skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work! Easy to run.

Setup took me about 10 mins. Most of that time was spent getting a Google Maps API key. You can get it with a free trial here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/get-a... (but it does require credit card info)

The frontend is nice, but complex (probably due to time constraints, working with what was available).
If I forked this for a project, I would just reuse the test site data and credit Oscar (generated to covid19-testing/javascript/test-site-finder/static/data/sites.json)

disclaimer: I work for Oscar (but not on this project)
First, D3 is not primarily a DOM library or UI framework; it’s a loose collection of tools for data visualization, and is designed to work with other UI libraries.

Second, the main difference with d3-selection (the part of D3 that does focus on the DOM) is that it focuses on transformation rather than representation. You describe changes that you want to apply to the DOM, rather than the desired current state of the DOM. This makes it harder to use (more complexity) than more declarative frameworks (UI as pure functions of state) such as React. But the advantage is that you can control exactly what happens as you change the DOM, which can make it faster, and makes it easier to animate transitions.
Thank you so much for Observable and D3! Could you tell how it’s possible to render D3 on a backend if it’s possible at all.?
I agree that this would be the ultimate tool for consumers, but think how hard if a problem this is. Do you track the price for every grocery store in the world. Where does that data come from?

I think for starters that receipts should be provided in a format that's useful for consumers. Consumers could then contribute to keeping this database up to date. There is absolutely no consistency in the way stores print receipts and I'm pretty sure that's by design.

The way business work is they want to be able to track you without you being able to track them.
A blockchain for naming things
Yeah, I was always impressed at how resilient those cheap MP3 CD-Rs were in practice. And compared to old-school DiscMans with "20 second skip protection", it was very cool that it could just buffer the entire track in memory, make bumpy roads a non-issue. IIRC it was smart enough to do that well before the track began, so it instantly started playing when you skipped forward.
> If we were really nitpicky about falsification, we would completely cease doing/studying/researching psychology, economics and a whole host of complex topics.

Each scientific discipline has its own standards. We're talking about physics, so I don't think what psychologists are or aren't doing with their field is relevant.

In physics you used to produce predictions and test those predictions experimentally. It's not too sophisticated but it has worked pretty much miraculously so far. Now, if we're into building models that can't produce predictions, that might be deep and useful at some point, but it doesn't mean everybody else has to accept an inversion of epistemology now to make room for it simply because there are people asking to do so.
Aren't you supposed to treat multiple array or pointers as a group?
'Citizen, we see that you have been assembling and have fined you $1,000 for the greater good'

"But I need money for rent so I was just selling all my worldly possessions!"

(Nice Version) 'Citizen, you now owe us taxes.'

(Less Nice Version) 'Citizen, you engaged in criminal commerce and we now imprison you and take your money/property'

This may not be normal or have much precedent in Canada, but there is precedent for the entire above scenario in the US.

[0]Las Vegas has now implemented fines for any non-essential business that remains open. Basically a straight-up death sentence for most small businesses who are living paycheck to paycheck.

[1] And police seizures are a common, well-known, and certifiably evil practice in the US.

It's difficult for me to imagine how this power could not end up being abused by someone.

[0]https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/las-vegas-police-start...

[1]https://www.greenvilleonline.com/in-depth/news/taken/2019/01...
Quite frankly I won't miss large, overpriced, junket confs like O'Reilly's.

They were too expensive for most people to justify attending without corporate sponsorship. The expo halls were full of enterprise sales pitches with minimal substance. They also had sponsored keynotes which tended to be sales pitches.

If you go to meet people instead of selling your product go to smaller confs put on by local organizers.
Love playing with Assembly and bare-metal :)
Calculus is math. Math is about logic and relationships. Math isn't based on empirical observations and it doesn't predict or isn't necessarily related to real phenomena. Math isn't an empirical science.

Are you saying string theory is pure math?

If not, then the comparison doesn't make sense.
GitHub's source code is open, so anyone can run a GitHub node too. The node that GitHub itself runs became a centralized place for people to share development because of network effects, not because anything in the code itself prevents more than one node from existing.
I am one of those people. I consider myself as above average but I don't think I have ever had the aptitude to make career as a physicist or something more involved for the matter. I like to learn but, sometimes, the stuff I'm trying to learn is just too much.
You totally blew my mind—I've been using the wrong one for years. Henceforth, ⌥⇧8. Thank you.
> The takeaway for me is that I'm OK with what's currently in Linux for the HDDs I use for my backups but I'd probably lose out if I encrypted my main SSD with LUKS.

Yep, when building my latest workstation, I went with a pair of ("regular") SSDs (RAID1) for my data. Later, I decided to add an NVMe for the OS for the additional speed.

I then went and encrypted all of the drives (via LUKS), however, which basically killed any additional performance I would've gotten from the NVMe drive. I would have been just fine as well off with only the SSDs and without the NVMe drive.
I can't help but think "that's some costly s--t!"
It hasn't produced any model that reproduces the confirmed predictions of the Standard Model, so no, I don't think your claim there is true.
Correlated: Discovery surprising correlations between seemingly unrelated things
Simplest Ventilator Prototype? Controlled by 555 Timer
This change does not remove the user agent. In practice it just hides OS and the version but the user may opt-in to send those to a particular site.
I would rather not be limited on my laptop to iPhone apps from ten years ago.
If there really is "hardly anything going on here", that's the perfect time for a lockdown in your locality. The whole cause of this mess was an understated and late reaction to the signs that there was a problem.

There is no clear way to be strong. If we quarantine, which we've started to do, but could continue, people may starve. If we don't, an equal or greater number of people may die from the disease. It's wrong to say that having a lockdown isn't strength, though, since it is something you can't do without strong resources backing your nation.
The number of "gadgets" in this case is very small, and most protections should work at the developer ID level anyways.
Yup, I couldn't have said it more eloquently.

My biggest issue with pursuing this is I have next to no breadth of knowledge in the medical or medical research fields. It would be hard for me to understand what would help doctors and research labs to share and distribute information, other than being more filterable and searchable than a facebook group.
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Every compiler handles it fine, I just can't wrap my head around why someone would intentionally cripple their software to alienate the vast majority of their potential users. I understand the problem and how to solve it, but it's such a giant red flag there is no way I'll care about this language. Most people probably don't actually understand why it fails and why a simple hello world program fails.

I'm floored that so many people would ignore this barrier to entry and somehow rationalize such a ridiculous design choice. If you make things straight up break for all windows users by default in your new language, it's going nowhere. No rationalization or excuses will change that reality.
This is something I have seen. I have used ZZT, and it is still used even now. One of my ZZT games includes a note that although the world itself is Free software, it is "trapped" because ZZT isn't. That was written before ZZT source code has been reconstructed in this way, and now ZZT is Free software, although it is itself "trapped" because the compiler isn't. There are many tricks and stuff involved in ZZT and I have figured out some things just by trying and then make the hypothesis how they worked, and now I can check the source code to see if it matches what I expected, too. But I can see in there also many things I did not know ZZT does, so this is helpful. Other people have also independently figured out many kind of tricks with ZZT (see [0] and [1] for some details). I also wrote my own external editor for ZZT (although unfortunately it is slow, and confusing, but I like it, and prefer that kind of user interface, which is why I wrote it, of course).

There are now other ZZT-likes, the most popular of which is probably MegaZeux (which is now Free software, and continues to be maintained), although there is also ZIG, and a few others, including my own ZZ Zero. Each of them has different set of features. Although, most of them aren't used much other than ZZT and MegaZeux, I think.

The GitHub mentions to fix 5 annoying bugs in ZZT. I thought of fixing some bugs in ZZT (although not those that affect the behaviour of the game), and removing the editor (you can use an external editor instead, such as KevEdit or ZZTQED) and any stuff that is in there because it is only used by the editor, and probably also removing mouse and joystick mode and monochrome mode and VideoWriteTextCO40 (I don't know why that is in there, since ZZT doesn't use the forty column mode), and removing the initial prompt (to make it faster to load and further reduce the file size), and possibly adding an additional optional header in the world file which controls some new features and bug fixes, and allows customizing the contents of the ElementDefs array (the first number in the file would be different, so you can tell apart from standard ZZT worlds). I don't know when or if I might try to do this, though; I will of course need to install Turbo Pascal first, and read its documentation, before I could do such a thing.

[0] https://rabbitboots.com/kfx/index.php/ZZT_Notes

[1] https://rabbitboots.com/kfx/index.php/ZZT_On_ZZT
Time's Up said cannot fund MeToo complaint against Joe Biden, citing POTUS run
They have a link for "Don't see what you're looking for." When you're early in your career, don't be afraid to apply for something that's a little out of your experience. Many software companies struggle to find qualified applicants.

(Just don't get emotionally attached to any position. Give yourself 15 minutes to fill in a cover letter, attach your resume, and move on.)
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The article addresses testing:

New York is testing far more people — three times as many as California — and therefore identifying more cases...

But testing alone doesn’t explain why New York’s case counts are so much higher than California’s, or why the rate is spiraling up so fast on the East Coast. The death toll in New York was four times higher than California’s — 210 deaths to 51, as of Tuesday evening. Deaths tend to be a much more reliable marker of the spread of the disease than cases because determining how someone died is not dependent on the availability of testing kits.
Calculus makes all kinds of testable predictions. They're called "theorems".
This project invites donations. It is labor of love and solves problems that have been around a long time. Kudos!
Just want to not 254nm does not kill the virus, it requires 222nm UV-C. Only one manufacturer exists in the US for the bulbs AFAIK.
I don't know anything about dgit yet but regarding this general idea: what you say true from the perspective of your git client but that URI could be a gateway to a decentralized backend. If you're familiar with IPFS, imagine IPFS gateways for git repos. The gateways themselves are centralized but they're just feeders into a decentralized network.
See also https://noclip.website/
Shameless plug (from one of the developers) - you might want to give a try to our app/website - MyNetDiary https://www.mynetdiary.com .

1) We prioritize user experience and health over profits - there are no ads, no user data sharing, even account creation is optional, and all advice, all materials are carefully prepared and reviewed by RDs and CDEs.

2) Technology-wise it's as state-of-the-art as it gets - fully re-written in Swift 5, modern UX, ruthlessly optimized for minimum of taps, fully configurable (even the Dashboard), with awesome apps for Apple Watch and iMessage, with AR Grocery Check tool, etc.

3) Food database (805,000 items) is our crown jewel – if something is not correct or missing, users can send photos of food packages and nutrition facts from the app, we will verify and correct or add the food to the database. Thus, the database has no duplicates and as complete information as available. This is a free service for our users.

The Android app and web app are on par.
GitHub is not open-source, though alternatives like GitLab and Gitea are.
Interesting perspective.

It seems like an uberpool in the sky.

My question is, the risk of owning the planes needs to land somewhere. Who holds that bag?
What's more interesting about this project is that AvE is meeting actual requirements for a medical ventilator (albeit in very crude prototype form). It shows that someone can probably build these in quantity for say, $1000/apiece for emergency use.
The "killer feature" that I really really want, is the ability to create meals as ratios of foods, and then scale them up/down. For example, create a meal that's 100g of food A, 150g of food B, etc, with all of the nutrition information from each, and potentially a completely different final weight (more or less water from preparation, etc), say 400g/serving. Then let me log 500g of the meal on a given day, scaling the nutrition content of all of the components as needed.

The way I typically prepare food is by creating large batches of food with many ingredients, and then using different sized portions throughout the week. I think that's the way most people who actively plan their nutrition do it.

A nice-to-have would be the ability to randomly select past meals for a given day that match your goal nutrition profile. I usually eat the same stuff over and over in a given month, so planning what to eat for the week while maintaining variety is more of a chore than anything creative.
Only in the sense that "airborne" is a scientific medical term meaning larger than 0.5 µm. When most people hear "airborne" they think it means "in the air", which the virus certainly is. The use of this terminology in the strict scientific sense when speaking to general audiences is borderline irresponsible.
May I ask, why are you not fond of research gate? Are there specific pain points? What is your occupation, are you a medical doctor or researcher?
In Hong Kong those living in high rise structures were catching corona virus from neighbors multiple stories up.
> If we were really nitpicky about falsification, we would completely cease doing/studying/researching psychology, economics and a whole host of complex topics.

That's totally false. Don't lump in other sciences with whatever physics is doing with string theory just because you don't have experience with them.

Psychology and economics are ruled by falsifiable theories! You might not be able to run experiments that are as clean as one might want, but our theories of how, for example, children learn language are absolutely falsifiable and they make concrete predictions about the kinds of errors children should make. Or what kind of behavior you should see from your dog when you train them, theories built up with hard work over a century of modeling and experiments.
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> It does a little: sites don't passively receive this information all the time, instead they have to actively ask for it. And browsers can say no, much like they can with blocking third party cookies.

Lets run through that scenario:

sites that don't need this info still aren't gonna ask for it or use it. sites that want it will get it this way and even if you respond with "no" that's useful to them as well for fingerprinting and as a way to fragment features to chrome only. So, what's changed?
Fifth this. Love it.
The mechanism of rsync + hardlinks is similar to BackupPC[1][2], which is an 18 year old open source backup tool, written in Perl, with a web UI. It supports backing up Mac, Windows, and Unix-like OSs, and is primarily for centrally backing up multiple computers. BackupPC's UI is obviously not as slick as this, but it does allow restoring individual files from a given date. If I remember correctly from 10+ year ago, their tar over SSH transport option performed better than rsync when used on a fast network.

[1] https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackupPC
Git is decentralized like the web is decentralized. The architecture supports it but the infrastructure for using it in a truly decentralized way is severely lacking compared to the options for using it in a more centralized way.
"what percentage of us had the forethought to divest our retirement accounts at that time? (I'm not looking for bragging anecdotes here, my point is that most people didn't.)"

The people who were educated and briefed on the full ramifications have done just that:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/19/repo...
Correct, current infections.
Saying that only Republicans do this is ridiculous. The Democrats are masters of identity politics, which was totally unproductive in all aspects by design. Handouts and freebies to buy votes and appeal to the most basest desires while ignoring all personal responsibility. Using mass illegal immigration to influence elections. Using outright voting fraud to influence elections. All in a total effort to cement power--it's all about the power, not what they will do with it once they have it. Which, news flash, isn't going to be good for the productive citizens of the US.
5th, I also have converted at least 5 people to use it
Hence me including it in the comment.
Hmm, something very circular seem to be happening in your argument, can't quite put my finger on it.
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Yes, exponential curves are scary. So are logistics curves.

We should know in 21 days if your prediction is right.
The easiest way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post an incorrect answer. You might have already solved this problem. I will definitely check this out, thanks.
If you make your own GitHub "node", it won't have any of the information GitHub.com has. If I'm understanding correctly, the idea with this is every "node" has a portion of a canonical truth.

Not sure that would still get people to use it, but at least more feasible than making your own GitHub instance in relation to growing network effect
why to store JWT in local storage. Localstorage can be accessed by CDN scripts also. Please don't put risk on ur users data.
With maxed out overclocking on all cores, I only needed six.
My dad died from multiple strokes this Feb. When he was transported to another hospital for a brain surgery he was intubated. A couple of days later, the ICU doctor came and told us to prepare to fulfill his wishes. They said to have him intubated again would cause a great pain for him. Also, chest compress would be lots of pain. We did let my dad go in peace.
Here I am, wondering if people know what it feels like to be intubated? It is not something you can do off and on when you feel like it. There was a team of anesthesiologists there to seduce my dad when they shoved the tube in his wind pipe.
Article without GDPR-wall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200325173748/https://www.chica...
Don't remember (and can't be arsed to check) if it was int21, but IBM PC BIOS does have a call to write text to the (B8000, usually) screen text buffer, complete with scrolling.
I've been using AutoSleep for Apple Watch ( https://apple.co/3dwLIlg ) the past handful of months. Accuracy seems good (especially compared to Pillow).
> Now, “falsification” itself is a silly/naive cartoon-ish framework for how to do science. It has its uses, but we mustn’t cling to it too much (which would be cargo culting). We certainly have many other useful approaches as well.

It seems to me scientific realism only worked as long as we kept falsifying things. The main example people point to is the moon landings, which was pretty long ago now. What other useful approaches do we have? I've studied philosophy of science--once the philosophers told scientists that falsification was cartoonish, it seems like they've moved onto more social means of demarcating science, but ultimately a scientific statement has an epistemal value on some spectrum. I'd say it's much more valuable when we are able to falsify--how else can we determine how true something is?

The main progress in science has all come from engineering recently--we have fast computers so we can just throw the problem at the computer. That is ending now, or at least it will end at some point. Ultimately without a better scientific theory we can't give computers harder problems.

I was taught logical positivism had failed, however I don't believe it really has failed.

What successes has this new modern method of science really had? I don't see quantum mechanics really progressing that much beyond filling in the paradigm. Finding a new paradigm is where science really shines, and I think that tends to happen with methods of Popper and Ockham.

Finding simpler, more predictive theories has a much larger effect on society versus finding theories which are extremely complex to only explain 0.0001% of the phenomena.

If you think our current theories are necessarily complex, then you're a Platonist, eeek!
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Hehe, well, perhaps it's not really new, but the justification and doing it in broad daylight might be new. The attempt to get rid of the shadiness factor of such practice. Also perhaps not by the government or Canadian government.

I'd guess that most of HN knows, that this has been done before. Outrage or indignation does not require thinking, that something is a new practice.
They have atrocious support. Bricked a whole bunch of Moto G phones a couple of years ago - by breaking the charging functionality with a firmware update. Just straight up didn't fix it. Thousands of people affected. I'd never consider a Motorola device again.
To be clear, not needing to ignore a single character is somehow a 'godsend'?
This reminds me, I was suprised to learn that ECGs can measure breathing (well, not the least expensive ones but most). If breathing is enough then an ECG might be one of the better ways for anyone who doesn't need CPAP and there are some available with local analysis software. They do require a prescripition in many places.
There's room for both models. Some people operate better under one incentive structure and others under a different. There's probably one structure that is better for more people than others, but maybe we should normalize both and encourage exploration.