skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off should mean off.

They could do what Apple does, perhaps.
#ff6600 can be named as bhagwa
Isn't there a whole community dedicated to this: indiehackers.com
https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/ "Pollen: the book is a program"
We will all get the disease, we won't delay it enough to get a vaccine. Those people will just get it earlier.

What we are fighting for is to not let everybody get it at the same time. Because when that happens, not only this disease kills a whole lot more, but other diseases and accidents and whatever start killing many times more too.
Fixing plsql errors in Oracle. Only a c++ compiler in a bad mood gives more errors or as inscrutable ones ...
> Why can't they just queue my order with an expected delivery date like Amazon?

Because grocery delivery in normal times is more time-of-day sensitive and more subject to “if not at the desired time, I will not want it or get it by a different means” than general merchandise, and so grocery delivery systems are optimized around those conditions.

Now, obviously, with a mass shelter-in-place order, “as soon as possible, and I'll be here and ready to accept and store it whatever time of day that turns out to be” is a lot more common for groceries than it normally would be, but no one built their systems around a maybe once a century public health event.
this is next level!
This title is pure clickbait and gives no information about what Aurum.js is.
I'm familiar with that flag, I tried to use it to set up a local development environment on my NixOS laptop. It forces you to use easyCerts and Flannel, neither of which you should use in production on AWS as a default. Disabling them to have more control over rotating certificates and to use AWS VPC CNI networking takes you well far away from a managed experience.

Additionally, the channel ecosystem as it exists today does not allow you to choose your minor version of Kubernetes, which is another issue if you want to keep your underlying system up to date but also want to make sure that you're controlling when you adopt a new minor version so that you can deal with deprecations as necessary.
Unrelated to this specific article: The USPS is a crucial part of the US infrastructure. The thought that we could loose it over mail in ballot voting is a sick joke.
Plex/Emby/Jellyfin are a media-server, while Kodi. Not saying Kodi isn't cool, just that comparing it to plex is apples/oranges.
Nah, no one uses an initialism to refer to Data Science! I'm betting it's Direct Sales.
Agree with both sides of latex
You can. They sell pellet guns at Walmart. Good ones that will kill a squirrel. From experience understand giving one to kids will likely end with a pellet through a window or through a shoe.
Yet another basic service society needs, raped by capitalism.
Both MacOS and Windows are relatively annoying platform for which the "official" programming tools are not free. Additionally, there is a network effect: GTK applications, specifically, remain on Linux because GTK on Windows doesn't work too well.
Failure to control for confounders.
> If there are no slots at all, sure that's a problem

That's just it, this last 4 weeks when I've tried to order online, about 75% of the time I've seen no slots at all, from 3 or 4 different providers.
SARS-CoV-2: Estimate of the development of the epidemic reproduction number [pdf]
I've noticed HN often has two opinions about advertising depending on the day of the week:

1) It's an unchecked, all-powerful evil, making people buy or believe in things they don't want or need by hoarding their data

or

2) It's a giant ineffective scam that stupid companies who aren't led by engineers waste VC money on

The two are diametrically opposed, yet, I've seen the same person argue #1 on Monday when it fits the narrative, and then on Tuesday start arguing #2--blissfully unaware of how both cannot be true at the same time.

Could it be, that both 1 and 2 are wrong, and that advertising spend is simply reduced during recessions in reaction to the reduction in spending by consumers? Why pay money to acquire customers when the customers aren't willing to spend money on new products?
Old text page about it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151109010757/http://www.megali...

Probably more up-to-date github archive:

https://github.com/adriancable/8086tiny
I won't say it's political, and it isn't about karma. There are political submissions (I sometimes submit/upvote political articles deliberately to "test the water", i.e. not because I agree, I simply want to see what are the opinions here), and there are cases when people care about karma.

But often, there are simply many technically interesting articles you'd want to share, and I have a small history of success of submitting technically interesting articles to the homepage with no politics involved, such as tips and tricks of microcontrollers or the use of 50-ohm transmission line in RF engineering. My conclusion is that an attractive title [0] and some luck is needed. However, I tried to include the keyword "Building a RISC processor in Game of Life", but it still fails to get any votes.

My conclusion is, unfortunately, the majority of HN reader doesn't know what the Game of Life is and/or doesn't think building things in GoF is attractive.

[0] HN has a fairly strict "original title" rule to discourage clickbait, I mostly agree, but sometimes a title genuinely doesn't completely explain and provide enough context about what is in the article, which is otherwise interesting. No votes and no readers would be the result, which isn't really fair.
From https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/02/the-comment-policy-is-... :

{necessary, kind}:

> Recognizing that nobody can be totally sure what is or isn’t true, if you want to say something that might not be true – anything controversial, speculative, or highly opinionated – then you had better make sure it is both kind and necessary. Kind, in that you don’t rush to insult people who disagree with you. Necessary in that it’s on topic, and not only contributes something to the discussion but contributes more to the discussion than it’s likely to take away through starting a fight.

{true, kind}:

> Annnnnnd sometimes you might want to share something that’s not especially relevant, not the most important thing in the world – but if you do that it had better be both true and kind. No random interjection of toxic opinions that are going to cause World War III. No unprovoked attacks.

(personal comment - the recent HN thread on castle Guedelon, where a bunch of experimental archaeologists are building a medieval-style castle, was perhaps not "necessary" or "relevant" on a tech forum, but it was kind in that I very much enjoyed the half hour I was reading about it. Since there were no false claims about castles on that page, I'd count that as "true and kind".)

For good measure, {true, necessary}:

> Nobody can be kind all the time, but if you are going to be angry or sarcastic, what you say had better be both true and necessary. You had better be delivering a very well-deserved smackdown against someone who is uncontroversially and obviously wrong, in a way you can back up with universally agreed-upon statistics.
i came here to be scathing

i see daotoad has already taken care of that.
I have thought about this for a long time. For me the meaningful change means it needs to work at the OS/GUI level.

What people miss in this thread is there 2 kinds of complexity we deal with - one that is fundamentally understanding the field and a second that is understanding the complex tooling required to do things. The latter has been getting much more complex lately (frequently multiple programming languages and multiple software packages) and a good set of fundamental tools that can operate in a loose environment is absolutely a big thing to aspire to
It's also fairly easy to run your own recursive resolver in case you don't want to use an external DNS service. I use Unbound and ad-blocking lists and it works great.
> Their profit margin is usually in their efficiency in doing it better than you

This is a very nice way of framing the question.

I think there may be at least two scenarios to consider. For some products, cost is primarily driven by R&D; for others, cost of operating the service (COGS) dominates. Of course it's a continuum, but I suspect there are more services near the ends than the middle.

For an R&D-dominated service, if your needs are nontrivial and there is an off-the-shelf product that is a decent fit, you probably want to go off-the-shelf. A commercial provider can amortize the R&D over a large customer base.

For a COGS-dominated service, the commercial provider may still be more efficient but it is less of a slam dunk. Log management (e.g. Splunk) involves a substantial operational component, because you're dealing with large volumes of data.

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Scalyr, a Splunk competitor. Early on we realized that, even though log management is COGS-heavy, we could achieve huge economies of scale, because query workloads are highly bursty. By carefully managing a central pool of resources shared by many clients, we're able to run much more efficiently than a single-tenant homegrown solution [1]. This is one of the key points that we highlight when having build vs. buy discussions with potential customers.

[1] https://www.scalyr.com/blog/searching-1tb-sec-systems-engine...
Here's a result [1] from a system I've put together, primarily using AsciiDoc(tor) and PO4A[3], to allow us to write a source document then translate it into multiple languages. It produces HTML and PDF, but ePUB is an option too.

Using AsciiDoc rather than Markdown has several benefits. The language supports many common book features, especially for technical books, like those "! Warning here" callouts, cited quotes, captioned figures/tables/codeblocks, internal links, I think even an index. It's also a lot more stable; I'm not concerned that there will be significant syntax changes in 5 years time. The user manual [2] is the quickest way to see what AsciiDoc can do.

PO4A is an adaptation of GNU GetText to use on prose. PO4A's output can input into a typical translation workflow -- distributing the files, or using online translation services. It mostly supports AsciiDoc, though there are some bugs, and outputting a PO file directly from AsciiDoctor (with a plugin) might be better -- PO4A parses AsciiDoc itself.

The code is at [4]. It's in slow development when necessary for new documents; I don't particularly intend to polish it for release or wider use.

KiCAD's documentation was the best example of something similar (AsciiDoc + PO4A) to what I've put together.

The missing pieces, which are closely related, are translatable and flexible diagrams. AsciiDoctor supports plenty of diagram tools, but none of them can do this. For example, the diagram at [6] is an SVG, which (since it's XML) can be translated using PO4A. However, in French the longer text spills out of the boxes. The previous diagram is an image, for this reason.

Is there an open-format (preferably open source) diagramming tool, which supports wrapping text, and even resizing "too long" text? I would be very interested!

[1] https://docs.gbif.org/collections-idea-paper/ or (in progress) https://docs.gbif.org/effective-nodes-guidance/1.0/

[2] https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/

[3] https://po4a.org/

[4] https://github.com/gbif/gbif-asciidoctor-toolkit/

[5] https://gitlab.com/kicad/services/kicad-doc

[6] https://docs.gbif.org/effective-nodes-guidance/1.0/en/#box-e...
The reading material is "unwelcoming" to discourage coming into it with any preconceptions. If you go into it trying to make it do $x, you'll have a bad time and send lots of annoying emails to the maintainers. If you come into it wanting to learn about it and derive an $x from your experience, you'll have a better time.
> Dietary supplements are more or less unregulated, as long as they don't claim to diagnose or treat a disease. This is not exactly a great situation for consumers.

If dietary supplements were regulated, they would probably 1) cost 10x as much 2) be prescription-only 3) only be affordable through health insurance 4) there would be 1/10th the innovation compared to what we see now.

I'm a consumer who consumes a basic set of supplements (vitamin d, vitamin k2, magnesium, multivitamin) and I'm very happy with how things are now.

I'm glad that the extreme level of waste, red tape, and corruption that affects the rest of the medical industry does not affect dietary supplements.
> highly trained baristas

And its sort of an insult to training, since there is very little actual formal training. Over 95% of the processes I use in developing software and systems are ones I've learned on the job, not learned while learning to be on the job.

An apprentice system would work extremely well with software development.
> Also,I believe it's possible to build a covid-19 safe ,pickup process.

It's not at any reasonable cost for any stressing concept of “safe”, but any reasonable pickup process is probably going to be less of a public health risk than in-store shopping even with reasonable effort at maintaining social distancing and personal protection.
I for one am delighted to hear mz's unrelated life story for the 500th time. Who's with me.
Can't you do exactly that by looking at the network inspector in any browser and then right click "Copy as curl"?
Console games have a low-tech cheating mechanism known as a Lag Switch, basically a switch that will disconnect the cheater for ~3 seconds. Here's one around the 1:35 mark and he tests it at around 4:00
https://youtu.be/iXUmhGruPRo
We had a moderately long thread on the question of scripting versus "change the code" over on the ardour.org forums, starting with a post from me ...

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/is-open-source-a-diversion-fr...

TLDR: i still don't know if most of our users would prefer a more scriptable application even if it was closed source.
Measuring the effectiveness of brand advertising on YouTube is more difficult that measuring TV/newspapers. TV and newspapers have higher repetition at an individual consumer level so the "which newspapers do you read?" or "which programs do you watch?" survey questions work. Additionally TV and newspapers have older audiences who are both more tolerant to ads and susceptible to brand advertising. YouTube is not particularly effective for CPA advertising so the technologies from other Google ad products are not that relevant.
Just left a data engineering job in adtech. Speaking from personal experience, marketers make terrible ROI analysts because they always want to spend the same or more. Agencies are especially bad.

Most incremental lift studies I've seen are valid, looking at CTR and A/B testing as you mentioned. But as soon as you start looking at revenue and brand lift, all studies seem to come to the same conclusion - the higher the spend, the better.

Don't get me started on multi-channel attribution... garbage.

Marketing is still very much spray and pray with diminishing returns. And in most cases, marketers will claim otherwise.

I got tired of drinking the koolaid. Modern marketing is just as fraudulent as ever. Agencies are just getting better at lying.
That link was in my sources. And no, 70% were over 1500 Bq/kg.

100% of animals (only 8, because of limited funding for testing) tested in 2020 by the Southern Hunter's Circle in Gävle (that embedded link in my post) in were over 1500 Bq/kg, with an average of 6263 Bq/kg.

SSI/Livsmedelsverkets's irradiation limits are "low" (your opinion) for a reason, because we just don't really know much about the long-term effects. These limits have not been changed since 1986 in Sweden, but what I do know is that they're 3 times higher than, for instance, in Germany, which sets the limit at 600 Bq/kg. The US: 370 Bq/kg. Japan (implemented in 2012 after the Fukushima incident, because there were no prior legal binding limits): 100 Bq/kg. Yeah, what a "pity", as you say.

The original post was not "preposterous".
Shit, that's exactly what photoshop used to look like (photoshop 7)
Thid librarybis one of my friendd that deserved to be known.

His library is yet an other DOM rendering library but that is way faster thn other common libraries when dealing with lots of dom elements.
It deserved to be checked and tested.
A benchamrk is coming soon!
Plz give us you money for nothing in return.
Nobody in power has suggested this as a possibility. It’s fearmongering by the democratic media.
I think you're staring right at the point, without seeing it...
Olive tree disease across Europe 'could costs billions'
A story of Netflix adopting StackStorm for autoremediation is a nice illustration of this approach. They began to build a tool, learned enough to be dangerous, discovered StackStorm and used it, experimented with it like with a breadboard, until finally figured out exactly what works - and reimplemented it. All these time learning the system was working and delivering vale.

Part of this story is here
https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-winston-event-driven...

Disclamer: StackStorm founder here (but not pitching).
so more information was added when the new page was created? which made it seem like the deal was good for the higher tiers?
Know Understand How to Keep Your Lungs Healthy and Lead a Healthy Happy Life
Hillbillies are some of the best mechanics.
As someone who has used Linux on the desktop for the last few years, I've never had the first three issues. The last one I believe is the same on macOS which I consider to be a fine desktop OS.
I'll give you an example that mid-way [1] disproves the above.

Think of a typical "product tour" in a SaaS product. We're building the MintData product tour, in MintData itself. We then "publish" this "product tour application", and include it with the original blank design that a user gets when they first enter MintData.

So, in a way, our MintData onboarding is built in/on MintData itself, a bit like how you can have a bootstrapping compiler (one that compiles itself).

So, is the above us "modifying the original system"?

I think to some extent yes, although we have special spreadsheet functions that help jump the gap between Onboarding Application and Blank User Design (akin to the Postgres extensions [2] above).

So I think it is possible to build a system that allows you to then customize the system's own behavior (earlier versions of MintData could not build the onboarding experience, similarly to how the first compiler has to be built in a lower level language).

Genuinely curious -- derefr, do you agree or disagree with the above?

--

[1] Chief abstraction wrangler at https://mintdata.com, so YMMV on the above.

[2] As a person who was held at Grade-point and forced to write PostgreSQL C code to "modify the original [Postgres] system", I can only say it's an acquired taste :) Even Prof Franklin at UC Berkeley I think would back me up on this :D :D
Show HN: I made a gratitude journal phone service for families to call in to
There was a bipartisan plan to include 30 billion in funding for the Post Office in the 2 trillion dollar stimulus bill.

But the administration said they wouldn't sign anything that included emergency funding for the USPS. That doesn't prove what the administration's motives are, but they certainly seem hostile towards the USPS.
Plan 9 is lucky - by design it is self-contained and has no dependencies.

One of the hardest parts about building many complex open source projects (particularly on Windows and macOS) is getting their dependency stacks in order.
Simulate activity for Google+Apple's Bluetooth contact tracing framework
Indeed! Came here to say the same thing. That code [0] was via Nibble Magazine, which was pretty great back in the day.

[0] https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
Recommended GitHub Integrations for 2020
__bottomline: A full-on PHP manipulation utility belt; a lodash equivalent
What about variable speed limits, construction, etc?
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/02/the-comment-policy-is-...

LessWrong is one of those sites, but for sheer elegance of writing (in my very personal opinion) you can't go much better than Scott Alexander.
USPS only.
I've hiked the entire park. Literally ever trail except for maybe 1-2 miles.

The park is massive. It would take about 2 weeks doing 10-15 miles a day to cover the entire thing.

The VAST majority of the park is empty. If you go more than 2 miles in you have the entire place to yourself.

There are places in the back country that would be ENTIRE national parks if they were anywhere else. Maybe of the waterfalls don't even have names.

I want wolves and grizzlies reintroduced.

The upside of grizzlies and wolves is that all the slow and sick tourists would be eaten thereby strengthening our species.

Jokes aside... We did it in Yellowstone and it's time we let wolves back into CA
Cool homage to the original, but I think not displaying the full city upon first load (and using fog to obscure out-of-view parts) diminishes the appeal to potential advertisers.

Who would want to buy a building out in the corner? Maybe the starting location should be randomized, at least.
Wonder what happens when soldiers can't send/receive mail from their families
From “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin [1]:

“The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit. The parks themselves are limited in extent—there is only one Yosemite Valley—whereas population seems to grow without limit. The values that visitors seek in the parks are steadily eroded. Plainly, we must soon cease to treat the parks as commons or they will be of no value to anyone.”

He includes a lottery in his list of possible solutions.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243
I was speaking generally in terms of self learning in compilers. Your criticism was that the article focused too heavily on the front end and that the magic or the needed focus is on back end issues (scheduling, selection).

I think there are a couple things in play here. Folks working with text, semi-structured data, synthesizing from disparate sources, etc will be front end heavy. Tokenization, lexing, is important outside of more than compilers, like loading binary formats from network or disk into memory.

For backend work, being able to extend or modify existing backends is important for languages targeting different runtimes (Spark, Beam, Impala). This can be in targeting new architectures or for predicate pushdown into data processing pipelines. Lots of different applications to use those skills.

Compilers and Database systems are an incredible microcosm of many areas of CS.

Areas of self study I think are nice are

MAL - Make a Lisp https://github.com/kanaka/mal

Nand2Tetris, project 11 https://www.nand2tetris.org/project11 (one should start from zero and make your way here, it is journey not a destination)

An educational software system of a tiny self-compiling C compiler, a tiny self-executing RISC-V emulator, and a tiny self-hosting RISC-V hypervisor. http://selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at

LLVM is a huge system, libFirm is a much smaller, simpler system that includes a c front end. From their site

> libFirm is a C library that provides a graph-based intermediate representation, optimizations, and assembly code generation suitable for use in compilers.

https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/
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