skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "silicon is not a metal" pedantry is a whole new layer of tedium. But if you want to take it that way: the data is mostly carried in the metal layers of aluminium, and the substrate is .. a substrate that's not doing very much.
Yes, if my rusty memory is correct the Mr Bungle incident was part of the cause for the LTAND2.

But yeah, trolls weren't a huge problem apart from Mr Bungle. There were a few people there who were perma-banned, but not many. Most idiots or trolls connected as Guest characters, so if I recall Guests had a few priviledges removed?

Was such a central part of my life but I don't remember so many details now. I log in every couple years just to do a @who and keep my character alive.
I really like it but on my iPhone SE the section with the table gets cropped and is not scrollable, which is a common problem on mobile for me.
This doesn't make any sense - the Fed isn't going to provide loans to everyone, individual and business access to these loans is still gated by their own creditworthiness. And if you can make credit that easy, why do you have to do this at all? Why can't we just lend everyone money and have them pay all existing obligations? Why do you have to turn everyone who's involved in simple transactions into long-term creditors, when they aren't in the business of doing that?

And you can't actually lengthen payments for everything - some businesses and people with important resources will simply demand an up-front payment. Which will worsen the crunch for those that are stuck in the middle - some businesses will have to pay upfront, but get paid 3 months later. And no, banks won't want to lend to these businesses and if they can't determine whether you're one of those businesses or not, they will tighten credit on most businesses. Not to do so puts their own creditworthiness at risk.

This is all assuming you have perfect execution too - in reality, there will literally be millions of lawsuits since no one will be able to actually define what you're saying precisely enough to make the implied alterations to existing contracts unambiguous. It's also important to understand that most payments aren't interest payments - some of these cover actual costs.

Edit: consider what every company in the world will do in response to do this - they will review every contract they have to see if there's an angle that will help them optimize for this situation, and what kinds of addendum that they can force on others would put them in a more advantageous situation. No one will just sit and work according the spirit of the new rule, any ambiguities and angles will be exploited and lots of businesses and people will go end up on the wrong end of this.
It's frustrating that my local hospital is facing a critical shortage of masks, begging for donations -- and there is absolutely no way they will implement this.

They could have people manning the ovens in the cafeteria rotating these things in and out, but wether its fear of liability, "not invented here syndrome", or the idea just sounding crazy, it's not going to happen.

I passed it around to some contacts who work there anyway, but I have no hope.
Ask HN: Best sleep trackers?
I have pretty chronic sleep problems. Several in fact :-/. I wanted to get a sense form the tech-aware community what sleep trackers do people use? How accurate are they? Can you sleep comfortably with them? One challenge I have is I need to track my leg movements given restless legs...

(Yes I’ve had sleep studies and know home sleep tracking is imperfect...)
To be fair, you are using a browser that makes it impossible to test in unless you happen to have a current mac.
It seems to me that the main reason we are running out is that doctors have a lot of patients and use a new mask each and every time they move to a new patient. I'm not sure that's all that helpful (but it definitely could be absolutely necessary), and it seems quite wasteful.
As far as I understood this is not a "list of trackers" per se but a "list of websites that track you when you navigate to another website from them" and people don't navigate away from the Google Tag Manager or Google Analytics domains because they don't serve content with links.
Opportunities for Startups in the Post Covid World
From a quick look, I believe "Dgit is a Git remote helper for decentralized [...]" would be a more accurate title.
They might have already scraped all of the faces on that site. They aren't generated on demand so you conceivably scrape the entire database of fake people and tell the algorithm to ignore anything matches them. Then, the algorithm would just treat any photos of a person that doesn't exist that it finds in the wild as it would if you have no profile pic. It might fool a person or an AI not trained on those pictures. Another option is to generate your own people that do not exist and use those images. This could work as long as Clearview isn't doing some sort of image analysis to look for telltale signs of AI-generated faces. You could start photoshopping fake faces onto your real pictures in an effort to blur the line between AI generated pictures and real pictures.
Singaporean researchers invent Covid-19 test give results in 5 minutes
risque-metal programming maybe?
I wasn't aware of Sakura until now, but several people here and Reddit mentioned it. I love it's simplicity as well. Great job!
Fear sells. This is tragic, but the exception to the rule.

To add some weight to your argument, the official stats from italy offer clear data [1]:

- 1.1% of deaths in Italy < 50 years old

- No deaths < 30

- 99% with comorbidities, 75% with at least 2 comorbidities.

[1] https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C...
One exception: you might want to user sniff IE and serve a completely different version due to all the CSS problems. (I know you can use IE-only comments too, but I’ve been in the situation where making a modern version simultaneously IE9-compatible was just too frigging maddening.)
Yes, I was not born when the original German translations were released, so I cannot comment on the reactions in the time. But I can also not recall any media controversy around the comic other than the initial publisher mishap, that is why I am bit confused about these comments. Surely there must be some people that complained to Uderzo but that is unavoidable.

Erbfeindschaft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%E2%80%93German_enmity) is still alive and well in Germany so it's not like there is no awareness of these sentiments anymore. Although under the EU project that has improved a lot in the recent two decades because both the French and Germans found a common enemy in the Brits ha.
Of course not. But they can inspire us to start thinking A LOT bigger and more proactively. We could easily do it, and it would make a bigger difference than the $2T bailout.
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>"No one is making air travel decisions today based on legroom or free snacks."

This is exactly how I make my travel decisions, but I acknowledge that I'm probably in a very small minority.
"Running the government like a business" has always been a completely meaningless idea. Kevin Williamson does a better job of explaining this than I could, and I recommend you check out his essay:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/government-run-like-b...

A few highlights:

"Businesses measure their success in profit. Governments don’t. Businesses offer products and services in exchange for money in voluntary transactions. Governments don’t. Businesses that fail go bankrupt and are disbanded (except for politically sensitive banks, automobile companies, steel producers, farmers . . .) while failed governments keep right on misgoverning in the city and state of New York, in Illinois, in New Jersey, in California, in Connecticut, in the District of Columbia, in Austin, and abroad. Businesses have customers. Governments don’t. Those who profess their desire to “run government like a business” most often mean that they seek to achieve a higher degree of administrative excellence and bureaucratic accountability than Americans are used to seeing from their governments. But that isn’t running government like a business — that’s running government like . . . Swiss government."

"Americans do not care much for bureaucracy, to the extent that the word bureaucracy itself functions as a pejorative. But an excellent bureaucracy is a wonder to behold. It was a first-rate bureaucracy that put a man on the moon and brought him back safely. Dwight Eisenhower was one of the outstanding bureaucrats of his generation, a man who did a long and dreary apprenticeship as an administrative functionary before being anointed “supreme commander.” Bureaucracy matters in the business world, too: Administrative excellence and not technological innovation is what distinguishes Amazon from its would-be competitors, whereas dealing with your health-insurance company or your mobile-phone provider is in most cases a lot like a trip to the department of motor vehicles."
Hm. The fact that markdown doesn't understand its own structure is a bit annoying - but anchor tags are easy.

I could be swayed, but I personally LIKE markdowns limited palette.
Great question. Things have gotten ridiculously complex. You might look into https://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI
It's entirely in the phrasing. "It would be beneficial to learn how the machine actually works" versus "you're not a real programmer unless ..."

Bootcamps demonstrate that not knowing assembly is not a barrier to earning a decent software engineer salary.
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With everyone remote HR has sadly discovered a sudden love of policing slack.

I saw another engineer get hit for talking about triggering a job since "using triggering improperly downplays the trauma of survivors".

Not sure what that means other than it is time to set the LinkedIn status to looking.
Like I said, if you really want to be bold, let's take on the Faeroe Islands, they only have 51,000 people.
I'm trying to build something similar on https://papiary.com/

Trying to put the public domain classics on there one by one, and build a really nice reading experience.

Help and feedback welcome.
It's so you can copy/paste the HTML into a local project rather than downloading it.
Not loading properly for me :( I think server may be being overloaded by HN traffic?
Sorry for the typo. It's been fixed.
>why didn't Congress create a bigger stockpile and why didn't it ensure it was maintained?

You'd have to interview the responsible people at the time, which I doubt is going to happen right now. But the obvious answer is "nobody thought it was worth the money to do that."

>Is it leaving responsibilities to Congress that ought to be delegated to an agency?

It is definitely not only this. Even if responsibility were delegated, Congress (House of Representatives) has to allocate the money and is also where tax legislation originates. So a responsible agency can still be starved of funds to actually operate.

Heck that is true even for executive-funded agencies like the CFPB, which the administration has tried to kill through zero funding, multiple times.

>Is there are ideological

I think this is vast majority of the problem. One party, without naming it, is basically only about two things: 1) tax cuts as a policy solution for all problems, and 2) thoughts and prayers when anything bad happens (mass shootings, etc.) and minimal willingness to enact any changes to stop it from happening again.

That same political party is jammed to the gills with an anti-science, anti-expert, anti-vaccine, anti-government, etc attitude and will likely continue failing to take steps to address incoming issues, until they are on our doorstep already manifesting problems -and at that time the cost of dealing with it will be far higher in lives and money than it could have been.

Just look at the chief executive, who wants the country "reopened by easter" despite all advice from medical experts. The ideology here is: lets sacrifice millions of people on the altar of the free market.
> But the question that interests me is if the mask protects people around me if I have the virus (and I don't have the symptoms yet).

Possibly, for the same reason you should cough or sneeze into your elbow. It reduces the number of droplets you spread into and around the environment around you, and before they aerosolize.
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Absolutely. Our strategy is to give you a decentralized on-ramp by starting with GitHub's central value proposition of the "one true git remote" that everyone can share. We made a GitHub action (https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit-github-action) to automatically mirror GitHub pushes on dgit so you can continue using GitHub's other tools (like issues and wikis) until dgit offers a compelling alternative for those.
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It has been refuted already, that the life expectancy was this low, with the explanation for the error being given as stillbirths affecting the average.

As far as I know, even 500 years ago it wouldn't have been that difficult to reach age 70 once you've survived your childhood.
Agreed, I think it's somewhat industry-dependent. I work with FPGAs and while we don't deal with assembly on a regular basis I'm confident everyone on my team would be able to develop or debug it.
You could measure the timing over the internet.
Right, using user agent on the client side has been unsalvageably broken for a long time. Other things, like checking the existence of window.safari or window.chrome are more reliable.

For the server side, I’m not too aware of too many cases it’s useful other than analytics, and there is too much info leakage and fingerprinting happening anyway.

So killing user agent doesn’t really seem user-hostile, save for the fact that the company doing it has near monopoly market share and doesn’t need to provide a user agent, as it’s assumed that everyone is writing code to run on Google’s browser. In that sense it’s a flex.
You're being incredibly narrow with your definition of voluntary there. Are you seriously suggesting people giving up their cell phone is a reasonable price to pay for not being tracked by the government?

Edit: In 1776, Adam Smith argued that poverty is the inability to afford "not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without."
Are we wrong about equality?
Stuff like this can obviously be used to make things like deepfakes 'better'. But i think it might be cool for creating virtual meeting rooms, where you can take a webcam shot of a persons face, normalize the skin tones for lighting, map to a 3d surface, then relight it for the virtual room.

When you can rig the meshes to drive each other you could wear 'masks' of other peoples faces (or critters).
At least on Windows this has existed forever. On Windows 10 Config Panel -> Sound -> Manage sound devices -> Recording and choose your sound card to set as default input
I think you have to accept that your parents are going to die one day, whether we contain COVID-19 or not. But you and your (future?) kids are going to have to live with the political consequences of this crisis for many years to come.
The project site itself gets a 100/100 for mobile & desktop on Google Page Speed Insights.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
> I was most proud of a railway bridge in the Himalayas that ended up in Google Earth for a while.

Nice job! That looks great.
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Tired and illogical argument to make this political. To do so is all emotion driven and not logic cause fast forward a few decades later the globe is experiencing a mass shortage of X due to X calamity. A calamity no one could've predicted cause humans can't predict the future. But, wait the liberal loonies are smarter then the GOP Tards and the loonies would have stockpiled up on X cause they can see the future (right).

Political arguments = tired and again illogical!
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For me, the desire to better understand the innards.
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> … when a private business…

Ischgl isn't a private business: its a municipality* and the reports suggest that the cover-up included the entire valley: Galtür, Mathon, Kappl, See, etc.

* Something that would have taken you < 5 seconds to confirm for yourself.

Hence this is the government, i.e. similar (but yes, not identical) to a regional or national state authority in your example.

So,

1. to reinforce you point: 'cover-ups are prevalent in authoritarian states'. Agreed

2. and to re-make my point: '… apparently also in stable, affluent, western democracies where information flows like wine'.

It would appear that your attachment to your hypothesis that authoritarian states get away with this kind of corruption because of their control over information is preventing you from assimilating new information that this kind of corruption can happen just as easily in free democratic states.

Which should worry you, if you do indeed live in such a state and are hoping that information freedom and democracy is enough to protect you and yours.
Nice to see improvements on this extension to leverage PostgreSQL to schedule jobs!
The CA DMV is a model of efficiency. Really. Never had issues with it, in the last 2 decades. Yes, people like to complain about it, but I've been amazed how well they do what they do.
On x86/64 only the CPU vendors go down to that level. Well them and security researchers.
hi guys, l’m happy to show you node-ble, a Node.js library that allows you to interact with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices.
I spent few months studying a solution able to connect to BLE devices avoiding any underlying C++ bindings, by the way I end up to a solution that leverages on Bluez via DBus.

I hope that it will be useful for your next projects.
Lecturing is a good idea, even more so if you rarely lecture your parents back, which I assume a lot of children don't. This is something I did to my parents and it changed the way they are approaching this pandemic. Social distancing is happening here now and they have respected my thoughts and ideas since they're scared and trust the information I'm supplying them is valuable.
I agree, but this also is incredibly dependent on the major players (e.g. Google) not going off on their own making changes without agreement from other browsers...

There are still issues today where chrome, edge, and Firefox render slightly differently. I certainly agree user agent isn't terribly necessary, but it's literally the only hook to identify when css or JavaScript needs to change... Or to support people on older browsers (e.g. Firefox ESR). How can I know when I can update my website to newer language versions without metrics confirming my users support the new ES version?

I would argue simplifying the UA, product + major revision, maybe, or information relevant to rendering and JavaScript only
The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family
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Yeah, when in doubt I tried not to mess with the default styling too much. There might be some nice tweaks I could make to it though.
Solar Batteries: Lead Acid or Lithium?
I can't speak for others, but many of my company's open-source projects are not open-contribution (meaning I don't accept PRs unless I hire you). Features are added because funding comes from somewhere else, but it would be nice to have a second option for users to fund a feature directly.
Meh, I don't think it's something you should look to change jobs based on. People get weird when they're stressed, and the whole world's pretty stressed right now.
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Elsewhere in this discussion, I described my first Flux experience.

In that same job, the boss decided (after we switched to a pseudo-Flux, Frankenstein's monster of MVC component libs that slowed development to an excruciating crawl) to bring in a consultant to "help". He was the "crap out apparently-working code quickly" brand of "10x Programmer". Some basic functionality for new features got added in a hurry, over a couple weeks' time. The following couple weeks were dedicated to fixing everything he wrote.

Yes, I agree: "grown up" programmers think beyond what seems to work right now.

Sure, I use dirty hacks semi-regularly, but only when I'm first feeling out how something works. It doesn't last more than a couple hours, usually far less, because the point isn't to commit that code but to learn how to think about the problem so I can do it right, and a "done right" rewrite takes less time to get working than the initial dirty hack.

The "done right" rewrite also doesn't impose tremendous maintenance and continuing development costs over months to come the way the dirty hack would.

If the author means real programmers use dirty hacks to figure out what they're doing, then they make it right, that's fine. If not, that's not fine at all.
The president from one party responded to a health crisis by establishing a pandemic response team and developing protocols.

The other party's president is trying to defund the relevant agencies and dissolve the teams, then turning around and tweeting that he didn't.
I love this. I've already absorbed another system and scanned the BBS for Dr Who info!
1-mo and 3-mo Treasury bill yields are now negative
It's 23 Trillion dollars in debt
The relevant incentives are there because of capitalism. Just as the incentives to cover things up or shift blame were there in the USSR during Chernobyl.
"There's too many to name!"is a pretty lazy cop out.
what's the story on updates for non-pixel phones these days? the main reason I keep buy google phones is for the monthly security updates that seem to go on for at least three years after release, but every year the pixel hardware seems like a worse value.
> Part of the appeal of C is that it's easy to integrate into other projects, regardless of the build system or obscure hardware it might be targeting.

Zig should be just as easy to integrate. Sure, it's one more thing to install, but it'll spit out .o files just like a C compiler would if you tell it to (which means you can shove it in your Makefile or what have you), and will spit out .h files for linking. You miss out on Zig's build system niceties that way, though (including the cross-compilation demonstrated in the article).

Regardless, being a "C replacement" kinda implies (if not outright explies) that it's replacing C; compiling to C kinda defeats that purpose. It'd still be useful, though, and is probably possible (might even be relatively trivial if LLVM and/or Clang provide some mechanism to generate C from LLVM IR or some other intermediate representation).
Of course you could subvert the surveillance (by mot carrying a phone, credit card or communication device) but people are supposed to enjoy privacy rights by default not by subverting the government.
Btw now the cash payments are banned in many places so how are you supposed to avoid being tracked and enjoy your privacy rights?
Fanvent: Reliable pandemic ventilator using computer fans
this will fuck up the users

That's a downside if it happens, but the upsides (privacy, forcing devs to use feature detection instead, etc) still means it's worthwhile.