skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great resource, thank you!

Tangentially related, it would be interesting to require book recommendations to always come with anti-recommendations, i.e. which books not to read. Often, I feel like there's a bias towards recommending books, after oneself committed to reading them. If I were asked to list the top 50% of books I've read (without counting), I'd probably list more than 50% of books I read.
I use self made cotton mask to go for groceries. It's garbage - it doesn't fit tightly around the face and most of the air I inhale or exhale goes through the sides unobstructed. Proper masks would be nice but unavailable everywhere and of course washing hands is a must.
Local State Is Harmful
Yes! This is the best interface for checking time zones and I've always wondered why it's not more common.
Having collected so many data points, I wonder how it was used at the time? Clearly it was probably summed to give yearly totals and possibly monthly averages, and so on. But were the same sheets revisited year after year then?
Looks good on mobile but on first load you need to unzoom for the content to fit.
Finally someone posted something factual. Thanks! Reading now.
What is the purpose of static keyword in array parameter of function in C?
Most software on homebrew is compiled from source, so I don't think a different CPU would be a problem for 99% of the packages.

Most packages are "bottled" so they don't need to be compiled on the client machine, but there are already different "bottles" for different OS versions, this could simply be extended for different CPUs.

IMHO just switching to a different CPU is not a valid reason for Apple to restrict installing software outside the app store even more.
The Spanish flu from Kansas.
Can I recommend the tilde irc network?

https://tilde.chat/
Not the whole world speaks your language :-)
Selling in Uncertainty, Run Experiments
As we've heard over and over: "there is limited visibility into how long this will last and impact" ️

I've had the honor of and learning from a handful of early-stage B2B Founders across many whom are 2-3x Founders with more experience than many of us (myself included!)

Here are the thematic learnings/observations from those conversations:

1. ️ New Normal = New Mental Models

You will need to collect evidence and insight from current and prospective customers to inform if your value proposition, distribution strategy, etc. is still relevant.

2. ️ "Do things that don't scale" - Paul Graham

Budgets are tightening and a flood of startups are seeking to capture a piece of the pie

Get creative, show vulnerability, do NOT try and "scale/template" your way through this. This requires a personal touch and case by case decisioning.

3. ️ Educate - VS - Sell

You will spend more time at top-of-funnel as there will be more "suspects " than before.

You will win by going deeper and collecting insights others didn't spend the time understanding. The so called "promise-land" will be different for many from previous month.

There are a lot of buyers/companies out there with net new problems that need solving!

Always open to jump on a Zoom to learn about what you're seeing and sharing more ...

Jen Abel - @jjen_abel
- Co-Founder JJELLYFISH
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Same here, more features and less waste of space than this submission. Even though this submission has more modern design I'd still prefer worldtimebuddy, especially because you can have more people than just two.
One thing you can do is to look at the programs installed by default on Ubuntu Studio. It's a nice way of discovering Linux media apps without having to browse around on the web—most programs you would need are already installed, though limited a bit to save space on the .iso.
finding those capture cards now for hdmi is not cheap anymore :(
Even Google needs humans to keep its services running.
Edit: I have finally created a separate organization for the project now: https://github.com/linux-minidisc/linux-minidisc

Original project creator and co-author of the linux-minidisc project here.

Awesome to see my project on the frontpage of HN, maybe I can use this opportunity to find new contributors to move the project forward as it has been a little dormant due to lack of time.

The upstream repository is currently located on my Github page [1], but I would like to create a separate Github project so that others can easily become maintainers and help review PRs and so on. There are a couple of patches in forked projects which improve the NetMD functionality of "libnetmd" in many ways. However, I would like to create a separate project first before I want to merge any new patches.

For creating a new project, I was thinking for changing the name as the original name "linux-minidisc" is rather misleading as the software isn't Linux-only. It works on any operating system with libusb support and is known to work on Windows and macOS.

Furthermore, I think the GUI transfer application - QHiMDTransfer - needs an overhaul. Luckily, the NetMD and HiMD functionality are in separate libraries, libnetmd and libhimd, so it should even be possible to create a new, more professional GUI application or even write plugins to existing music players like Amarok.

The Python code mentioned in this article are actually no longer in development as it was supposed to be a proof-of-concept only. We used a Google Summer of Projects slot from the VideoLAN project to have a student work on implemeting the full NetMD functionality in the libnetmd which was forked from the original libnetmd.

If anyone is interested in helping project wit the aforementioned tasks and/or joining us, please let me know. This project is the only known software which is actually able to decrypt most of the tracks on NetMD and HiMD (not all though [2]).

> [1] https://github.com/glaubitz/linux-minidisc

> [2] https://wiki.physik.fu-berlin.de/linux-minidisc/doku.php#sta...
And now they don't swap the gear because of this magical software from Palentier? Equipment does now not walk away?
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I remember getting some reference software and methods from NIST maybe 20 years ago on handwriting recognition. Never put it into practice, but maybe they have some updated software available
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I have an outdated and slow i5 CPU in my mid-2014 13" MBP and that still works good enough for most of my C++ compiling tasks. I bet any ARM Mac would run circles around that configuration if performance is similar to or better than current iPad Pros.
I'm telling you that, diagnosis or no diagnosis, I raised two extremely challenging children. I was chronically short of sleep the first seven years of my oldest child's life and I was a full-time homemaker. I didn't also have a paid job.

I'm quite familiar with how crazy making special-needs kids can be. I didn't need a formal diagnosis because I was homeschooling, so I didn't need to justify getting accommodation. I was their teacher. I could decide to just accommodate them, without an IEP.

Some things they did get formally identified:

Gifted

Dysgraphia (in the IEP when they were in school)

A serious medical condition

Eyesight issues

ADHD was ruled out for my oldest.

Probably other things I'm not recalling. It's been a lot of years.

Things I learned about because they seemed relevant to our needs, though I had no official diagnosis:

ASD

Dyscalculia

Face blindness

Sensory issues of various sorts

My younger son, the one I found easy to deal with, was one of the kids that qualified his small kindergarten class for additional part-time help. Another student had a formal diagnosis of ADHD or similar. Another was in a wheelchair, having lost both legs to a serious and life threatening infection when he was younger.

I would visit his class and it was obvious he wasn't like the other kids. He was the only child in the room who couldn't keep his butt in his desk chair.

I hadn't noticed what a hyper and aggravating mess he was until I saw him in a classroom of other five year olds because, at home, he was the (relatively) quiet child that didn't drive me batty.

I don't need a formal diagnosis to say "Yes, I dealt with a child doing things like that all day, every day, like you described."

I also took classes and what not. Dealing with my crazy making children was my full-time job for a lot of years. I took it seriously and did a lot of reading and took classes, etc.
Deskless Ergonomic Work-from-Home Setups
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What do you think?
This is a very heavy test of non optimizable recursion, and (benchmark not published yet) ArkScript is only 2 times slower than JavaScript. It sounds a lot, but please note that I'm actively working on improving those numbers, and I'll add other benchmarks (fast allocations of lists and more) to have a better idea of what the language is capable of in term of speed.
Also, another kind of situations that in other moment could be survivable (heart attack for example) could be deadly because the saturation of the ambulances and health system in general. Those aren’t atribuible to Covid directly, but indirectly are caused by it.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19
Inalienable rights are not without limits, at least within the American system of governance. You have the right to free speech, but you don't have the right to yell "fire" in a crowded theater and endanger others' lives.

Similarly, you have the right of free assembly, but not when it puts others' lives at risk.

And regardless of the legal/moral distinction, I would suggest that these limitations are both legal as well as moral.
Marine species ‘fleeing towards earth’s poles to escape rising sea temperatures’
Deaths are easy to count, but I'm far more interested in what Covid-19 does to survivors. I find reports of permanent lung damage showing up in scans of people who never even noticed an acute illness far more concerning than any single digit death percentage.
Masks may be 100% irrelevant for healthy people, but we have asymptomatic people. There is no way to ascertain who is healthy, ergo "healthy people don't need masks" is practically redundant. What am I missing?

Oh, and you want citations, sorry, my bad:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p... - 30 some citations on masks.
Which experts are saying masks are not effective? From what I read the experts (curiously from countries that did not prepare enough masks for their hospitals) say it is not recommended for the general public to wear a mask. They definitely still recommend nurses, doctors, and sick people to wear one. But they never explicitly say that masks do not reduce transmission. They may have said "there is little evidence to suggest..." which is not the same as masks do not reduce transmission.

The official position for many countries that are containing the virus suggests wearing a mask when out in public. One notable exception is Singapore.

Here is the Korean society of infection FAQ that says wearing a mask can reduce transmission:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ko&tl=en&u=http%3A...
Twitch's community is mostly gamers. There is a critical mass of out of work musicians making content that an online virtual music festival environment could be really compelling right now. This quickly goes down the rabbithole towards "build the metaverse" but the year now is 2020 and the metaverse is slightly overdue.

My roommate Cassandra Lewis is playing today at 7PM Pacific time. https://www.facebook.com/events/1124539067909664/ Our house's twitch account is http://twitch.tv/sueassociates. We play video games with music on in the background and occasionally break into improv jam sessions.
> that's why medical professionals wear them

Of course we know it works for them, because in your own words "coming into contact with a SARS-CoV-2 carrier was low, whereas it's high for medical professionals"

> We know with overwhelming evidence that masks work

Yes they do, for medical professionals. I'm referring to non-medical situations, and I guess I didn't make that clear. I'm trying to understand why... well, I explained in my first post. I'm not looking for opinions but for actual solid evidence. Which someone (not you) actually provided.
I have no idea where this stereotype comes from, but South Korea is known for militant political movement (eg, labor unions, super right-wingers) and religious fanatics:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-south-korea...
Social Distancing to Fight Coronavirus: A Strategy That Is Working
Doesn't seem to work at all for me. Seeing the error below in the console

> You have exceeded your rate-limit for this API. For more information on usage limits and the Google Maps JavaScript API services please see: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
The term for this in the field of human machine interaction is (perceived) affordance, popularized by Norman.

This sounds like less active guidance than nudging or shepherding. Creating affordances is still an active design choice though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

http://johnnyholland.org/2010/04/perceived-affordances-and-d...
Already looking forward to that post-mortem. It might be morbid, but they are often my favorite things to read.
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> It's pretty well established now that Feynman is not a good general approach for introductory physics.

Citation needed.

For people at the Physics Olympiad level, it is hard to find something as eye-opening and insightful as Feynman Lectures on Physics.

For more "general audience", I guess that a more step-by-step is preferred. I know many people (usually not the Olympiad tribe) who preferred Halliday & Resnick.
Perspectives on the Pandemic with Dr. John Ioannidis [video]
I'm glad they do. Compared to AWS this transparancy is a breath of fresh air.

And I'm no Google fan either.
What metrics do you think would be useful? Yes objective rating seems to be more useful no matter the taste of the user
Yes. Please do.
most people still think that the government starts the printing press when they hear money printing...
It is their right to run their business as they see fit, and it is our right to not use them. It is the deception we do not allow (any more) with GDPR.
Still use my Minidisc almost daily. I prefer older equipment, but boy they're both getting expensive to get discs and tapes. Check out platinum md for a sonicstage replacement
I guess the number of comments here reflect how many people are using Google Cloud - apparently not much?
KYBO is a common acronym in Scouting.

"Keep Your Bowels Open"

Whether Bouells is a typo or pun I don't know.
I don't see how is selling a service different then selling a product ? If clients want it => pay for it.

The real point that privacy advocates REFUSE to talk about is that FREE service wins over 99% market share over PAID service. So people does not want to pay for Facebook (greed) and Facebook does not want to make people pay (market share first in Silicon Valley mindset).

Well money for its thousand engineers has to be found ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Now that the actors have collectively chosen the combo free services in exchange for private data, a small minority wants free service in exchange of nothing. How does it work, Freemium, government subsidies ?
Looks like a cool project! I have a box of old mini discs (and a Sony player) in the basement that I've been wondering what to do with. I would love to give the project a try and get them converted for digital archival.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus
Mortality rate has also shown to be highly dependent on comorbidity which varies country to country. Presumably a county where residents have easy, affordable access to health care will be healthier on average and have fewer comorbidity concerns that will lead to death from Covid19. Just speculating but perhaps this is one of the things going on in Germany? Germany has a much lower Covid19 mortality rate than other countries.
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PM Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus
I like the concept and I particularly like the way I feel nim shepherds me:

* I very rarely need to come up with a name for a function or other identifier. The correct name can be reused for multiple use cases thanks to the type system and prox overloading.
* to spend a little time designing the interface before jumping in the code
* but also to think what I really need to accomplish and get to it instead of building a grandiose architecture
* to have consistent apis
* to steer away from OOP
* to rely on minimal dependencies and to be kind of minimal in general
* to use the correct tool for the problem (macro are not easy to write and that’s good otherwise you will abuse them. Instead they are great to use)
* to build main table code
* ...

I would be interested in what other nimmers think are the good shepherding.

One might also think of what is bad shepherding of nim, although nothing comes to mind at the moment.
Thanks, I've updated my original post.
that's a job. go pay someone for their work.
“If it was me, and I had four patients, and they all need intubation, and I only had one ventilator, I would simply have a shared discussion meeting with all four families and say, ‘I can pick one to live, or we can try to have all four live.’”
That approach is almost guaranteed to introduce bugs into complex systems. It’s fine if you’re doing something directly useful at the same time, but just be aware of the risks.

Though that dependent on what you mean by legacy. If nobody’s touched it in 5+ years it might very well be unchained when the system is completely replaced with something else. It’s well worth adding tests if something is or will be in active development.
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Right, we should listen to specialists, unless they contradict the mass panic.. It really is hopeless.
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Globals are not inherently evil, but "shared, mutable state" is, basically if any part of the code is able to scribble over any global at any time.

If your globals are constants, or the globals are only visible inside a single compilation unit where it's easy to keep the situation "contained", they are perfectly fine.
Widespread testing depends on infrastructure being in place, it's not something that appears simply by willing it.
Small libraries are an accountability nightmare. Reducing the number of dependencies on a core library is very important.
The haskell situation sounds like generally a good thing but I am not sure I would like it very much if this also applies to logging.... It does not sound like great fun to have to change the signature of a function when it needs to log something and then change it again if it no longer needs to.
UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19
I am not so sure I would say that.

If Germany is not reporting a death if a person has high blood pressure, then I think theirs are under. The death rate from numbers I had seen were like 10x more fatal if you have some other issue.

IMHO Italy is more accurate, because it could be said that the deaths would not have occurred, yet, without Covid.

Other explanation, per an email from a German relative: Germany is probably the only country in the EU where following the WHO recommendation of 1m distancing will bring people closer together'
Europe and the US even had more time, there is no excuse. It was clear from the day one how to or not to act. Europe and the US did not act at all in the beginning until it was to late to check each single case.
If you don't mind the performance penalty, then just use Mutex<HashMap>. You don't have to use this.

Rust isn't about completely eliminating all unsafe code. It never has been. It has always been about building safe abstractions with auditable unsafe internal parts.
You may want to double check that. Base MacBook Airs comes with 256gb
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I don't really see a problem with this, Palantir make a datastore and set of tools that are really good for geographic and operational datasets.

Doesn't really have much to do with the tools application in the US, and really, isnt it for the US to decide if what its government is doing is acceptable/ethical?

Otherwise, the tool is just a tool, not inherantly evil.
This sorted it for me.

https://superuser.com/questions/1113290/windows-10-replacing...
I think the original article should have a better title. The root issue was not in the reporting but that some of the companies involved honestly thought that it was OK to base their security all or in part on the security of wireless providers.
Readable yes. I don't feel it is writable. Discovery only happens when you read what someone else did or you guess unless you read over the entire docs related to $thing. It is a major reason I dislike Ruby as these things are encouraged. In testing, it is even worse.

Made up DSL: Expect(myFunc).WithParams(4).To().BeCalled(1).Returns(8).InUnder(2). Milliseconds().WithEspilon(30).Microseconds().

You have to be fully familiar with a custom DSL to write this kind of test. I prefer Go's principal of "tests are just code." It is more verbose to write, but no custom DSL to learn. The more verbose code is often not harder to read either as it is the same code style as the application too.
Pointing out flaws in research is good science. That Oxford CEBM page is frankly amateurish work.

The same question could go for you, why do you only listen to specialists that are contrarian outliers?
Effect of strategies to reduce social mixing on outcomes of Covid pandemic
This is not good enough security position for a package manager.
Unfortunately memes arent educational enough to see the their slaveship. A good meme I like is the measure of money when they compared the size of a million to billion to trillions and they show from a huge block to a City of piles of cash. The problem is that it doesn't go far enough to chart the social ladder and the difference between these ladder.
If you look at the data here [1] (desktop edition because the mobile edition doesn't have drill down), you can see that all countries (including Asian) are following the same pattern in the "daily increase" graph (click a country on the left to see its data). The only outliers are China and South Korea (flatline), and Japan (flattened curve).

So while masks may have some effect, it hasn't been enough to give different graphs to Asian nations in general.

[1] https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...
Thanks! I removed the viewport tag. That should get it loading in an un-zoomed state.
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Google Cloud was the least reliable major cloud provider in the last 2 years. May be they are too busy killing their other services, so they don't have time for other least important things like cloud.
I recall `Nullable<Foo>` is equally valid c# if we want a verbose syntax.
Sounds a bit like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVxXbTk-zsQ&feature=youtu.be... Das Boot U-96
In depth rundown, suggestions broken out by budget level. Good info.
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