skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't int21h a call to MS-DOS functions? (Also understood by Windows)

I'm not sure it would work if you stuck this in a boot sector.
First, let me say that I'm not against e.g. "quantified self" et. al. at all. It's fine. (IMO) And writing has, in general, been a benefit, eh?

> Just saying memory alone isn't sufficient for most people.

I'm merely pointing out that the reason we (as evolving beings) have memory in the first place is due to the adaptive advantage of "logging" experience. ;-)

FWIW, memory has been sufficient for most people: we're here, therefore every one of our ancestors did at least well enough to make a baby (who grew up to do at least well enough to make another baby, and so on right up until you, today.)
Rating the difficulty of the examples is a great idea, thanks! The gallery currently leads with harder ones because they tend to be more interesting (animation and interaction), but you can find easier ones farther down.

https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery
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I get that this is a clever way to put data together and make it available to people easily over certain channels.

However, aside from being a learning experiment, I don't find something like this to be a good thing for people to implement because focusing on something like this is only going to cause mental fatigue and a decrease in overall mental health.

https://time.com/5125894/is-reading-news-bad-for-you/

Just my humble opinion.
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Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
If you type `cmd /` you open up the menu focused on the search field. You can then type the command or plugin that you want.

Not quite sketch runner, but part of the way there.
I'm just your generic line fullstack web engineer. I'm still interested in these kinds of stuffs.
Depends. If the bounties are created by the maintainers themselves, funded from something like Open Collective, I think it can be a healthy way to get the community involved and help maintainers get things done that they wouldn't be able to work on themselves. If bounties are only exclusively created and funded by the community, I can see how this could be a problem.
Yep, done both of those! Such a great game, well done.
I'm a huge "fan" of F/OSS but, unfortunately, such condescending answers are all too common in this "community".
The Congress that approved the stockpile in 2006 was Republican.

The Congress which failed to renew the stockpile was Democratic.

The failure to renew the stockpile is likely a result of the 2008 global recession and funds being prioritized differently, and subsequent partisan governmental meltdown rather than political ideology.
The first time I saw Sketch was not too long ago, I don't think it's really old enough to warrant the term "old-fashioned". Old fashioned would be working in Photoshop or Illustrator.
Thnak you, this had been bugging me for a while. Looks like I'll need to permanently install a UA-switcher extension.

Yesterday I saw a HN comment saying you can add the (?|&)disable_polymer=1 parameter to the end of YouTube URLs to make the site much faster - iirc Polymer is extremely slow on Firefox only. This extension was also linked: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-polym...

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any workaround for ReCaptcha on FF. I generally end up opening the website in the GNOME or KDE (Falkon) browser which use something like WebKit/Blink - there it works on the first try every time.
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Thanks Mike for giving us d3!

I was always curious about your thoughts about how d3's paradigm is similar to React/Svelte/SwiftUI/<any other UI lib>.

I feel that d3's approach is similar in the sense that you have some data, and you describe in code how you want the data to be map to a UI (DOM in this case).

With selection/joins it seems that d3 adds an extra capability that allows one to "do something" before and after data changes.

In a way of analogy this would be similar to have finer grained control to when props change in React: d3 is similar in being able to transition specific prop numerical values (or something of this kind?).

Anyway would love a TLDR on what you think about d3 and its similarity to other libs.
> Always ostensibly to protect users but always also conveniently putting webapps at a permanent disadvantage to native apps.

This isn't always a bad thing though. For example, Safari has prohibited some obnoxious behavior that Chrome has allowed: Autoplaying videos, tab suspension, push notifications. These hog CPU and destroy battery life, worsening the user experience.

Remember, making everything a web app is Google's agenda because they benefit most from it.
When all this will be said and done people/international organisations will have to look at this with fresh eyes. Just look at this Rai3 reportage from 2015 [1] (RAI is the Italian national television), where starting with minute 5 you can see a piece on Chinese scientists "playing" with that horseshoe bat coronavirus mentioned in the study, trying to combine it with another animal's not deadly yet "polmonite" (pneumonia in English).

Again, this is not fake news, and we're talking about the Chinese scientists still giving it a go 8 years after that first study I was linking to and 5 years before a global pandemic that consists in the exact two things they were studying (coronavirus + pneumonia), originating in the exact same city where those scientists were based.

Saying that all this is just a "coincidence" or "paranoia" or a "conspiracy" is pure lunacy.

[1] https://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-5e32...
The problem is that it's produced _many_ verified models that could work with all of known physics. The problem is coming up with a test that distinguishes them somehow.
Fourth on this. AutoSleep is epic and awesome.
More info on Touchbase and why we built it here: https://medium.com/unmeeting/introducing-touchbase-and-why-w...
> Doesn't `getrandom(2)` use `RDRAND`?

No.
Chrome dev what? I can't hear you over the sounds of waves crashing on the beach
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I really like this. Thanks for sharing it and releasing it under a free license!
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The Pixel 3A is slow (not saying it’s not a good phone).
More importantly, I'd say:

> The authors noted, however, that the cutting had been done in a room with a temperature of about 10°C (50°F), and therefore, "future experiments might examine colder contexts."
Do viruses that were first discovered in India have meaningful differences from viruses first discovered in Portugal? Is this actually under debate? The point is to avoid undue harm from an arbitrary, random event from actual people.
> People are so very weirdly sensitive to these things when it is a big company that comes calling.

They're not sensitive when it's a "big company", they're sensitive when they're trying to get work done and they receive a flippant response.
Important distinction indeed
One great thing about a smartwatch is that you don't have to remember to put it on before going to bed. Better yet if it's one of the models with a long enough battery that you can just wear it and forget about it completely.
Pandemic Sleep Advice Straight from Sleep Researchers
I find that some of the ways economists just fudge data to be downright disturbing. That those are then cheery-picked and offered as input to policymakers is even more concerning.

As a for instance; take the claim that the Reagan years policymaking only caused a seeming boom in numbers due to the fact that people were no longer sheltering earnings in corporations, therefore there had to be a matching decrease elsewhere.

The issue I have with that is that money sheltered in a corporation controlled or heavily influenced by a particular individual is still essentially indistinguishable from being income for that person. It just resides in a nominally transparent legal fiction, that economists are not willing/confident to pierce. If you don't understand those circumstances or take them into account, the map you draw of the territory becomes downright dangerous to the ones using it rather than the help you nominally set out for it to be.

I understand that gaggles of economists are trying to provide alternate slices of data, but from the research point of view, if you are not looking at the real to gather your data, you're playing fantasy football. Which frankly, given the I'll-conditioning of the economic problem scares the shit out me.
My first language was Pascal. I'd like to think I learned good habits up front. But I'll fully admit, when I first started writing PHP, I definitely treated it as a "script". My code barely used functions at first. It was a big top-down autoexec.bat style recipe. It took quite awhile for me to come around to treating PHP like a real programming language. I think a lot of it came from the fact that I'd edit, and refresh the browser page. Whereas with Turbo Pascal, I'd save my work, and compile. Once I did come around to writing more application-style with PHP, I was more interested in other things (Java and Ruby at the time)
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Open Whisper Systems had one called BitHub, but it looks like it's dead. Last commit was five years ago. :-\

https://github.com/signalapp/bithub
YouTube Slashes Video Quality to Save Bandwidth
In my limited experience, I've found that D3 excels interactive graphs / data visualizations. However, when I've tried to use it for interactive math diagrams, I've found that it doesn't save me much effort. I found it was still necessary to manually track state and enforce geometric constraints. (not mine, but here is an example where d3 doesn't help much: https://observablehq.com/@renatoppl/torus-knots)

Does anyone have tips for getting more mileage out of D3? Or using other tools? I'd be especially curious if anyone's successfully used React+SVG for interactive science/math diagrams.
Not this one, specifically, but they've mentioned that they're working on upstreaming some derivative patches.
I never got much out of the "hallway track", myself. For the parties and socializing, I guess I prefer the company of people that don't tend to find themselves at professional technology conferences.

If the talks don't have interesting ideas or expose me to new things, it's hard for me to get value out of a conference. It's true that you can watch a talk from anywhere, but being in the same room usually gives the talk deeper and longer-term impact, I have found.
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Same with some standard development orgs as well like the IETF. The real value is in the "hallway" meetings or pop up meetings organized over a particular topic. Especially the IETF where they even admit the email list is where official work is done and not really in-person meetings.

The use of collaboration tools like github/lab, wikis and mailing lists help a bit. Maybe we need to give Second Life a second look...
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That would be even slower and more complex.
Nvidia's GTC 2020 conference content is now online and free
https://support.google.com/docs/thread/18235069?hl=en

They do, I'm not sure that should be called as a 'fix' though.

Because it even works perfectly on firefox as long as you spoof your useragent to chrome.
I did research on a speech-to-text-to-speech system, and lots of non-native English speakers were self-conscious of their speech and prefer text-to-speech that wasn't in the style of their original voice.

Also, it's much simpler to make changes to a publication video, since using original voice requires re-recording with a high-quality microphone and post-processing of background noise.
You don't need to be proficient for an entry level position by definition. Further, proficiency at programming is only tenuously related to an immersive knowledge of computer science topics. Further still, proficiency at software engineering is more about soft skills like writing readable code, managing projects, and collaborating with teams to ship large units of software. Having lots of knowledge of low level components or math is icing on the cake for the overwhelming majority of applications (much to my chagrin--I really like the lower levels and the technical nitty-gritty).
The pandemic could get Silicon Valley to do something it has rarely done
Remember, making everything a web app is Google's agenda because they benefit most from it.
I've added it, you can press "\" to toggle mouse Y inversion.
At first I thought this would be a story about DIY metalwork projects during quarantine.
Don't believe the headlines saying half the UK has had coronavirus
Yup. I have had some terrible experiences with dependencies. Bundling all the dependencies together makes sense in a lot of scenarios.
Yes, this is key. There are many cases like this (and CSS pseudo-classes, and the drag and drop API, etc.) where the browser platform gives you convenient ways of avoiding the problem. And certainly, take advantage of those where possible. But they don't eliminate the problem in the general sense.
Is CA testing for the virus as much as NY? California also has a very high homeless population that they have had a hard time dealing with, and I wonder if the homeless are being hospitalized and accounted for as much in CA as in NY.
I actually was planning to attend their DevOps conference this year before COVID. My employer will sponsor one conference of my choice. Any recommendations for replacements?
One thing that is fascinating me is where to draw the line between forgiving an understandable delay, and really blaming leadership for an unforgivable delay. Like, I am seeing blame for the us administration not preparing or responding more quickly to public knowledge in mid-february, but... 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.) There's a point at which anyone is somewhat certain that something bad is happening or about to happen, without having any sense of intensity or speed, where there's a certain level of human reaction delay. So is there a good standard for when it is no longer forgivable human/societal behavior, and becomes truly egregious cruelty, willful ignorance, and blame-worthy incompetence?
Ah, I pay for YouTube Red, I didn't realize this "feature" wasn't the default. Thanks for clarifying.
His point is different. You cannot (by definition) ever write a "name", a formula, a rule, a lim expression, anything really, for a real that is not in the useful reals.
Came here to say just that, but to also mention I know some web developers who love these topics and are ahead of the game compared to their colleagues.

P.S. And if a low-level programmer goes into web, stuff like this [0] happens :-)

[0] https://nira.app/
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This is an important and unsurprisingly sobering read. I had to lie down for a few minutes after reading it.
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If you're going to be that fatalist, you may as well say "there is no preventing COVID-19" because everyone will touch their face without washing their hands.

No, assume people can follow instructions and disseminate the truth, not a revised version of the truth, or you risk credibility as clearly has been damaged on the CDC's part. There are dire consequences when a public health authority has no authority anymore due to lying.
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I guess I thought it was relevant in a thread about zoom which allows 100 participants for free.
Anecdata: Have sleep apnea, so am interested in better sleep, and I'm hooked up to a CPAP machine which registers every breath I take. I've tried several devices (withings, 2 garmin smart watches and a fitbit), and quite frankly, the results have been appalling.

Some random observations:

* My latest garmin has an "SpO2" sensor. Which is basically a random number generator with red LED. When I compare the results with an actual on-finger SpO2 monitor, there is zero correlation.

* Both the fitbit and the garmins have mistaken masturbation for deep sleep. You would think that the wrist movement would be a clue to not being asleep, but no. Deep sleep.

* The deep sleep vs REM classification seems to be based more on time-of-day than on anything else. Apparently I always start my nights with a block of deep sleep, followed by an alternating pattern of light & REM. This is true even when I'm awake during this "deep sleep" malarky.

* My CPAP, on the other hand, is very useful for telling apart sleep & waking. Breathing rate becomes much more steady when asleep. I can see when I woke up, even if it's just for a few seconds while I change position.
Well, we're talking about a hypothetical law here, so we don't really know the amount... The low amounts for fines when it comes to big companies is a different problem that should also be fixed.
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Ah, the end of the countless references to KHTML :)

As a long time KDE user I'm a little sad, but also fully aware this day would come.
The things that replaces the user agent will still be enough to differentiate Chrome from Firefox and Safari.
My son has a handful of food allergies (peanuts, Cashews, pistachios and unfortunately milk). When you say "traces" is that like the equivalent of "Made in a facility with X"?

IMO, this could be very useful for people ordering phone online, but the packaging and definitions should probably be pulled directly from the manufacturer.

For example, "Made in a facility with X, but we clean our machines every day to ensure no cross contamination" is a lot better than "Made on a shared machine with products that contain X".
This is a very weird evaluation: It describes a post mortem on all of humanity from a site that, from what I can see, is mostly an entrepreneurship op-ed e-zine?

Certain points are also reflect a strange dissociation or at least misunderstandings of the very thing the essay appears to be describing as interesting to evaluate. For an essay describing human behavioral analysis, the writer appears to look down on emergent human behavior like elbow-bumping. Its analysis of individual rationality vs irrationality is incredibly silly- it is far more rational to evaluate the circumstance to understand that a systemic risk exists and to encourage systemic action as well as individual action than it is to hoard-buy toilet paper.
does this mean there will no longer be a way of determining if the device is primarily touch (basically all of "android", "iphone" and "ipad") or guesstimating screen size ("mobile" is typical for phones in the UA) on the server?

https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent

i wonder what Amazon will do. they serve completely different sites from the same domain after UA-sniffing for mobile.

is the web just going to turn into blank landing pages that require JS to detect the screen size and/or touch support and then redirect accordingly?

or is every initial/landing page going to be bloated with both the mobile and desktop variants?

that sounds god-awful.
I interpreted your parent's comment differently; namely, if Google's developers can't do User-Agent detection, then internally even they will have to improve how they develop (eg. via feature detection), making their products more compatible with other browsers.

Many people assume Google, as an upper-level business decision, purposely makes products work better on Chrome in order to vendor-lock users to the browser. Maybe that's true; or maybe it's developers being lazy and using User-Agent detection. Removing their ability to do so might actually improve cross-browser compatibility of Google products.
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I think this is the eventual goal from tracking prevention's side.
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I wouldn't even say the bar has gotten lower.

The bar has multiplied into multiple bars all at the their own levels but in different dimensions.

You can have an innate understanding from a single transistor to how individual frames are handled by an ethernet PHY to how the packet scheduler will interact with your userspace app and be an "exceptional" developer.

But the moment someone asks you to write an Android app that hits and endpoint and displays the data with some formatting none of that matters if you've never written an Android app.

Nothing is exceptional in a vacuum, and "programming" is so vast with so much space between disciplines it might as well be a vacuum.
Now I'm not a native English speaker, but seems "arbitrary" means "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle". Introducing a law to protect peoples privacy would not be arbitrary, especially since most countries have a due process for introducing laws.
In Wuhan they locked down the whole city quite early, so this is not really comparable. You should compare it with other European countries and the US. Just an anecdote, but my teenage son was at a language school in France last fall and he told us that the were many smokers among the Italian students, especially girls. Far more than students from the Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
> You don't need to be proficient for an entry level position

You do need a fair amount of education, though - for every meaningful profession _except_ programming.
She didn't, I guess I assumed that was the case given what she was describing and the emotion she communicated. I mean, she wasn't speaking like a doctor seeing kids at her private office.
To be fair, that's not really a very strong point, is it? Any language can be translated into C via an appropriate transpiler.
>It's just common sense.

Based on what and how people share online, the "common" sense is an expectation of decency in not vacuuming data just because you can. You and I know that's silly, but that's not common sense.