skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> So in the end you come up with so many approaches to express similar structures.

Expressiveness and flexibility are good so that you can define configuration to meet the needs of the system or application you are building.

XML Schema, Relax NG, etc. can be used to specify how the XML configuration should be structured, limits on data types, required versus optional configuration items.

As I said before, XML gets a lot of flack for being verbose, ugly, and complicated, but it is mature, widely-supported, and might be worth considering depending on your needs.
Yep, that is what I'm describing.

One of the reasons it took me 10 years to be so opinionated about it is because I didn't want to believe this was the case. For a very long time I believed that if I thought I would want to do something, then I would go on and do it. But apparently that's not the case.

But I did notice if I observe myself and hook into it, then achieving my goals works quite a bit better. It's not perfect, but good enough.
Supposing for a second that you're right, you still need the average upvoter/downvoter to be able to tell the difference between the opinions of world-class experts and convincing but baseless speculation for the whole system not to become a misinformation machine.

And even if you have that, there's always a risk that someone out there reads the most dangerously stupid comments and interpret them as gospel no matter how downvoted.
> You're wrong. "Bad PR" has not worked at all to encourage the healthcare industry to fix medical billing on its own. See this article for an example:

Huh?

The question I answered was about "people who are literally passed out and bleeding out on stretchers to price shop"

I agree that medical billing is a corrupt disaster.
This could be said about any time, any disease, or well... anything ever on internet. I for one am glad folks share their opinions here, if one can't distinguish between speculations, opinions and facts then problem lies elsewhere.

I too have my wife a doctor, and I was shocked how little and behind-the-curve their covid infection information is. Most specialist doctors here treated covid in 'what the heck are people worried about, just another flu, right' fashion till maybe 2 weeks ago. Mind you, we talk about Switzerland here with northern italy 50-100km from here, and experts in their (non-virology) fields like urology surgeon, nephrologist, radiologist, emergency doctor(!) and so on.

For once, thank you internet and (also) HN users!
I want to try switching to Theia from code-server, since it seems to offer a more polished web experience.

Unfortunately, I heavily rely on the VscodeVim extension, which doesn't work in Theia because it hasn't implemented some commands like "editorScroll" yet.
We had previously been divesting in this type of vaccine research for years, so I remain optimistic now that we are actually trying we'll get better results.
> This is fundamentally a logistics project. Plus, they have access to Medtronic engineers, and as long as the FDA approve the devices, I have no problem with it.

Indeed, they just need to fly the devices, and parts for final assembly from the Medtronic factories in China.

In the current situation, it makes zero sense to spin new assembly lines when old ones are situated in the world's biggest manufacturing supercluster, and can be realistically scaled tenfold if they commit to that.

What I read going round Chinese BBSes now is that Medtronic's "factory" in Ireland is just doing a screwdriver assembly from Chinese parts, and all that just to do the infamous "Double Irish" manoeuvre
I don't have advice but am looking for some along a similar vain. I've made lots of projects in the past but now not so much and my fiction is that I'm super jaded by which I mean since I have lots of experience I know all the things I want to do are relatively huge projects and it's unrealistic to even start and further even if I was to finish it's unlikely to be successful. Not that every project has to be successful but I can't see investing 1-3 years into it if I don't actually believe it it's likely to do well.

For a small project 1 - 5 days I there's no issue. Though often when I'm finished I look back and think, "If I had spent that time working on something that had more of a future then I'd also have more of a future". Success buys freedom so when I don't pursue something with a future I have only myself to blame for having to go back and "work for the man".

So, how do I get over that jadedness and as Shia Labeouf would say "Just Do It!"
Types are Science. Static types are theoretical science. Dynamic types are empirical science.
pretty true. I was shopping on the e-store for some stuff to play with my wife and was surprised seeing all the games for full price. Fuckin narcs.
How would that be done if the individual hasn't provided direct deposit information?
Last week I was attempting to sync a directory from a public S3 bucket using rclone (which is an awesome tool). I was surprised that apparently there's no way to do this without using AWS credentials (even though it's public). We ended up moving that dataset to Google drive, but even there you have to go through an oauth flow, even for public data.

Is anyone aware of a way to sync a remote directory to a local filesystem without authenticating, either with S3/drive or another cloud storage provider (and using rclone or another CLI tool)?
It's such a shame that failing to test on Firefox became acceptable in dev communities right around the time that Quantum happened and Firefox got back into the fight. Just a year of acceleration on Quantum's timeline, or a year of slippage in Chrome's, could have made such a difference.
The information we need is:

1. Percentage of patients who needed ventilation, got ventilation in good time, and recovered vs died.

2. Percentage of patients who needed ventilation, didn't get ventilation due to lack of resources, recovered vs died.

Then we'll know how much ventilators are helping.

I understand that prior to this pandemic, typical survival rates for patients who required invasive ventilation was in the region of 30%. 70% die even with ventilation.

I've also heard that of Covid-19 patients that require ventilation, 80% die even with ventilation. So it has a slightly lower survival rate than other illnesses.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24229526

> Both masks significantly reduced the number of microorganisms expelled by volunteers, although the surgical mask was 3 times more effective in blocking transmission than the homemade mask.

Stopping droplets entirely isn't as critical as slowing them down. That's why the homemade masks still require the six foot social distancing.
Procedural car on a procedural copper chain floating amongst procedural galaxies
That's only because all of these alternatives want to benefit from the free labor Google is putting into Chrome. If Microsoft wanted to, they could actually fork the entire project but then they would need to divert a lot of manpower to the effort.
Runtime Polymorphism with std:variant and std:visit
The title of this video should change with the times [video]
If you are interested in cpu being utilised, should lower graphics setings from ultra. On ultra GPU is the main bottleneck. Try same on Low settings
My conjecture that consciousness is made of events is an attempt to explain why we see ‘the problem of time’. There are more widely accepted concepts around the subject, like the idea that all moments in time exists equally, not just now. Now is a slice through the cosmos that really exists. I have had thoughts about how relativistic effects work with that, but I honestly think I went far enough. I leave that to others to think about or scoff at.
Are you me from the future? I could have posted this exact same comment and have it been true for my 10 and 4 year olds. And while I admit I may be suffering from nostalgia, but I have super great memories of playing SNES in my parents can on trips.

I do most of my non-kid time gaming on my pc, but I think the Switch is a great console.
>any amount of fact checking in politics don't change political views.

That is what I was thinking.

Paul is writing as if credibility stems from reality. When in reality, the reverse its true. Fox news is credible, its viewers believe that, and whatever those credible people say, is reality. As long as people keep tuned in only to Fox News, that reality wont shatter. Their credibility exists because of their reach, its strength in numbers, its entertainment factor. Calling Fox News news and not entertainment is quite a leap. Most of what they have to say exists to keep people hooked, not to educate them into being more capable of performing civic duties. Fox News wants people to vote in a way that benefits Fox News, not the voter, and the same principal applies to all their coverage of everything. Coronavirus skeptic was a contrarian position to take, it divided their people from other people. Now that they are divided, they can switch sides and still maintain the artificial divide, and keep their viewers isolated from "alternate" realities.

This was a really good article by Kara Swisher of ReCode, who at the end finally convinces her mom to heed medical warnings about being out and about, cant convince her to turn off Fox.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/opinion/coronavirus-fox-n...

They can flip a 180 overnight, and the viewers will see it as people with "updated information" and continue to cheer them on.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-stars-sean-hannity-an...

There is the sad irony too, that the demographic who watches Fox news is already the most likely to be at risk (age, faith over evidence, distrusting of established medicine and government) denial not withstanding. Add denial to the mix, and youve got a real bad stew.
We may not all be equal in the eyes of coronavirus
Censoring comment sections on HN just because one moron in a million might take it upon themselves to do something stupid and get themselves killed?

Have you heard of the expression "the cure is worse than the disease"? It applies as much to what you and cowpig are proposing as it does to what that man chose to do.
Io_uring By Example: cat, cp and a web server with io_uring
> If you are no longer interested in a project you started, maybe you already got what you came for

This line alone got me to go buy the book.

As someone who's constantly churning through ideas, and who feels afflicted by ADHD just enough to worry about it but not quite enough to actually think I have it, I've found myself abandoning a bunch of projects when at a 'mostly done' state. Generally, I tackle the interesting parts of a project, and once I've gotten the proof of concept working (whether it's a visual PoC or technical PoC) and the only parts left to do are the boring user registration / billing parts, that's when I lose interest.

I've watched my prototypes languish, and over the years I've seen other people execute them after I have and go on to great success, and have decided to make peace with the knowledge that I'm probably not the guy that would have devised a strong marketing plan, beat doors down or cold-called for sales, etc., but a part of me laments that I didn't bother finishing them at the time so as to at least act as social proof to point to and say "I did that first," even acknowledging the pointlessness of it.

Thanks so much for the recommendation.
So, I'll take a different tack: Are you interested in finishing projects or are you interested in learning new things? Because those goals aren't exactly 100% aligned.

It sounds like your motivation is more about learning new things. If that's the case, lots of small, half-baked projects can definitely be educational.

You're also mentioning projects that take significant ramp-up time before they might start to get a life of their own.

So, that being said, I have a couple of book recommendations:

If what you want to do is learn software development in a growing way, I highly recommend Mastering Software Technique: https://software-technique.com/. It's all about using bursts of time to learn new things as fast as you can. For your situation, it sounds close to what you've been practicing, with just a tiny bit more process.

If what you want to do is actually build something on the side for people other than yourself (which is _not_ a requirement for learning useful things), then I recommend https://jessicaabel.com/growing-gills/.

For me, I've embraced the non-essential nature of my side projects. I've had quite a few over the years, some large, some small. Being able to put one on the back-burner and come back it later has been very handy. Most of my sideprojects these days are ones I can get to "done" in a day or two, and I have a couple longer-running ones that I pick at off and on. My motivation for a particular project varies, some are meant to scratch a _very_ specific itch:

- https://github.com/yumaikas/dirx was basically done in a late night and a morning
- https://idea.junglecoder.com/view/idea/274 I've done 3 times, first in bash, then in Go (in a rather late night, to scratch an itch), and then again in Nim (to learn Nim, and compare it against Go).

Some projects I have are a lot longer running. Both PISC <https://pisc.junglecoder.com> (now on indefinite hiatus) and Tabula Scripta <https://github.com/yumaikas/tabulaScripta> have run a lot longer than my typical project. One quality of both is that they have work at quite a few different levels of detail. Am I tired of parsing work? I can work on prototyping a game in PISC. Do I want to make the performance dramatically better for my artificial Fibonacci benchmark? Great time to break out the Go profiler. Do I want to make it way easier to concatenate strings in a stack-based language? Maybe today I figure out how to write an evalbot. (These are _all_ things I did in PISC at different times).

Tabula Scripta is still early days, I haven't had the time to use it for that sort of experimentation, but it will have a similarly broad set of applications and problems to solve.

And, like other people have said, it definitely helps to do you side projects in a different IDE/Language than your work. And if learning is a big motivator, keeping your projects smaller, or making them the sort of things that's easier to break into smaller parts can be very helpful.
I am not surprised in the slightest. One of the worst company on this planet.

This is outrageous:

NSO declined to sell Pegasus to Facebook, but it still built and launched Onavo without Pegasus as a spyware tool in early 2018 under the misleading pretense of being a VPN app.
s/Anymore/Temporarily
>Sub groups without losing the context of the full group.

Different 'rooms'? You could keep the video tiles for all people on screen organized by room, then the individual chooses which one to join for audio. You could include a push-to-talk 'announce' button to send your audio to all rooms in addition to the normal open mic in the room you belong to at that time.

I picture a mosaic of webcam feeds that have border lines drawn to indicate group members.
Thanks! Still a hacker. Mainly JS, React, Rails, and Flutter these days. :)
"Convert to PDF online' is rife with privacy and confidentiality issues, especially regarding this kind of information.

I have used such sites to convert say, a PDF data table to an Excel file. I would never use it for anything involving business or personal information.
That is the HN-equivalent of the same thing. I've heard multiple doctors tell me their worst patients are the smartest ones, because they're used to thinking for themselves and then make dangerous modifications to their advice without understanding all of the reasoning and context behind it (which they cannot explain in a sitting).
I stand corrected (for those following, the second link above is by Dennis Ritchie himself).
> In 18 months or less there will very likely have a vaccine

I see this repeated endlessly but I can't track down where it came from. Do you have a source?
I think that's overly simplistic. At least where I live people usually buy one house (if they buy one) and keep it for the rest of their lives, so the size is already determined by the amount of things they own, or how much space they need. Just that I've never seen this as a factor, you usually buy what you can afford, not as large as needed to fit your stuff. Stuff just happens to amass and even a small house can be unimaginably full of things without looking like it's full. When my parents sold their house we filled up 2 vans just with tools from the shed. yes, it was a big shed, but it wasn't cramped.
Seems to only be Amazon EU.
Will they be tracking Amazon after this is all over? The blog post is ambiguous about if this is a temporary or permanent change.
It's normal, just count the comments on this post. You have learned a lot on this "never finished" projects. Thats nice. Sometime along this road jou find the right project and make it work. Keep the projects (or parts of it) small, make a working mock-up fast and keep expanding it. I just finished a project I started 10 years ago and havent worked on it for several years. That feels really good.
Yes. $500 doesn't go very far if you're feeding two teenagers and want to have food variety. Spices are expensive and the price of vegetables goes by the season. That's why I think they should have a supplied commodity benefit in addition to the money.
find a customer for your side project. even if it is one customer, even if she is a friend of yours.

getting a feedback from your early customer will be more than enough to keep you motivated
A lot of that has to do with being able to run at high sustained clock frequencies by designing in an adequate thermal solution. Phones just don’t have the space to allow for that, so games have to be designed around throttled performance.
> We don't really have that for programming, but it's not like we shouldn't try.

We do in the form of abstract interpretation and various other global static analyses. Unfortunately, these analyses are non-compositional, where small code changes can lead to dramatic and unpredictable long-range effects in the properties of your code. Finite-element analysis has similar non-compositional properties.

A type system is a compositional form of static analysis, and composition obviously has considerable reuse and cost reduction benefits, which is probably why most programming doesn't use static analysis tools beyond type systems.
That's pretty glib - its just testing that's increasing? Geometrically? With scarcity of test resources in the news daily?

Look at the worldwide data, then at the data for pretty much every country: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

Its geometric growth pretty much any place you look. Now, unless testing were proceeding completely uniformly across the board, its hard to imagine that explains any of this.
thank you very much (to you and to all others who replied). i went with an electric guitar as it will allow me to play during the night, without bothering neighbours. when i will get better i would love an acoustic, especially for flamenco.
Misty has the prototypical physique of a modern dancer but prefers the classical repertoire. Hopefully one day the two will merge and leave en pointe behind as a curious relic...
IRR contains data - question is can you trust it? RIPE has cleaned up their stuff, sure, but the rest of the IRRs out there haven't. Next question is which IRR once you get past the RIRs? AltDB? There's a few out there. Lots of crap objects and proxy registration, that said there are a lot more things in IRR than ROAs out there.

I do agree with you that routing vendors have made this difficult to easily ingest prefix list data for easy import into inbound filters. There have been NANOG presos from last decade showing the performance hit when you try to do this at scale. It is much easier to enable RPKI OV than it is to build a robust IRR filtering system.
Yeah, this. I'll add:

Keep a todo-list/journal sort of thing and document each work item as you complete it.

I'm working on a stupid side project myself and every day I hit a new hurdle, something I don't know, so (almost) every day is a tiny victory over some immediate problem.

Make a plan, sure, but break it down into tiny pieces, even if you have to keep lowering the bar.
Superstition Is a Curse
Anyone hiring interns? Only saw a couple of companies.
WayScript is great for this. I can use low-code to set up instant Cron, API event triggering (like a Slack/Discord message, Salesforce updated, etc.), or HTTP requests. Then I can mix this with writing code in python w third party libraries.
I don't really get the hate for tweets.

> Probably won't be able to read the tweet in the future when it gets deleted, no real context or other information in the tweet.
I find the tweet helpful. I didn't know about BGPmon, for instance.

Screenshots, on the other hand... They're not accessible, and they don't provide easy links back to the author, nor access to the tweet's reply context. I find all of those valuable.
I don’t think I would describe Breath of the Wild as average, but it probably falls under my top 10 most times I consider such a list. I could probably get to 15 games I find better, all of which are older than BotW. I’ll list some of you really are interested.
I have always felt I have not really understood things from the bottom up in terms of CS- like how do we really get from bits to software? I have been building Ben Eater's 6502 computer, which has been mostly enjoyable (cutting/stripping wires and getting them into the exact right small little hole is tedious at best, hurts my back at worst).

I have also been reading Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum- though a quite old edition from the early 200s- wondering if its worth putting on hold until I can get my hands on a newer edition.

Next up, I'd like to do Ben Eater's 8 bit computer as well as nand2tetris.
Nobody earns a billion dollars; the only way to get that kind of money is to pay a whole lot of people significantly less than the economic value of their labor. The internet economy has just made it easier to abstract away ethical problems such that you don't recognize them as hugely problematic when you're making them.

With the current system, we're reliant on the whims of a couple of billionaires. Some are relatively benevolent, but far more are on the level of the Kochs, Larry Ellison or the Sacklers. Business schools have taught the "fiduciary duty" doctrine for a long time, which is basically "maximize profit above all else, or we'll find someone else who will".
At the beginning of this, Musk said that he didn't feel like new companies (including his) could get production going in meaningful quantities by the time that they would be required. I see nothing from Tesla that indicates that has changed, and I think that largely agrees with the point that you are making.

Your last point is important, I think. Notably, Tesla & SpaceX have been working with Medtronic to provide solenoids that are apparently a bottleneck in Medtronic's production process. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that others are also working on supplies for existing production lines to help with more rapidly ramping production. I think this is more likely to be useful.
Lots of things are translated entirely by deep translation systems with some light post-editing in the wild.
Show HN: App to help customers skip queues at stores(COVID-19)
America can barely test everyone who wants a test, I don't see mass anti-body testing with certificates being handed out.
In the 24th Century.... https://abstrusegoose.com/323
I'm getting an error 1020 following that URL.

"This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks."
China has banned exports of medical supplies.

Edit: Trusting them to supply medical components seems like a huge risk at this point.
I wonder what would be necessary to get this in Jaeger