skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree, and I think your example actually supports this position. Most people don't modify their cars at all, but for the people that do find great pleasure in it. We see this with software, too. I think that opposing people who would like to mess with the things they use is limiting and fundamentally somewhat disappointing. It's essentially impossible to make software that caters to everyone's needs, but I think the best you can do is make something that works for most people out-of-the-box and let the few people who want to tweak things to their liking themselves. (To extend your analogy, I don’t know the first thing about cars but I have very few complaints with mine. If I didn’t like something about it, locking me out from changing it prevents me from taking it to my car-enthusiast friend.)
As I understand it, the goal of "flattening the curve" was never to reduce the overall number of people that contract the virus. Which, to me, means that neither herd immunity nor hiding were ever really the plan for covid. Giving manufacturers the time to shift into overproducing PPE and researchers the time to develop/test short term treatments so the hospitals could shift into treating it as a part of routine coverage. I don't think you need herd immunity to be prepared.

I can't tell if that's what you meant by "manage the flow of bodies." As I understand it, lots of the deaths have been a result of timing and lack of preparedness, not necessarily overall lethality of the virus itself.
Advertisers aren't idiots, they measure the effectiveness of their ad dollars. If they couldn't show a positive ROI they wouldn't keep spending money on it.
I don't recognize Erik Newton and a quick web search didn't turn up much. What is this controversy you're talking about?
Beulr: A bot to attend your zoom classes for you
15% growth when you are already ontop of a saturated market is a big deal.
It matters to me what will happen when we're gone.
Yeah, they're showing 31 people and a bit over 5MM EUR as their funding. But their job ads are ~60 EUR/year, so that's what, maybe 1-2 years of funding? Not exactly long-term as they're claiming.

There's something else going on. Perhaps training an AI?
Children's Heath Defense is noted for their anti vaccination activism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Health_Defense
Google is a hundred-billion dollar company precisely because it allows advertisers to see how effective their cost per sale (or action) is, compared to TV or newspapers, where advertisers are flying blind.
In a universe in which you are the result of millions/billions of evolution, you are an absolute expert on survival. And none of the official experts will have your and your families best interest in mind, as much as you do.
Disclaimer: didn't make it but found it an interesting tool to share.
April is the median, but below the mean, which is skewed by the visitor totals in July and August, the busiest months of the year, at more than 600k visitors each. Knowledge of basic math is very important before you accuse a journalist of lacking basic math skills.

Left out of the math discussion though is that Tuolumne Meadows is usually still closed in April to activities and also frequently to through traffic, meaning that all 300,000 visitors are bound for Yosemite Valley, which represents about 2% of the total area of Yosemite National Park.

Yosemite definitely feels busy in April, even if it feels busier in the Summer and Fall.
If you take SaaS, they are skewed towards buy, because their margin is ridiculously high. Better to hit the market now by using stable products than optimizing on spend.

The bigger you are and the more you can think about optimizing spend.
This is cool! Needs some form of chat though
And a way to release the cursor without having to alt tab
what is rg, i3 or tiling window wm? can't you use tmux as a tiling WM?
In my anglophile European country, it pains me that more and more politicians are copying this English-style two sided debating whereas our own tradition of less flashy but plural and when necessary detail oriented style is slowly being replaced.

A huge pity.
Slightly disappointed that this wasn't the 6502 assembly listings we saw in the classic "Termovision" shots from the first movie ;)
I know, it's bonkers that people hold this position when so many startups live and die by their customer acquisition rents.

Do you think startups like Casper and Blue Apron want to hundreds of dollars just to get a single person in the door to buy something and pray they stay for at least 6 months / don't return the thing just so they can hit their break-even point? Like if this was all a house of cards it would have collapsed by now since there are millions of eyes trying desperately to reduce the need for their ad spend.

So yeah, that quirky overproduced Doritos TV ad probably isn't doing all that much but for businesses that don't already have a critical mass of mindshare it's your lifeline.
Perhaps silly to ask, but: why does the FDA regulate this?

It’s not a food, it’s not a drug, if it’s purely a saliva swab it is non-invasive — so where does the FDA come in?

In a university context, there is often a blanket IRB exemption for certain kinds of research where the risks are self-evidently minimal, such as taste tests.

If the FDA’s role here is to provide a stamp of approval indicating “this test ‘works’ according to an accepted standard,” then I would think something closer to how food supplements are monitored would be a better fit, for example, the test could come with text saying “this language has NOT been approved by the FDA” or equivalent for approval.

I am failing to see risks here besides the risks of misdiagnosis, but I just didn’t think it was the FDA’s mandate to approve or not approve based on efficacy.
“Sequel” to the million dollar homepage using WebGL
Clementine – A Modern Music Player and Library Organizer
This is only half right. By all means adding 20/hr to your rates is more viable that faffing about trying to reduce every $20 fee.

On the other hand, this problem is partly fees, partly rates. The fee part gets taken care of by making sure you can absorb them as cost of business. The rate part doesn't, it grows with your revenue. So it's bad business to ignore it.

Freelancers are in a weird place on this because of the size of income. Just handwaving with numbers, if you are exchanging 10k the most you can save is about $100 or so, not worth a lot of time. At 100k though it's often worth it. At a million in forex, you are being irresponsible not to chase a good rate.

So freelancers usually fall somewhere around the middle, where there are real savings possible but it isn't worth a ton of time. Personally the last time I did this sort of thing 15 minutes on the phone saved me a few thousand a year so worth it.
Visualizing Covid-19 spread with Elasticsearch and Kibana – Part 2
Yes, HN automatically flags articles from certain sites. You can see the post with your account, but if you look with a different account, you'll see it is flagged and not visible for most people.
Look into group testing for one mechanism for increasing testing with the same amount of reagents. It doesn't save swabs, and it also potentially increases latency. it makes the most sense if the percentage of positive tests is low, such as you might get if you had much more widespread testing.
I had a whole company that I sold to an FAANG that only existed because of Google Ads. It solved a very niche technical problem that you could never go and market on a billboard — the target customer was too niche. But with Google Ads I could find them Googling “How to do X to file type Y” and sell them my software right at that moment.
Thanks! Yes, chat is coming soon. And you can press ESC to get your cursor back.
Yup. Masterclass and Grammarly ads get me every time. I have zero interest in becoming an author but I can't but help to watch them to the end. Except that one "Anita the boss across the room" ad. God, I hate it.
This one was among the suggested videos. I could only dream of a game engine based on that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEB11PQ9Eo8
>They process your orders directly against the forex market

Sorta. Orders below 25k are odd lots

https://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/node/1459
This is a question I'm probably better suited to answer than anyone in the world, since I used to work on Holochain in 2018 and I've worked on Urbit since 2019.

They solve a similar set of problems from completely different directions. Chiefly, they are both trying to create infrastructure for running distributed programs that run primarily on the devices of the user in such a way that the user has total control over their own data and not in a horribly inefficient way like blockchain-based dApps.

Urbit has a bottom-up approach while Holochain has a top-down approach. Urbit is about building powerful infrastructure for individual users to manage their own data and, from there, networks of users may be built that can run their own apps and share data amongst themselves however they like. Holochain instead starts by focusing on building networks of users that share data in a prescribed fashion, and how each user manages their own data outside of Holochain is up to them.

I see them as complementary, almost dual to each other. Urbit is about creating infrastructure for individuals that can then form networks, while Holochain is about forming networks that individuals can then join. Urbit starts as close to bare metal as you can get (its a whole operating system, programming language, and assembly-level instruction set) and starts getting thin around userspace, while Holochain lives entirely in userspace. Stack them on top of each other and your entire computer from the GUI all the way down to the processor instruction set is oriented around user data privacy and efficient distributed computing!

In a future where both Urbit and Holochain take off, people could use Urbit to manage their personal data and cryptographic property which would be fed into Holochain apps. There would be a bridge between the Urbit PKI and the Holochain PKI so that your identity in one is linked to your identity in the other.

Both projects aspire to create something like a "universal interface" along the lines of WeChat, except not a dystopian privacy invasion nightmare.

I could write more about this all day. If you have any further questions I'd be happy to answer. I'm mostly excited to have met someone else using Holochain and Urbit in the same sentence.
Manuals provide reference and guidance information about the COBOL
That is unfortunately exactly as true for Cobol as for Golang.
Emacs makes a pretty good example from my perspective, but if you haven't used it I suppose it makes little sense. Perhaps AutoCAD from what I understand, but I don't have enough experience with extending it to say for sure.

It's not that you have to extend it yourself, the point is to make it possible.

Annie in accounting (can't believe you got away clean with that one :) might ask someone else in the company to help her add a shortcut or whatever, or the company might hire an outside consultant.

There's an entire gradient from non-technical to expert that's effectively shut out from modifying most software.

Now I'm as guilty as anyone, getting a client to pay for an advantage they can't imagine the consequences of isn't happening much. But I can certainly see the value.
Well there’s your comparison. The store brands are chemically basically identical to the brand names. But their market share is relatively low. So the advertising must do something.
Strangely enough, the Vydec Exxon word processor did have a vector display. See the datasheet for instance. The patent has tons of information on the circuitry. They made italics by shifting the vectors and small characters by scaling the vectors.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/files/data-sheet...
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4310840A
TLDR: Maropost exposes their DB and lies to researchers
Dial-up modems and sound cards and IRQ settings. Getting them to work simultaneously.
The Technical Accomplishments of Grace Murray Hopper
> I can't go doing a depth-first search through all knowledge all the time

No-one can, not even the author.

What we have to understand is:

1) Which components exist. Can't understand what you don't know exists.

2) How those components interface, at a high level.

Once you know which black boxes exist and how they are interconnected, you may then choose to open them.

For instance, we know that a keypress is detected by the keyboard and sent to the computer, and it will eventually appear somewhere (graphical terminal?). Do we need to know how the wiring works? Only if we want to understand why multiple simultaneous keypresses don't always work. Do you need to understand how information is encoded? Or how the USB protocol works (assuming it's USB)? Or what are keyboard interrupts, and so on. You'll end up learning about font rendering starting from a keypress.

You may not need to know how these things work, but it's useful to know they are there, so you can easily find information when you need to. You are more likely to worry about terminal escape codes rather than keyboard wiring, but still.

That goes for anything else. Do you need to worry how compilers work? Maybe not. But a high level understanding is important, so you won't immediately say stuff like "language X is faster than Y because it's compiled". Yeaahh, sure, it's possible that it is true. Since we know what compilers do, and they are not a magical "get faster code box", we'll probably say... "it depends, I don't know. Let's benchmark/disassemble/etc".
Updates are easy. For an advanced example of overriding nixpkg and usage of pinning/override layers (ie some mandate or reason to run super old version of grpc) — https://github.com/digital-asset/daml/blob/master/nix/nixpkg...
Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team
They started using Puppet against Mac dev machines, then switched to internal tools I believe. But it was one of the first times it occurred to me that we should manage and use DevOps and SRE practices against user machines and user workloads where possible. The trouble is the tooling isn’t that mature yet, and we can’t assume real-time data or always connected machines, and we don’t have a herd because users only have one machine with them at any time and remote state deletion only works when you know you’re not deleting critical state, which in turn requires better tooling and a greater understanding of user application state persistence behaviour than most are willing to invest time in doing.

This is what makes Chromebooks so easy to maintain though: web apps and sandboxed Android apps can all easily sync to the cloud and compartmentalize their data.
Though the interesting point here was that it made it easy to write the program fast the second time. While it should be very rare you need to write exactly the same program a second time, and can be a useful thing (albeit a hard thing) to optimize a language for if in writing a program a first time in that language you wind up with such a clarity on the problems you encountered that "solving" them again a second time feels trivial.
Didn't realise they had one! Might be more convenient than my shell aliases :)
Most of the views land on professional channels. You basically have to be at least semi-pro to reach the numbers you need for "monetization" by Youtube anyway.

There are 2 Youtubes, one for embedded viral clips you discover around the web and one for professional content that viewers subscribe to.

I think Youtube has issues shoe-horning both systems into one monetization scheme. I think this is mostly a problem of inertia but either they need to make things more stable for their professional creators or someone else needs to build a better platform for these pros.
Zoom coming in at #7 on the Alexa top Sites in the USA
Musicians
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/03/programmers-an...
I've gotten equally annoyed and recently got a trial account with Nebula. (no affiliation whatsoever)

It's nice as there are none of the YT ads, no comments, I can download things, and I get to support some Youtubers I actually enjoy watching.
Feral cats, maybe? There's just a shit-ton of squirrels and pigeons, is my guess as to why there still seems to be so many of them.

I'm a firm believer that I should be allowed to hunt squirrels during squirrel season in the suburbs. They're so big there.
Nice! Some feature ideas after using it:

- It would be great if you could use your webcam as your face, in addition to the emojis.

- Ability to send messages in the room and have them appear above your head would be a nice feature.

- Being able to set your username would be nice so you know who is who.

- It would be cool if there was multiple room types, and the creator of the room can pick one (A theatre, a grassy field, a living room, etc.).
>> from the hillbilly type VM bug/truck combination to the amazing Cobra replica that few can tell from the real thing.

lol! I'm a hillbilly living in the Ozarks who used to make custom cars for movie stars in Hollywood and race cars for guys like Larry Fullerton and Tony Nancy.

Thanks for the laugh!
i looked at your tumblr and dont see any discussion of copyrights or attribution. I thought that's what parent was talking about. Maybe i missed it on your site -- i didn't read the entire blog.
Lock in and one trick pony trained staff. I'm going to kill it in the next 12 months in our org if it doesn't kill me first.
Just finished Beyond: Two Souls in about 15 hours over 2 weeks. I also find the website How Long to Beat let's me know how much time I will invest in a game upfront.

For me, typically the longer the game, the more addictive it is.
Healthshare
South Korea reports more recovered coronavirus patients testing positive again
Consumer Activism's a good reason. Petty and insignificant as it may be, I became fed up with YouTube's content policies and search censorship for news topics, cut my red subscription, and put the money I had been giving toward my most watched channel's patreons. Newpipe and Skytube have been my go-to clients since.
Sure, but that's not "modifying the original system" any more. That's taking the original system (original abstraction) as a fixed/static foundation, and then expressing things in terms of it.

Which, I mean, if the tooling you've made is Turing-complete (Excel, Unix) then you can certainly say that the person working on top of your system is "programming"; but they're not programming your system. They're not writing plugins that interface with it on the same terms that its components interface with one-another (as you would be if you e.g. wrote your own POSIX shell utilities in C); they're trapped "above" that abstraction, in a sandbox, one from which they can only access the narrow subset of the API surface that you explicitly chose to expose to them.

Let me put it this way: you can get pretty far using e.g. Postgres as a custom data platform, by defining custom functions and types. But at some point, you'll need to write a Postgres extension. There's a big difference between a system that makes it easy for someone who's not a professional programmer to work on top of it (PG functions/types) and a system that makes it easy for someone who's not a professional programmer to extend it (PG extensions.) I've not yet seen a constructive proof that the latter is even possible.
PCem – An emulator of old PC hardware platforms
Same experience. Also splunk forwarders appear to be universally unreliable.
So we're down maybe 10 or 20% of US meatpacking capacity? That's... not good. (Depends on how much spare capacity there is in the system, of course.)

(The 10-20% is a guess, based on one large plant and some other plants, without hard data. If anyone has real data, step right up.)

I was in Richmond, Virginia 10 days ago, and people were saying there was no meat in grocery stores, so they went to Texas Roadhouse in order to be able to eat non-vegitarian, because Texas Roadhouse still had steaks.
AI Gahuku: AI Generator Will Turn Your Photos into Renaissance Paintings
What is the secret sauce to TransferWise? Are banks greedy, or do they have access to an exchange market that nobody else does? I've avoided them because whenever I look up wire transfer fees I get their SEO'd blog posts, but it seems from this thread that they have a legitimately good product.

I use a local bank account for incoming wires so that, if there is a problem, I can go down to the bank and talk to someone in person instead of being subject to the customer service whims of a tech startup. For me, that's worth the $10/transfer fee (though I bill in USD so I don't see forex or origination fees).
That is definitely a very insightful post you linked, but I think the project is terrible even if you block out every single possible connection between the tech and ideology. I quite literally mean that I can't read the code. They designed a variable and function naming convention which obscures what the C code is doing. The naming is all nonsense syllables and seems deliberately intended to confuse anyone trying to audit the code.

The app for example claims to be end-to-end encrypted peer to peer connections. Is this true? Is it implemented correctly? I'm not sure they could find a reputable security auditor who would willingly subject themselves to this codebase regardless of how much pay was offered.
You don't need to log in. Otherwise very similar.
Stood up a page on my website for this, got my parents running the game a couple times, and they commented: looks like how coronavirus spread.. Such is life.

http://aperocky.com/conway
The legislation that created the FDA (the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act) defines drugs to include "articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals". See https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/321, section 321 (g)(1)(B).
It used to be that 'it has to compile' but since so many people are using Python and Javascript I guess that is no longer true
Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz
Getting upvotes to get on the front page is fairly political sadly.
I'd argue that in a startup, at a very early stage, you can use external services even for core functions, if they work well enough.

Look at Intercom: now it's a juggernaut, but it started as an API mashup with a UI in front of it. If you can hit the market and start getting revenue faster you should. Many services have pay as you go and/or startup discounts.

That's your launch platform, then you start working from there.
Usually the most tabs I have open is because I was window shopping, particularly on Etsy. Etsy doesn't have a quick look option and it's faster to me to middle mouse click links to open them then go through them all once I'm done looking for a particular thing. Except it often ends up being a rabbit hole and I never get around to looking at the tabs.

You can favorite an item from the list view of items, but it adds it to the favorite list without prompting to sort into another list, which is worse than the YT or FB implementations of collection sorting. It's also easier to miss the prompt on the item view page since it only pops up for a few seconds. It ends up being easier to just open all the tabs and never favorite items I might want or not instead of going through favorites.

I tend to open various tabs to read things on Reddit, Wikipedia, research papers, etc in general and not come around to them either.

On top of that sometimes I leave things open because I want to share it later and haven't found a tool that makes it easy to sort collections like this. Pinterest is okay for things that have images, but the usability is not quite there either.
Being too argumentative can be as dangerous as being too agreeable, bother excess don’t cultivate an open mindedness to learning.
Hackernews is sending a lot of traffic my way and in your case the server shows that it's struggling. Need to fix tomorrow.