skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s how a 15-year-old asked me: If the fatality rate is 1% (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...), how many jelly beans would you eat from a bowl of 100 jelly beans when one of them will kill you?

What if you’re craving jelly beans? Or are indifferent? Or don’t like them?

What if it’s 1/100 subway rides, or times you use an ATM, or days at the office? How many times would you do it with a 1/100 chance of a quick and miserable death, plus becoming a spreader until you have symptoms?

Maybe you are personally at lower risk. Or maybe you are not. How sure are you?

I will wait for the vaccine.
If we don't know anything about the "real" (or at least, "realer") world, I don't see how we can argue for a simulation either.

If we don't know the "real" rules, how can we make any proposition? At best we might argue that our world is inconsistent, but we cannot say that's any more or less likely than a simulation (who says the world has to make any sense?).

The only semi-useful simulation arguments have to assume the "real" world is sorta like our world or at least functioning according to math. But that returns us to the simulation cost problem.
rust would be more appropriate if your intention was to use this in production. Databases ad GC don't mix well. (its done but it makes tuning a nightmare)

As much as I love rust, its learning curve is high and I'm sure Op doesn't want to spend half his article teaching all the intricacies of types and the borrow checker. Go is easy to learn over a weekend so its probably a better medium for illustrating the concepts as everything is laid out simply.
Teaching a computer to strafe jump in Quake with reinforcement learning
The below comment there from horentis got me thinking.

> This is incredible. I think the next step from here - technology wise I mean - is figuring out how devices can tap into this without needing to lose a limb.

Accessibility mode, but not as I have seen it before.
Curious, appears you used the same system for technical analysis of crypto ISOs valuations; if true, what if anything did you learn that to you was the most surprising as it relates to emergent tech know valuations?
A very interesting concept and I am looking forward to see how it works out. Industrial production of small reactors has the potential to improve the economics a bit and I hope their safety is as good as promised. However the article doesn't talk about a few key points: what are the costs per kWh being produced they are aiming for? The article talks about the reactors being "clean", but doesn't mention what happens with the nuclear waster. What other costs for longterm operations (many decades) have to be calculated? Can the whole reactors be returned to the manufacturer for recycling? The viability of any new concept depends on answering these questions.

Meanwhile, especially these small reactor units are under strong competiton from renewables. Solar plus battery becomes very cost-competitive, especially for small units. If we look towards Africa, solar is ideal there. Not only because the output level is high, but also because the seasonal variation is minimal. Storage mostly would have to last only over night.

And lets not forget about wind energy, which doesn't care about day or night and works very far up north.
As the other poster wrote, in terms of tech it does depend. It is cliche but true for me. I have worked on a few different teams at my current company. Previously I wrote an HL7 parser and worked on data integration services, so it was very domain specific. Now I am writing frontend React, which has almost no healthcare domain technology in it. I like this flexibility. It's fun to write parsers and data integrations, but when that gets tiring it's nice to do something nearly unrelated to healthtech. Edit: We deal with lots of archaic formats and protocols but most all our code is Golang and Typescript
Can anybody explain the downvotes? Daily Mail is a well-known unreliable source, pretty much a tabloid. The article mentioned it poor, as a matter of fact.
Any Philadelphia recommendations? I remember one in the West 50s or so that had a bar called Fiume over it.
That's why I only launch it when needed. The other time, I use listary (but couldn't replace Search Everything in all cases such as I need to view the dates and sizes of the list of matched files).
As colour blind (I fall under the umbrella of Deuteranomaly) I must only celebrate this kind of efforts.
I should probably know better but if I recall, up to 8-10% of male population can suffer some kind of colour blindness so it's a huge slice of population that can be benefitted from this.

Cheers
`perl -pie` all by itself probably falls into the "saved you 100 hours" bucket for me.
I'm not sure, but I think you're thinking of enlightenment as in "the age of enlightenment", whereas the quote is about the zen/buddhist idea of "enlightenment (as in, even after reaching enlightenment, nothing much changes materially).
One challenge with this is that the same name will be proposed for similar colors.

For example: https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=+Safety+Orange+

Deciding what to call a color is going to require more than seeing which name for each color gets the most votes. For a set of names to be useful, they need to make sense when taken as a set.
There are people in the workforce of our industry that were born in 21th century. In a few years, they will be the majority of our industry.
Watch HN: Bellingcat's Documentary: Truth in a Post-Truth World
[2019] (and the original pictures themselves from 2018).

Very cool but I was a bit disappointed that they didn't show/link to the original black and white images.
Golang works too. There is a few databases written in Golang, such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, CockroachDB, or tidb.

https://github.com/topics/database?l=go&o=desc&s=stars
Isn't this basically the waterfall methodology?
Not sure if you are aware of "dissipative energy systems", a possible top down principle:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...

https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-t...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5686405/
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Conway's Game of Life on Dec PDP-7, Type 340 Display, & Am Radio ByteBeat Music
Ask HN: What are the good online maths university programs
About 10 years ago I graduated with master's in CS but haven't been using maths a lot, and want to catch up on that. I do not need a university diploma, but I was still thinking about enrolling because of the structured program. Are there any online alternatives to that, free or not, that I could do during the quarantine?
Oh come on it is not that obvious. At least it took me a while to realize that this was not a superpower.

But you're right, I know I'm missing the point. I don't care, I can't help, I need to know: can this guy do something that I cannot do with a trackpad?
Working with the [Taiwan's] five major telecoms companies, the system tracks the quarantined individual by triangulating the location of the their phone relative to nearby cell towers. “Each telecom company has a different way of calculating the location of the phone, including how far it is from the cell reception tower and its direction in relation to the tower,” said Jyan Hong-wei, director general of Taiwan’s cybersecurity department. “As long as the phone is turned on, we can figure out the location. And if the phone is turned off, we’ll know that, and we can send a message to front line administrative or police officers so they can follow up.”

https://qz.com/1825997/taiwan-phone-tracking-system-monitors...

Exactly: Pervasive tracking is already available to the telcos and is being used in at least one country.
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Every time I see that color name, I think about death. #663399 is the color of death.
On my browser, it appears that the top bar of Hacker News is #ff6600. Is there somewhere that #ff6500 is used?
Thanks for taking a look!

To answer some of your questions: the goal of this (the concept rather than just this python implementation) is to read keys and values out of 'ini' formatted files from shell, by detecting which other languages can run on the machine (so far, python2, python3, php with DBA support, and php without DBA support), but Python's idea of what constitutes a valid 'ini' file is more restrictive than other languages, in that it doesn't allow for values before the first section heading (the parts in square brackets). So that's why it inserts a 'fake' section header and passes the StringIO object rather than just the file itself.

I'll look into argparse - being in the stdlib is a must - the only reason this (or it's counterpart in php) exists is because so far I've found no practical/reliable way to reliably read/write ini files via pure shell. Having to package up extra libs, or require a non-standard lib would defeat the purpose.

I wonder if that's going to be the situation with 'six' - is it a runtime library, or more of a 'build' tool, to transpile from 3 to 2?

I honestly don't remember why I ended up using the RawConfigParser rather than just ConfigParser - maybe one of the options for ConfigParser (e.g. disabling interpolation), wasn't available in earlier 3.x releases. I'll try this again when looking at the above points.

Thanks for your input, it's very much appreciated!
I'm very interested, what's the URL of your blog?
>Here is an implementation of John Conway's Game of Life on an 18 bit DEC PDP-7 with a DEC Type 340 X/Y point display. Patterns are stored on and can be called from our new JK09 PDP-7 storage device which is what we use for UNIX V0. We have set a few starter patterns including Bill Gosper's Glider Gun.

>The sounds you hear are from the Type 347 display controller. They were received using a Yaesu FT1XD radio in AM mode.

>The world supports 1296 points (36 x 36). We are attempting to increase this to 72 x 72 or 5184 points.
Italy Turns to Online Groceries: Going Viral with Covid-19
I was going suggest “Pleb Management” but the acronym “PM” is already overused between Product/Program/Project Management.
Corruption isn't the same everywhere, and America is an exception in the western world (along with italy).

It is partly caused by the (1) extreme levels of devolution; (2) politicisation of every level of public life (eg., even judges are elected); (3) barriers to removal of elected people from office.

Kind of a perfect storm: elect everything, make being directly elected sacred, and nearly impossible to undo.

In the UK almost everything is appointed, including the prime minister who is not directly elected to the office. The PM is then quite often removed from office, along with the whole class of unelected civil servants whose entire careers are spent working for the government regardless of who is in office.

The huge levels of institutional professionalisation this allows basically makes corruption nearly impossible.
Regex 101 has probably saved 100 hours for me: https://regex101.com

(Back when I was looking for something like this, Regex Buddy always popped up in the search results but it didn't look good enough to fire up a windows VM just to use it. The auto-generated explanations based on your regex/test data from regex101 have proven to be tremendous debugging aids.)
There are many comments with P2P and serverless together. How can this work when the users are not on the same network?
Just picked up two more 36 bay sata 4Us for the garage on eBay - only $500 each!

Shoot me an email if you have bulk old/used sata drives for cheap. I’m buying.
UIPath RPA has been very useful for automating what ppl like to call donkey-tasks (repetitive/time consuming mundane things)
The biggest reason is typo and type checking. Any typo is a compilation error. But the type checking is even more interesting. You basically create a subtype of string which is correspondingly type checked by the compiler. Functions might return a keyword instead of a string.

One funny thing you can do in Go is for example to create a subtype of int and change its String() method to return the hexadecimal representation of that int. Very neat.
You might expect to hear this, but what you're hinting at was done by xkcd: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Particularly, what you're describing is this: http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_1024.png :-)
Listening to a PDP-7 with an AM radio isn't exactly ByteBeat (since you're technically only allowed one line of code), but it sure sounds a lot like it:

Meet Bytebeat: A Brand New Electronic Music Genre

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkzakx/meet-bytebeat-a-br...

>Become a slave to the algorhythm.

>Heard about the latest computer music genre sweeping the internet? It’s called “bytebeat” and if this comes as news to you, don’t despair, the thing’s only about five months old, so you’re still ahead of the curve. Bytebeat is algorithmic music created from one line of code and was discovered/invented while Finnish low-tech artist and programmer Ville-Matias Heikkila (aka Viznut) and his friends were experimenting with the computer programming language C code and creating one line formulas that could produce an audio output (see below).

Bytebeat: Music from very short programs - the 3rd iteration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRPUv8V22o

Bytebeat - Music from math formulas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25aVWtNcAm0
Nice. I did not know this. I have set mine to #fff2af. I used to manually edit each character and see if it fits for me. It is 480 of 2923 in that list!
+1 for ranger for me
If we ever come up with a cheap and safe energy solution, people will find more creative ways to waste energy, instead of doing more useful things with it. I.e. mining bitcoins.
It only sounds like a partial solution really. You'll still end up with a load of random files in `/usr/local/etc` and unless you maintained a 100% strict policy of only installing using Ports (yeah right) you will eventually get some files of unknown origin.

The proper solution is proper separation of app files, as found on Mac (more or less), NixOS, Android and iOS.

I guess FreeBSD is still stuck in the 90s with Linux (except NixOS).
Best 40EUR* I've ever spent (* actual price might be different now). It has everything you might want in a file manager (advanced search, integrated archive management, diff, multi rename tool, multiple tabs, FTP client, customizable UI and many more features). If you need additional functionality there's even huge plugin library.

Been using it from Windows 98 as a "trial" version, so during all those years saved hours count is immeasurable. Sadly, there's no decent alternative on Linux. Krusader looks functionally almost on par, but there's something about UI and lack of integrated tools (it uses external programs for some functionality) is throwing me off.
I’m sorry but this article sounds like some pretty egregious reactionary astroturfing. Harping on and on about the cost of the Green New Deal as a given is suspicious in itself. Of course infrastructure investment programs have costs. It just happens that the public would see dividends from it, not just a handful of industrialists.
> [Haskell] suffers from a problematic culture

Perhaps, as you claim above for Java, there is no one Haskell culture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22847925
A very big pain we've been having for a while is debugging our app that's been running on Kubernetes for the past year. The local debugging tools are great, but attempting to debug certain issues in a remote environment is a major pain that probably wasted hundreds of hours of waiting for tests, redeploying etc.

To mitigate that, we've been using a tool called Rookout (https://www.rookout.com). We no longer need console.log statements in our code - We just set non-breaking breakpoints via their Web IDE and it just works - we get all the data we need, and without redeploying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is it just me or do some of those look surprisingly like fractal patterns?
Gullible to an extent, but I didn't come away with the impression that those officials were acting in good faith.

If you truly believe what you're doing is good for your community, you don't typically shroud the entire process in secrecy, suppress dissent, and only make a public announcement once the deal is practically set in stone.
State of fear gives the answer.
GitLab CI/CD.

Once it is in place it saves plenty of keystrokes and routine tasks.
Original NASA links -

- https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/images/index.html

- https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Juno

- https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/index.php?search=Juno
> Wow I see no mention of no systemd in FreeBSD here.

The author wrote about it in the "part 1" article linked in the introduction.
I don't love its web interface. But its ability to do the smartspeed thing + sync the played status to my phone for when I move from my desk to walking the dogs has been enough to stave off the switch for me.

What are you thinking about switching to?
> why would you deliberately release a bioweapon in a densely populated part of your own country?

Purely as a thought experiment, China's death rate and infection rate seems orders of magnitude less per capita compared to Western countries so maybe it is the perfect bioweapon for the task, minimal self casualties enough for deniability but the other side really takes a beating..

Again this is just a thought experiment and not a serious speculation :)
Because people don't like spam?
Not directly related to the article, but I would like to point out that Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, is a fantastic public speaker, have a look at this talk he gave at MIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUUgTavzgSk.
It is, however, common knowledge that calling that particular person orange is meant as an insult. No need to have a precise definition of "offensive" for cases like that.
@foone is probably my favorite.
hmm. jobs@ntropy.network should be working. which one did you use?
I think you mean macOS.
I agree with you people are linking to garbage sources pushing propaganda, misinformation or muddled garbage.

What a lot of people are trying to do is execute the classic psychological trick; make the problem go away by finding someone safe to blame.

Won't work for SARS-COV2. It doesn't care.
We are not judging the validity of the claim from the claim alone. We are doing so from the pattern of behaviors around it by the CCP and how those patterns correlate to priors we’ve seen in the past when they’ve tried to hide the truth.
I use PyCharm and tried several times to such to vscode. I forced myself to only use vscode for 10 days.

I was relieved when I switched back to PyCharm.

Vscode is nice but still quite far away from some good IDEs.
In the old days everyone was a computer nerd.
> Go ... has top notch garbage collection

Is ballast[1] still required for certain use cases?

[1]: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i...
Emacs. I probably lost at least 100 hours initially learning to use it and optimizing it for my personal workflow. But it’s certainly a net positive by now.
The usefulness of xclip is the thing that's currently preventing me from accepting fedora's urging to switch my default session to wayland.
Nature is amazing, I wish I had these kinds of graphics settings in Kerbal Space Program.
I do not like the shaming tone of this article. Petabyte server today is a small box that fits anywhere. Meanwhile some people have hundreds of shoes or clothes, but nobody calls them "hoarders".

Anyway, I have offline storage, because my internet connectivity is slow. I do not like waiting, so all my content is downloaded overnight with a few cron scripts.
spectrwm - a tiling window manager

fzf - a command-line fuzzy finder

tmux - a terminal multiplexer

bash / zsh and the console tools (grep, sed, awk et al.)

python
A one post fake blog about absolutely nothing[0], knocked-up five minutes ago, on a garbage domain extension registered a few weeks ago, exploiting the clickiest topic of the day and posted to HN. Who's the coronavirus spammer here, exactly?

[0] The only issue after wasting my time reading most of the post is that it was, according to the author, spam (UCE). Otherwise it's no more remarkable than any other affiliate marketed ebook trash that aren't worthy of blog posts.

To fill the article the author complains that the book simply gives "trivial" tips; but if the tips are good advice ("proper handwashing techniques") or at least not harmful, so what? Maybe there are people who don't trust the Federal Government or UN or WHO or CNN but take advice from the kind of thing you might find advertised on alexjones.com.

The rest of the article is just about the ways companies hide who they are and use fake office addresses. Again, so what? It's not something I particularly support or agree with but it's commonplace, not a secret and seemingly not illegal.

I was struggling to see why this was written, other than it's related to the topic of the century, until I noticed it was a fake site with only one post and that is the only reason it was written.
And for that matter, not that exciting either. So someone scribbled something in the manual.. what next, can I say I found an Anti-Trump joke in the Constitution, after I print a copy and scribble something on it?
Nice project but I have a couple of questions of the team:

1. How will you deal with bots and griefers since there appears to be no login required?

2. When is a color considered named? More than X votes for the top name? Any final QA to check for profanity, trademarked terms or other malarkey?
I use this:

https://opendata.ecdc.europa.eu/covid19/casedistribution/csv
> - keeping all your configuration files (“dotfiles”: shell, git, etc) in one, version controlled place.

The thing that finally made this worthwhile for me is GNU stow.

https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/

Stow is available from homebrew if you prefer to get your Mac stuff that way.
Pretty much dead and replaced by what? (I am curoous as I thought it was a well established standard)
The V8 snapshot feature is designed for this. https://v8.dev/blog/custom-startup-snapshots
Spotlight is built in, but Alfred’s also a good one.
If you want to tracking ad-free without js use nitter.net:

https://nitter.net/ayende,foone,levie,getify
Slightly off-topic here, but you might like the tdlr project[1]! It's community-maintained, example-focused documentation for common command-line tools. Currently, there are over 1700 pages, and it's very easy to contribute new pages or improve existing ones, because it's all in simple markdown on github. (For example, [2] is the source for the tar page.)

[1] https://tldr.sh/

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tldr-pages/tldr/master/pag...
For this particular case, I use a ncurses based file manager: ranger
Uber Veteran Raises $31M with a Pitch to Battle Coronavirus
Alright. Call me when those bright candles have found a permanent long term solution to radioactive waste disposal.

So far, I’ve noticed we’re still leaving several cores’ worth of highly radioactive spent fuel sitting in a pool next to the core containment vessel. Just a SNAFU away from blowing into everyone’s living room...

But that’s only temporarily, of course! They’re smart enough to know it’s not a permanent solution; just a lifetime long.

Pardon my sarcasm /s
And in UNIX tradition, zero reasons for anyone that cares about graphics and multimedia.