skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I put ubuntu LTS on my thinkpad T460p and everything worked flawlessly except for the fingerprint reader. For thinkpads that seems to be the rule: everything works except for the fingerprint reader.

If you want good linux support on a laptop you need to do some research, but there are options. Thinkpads, XPS, ... They’re just not that much cheaper than a macbook if you want comparable specs.
Yes, absolutely. Not only bandwidth but CPU usage as you must encrypt and decrypt the video for every participant separately
I believe it's 256
What about those colours which live beyond the pale of RGB in LAB space? Will they forever be nameless?
Would be nice a multi-language support
Hey, I independently came up with a similar solution (https://notryan.com/colors) and it renders to HTML.

But ugh... I applaud your simplicity. I used `unzip` instead of zcat, but I guess .zip files normally use GZIP internally. And, I didn't know you could use `sort` for a specific field! So I ended up using a full SQL engine... Learn something new everyday :)
Gen. Buratai plays his last card
Do you mean cursors everywhere, or actual atoms? I maintained a fairly large project (3 man years or so) that used local atoms only for ephemeral components where you'd want to lose their state when hidden.

Components were passed cursors in to a single global atom, which more or less worked OK.

I think I'd use the re-frame model starting from scratch, but managing the app's state was probably not a top 5 problem for me. Every program is different of course!

Integrating external libraries, validating data, server side rendering, caching remote queries and tracking down compilation/logic errors would probably be my top 5. This was 5 years ago though.
Absolute bullshit.

Sochi went from being a dump to being a somewhat popular vacation destination for middle class people.

There's room for argument on whether federal funds should have been used to make Sochi richer and nicer, but the article as written is basically fake news.
Previously on HN (46 comments, 2 months ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22342314
Fulcro is also worth a look. I've been using it for a few projects and have been happy with it so far.
I tried the it, the quality is pretty bad though.
I worked for Jeremy. I still think his idea is really beautiful, and when it applies the math is airtight, but it hasn't matured into sharp predictions for real systems.

There were some simulations, but even then it was messy. For example, there were setups where energy was supplied by a driving force, and you could evolve "resonators". A naive application of Jeremy's ideas would predict a lot of structures in resonance with the drive, but in practice you often got less, because too good resonance actually made the structures break apart. So you couldn't get a sharp prediction about the final state even for a really simple system.

The issue is that thermodynamic notions are inherently "coarse", they only give you a high-level view of what's going on. Sometimes it's not powerful enough to say much useful unless you also know the detailed dynamics. This is also why, even if sharp and correct predictions were made for simulated systems, it's quite likely that biologists wouldn't view this as a true explanation for life. They would, perfectly legitimately, want to know about the detailed dynamics, the specific chains of chemical reactions that actually happened.

Now I'm in particle physics, so I'm not up to date, but the same dynamic happens here too. There are lots of beautiful ideas that come up, generate a flurry of excitement, and then get stuck for lack of sharp predictions, or feasible tests of those predictions. We file them away in the hopes that their time will come, possibly generations later. Science is hard!
I made doodoo red for you instead:

https://colornames.org/color/d00d00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22342314
The question I always end up with - how many simulations deep are we? Universe A builds a simulator to see how it works, it then builds a simulator and so on. We can never communicate with the original universe, so we build our own simulation.

As always if simulating universes is possible then the probability we're in level 0 tends to 0.
There's a downloadable dataset! Would be fun to train a color-labeling model :)
Well, what I mean is the ultimate goal of Waymo is on-demand rides from self driving cars, much like what Uber/Lyft do today with humans (rather than, for example, selling the cars).
We can and there are many implementations of it, but the relatively rare application of this approach suggests it's not a big enough win to justify the cost.
Basically, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_compensation plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution_imaging
It's a grey area.
Black, flake8, isort and mypy (with several type strengthening flags) have together ensured that Python editing and code reviews are an absolute breeze. The structure basically disappears, and all that I ever need to concentrate on is the actual change.

Sure, you can use your IDE to achieve some of this, but this is where the 80/20 rule really breaks down: since each IDE differs in the details, at some point auto-formatting the code is going to waste more time than it saves by having to undo or work around mutually incompatible formatting rules. You can't reasonably expect everyone to use the same IDE, but you can expect them to use the same Makefile targets and CI pipeline.
Why New Jersey’s Unemployment Insurance System Uses 60 Y/O Programming Language
There is no debate-silencing coercion involved in posting a link to a humor piece.

The debate stops spontaneously, because the participants are too stumped to respond to the ways that the form managed to anticipate serious flaws in their ideas.

If you can't defend your ideas in the face of some piece of net humor written years earlier, what good are those ideas?

That piece is in fact the encoding of a requirements specification; it shuts down the debate because it intrudes into it with some real world requirements that e-mail has to satisfy, and continue to satisfy while it transitions to something new. (Some of it is plain wacky, too, but not all).

A lot of programmers are very good at pretending requirements don't exist; they think that design means inventing your own requirements and making everyone else follow them. But a world-wide electronic mail communication system isn't an editor, video game or toy compiler.
Recycling of nuclear fuel, outside of helping remove the waste problem, greatly increases your energy reserves.

However, it got essentially scuttled in the name of war as control over access to nuclear technology, even for purely peaceful uses became the dominant doctrine.
Kind of surprised Tesla isn’t further along. Maybe FSD is further than we thought.
Thanks for the post. There’s a depth to Conway talking about his most commonly known piece of work, and his reactions to it, that gives one a lot to think about.

Also, this is the second time this weekend that I’ve heard John Conway refer to Scientific American. I used to be a regular reader some twenty years or so ago. Is it worth looking into again?
I agree that we need to design languages that take into account advanced optimizations, but we're pretty far from the limit of compiler optimizations - partly because many languages have inconvenient semantics for it. We haven't even begun to leverage data layout optimizations and there's a lot of things about feedback directed partial application style transformations that haven't made it out of academia to production compilers.

In some sense we can always fully specialize a program to its current input and make a lot of radical changes to data layout and represesentation. But in languages like C/C++ where programs can "see" struct/array layout, member order, pointers as integer values that have fixed order, spacing, grouping based on the program specified data types, this is prohibitively complicated.
On X11 you have /etc/X11/rgb.txt with ~750 color names.
Major JavaScript Concepts Explained Simply
The 200 years number is for the most inefficient (and producing most radioactive waste) types of reactors, but those reactors are also the only ones USA wants you to have, so...
> What is good about recycling nuclear?

Less mining.
Ask HN: Where can I access live, raw data of Covid 19 cases by country?
I'm working on a calculator to calculate the actual number of Covid 19 cases based on the number of deaths in a region (using https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCa0JXEwDEk as reference).

Does anyone know where I can access the live, machine readable data of Covid 19 cases by country?

Do I need to build this out myself by parsing the html of WHO or such?
I recently learned of the many git shortcuts and others such as “take”, combining “mkdir” with “cd” [1].

1. https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Cheatsheet
Plutonium IS toxic

Dominant mechanisms of toxicity are associated with alpha radiation

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp143.pdf

There is sufficient evidence in humans that inhalation of plutonium-239 aerosols causes lung cancer, liver cancer and bone sarcoma. Exposure to plutonium-239 also entails exposure to plutonium-240 and other isotopes. /Plutonium-239/

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/plutonium
Untrue News
It's bizarre to me that comments like this one are being downvoted instead of being engaged with
Hey how is this better than the Janus webrtc server? It's been developed for a decade, and could flip a page like this in an hour or so. I'm genuinely curious how you could surpass it in stealth, like minus the marketing fluff.

https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/videoroomtest.html
How to install an AppleScript and save a lot of time writing blog posts
The entire website is obviously a silly joke. Even if the colours were distinguishable you wouldn't go about naming them in this fashion but in some more systematic fashion
- WallabyJS - makes writing tests almost feel addictive, and being able to run and debug the JS directly in the code has saved me hours.

- Jetbrains IDEs - the refactoring and debugging tools are second to none.
15-20% of Americans have lost their jobs in the last three weeks.

We don't need to import illegal labor -- there are plenty of folks who would love to be able to earn a living again.

And since working in farming would qualify as "essential" they could get special dispensation from the government permitting them to leave their houses.

(All according to plan, I'm sure)
My install of this stopped working on my work desktop suddenly a few months ago. I was without it for about a week until I was able to figure out what was wrong, and in that time I realized just how incredibly dependent I am on this simple utility and just how much Windows search sucks for finding anything.
As trasz points out, RAID is not a backup. Nothing stops e.g. a filesystem bug or a crypto-locking malware from destroying everything on a RAID array. & that's before we get into the fragility of hardware RAID controllers giving up the ghost for no reason and then you not being able to import the drives into something else.
Fantastic post. You have summed up my thinking perfectly on this.

As for the regulatory question, there has never been a vaccine developed from epidemiological data before so nobody knows what the regulators will say.

I suspect what they say is going to depend on what alternatives exist at the time. Right now we won’t be getting a conventional vaccine until the end of 2021 (at best), while if we start looking we may have isolated a natural attenuated viral strain within 3 months. Do the regulators sit around and say we want a perfect vaccine and we don't care how many people die, or do they work with what they have in front of them and make the best of a difficult choice.
Every TV Show cop’s voice
“Enhance...”
It's happening! I'd say we're no more than five years away from a computer interface that integrates with your existing fingers.
Ability to load follow depends on the type of the reactor.

We have a vicious cycle involved here, where old (if made safer) designs that can't load-follow are the only option, due to lack of funding for newer tech (like, late 1970s tech). At the same time the limits we put on nuclear mean that not only regulation-related costs are huge, reactors are made pretty much on one-off or very limited series basis, meaning we don't benefit from any kind of benefits of serial production, including better QA.

There are load-following small, modular reactors (adapted from nuclear submarines) that will even self-seal in case of rupture and that promise the option of just transporting them on trailer car. They languish in design bureau due to issues in getting funding to start even a demo plant in present political climate. China is helping move the tech a bit forward, but that's not enough.
BTW, Slashdot is #006666
How is lyft's platform more powerful? Their apps both seem identical.
I Tried to Sell to a Customer Who Was Secretly a Master Salesman
Hah, I love it! There's a lot to dislike about HN and the culture here, but questions like these that sort of make me go "Well obviously not, because ... erm" are quite common and always interesting.
In which category is Python's byte code compiler? Toy or production-grade?
Python beginner here. Can you please elaborate on how you use Black, flake8, isort and mypy for code editing and code reviews?
What Is the Ruby Legacy?
Lazyboy #123456
Prime #135711
Did you even bother to google where these plants are located? One of my colleagues' wives is an operator at Waterford. It shut down during the 2011 floods in good time.
Hopefully proxy re-encryption will solve this soon.

(disclaimer: this is what I work on)
- Remote Leaf - Saves hundreds of hours in the job search.

Remote Leaf collects remote jobs from 40+ remote job boards, social media feeds & 1200+ company career pages, LinkedIn and sends the ones that apply to you.
America could have saved many lives. Since March 13 the death increase is ~15%
Digital Art Manipulation of Old Photos, Newspaper and Animals
Apps hosted on .netlify.com to redirect to .netlify.app starting April 14, 2020
https://community.netlify.com/t/changes-coming-to-netlify-site-urls/8918

Starting April 14, 2020, sites without a custom domain are being moved from site-name.netlify.com to site-name.netlify.app . Traffic to any site-name.netlify.com address will be forwarded to site-name.netlify.app using an HTTP 301 redirect. New websites will also have URLs ending with netlify.app by default.

This could cause issues for sites which don't have CORS configured properly for the netlify.app domain or where proxies (such as a Cloudfront origin or Cloudflare) are being used in front of the Netlify server URL, as proxies often don't follow 301 redirects.

Netlify sent an email about this dated April 1, 2020 but I just noticed this email by chance due to a Google reminder today on my phone. Wonder how many people will be caught off-guard by this tomorrow, especially due to the long Easter weekend just before this deadline.
Even a Commodore 64 could simulate our universe given enough time and memory. Our only clock source is the passage of time itself so even if it was being simulated extremely slowly we would never notice.
Ask HN: Ideas to Explore and Develop Together?
As the WFH currently happening, I have automated most of my works, giving me some downtime to work on ideas/hobbies rather than watching shows.

Any suggestions on ideas to explore and can be developed together?
Broken window fallacy. If one has money for vieogames, one has money for basic needs and needs no UBI.
The thing that always impressed me with FreeBSD was how it was a complete integrated system, and not a group of miscellaneous parts in loose formation.
Keechma looks better than re-frame imo https://github.com/keechma/keechma

Wish it had tutorials for newbies like me.
I am running both at the moment but I must say that I am warming more to FreeBSD, reminds me of the early Linux days, before the systemd wars.
Musk tweeted today "Functionality still looking good for this year. Regulatory approval is the big unknown"

With regards to the "first robo taxi deployment"

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1249210220200550405?s=21
The Arch Wiki is pretty damn good in my opinion. I don't see how FreeBSD's documentation is better, if "better" = more useful and up to date.
Definitely agree! I switched to Spacemacs about 1.5 years ago and the increase in productivity was amazing.

If you work with Git a lot, it's worth looking at for Magit alone. The way you are able to perform complex tasks with a few keystrokes is a huge timesaver for me.
This assumes a color must have only one name. Why not two, or more?
sed, along with grep and awk
I just recently replaced a bunch of YAML in a project with JSON. At face value the YAML still looks easier to grok, but I kept needing to periodically think about YAML<->JSON. At one point in the middle of yet again running JSON through a YAML conversion process to see how I would write something, it dawned on me that YAML wasn't saving making my life easier it was making it harder.
> 3) Fuzzy file search in your editor

I’ve been using “fzf” [1] for file and directory search and I can’t recommend it enough.

It integrates nicely with vim [2] as well.

1. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

2. https://youtu.be/qgG5Jhi_Els
But you're not giving each one a name. Slacker.
I'm not a fan of global/slideout terminals either. I typically have multiple tabs and multiple panes within each tab tiled on the right hand side of my monitor.

CMD+Tab is enough of a global hotkey for my needs, and it's usually only one or two tabs anyway.
I was good at physics math in high school and was at a pretty hardcore STEM highschool, but we never got into quantum physics somehow. I went to economics studies.

So for me, my worldview pretty much stopped at the whole mechanistic worldview. Tbh any times I read something philosophical/spiritual mentioning quantum physics, I was dismissing it as quantum woo.

I also believed in the whole lack of free will thing and was believing it I guess till very recently. I have to say it made my life a lot worse in retrospect.

I guess this is one of the toxic memes that take away agency from people.
OS Clipboard and Google search.
Photos of Jupiter from Juno space probe (2018)
You Can Benefit from People-Driven Learning
Eg: Start out looking at nanoparticle functionalisation, then stumble on a very useful sensor application or targeted molecular delivery.

Eg: Work on autonomous air sensor, then find simple off shoot application for tuberculosis using a completely different technology.

Eg: Build a medical laser for transdermal drug delivery then find applications in dental work and scar tissue removal.

Eg: Design a flexible heterogeneous compute cluster for hpc application, then get customers who want it for the low administration cost.

You start by bringing some very competent and diverse people together to tackle some tricky and new problem. Then after a while you'll have found a bunch of peripheral questions and applications for one thing or other you create in the project.

People talking and sharing experience and knowledge will almost always find new stuff out in the dark. If you're working on the edge of knowledge there is almost always interesting stuff hiding just outside the light of your personal flashlight. Bringing people together in multidisciplinary projects is amazing.
because 10 days is the same amount of time you have to report a personal crash as well
Maybe call them Coder”s Blue etc..
The distinction between /etc and /usr/local/etc is the headline fact here. As a sysadmin, your goal for long term stability is to separate the important bits from the volatile bits to stop them from treading on each other’s toes.

Separation of the core OS from the services it is running is the key to keeping a hygienic separation between components sharing the same file system.

Debian — of which I was a long time fan — solves this by having a culture of pretty neat gardening, keeping each package separate in /var/spool/foo, /etc/foo, /usr/libexec/foo, but not /usr/sbin.

But it’s all so old fashioned now that we live in the utopia of (1) machines that are spun up and then deleted automatically and (2) LXC means I have a fleet of “hosts” providing ns0.domain ns1.domain, mx.domain, www.domain, db01.int.domain all as containers on the sanctity of a relatively unchanging base host, analogous to packages installed on the sanctity of the FreeBSD base operating system, and all edited as config files that can rebuild everything except the /data and /log directories in a matter of minutes.
HTTPS: //Youtu.be/Z7bAajzw48w
Sasur ab sasur nhi baap ho gaya poetry by swati pareek
Sasur ab sasur nhi baap ho gaya hai
At the current rate, should have them all named within a year.
This might help: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
I traveled around the US to practically every major city of the United States selling software to middle/high schools. The quality of education is excellent in certain places and abysmal in others. You can probably guess the correlation between school quality and the wealth of the surrounding neighborhood.

Even if you were to tackle the issue of vast economic inequality, you would still need a new generation of parents who understand how to nurture an academic culture within their home and community. It is irrelevant how helpful our education software was to the classrooms who implemented it - it requires students who value education and who show up at school with food in their stomach and without the all-encompassing stress of what awaits them at home at the end of the day.
Meanwhile Scandinavian countries and big chunks of Scotland are already more radioactive than areas close to the closed Fukushima plant...
Can we compile C code into PowerPoint?
Trump can be a word meaning “done better”. I trumped you at math.
If you assume some notion of an object's description "really existing", it's easy to then assume the Universe must have a zero information description, since otherwise the description would be "outside" the Universe. And then you've backed yourself into a corner: what could zero information describe that also contains our observed universe? All mathematical structures it is.
Vimium for Chrome. Using vim hotkeys + EasyMotion in place of most clicking has saved me a lot of time.
Better still

> alias g="git"
Delver Lens has saved me tons of time scanning Magic: the Gathering cards: https://delverlab.com.
The health sector is large and big. It depends on what you want to do and where.

If you are manipulating personal information and patients data, and perhaps storing it, it's very very different whether you are in USA or Germany for example. The local laws and rules are very different. Germany is very strict while USA isn't at all.

In my personal experience, security and privacy are very important. The quality of service is also critical too, though the healthcare providers do have backups plans when a service is unavailable.

In terms of technologies, it's mostly the same than everywhere else. You can't really expect to have full stack medically certified software, including the kernels, the compilers, the vms... So you usually use the software industry standards and certify your service only.