skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you inspect the source code of everything you run? Did you find the HeartBleed bug that was in open source code for over 18 months?
I don't think that's true, because most of the economy doesn't involve things needed for subsistence. I mean, look around, everyone's talking about "essential" things.

You could simply give every household in the US $5000 for next month, and another $5000 for the month after that, and the total would be under $2 trillion. Easily absorbed by the size of the US economy once it's going again. People saying we can't afford this is like a parent with a diabetic kid who's going on about all the reasons why candy is bad for him but he's got low blood sugar right now. A piece of candy won't cure the diabetes, and infinite candy is obviously not a good idea, but it is what is needed right now before irreversible damage sets in.
The absolute best-tasting "regular sourdough" I've ever made came from grinding my own wheat berries. I'm not actually that excited about whole-wheat bread, but what I do is get a 25-pound sack of wheat berries from Eastern Washington (I'm in Seattle), grind out about 120g, and make a "dry poolish" -- something like 40% hydration -- with the sourdough starter and a touch of malt powder (commercial flour has enzymes already added). Leave that in the fridge overnight, or for a day or two, and then use that to build a regular sourdough dough (which also gets bulk fermented in the fridge later).

Takes planning (and a grinder!), but very little effort. You get the all flavor of "real" whole wheat, compounded by slow fermentation, and the resulting bread is some of the best I've ever tasted.

I tried doing the same thing with ground rye berries, but oddly it wasn't all that exciting.
Thanks! I'll look up those other guitar tunings and add them. It's pretty trivial to add new ones--like you guessed, I walk up each string and find the notes of the scale or chord. I forgot to mention this in the original post, but the project is actually open-source [1] (it's on the about page but probably should have noted it). Feel free to submit pull requests or file issues. The code is pretty much create-react-app + typescript.

>Also, the open G is not as I would expect, but I think the DGDGBD tuning is what people expect on guitar.

You mean it's not what you'd expect for dobro, right? I haven't really played guitar in years, but I think that's right for guitar. I'll add a dobro section now, I just need to find the actual octaves for the notes in the tunings you list. Adding new tunings is just a simple-change [2] (though I may need to adjust mobile layout for more than six strings). I can add pedal steel, too. I wanted to add banjo, as well, but need to figure out that fifth string.

[1]: https://github.com/uhoh-itsmaciek/fretboard.cool
[2]: https://github.com/uhoh-itsmaciek/fretboard.cool/blob/master...
Fun. Quick user experience report: expanded "atoms"; the effort to find the boundaries of the insert was a thing ("where does it start? ah, next sentence.", "oh, I read this bit already, so I'm past the end"); with an unmoved mouse, I tried clicking "atoms" again to toggle the insert away (didn't). Perhaps color the insert?
I'm working on a native programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app.

You can select a text on any app and hit the configured shortcut to activate tooltip.

I program this tooltip to speed up several of my workflows like opening a JIRA ticket , opening a file in IntelliJ from a stacktrace, and show humand-readable time from seconds from epoch.

The tooltip has been very helpful to me, and it might be useful to you.

Check it out: https://github.com/tanin47/tip
You're welcome! 16 years this month when I started it with Portable Firefox 0.9. :)
syncing Redis streams for distributed messaging
We had/have this problem too. If nn "sees" unknown model it tries to classify it as one of known models. To avoid this, we added 'Other/Other' bucket and put ~3k images of different cars/buses/trucks in there. Now unknown models in most cases are classified as 'Other/Other' label.
Making a big free update to my game Son of a Witch. So all the players who already bought my game in the past few years have something new to play:

https://sonofawitchgame.com/
We all have a scope of control we can exercise. If you are part of the university system kicking the problem out of your sphere of control is rational and effective.

This isn't the best of all possible worlds obviously.
I got the idea somewhere that it makes a huge difference if you engage in 20 minutes or so of light activity after every meal rather than sitting or lying down. Some paper even suggested it makes a significant difference in calories burned, not because the exercise burns a lot of calories per se, but because it keeps your body in a mode of processing food reasonably quickly in order to be prepared for physical activity.
It’s hard to look like a true haxxor.
Yeah, I feel the tension with this. We have people like Susan who are genuine victims and then we have all of the Title IX “victims” and university administrators who wielded the law to ruin the lives of their (largely male) targets. Seems like due process and due diligence offer the best of all worlds.
Hospitals seek $100B in pending pandemic stimulus bill
Indie game! I just wish I had a website to link to, it’s not going up for another month or so
I have been working on https://SEOTesting.com and released it on Friday. It’s a tool to help run SEO Tests to see whether your page and site changes are improving your rankings in Google. I’ve decided to make it free for the next 3(+) months while Corona Virus is going on as it’s one of the ways I can help so many people and businesses struggling with the impact.
Man, I spent so many hours drawing in line rider... Shame I couldn't save the runs properly.
Mine as well. And the process is often lossy, so I'll keep old variants easily at hand. Eg, "this old variant had nice property X, or dealt with Y well, or suggests a direction worth exploring".

Brainstorming, well, "everything is a graph", but perhaps picture versions as columns, with each column showing all three levels, with transclusional editing between them. So you do a pass in whichever direction, create a new column, and easily grab material from previous variants, and repeat.
In some countries this approach is part of existing work laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-time_working
The primary use of MMKV seems to be a replacement for NSUserDefaults. I agree the SQLite is probably the best solution overall, but this could be a faster alternative to anyone just using NSUserDefaults
FDA issues first emergency use authorization for point-of-care diagnostic
We also went fully remote, but since our operations are entirely cloud-based already, it was just a matter of setting up WireGuard for a few folks to access sensitive resources securely from home. That was a fun project, but not as much work as trying to get a virtual Catan or Cards Against Humanity game organized :)
For this project, how are the 4KB of EEPROM used differently than the 16KB of application memory?
Thanks! I took inspiration from the way I’ve seen some devs “document” their PRs: submit the PR, add a description, and then seed the PR with a handful of comments that call out the most relevant “markers” for reviewers to look at.

I’ve always liked that approach, and thought it could be cool if you could do the same thing for any body of code (not just PRs!), and also enable the comments to be ordered, so that the “tour” itself is entirely guided.
There have been may instances of politicians using a crisis or event to usher in sociatal transformation. Two that come to mind are Kristallnacht and the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. There is no doubt a contingent of government (on both sides) that would like to use a reset as a catalyst for a fundamental change to the social contract of the US. The question is, are they large enough and organized enough to pull it off. I would certainly expect those not enamored with the constitution to see how far they can bend it, in times like these, at the very least.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Au...
Are you willing to stake your bets so, when the reason we're in this situation is in the first place is an inversion of the "ounce of prevention" principle?

I think, at this point, it would be prudent to articulate exactly what we do want, so that what gets handed to us on an up-or-down vote is not wholly removed from our desires. The answer is to presume the worst and advocate for the best.
"We can program a computer to do anything. What if we had the same power over the molecules of our bodies?"

Almost finished project, you can spend hours in there.
https://chemlambda.github.io
Based on personal experience, I can totally echo this comment. I am a business undergrad (senior year), but I am a JavaScript developer for a local start-up. On my Windows laptop, my workflow included applications from MS Office, as well as PowerShell and Vim. At the beginning of this semester, my laptop broke (screen) and I couldn't afford a repair, so I dug up an old ThinkPad T430 that I installed Ubuntu on a couple years back. It was an old machine (2012?) that I bought used, after some searching done on my phone, I upgraded the OS and got to work.

Based on my experience with the switch, I've learned miles more about Linux and how computers work than I would've before. I might even say I like the experience more than I did before. On top of that, as the parent comment says, I've learned more about Linux, shell script, the directory tree, regular expressions, etc., than I think I would've otherwise by self-teaching. It might (read: "definitely will") be uncomfortable at first, but the Linux community is big and helpful and there's plenty of great open-source software that can replace your old workflows.

As far as picking a language goes, I started with Python for the reasons above, but really, starting anywhere is better than being stuck deciding. Common starting points are Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, but really, just pick any language with a large community to help you out. When you think you know enough, consider ideas for a personal project, which is where you'll likely learn the most. After that, keep learning and if you think you want to learn something else, you'll realize how much easier it will be with one language under your belt already.
Does it really matter? As far as I know, you always got a six month filing extension just by asking. So the only thing that is of concern is the payment extension.
I enjoyed urogue (ultra-rogue I think) as shipped with SCO Xenix. I had previous experience with nethack, but urogue was frankly easier.

I think it's this: https://github.com/RoguelikeRestorationProject/urogue1.03
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? We ban accounts that do that and you've unfortunately been doing a lot of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't this the wrong time for nationalism? If you can save a hundred lives somewhere, or save ten at home for the same price, why are the people "in his own darned city" more important? Especially given that "in his own darned city" there are other billionaires to handle that?
SaaS ideas are a dime a dozen. Being in the right market at the right time against the right competition with the right access to the right resources to do the right advertising to perform the right acquiring without the wrong churn is where the magic is at.

Things you need (in my opinion) for an even semi-successful SaaS platform: Good UI with an easy to understand idea that provides an immediately obvious value, all while being easy to monetize sustainably. Coupled that with being able to actually find + reach customers.
lobste.rs does “What are you doing this week[end]?” posts every week or weekend, which are nice for that smaller community. I think once a month would be perfect for a community the size of HN.
I am developing an algorithm to trade cryptocurrencies and the platform to test in real time the performance of potential strategies. I am using Node.js/AutoML for the algo and Vue for the platform. You can check it out at https://bitcoinvsaltcoins.com This platform is open and free to everybody to add their strategies for real time PnL tracking. The goal of this project is to provide an easier way to trade cryptocurrencies by simply allowing you to follow the trades from the best auto trading bots/strategies.
I'm building Chimera, which is project that brings sandboxed cell-by-cell (scientific) notebooks to the browser.

It's a blend of Jupyter Notebook, Project Iodide, JSFiddle, CodeSandbox, Glitch, and Observable.

Here are two screenshots:

- Notebook: https://i.imgur.com/nDUC817.png

- View Source: https://i.imgur.com/KhaiCfz.png

This is a tool that I wish existed after having worked with Jupyter notebooks a lot.
That's fine. That's the whole point of the word "general" in general purpose computer. It's good for me, it's good for you, it's good for us all! Rejoice, at the wisdom of our forefathers.
Yeah the reliability of these hinges is something that is still open for questions... Would hate to see a keyboard case costing about $300 to fail after a year or so :(
Love the github-style activity tracker. It seems like such a small thing, but it's been a huge help in keeping myself in the habit of making regular progress.
HTTPS will make sure the data is secure while in transit to the server. What the server does with that data once it arrives is independent of HTTPS.
I'm working on Bitmelo. It's a free game editor that works right in your browser:

https://bitmelo.com
There's a typo in the first entry of the demo glossary: "acroynms" should be "acronyms".

I ran ispell and didn't see any other typos, though ispell is far from perfect.
Love it. Do you have the record or max theoretical distance for each challenge?
rentech btfo
And where is a button if you do not want to accept cookies?
Their “automated scanning software” basically just checks for calls to private methods. You don’t call private methods by accident.
Is it really "private" if everyone with a browser and a brain can see what it's doing...?
That's somewhat ingenious. I sometimes hear about walkouts when a company has some military contract - I bet that would be a good time to unionize; make ending the contract part of deal.
I am! And the lottery ticket (LT) hypothesis is something I have thought about quite a bit. I believe the LT hypothesis and our work are related in a subtle way: in the former we build out the larger structure first and then prune, while in our approach we conservatively construct the "winning lottery" so to speak.

Another difference with the LT hypothesis is that the pruning there is very specific to neural networks.

Thanks!
Activation Growth Lever, probably the main thing your startup should focus on
An app that lets you send thousands of messages to one person every second..
For many geometries (especially complex or thin-walled shapes), 3D printing is faster than milling.

Many medical devices are made largely out of plastic, especially the disposable parts that are currently in short supply. 3D printers (FDM and SLS) commonly produce parts in many of these same plastics. Mills are generally used on metal, and the programmers and operators may not be as comfortable fabricating complex shapes from plastic. Mills are especially slow making thin plastic pieces, as they have to limit the feed- and pull-out-forces, and the heat generated, by the tool.

3D printers have little difficulty in making flexible / compliant parts (like close-fitting masks), because they exert nearly zero force on parts as they make them. Mills are even slower at making flexible plastic parts, because they have to operate at even higher RPMs, lower feed rates, and shallower depth-of-cuts in order to not deform the flexible part, even as they rip material off of it.

3D printers convert nearly all of the material you give them in to finished parts. Mills produce a lot (sometimes an awful lot) of waste that has to be shipped away and recycled back into usable material.

VW probably relies on CNC mills in their normal production pipeline, but may not have hard dependencies on their 3D printers. It might be much less disruptive for them to offer much or all of their 3D printing capacity to humanitarian efforts.

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The highest-output way to utilize CNC mills for bridging the shortage of ventilator / PPE parts would be to fabricate molds for injection-molded parts. VW (and other automakers) can definitely do this. The big holdups would be in acquiring designs for the parts (who knows how long that would take?), and in designing the molds (on the order of a week or two). Milling a mold takes hours or days depending on how complex it is. (The different pieces of a mold can be made by different machines.) Once fabricated, assembled, and inspected, a mold could produce hundreds of parts a day.

The necessary delay in designing, fabricating, and iterating molds (and other assemblies for the mass-manufacture of plastic parts) means that 3D printing will always beat it to the punch. For the next couple of weeks, expect most unofficially-manufactured medical parts to be 3D printed.

The supply of traditionally-manufactured medical parts should significantly increase later this year. The parts and assemblies to do that are/will-be made on CNC mills in the intermediate time.
We need better data sources so if you can help us find them send a note about the locations you know about to:

contact@codersagainstcovid.org
Please check what your local medical advice is on whether you should be getting tested; very few places have surplus testing capacity for the "worried well", so you may be taking it from somewhere it's needed.
You are making presumption that every user is familiar with swiping card UI from Tinder. Also, after some poking around and finding how it actually works, there's no way to reset or change your choice - only hard reload.

I would add simple instructions how to use this tool, e.g. "Swipe left for No, left for YES answer". Also do calculation for user, do not show just numbers. Simple if statement at the end of questionnaire should state "Based on {the algorithm} you should consult a doctor immediately". You must emphasize that there is a margin of error.
A fully local, tag-based system for annotating/searching a number of different "data sources" (i.e. browser bookmarks, local files, twitter bookmarks) that all get unified under one interface.

You set it up to monitor some data source and then it keeps track of when items are added/removed to/from it.

The items from all data sources can be tagged, have notes attached to them, etc.—then quickly re-discovered through the search interface.

Still early, but it's functional for Chrome bookmarks atm (should get local files handled in the next day or so): https://github.com/westoncb/mymex (scroll down for screenshots)
If “everyone” is using iOS - which empirically not true and never will be at the prices Apple charges - have you ever thought that their priorities may be different than yours?

Have you ever thought that iOS users not having to deal with the cruft of modern computing operating systems and the insecurities is progress for them?

I only hear geeks complaining about the “walled garden”. Most people want something that just works.
In one Italian town, we showed mass testing could eradicate the coronavirus
What are bankers doing that's so secretive?
Nice initiative! Testing seems key to getting control of spread, so anything that can make it easier to get people tested is key. I wonder if there's enough capacity among the testing facilities to signal when they are out of capacity, or severely backlogged on tests, to avoid potentially affected people arriving needlessly?

One technical issue though - I'm seeing a white (blank) page when visiting in Firefox, though it seems to load fine in Chrome.

2 errors in the JS console, in case they help:

TypeError: "navigator.geolocation is undefined" at react-dom.production.min.js:196:194

TypeError: navigator.geolocation is undefined at App.tsx:121:4
I ordered cotton masks from Etsy. They are supposed to arrive by the end of the month. Select vendors in the US for speed. Amazon has lots of cotton masks, but they all seem to be shipped from China, which means they will take awhile to arrive. (Am assuming US buyers. Looks like Etsy vendors are all over though so you can probably find a vendor locally in many countries.)

There are plenty of patterns for cotton masks online and I think ways to use a 3D printer to make one. I would much rather just buy one, myself.
> Whenever I hear someone like Andreessen who is still a cryptocurrency believer, I go and really look for what he's talking about. I find nothing.

This interview was in 2014 (not 2018 or 2020, read the introduction). He might have a different opinion now.
>Wouldn't this be the most powerful moment for employees in 'essential' services to engage in worker strikes?

Many would have no sympathy for workers exploiting a crisis like this.
Sounds awesome, is there anywhere I can follow the progress?
That's truly terrifying. We really need to do everything we can to reduce infections.
Nice! FYI, you can use those USB phone-charging battery bricks for a nice compact 5V output in those sorts of projects. I think TSA-approved ones run up to 100Wh, and they're easy to recharge.

Most of them will cut power after
a minute of so if you don't draw more than like 100mA of current, but that shouldn't be a problem with 350 LEDs. It'll save your Arduino's voltage regulator some grief, too :)
Thank you for sending that. Of course looking at it from both angles couldn't hurt.
300+

http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=ABX.BA&currency=ARS&name=BAR...
I refuse to connect android auto. Now, whenever I charge my phone in the car, multiple prompts continuously pop-up to enable android auto.

It's become unnecessarily dangerous if I'm using GPS for directions because now I have to continuously press "decline" and "not now" so I can see my directions. This has happened multiple times in a minute. Very dangerous - merely ceasing to ask after the tenth decline would probably save lives.
I'm working on a tool for generating a webapp from an OpenAPI (swagger) spec describing your REST API. https://spireui.com/
Many countries did think of that. In most of East Asia, including Japan, many factories have been diverted to mask production and delivering masks to the general public has been a key government priority.
I'm sure PM Abe is sweating bullets. Japan has been in an economic slump for decades. The Olympics and associated tourism was supposed to fix that (and Japan has seen a big increase in tourists in recent years as they gear up). And now this?
I’m almost finished with a RISCV core in verilog targeting FPGAs:

https://github.com/thejefflarson/little-cpu

I’m four instructions away from implementing the compressed extensions, and probably next week I’ll tackle the control and status registers. It uses an open source tool chain and is formally verified using riscv-formal. My hope is to eventually be able to compile some rust and get an fpga to blink an led :)
building a collaborative product management tool, called co-op-os. the core idea is to standardize and codify a lot of the ceremonies teams run to build alignment around problems, decide on solutions, and actually ship features that benefit customers. the most effective teams i've worked on didn't have one person building out a master sprint plan, but had a bunch of individual contributors coming up with ideas for optimizing a goal, getting another smart person to sign off, then building it. this is an attempt to standardize that more distributed planning/operating model in a scalable way.

feedback more than welcome!

https://www.co-op-os.com/