skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introduction to Writing Genetic Algorithms
> Ah you're one of those "how do they keep getting away with making more Mario games?" people.

no, i'm not. that's not what i'm talking about at all. what i'm talking about are poor features within their games, which are typically centered around the online and multiplayer aspects but also others as well. for example, the new animal crossing: new horizons is chock-full of these types of things. their games are indeed fun but they can also contain extremely frustrating elements. nintendo's fanbase is even more rabid than the likes of apple, and so frustrating elements get washed out, so to speak, in the community.

and as you point out, these games undergo long development cycles. it's generally unacceptable that they don't take care of these issues or add on more to their games.
I'm not sure the author knows vaccines exist... In 18 months or less there will very likely have a vaccine, of course it will impact NYC, but it's not this mad max scenario.

Legit don't know how some people can get published in big websites such as this with such garbage content.
negative I surely am, but if I had to place a bet about sweeping worldwide changes in pandemic mitigations, I know which side id bet on. this is not negativity for its own sake, we have a clearly demonstrated pattern of behavior. hows that climate change mitigation coming?

you say a century like its prehistoric - that's barely more than 1 person ago.

EDIT: to further prove my point, you didn't respond to the part of my post where I said we clearly saw this coming in 2019. it exactly disproves your point - we DID see national lockdowns, we just didn't care.
There are ACE-2 receptors all over the heart.
Was reverse causation considered? Those with some heart damage are more likely to be tested and hospitalized for COVID-19?
The idea that viruses always grow exponentially until they reach total saturation of the population comes from mathematical models that have never successfully modelled any real epidemic, ever. It doesn't come from experience of real diseases in nature, many of which were predicted by epidemiologists to grow to enormous proportions and yet - even in the absence of control measures - that isn't what happens.

It seems there are a ton of people right now who are enjoying thinking of themselves as intellectually and even morally superior to people who are just pointing out facts about the statistics gathered so far (which point to flu-like levels of danger and properties). I think the HN community is especially prone to this because it's full of computer programmers who are used to thinking in powers of two; some seem tempted to ascribe near-magical wisdom to this familiarity. But nature isn't a computer and just saying "exponential growth" over and over will eventually make fools of a lot of people, because it isn't there.

If this virus was really spreading exponentially, you'd expect to see the proportion of positive tests going up exponentially as well. But that isn't what is seen. In places that report the total number of tests administered (some places don't), the proportion of positive tests increases sub-exponentially or even hardly at all, coming to rest at about 15%, which is roughly the background level of coronavirus infections in the population during normal times.

It's especially disappointing to see PG fall into the trap of blaming politicians. Politicians have in the blink of an eye ceded power to a tiny cabal of (primarily) epidemiologists. So far they by and large aren't asking questions, instead simply doing whatever they're told even if it makes little sense.

But we really need people to start asking those scientists difficult questions. Citizens can do it but ultimately it only matters when politicians do it. Epidemiologists have a track record of absolute failure. They failed with Zika, they failed with foot and mouth disease, they're failing with CV. Go look at the models they produce and weep; some are invalidated the day they're published!

This guy is doing a good job of pointing out the many errors of modellers:

https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson

There's also some background here:

https://blog.plan99.net/is-epidemiology-useful-a4ec54e59569
I would have thought most developers would absolutely jump at the chance to work on something as core as a browser! Having Chrome or Safari on your resume seems like it'd be golden.
Key quote: "Zoombombers have exposed themselves to schoolchildren and shouted racial slurs."

Kinda knocks down the "hacker kids having harmless fun" image in my book.
Any chance you've written about this side project and the areas you learned about and how to figured those things out?
Perhaps they'd all been watching Dr. Drew, who is apparently trying to use the DMCA to remove this[0] compilation of him downplaying the Coronavirus.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKlJlQadZtE
Whatever it is has to be super easy to use.

Source: Father of two teenagers struggling with getting them acclimated to online school right now.
Thanks for showing me OpenVSX, I am now really invested in checking out Theia! Going to be a real game changer for me if I can self-host this, will try it out in Docker ASAP.
Wikipedia’s analytics say it’s the 5. most used desktop browser:

https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop...
First impressions: Built for mobile, but not good on desktop. Might not be a concern for you since most visitors are on mobile nowadays(?) but good god, everything is so big I had to resize my browser to phone size.

I like how I can specify what appliances I have. It'd be nice to know what's assumed (that everyone has a frying pan) -- I don't have a wok, does that mean it excludes all dishes that require frying?
I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it.

For general purpose Google account integration convinience grip is yet overweights their constant effort to ruin UI and extensions. Also Edge App Store still lacks uMatrix, but already has uBlock Origin.
I'm really interested/worried about what the transit situation will be like post-COVID. New York is one of the few cities in the US where public transit use cuts across class lines to a major extent, but it's also the place where we come into close contact with hundreds of strangers on a daily basis. I just don't see us going back to that in a heartbeat.

I'm really hopeful that the city takes this opportunity to build proper infrastructure for people to bike around safely. There just isn't room for everyone to start driving a car.
Why would schools need to export video feeds?
I see. So what happens when the contract ends? Can they not apply for unemployment? And if they do, will it still not affect the business's premiums?
What projects are you working on?
Florida, Nevada may be hit hardest by coronavirus economic shock
I just love the environment in the video! It looks like they're all in college experimenting! Loving the rowdy shirts and leather jackets!
To compare placebo vs nothing (i.e. no placebo), you don't need the double-blind requirement. Because the group receiving nothing is not receiving the placebo, and thus does not (and should not) benefit from any illusion of having being treated.
It's so many things.

- We just moved, so I'd rather be unpacking and organizing our stuff.

- I'm sitting at my home PC, where I normally work on fun projects that I care about, or play games, etc. There are two projects I am itching to do right now that I could be doing at my computer, but instead, I'm reading work emails.

- I am admittedly a bit burnout from my actual job right now.

- Three cats who want to climb all over me and my computer desk all day, and a dog who wants to play and go outside all provide excellent distractions.
I'm interested in this too. In the video, they said they're attempting to make this using as many car parts as possible, to prevent themselves from taking supply away from other ventilator manufacturers. That's a noble goal, as well as it helps them leverage their existing supply chain.
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He's reliant on cheap flexible accommodation. I'd say pricey AirBnb apartments without any tenant protections are kind of the opposite. And one could reason that he only needed to book through AirBnb because all of the apartments were taken off the market by AirBnb hosts.

That said, I have also rented from AirBnb for 1+ months on a few occasions. But I chose to do so mostly because I couldn't find regular apartments in that city.

Still, I have met a few hosts who truly acted like I'm staying with them, not renting a service from them. But that was a long time ago when AirBnb was still new and a niche thing that early adopters were playing with for fun, rather than money.
What if... Not finishing things was the norm?

All of us in the same boat act as if there is something wrong with us such that we can't finish things.

If you layed out every one of the data points on developers side projects, what would the aggregate say?

Would it say that 80% finish their projects through to completion and there are this 20% who just can't ever seem to?

Or, would it say the opposite? That people who actually have completed projects are somewhat rare?

I'd be interested to see. My gut tells me finishing things isn't normal. The economics of it seem to be tilted in the favor of starting and strongly against finishing.
That sounds obvious but goes completely unnoticed, and it's very smart.
A good part of what keeps me motivated to work on something is believing in the solution. This line gets a little blurry when it comes to games, but the only way for me to mitigate that is to make games I would play.
Could you share a demo link where you are not forced to signup?
> I personally use Edge almost daily for their awesome in-browser TTS and reading-mode feature. I inspire you to try it.

Why should I use Edge for that, instead of Firefox (which also has TTS in its reader-mode)?
This was my source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00984-8
No one is going to win a lawsuit over a classroom video.
Nope, the error was when I did submit the form, and it only was something like "Error. Try again later".
Medicine is super-bad about not being able to tell a symptom from a disease. A lot of "diseases" are just symptoms with Latin names and a set of empirical remedies.

Psychology in particular seems to have come to the conclusion that if you can name an assortment of 4 out of 10 symptoms, that counts as having identified single disease.

I think part of the problem is that we're so good at applying various techniques that no one bothers to think anymore.
I don't care for portable gaming, but Nintendo's portables since the Gameboy Advance have had libraries in many respects better than any contemporary console. Some portion of their success is surely because of the library, and despite their portability (though, yes, many value the portability, I'm sure). I don't know how the controls would work but I'd love something like the Playstation TV (a stripped-down Vita that plugs into a TV and uses Playstation 3 or 4 controllers) for the GBA-3DS libraries (yeah I know about the add-on for the gamecube but that's just the GBA, plugging in non-HDMI devices is getting increasingly inconvenient, and Gamecube-era hardware's starting to get pretty janky)
So it is also Electron based IDE just like VSC? What is the point in making VCS copy then?
Probably this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774057
Tesla is working with Medtronic (per Medtronic's CEO on CNBC Mar 25th) to rapidly iterate on their designs.
No one has hacked their installer.
Clearer Signs Emerge That the Coronavirus Outbreak Is Losing Momentum
Happy to help! Thanks.
It looks as if some Firefox users bailed to try out the new Edge since the update? Chrome usage remained mostly constant.

I'm curious to see if they stick with it, or switch back to Firefox. I like how the article talks as if it was some sort of inevitable milestone we've all been waiting for. And now, instantly, the second that Edge finally eek-ed past Firefox (if we consider desktop usage only), it will never change. It will just keep climbing and climbing onto browser dominance :)

Pretty lame article if you ask me. Not very interesting.
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surf...

Among the speculation is that a blood transfusion may be a viable treatment.
iiuc, the dichotomy "programming language vs. type system" doesn't hold for type-theoretic programming. E.g., languages based on System F (like Haskell) are based on a programming language that is inherently typed.
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
Im learning Scheme/Racket. I started from HTDP and moving on from there, so far I am loving it, havent been this excited in a while. I am also ramping up on F# and the community is growing and quite nice. I recommend Scott Wlaschin’s Domain Modleling in F# and his website fsharpforfunandprofit.

I am learning Latin and Spanish on Duolingo but thats more at the hobby level, about 10 min a day.
Please elucidate these "risks", because they are far from clear.
I think the main reason is because rural areas have surplus housing stock but don't have similar surpluses in other resources such as supermarkets, internet connectivity, hospitals, pharmacies etc.

One family has no impact but millions of people all moving from cities into the countryside will cause harm.
I wonder if the patients get too much hydroxychloroquine. It can couse heart failures.
Not a doctor, but I did a crash course in ventilators recently and it has the main features - inspiration/expiration pressure, volume, rate, oxygen %.

UK gov also put out a document with the MVP for a ventilator, and the Tesla one looks like it will cover most of the therapeutic features.

The one thing I would worry about is software bugs in such a rushed project.
This is a classic case of false equivalence. The door trespassing thing seems like a clear straw man. Where is that logical fallacies infographic when you need it.
we are seeing a lot more dead in heavily affected regions. and there is no statistics about why they died... Personally I think this is quite worrying with a lot of people now thinking we put masks on and then can go back to work. If this is indeed having serious side effects, we need to eradicate this. Meaning total lockdown except absolute necessities (e.g. ask: will people die of physical reasons if this service is out for a week) worldwide, implemented yesterday.
This looks promising. They're being smart to use their own supply chain as much as possible, but obviously things will get interesting when it comes to getting clearance to deploy the device. Even if the design can't be used in it's entirety, they may be able to fill part of the supply chain for other manufacturers.

One complaint - everyone keeps touching their damned masks. Keep your booger picker away from your face.
I feel this comment. I always have multiple stacks of physical drawings and notes for different projects that I'm working on but don't always finish.

However, the best thing about all of these unfinished projects is it gets easier and easier to learn different things. Even when my interests don't have overlap they seem to add value to each other.
Show HN: Virtual Adventures (Lessons) for Children
'Medicine' being a stand-in for 'diagnosis'? Because medical research is all about underlying causes these days. Maybe 50 years ago it was just a corpus of traditional cures. But those days are gone.
Guide for applying for SBA PPP small business relief (Covid)
Also another moral to the story: if there’s enough people that didn’t prepare they will get bailed out somehow. So why bother preparing?
I like this:

https://github.com/niklasso/minisat

It is a great example of academic code which is used in research but is also pedagogical. If all C++ was like that I don't think anybody would have a problem with C++!
> Are you high?

Really now? That's uncalled for.

> You are not seriously equating some trolling and digital damage with the violation of a human body, are you?

I am not equating digital trespass with rape. However I am comparing that victim blaming has been used to deflect both, and in the rape, victim blaming is finally rejected as any sort of valid response.

> Obviously if there are serious consequences there needs to be a deterrant, but this is some trolling on the internet, not rape.

That makes trolling sound awfully close to "locker-room talk".

> We are "victim blaming" people for severe neglect all the time. Look at Facebook and other services if user data is stolen. It's called neglect or do you say "oh the hacker shouldn't have stolen the data, not Facebook's fault".

You use the word "neglect". Keep in mind that neglect of a dependent is a crime (indiana https://www.in.gov/meth/files/IC_35-46-1-4_Neglect_of_a_Depe... ). And that definition of neglect doesn't match up with yours in much of any ways. However it is neglect of a dependent if school admins allow sex crimes to happen against public school students in their stead....

And FB is its own problem. Please stop trying to move goalposts.
You just made me spit out my coffee, thanks!
Zoom is easy to use which is super important for kids doing remote schooling, it's security flaws are minor in the schooling context (and worst can be mitigated by having teachers admin the calls).
It is valid for me as well, but I have heard of certification errors from people I have sent it to. We have the SSL certificate and we are using https. Any suggestions on how we would go about fixing this?
If you were given one of the projects for your job, you'd complete it (and slog through the boring parts) because you wouldn't have a choice. Maybe a "project manager" (real person or virtual like a blog) to keep you accountable/on track would help. That won't stop the urges to chase "the next shiny", but will make resisting them a bit easier.

(I say this as someone with a hundred project folders, so I should follow my own advice. I will say when given a deadline to produce something, I deliver, warts and all.)
I genuinely enjoyed Other M. I've always preferred the third-person platformer style for the franchise (Super Metroid is still the best installment in the series) and I thought Other M was faithful to this heritage while adding some more modern twists.
"Gun rights" are totally bogus.

Let's enumerate rights: "Life." Okay. "Liberty." Gotcha. "Pursuit of happiness." Yep. "Private property." Might need some asterisks on that one, but sure. "Carry a weapon around in case I might need to murder another human being very quickly." ???

It's been this incredible PR campaign based around the fact that people are illiterate and don't know what "bear arms" means (jargon for "serve in a militia"[1].)

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=43559
Jitsi is not an example of a peer-to-peer system for group calls. The default UI doesn't expose that many configuration options for this sadly from what I've heard.
175+ Remote Jobs from companies hiring in April 2020[Public Spreadsheet]
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Here's a list of 175+ remote jobs from companies hiring in April 2020.

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Came here to say this basically. If a project only has surface level interest, I'll never finish it. The only projects I've ever finished are ones that I found that would be legitimately useful for me or other people. It has to solve a problem that, like you said, is meaningful.
I can't see Sony getting back into portables after seeing how they let the Vita wither on the vine and die. It was a very powerful system for its time and did decently faithful renditions of games running on consoles of the time. It is really too bad: the Vita is great. I just bought one a short while back now that it has been hacked wide open. With an affordable SDCard & adapter in place of Sony's proprietary and expensive memory cards, the Vita is an emulation powerhouse on top of all the original content made for it.

Nintendo's portable efforts have been honed since the Gameboy. The content really helps sell those handhelds and keeps people glued to them. Games like Animal Crossing ("Gotta play every day or I get weeds in my town!") or Pokemon ("Gotta get 'em all.") are like crack. And a lot of their other content is simply top notch.
Saudi's tech investments pay off in coronavirus battle (CIO)
Thanks! We are using Mapbox GL JS and Chart.js
I've found keeping a spreadsheet of a lot of tasks and how they're related helps. So say you have 3 projects, all with varying types of task. I would make the spreadsheet as follows:

Due Date, Goal Date, Project (or class if student), Assignment, Status.

Due date is definitively when I need to achieve it by (this can be artificial if you want). The goal date can change as my day/week gets hectic so I adjust according to the miscellaneous things that are impossible to account for. Project is like the Grouping of all tasks below it. Then the tasks are the incremental things that need to be done in order for the entire goal to come to fruition. Status tells me if it's completed, partly, or not.

This has helped me because if I'm feeling very committal one day, I can just crush a lot of stuff out. Then I can go "Well looks like I have a week before I have to get that done" so then I can freely budget fun time. It keeps me on track and helps me with balancing pleasure and work.

I've recently started tracking my hours too. It's weird but I think it helps with showing you how much you screw around when you work from home.
Well, unless you're going to live in a tent, there's not a lot of surplus housing out here in the country. Certainly not 1% what it would take to take in refugees from populous cities.
Uber connects out-of-work U.S. ride-hail drivers to delivery, production jobs
Ask HN: Manager listening to my calls, dropping references in open meetings
Hello Hacker News,

I wanted to share a situation I am in and ask for help or advice. I suspect there isn't much hope for me other than "get a new job ASAP."

My company has gone through some changes and a new executive was brought in to oversee my group.

This person's style is highly unusual, they do not do "open discussions." They never ask for anyone's opinion or advice. They seem to be intent on dictating everything. When they run a meeting, they do not let anyone discuss the topic. The meetings are highly controlled.

Things went from merely low-level intolerable to "wtf" recently for me when this manager began including specific words and phrases I had said to others in his weekly presentations.

It would be easy to assume this is accidental or maybe he overheard these phrases somehow from others. But after multiple iterations of this, I have become convinced he is somehow listening in to my conversations using the company communications app.

I feel he is taking this approach to cover for his lack of skills or qualifications, probably a fear driven strategy to preserve his job. He knows I am significantly more skilled than him so he seems to be dealing with that my trying to use indirect public shaming to control me.

I feel he is highly threatened by me. Despite repeated attempts to get 1:1 meetings with him (he moves them all or cancels them or schedules over them) to have a normal human conversation, he does not want to talk directly.

I am highly alarmed and feel invaded by what this guy seems to be doing. Is this common? I am so against this and find the practice completely repugnant. I would never do anything like this to my direct reports.

I need this job, but this environment is incredibly sick and off-putting. What do I do?
Won't happen. We can't go in lockdown for 2 or three years..
How do you know what teachers do in this case?

How often are teachers starting the zoom calls as admins so they have total control over them and can easily disable zoom bombers?

How do we know this is happening more than once every million zoom calls?