skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a similar boat but finally mustered the commitment to mount a serious ascension attempt that spanned a couple of months part time (playing iNethack on the phone helped). It was SO enjoyable despite being killed by the High Priest of Moloch on level 45.

My daughters (21 & 23) have inherited this addiction though the prefer the isometric Vultures’s Eye.

First encountered Nethack in 1988. Only ever ascended once in the early days. It’s definitely gotten harder over the years. But maybe that’s just my attention to detail deteriorating.
Vetting binaries is the proper solution. Apple has never promised that the device could run your garage-built tinkercode, root kits, etc. Read the box before you buy.
This is great!

Two quick thoughts...

- Maybe limit the layers to 2 or 3. The example you've got in Invision has eight layers which gives me decision paralysis. Do I want the "7 minute read" or the "9 minute read"?

- Consider an onramp from Twitter. People have big audiences there, and linking out to Layered Ink might work better than those 50 tweet "tweet streams".
https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/WPI2015SmokeAlarmReport.pdf

> photoelectric smoke alarms should not be placed near bathrooms or similar locations that create steam. Even though location recommendations are already common on alarm packaging, nuisance alarms persist in homes due to inappropriate alarm placement

Which I suppose is on me, but it is a known issue with some smoke detectors.
Is One Generation Taking the Coronavirus Less Seriously Than Others? Not
The company itself has put out a statement that it's false news. And Reuters has now edited their article and removed the part which said it was confirmed by government official.
I'm working on CallStop, which is Superhuman for your phone number. Here's the app store link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589...

The problem: spam calls. Most current solutions use blacklisting, which doesn't work well. CallStop uses whitelisting, and allows you to accept whitelist requests, pause filtering, or let groups use secret PIN "extensions" to reach you. You can revoke or edit these PINs at any time.

You can use CallStop to filter out 100% of spam on both cell phone numbers and landlines. CallStop has a free trial (30 days) and after that it's $6.99 per month. Right now, I have a paying user base and am working on scaling it.
I wrote an automated tool to check TP inventory on Walmart.com and alert when inventory become available, I've been thinking on building an app for that but would need some help.
I'm working on an open source project - OctoSQL[1] - which allows you to query and join data from different datasources using SQL.

Be it MySQL, PostgreSQL, JSON, CSV or Excel.

It's now also being my Bachelor thesis.

Recently we've been working hard on getting event time supporting exactly-once streaming into OctoSQL. Which means we currently (on the streaming branch) support Kafka as a datasource. Run using on-disk state (which allows grouping big datasets and is still blazingly fast thanks to Badger which we use as our underlying storage).

Obviously with streaming SQL extensions, which allow you to view partial results even with standard datasources. We use a dataflow-like retraction model for that.

We should have a big release out soon, so stay tuned!

[1]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql
I’ve been working on a child’s toy built with a button/led grid and a raspberry pi. It’s loosely based on my memory of this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(console)

I’m using a Novaton Launchpad Mini for the buttons which is probably overkill but came already assembled and is easily controllable over MIDI.
Working on a simple newsletters library https://tuepe.com
So far collected more than 50.000 newsletters. Just adding the feature for competitors newsletter marketing activity tracking.
80% compliance would eliminate flu outbreaks and flu is upper respiratory. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968

The New Yorker article we are supposedly discussing literally says the coronavirus is not very efficient even in hospital settings.

I am familiar with crowded trains in East Asia. Your video does not have time marker so I assume it is not taken recently.
Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data
It’s their job to go through the motions so that the university doesn’t lose funding.

Why should the university start paying detectives to investigate crimes that it can’t prosecute?

Instead, shouldn’t the police have subpoenaed the documents and pressed criminal charges?
Hum... Okay, rereading it all, I see the parent meant an immutable use of a singly linked list? I hadn't clued in on that the first time around.

I'd still have to say that Singly Linked List arn't ideal for that either, better use a persistent hash array mapped trie backed list instead.
A smart form builder called Keenforms;

https://www.keenforms.com

Imagine google forms/wufoo/survey monkey with a few things that all those other apps don't, like;

-dynamically calculated values

-conditional validation for inputs

-hide/show options

-more that is still under construction

It could be used to take user input, but it also be a UI calculator tool that could be put up on the web very quickly, (not unlike howmuchtoiletpaper.com), allowing non-technical individuals to build dynamic user interfaces.

It still needs work, still trying to decide if it a SaaS app or a tool to build dynamic forms for people. It's inspired by the "configurator" part of a Configure Price Quote (CPQ) app. I'm hoping to release it by the end of spring 2020.
Where can I find the opposite: join a community of funders, which already has the filtering and application process figured out? There are a lot of us who’d love to help others get started, but you don’t want to have thousands of different applications, all with slightly different requirements.
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Sosowski/status/1241448735374221313

disclaimer: I am not the author of this game ;)
How would that work, unless the Blind posters are posting from corp-managed phones which have company-signed certs installed?
Could you expand on this bit of history please?
> Working on bsnes and higan were the things that made me most happy. .... I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.

> I'd be very happy to continue.

I would guess that the new maintainers of your projects stand a fair chance of considering your pull requests!
Nothing super innovative, just working on some forum software to power a ring of forums I'm building around my love of roller coasters and theme parks. If by some chance you're interested, the first site in the ring is up (minus forum) at https://norcalthrills.com
Consider this:

To date, have you observed any other countries and governments undertesting? And if so, was it for reasons other than the Olympics?

That gives you a baseline of disincentives to report.

Now extend:
- what would the cost (financial, reputational, etc) be to Japan the government if the Olympics do not go ahead?
- might there be other disincentives for Japan to undertest relative to its neighbours?

Also recall, in some cases a little bit of disincentive mixed with poor planning/incompetence leads to a lot of unplanned underreporting :)

The trick in all cases is to look for a metric that governments have not thought to obscure/or cannot control that strongly signal the thing you’re trying to verify.
This got me curious. Is there an institution/organizationis in charge of officially naming stars? What's its reach?
Developer Ports Ubuntu Touch to the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7
Nice article! I always wonder what the legal aspects of publishing a reverse engineering article for a private API are? Does the company that the API belongs to have rights to an obligatory take down request?
It's an odd definition of "credible" isn't it?
I Built Coronavirus Live Monitor – stats, news, and press releases in one place
I'd agree with you, but only where standard constitutional courtrooms are involved. Any system that allows anonymous accusers to negatively affect anyone's life is going to be turned into a weapon against innocent people, again and again and again.
The real interesting story behind Tracktion is:

- they have open-source DAW engine (https://www.tracktion.com/develop/tracktion-engine)

- as it has strong relationship with JUCE framework, it also supports SOUL patches which aims to be a modern DSP coding language.
I keep coming back to the fact that the main point of a mask is to prevent you from touching your own nose and mouth --- NOT to keep the virus from passing directly to your nose and mouth (or vice versa). Advice from doctor who studied coronaviruses for 50 years: https://halegenic.com/coronavirus-covid-19/

I do understand, however, that my point is moot when you consider direct contact with an infected person who is coughing and/or sneezing without cover (and again vice versa).
> is there something I am missing out by not using vim?

Being able to use vi is a very handy skill if you're a sysadmin or SSH into other computers/clusters very frequently. Since vi is part of the POSIX specification, all Unix systems would have some implementation of vi. Of course, Vim is much more powerful than a text editor like nano, but also requires more investment to learn. It won't make you a better programmer, but it might make you a faster programmer.
Have been working on an algorithmic trading product. We are building a product to help traders get their trading strategies to live algorithms without worrying about the infra.

http://invsto.com/

If you have used TradingView, MT4 or Zerodha based bots, you would have definitely faced automation and execution related problems that you can relate to.

Currently building the system, EAs and bots to help assist traders.
The washing machines in my building are often on the fritz or steal money. I was going to make a simple web app where you can see which ones have been recently confirmed working or broken. It would rely on user input. I think I'll try to do this with AWS s3, lambda, and athena. I want to have operating costs below a couple dollars a month, since I will likely make no money on this. I've also considered trying to use Google Sheets as a backend.
https://coronastats.co/
Probably just using a v8 isolate.
If you've ever wondered if you're out of touch and in your own echo chamber, you definitely are.
Yep! I was thinking of your layers idea while making this, but I wanted something that would allow people to drill down in a more targeted way (rather than generally). You're right that it usually ends up being used to define terms, but you can also use it well for elaboration.

I think the ideal solution will be some sort of middle ground, where much of the drilling down will be done by clicking on specific words or sentences, but a slider would allow you to generally expand more text in the article, for things that aren't exactly related to other sentences.

It does take a bit of doing, and drilling down to another layer should also be able to delete text, so the wording flows better.

If you want to talk about this more, feel free to send me an email, I find this problem very interesting.
I'm building a lightweight timeseries database/log abstraction called Remits. Remits stands for "Remote Iterator Server".

The concept is that you can push Messages to an append only log, but can only query them back out via Iterators. An Iterator is a map, filter, or reduce function that iterates over either a Log or another Iterator.

Iterators can be composed and optionally persisted. So the data can be transformed at query time, or persisted and just read from disk. Iterators allow you to start at an arbitrary message, so it can be used as a persisted message queue or similar.

I'm only a few commits in, and there isn't much to see yet. I'm really excited by the power and simplicity of the idea, and to have a lightweight Kafka alternative. Feel free to follow along if interested: https://github.com/badtuple/remits . If you feel like working on something in Rust, feel free to reach out on Github issues or email. It's always fun working with other people.
You can turn it on each time you need too use it, maybe with a trusted voice activated power switch that isn't connected to the cloud.
New Tactic: Patent Jury Told Covid-19 Is Reason for Not Finding Liability
A friend and I are home from college right now because of the virus. We just started working on HighlightKit (https://highlightkit.com/), which makes it incredibly easy to add Medium-esque text highlights to your own website/personal blog. Users can save their highlights, view top highlights from other users, and share highlights on Twitter. We're open to feedback and are looking for pilot users!
The social distancing suggestions (laws) in Italy have been taken extremely seriously. It is effectively voluntary, so there are some people who flaunt the rules. But people went from kissing everyone to never getting <2m from a non-household member in a matter of days. I went from passing many thousands of other people on my daily movements to 4-5.

I think people in Italy feel that the quarantine isn't working because it's not strong enough. And people around the world kind of expect Italians not to take it seriously. Actually, it doesn't work except to decrease the exponent on the growth of the epidemic. In China, with a much stronger lockdown, they had the same R0 as we have in Italy now ~1.25 until they started moving people who were symptomatic or had contact with positive COVID cases to hotels and, if serious, field hospitals and ICUs. We have to do the same or it will sweep through the entire population.
What I don’t understand is that my Apple Watch definitely recognizes “hey Siri” and then does speech to text without internet access, but then (sometimes) cannot execute the command without internet access. That last part seems like the easiest.
Reminds of https://getcoleman.com/ and this other portfolio site where each word could be expanded until it became a large essay, can’t remember its name.
This is awesome! I play dobro, checking out the open D / open G guitar section. G6 / A6 / D6 tuning would be nice to have as well.

I am planning on learning pedal steel and also play 8 string dobro. I think this would be a huge asset for doing that. How hard is it to add a new "neck" and generate scales on it? I assume given a string tuning you just walk up the neck creating the next note for the scale as you go, right?

I also write software during the day, so let me know if I can help out :D

Also, the open G is not as I would expect, but I think the DGDGBD tuning is what people expect on guitar. Dobro uses GBDGBD tuning for open G, DADF#AD open D, 8 string dobro is GBDEGBDE. Would love to see those as well! Sorting out scales on an 8-string dobro is a brain melter, even worse for a pedal steel...
Working on a major refactor of my elixir FFI interface for the Zig programming language. Lets you write zig inline in elixir, and takes care of all of the fiddly bits around setting up a nif correctly, in such a way that you can't mess it up.

https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler/

By the end of the refactor, an additional setting will be included that makes the beam vm "garbage collect" your zig for you, that is, you can lazily allocate memory in your nif, and it will be cleaned up for you afterwards. This is a major first step in making "safe nifs" which are OTP-supervised OS threads with, at least, memory resource recovery performed by a BEAM process if the thread happens to crash.

Also, why use zig over rust? because zig is aggresively unopinionated about its memory allocation, so Zigler makes it easy to use the internal BEAM allocator, which 1) lets the BEAM be aware of allocations that are happening for observability and telemetry purposes, 2) lets your memory allocations play nice with the BEAM's fragmentation preferences and 3) leads to potentiallly better performance as you can make fewer trips to the kernel for allocations.
Google Cancels I/O Entirely
Couple of projects with a friend (pairing on stuff is way more fun for me than working alone) Built a free Chrome extension with a friend that shows a UX Design Principle with every new browser tab, and a remote UX jobs bot which generates a site and posts the jobs to twitter. The latter is written in Python and runs off a Raspberry Pi under my desk - so I don't need to pay for an EC2 for an experiment.

Remote UX jobs: https://remotivo.com

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ux-principles/lkoc...
I would have to google Sam Harris, so I think I got no problem here. But the app is with in-app purchases, too. Are there no good meditation apps without that?
The first Apple computer was literally tinkercode built in a garage. Just saying.

Nothing saying you can't still vet binaries, or better yet, the source itself.
Thank you DCP!

1. Hmm, the concept is: the more layers, the better. This way, you can easily "pick your pace" — if you're short on time and you want easily-consumable content, you'd skim through 1-min versions. Ideally if at a certain point you say "holy shit, I love this", you'd jump to the full version. The same way you don't just skim your favourite author's new article — you just go to the full version because he's proven time and time again that his style fits you

2. Oh? Tell me more? Did I get you right: showing it to ppl who bypass the 280-char-limit by having tweet storms/threads?
P.S: I love Dynasty's logo!!!
I don't have any scientific proof but only a personal observation on this. This is the exact reason why I stopped using Apple CarPlay on my car but instead relying on (iDrive) integrated navigation. Here's my comparison with BMW's iDrive system:

- Apple CarPlay (or Google Maps) show you a very focused view on the current road. This will cause a massive distraction as the screen is updated very frequently with changing road conditions. However with the car's integrated (iDrive) system I zoom-out and see the overall path.

- CarPlay and Google Maps have way too many voice directions compared to iDrive. If I have to go straight, navigation should keep it quiet. This way I can focus much more on the road and the signage rather than looking at the screen.

- As a downside, CarPlay or Google Maps seem to suggest better routes time to time, but the total trip duration will not change any more than ~5%, which I'm completely fine with considering the above pro's it provides.
How is open source software harmed by Microsoft being successful promoting open source software? This feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Apple runs iCloud on the Google Cloud, the right decision for Jobs at the time was to buy Dropbox.
https://tldp.org
Hey Alyssa, really useful tool thank you. Currently silently fails on Safari when trying to export an MP4 as the MediaRecorder API doesn't exist. Might be worth putting a notice on what browsers you're supporting.
The question was of any virus not a particular virus.
Well, so do I ; it was a gentle jab to people over-thinking their GTD or todo system ^^. My choice of words was quite poor.
Dimension Holograms
I agree. I briefly looked into moving to the US due to work, and dealing with US level healthcare was one of those things that just made it a lot less attractive.
They really didn’t implement a China travel ban? I find that hard to believe
I disagree with lots of advice here.

My strategy to solidify my linux skills was simple: commit to linux desktop. We spend most of our time on our desktop, may as well let that time earn you skill points. I picked ubuntu and use the same on servers. You naturally learn a bit every day through daily use. This really adds up over time without extra effort of using a side system. Getting good at windows or osx is a waste of your time unless you are specifically into those platforms.

As for a language, pick one that is (1) easy to start with (2) covers advanced use cases, (3) sound in its design, (4) general purpose, (5) concise. That rules out C (due to 1), JS (due to 3 and 4), php (2,3,4) and most things really.

For me that left me with ubuntu and python, I never looked back. (Yes I know many other things but that is my home base.)
Are you using Grasshopper for communicating internally within your team, or as an open line to communicate with potential customers, or both?

I'm the founder of CallStop, which is a better call manager and spam blocker for individuals and businesses, so that's why I'm curious.
Coronavirus tracker in the US. A plot updating every few hours summarizing cases confirmed / state population. https://laughing-villani-877af6.netlify.com/ https://github.com/silverdrake11/covid_rates_per_capita
I mean no offense, but the consumer version (as OP linked) strikes me as FOSS's answer to the IoT Fridge, a wholly unnecessary device itself.

I'm all about freeing mental bandwidth, but if you can't remember whether or you bought a piece of salmon yesterday, or if you can't be fussed to read the expiration date on a milk carton--adding "extreme attention to minor details" and "tedium" to the mix is not going to help.

The right idea here is optimizing restaurant workflows to minimize food waste/deal with seasonal availability/delivery schedules/etc./etc. Take that and slap a nice frontend + tier 1 tech support on top of that? Baby, you got a stew going.

Personally, as a pedant, I actually find this really useful for my current, home situation. :| thanks
Let's also not forget that Uber got away with killing Elaine Herzberg. "Move fast, break things"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camostat
I am focusing on doing a lot of work related things every day, I have to submit a sheet every day with tasks done.

You know, trying to keep my job.
The thing is, that is Italy and arguably in the US, there are more people under 50 with serious health problems; diabetes is wide spread as just one example. I believe Italy had a much higher smoking rate someone in their 80s there could have very weak lungs, again the US profile could be different.

Headline: "COVID-19: Millennials can and are falling seriously sick from coronavirus, says new data"

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/covid-19-millennials-can...
We are using SQLite on React Native with the JSI without writing a java or object C bridge. As a result, all operations are much faster and almost all of them don't need to Promise callback.
I don't see any reason to use this over SQLite. We can do same thing on SQLite much faster way.
I've gone through this same exercise in the past in order to mass-delete a large number of comments on different threads. I was afraid that Blind may one day suffer a data leak. I attempted to reroll the crypto in Ruby, but ultimately failed and went the JS route, same as the author. I also had to roll my own sesion-token refresh logic. Finally I was wondering if any kind of data mining could be done with the tool, but I never took it that far. Thanks for the writeup!
We are building a community of drivers at https://ottomon.net.

When a good part of the US population lives paycheck to paycheck, a single parking ticket can impact their finances. This summer, we will offer a kind of insurance for parking tickets (crowd sourced). Pay a small monthly fee, and we pay for your all tickets.
I didn't make a value judgement. Don't read into malice that isn't there.
Cool, would like to check it out, but doesn't seem to work on neither Firefox nor Safari:
"TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null" on line 58 in main.js
I'm making a touch-based audio/video performance tool. The elevator pitch is that it fuses dj'ing and vj'ing together in an attempt to allow for more interesting audience experiences, but that's semi-misleading as touch surfaces aren't good for what's traditionally considered Dj'ing.

Hence, I instead prefer to think of it as an audio/video tool somewhere between production and performance. Some out of date info can be found here: http://www.planmixplay.com
No, nothing like that fortunately.
Ops, 2,600x+ growth or 260,00+% growth per month.