues at least.
True, and also it's inflated role expectations: I doubt junior candidate civil engineers straight out of college are expected to have multiple finished bridge projects in some kind of portfolio. Entry level jobs are supposed to be entry level: You filter for education fundamentals, hire for aptitude and potential, and then they learn the industry tools and jargon on the job.
And now the director of that movie is actually dead :-(
I've heard ESPN2 is going to show marble racing again, as they switch into The Ocho mode to deal with the lack of sports.
The point is that service levels for almost everything are degraded currently due to nobody's fault.
> Mass transit will remain operational and restaurants, food delivery and bank will remain in service.

This kind of article would really benefit from a quick bulleted list at the top, I had to skim to get this essential info
I don't know of a great resource that compares one platform to another like that excellent parent post up there.

However, if you want to know more about individual platforms, you may want to look for:

1. Homebrew coding tutorials for various retro platforms

2. "War stories" from devs who pulled off these tricks.

Gamehut is fantastic, with some of each: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfVFSjHQ57zyxajhhRc7i0g/vid...

Ars Technica also has a "war stories" video series that is quite good!
Hi guys,

I want to share a project me and couple more guys were working on last year - Car Hunters. Essentially we built a mobile game using Computer Vision and AI.

Some problems we had to solve while working on Car Hunters:

- we collected a pretty solid dataset of car images (~3mil photos so far). For that we built own software, which helps us to support car models hierarchy, maintain links, retrain recognition models and deliver recognition model-binaries to the end-user devices;

- make/model recognition is done on the end-user device and both android/iOS platforms run neural network inference on GPU;

- we built-in pretty fast and reliable object-tracker which is independent of platform as well.

So what is Car Hunters? We've all heard about Pokemon Go, where you hunt for virtual creatures. We offer you instead to get points and unlock achievements by searching for cars in real world!

More details and description can be found in Google Play and Apple App Store. Car Hunters is available only in 10 countries for now. Let me know if you unable to download it but would like to.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/car-hunters-discover-cars/id14...

I would appreciate if you share Car Hunters with those, who might love cars as much as we do!

Thanks.
I immediately thought of this. Such a cool story, and an interesting insight into the state of the music industry in the 90's.
Things to get you started with the Elixir's interactive shell (IEx)
I did not “leave anything out”.

The argument was that Vodkas “all basically have to be the same by law and you probably can't reliably identify a difference in a double blinded application”.

My sole point was that particular assertion wasn’t wholly accurate.

The law effectively only applies to the first two parts (heads and hearts).

The Vodka origins do not detract from my point at all. Yes many Vodkas have similar origins, but not all of them do, and so they can vary subtly in taste and effects because of the tails which do vary between different Vodkas as noted in the podcast. And yes a cheap Vodka can actually be rated higher from a subjective chemical composition standpoint. But note I never claimed that a “high end vodka” was better.

I won’t claim to be one of those people but based on that report I think it’s plausible that some or many people can tell a difference.

In short, there is a measurable chemical difference between some Vodkas and some test labs assert that those differences are where differences in taste and effects lie.
Can confirm. Smoked weed regularly for 2-3 years, and now I have chronic bronchitis. Hopefully my lungs heal and grow non-scar tissue, but I have heard that does not happen. If anything it will get worse.

Edibles only for me these days.
its really compute power lol. i am folding with my V100 gpus.
You can contribute to a non-deductible traditional IRA, then roll over to a Roth IRA regardless of income thresholds.
Interestingly, Javascript has mind expanding properties of its own for people who have only bounced between Java/Ruby/Python/etc: it's async-everything, there's sync vs async errors to understand, promises, the event loop.

You don't encounter anything like it in the listed langs unless you somehow work with Netty/Twisted/asyncio/etc.
Depends. If you need to parse it, that might still cause errors.
I'm glad he solved his problem, and I guess it's good to post "I solved this problem" information.

But this seems painfully obvious. TL;DR: "I had a demanding real-time requirement for a Linux process, I fixed it by using the Linux real-time scheduler for my real-time process."

Let's look at this in more detail. He's trying to implement time-critical functions with Linux and has a demanding real-time requirement ("Maximum acceptable latency is 0.1ms while basic Linux solution could only provide 0.5ms."). He's even struggling getting this latency with an RTOS (!). He's not getting the real-time latency he needs by using the default Linux settings. He also can't get it by setting the "nice" value, but the "nice" value isn't relevant for real-time processes... which makes it clear that he's trying to get real-time performance without using the real-time schedulers.

His solution:

chrt --rr 99 ./client

That asks Linux to using the SCHED_RR (Round-robin scheduling) scheduler, one of its real-time policies, instead of the default (non-real-time) scheduler.

In short: If you're doing real-time work, you need to use a real-time scheduler for it.

Technically this doesn't completely solve his problem; if he was serious about 0.1 msec, SCHED_RR isn't doing it as shown by the posted bar chart. But he seemed happy enough with it, so perhaps his requirements are really more probabilistic ("X% of the time, UDP must be delivered in 0.1 msec").

Again, I'm glad he solved his problem, but I hope most developers already know that they need to use real-time schedulers for real-time work.
Slashing CloudFront Change Propagation Times in 2020
IMHO: probably a demo from a short-lived band that never made it big. It's not bad, but not that striking and original either. It sounds familiar because it's derivative of lots of things that were happening at the time. This is common, many good bands take a while to find their own voice, so in the early demos you hear echos of the bands and songs that influenced them.
Can somebody with field expertise explain this to me:

The mortality rate is said to be between 3 and 5%. Experts are also saying that it does not draw an accurate picture of the situation because people aren't being tested nearly as much as should be required.

So the question then becomes, why aren't we ramping up tests among the general population to get a better idea of who to prioritise ? Surely if we know who needs urgent treatment and who doesn't we don't have to freeze the whole economy and put everyone in lockdown ?

What am I missing ? Am I being too naive ?
Stories like this always make me appreciate Bitcoin more. Satoshi disappeared without a trace for nearly a decade already and yet the project continues to work, progress and self-govern without a hiccup. That’s the ultimate decentralization test.
Cannabis is definitely anti inflammatory. Not sure about that specific activity site though.
And so is the idea that public or government can maintain a good quality infra (at scale, everything works in a small community). At least where I live the public company provides the worst possible services and all improvement has come from the private sector competition.
"Better late than never" stays true, but when you're fighting against an invisible enemy (because of little testing) that invades exponentially quickly, "late" will unfortunately have a high human lives cost associated to it.
Ask HN: Advice on Transitioning from Data Scientist to ML Ops Engineer
A bit of background; I have no formal education past (UK) A-levels (I studied music production undergrad for a year before dropping out in 2012) since then I've worked in IT support whilst teaching myself how to code in JavaScript and Python, this lead to a job as a Full Stack web developer at a pharma company which I held for 3 years. I then jumped on the Data Science bandwagon and in 2016 moved to a Data Science team within the same organisation.

My role in this team was focused mainly on how we could productionize and scale our models due to my background in web dev and deploying web apps. So I've done a lot of model optimisation, containerization, CI/CD and architecture within all 3 of the big cloud providers over the years but still feel I lack a lot of the skills needed to be a full DevOps Engineer. I did really enjoyed this work and in retrospect believe it was more of an MLOps role but due to personal relocation needs I had to leave in late 2019 where I joined a more 'traditional' retail company where the Data Science team is essentially a renamed Data Analytics team. Most of the team currently use SQL, SAS and Excel for their work and we don't currently have any cloud compute or admin privileges on our machines to run any non white listed programs (our IT support team don't even know what docker is) which has caused me much frustration.

I would greatly appreciate and advice or recommendations on how best to pivot towards a MLOps Engineering role as my current Org (500+ employees) don't see the need for this role at this time.
nyc.gov has a helpful list.

https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026

I was worried, because I just dropped my clothes off at the laundromat.
> of us on HN probably need around 20-24 GBs

I develop for a living. I use 6 GB including a browser, a VM and an IDE.

Some of you greatly exaggerate the needs. Some workflows require 16+ GB of RAM, but most people complaining about RAM mismanage it or do not understand that caches are not mandatory.
If a potential client doesn't value your work, you can't convince them to value it. No matter how good your work is, the client values it based on what it is worth to them. A worse website might be good enough for their needs.

The only thing that you can convince a potential client of is that you won't work for less than your proposed fee. It's hard to walk away from potential work, but more volume of money losing projects doesn't make up for the fact that they are money losing. And a client promising lots of money losing work isn't worth keeping as an active client.

That's not to say never take a money losing project. Big established organizations with ample budgets often have orbital rings of larger and larger projects. The minimum overhead of working with them makes small projects in the outer orbit produce small losses. But small projects are the route to the orbits with bigger projects with obvious profits.
There is currently no plan in place to penalize individuals for gathering socially

Then people won't take the rules seriously.

Lots of people in this country still don't believe or understand how much damage this virus can inflict.
> convenience

id: focus on game development that people enjoy playing

bethesda: do whatever bethesda does apart from trying to understand why people enjoy playing games.

My bet is that id guys just dont care much about being marketing monkeys.
but how do these numbers compare to general flu fatality rates ?
Cache does not count when discussing memory requirements.
That's it. The team at Uber did that like a year or so later but with no public fanfare because it wasn't considered noteworthy. That still puts it at ~2 years prior to this accomplishment.
I'm 27 and nobody has asked except for FANG companies (and still got offers from them despite being a college dropout).
This is correct - Top Gear did a test years ago where they put a very good sim racer in a real race car (https://www.topgear.com/car-news/gaming/geek-rebooted).

TLDR: he did OK, but was nowhere up to the physical challenge of staying in that car for full race distance. And, for the record, that car won't be on the same planet as an F1 car in terms of physical forces put on a driver.
It's a perfectly valid concern, but I don't think it needs to turn out the way your fear.

How about we try this: when reporting "facts", how about we try noting that there is uncertainty involved? I know the average Joe and Jane public aren't intellectuals, and it is often how stupid people can be, but on the other hand I think it is also fair to say that we underestimate people.

I think we should at least consider trying this (noting uncertainty in reporting) - it's times like this where we need more ideas and more thinking, not less.
I don't understand why so much of the talk is about ventilators. It seems like a massive increase in production of masks, gowns, and goggles would be easier to accomplish in the short term and also essential.
Three New Hampshire plaintiffs sue to block coronavirus measures
Fortunately the vast majority of folks who didn't fuck with their withholdings will usually have a refund. So the state would actually get to hold onto your money for longer.

It does, however, kind of neutralize the point of the stimulus bill to some extent because this encourages you to hold off getting your refund if you are in the phase-out region (75k to 99k) and your income went up in 2019. If you don't file before they send the checks, they use your 2018 number, so it's potentially better to not file until the last minute. Which means a couple hundred bucks per person that isn't out there stimulating the economy. Again, assuming an average person that didn't fuck with their withholdings.

The threshold is outright bad policy but god forbid congressional republicans just pass a stimulus without trying to own the libs in the high-cost-of-living blue states.
> If you want to begin again, my point at the top was that companies don't have a right to survival at any cost. That's what you suggested, and you have not spoken to it since.

Of course companies don't have a right to survival. I don't care about GameStop the company. I care about the people that work there and their livelihoods, many of which are minimum-wage retail workers. They can't easily get another job.
Better than bitcoin!
True, but copper is the 26th commonest element in the Earth's crust at between 50 and 100 parts per million with an annual production of nearly 20 million tonne.

So it seems unlikely that will will run short of it soon, and if we do then we can simply reuse what we have used on door handles, etc.

It's recycled so much partly because it is easy and cheap to do and because copper that is contaminated making it unusable for electrical wire is still useful for other purposes such as plumbing.
This is a great official move, but there was already a Australia race last weekend with Lando, Max, and some Youtubers like Jimmy Broadbent. Interesting to see who comes out on top in the official versus grassroots virtual racing scene. The unofficial stream used iRacing and F1 2019 which is interesting but that was kind of last minute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=872hSgx4HUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0oSqJsh0DA
I'm not saying the news is overblown, but of those contracting the virus, kids are of least concern (mild to no symptoms), especially if they don't have any other serious health conditions.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says ‘there’s no magic drug’ to treat coronavirus
That's not true. Most ISPs are not having congestion problems.
You were wrong when you presented alleged evidence/argument that experts must necessarily disagree with the MD/statistician, above.
Cuomo loves half-measures and taking credit for not doing much of anything.

There's no force of law behind this order.

Earlier this week he announced "mortgage relief," but its means-tested and difficult to actually navigate. It won't help.

A year or 2 ago he rolled out his "free college for every new yorker" plan. It benefits about 10% of the population.

Cuomo's only skill is talking a big game. He's exactly as bad as most other neolibs.
I agree that the way traits are organized in rustdoc could be improved. It's often hard to find what the capabilities are of a given type because of what we'd call the "yo-yo problem" in OOP: you have to click through multiple levels of the hierarchy to find what you're looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo_problem
Pah!! I was master of Daley Thompsons Decathlon!!