skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can find me at https://www.janmeppe.com/

I wrote one blog post about regex for noobs which hit the HN frontpage: https://www.janmeppe.com/blog/regex-for-noobs/

My latest post is on a leetcode problem: https://www.janmeppe.com/blog/Leetcode-378/

I write mainly for my own learning... In all honesty I write a lot, but publish very little. I fear what others think of my writing, I know this is very much an irrational fear but I still feel it. I've been writing more and am trying to overcome this fear.
> So does this mean that JS does satisfy the principle of least astonishment for an experienced c-coder

No, this means don't use weird ambiguous syntax even if it is legal in the language.
Covid-19 Report on ICU Outcome of 2561 patients in the UK
Such a wonderfully simple device! I always wanted one of those. Do they still work/can they still access the internet?
> It would have to be a link aggregator like HN that either has an army of editors, a disciplined community that flags invalid posts, or a technical way to filter for personal blogs.

Oh boy, do I have a blog post for you (and anyone who wants to build such a thing)!

(Sadly it's on Medium, but still...)

https://medium.com/@soatok/defeating-coordinated-inauthentic...
Can you use it as an i dividual or bussinesses only?
Doesn't Sony use clang? My understanding was LLVM does a better job at optimisation than MSVC.
I’ve been wanting to ask this a differential geometer - what do you think of Sussman and Wisdom’s book as a DE intro for an CS/applied math person? Thanks!

https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Differential-Geometry-MIT-...
That's an interesting problem. Aside from HN, I frequent TechMeme alot for the more news-y side of tech. They have a leaderboard section [1], that has all of the biggest tech publications ranked. That could be a good starting filter?

[1]:https://www.techmeme.com/lb
As soon as an email thread has turned into a discussion/back-and-forth and there are more than two participants you have already lost. The forum was then wrong to begin with. When you have at most 2 people communicating or at most 2 replies, then there is no chronology to the email. If an email thread starts having more than 3 replices or more than 2 active participants then abandon it, and move to a proper mode of group communictation (forum, chat, voice, ...).

The reason so many people in specific tech circles are mad about top posting I think is because specific tech circles still do text based mailing lists as a form of persistent group communication.
Or companies could stop using binding arbitration and allow class action lawsuits.
If they had actually delivered the Time 2 I think the smartwatch space would have looked very different at this time. I miss Pebble.
Thank you, the filtering is the issue, and as you I haven't found a way to filter all big sites.

The filters I'm using are :

- the same user who post too often

- domain too frequent

- a list of blacklist words in the title

- a list of blacklisted domains

I already filter about 80% of links I would say (which is few enough to go through the list every day, about 200 posts)

About the HN meta data, I don't think it is a good idea to keep the upvotes, because this is exactly where the issue is, if you see a post with low upvotes people tend to not read it, doesn't mean it is not interesting, and for the comments same for not displaying the number, but you can still access the hn comment page by clicking on 'hn link'
I’m assuming the HN rules ban linking to spam and malware, so why is this malware (or more specifically spyware) allowed when it literally redirects you through a malicious link forcing you to provide consent (which is in violation of the GDPR) and probably collect a bunch of data considering the URL is named “collectIdentifiers”?

For anyone replying with "you can just bypass it or block it", that isn't my point. We know how to do that but the majority out there will just accept the privacy invasion because they have no choice. My argument is that we should be blocking nasty behaviour to force sites to change if they want to keep HN's readership.
I sometimes blog at www.nicassio.it/daniele/blog and you probably shouldn't read it. It's just a collection of mostly little side projects.
I think it's more a sort of message ID than its content.
Mine is: https://blog.eldruin.com
I write mostly about device drivers I write in Rust for use in embedded.
Gmail is why, right? It's not because of any feature of top posting or bottom posting, it's because a generation of nerds grew up using Gmail. (It also mangles threading headers, or did the last time I had the misfortune of long threads with Gmail users.)
Sure, you don't have to do any of those things, but you'll be seriously disadvantaged if you don't because the games are designed around these mechanics. Maybe it's exaggerated, but on the other hand, as a fan of both Doom and Doom 2016 it seems your response downplays the difference these mechanics and using them to your advantage makes, and I agree with GP that these are substantial differences that fundamentally make the games play differently.

Not in a bad way (well, mostly. I still loathe the weapon/armor/character upgrade part of the game). There's no real mowing or herding like in the more intense levels of Doom and Doom II, but instead we get really intense fights that are cool in a different sense.
Estimates are 38,000 for 2019 in vehicle related deaths, this does not include all the others who suffered injuries at any scale. However the virus won't reduce this by the number it is likely to take, I am sure someone could work it out

epidemics should be measured against the death rate from all causes across a year. However immediate numbers are much more newsworthy and allow political interest to drive whatever message they want from them.

so if you want to find a silver lining there are always ways to mince numbers. to be honest looking for a silver lining is much more productive than the panic, doom, and gloom, efforts
AI in a Nutshell
Google updates Pixel 4 with ‘eyes open’ fix for face unlock
It seems to be IP based, with my VPN set to a US server no redirects, but on European servers I always get redirects (also with no VPN, and I'm French)
https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/

https://medium.com/chrismarshallny (Features a selection of the above).

I write about developing software, as a craft, and writing Swift, in particular.

I’m fairly good at it. I’ve been writing since
I was a kid, and delivering software for more than 35 years.
The Economist is one of the few publications I consider worth my money. Its journalism is thoughtful and for the long term, rather than sensationalised click-bait.
At the cost of destroying their once in-its-own-league quality.

Today I use DDG mostly, thanks to Googles choices. DDG is equally bad WRT this but

- it is easier to move from DDG to Google (just add !g) than the other way around

- and DDG isn't as invasive
I publish posts about my adventures (walking across Spain and Portugal, cycling between Lisbon and Istanbul, etc.), local peasant food recipes and projects at tomcooks.com

Due to the offline nature of my endeavours, the posts are usually pretty lowtech-highlife.
The "Soda Generation" is the generic version of the "Pepsi Generation".

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po0jY4WvCIc

French Firm Targets "Soda Generation" With Cola-Flavored Wine

https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2013/06/28/French-firm...
Blog: https://medium.com/open-factory

Why one should read it? - The articles try crystallizing the market structure of various software verticals - Blockchain, NoSQL, Big Data, Cloud Robotics, etc.

Feedback (both on syntactic and semantic matters :)) is welcome. You can reach me on my email: khatribox+HN (at) (Google's mailing service)[1]

[1] gmail.com
Also noticed this project[1] by IO author which lets you use Python 3 within Io. The readme is rather short but there is a nice example in the sample/ folder[2].

[1] https://github.com/IoLanguage/Python

[2] https://github.com/IoLanguage/Python/blob/master/samples/Usi...

(edited for formatting)
Placement Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
Croatian here. You're correct, if you only said the word "spomenik" to anybody from former Yugoslavia, they wouldn't be able to distinguish whether you're talking about precisely those monuments built after WW2, or any other monument built before or after the communist era. Or even, say, Washington monument (In Croatian it's literally called "Washingtonov spomenik"). The word "spomenik" means "a monument" and just that. I was actually surprised to learn that in English the word refers to monuments from a particular location and particular era.
A nice open-source library to create similar games is https://www.puzzlescript.net/
Show HN: A curated set of colour combinations
I kinda agree, corporate email clients made it worse.

Lotus Notes wasn't better in my memory and it was THE corporate email platform back then in the 90's before Microsoft Exchange was a thing then Outlook at the end of the that decade.
The US stands alone in consumer arbitration.

In most countries consumer arbitration is either heavily regulated, or non binding. In EU pre-dispute binding consumer arbitration clauses are considered unfair terms.

American Exceptionalism in Consumer Arbitration
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2265556
Gadgets don't die, their users do.

Every single computer that was ever made is still out there, and a use could be found for them, somewhere in the world. We just don't have the resources to distribute 'old' computers for which find no use, to those who would find a use - so we throw them away, usually with the excuse 'archaic/outdated, consumes too much power, etc' - excuses that were as equally valid the day the machine came out of the box, but are only really issued when a human decision has been made.

You can still pick up a stone axe and use it to feed your family, even if its original user died tens of thousands of years ago. The same is true of every single tool ever made - its only the arbitrary decision making of humans which make an inanimate object useful or otherwise.

disclaimer: grumpy old retro computing enthusiast who really wants people to stop throwing functioning electronic gear in the landfill...
Top Growing and Declining Ecommerce Categories
Weird to see my tiny hometown (Lynden, WA) was used as a test market
The IEEE article where I found the paper:

"Google Invents AI That Learns a Key Part of Chip Design"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/go...
That's pretty much how MLC FLASH works.
https://www.walkedtheblueline.com

It will document my 10 year journey as a Police Officer in Australia and transition back into the real world. (plus it gives me a document of my time before is dispaears into eternity)

The other half will be interviews/profiles of other former officers that have moved on / medically retired with pstd and how leaving the force has effected them.

It may not be the most admired occupation by some, but the after effects can often lead to suicide, so I am to hopefully make it a place that may offer some others some hope.

Feel free to sign up, hopefully should have posts coming this week.
Your comment shows up last and it’s the only one that is funny
Behind the scenes in Kolonial.no: A new product and operation in 48 hours
Indeed, I made the same link. However, even at its largest, obey did not have a broad-enough appeal as what Coca-Cola execs would've wanted. Also, the ties with a mainstream brand would be off-putting to the core OBEY customer.
The article recycles a lot of the familiar excesses and removed-from-reality tropes of Silicon Valley, as I'm sure the book does at points, but doesn't focus nearly enough on the author's prescriptions. It's really a missed opportunity to understand what makes the book unique, what better world the author wants to build.

> “open protocols and decentralised services”, and wants secretive competition between developers to be replaced by “democratic oversight and open collaboration”

Sounds not too far removed from the activism of groups such as the EFF, and even the FOSS movement in general. How they fit on the political graph is complicated. They are civil liberties oriented, but often in a more right-libertarian (or perhaps center/apathetic-libertarian) than a left-libertarian way, much less libertarian socialist. Pirate politics, as the Europeans call it. Not libertarian in the Californian ideology utopian neoliberal sort of way, but in a more anti-authority radical form of libertarianism.

And some of these proponents still end up working for some of the large corporations like Google. Which really complicates things further when free flow of information as ideology blends into freeing information for the sake of furthering the bottom line.

> Liu’s blueprint for a “socialist media system” may still sound impractical, but her emphasis on public space and the public good have an eerie resonance at present: who knows what changes might come when we creep out of our enforced solitude and reconstitute a functioning society?

Intriguing idea, great question, totally nonsense in this context as this review does not bother to explain the former, nor expand upon the latter. SF tech workers stepping over the homeless is not "enforced solitude", it is both lack of empathy and the sign of a failed political and economic system. What solitude separates these juxtaposed segments of society?

> In Einstein’s day, the pioneers of the new physics thought they were engaged in “world-building”; Liu similarly remarks that designing a website opens a hole in the universe through which we can study its inner mechanics. Her experiments in coding would, she believed, confer on her “a kind of immortality”.

Sidebar: I've long-wondered if software developers have a propensity to fall prey to the "engineer's disease" more than other STEM disciplines because so much of our form of engineering exists only in the abstract. (Mechanical engineers and civil engineers, for instance, know that they are at least bound by basic laws of physics- and stay humble.) But through hardware and integrated physical systems, we're able to control and influence the real world, potentially in world-changing ways. So when choked on a suffusion of our own abstraction, we imagine we know everything, deriving everything from first principles.
I really regret not picking up a Little Printer when I had the chance. I've considered building a networked thermal printer, but its not quite the same.

My dream is to have a 2" impact printer (e.g. receipt printer) for to-do, grocery, etc, lists.

I really don't want to have a life of joy and pure bliss that relies on a thermal printer. I love the concept so much.

With the others, I've still got three Pebbles and I love them all equally. The two OG Pebbles needed a piece of paper between the vibrating part and the screen, but the 2HR has been perfect.

These concepts are all so great. Chumby is another I've always admired.
Transparent backgrounds in PNG images showing up white in iOS 13
Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates
If I remember correctly then patio11 argued strongly against adding anything that dates your posts and write "evergreen content" instead. From a reader perspective I never understood this: I much prefer if there is a date right at the top, under the headline. From a user perspective I also don't like to see ads, I don't like to be asked to sign up for a newsletter or to subscribe to a Youtube channel but I guess it's all necessary evil that's done for the business.
but people traveling by plane can certainly be sent to concentrated quarantine facilities upon arrival and monitored on an hourly basis for two or three weeks.
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I write about life in Japan and its culture:
https://coil.com/u/tagawa

Very non-tech so perhaps of limited interest here, but it makes a nice change writing about something unrelated to the bulk of my work and hobbies.
Robots replace Japanese students at graduation amid coronavirus
Примерный распорядок дня ребенка в 3 месяца. Советы и рекомендации
My graduation final project was done in Io more than a decade ago.

The language is generally great but it needed some financial muscle on the implementation side as every language do, this stuff is hard.
Diploma mill tourism is one of those phenomenons I really want to see all the externalities accounted for. My only significant issue is disrupting local housing-prices but student VISAs is one vehicle among many. Otherwise I don't really see the difference of gambling on a Chinese fuerdai vs trust fund legacy vs athletic scholarship. They're just different avenues of to building non-academic institutional prestige - the kind that's... important. Tuition aside, a bunch of rich kids that spends big into the economy is also a perk. They're perennial tourists that also occasionally shell out for an exotic car or three. I've known a few of these types, and they're kind of a mix bag. Some are just here to coast. Some are middling. Some are very intelligent, the kind of assets western educational institutions are designed to brain drain.

The latter point gets overlooked, enticing/stealing and retaining talent is a huge western soft power advantage. After separating the wheat from chaff higher up the academic chain, there's a disproportionate of foreign students in PhD and labs [1]. Without going into specific criticism of western secondary school education, the broad point is most countries just don't produce enough talent to fill demand. Also credentialism and educational inflation means many masters programs bend over backwards not to fail anyone. At least among my cohort who spans many types of masters and professional degrees, you get proportionally more unqualified locals getting pushed out of the program with just passing grades as foreign students who bought their way through. There seems to be pervasive pressure to hold graduation metric up because most people recognize, outside of some fields, what you learn is rarely applicable to what you do. And even fields where theres overlap, you have too much unqualified people getting the pass. Regardless, my point is, if we need to acquire talent, hedging against rich international students isn't the worst bet. The odds are overwhelmingly in the house favour. They pay you. Some of them are slackers, but many also received the best education from their home countries but can't make it to the top 1% cut off to enter extremely competitive and prestigious local institutions. Foreign students wanting to pour guaranteed money and potential talent into our society is something to be optimized for.

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/81-599-x/2016011/c-g/c-g...
While it is also available under the MIT license, MS reserves the right to re-license it however they see fit. If you want to contribute, you'll have to sign their CLA to give Microsoft that right.
no it won’t. nobody is going to care after this. and you’d be a fool to not just use a broker for car insurance.
Your post made it click for me that Nintendo's platforms make it where there's legitimate reasons to use different controllers regularly. I use the Pro controller, a Gamecube controller, and the joycons/wiimote all for different game types, and sometimes switch between two in the same game.

If you were to ask me whether I thought this was a good design concept, having never played any games on a Gamecube>>>Switch I'd say no, that seems wasteful and a cash grab on peripherals.

But I love it. Give me more ergonomic plastic things with buttons and games that use them.
Very TLDR: If you're unlucky enough to get into ICU because of Covid-19, your average survival odds (life/death) are about 76/24 for 16-49yo , 54/46 for 50-69yo , 32/68 for 70+yo. Odds get worse if you're male and obese with comorbidities. And odds get terribly worse if you get to the invasive respiratory support stage (intubation/ECMO).
My blog is https://ferrucc.io

If you’re in tech and in your early 20s we might have a lot of things in common

If you don’t belong to this group, you can get a rough idea of how people in my age group think
Applications Open for Jack Ma Foundation's Africa's Business Heroes Competition
https://meanbusiness.com Recent topics are games and cannabis as that’s the focus of my current venture. (and “They go together like peanut butter and … cannabis.”)

Ongoing topics are working with people, technology, and vendors through the process of shipping products via distributed teams @ start ups and global enterprises.

The blog is 12 years old. There are gems as well as gaps, gaffes, and shoemakers’ children.

https://meanbusiness.com/category/games/
https://meanbusiness.com/category/cannabis/
https://meanbusiness.com/category/teams/
https://meanbusiness.com/category/analytics/
For me its my Sony MiniDisc Player(s) and the MiniDisc format in general. Such a great medium, durable, great haptics. Works perfectly all these years later and still looks and feels like something from the future.

Still angry at Sony though for basically killing it from the beginning with all their DRM.
reported by who?
It's more effective to ask the (final) question in the first sentence. And if you want a clear answer, don't ask more than one question per email. People always read the first sentence but may not scan all the way down. After some practice you'll naturally start to write emails starting with the question but until then just write it normally, come to the summary at the end, and then cut and paste it to the start.
Thanks.

> ... and at distances longer than [100 microns], it really follows the ISL

But at cosmic distances, there's also evidence that gravity doesn't follow ISL, right?

Are there any implications of this work for hypothesized dark matter and dark energy?
Do you remember the vending machines around that time on MIT campus that had games built in: some LEDs that would blink after you purchased a coke, and if you won, you got a free coke!

I think there also were some musical coke machines, too.

(I was also visiting while in high school!)

When I worked at the CMU CS department, my office was right down the hall from the Internet Coke Machine, and you could "finger coke@cmua" to see how many sodas of what kind there were, and what their temperature was.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/industries/little-known-story-firs...

https://www.livinginternet.com/i/ia_myths_coke.htm
Certainly you feeling smug about yourself is far more important than people getting literally murdered.
https://billwadge.wordpress.com
Informal descriptions of my inventions, including Lucid lang
Foundations of Math explained.
My adventures in Academia
Lame jokes
> VS Code is welcome to backport anything they like

They can't, as Theia contributors haven't necessarily signed the Microsoft CLA.
By half way through the article, I haven't seen one decent argument presented to justify the author's dislike of The Economist. Instead, this is just an invitation to go boo, hiss when the reader hears the wake-word 'liberal'.
Meanwhile, India still doesn't have Lowes or Homedepot.

Quality and verity is missing in superglues, resins, and other stuff which can found in hardware store.

Amazon doesn't fill this space.
Wow chinese spammers are living rent free in your head dude, how about not responding at all?
For $40 you can buy software that eliminates the need for a greenscreen https://www.xsplit.com/vcam

(xsplit is a competitor to OBS and used to be very popular (as a step up from fraps))
Yup. Narnia is a "hidden dimension". A bit of a stretch to compare Narnia with spatial dimensions though.
I agree. Just wanted to point out why Microsoft wouldn't be on board.
It's derived from one of Shakespeare's less popular plays, Winter's Tale, which contains the amusing stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear."[1] (Apologies if you knew this, sincerity via text is hard)

Their actual headline/url seems to be "Technology startups are headed for a fall," which is less fun.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter%27s_Tale#The_Bear