skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a homeschooler who grew up in a very rural area and didn’t attend a co-op I feel like I missed out on a lot of things socially. It’s not really economically impacting but not everything is about making money.

I think I made up for it in college but not everyone gets to do that, and it took a lot of effort on my part.
>Snapshot testing is useful for catching regressions and nothing else.

Visualizing and eyeballing snapshots in behavioral tests is a highly effective way of catching bugs and defining behavior (edit code - run test - verify output is correct, if it is, lock it down).

I find them to be vastly more effective and cheaper to build than unit tests even on greenfield code bases.
Error establishing a database connection. And it didn't say that in clear voice.
He claimed to be going to see his mother on Mothers' day (5 days ago in the UK). He may well have killed his own mother out of sheer self-righteousness and ego.
That makes total sense, but the communication discouraged people from wearing any kind of mask, even self-made ones.
Wood is easily degradable under the right conditions, but that isn’t a major problem for us. I’m almost certain, for example, that 99% of plastic in use today is in environments that are too dry for bacteria.
The real reason is just that the US is not as highly developed as the most highly developed countries in Western Europe or East Asia.

I always thought it was weird when people say things like “the US is the worst in the developed world on so many measures!” A bit like someone saying “I’m one of the shortest people in the world who’s 180cm or taller”.
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I wish this was true, but I saw this claim made by more than one public-facing scientist that I’m certain knows better. If we had started adopting mass mask wearing, we could have helped reduce the spread and had people geared up to make masks for frontline healthcare workers.
> Sure, there's a very broad class of syntactically plural mass nouns without singular countable forms for which that is the case

Can you give an example of what you're talking about? If you mean something like "scissors", that's not true -- it's perfectly possible to say "I like scissors".
> This is a very heavy test of non optimizable recursion, and (benchmark not published yet) ArkScript is only 2 times slower than JavaScript

That statement does not help. Which implementation of Javascript and what kind of benchmark is only 2x faster?

For starters, here is a good overview of Javascript interpreter performance:

https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
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It does, but it's only partial - it'll only export the basic stuff.
I earned $1M with no business experience, and spent it to create a translator
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Bosch sells its releases in 100's of different countries. I'm not saying they weren't using inaccurate terminology intentionally, more that there are indeed some guidelines for how things are couched in releases of this nature and one of those guidelines is translatability.

Especially apropos life-support systems where, indeed, RTFM||die is a thing.
I wonder if you can change it's name now.

Last time I asked, the dev asked me back how much I'd be willing to pay for it...
I'm not familiar with MongoDB to know if it has peculiar behavior so my experience is with traditional RDBMS.

You could write the backend/middleware and front-end to handle both situations of if a column/data field is present vs. not. Get that code out there and then deploy your DB changes separate. Once all is working fine, remove the "shim" code that handled if a column was present/not. Most MVC web frameworks have ways to mask the table/column names if needed. It may feel "icky" but recognize it is short term and since you can do rolling updates of your pods, you should be able to deploy software only changes nearly anytime, all the time without interruption.

For the DB, if the tables are large then in RDBMS sometimes the DB will lock the table for update which can cause issues. A technique we use is to copy the table, do the migration of say adding a column, apply updates that happened to original table to the copy and then rename the tables so your new migrated table becomes the actual table and original is preserved in case. The rename is usually fast and shouldn't lock out transactions.
> Is it really that easy for a single device to take down a neighborhood? For example, could a bad actor trivially disrupt a node with a modified modem? I guess that would be difficult to defend against.

Yes, similarly to how you could jam a radio frequency. Fortunately, this is rare and only ever happens due to hardware failures in modems.
X considered harmful, barf. What is with these pretentious pricks who feel the need to hold "strong opinions" (TM) to be considered a "senior" (TM). Sometimes testing the blackbox is all you got, thats it. Change detector test is an absolutely valid way to prevent code from changing behavior, that seems to be a pretty basic need and a very common form of regression. If you haven't seen the case for when that might be necessary then you live in unittest heaven or maybe you don't have a whole lot of experience dealing with other peoples legacy code or with real business deadlines. Good fuckin luck!
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Well, wealth allocation (through money and debt creation in our modern world) is a really complex topic. And it plays into various aspect of human knowledge and behaviors, from Maths and Physics to History, Sociology and Psychology.

It's a very difficult topic to grasp and is subject to various changes, from vested interest of groups (said group which itself could be composed of competing entities) to ideological decisions.

Crying wolf and having borderline conspiracy theories about "how the government is here to robe you!" and "how the elites are here to maintain ignorance!" doesn't help this discussion.

The real discussion is how wealth should be allocated: toward which goals? (consumption? investments? which kind of consumption or investments?) by who should it be allocated? (banks? selected individuals? governments?) What is the "correct" wealth distribution (high or low inequality, more or less towards investments or consumption etc).

If you frame the debate this way, you start to have more constructive criticisms of today situation and the current system (Which don't get me wrong, is definitely flawed and biased toward wealth concentration).

And I've seen videos on Youtube doing exactly that, contrary to the video linked there which is more about ranting, is poorly structured and doesn't give a clearer view of the situation.
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No paywall: http://archive.is/nQWzh
There is another model:

- Write some software and share it in 1970

- Now everyone is using it without knowing it
I'm actually in the other side, looking for people to mentor! Since the outbreak I started to stream daily and build apps for friends and recording all the process.

I agree with some comments about you to focus on getting more of a Culture growth that trying to hard to have hard skills. However building projects with a meaningful outcome, interact with others in what you want to be your work later, or just try to get both Culture and Skills at the same time.

If you have time we could do a live ! I'm full stack programmer with 12 years of Work experience.

My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7WUg3fWY4QHQTNsSEdNFQ
This poor revenue is unfortunate. I sell my own self-published book on Amazon. I manage to make around 2.50$ on a 10$ book, but I willingly chose to forego colour and chose a very small print size.

Self-publishing is ill-equipped to deal with what amounts to a colour phone book. It seems its best bang for the buck is a text-only paperback, at around 200 pages.

I do understand why Fabian chose Amazon however. I get to sit in my pajamas on my couch, safe in the knowledge that my self-published book is available worldwide for around 10 US dollars with ridiculously cheap shipping. In my case, it meant I found an audience I didn't know would be interested in my book: Germans.
Nearly 50% less tracked flights, even September 11 had not such effect as it was limited to the USA.
It’s not just Windows; directly calling syscalls is a linuxism, discouraged or unsupported on pretty much every other system.
I understand how much bigger the mortality is for this virus, and I understand why we are reacting this way. But how do you argue that deaths from one virus are not equivalent to the other? If it's just numbers, can you specify the number that is OK to let die instead of locking down?
Aha! I wasn't aware of that at all! Thank you!
So code that is in production should have no protection from inadvertent changes because that is worse than no tests at all? Wow. Do you code for a living?
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> So if we assume half the ship caught it, that could cut the numbers in half again.

Actually by a factor of four if we assume that the virus managed to reach everyone it was going to reach on the cruise ship and doesn't spread better on land.

And if only those 712 caught it, that reduces your number by a factor of five. So we are already down from 4.9% to between 0.5% and 0.625-1.25%.
The first sentence should read “personal data”, but you’re right, the copy is not great. To be fair though, you compiled bits of sentences from completely different sections to make it look more contradictory than it is.

To be clear, Citationsy has no tracking and collects as little personal data as possible.

When you cite something we keep your citation data on our servers, of course. You can download all your citation data at any time in various open formats (BibTeX, CSL-JSON, etc).
Thank your serious discussion. I don't deny the official repos , like apt-get, brew. This is an option for developer who can't stand outdate and want to control by self.
Is he referring to the ward-master? Which maybe is more often male?
virus != ill != death. But I get your point.
It might have been better to say, “In the article, they say that this is a microbe that already exists in the wild.”

Your words make you sound rude, though you may not have meant to be.
I mean, I would say that's consistent behaviour compared to other voice assistants I've tried.
'We are going to lose loved ones'
There is substantial comorbidity with ASD and ADHD. ADHD occurs in ~4.4% of the general population, but with ASD that goes up to ~45% (the margin of error is massive on the latter)

Some of the symptoms of ADHD, like RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria), sound very much like ASD traits rather than ADHD traits.

In the future I think we'll find a lot more underlying commonalities of all of these conditions. OCD, GID (gender identity disorder), misophonia, tourettes and more are also strikingly comorbid within ASD.
Named after Alan ?
Yep. 16 bits isn't enough precision for 3D no matter how you use it.

When you get up to 32 or 64 bits, fixed and float are both very good.
> ...the selling point of IINA is a well thought out UI with just enough features but not too many

That's exactly how I would describe the default mpv UI :)
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While this topic is fun, it smells like complete BS to me.

Why? Because the problem of people choosing the wrong tool (not the tool "shepherding" the person into using it) is older than programming [1].

We can do better than to (once again) make up an elaborate way of blaming our tools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
I owned a System One, I had to work picking Apples through the summer to save up enough to buy it. I remember picking through every detail of the system in a way that isn't really possible now. It was basic but I managed to write a few games and a simple interpreted language on it.

I ended up giving it away to somebody on HN after they left mentioned an interest: http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3362
> The library (e.g: libcd, libds) developed by Psygnosis are also well detailed.

kudos to lemmings creators!
> This was a coordinated (dare I say "propaganda") campaign by US and other government officials in order to try to avoid mask shortages[1]. A noble goal, sure -- but the net result is that people are now misinformed about the efficacy of masks.

There's nothing noble about it. This is extremely short-sighted. What is easier to solve, shortage of masks, or shortage of ICU beds and medical personnel?

I would imagine that a face mask is a relatively low-tech good that can be mass-produced at scale. You cannot ramp up production of ICU beds and nurses and doctors. If this is true, then the consequences of this "noble" decision will make Chernobyl blush.
My laptop with Win10 is at 72 days.

I created a bat file with:

net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start= disabled

and then scheduled it to run every 10 minutes. The problem with that is you now have to remember to disable it and check for updates when you have time, which I'm obviously not doing.
Don't assume someone hasn't read the article. It currently exists in the wild but states only that scientists "managed to isolate a bacterium", indicating that it is not abundant and likely not capable of working at a large scale. The obvious question of "what happens when [the industrial version of] this gets out" is a reasonable one that the article doesn't even address.
Like change the trigger word? Looks like you can: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customiz...
Alonside with my colleagues we're working on a collaborative visual storytelling project. We plan to sell the works and donate money to NGOs that fight coronavirus these days in our city.

More on our FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/komiti.media/
Careers advice was a bit dire back then, I remember being told I definitely shouldn't be a programmer and instead should be an actuary. Good job I ignored that advice.
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Haha, love that game, but it gives me high blood pressure ;-).
This is already a step-up from Google Home devices in that you can trust it's not sending audio to Google outside of what you intend to, but I'll be properly excited when the Open-Source speech-to-text component is working[1] and I don't have to send my voice to Google at all.

[1]: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/over...
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Maybe, I've already used another diff engine, WikiWho [1], to do my own implementation of git blame [2] (shameless self-promotion)

[1]: https://github.com/wikiwho/WikiWho

[2]: https://pypi.org/project/git-word-blame/
Interesting. I guess what I was getting at is that I have intimate knowledge with this problem, for the elderly and the same application of what your brother is trying to do.

We wanted to know how they lived, if we could detect and predict anomalies (heart, falling, etc.)

We worked on a similar project: interfaced with a fitness tracker through bluetooth. Wrote the code to decode bluetooth packets and send commands. Put the code in raspberry-pis connected with a 3G modem, auto-updated, auto-paired with devices, with the actor system. Data went through Kafka. The back-end was in Scala. We had alerts. We had an Android app. We had dashboards in Grafana. A lot of thought went data upload schedules and what to send not to max the data plan, etc. The whole shebang, thousands and thousands of commits.

I was actually hired to the company to design and build that product, interface with the hardware to get the data, etc.

We also wanted to detect falling, and thought about several ways to do that. I set to go directly to the accelerometer's data, and tried to study the change in RSSI with respect to several "base stations" on different planes.

Ask me how many people use it?

We will use the code base for other applications that require streaming data from unattended devices that auto-update and come back to life on their own when they fail.
> Universities take an economic profit from this volunteer work

This is untrue in many places. Like, not even close. If anything, everyone else economically benefits off the back of groundbreaking and blue-skies research.
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Thank you, I'm quite aware that it made me sound rude.

I don't think that hypothetical scare-mongering is very useful in this context. Especially not when it risks mis-representing what the article was actually about. Then it just contributes to the kind of information noise you can find many other places on the internet.
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But by that logic all private healthcare providers like in the US are death panels?

The rest of your comment was a wild ride. You're inventing a fictional socialised healthcare system (overwhelmed, hopelessly overbudget and reliant on political connections for treatment) and then declaring that some fictional market is better. But we don't need to invent fictional systems to compare and see whether this is true - both of these exist in reality. And in reality US's "markets" comprise a healthcare system which is infamous for being horrendously unfair, overpriced and corrupt. You are free to pick any developed country to compare to - it won't matter, the ones with better outcomes and lower expenditures will be those with socialised healthcare.
" Yet, in practice, many Perl scripts do XML (and HTML) manipulation with regexes, which is brittle and "wrong" for lack of a better term. This is a clear case of shepherding. Text manipulation in Perl is easy. Importing, calling and using an XML parser is not."

Importing, calling, and using an XML parser is straightforward in Perl. The same for HTML: think about what you want to process, what you want to ignore, and write your callbacks accordingly.
Explains the “playing the straight man” story recently in another thread.
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I had a look at your app and maybe I'm missing it, but I can't really see what it offers over using just notes? Notes is a distraction-free editor, it syncs out of the box and it comes preinstalled on all devices. You don't have to use folders but when you need to, you can, you can use sync from different services (iCloud, Google, Exchange, etc), you can draw in notes, add pictures, and I'm sure there's more. All of this is not to put down your application, I think it looks neat — the point is more so that at the moment I can't see what it offers over what's already available by default. If you want to reach more buyers, it might be a good idea to make your value proposition clearer.
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I recently transferred my collection of MD recordings, but not using NetMD, getting a MD Deck with SPIDF output off ebay for cheap, and feeding the digital signal to a Focusrite Scarlett audio interface. This seems to ignore any copy protection bits. Resold deck for same price afterwards.
The outage itself might not have been caused by anything related to the pandemic, but the resolution is likely being done by engineers adjusting to working from home.
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I like the Firefox bookmarks manager a lot, especially the tags you can apply to a bookmark then search on.

If I get good enough with Lisp, I want to write an importer that takes all the tags from my bookmarks sqlite db, write them into org-mode files with each tagged bookmark listed in the relevant file.
It's this kind of openly biased article that makes people perceive academia as blind to its own failings and ideological dementia.

I'll summarise the article.

Apparently only conservatives stick to deadly beliefs. They're bad because they don't listen to academics (ever, any of them) in order to follow "authoritarian ideology". People blindly follow the words of authority figures, and that's bad because of an example involving Trump and chloroquine.

What about when people blindly follow what academic authorities say? Well, that's totally rational of course because those experts make smart decisions, so don't think or ask questions, just obey:

We all need to be more intellectually humble. We all need to recognize that how certain we feel is irrelevant to how certain we should be. We need to recognize that there are scientists and medical experts out there who have the knowledge and expertise we need to make smart decisions

The lack of self-awareness in this lady is astonishing. She's a psychologist. Psychology has had its credibility utterly trashed by the growing awareness that so much of what they do doesn't replicate and/or contains major errors. The evidence grows all the time that listening to psychologists is a good way to make dumb decisions whilst feeling smart. Yet she says:

As for behavioral and cognitive scientists, we don’t yet know if the tendency to hold onto dubious beliefs can be trained out of people

Indeed we don't. I guess a good place to start would be trying to train her colleagues out of the many, many dubious beliefs that pop psychology and other academic backwaters propagate every day.

In this crisis we see the man who first wrote about the replication crisis once again publicly warning us about the dodgy data and modelling being done by academic 'experts', people who are never held to account for mistaken predictions and thus have no incentive not to constantly give us confident sounding 'expert advice', regardless of their own certainty. Who should we listen to? The article doesn't help answer this.
As far as I know Mycroft does its speech recognition in the cloud, so your voice has to leave your network unfortunately. This is the reason why I don't have a voice assistant yet. There was snips.ai which tried to solve this problem locally but they were acquired by Sonos.

edit: spelling
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> --- My comment is that our goverment officials or those policemans are probably stupid...

Or they thought "better safe than sorry", given that smugglers aren't stupid and you can't just believe it was sent by Red Cross just because the courier says so.

If anything, I'd ask why La Repubblica published a bogus article.
Reminds me of a postmortem of I think it was Carmageddon, some game anyway. In it they mentioned that the programmers were all in Australia, and the management and the rest were in the UK, and that arrangement was just perfect because they'd all be online at the same time.
Yeah Rimworld does pretty well. I wish it had Z-levels, so I could, like, master the technology of "the basement", but in terms of user interface it's pretty good. There are some mods that improve on vanilla's interface, but the default UX is still solid.
I had wondered how this individual was going to make Inkjet printer ink out of highlighter pens. I mean, considering the ink is priced somewhere around the same rate as liquid gold, I figured it was either going to end up being "way too easy" or we'd find out there was some important reason ink was so expensive.

Neither was the result -- that's a Dot Matrix printer. I'd imagine if I'd have turned the volume on, you'd hear the obnoxious sound they make when printing. Still very cool, though.
I'm a logician and the Feynman lectures were incomprehensible when I tried to work through them. I for one am glad to see people pushing students toward more approachable texts.
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Have you talked with your doctor?
I'm reminded of Naseem Taleb's statement that when you measure a table with a ruler, you are also measuring the ruler with the table.
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