skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A method like this was used to determine the age of the Greenland shark, a large shark living in cold waters.

"In 2016, a study based on 28 specimens that ranged from 81 to 502 cm (2.7–16.5 ft) in length determined by radiocarbon dating of crystals within the lens of their eyes, that the oldest of the animals that they sampled, which also was the largest, had lived for 392 ± 120 years and was consequently born between 1504 and 1744"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
I wonder whether HN has heard of "Linear Algebra" by Hoffman and Kunze. I learned from it as an undergraduate and remember it being told that it was a classic. Another more abstract book is by the great Halmos: "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces". Both books will stretch and entertain you.
What's different, I suppose, is that certain types of people have a huge platform in the US via Fox News and the like.

In my country, The Netherlands, for the most part people didn't really seem to take things seriously, even when our PM told us to. All the same kinds of talking points (similar to flu, lots of people die from car accidents, etc.).

And so in the first weekend, with some restrictions already in place and Italy being in deep trouble, we all went to sit in parks and socialize like nothing was wrong.

It was only the week after that things changed. The government didn't suddenly enforce a full-on lockdown, but rather it was a combination of 1) our PM imploring everyone to change their behavior, 2) partial social distancing measures that were noticeable (events cancelled, restaurants closed for anything but take-out/pick-up), and perhaps 3) a sinking-in of how bad things were going elsewhere.

I've been 'immersing' myself in how the media reports things, the political debates and press conferences, and the way my social circles and people on the streets respond, and so far my impression is that there are two crucial factors that have resulted in 'proper' behaviour around here, despite the great weather: First, as it becomes clear that actual things change (limited no. of people in a supermarket, restaurants closed, specific public spaces closed when necessary), people realize it's not just abstract, and 2) while we are an individualist, recalcitrant bunch, we do ultimately have a lot of trust in the expertise of our government (whether justified or not).

I'm very interested to see how things develop in the US, and quite concerned in particular when it comes to 2.

EDIT: I'll add that personally I think at least initially our government was way too laissez-faire about this, and probably more so than many other countries in Europe other than the UK (and Sweden?). Our PM was/is perhaps too torn between taking things seriously and keeping the economy going. Which I suppose is exactly what he should be doing as a center-right politician.
Apache 2.4.43 Released CVE-2020-1927 rewrite, core: Set PCRE_DOTALL flag
That's a neat idea, though not sure if I will have the time.
Sigh. You're 100% correct, that does sound buzzwordy and ridiculous.
Questions. How are you calculating risk? What do the risk scores mean? How accurate are they? What responsibility do you bear if your tool is wrong and someone gets hurt?

I am not saying all this to be a wet blanket, but because these are real ethical and legal issues that must be considered when making claims about healthcare related products. Otherwise I think this is a cool idea and nifty piece of app building.

My personal advice: consider reframing this as something other than a “personal risk calculator”. Either that or add a lot of explanations and disclaimers.
We'll see! I think it takes two people of a willing type to buy into a system like this (people who believe explicit expectations lead to smoother relationships, instead of expecting other people to read their mind). I understand it won't work at all for others.
Very likely kids. I've been seeing tons of links to meetings with passwords being dropped into Discord chats asking for someone to bomb it at a certain time. While certainly there are some sophisticated bombers out there, it seems like there are quite a few who are just classmates wanting to disrupt classes.
“Swedish region” here doesn’t mean “Sweden”, it’s Västra Götaland which is a biggish county, just nestling under the southern tip of Norway. Biggest city is Gothenburg, total county population 1.75 million.
https://outline.com/https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog...

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.dallasnews.com/new...

https://archive.is/https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/...
You can play a similar radiocarbon dating trick with the lenses of greenland sharks. They live to about 390 +/- 120 years old, and are estimated to reach sexual maturity at 150 years old.

A specimen analysed in 2016 was born somewhere between 1500 and 1740.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6300/702.full
Have you tried B J Fogg's tiny habits? It works like a charm and I can see it can help in your situation. I was exactly like what you mentioned, had (still have?) shiny object syndrome but wouldn't stick with one topic for a stretch.
It's not so clear cut. Types are compositional, by definition.

Static analysis needn't be compositional, and so a small change could cause dramatic and unpredictable long-range effects elsewhere in your code. Figuring out what changed or what went wrong can be a nightmare.
My "projects" folder on my PC is scattered with numerous projects that I've started and never finished. These range from games, tools and webpages - written in every language that I found an interest in.

I think you're right in that it's the journey that matters to some, not the destination. As I've gotten older, I feel less pressured to finish these side-projects.

When it comes to actual day-job work. The final 20% of a project is always the hardest for me. As I just want to move onto the next great thing. The last 20% is always the worst part for me (testing, bug fixing, documentation). It's what they pay me for though :)
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For a lot of kids, this is the same as ringing a door bell and running with your friends. Honestly if I were a kid today I wouldn’t be able to resist the urge to troll our remote class meetings with my friends.
Yes, I really like this article, I used it to get going with fbdev before I moved on to XCB, but only skimmed the remainder since it was avoiding libraries completely it was getting a little verbose (although on second thought DRM doesn't look too bad, and also I missed libdrm should probably see how much that can do).

Just realized now revisiting this that the author also showed how to directly implement xclient! the example is rather large confirming my suspicions RE parent comments.
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Beside that reason (true) a mayor roadblock would be that the iOS simulator (the simulated debug device running alongside Xcode on the development host) is a simulator, not an emulator: it runs iOS libraries re-compiled for x64 using the macOS kernel (and the macOS Foundation and Cocoa libraries) support. Porting that on another host OS is probably borderline impossible. Doing something borderline impossible that will increase your support requests just to make people stop using machines you sell is not a good business proposition, I suppose.
I recommend Musical Signal Processing by Curtis Roads (latest edition), it mostly cover every type of sound synthesis in details, it also cover MIDI, spatialization, mixing, filtering and base concepts without much technical / mathematical overhead. Most sound synthesis algorithms can be implemented from the given block diagrams when you get used to read them.
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1) No. I don't imagine there are any reliable statistics available on that, and how could you estimate your dose?

2) Yes, this was taken into account by the study, data from which the algorithm uses.
More recent data strongly suggests that even people with no symptoms at low risk who have been sheltering in place should be wearing masks in public. I read an article over the weekend (which I unfortunately can't find now, although I found some similar ones) that described people on a plane with an infected passenger-- the rate of infection for healthy people wearing masks was literally zero, while those without masks was like 40%. I can't verify this now, but I have turned up a lot of articles describing how the official advice has changed on this.

I have a friend in a mid-size midwestern town in the U.S. whose mayor just put out a bulletin advising that everyone wear masks.
ImageMagick and Tesseract for OCR-ing each page of a PDF into a separate text file (through TIFF image format, disregard the huge TIFFs afterwards), private git repos for hosting, then ag/grep for searching. Not as easy to find the phrase back in PDF as with eg. Google Books, but then GB with copyright related content restrictions is useless most of the time.
> mysql-* a Structured Query Language server named after the original developer's daughter "My" (cf. also mariadb)

Learned something new today... It's crazy to think how we take some of these technologies for granted while never stopping to think about the individual human beings that made it all possible to begin with.

Anyone know of a good podcast or website that does a deep dive into the history of how different computer technologies (esp open source ones) came to be the way they are?
>Eclipse was/is de facto the standard IDE for Java and JavaEE development

Was it really de facto? Didn't it lost to Netbeans? I remember there was some rivalry between Netbeans and Eclipse ( along with many other things ) and in the end many sided with Sun ( Netbeans ).

But that was a really long time ago so my memory may be a little fuzzy.
And that's with a century of research and experience treating serious cases of influenza, and none for Covid-19.

Covid-19 is serious, but the major crisis right now is that it's new, and the medical system is struggling to adapt.
It works fine without JS, which is already far more readable than a lot of other sites.
I have this and it's caused a great deal of stress in my personal life _and_ work life. Basically I get excited by the idea of a new thing or project, but within a week or less I am totally and completed bored by it. There are very few times I've managed to keep continuously working on the same thing for a long time
Most gatcha want about a hour of your time to two hours a day, you can extend that to about 3-5 hours with energy packs which you can stock up on. Most free to play gatcha players also play more than one gatcha game. Personally I play F:GO and Arknights alternating primary depending on if a event is running.
Did I ever hear such claims? Every now and then HN is polluted by AI “solutions” to health issues ranging from curing cancer to killing viruses - suddenly that bubble appears to have violently popped.
Show HN: Scrollable DateTime Picker Built with Svelte.js
I agree!

Try it out, make complaints, make suggestions, etc! Also feel free to make PRs!
Re Android: rclone is in termux's repos.
I got a felony (which was later dropped) pressed against me for something like this. Changed my highschool's website to a rickroll, ended up in cuffs.
Just gotta like my nose in, as a medical professional involved in procuring PPE for my small health chain:

We run into fraud and scammers trying to take advantage of our desperation on a daily basis. Probably about 20% of our supply leads. So, yeah, there’s a definite element of wariness - we don’t just take anything from anyone at random. Lives depend on us sourcing actual equipment, rather than squandering limited resources on falling for a scam. And, you know, not being the FBI, for many of us this falls to a lone harried admin plus-or-minus their boss talking it over and making a gut call before moving on to put out the next fire.
I have to admit, my first impression wasn't positive.

I thought this was an another attempt, after Eclipse Orion, to get that bloated beast into the modern world.
Terrific list. Thanks for putting it together. You might update the AppMaker link. Unsurprisingly, Google has abandoned it, and it will shut down in Jan 2021. https://developers.google.com/appmaker

You might also add Quickbase and Knack to that same section. They are pretty popular.
I'm curious what distinguishes those kids who can vs. can't resist that urge.

I don't mean that judgmentally. I'm just curious if/how various factors (pyschology; impulse control; family environment; etc.) come into play.
Attempting to learn Latin. Duolingo has a surprisingly good Latin module now.
30s: Return of Appeasement
Israel Ministry of Health's Covid-19 Contact Tracing GitHub Repo
Is this why software developers are paid peanuts in Japan?
Looks like the firmware is AGPL but the electronic schematics are under a non-commercial license [1].

[1] http://magicshifter.net/#features
Yes!!! My way out was to not focus on the product, but focus on my personal benefit. I asked myself "what do I want to learn?" not "what do I want to build?".

Recently, I completed a Shopify plugin (https://apps.shopify.com/simple-pages). I wanted to learn more about the platform. I researched it a bit and found a problem that I thought I could solve. Each step along the way (setup, build, approval) was painful. But each time I focused on my personal benefit. For example, when the app got rejected a few times, I convinced myself that I was learning about what Shopify was looking for in plugin vendors. This kept me going until I saw it through to the end.
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"Shiny Happy People" might be more appropriate than it seems. Many consider the song to be an imitation of dystopian propaganda.
I actually almost mentioned the Nokia phones - the Lumia 620 with its exchangeable double-shot rounded plastic backs (and near-perfect form factor in hand, with a 3.8" screen) may be the nicest phone I've ever used, as a pure physical object, despite being among the cheapest. Pity about the screen though - and, some might argue, what appeared on it, at least in terms of apps.

This sort of design for joy rather than for prestige, reassurance, solidity, sensation of quality engineering, etc is what you hope for from Nintendo. They do have a pretty decent track record at it, and their most successful designs in that respect are also some of their biggest hits.
Chinese tourist sites packed after lockdown, but experts say risk still high
Seems you're picking up project idea from your interest. Would it be better if you pick up a project because you deeply feel the pain how it is currently without your solution?
"wealth"
Thats not the same thing at all. You probably violated usc 1030 b-e
The implication of “sucking your resources dry with a massive memory footprint” in the comment your replying to, is that in order to make VS Code fast, it slows down your system in other ways. I don’t know how valid that is, but it’s certainly not “caring why”, it's about the other performance consequences that aren’t VS Code itself running slowly.
Farming or technology for farmers
So how did you do it?
> He had to pay unemployment for all these people, and he had to gear down

Whining about a non-issue. Of course market conditions will change when the time-sensitive crisis is over. Unemployment is "paid" for the period of employment, not when they are laid off. If you don't like laying people off then contract them month-by-month.
It is a trial, with 50% given "chloroquine" (according to the article).

The Danish Medicines Agency has a list of current and upcoming drug studies here: https://laegemiddelstyrelsen.dk/da/nyheder/temaer/ny-coronav...

It has no mention of any chloroquine trials in Denmark, but mentions an upcoming one for azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine:

"A Randomized, Placebo-controlled Double-blinded Trial Evaluating Treatment With Azithromycin and Hydroxychloroquine to Patients With COVID-19 N=226 patients with positive COVID-19 test/diagnosis during the hospitalization randomised to Azithromycin and Hydroxychloroquine or placebo".

It seems more likely that the news article is slightly inaccurate here, rather than the agency's information being outdated, but either is possible.
from a certain perspective, it's hard to talk about currying without talking about sets. "function" itself is defined as a special type of relation between sets. imo, the first paragraph does a good job introducing both the formal and practical meaning of currying to people who have enough background to find the topic useful.

simple wikipedia does take your approach though:

> Currying is a technique used in mathematics and computer science that consists of changing a function that takes several arguments into a number of functions that each take one argument. Mathematicians Moses Schönfinkel and Gottlob Frege laid the groundwork for this technique, which is named after Haskell Brooks Curry. Currying is used in Lambda calculus. Some programming languages, such as ML and Haskell say that functions can only have one argument. [0]

that's actually the entire article. not sure how useful it is, but at least they tried.

[0] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying
So many people blame Trump, when in reality there are 10's of thousands of goverment workers that work tirelessly every day and go unnoticed (good and bad). In regard's to my initial comment, here is a great example of Washington state receiving ventilators from the stock pile, and then sending them back for use elsewhere:

https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/washington-returns-hundreds-of...
Falsely dichotomic analogies are falsely dichotomic
> I know a trained foreign surgeon who switched to law after immigrating because of this red tape.

I had a few of my undergrad bio and chem labs with a Vietnamese doctor who came to the US, I always tried to be in his group whenever possible because he had the most insight into the Industry as a result of his transition.

Apparently, because he was educated and practiced in Vietnam he was forced to have to repeat the entire process to enroll into Medical school. I'm not sure if was on loans or doing it on his own, but he must of have been determined to make it happen, because I'd probably do the same as your colleague if forced to do it all again.

He was an older guy, I was 18 or 19 so anything over 25 was 'old' to me but I think he was in his 30s while we were in our 2nd year courses.

With all of the polemics surrounding COVID19, I think the least we should do is take away the power of the AMA-like Institution to determine how many medical students can be enrolled into any program and make any necessary accommodations to ensure it happens.

Making the current medical staff do the equivalent of an understaffed, under supplied death march has to make reason prevail regardless of our stance.

Private and Public medicine is an issue to come back to, but being short staffed in a pandemic is suicidal--Italy recalling retired medical staff was alarming, but also highlighting that a Public Medical system is not yielding the panacea many suggest, either.

And for anyone asking for a source on the AMA's practices look at his, I remember reading this in 2005 as I was in school, and being schooled and trained as if I wanted to take MCAT because of the looming shortages caused by retiring boomers, even though I had no interest in Medicine:

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-docto...
I’m in the same boat. My hacky workaround is to use syncthing to keep the iCloud directory syncd up with non-Apple devices.
A drop-in replacement for something that barely just finished clinical trials. Ok.

Stop suggesting people buy dangerous drugs from Alibaba. This should be bannable.
I’ve always been amazed by how IKEA are thought of as this highly ethical, sustainable company. Despite making billions revenue in Australia every year, they pay almost zero $ in tax.
I agree. DNS in conversation = K/V mapping pair for routing somewhere. TXT/MX/CNAME/A/WIKI etc. For the sake of this repo and what they're trying to get across this seems fair. I'm confused that I felt compelled to write this though.
I have the same problem.. too many ideas to develop... Shiny new technologies to learn.

What I've done is:

1. Just don't do programming side projects. Currently my side project is making a couple of bookshelves for my house (Google pipe furniture). They are easy to make, require very little tools, my wife loves them... And miss importantly I have something to show for my efforts.
So basically get a hobby not related to programming, where you have to make things, preferentially in service of others.

2. My other side project is a small prototype to create a startup on that. We have been working on that for 6 months (the longest I've worked on anything) the key, for me, has been have a pair programmer. A junior dev that I can mentor, while we work. I even pay him. I advertised it like an internship.
So I'm very committed to that project: pair programming for accountability. Mentoring for social connection. Paying for financial commitment.
Hah this outputs the same results no matter which precondition boxes you tick.
Hospitals don’t generally buy line items. Tiny healthcare centers do. Hospitals get tied into group purchasing organizations (GPOs), which control the supply pipeline to hospitals in exchange for buying at scale.

But that’s beside the point. Almost all disposable medical supplies are cheap in isolation. They build contracts for a whole bunch of supplies, in massive quantities, over time.

Those pennies add up.

Again, operating margins <2%.

Until you’ve internalized what that means, I don’t see a high value in going back and forth.
Do you run the Linux versions of your Jetbrains IDEs using WSL or the native Windows versions? I was setting exactly this up just this past weekend after 10 years of running Linux exclusively and I'm not sure which way to go.
I'll definitely check this out. Looks good also for other purposes.
It's actually working out amazing well, seeing it has barely changed in over 25 years!
This rings as an especially empty threat. Even with account data and IP addresses, it would be costly and time consuming for the police to track down and charge the "zoombombers" - even if all the attackers were part of their jurisdiction.

Their effort would be better spent recommending alternative services or providing guidance for how to configure private Zoom calls.
since I am kinda sold on strapi, I am surprised to not see it in the list. I will check out if frameworks you found are better, see if it is worthy (I have no affiliation in strapi)

edit: one more - quasar, that is vue with lot of wiring already done.