skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing a program that pulls article URLs from Pocket, saves the content as PDFs, groups that up in categories based on Pocket tags (e.g. #econ, #tech, etc), and emails out composite PDF "volumes" to me as they hit 250 pages. Plan is to then send them to a cheap PDF printing service like https://www.printme1.com/ (if anyone knows of anything even lower cost, I'm all ears).

I like reading physical books and taking notes in them but I realized there's a lot of good content in the form of blog posts, articles, etc that I also want to include in my primary information diet and it would really help to have them in paper copies that I can easily write on and reference. Much of the kind of content I anticipate saving also has superior information density versus books, so I'm excited to get this working.
It's not as complex has say drawing SVGs, but I've implemented Bezier curves, stippled lines, arbitrary rounded rectangles (html style) and subpixel-antialiased font blitting. I'd say that's far from just "placing" a bunch of textures.
The apple is not months old, but more likely a year old. They are kept in cold storage for extended periods of time.

The truth is that it makes horrible sense to ship crops to the US from anywhere outside of the US.

US agriculture policy is broken fundamentally. It is corn, soy, wheat. It is what is used as the feed stock for industrial food production. Basically, all the pseudo-food that lines your grocery store shelves. In the US, your tax dollars are used to subsidize the production of this "food" so that it is artificially cheap.
We do mostly structural steel at work. Some jobs require all welds to be inspected using ultrasound and magnetic particle tests, so we weld to that standard pretty much all the time on every job.
I really enjoy the vector-based style. Shape-based illustrations are really pleasing to me for some reason.
This looks very interesting but I have one concern: Wouldn't code where the "view" part and application logic are tightly coupled be way harder to test than an architecture that renders the view in a pure function and does state management somewhere outside entirely? (Which is not what React is today but might correspond to the original idea.)
A friend of mine who is a teacher pointed out to me that “highly gifted” children were actually special needs children. She used this term because she worked in a highly competitive district where parents were constantly harassing her to consider their children “highly gifted”. Once she used this term, it became easier for parents to accept that their children were doing fine in “normal” class, which was quite good anyways because of the average aptitude of the students.
So if the lab theory lacks evidence - where's the evidence that it came from a wet market? I've seen a Lancet paper that there were cases outside of the market that couldn't be traced to the market either - so it can be inferred that it didn't start there.
It definitely felt that way to me.

When he was finding the optimal angle for a single sampled shot, that's the partial derivative of his probability of making the basket for that shot wrt the surface normal
at the backboard hit position (or something like that).

If you average all of those you get a gradient descent update.
Not so much a complaint, childish or otherwise, but a genuine question about your moderation policy. The topic of this story is not the metric system, or whether or not certain stereotypes are OK to propagate. On what planet is this (below) less offensive than what I posted, basically just poking gentle fun back at him?

We're talking about a country too arrogant to adopt the metric system, meters are just too much for them. The optics of possibly using international standards is too high of a political cost because then they'd use the same thing as everyone else. The Horror! America is like an executive who insists on having their own private elevator.

I think my own comment history speaks for itself as being representative of someone who doesn't start flame wars, or whose posts otherwise make HN a worse place in general. Yet I'm often the participant whom you go out of your way to call out.

I enjoy taking what amounts to troll bait at face value, responding in kind while still attempting to add something to the conversation, and seeing where the conversation goes from there. If you have a problem with that, your problem is actually with the original trollbait or flamebait, not with me. I'm not usually the bad guy in these threads. Certainly not in this one.
Cowvid-19 has a better ring to my ears.
It's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me to read these kinds of weird things with no practical application. It's just a little refreshing to read about something technically possibly, but frivolous (no offense meant to the OP, of course) just because it can be done.
I do think that many lock downs should be ended as soon as we can, although some restrictions should last for an extended period of time after the other restrictions are lifted. Such continuing restrictions may ought to include:

- Business travel remains banned, except return trips.

- Commercial airplane travel remains banned, except return trips and medical supplies.

- The environment must be protected (including, but not limited to, humans).

- Those who wish to be isolated shall not be required to go to work, go to the store to buy something, etc.

- Testing the virus can continue, in case it can be mitigated.
> You prepare for a 1 in 10 chance event which other people don't prepare for; i.e. is you act exactly as if you think it will certainly happen, but you tell yourself you don't think it will certainly happen?

"Prepare for" is not the same thing as "think it will certainly happen". It's a case of making your cost-benefit calculations appropriately. You don't do all the things that you'd do if you thought it was 100% going to happen, you do a cheap subset.
While I really support and empathize with the restaurants, the apps only came about because there was a need. For DECADES, restaurant web sites have been absolutely awful. Every single one has some combination of crappy auto playing music, terrible pictures, and out of date menus that were impossible to read (on mobile) PDFs or bad fax copies. They always seemed to focus on some artistic vision of how the chef wanted you to feel about the food, with custom, hard to read fonts, flowery language that sounded good but actually said nothing, and daily specials from 6 months ago.

Online ordering through them is extremely difficult or just impossible. None ever adapted to mobile, even though that’s been around for 10 years. Most still have not bothered to claim their business on Google maps so you can get a good phone number.

The 30% markup can be seen in many ways as the fee for cleaning up their mess and making the menus and ordering actually usable for people.

This may have come off as more harsh than I mean it to be, but much like taxis and Uber, the restaurants left the door wide open by providing such a bad experience, and the apps solved it.
Because the code smell reeks? You've greatly increased complexity. Did you read about debugging the whitespace? What a mess.
I'll tell you another reason why people underestimate difficulty of startups.

The probabilities are completely uncertain. You just never know how big it can get or how likely it is.

If you are optimistic like I was, you "hope for the best" since that one guy did it right? In essence, you don't know how hard the problem is.

In the corporate world you do know the probabilities, so you get scared by it.

TL;DR: Once you know the true probabilities you'll know which is a better option
And these bonds can be stronger than the base materials, so that it’s actually least likely to break where you glued it.
The most usable application I’ve seen recently (including the ones I’m working on :( ) has been our 2000ish era work time entry system.

My initial gut reaction when I saw it was ‘oh god, how ugly’, but then I noticed how pleasant it was to use.
Between this and https://stopthemingmy.app/ and the various other systemd/freedesktop “anti-hacker” initiatives, I’ve been finding Linux to be more and more becoming the opposite of the operating system I’ve used for the last 20 years.
I think I'll faint seeing AI progress anymore.

I didn't even think this was possible. Have people ever done this manually before? Like without AI?
I have seen the persona thing everywhere from startup accelerators to books on effective pitching as a consultant.

It is a useful sales tool as then the people people management types who can easily relate to the persona.
I have the opposite problem, spent most of my early career in win32 and x360. Having been on Linux derivatives for the last ~10 years I've yet to see debugging tools as good as Pix or Visual Studio.
Not bad, although you may want a few other formats, in addition to HTML format: true plain ASCII text, plain Unicode text, and recipe format.

Also, it should be corrected so that it can be used as a command-line program (giving the URL and desired output format as command-line options, producing the output to stdout).

The ability to search for recipes (perhaps using a SQLite extension, or using SPARQL queries) would also be good, but that is something else than this, I suppose.
Windows 10 is even worse. It swipes up for you when you press a key, but it won't pass that key on to the password box. So you have to press a key and then type your password. At least with gnome you can just type your password and it works as expected...
Simulate random throw angle/power and random angle at point of impact; remember which angles lead to basket.
> Would you rather fly in business class comfort for 8 hours or with less comfort for 4 hours?

I'd take the 4 hours any day. At that point, it's reasonable to take a trip to Europe for a long weekend.
Citation please. I haven't heared about it.
Still, I try to avoid GUI stuff and freedesktop stuff as much as possible (I do use a window manager, but not GNOME or KDE or whatever), and write better programs when possible, but a few things don't. I don't use any desktop environment at all. The web browser is one thing that isn't so good. Really, many things should be moved out of the web browser and made to work by simply nc, curl, etc. And some things work better with local programs, but others with remote, with whatever protocol is applicable e.g. IRC, NNTP, SMTP, etc, please.
I've only used it for small GUIs (a couple of files & dependencies) but `pyinstaller --onefile` is about as easy as it gets.
It’ll be nice when startinvest launches their alternative trading system for crowdfunded startups.
The easiest way to estimate/visualize it is that the normal dump trucks you see on the road are 20 ton dump trucks. So at a maximum it's two dump truck loads, which doesn't go very far. In reality sand is pretty dense/heavy so it's even less than that.
But there's a broader issue here besides using an internal employee calendar. Amazon could have just addressed their employees legitimate concerns but this just comes off as petty and out of touch. It's not like they can't afford to treat their employees better, they're choosing not to do it because they'll profit slightly less.
There is an open source or portable Launch Configuration? VPC? Security Group? IAM? etc etc?
I don't think programming by rote is actually possible past a relatively low threshold. Code is relatively delicate, so just "add strings to files; invoke" is not going to work for most strings.
I was responding to a point about supersonic transport, not this plane.
The problem with gnome is that they don't seem to validate their ideas at all. As a result, gnome users are directly subjected to the unfiltered whims of gnome's UI "designers".

Instead of spending the substantial donations they received[1] on who knows what, the GNOME foundation should have spent some of it conducting proper focus groups.

1: https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/05/anonymous-donor-pledges-1...
I'd be surprised if it even pays for itself. Running a gTLD is not intended to be cheap. $1M pa is the ballpark I've seen quoted.

Lots of people had the idea that they'd get a million customers and so even at one dollar per customer they couldn't help but make money, the reality in a lot of cases was few customers and no route out.

A handful of general purpose gTLDs work, there's one quite popular in Russia for example, using Cyrillic characters instead of Latin, they have a broad base of paying customers.

Most of the rest are pure vanity and can be expected to have similar lifespan to a vanity .com domain. Some will be sold to speculators, some will be expensively dormant for years, many will be abandoned and forgotten.

Mostly gTLDs were/ are a way for ICANN to make a lot of money exploring stupid people's greed.
As a user and driver, the intended experience is very obviously the app, not the site.
There is still Trinity [0]. I think it will be very hard for them to switch to client-side decorations, even if they wanted ;)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Desktop_Environment
Yes, I'm aware of the concurrent mode contract. But do you see the Stockholm syndrome here?

If I were to tell you that in order to use a hypothetical Floober framework, your code must be tail call optimizable or else the framework has undefined behavior, surely you would think the author of Floober framework was insane.

It seems strange, for example, to dismiss async functions on grounds of function coloring when the alternative is coloring functions with a conceptual requirement of "purity". Or to ignore the opportunity for a paradigm shift to something more naturally reactive (e.g. a la s.js) considering how there was already an API shift when going from OOP components to functional + hooks.
I'll agree with all of this, I've had many of the same pain points over, whatever, 15 years of doing the same. The UI on these controllers is terrible and often impenetrable. I remember whatever HP used for 'hardware raid' on DL380g6/g7s was prone to locking up+crashing under heavy load.

But, again, this is very low end to middle end 'hardware raid'. It's single-digit disk stuff. It's a cheapo PCI card in a cheapo server.
Far more people may have been infected by coronavirus, study estimates
https://www.graphiti.dev/guides/why
Musk says he sent ventilators to hospitals, they say they got something else
Really, just let the delivery by requesting by telephone call instead is better.
> IME it's all down to the implementation these days, which is a low-bidder-gets-what-they-pay-for kind of affair.

Then why does wireless not have these exact same issues?
If you make a comparison with the same amount of time for both, that's true. But software can ask questions for an hour. A doctor won't.
So if you know of 10 different events which may occur with probability 10% each, you would prepare for exactly one of them?

I think it's clear that there are some events that may be rare but which are cheaper to plan ahead for than to deal with after the fact, and vice versa (e.g. for many people self insuring against minor losses like appliance failures makes sense).
I’m on 19.04 and haven’t experienced the swiping up. Could it have to do with me running i3 instead of Gnome?
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Systemic moral hazard, zombie companies enabled to continue to engage in more over capacity at a time when demand is falling off the cliff side, etc.

C17H19NO3 for those who don't know they're in the hospice yet.

Things most of my fellow americans dont give a shit about though lol Oh well, don't live stateside so meh.
I imagine that they’re really talking about shell LLCs that people have to do personal things for various reasons, that have no payroll, and perhaps no assets, apply for a PPP, because they’re legally a company.
If this is the new reality of the world we live in, what do you think will be the new protocols for international travel?
I imagine a standardized heath test without which you can't board a flight?
there is a maximum viable egg size, which is about as big as an ostrich egg, due to the square-cube law. Eggs need to be semi-breathable, but as volume increases cubically, surface area increases only quadratically, but surface area is needed for breathability.

So huge dinosaurs had eggs that weren't much bigger than ostrich eggs, containing relatively tiny offspring. Maybe they would have been very cute. Or not, since baby birds often aren't that cute.

Since eggs had to be small, many dinosaurs utilized r-selection, like sea turtles for example, producing large numbers of eggs that only a tiny percent of which would survive to adulthood. This may also be why there were such ferociously efficient superpredator dinosaurs, because there were large numbers of relatively helpless juvenile dinosaurs scampering around to be preyed upon.
I love how the pretty mockup always assumes that text or images fit perfectly.

It’s probably the single biggest cause of issues we have.

It’s interesting, because the one time a designer asked for my feedback before handing the design to management (the best one I’ve met, but they left the org) they hadn’t even considered it, but were all too happy to take it into account.
Seems fine-ISH. At least they're selling a different product.

In theory, as an SV DINK, I should be able to afford business class. But every time I try to pull the trigger on the tickets, it just kills me. What, $1400 coach and $7000 business? Times two people? Are you effing kidding me? Those business class seats do NOT take 5 times the space. And they want you to pay double ($2800 or so) for 'premium economy' which is a footrest, "economy plus" legroom (eg, a $100 upgrade), and a bit more shoulder room. Again, it's not 2x the space of a coach seat.

If they're gonna charge 3x as much, and provide a vastly different service, I'm all ears. Even if the seats suck just as much as a coach seat, at least I'm in it for a much shorter time.
Do restaurants not get to set prices?
> Right now, most tests are being performed in response to patients presenting symptoms. This creates artificially high results.

You don't think anyone else has noticed this? The estimates have been based on lower numbers than the raw data.

> The infected cruise ship had a death rate of 0.7%

I agree that the Diamond Princess was particularly interesting because of the high testing rate. Your number is very clearly wrong, though. The actual numbers reported was 13 deaths in 712 cases, or 1.8%. They also have 55 unresolved cases, and someone who has been sick for this long is looking at worse odds than the general population.

> 1.3 million deaths is an order of magnitude more than what is being projected. Earlier this month, the range given was 100,000 - 240,000. Now this projection has been lowered first to 80,000 and now to 60,000:

First of all, those numbers are going down precisely because of the measures you're complaining about. Second, they're clearly implausible. The 60,000 estimate is from 9 days ago. Meanwhile, the current official count is just shy of 40,000, and the excess deaths have consistently been double or more of the estimate for COVID-19 deaths (Italy, for example, is reporting 6x [1], while NYC was until a recent change in their reporting showing 2x [2] - but we haven't seen these changes anywhere else in the country).

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/coronavirus-is-only-...

[2] https://gothamist.com/news/surge-number-new-yorkers-dying-ho...
Why Professional Photographers Cannot Work for Free
I mean, a 34 year run is a pretty good proof of concept. They weren't running on Sand Hill VC bucks.
I personally think juries are a great way to convict innocent people, and that adversarial court systems privilege people who can afford to pay for the best storyteller, so arguments from that direction start out hobbled.
Sorry not $10, more like $7

Source: https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/not-rs-5...

>India announced a Rs 1.7 lakh crore economic relief package >ensuring cash transfers of Rs 500 a month, and food >security. However, the package is less than one percent of >the country’s GDP.
Agree. React started out simple, but now is over-complicated. Here's another tiny lib to use JSX in a native JavaScript application.

https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

Uibuilder is "close to the metal", so there is no heavy library--especially one that completely changes the programming model of the web--sitting between your code and the browser
That's absurd. An A6 is a much bigger/nicer car than a Model 3. I'd say the A6 is Model S territory, both in size and price. Of course this is complicated by the lower running costs of the S, but the much more spartan interior, which was basic even in 2012.

I've got a Model 3. It's a fantastic car, and as a BMW fan, I'd choose it all day every day over a BMW 3 series. But I'd take the A6 for the same price.
I mean a IIc+ is pretty rare, regular Apple IIe, or IIc's are not all that rare - neither are IIgs's really
Wuhan restaurateur resorts to importing high-tech food packaging machines
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Probably because a lot of us actually like this. I cannot deal with things like IRC where the whole screen is just a big blob of text. I need something to visually distinguish who the message is from.
Makes sense that this would evolve naturally. At that depth only the groups that communicated this way could coordinate and survive
Parents of very gifted kids routinely seek out support groups to help them cope. It's absolutely not all upside. Social challenges are a very big part of the problem.
Thank you for this link.

I really appreciate this kind of meta-commentary on the recent trend of single purpose sites. It would be easy to dismiss them, but they’re as much a part of the web as any other content a browser can render. It’s a sign of a mature platform when you have trends and norms while also admitting outliers and oddities.
what do you mean by wireless?
Aerodynamics modeling is incredibly difficult. You could probably test a smaller scale model, though (probably they have).
So far this sounds more 'affordable' than 'business class comfort' which I STILL cannot afford no matter how hard I try to justify it to myself.

There's gotta be a market for an all-business-class plane, since we know that first/business subsidize coach, but nobody's doing it yet. The airlines want to throw those business class seats out as perks to people spending corporate dollars, not charge the end user what they actually cost, in which case "real humans" could afford them.
Good reply...but the real question is why has nobody stepped up to replace it? Close quarter communication is only becoming more prevalent, why do we live with a broken standard?
While there is technically no proof, there is a lot of evidence that the universe is infinite. In particular it's curvature is flat within the margin of measurement error which implies an infinite universe outside the observable universe.
That's even super awesome. I didn't watch the whole thing yet, but he seems to comment extensively, as opposed to staying quiet on the inner thoughts during the whole thought process – which is of course the most crucial part.

Thanks for sharing.
I grew up on the IIgs at school. I can only imagine that there were millions of them. They were certainly outdated at the time; I think I had a Performa 6112CD (PPC 601) at home during the era those were in my school.

(I might be mixing up the eras a little. I most remember the Performa but that was the next computer after my 386, to which we upgraded from a Tandy 1000. I still remember writing my first program on the Tandy.)
The Apple effect: Germany fears being left behind by Big Tech
Big if it happens. I was going to ask how much "teeth" do they actually have.
Sorry but now I must know what the original version was!
I’m just throwing out ideas but what if I wanted to take working python code and convert it to rust? Could I use this to start as the baseline and start replacing bits of it and see that it still produces the same output?