skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had one of those devices. Kept it alive for several years by maintaining a custom Cyanogenmod fork for it.

It was a great device, save for the severely compromised Nvidia-SOC which made HD-playback only work sometimes. Such a let-down!

Had someone made a device like this with the specs of the Nexus 7, I would have bought it and replaced my Transformer in a heartbeat.

But nobody did, so now I’m back on my Thinkpad, and it’s actually really nice to run a OS of your choice, which you loaded on a machine you own, which isn’t actively fighting you.
I knew this would come up, thus I already addressed it in my comment above. That's not the default. And it still doesn't feel good - because animations are at the core of the UX/UI of Apple software. IMO the software needs to be designed from ground up with strict understanding of productivity and less marketing/design/aesthetics/animation. "Reduce motion" seems like an after thought hidden deep in the accessibility settings.
Anybody succeeded in using open source tools to program PIC microcontrollers? Is it easy to create a USB (slave) interface through this route?
I'm making a drone that blows bubbles:

https://youtu.be/xk99zrlAp9U

Hey, you asked.
My usual approach tends to interleave the two approaches. Brain dump, then distill, then reconstitute in a more crystalline form. Repeat as necessary.
China demands Chinese workers leave U.S. news outlets as online taunts continue
https://restorativland.org

Was planning to do some livestreaming of working on it too.
Its is complitly different. I know DRAKON and it is very different what I see in the article. Also DRAKON is very different from other visual diagraming systems. DRAKON is open but system that is actually used in space programming (if i remember correctly is called Grafit-Floks, https://books.google.com/books?id=0g9kDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=...) is not open and as far as I know is not in market. If you are interested in DRAKON there is a forum.drakon.su which has english section and on that forum is made by inventor of DRAKON and he participated in discussion. DRAKON has also wikipedia page.
Paper Wealth
Accounting company
> So Gates is not actually going to do anything to help with this pandemic?

Again, not what I said. Contributing resources and expertise is not an all-or-nothing scenario. Each dollar spent by Gates fighting COVID-19 will (in my opinion) be significantly more productive than each dollar spent by the US government. But that doesn't mean he's the only force participating in the fight, nor is his contribution insignificant.

If you have an argument to make, please make it, but I'd ask you politely to refrain from straw man arguments or insisting on false dichotomies.
I've been meaning to find out if I can attach an i2c OLED display to my existing SMBUS signals...
I once took a look at traffic coming from my (Android) phone and IIRC the pressure was being sent to some Google server at a regular interval. I wonder if they use it for weather forecasting.
Pathi (https://www.pathiapp.org/), which is a free app that connects people who really need someone to talk to with volunteer listeners who want to help.

We are recruiting listeners, and looking for someone to help build an Android version!
I’ve been playing iNethack on my phone (Uses 3.4.3). I ran into a ghost of myself last night. I was in a 1 square dead end tunnel with no digging tools and out of food. I thought I was going to starve to death before it finally moved. Really starting to have fun with it, but can barely make it 12 levels down :).
DSP, lots of DSP.

specifically, writing audio plugins for VCV Rack and VST3.
Coronavirus vaccine just hasn't been investment worthy, until now
>The 'false positives' can be taken care of by a visit to the hospital.

That would overwhelm hospitals immediately.

>The 'no antibodies yet' can be taken care of by self-isolation - within a few days, they'll have antibodies and can test again.

But if the test is negative you don't know that you should self-isolate. That would mean everybody needs to self-isolate but then we don't need the test.
Then the "success" is that they are now raping people off campus, rather than on it.
I'm finishing up a game I've been working on solo for the last few years.

It's a mindfulness game that aims to bring its players to a meditative state of flow. (through casual gameplay)

Its looking good so far :D
Keep it clean: The surprising 130-year history of handwashing
Investigating what an assembly language would look like for a CPU with unlimited cores. Basically if there was a way to provide a "Cloud Assembly" that would be like an assembly language running on Lambda. Not quite the same thing that fastly is doing with WASM, where WASM runs in the function, but rather something that defines the function. Doubt it goes anywhere.
A visual debugger for Haskell, that will graph data structures, sharing, and laziness as data is updated and then GCed.
Working on a better way to edit calendar events: finding conflicts, grouping series of events together, etc.
Related similar study: "Simple Respiratory Protection—Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles" talks about SARS and H1N1 sized threats. https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744?fbcl...
Im working on a micro gratitude system (“karma bot”) for Slack with other chat platforms on the way. See karmachest.com.
Submission statement:

Android-only right now.

This is an experiment in roughly measuring your own viral risk as simply as possible, then comparing that with other people. Precision is not the intention. Getting the ball rolling is.

The tracker is currently in prototype form so it may look or act a bit odd, not least because I quickly extended an existing platform.
I guess you don't have to actually use all the features all the time. I'm doing some of this stuff using anylist where I've got recipes / meal planning / shopping list and it works pretty well. I don't care about keeping stock, but instead every time make a full shopping list, go to the kitchen, and remove things I already have.

Other features could be useful though - The list of batteries could be nice. House tasks as well.
John Hopkins Covid Data Errors
IIRC Mazda is looking to remove touch from their driver UI.
It's possible I'm misremembering something. I can't find the story I remember seeing. I did trip across this:

https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20140529/fast-weight-loss-ma...

But I really don't intend to post further. This is a completely pointless argument in my book and the world really doesn't need such at the moment.
An easy to use and cost effective speech synthesis platform for voiceovers, audiobooks, and podcasts:

https://narrationbox.com
The 8-bit PIC microcontrollers won the love of hobbyists for a number of good reasons. In particular, the PIC16C84 and PIC16F84 chips had EEPROM/Flash memory that eliminated the need for an ultraviolet erasure stage. They were available in DIP packages that were easily handled. The documentation and programming tools (just an assembler at first) were approachable. The input/output pins were fairly robust, so the chips were hard to kill. The power supply voltage range was forgiving, and allowed for easy operation from batteries.

The 8-bit PIC architecture lacked some features that frustrated writing a proper C compiler for the chips. But that wasn't a problem if you moved up to the 16- and 32-bit processors, which also had some lovely peripherals such as a 12-bit A to D converter.

I programmed my first PIC16C84 chip using a programming circuit that I built myself through the parallel printer port of my MS-DOS computer, using a program that I wrote in Turbo Pascal. I was hooked.

Those were the days. Since then I've moved on to chips and boards that can be programmed using the Arduino tool chain.
the free version looks like it's essentially useless.
Not sure what you mean. You even invalidated your own argument. If he has a vested interest in eradicating malaria (“involved in health stuff for a while”), why would it be a massive disadvantage there to have money?
You don’t have to be a scientist to do science
That's a bad argument against DIY masks though. I tend to also agree with Zeynep Tufekci in this matter: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...
Just in case I wasn't obvious enough, the issue with drunk driving is around much more than distraction. Drunk driving involves failures of judgement and comprehension, drowsiness and vision impacts (literally will not see a pedestrian, will not register a red light, will fall asleep and have a head on collision). In addition, driving while drunk is a continues impact. If you drive an hour and a half home wasted, you are going to be at risk / causing risk that ENTIRE time.

The article headline and narrative tries to generate a "carplay worse than drunk driving" narrative when this is totally unsupported.

First, the slow reaction time was measured while the subjects were told to carry out tasks on carplay. These tasks were very specific. Like use the BBC iPlayer app (ugh!) to play a specific radio station. Find and play summer by Calvin Harris, send text messages etc. AND the setting were such that you could not use voice for some of this.

OK - summer is in a ton of song titles, so finding summer by calvin hariss is going to take some typing. Making users use a THIRD party app on carplay is another whole issue.

So yes - if you are a total idiot who disables voice control and is trying to type out complicated things on carplay and send messages using text - you are definitely going to be temporarily distracted. They presented little evidence that while in use fatalities increase because of this risk.

My own observation is that folks stopped at stoplights are HIGHLY distracted by both their phones and infotainment.

I use voice control which works well, and I only do three tasks - message wife I'm heading home, get directions to home (driving time and detours)and play podcasts. I say this while waiting to pull out of a parking garage. In terms of actual road risk this in minimal.
Can someone explain the math here? How is he generating the histogram from just the mean and the range?

UPDATE

Found this:

"Range is always a normal distribution, with the lower number being two standard deviations below the mean, and the upper number two standard deviations above. Nothing fancier is possible, in terms of input probability distributions."

So the range is two std dev from the mean. He also mentions somewhere early that he's assuming the input range is 95% confident.

If I am understanding this correctly, I have a second question: if he has the mean, and the std dev, what is the purpose of the monte carlo simulation exactly? Can't you just subdivide your range, and compute frequency using the gaussian function?
Sounds really cool and reminds me of Jason Fried's writing class idea[1]. I think many people still view Twitter's brevity as stifling nuance instead of forcing users to really refine their ideas.

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-writing-class-id-like-to-teac...
The first one could explain why it isn't spreading there. Without testing, hard to know if that is accurate. Reports from other threads supports that it is there, but not severe cases. (Sadly, anecdotes...)

Second is also tougher to square. The risk pool is supposedly older people, per reports from Italy. But, that doesn't seem to square with age profiles of Japanese. So??
Except Tuna, because Tuna is known to be exceptionally clean fish. Salmon definitely needs to be frozen.
Driving simulator (UE4) to help design an Advanced Driving Assistance System (Lane keeping, dynamic cruise control). A bit like testdrive.
Looks nice. I don't think you should have the text options bar at the top disappear when the cursor isn't captured in the textbox.
I wrote something similar for HTML:

https://skorokithakis.github.io/expounder/
I wrote a class management system some years back for the dance school I go to and now I am writing v2. :)

Maybe I’ll open source that Node.js Etcd-like KVS I wrote for the various micro services at work...
I am working on a web tool to track numbers and count them. For example: smoken cigarettes, or eaten callories etc. The idea is to make it extremely easy to use. So that people can track progress of various things they are up to
Go to the corner shops. The only place where I can constantly get something I want to buy is a local Costcutter.
https://abot.app/ . I've noticed an increased number of sign-ups as more companies are going remote. I've also decided to give it away for free for educational purposes. Already a couple of university teachers are using it to facilitate and encourage asking of "stupid" questions during online classes.
I just finished up the MVP for my small side project, BuyALabel, https://www.buyalabel.com

I wanted to make it dead simple to print a shipping label in seconds without having to create an account like you do everywhere else.

It's USA only for now, but noe that it's actually launched I can start making some improvements.
Hmm, its quite a list.

GPS Disciplined 100Mhz clock source. I've got the QRP Labs "fake" temperature controlled synthesizer, an Icebreaker FPGA board, and an Adafruit ultimate GPS with 1PPS output.

Reminder/message board which is two parts, a server that monitors a file for messages and puts the top 8 on an LED sign in my office/lab. A set of transponders that generate messages for the file. And a 'grooming' process that looks at the available messages and prioritizes them for the sign.

Moving my iBitsy LED clock over to a nice 64 x 64 LED panel. This is mostly 3D printing a case, and updating software on the ESP2866 controller using Micro/Circuit Python.

Building a NAND driver for an embedded system that is currently booting off internal flash. The NAND option lets you encrypt the firmware which is a handy feature and you can have larger boot images.

Debating ideas for future Pandemic prep with friends over zoom.

Working out aspects of DSP that I have code that implements but I don't feel I really understand as completely as I should. The goal here is just learning, especially about polyphase channelizers.

Building kits that I've bought but haven't assembled. (The "big" one is the replica IMSAI 8080)

Noodling on design ideas for 3D printing custom spacers so that I can stack test equipment without have to rack it. Vendors design their gear so when you have multiple instruments from them you can stack them on your bench, but when you mix vendors that falls apart. My thought is that you can 3D print pieces that adapt from one vendor to another.

Drilling down a rabbit hole while making a 3.3V -> 5V push-pull driver with 100mA sink and source current, at 50MHz. Ideally I'll end up with a design and layout that I can replicate 'n' times on a board to create an 'n' wide driver board. For bonus points I'd like to figure out if I could make it bi-directional so I've been looking at the circuit diagrams of FPGA and SoC pin circuits to get ideas of how they do that.
uBitx v1 build.. bought it and never got around to it.. have to build the original before I ponder getting a new version ;)

https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx-v6/
My brother and I are working on a site where users can create fanfiction comics to post and share online. It's basically Webtoons, except, all the content is fanfiction in art/comics form

We just started the actual website this week after planning.
"I thought about OCRing supermarket receipts too but these differ so greatly in layout etc. per country I figured it's not the way to go"

People usually shop at the same places and the same things, so they could identify the products in the receipts once and then only update the new ones. Also,You could crowdsource it.
The link to the article is at the end:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
I was referring to this video where the car is driving 60mph down the highway, and the MCU stays crashed for over a minute: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UkhwRUaSCA4

> Well, it was probably a hard reboot. Which can only be done while stopped and with foot holding the brake down.

If this is true, then it seems like it is impossible to (hard) reboot the MCU while driving? So they definitely should pull over.

> This is how people form mistaken opinions about Teslas. Lack of personal experience, ignorance, presupposition of facts that do not exist, gullible acceptance of anything you read or hear, and exaggeration of perceived problems to a bizarre level.

You seem to be letting your Tesla fanboy/girlism blind you. I'm not "forming an opinion" about Tesla over this event, simply arguing that should this happen to you the safest and best thing to do is pull over. I would do the same thing in a normal (non-Tesla) car should the speedometer or other important part of the dash fail in those.
It's also sort of the same as how stock ownership works, where ultimate ownership of stocks doesn't change, but authority over them does:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-07-14/banks-...
Working on https://excalidraw.com/ a whiteboarding tool with hand-drawn like feel. We just added live collaboration support recently to help with architecture brainstorm and interviews while everyone is working remotely.
I'm breathing life into an old RSS/Atom reader project of mine as a means of learning Elixir.
We reviewed this and related literature in detail in a pre-print:

https://medium.com/@matthiassamwald/promoting-simple-do-it-y...

The upshot is, masks work, and the simple ones are particularly effective for protecting other people from transmission of infectious droplets from the person wearing the mask.
This is great! Music theory is something I’ve wanted to learn, but have had a hard time finding the time/ resources that work with my brain. And I’ve been working on guitar, ukulele, and mandolin over this time of housebound-ness. I’ve learned a ton in just the last ten minutes playing with this. Like, honestly, barre chords have never made sense to me, and they just clicked with this. Still lots of practicing to do on my end, but this is great.

So so cool. Thank you for building this!
and much more zinc (oyster, crab, lobster, etc.) than in a Western diet.
I'll offer one hypothesis and a quick explanation.

Iodine. The Japaese have a high iodine content in their diet. I'm taking 10x the US RDA. Some have suggested this is the reason for lower breast cancer rates there (no time to cover all that here and now).

I read about Iodine years ago, and followed some doctors suggestions that it can help asthma. My asthma is effectively gone and my last PFT showed my lungs function better than average for my age. I haven't touched an inhaler in years.

Since we are dealing with a respiratory virus, I figure anything that helps the lungs is probably a good thing.

For some fun reading you might want to read about the relationship of iodine and: cancer, lungs, mitochondria, apoptosis, breast cancer, asthma, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and any number of thyroid problems.

If you think Iodine is only good for the thyroid gland, I suggest reading about the sodium-iodine-symporter and which tissues have it.

Anyway, I had already thought about this when it seemed Japan's death rate from covid-19 was lower.
That's one factor, I'd argue it is caused by the $12 trillon is usd denominated debt, and due to the economic situation, no cashflow to pay it. But the Fed has been ramping up printing presses, creating a tug of war. How long before the latter overtakes the former?

The Fed just expanded repo to $1 trillion per day: https://m.theepochtimes.com/fed-expands-repo-to-1-trillion-p...
I'm building a way to roughly (and simply) track your own viral risk in real-time and compare it with others.

https://howfunctional.com/viral-risk

Android-only right now. Precision is not the intention. Getting the ball rolling is.

The tracker is currently in prototype form so it may look or act a bit odd, not least because I quickly extended an existing platform.
I believe what you’re looking for is: https://www.telescopictext.org/ (demo is at .com)
This is the reason why cross-platform UI toolkits are just never going to be a good idea. They will always provide a worse experience than just using and designing for the native UI toolkit.
Working on a rules light alternative to the Lancer RPG. I love the art and lore, but in between hearing about it and its release, I got more into OSR sorts of games and now Lancer feels almost overwhelming with its rules. I'm merely hacking Into the Odd for now, but adding mech combat and some other tables to help along gameplay. No idea what I'm going to do about art though. I don't have enough money set aside right now to hire an artist.

I'm also learning Flutter so I can make a desktop and tablet app to assist Game Masters in adding audio to their games- sound fx, ambiance, and music. Now that the quarantine is here I might see if I can make it compatible with Discord or Roll20.
Building https://dopebrands.fyi - highlighting great new dtc ecommerce brands, and initially focusing on the smaller end of the market to help encourage shoppers to discover them and try them out. Launching next week!
That what I've been pushing, I don't see any downside considering the alternative for most people is DYI or none.

Also wearing a mask, any mask helps normalize wearing masks in public.
As an American, the freedom is mine (as it is for other US citizens) to do what I choose with the money I earn, regardless of the amount. Wealth is relative, after all.
Looking good: I should have read your comment in full before I tried it because I was sitting here wondering why I could only create buildings in the sky. Neat idea though, and it'll be awesome when it looks as good as the picture you have on your website at the moment.
> The animations/effects etc take way too long. It is fatiguing to work on it because every action takes at least 2+ seconds with a dozen animations, each one lasting 100ms-300ms!

You're absolutely correct and i wholeheartedly concur with you on all this. i'd add Mac OS X (at least Catalina) to that as well, stuff like switching virtual desktops shows an animation and there's no way AFAICT to disable it.

Unless there's serious computation/data-transfer (including over a network) happening, i feel like computer user-interfaces really shouldn't have human-perceptible latency; and even then, only the specific component that's requiring computation/data-transfer should get latency'd, it's inexcusable for a whole system to get slow because one application is doing a lot.
Exactly: protection is probabilistic. Hand-washing isn't perfect, social distancing isn't perfect, and therefore in a sense you could say that they also "don't work" -- but they work in the sense that matters, i.e. reducing the spread of the virus.
Converting a simple issue tracker written in Go to run completely in the frontend [1], so that it’s easier and faster to iterate on its development at the cost of initial page load.

[1]: https://github.com/shurcooL/home/compare/dev

That said, I don’t think I have any additional time due to quarantine.
Wow! I have been struggling to find exactly this for maybe years now. Other software always felt too limiting or specific, this is just about perfect.

I want to give this a go and see if I can do better than I do with spreadsheets.
Does anyone know of a way to be on a list to purchase masks in an ethical manner? I’d like to get one, but only once the needs of the medical community are adequately met.
Yea, that shouldn't be happening.
I actually have two old FFP1 R rated masks in my closet from the past two pollen seasons. Since I only used them during the pollen season, they're probably still okay. But I haven't been wearing them recently, since the effectiveness of them hasn't really been clear. There's really also the stigma of being a leper, although that didn't really stop me during the pollen season.
> Sounds like common sense

Unless it causes people to touch their face more.
even if imperfect, if they reduce

1) output

2) input

3) social proximity

it's already great