skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give an example of why an economy using bitcoin would be negative sum? If I'm producing widgets and transacting in crypto, value (widgets) are created, the transaction medium seems irrelevant to me.

I don't actually think switching exclusively to a deflationary currency is a good idea, but I don't buy that it creates a situation where value can only be destroyed..
Building a guitar! It's my first attempt at building an instrument. It's going well so far, mostly using threads from TDPRI as guidance and a body template from there as well. I opted to buy a neck from Warmoth since building a neck seemed especially intimidating and requires more special tools. Today I finished soldering the electronics, bolted the neck on, strung it up and it actually works! Now to take it apart and work on the finish... lots of sanding ahead.

(I'm pretty sure it's uncommon to put the whole thing together before finishing, and then take it all apart again, including the electronics... but I wanted to know nothing would be terribly wrong before I spend hours more on finishing!)

TDPRI's Tele Home Depot is a great source of info- https://www.tdpri.com/forums/tele-home-depot.46/

My own build thread: https://www.tdpri.com/threads/first-build.1011061/
Note that some cancers kill you very fast and other kill you in a very long time, so you have a chance of die from another cause.

If the study in a small group proves that the miracle drug is ineffective and moreover it reduces the life expectancy to 1/2, then by not giving it to everyone avoid the nasty effect of reducing the life expectancy of a lot of people.

Take a look at some "miracle" cures of cancer of the past, like https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-rise-and-fa...

Also, since a few years in Prostate Cancer the recommendation is not to treat all cases after detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer#Management
OP does address this near the end of the post.
From the BBC's mission statement: to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate* and entertain.*

From the CBC's mandate: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as the national public broadcaster, should provide radio and television services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens* and entertains*

From PBS's mission statement: PBS is a membership organization that, in partnership with its member stations, serves the American public with programming and services of the highest quality, using media to educate, inspire, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives. PBS empowers individuals to achieve their potential and strengthen the social, democratic, and cultural health of the U.S.

You'll find that kind of language repeated for most public broadcasters. The corruption of those ideals by private enterprise in the name of profit should not come as a surprise.
And I will observe, once again, that all that means nothing without best practice and discipline.
I'm learning how to make a game engine.

I initially was following along with Handmade Hero a series that I have been going back to frequently over the past few years.

https://handmadehero.org

The series is great but I wanted something more guided so I am eyeing purchasing Game Coding Complete. It teaches the internals of a game engine and uses DirectX for rendering.

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Fourth-McShaffry...

Because deliveries are on lock down in my country the book will have to wait.

So right now I have gone through SDL tutorials (there was a recent update to the LazyFoo SDL tutorial) and am currently finishing OpenGL.

http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php
https://learnopengl.com/

Finally, I've been checking out repositories of open source game engines and poking around their codes. interesting ones are below:

Godot - Probably a lot of people already know about this one

https://github.com/godotengine/godot

Pyxel - A fantasy game engine similar to Pico8 written in Python, uses SDL

https://github.com/kitao/pyxel

Wicked Engine - Haven't poked around much with this yet but the screenshots looks gorgeous

https://github.com/turanszkij/WickedEngine/blob/master/READM...

Finally here's the video that got me interested in game engines. I saw this years ago but saw it again recently while researching. It's a 2.5d game engine that makes great use of lighting while combining 2d sprites and 3d models.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6ISVaM5Ww

Here's a second video that shows off a winter weather which boggled my mind when I first saw it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtYvNEmmHXE#

Sorry for the dump, was excited to share these.
That's a really fair point, but I suspect for the moment at least the dead or very seriously ill are all being tested. Most deaths are happening in hospitals, for the moment.

My father, for example, is currently in the hospital for something other than Covid-19 but as soon as he got a mild fever he was rushed into isolation and given the tests for it. (He does not recommend the up-the-nose test at all.)
Maybe it did, but I didn’t learn about it for quite some time. I just learned to work around it.

Swift is a deep river. I still learn new stuff every day, and I write Swift, seven days a week.
I cannot blame him one bit, and as a small business, he cant absorb the losses from having to scale back either.

I sincerely hope the lasting change from this crisis is a changing attitude towards where we build things.
Loved this book, it's amazing work. It's already been helpful to me when implementing a toy language, even without working through the book (which I still intend to do).
I’ve never worked in a large company where I would be doing everything from front end, middle tier, databases, CI/CD design, creating cloud networking infrastructure, dealing with vendors, designing operations, and talking with customers in the course of a month. This was me last month. Admittedly front end design is a major weakness of mine even though I do know JS well.
Not an extra 90 cents per mask, an extra 8 cents per mask.

“His masks may cost a dime each, but a made-in-China mask might go for two cents.”

A hospital charged my friend $5k for three stitches. They could pay 8 cents more per mask. But they care more about $$$ than the long term health of the country.

And I’m not even making a moral statement with that. It’s the natural consequence of making health care a capitalist endeavor. There are other approaches.
I'm porting Rodrigo Pombo's wonderful Build your own React[1] code to Clojure(script). It really helps understand what's going on under the hood. The goal is to replace a half-assed React-like implementation I currently have with something that works much better.

[1] https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/
Production engineering (I'm an IT guy, mostly retired and dabbling in real estate, also a Tesla fan, I suppose).

Manufacturing is fascinating and I'd love to own a small factory at some point, profitable or not!
This is actually a feature in Go, but you leave off the "true" condition entirely: https://tour.golang.org/flowcontrol/11

I quite like it, as it cuts down on the amount of brace and if/else if noise.
My current gig is using Scylla for storing time series data, we're partitioning by day and anywhere from 5-15 million rows per day.

We've mostly been using Apache Beam/Cloud Dataflow for working wtih the data en mass for occasional reports, and we're planning on trying Presto soon as well. I'm interested in what solution you come up with, happy to chat more about this kind of thing on twitter or email.
Your project looks really cool, I'll take a look at your repo, I'm sure I can learn a lot from it.

I am gladd you like my idea, there's a few good platforms to play shogi already, like 81dojo on the web and shogiwars on mobile, but none of them are open source. So I wanna do an open source version similar to lichess.
There has been a lot of discussions politically around that overall, the covid merely but harshely exposing the medical aspect. It's a space to keep an eye on after this pendimic, I wouldn't be so pessimistic about it.
Near Future of Programming Languages (2017) [pdf]
> it is guaranteed to be free of type errors provided the type system is sound

Give me an example of a sound type system.
May I ask, what a (real) use case for airtable would be?

When I saw 1200/5000 rows per "base" I was searching for the "k" (x1000) but they seem to be serious.

I don't see a real advantage for example to g suite(maybe only that it is not google) :)?

But maybe I just don't see the point...thx for clarification
https://catch.social

We've been building this ;) will launch soon.
Yep! A recurring hobby of mine is writing about a not particularly deep universe I was fond of in my teenage years. World-building my own canon so to speak.
Except for UI - which I avoid like the plague - this describes me. UI is the easiest thing to outsource or get temporary contract labor or a boot camp grad to design to spec.
The current COVID scene has given me a new sense of what I want to be learning, and I'm using the enthusiasm to pick up a few things that have been on my bucket list for a while now:

I'm learning:

- Spanish with Duolingo

Visited Spain last year for a few weeks. Loved the people, the culture and the food. And really really wanted to pick up a new language.

- Music production/mixing with Ableton Live

This has been something I've wanted to play with for a very long time, and thankfully there are so many resources on the internet to get started. Music has always been a constant part of my life, and production is basically coding with notes and sounds! :)

- Just started getting my beak wet with investing in the stock market

I've always been skeptical of investing my $$$ in the stock market, more so being the first generation in my family earning enough to afford (what my parents would call) "luxuries". But I want to be more invested (literally and figuratively) in making my money work for me. Thankfully, have built up more savings than I need for years and given the stock market scene right now, it feels like the right time to dip my feet in for the long term.

I dunno how much of this will last over the next few months, especially once we start going back to office to work (I'm a person who LOVES going to office even though we have unlimited WFH), but one can hope! :)
Thank you for the book, I'll take a look at it.
Django. I'm building a side project to help learn it. I've been wanting to spend more time on side projects and now seems like a good opportunity to dive into them.
I’ve been looking for a good real world project that uses Clojure to learn. I’ve only written basic backend services with it but love it.
As parent noted, these species probably weren't friends.
That's good tip to know! Thanks!

Wonder if you have /usr/bin/command - well gotta try it! :)
Reading SICP[0] while taking the original MIT 6.001 course online[1]. I'm hoping to develop a DSL for certain applications in government and law someday.

[0] The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
The Red Herring Sale
There's no such thing as "herd immunity" in the sense we've popularized until you have a vaccine. Until then, it's throwing uncooked pasta against the wall and not understanding why it doesn't stick.
If I were hiring for a startup. I would avoid someone who worked at Google. I would want someone who is wide not deep and could handle the stress and juggling that is part of a small company.

Google seems to have more “smart people” (tm) who don’t “get things done”.
You can’t create a Discord account without doxxing yourself. Signups not from an IP that discloses your location demand a dozen captchas and a telephone number. Using a burner number is not supported, and your carrier number is reversible to name/address/location just as your IP is.

more info: https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-c...
Someone making $11 is better off than someone making $0 an hour. They also have a path toward higher earrings, where a person that is unemployed does not.

I'm arguing that enacting policies that force people into a life where it is impossible to find employment is a bad thing.
I would say that there is a common misunderstanding of:

A) the viability initial drug discovery and subsequent development costs, and

B) The time value of money.

For A) success rates of 5000:1 are not uncommon. Discovery is at the very beginning of this process [1],which can take 12–15 years and cost in excess of $1 billion [2]

B) A 1 to 5 billion dollar return on a 300 million acquisition is likely a loosing proposition for most pharma companies due to risk and the time value of money. If you have a 300m acquisition, 700m additional dev costs, a 50% time discount, and a 50% chance of success, you are already up to 4 billion in revenue needed to break even. This article [3] provides a balanced overview of the finical aspect and is written by a scientist trying to give away a cure for his terminal wife.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_to_lead
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3058157/
[3] http://www.cureffi.org/2019/04/29/financial-modeling-in-rare...
What a great thread! To add to the list of tools other already mentioned, we are building https://wasp-lang.dev/ - it is a language that aims to be dev-friendly and compiles to React/Node.
We are still pre-Alpha but would love to get your feedback.
Black Hat Go is a good one
Maybe it could also let you specify "old person hours" at your nearby stores?
And does it let you specify a thing you're looking for? (like 151 proof alcohol)

I think the best way to get this off the ground is to pick 1 community and really push it there, to try out how useful it can be. Then use that one as an example.
Nestle poisons entire cities and has killed thousands of babies.

Name anyone who died from a single thing 90s Microsoft did.

The modern tech giants take actions every day that are far more anti competitive than anything Microsoft ever did.
Agreed! Dark has been great to build on and powers all of my side projects.
> Not an extra 90 cents per mask, an extra 8 cents per mask.

We're suggesting the hospital giving him 1 dollar per mask instead of 10 cents during the crisis, that's an extra 90. 98 cents compared to the Chinese prices.

I guess my proposal makes it a bit less. With the 10 year contract, assuming that the demand spike only exists in the first year, it would be an extra 90 cents - savings of (9 years * 2 cents / year) = 72 cents per mask. This could be "fixed" by extending that contract for a few more years.
When this is all over, we’ll have a lot of unemployed workers and a devastated service sector. It will represent an opportunity to rebuild an industrial base.

During the Second World War the US not only managed economic autarky, but we had enough agricultural and industrial capacity left over to feed, arm, and equip much of the free world. We lost that through complacency and the past 40-50 years have been a series of escalating kicks in the teeth. Maybe this will be enough for things to change.
I'd probably fall more under designer than developer, but I love Webflow: https://webflow.com/

Our marketing website cycles have gotten so much shorter with Webflow. Even though it's just replacing HTML/CSS/JS for marketing sites, the direct design and publish access in a way that's intuitive and reliable saves us time directly on the marketing site (0 dev time now) and frees up dev to focus on more interesting things. We've gone from design -> develop -> commit/publish, to design + publish in one nice tool.
Learning a lot about CTFs and pentesting, most through tryhackme.com
Highly recommend it
We laugh now, but I remember reading that iis on windows nt blew the doors of Apache in the late 90s/early 00s.

I'd love to find the source as I can't find it right now, bit I thought that was bc Apache could only fork back then, etc
CMIIW, but I believe most of those projects were started with a relatively small (and reasonable) scope.
Why can't N95 mask production be completely automated so production can quickly scale with demand while also keeping costs down?
That's exactly the type of loophole abuse that a judge would be likely to strike down.
Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes?
I made a list a few weeks ago:

1. Finish my ml research project
2. Learn rust
3. Start a blog
4. Learn Lin alg and stats
5. Go through all of the deep learning book (goodfellow et al.)
6. Start working with GANs or RL

from: https://twitter.com/stormtroper1721/status/12421529408627220...

Other than that, I'm working on building my own Numpy-like array lib in Rust. I'd be glad to chat about it if anyone's interested
This busy-ness info doesn't show up when I use google maps on my phone, though. Even when it is in desktop display.
Sad story, but if he had kept the employees and built a stockpile at a loss, he'd quickly recover those past losses and score a huge profit now. So: believe in your product and mission, pandemics do happen.

A solution for the future would be be high import taxes for products of "national interest".
The author's previous book Game Programming Patterns is 1000x better than the Gang of Four book.

Really looking forward to going through this.
We are building a React/Node code generator in Haskell
I used to hate leetcode with passion because i associated it with being a failure in career.

I started leetcoding just for enjoyment and not for landing a FAANG job, when i had no interviews coming up. I started enjoying it a little bit and now i do it for "fun" and don't have an anatagonist realationship to it.

Like someone said, once you overcome something you have keep overcoming it, so you can never be successful if your strategy is overcoming.
Trying to learn Flutter!

I started learning Android but a lot of people shared their experience and it just doesn't seem worth it going all in on Android, especially considering that for most of my projects "native" experience is not a must (i.e. social app for sharing book opinions (i.e. a Goodreads which doesn't suck).

I am also impressed by the data, Flutter and Dart a growing incredibly, and I would like to be riding the early waves.

If anyone has any ideas, tips or experiences, please do share!
TP has a roman alphabet, that is what the blog post was written in.
What language is that? It's not C, because it wouldn't compile.
I am learning music production through a course on monthly.com, by Andrew Huang. I'm learning a lot of cool tricks and have made a lot of progress in my music production skills so far.

It is challenging though as I am creating my music on a Synthstrom Deluge instead of a typical DAW. Most of the concepts so far (1 week in) are still applicable although it requires a bit of creativity to apply certain concepts.
Show HN: Airbnb Listing Scraper (photos optionally)
I don't have a button on the left side, just volume up, stop / start, volume down on the right. Perhaps we're talking about different iterations of the QC35?
I wish the Q2 mod Gloom had the same longevity :( last I heard there were just a couple dozen people still playing, mostly in Europe.
I just built my first mechanical keyboard which I wanted to do for years but never jumped shipped - The soldering scared me.
It was easier and more fun than expected!

I also just bought a house and am looking into putting drywall in the garage.
Hi! I know someone who could help with the business side of things. If you’re interested my email is in my about page. Best of luck either way!
There are lots of photos in this thread for the stone: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1234186085200207872?s...

We're making semi raised beds up the hill: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1246544902193909769?s...

With house compost and composted manure from a local farmer. The lower garden is mostly no till with added compost. We're not really sure what we're doing! So I can't really give advice.

I usually document what I'm working on on Twitter as a micro blog
> especially when the bug isn’t mine and I’m not in too much of a rush.

Worry-free debugging. That's the life. Also, it's always great to be the one handing out the dunce cap rather than the one wearing it.
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I speak/read toki pona and am still trying to figure out this keyboard.
Sure. Firefox doesn't work with acceptable universality first and foremost, I'd never use Firefox to take an online test at University for example because the one in a million chance it has a hiccup isn't worth the risk when using Chrome or Edge is riskless. The way that situation arise may not be Mozilla's fault but it doesn't change the reality. There are ways to make Firefox more reliable in terms of hiccups on websites but we're past the point of asking users to do extra work being acceptable if they're not your employee.

Perhaps relatedly, Firefox's features for syncing across devices are unappealing because there aren't terribly many Mozilla products that I care about whereas most people have a Gmail and many also have Microsoft accounts. I can't imagine the circumstance that would lead me to have a Mozilla account already and so it's just one more thing to have to think about in an ecosystem where I have other options.

Extension support is stronger in Firefox but most users aren't heavy extension users and if they are it's probably an adblocker. Ad-blocking is a lot less special now since most of the competing browser's have acceptable adblock options whereas once upon a time Firefox was the only choice if you wanted a not awful internet experience.

Edge pays you to use it, Brave does this too but have yet to see the growth of Edge yet I feel it's worth acknowledging because this might just be the cost of trying to genuinely compete with Chrome. Chrome doesn't pay but it has little reason to since it's Chrome.

Finally, Firefox's mobile browser is terrible. Chrome is similarly terrible in terms of UI but Edge and Brave are light-years ahead in terms of having a layout suitable for a mobile device. It's worth noting this might change in the future since Firefox Lite and Firefox Focus both have much better UIs for mobile than the flagship mobile browser but until the flagship catches up those are just novelties for alternate markets.

I'm sure Firefox is still the 'ethical' browser and it runs fine for non-critical web usage, but the market is past that being enough to make a web browser stand out in the mainstream. Nobody wants to manage two web browsers when they could make due with one and so it makes the most sense to just use the critical task browser for eveything. Related to this, most people don't have the extreme outlook on browser ethics that the privacy movement does and so Firefox doesn't offer them anything in that regard anyway. It flies on hacker news to handwave this part as a matter of normies just not knowing better (informed consent arguments) but the reality is that no one has made a convincing argument for demonstrating how all of this is actually damaging the mainstream users and the topics are old enough that there's been plenty of time to come up with persuasive arguments

Summarized, Firefox's strengths are things that mainly appeal to particular ideologies. For people who don't share those ideologies it doesn't offer anything over the other browsers and I've seen little that suggests Firefox will be able to overcome this hurdle since its identity these days is built on being the private/ethical browser.
Sorry, I'm a bit new to GraphQL. Can you explain why this is more existing than starting a brand new product using plain PostgreSQL?

Can you also explain how locked in you are, if you decide you want to migrate away from Hasura, or in general want more flexibility that the use-case of Hasura + ForestryAdmin?