skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. I know I posted this a week ago, but I've since added more functionality (e.g. the ability to compare countries from the date when the disease reached 100 cases in each country) that should make it more useful, so I hope this is okay. I truly believe this could be a helpful resource for some people (on the Johns-Hopkins dashboard, Worldometers and lots of other sites you cannot easily select and compare countries). I also put some work into making this mobile-friendly. A friend of mine who runs clinical studies said "This is better than every other solution/dashboard out there!", and I'm glad if it helps more people to understand the infection numbers in different countries.

Feel free to provide feedback and improvement suggestions, I plan to add more functionality in the upcoming days.
https://boyter.org

As to why you should read it? I have always tried to show warts and all when it comes to anything technical I post. This includes where I screw up, make mistakes or work with false information. Mostly because I keep a record as I do things and don’t want to sanitise what I did and also because most posts paint a perfect picture which is usually far from reality.
Umm, I wasn't aware.
Well. Ultimately it does. In larger European cities very few fancier restaurants/bars cater Pepsi/Coca Cola. Those brands are gradually being seen more and more as low-end McSodas. The winners are Club Mate/Fritz Cola and a whole bunch of local brands.
Am I the only one feeling this has a weird resemblance to "OK Boomer" in its nonchalant attitude?
Jonesforth: Implementing Forth in Assembly
Programmers are also heroes helping fight Covid-19
> A “container” is just a term people use to describe a combination of Linux namespaces and cgroups.

And those people should stop because that would be inaccurate. More specifically, a "container" can be any of the following:

- Someone who contains; something that contains.
An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

- (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.

- (by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.

- (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.

- (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.

- (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.

...

If we are talking about a Docker Container (here Docker Container is a proper noun), on the other hand - then clearly you are still wrong - as Docker have worked at various times on Windows and FreeBSD.

Now trying to grasp at even more straws to find some the "container" definition of the gaps that may give some justification to your claims, we can look at the other proper noun "OCI Container" ... but alas ...

https://www.opencontainers.org/faq

> Will the runtime and image format specs support multiple platforms?

> Yes. For example, take a look at the runtime-specification configuration where it mentions example Linux, Windows and Solaris configurations. There are also multiple implementations of the runtime-specification that you can take a look at.

It seems then that you are just wrong. Plain and simple. I'm seriously concerned with whoever is having you interview candidates.
> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals

I agree I tried to do it here :
http://luap.info:4000/links

Basically I'm taking all the links published into HN and I'm filtering the domains which are news domains or appear too frequently, but that is still a lot of links, so I'm not calling it a success yet
We contemplate moving elsewhere from time-to-time, but the proximity of our colleagues, machine shop, and an awesome lab keep us here.

For some of our experiments, we need the hill we're built into, and we can handle the tilts.

This short-range measurement was greatly benefited by a fortuitous snowstorm that brought Seattle's buses to a halt right as John was taking data with the fully-commissioned instrument. If we had foreseen with 6-8 weeks of foresight how much of a societal disruption Covid-19 would cause, we would have crushed it to get this short-range instrument back in operation in time.

We're working on new seismic-isolation systems for our next upgrade. If that doesn't work out, we'll be looking for a remote hole in the ground to put a short-range instrument in.

The big steps forward on this cycle were improved alignment systems, improved flatness of multiple critical parts, improved cleanliness, a new gluing arrangement that reduced Newtonian-gravity systematic uncertainty, even greater care to ensure non-magnetic fabrication, and another ~5 years of experience with the instrument.

The next big jump for us is active seismic isolation. A small improvement there, with other tweaks, may buy us another ~5-10 microns.
Mine is https://www.jimwestergren.com/
I write mostly about web development, focus will turn more to board game design in the near future.
Free markets foster competition. Our current system is not capitalism as per definition.

> Who would've expected it, huh?

Every sane mind that operates with sound definitions.
https://pawelgrzybek.com

I mainly write about frontend, Node.js, modern javascript ecosystem tooling, productivity and occasional book reviews that I found interesting (not necessarily software related).
Top posting has won because major e-mail clients (gmail) made it the default. When you hit reply, they add two newlines at the top and place your cursor there. You really have to go out of your way to bottom post.
https://fredwu.me/

No particular reason, but I started building websites in the late 90s and am now heading up the engineering department in our scale-up (60+ people w/ 25+ engineers).
Yeah alcoholism/liver/kidney failure obviously. It was meant as a joke
To make it worst, "outstanding" software such as outlook or gmail (and others, they're just examples) still don't know how to present threads properly (as in who replied to whom), a problem that has been solved for at least 30 years...

So not only you have to read all the replies from bottom to top but replies to different emails in the stack are just sorted by date so they also get presented out of order in the stack.
If you are into this kind of stuff, I recommend watching the movie Syrup [0]. It's a fictional movie about marketing/branding within a soda company.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762138/
There is quite a lively tech scene. One example of an interesting all-African startup is Africa's Talking (http://africastalking.com).

If you're looking for a problem to solve, one thing I struggled with when living there is that there is a major lack of trust between renters and landlords when it comes to housing. Some landlords are ok, but many arbitrarily withhold money from the initial deposit when renters move out and I feel like that generates quite some inefficiency in the housing market. I'm not sure what the solution would be but I know many people would benefit if there was one :)
Anyway I can subscribe? Maybe a newsletter?
1/r^2 and Gauss' law are two sides of one coin.

We're looking for any deviation from that plan, in the form of new forces or a change in the behavior of gravity itself. Either one would be really cool to find, and the fact that we keep not finding anything places increasingly tight constraints on theories that attempt to extend the Standard Model or build a bridge from the SM to gravity.
https://fromtoschool.com - It's a little rough around the edges, but I'm in the process of testing out a new, faster way of teaching programming. Instead of assuming no similar knowledge when teaching a new language or framework, we try to leverage the knowledge of similar languages and frameworks that you already have to build the new knowledge structure.

I expand on this idea more here: https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-...
Top posting makes more sense if the frequency of messages is slow enough that people will have already read the previous messages, because you don't have to scroll past all the content you've seen. Where it fails is in a set of messages where you haven't seen everything else already.

Really, mail and messaging clients should have a way to track each message separately, and just give the user a choice about how they're displayed.
Same here, I discovered IO in 7 languages in 7 weeks, and loved how elegant it was.
>Does it really feel that much better to be one level above others?

Yes? Because levels are finite and quantifiable.
Why not just give those who need the money a loan? Deferring rent payments and mortgages is basically a non formal loan but it is shifting all the risk into the banks. Let's say you are a bank and you defer 4 months of mortgage payments and then the landlord defaults. Those 4 lost months are now the liability of the bank. This is basically a non formal form of economic stimulus. So what you have done is take a problem that was caused by the government (the economic loss from quarantine dwarfs the economic loss of everyone having the corona virus [0]) and shift all responsibility away from it into a fragile system that is known to break frequently. The idea behind this bullshit is to say "no bailouts" but the reality is that once the banking system is collapsing there will be far severe bailouts than before and all the work you have to prevent them was a complete waste and completely distorted the economy.

Events like 2008 were entirely about markets destroying themselves but now the situation has reversed and it's the government that is trying to deliberately destroy the economy and then people shout louder and want even more destruction.
Weekly Challenge: Week 55 – Simon Proctor
> though the universities themselves were named correctly

Both of them! [0]

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOvEwtDycs
Several Critical Vulnerabilities on most HP machines running Windows
Yes, when you file an arbitration against a company, regardless of how legitimate your filing is or how likely it is to be thrown out of court, that company is out at least $1000. If you wanted, you could pull together 10,000 HN users to file arbitrations, and HN is going to be hit with a $10M hammer regardless of whether there is any legitimacy to the claims.

I believe the amount varies state to state, but is generally over $1000
Grants: Mobilisation of funding for Covid-19 research in sub-Saharan Africa
I think the only reason why top posting exists at all is outlook and an "optimization" in exchange where the replied-to message is referenced (not copied).

Trying to reply in "proper" e-mail style in outlook wasn't really possible as anybody that tried to email lkml 20 years ago can attest.
Benefits do not have to be economic. It means getting the things you want.
"The falseness of a judgement is not necessarily an objection to a judgment: it is here that our new language perhaps sounds strangest. The question is to what extent it is life-advancing, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps even species-breeding; and our fundamental tendency is to assert that the falsest judgements (to which synthetic judgments a priori belong ) are the most indispensable to us, that without granting as true the fictions of logic, without measuring reality against the purely invented world of the unconditional and self-identical, without a continual falsification of the world by means of numbers, mankind could not live - that to renounce false judgements would be to renounce life, would be to deny life. To recognize untruth as a condition of life: that, to be sure, means to resist customary value-sentiments in a dangerous fashion; and a philosophy which ventures to do so places itself , by that act alone, beyond good and evil." Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Society is based on shared concepts/stories, the effectiveness of that society is based on the value of these shared concepts, not their truth/untruth.

On a small scale:
Washington and the cherry tree
Daily conversation (How are you ? Good !)
Santa Claus
Public persona of hollywood stars, entertainers, politicians, etc.
etc

On a large scale:
Freedom/Democracy
Capitalism/Socialism
Religion
Mine is https://blog.luap.info/

My goal is to talk about original topics in which it is difficult to find information whatever the topic: startups, dating, nutrition , diy, travelling as a dev
Comments over here are easier to read because there's no top posting by design.
Implementing the Beta processor (32-bit RISC processor loosely based on the DEC Alpha) for 6.004 [0] was one of the most fun projects I've done. We wrote everything at the netlist level (or at least I'm told it's roughly equivalent to SPICE's netlists) rather than VHDL or Verilog, with some simple component libraries (mostly 2-,3-,and 4-input MUXes/DEMUXes) and a register file implementation provided by the instructors.

These days, I would hope they'd use a simplified ISA based on either RISC-V or something as close to 64-bit ARM as they could legally get away with.

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Very interesting topics, but I had to search the source to find your RSS feed!
I used to use google desktop search (!!!) back in the days, it even had a linux client. I'm aware of tracker (gnome built in) etc, I just didn't do my research yet :-)

rg I use hourly for code-related navigation & searches tho. Good stuff
Zero Mission ruined things that made Metroid excellent. It's just not obvious on the first playthrough. Unlike previous Metroid games, you can't really do Zero Mission out of order. There's a path you have to follow and if you go elsewhere the road is blocked by Chozo statues, that weren't present in the original game.
I am not on a high moral ground to talk about ads.I am a web developer, yet I use ublock Origin.

Now, that I have some money, I am willing to pay for subscriptions, because that would mean high quality content, not because of ads. However, there were times in my life when I barely had what to eat and I barely afforded to pay for the Internet connection and paying subscriptions was the last things I was willing to do.

I suppose many of the 7 billion people living on Earth are poor enough to not afford paying for subscription.
https://blog.monostable.co.uk

Electronics, open source hardware, web-tech. Anything tech-related really. Haven't published anything since 2018 but have a blog post brewing in my head now.
Actually I think it's 52% <ducks> :-)
You also can simulate the devices with the chrome debugger?
Is the "Next: find old wardrobe." supposed to be a Narnia reference? If not I can't figure out what it is for.
> If this launched today, I could see it gaining traction.

Well, the marketing guys back then thought it could have been a hit backe then and I can see why. If you were around in the nineties, there were quite a few products geared to that cultural stream of the subvertising movement.
It's not open registration tho ... I tried and it needs "admin confirmation" and I'm not sure the data is in English which would make this rather "complicated" for a non-Korean.

I'm also not sure they'll give out all patient detailed history but we'll see...
Like drinking a double sized energy drink.

If I take it at night, I will toss and turn all night. Also a lot of vivid dreams.
Thanks!
To be honest, I hadn't previously made it prominent as I thought RSS had basically died several years ago. However, based on the multiple comments in this parent thread, evidently RSS is still alive and well.
So I'll definitely update my blog now to make it more visible!
Thanks for you answer and for the good work!
"this could definitely get ugly for companies that misbehave"

It doesn't just have to be companies that misbehave. If you don't like your competitor, maybe you'll sponsor that $250 per user to allow their userbase to throw arbitrations at them.

You can burn your competitor down at a ratio of at least 1:5 if you do something like this. If you take some fees for every case you win or that ends up settling, the ratio will be far better than 1:5

The arbitration system as it stands is a tool that allows anyone with enough money and intention to smite any company by pulling together unhappy users and paying arbitration fees for them.
We would be incredibly stoked if we could drop that number to ten microns; nobody knows yet if that can be done.

I'd be surprised if either we or the group at Huazhong University don't reach at least 35 microns by 2030. We all aspire to ~20 microns.

These all sound like small improvements, but Figure 5 tells the real story: reaching 10-microns requires a 3,000x improvement in sensitivity, in an environment where almost every experimental difficulty gets exponentially or power-law worse at short distances. That's why it is hard.

The field is ripe for a totally-new technology, but whatever it is will be deeply clever and revolutionary. I've spent the last 16 years of my life trying to figure out how to do it with limited success.
Err, I made a more elaborate reply to r00fus below.

Essentially, give people money if they're on the edge. Corporations are the cogs, and relatively easily replaced. Some people suck, some people are amazing, but it's fundamentally people that drive, not corporations.

It doesn't actually work this way. it'll never actually work this way. in my, very humble, opinion it'd be better for everybody.
It's threading and the info is there: that's what Message-ID, References, In-Reply-To are for...

But not only top posting won but software made it worse by not displaying threading properly (I'm looking at you corporate outlook, that said gmail and others are the same).
Oh don't be tiresome. They're from India, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, all over. We used to have a strategic engagement called the Columbo plan where we taught them on the condition they returned home to do service for their state. I liked that model.

Not everything is about china and the CCP. The problem is the venality of the university system now. It's a business.
That's just nitpicking. Just because something is turing complete doesn't mean it is optimized for a specific task. The responsibility of processing graphics has been shifted away from the CPU for a long time already.
Kosmi launched a bit ago, I first heard about it around a week ago on HN.
Possibly the best solution would be an installation of the Logitech Media Server (LMS) on a raspberry pi (e.g. piCorePlayer [0]) or an already available home server. LMS can then handle all squeezeboxes (or squeezelite installations on other hardware) on the same network and allows control via a web interface.

[0]: https://www.picoreplayer.org/
The $1500 doesn't go to the customers, it goes to the courts. It's effectively a fine that a customer can arbitrarily impose on a company.
You can use Protothreads[1] for this which work on anything that runs C, as they are just using setjmp/longjmp.

I would recommend FreeRTOS instead, as it has proper prempetive scheduling, context switching and wide debugger support. It's actually only 4 files[2] so not very heavyweight in either memory or stuff to learn, and has decent abstractions for cross thread communication (queues etc). Then you can write continuous code and use preemption, rather than have to code everything as a state machine and co-operatively schedule, which is painful sometimes.

[1] http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/

[2] https://www.freertos.org/Creating-a-new-FreeRTOS-project.htm...
I've mostly been blogging on Medium these days.

Rather than link to my index, here's a post that I wrote about Defeating Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (At Scale):

https://medium.com/@soatok/defeating-coordinated-inauthentic...

If you enjoyed that one, you'll probably enjoy my writing. If you didn't, you probably won't.

I might move my efforts to something self-hosted soon, but I'm more likely to be targeted by malicious script kiddies (due to being openly gay and a furry), and that thought has instilled a lot of inertia with me.
Flutter vs. React Native: What App Developers Should Know About
AI and Deep Learning Algorithms Deliver OCR Accuracy for Business
https://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/TitleIndex

Life-long self-taught programmer from a third-world shithole. There are some insights you won't get by passing through an Ivy League school.

I know things like Erlang and Common Lisp, Standard ML and Haskell and I have solved the monad madness ^_^
Wow, what a truly offensive article. Firstly speaking as an Irish person, the dismissive tone here is outrageous:

"And later in the century, as one phase of the conflict between England and Ireland followed another, the sins of Cromwell and his army in rooting out the supporters (both Catholic and Protestant) of the Stuarts in Ireland were used regularly as a stick with which to beat the English, albeit well over 300 years later, and as further proof that the Irish have perhaps the longest memories in the world."

For some historical context, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Drogheda

And as for the conclusion:

"The growth of British power and prosperity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was in great measure built on those secure foundations. Cromwell’s part in leading the great change of culture was absolutely fundamental to that."

So Cromwell helped build the foundations of the British Empire, and that's a "good thing"? I don't know where to start, consider me triggered ;-)
uMatrix also blocked the link for me. I'm at the point now where I stop bypassing it for links like this, and just don't read the article. The information in the comments is almost always more interesting/useful anyway.
800G Specification [pdf]
No, I see it exactly the same way. Especially heap analyzers - you are uploading the entire content of your memory up there, including even the entire application (because classes are in the heap as well, and it's trivial to decompile Java classes, especially since even companies which release only obfuscated class files usually don't obfuscate anything while testing on dev machines, where a majority of heap dumps probably originate from).

In my eyes, anyone using such a service is as careless as someone posting unencrypted lists of his passwords hidden in Lorem Ipsum texts on Facebook so he can look them up if he forgets one. Any sane corporate data protection rulebook should prohibit the use of such services and consider any potential surreptitious use a harsh breach of trust and thus a cause for termination of the employment.
Debate flares over using AI to detect Covid-19 in lung scans
> The school then has to choose to either fail the student or ignore their cheating. With a $250k incentive to choose the former, that's what they choose.

Isn't the former exactly what they should be choosing?
Most write out of authority, authority in the field. I don't. I am a learner. I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. ― C.S. Lewis.

I write at https://www.jjude.com as a way of learning. Writing is part of thinking out loud for me. This year I'm learning about customer experience, business of technology and technology of business. I'm also planning to launch my coaching program. All of those find their place in the blog.
I'm a passive investor, I don't try to make money by playing the market. But yes, in mid-Feb I moved all my investments from growth funds into conservative ones, and avoided a major haircut.
This was the first thing I tried to solve back then when Hooks came out. Very powerful!
Covid vs. New York Daily Average Cause of Death
> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals.

I’ve been thinking about the same thing. Something styled along the likes of HN (Eg super minimal), but focussed on technical/HN-crowd topics and every post on the front page is a blog post, and every user profile shows all those user’s posts.

Akin to Medium or Wordpress.com but minimal and very technical.

Of course it’s easy to make such a site, but getting enough people to contribute and get it going will always be the hard part.