skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gameboys are neat, but I'm kind of sad that people are still mostly focused on hacking on the wimpy-microcomputing tech of 30 years ago. Nobody seems all that interested in hacking on the wimpy-microcomputing tech of today! (Well, except Arduinos—but is it still hacking if that's what they're for?)

Imagine what can you accomplish by writing custom firmware for modern IoT devices, e.g.

• a smart thermostat (Nest et al)

• a smart speaker

• a smart remote (Harmony et al)

Another very under-explored device category is the Shenzhen knock-off portable game console (not the Bittboy; the cheap stuff.) These sometimes have surprisingly good hardware in them, but only use it to run (bad!) emulators that don't take full advantage of the CPU power / memory capacity / screen resolution / etc. Native code could get a lot done on these platforms!
I wouldn't bother so much about the SEO angle as that's site owner's concern if they wish to help search engines understand them better and/or try game them - I'd say wrt search engines it's about the fact they're still the single largest primary driver in how people find new pages, and generally how sites get seen 'organically' without paying to be seen.

Yes, it's cool that the entire dataset is there to be downloaded and used as you please. I have a parser written for it as part of a knowledge graph- don't get me wrong there's good things about Wikipedia I think it just came with collateral damage. Case in point is just searching for any wikipedia title and seeing where it appears in search results, also most of the "knowledge panel" results in major search engines are derived from Wikipedia/Wikidata and deprive the original content creators of their visitors.
If the goal is an equal playing field, yes. There are significantly more barriers to entry in America for a poor black person than an equally poor white person. Housing, education (especially that which is immediately tied to where you live), employment, and policing all feature systematic and cultural discrimination that have a measurable effect on outcomes.
accurate and performant rendering (we use reacts), external display support (mirror and standalone shell), KeyCast (display pressed keys, useful for screencasts and live streaming), bundled beautiful fonts (Pragmata, Iosevka, Fira Code), full width row of additional keys on software kb (cmd is there too for cmd-c/v/w/t etc), smooth scrolling (in tmux/vim/emacs too), trackpad support (within tmux panels/vim/emacs too), links detection in selection, selection manipulation via kb (vim, emacs and arrows mode), accessibility (voice over), dictation input and IME support, port forwarding and proxy command support, images view and persistent mosh connections (you can reboot device and get connection back)
I wonder if this is also related to "peak-end rule"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule

People generally seem to remember the 'height' of an experience and the last parts of it. So an experience at a dentist where the last part of the procedure is a mild bit of additional drilling is 'better' than one that ends on a painful 'note'.
I really wouldn't phrase this as 'you were wrong'. It may well have been the choice best supported by the evidence and the potential outcomes at the time (I certainly believe so). It's just that the current evidence maybe now supports loosening the measures to a degree in most places (I also agree with that). I believe this is a much more useful way to think about it, because it avoids tribal thinking.
Agreed, I spend a lot of time in IntelliJ (after fifteen years of Visual Studio) and it's absolutely delightful.

For Rust I'm now using CLion and that's been wonderful as well. Kudos to the plug-in authors.
There have been lots of comments about how dark children’a books were. But, back then, children’s lives were pretty dark. With the high infant and childhood mortality, a good proportion of children had lost a brother or sister. Given maternal mortality, many children had probably lost a mother in childbirth. Given the nature of farmwork and the primitive nature of medicine, many children probably had a father, uncle, etc who was killed or main in an accident. And that is before you consider the frequent wars in which soldiers roamed across the land raping, pillaging, and killing. Death would have been all around children.
Because the sandboxing various container stacks provide create a much clearer line of demarcation between what is the responsibility of your ops team and your developers. It makes it much harder to accidentally depend on the state of the world.

* There are two networking stacks. Developers only see and care about the "inner" stack while the ops team is free to do anything to the "outer" or real network. Devs never see that the ports are actually different in prod.

* All the "environment" has to be passed explicitly. You can't accidentally depend on variables, files, programs, libraries, that just happen to be on the host system. Simultaneously, the ops team is now free to configure and manage or change the host system in any way they see fit.

* Devs only care that they're deploying to a swarm not any of the details of how that swarm exists in prod.

* Devs see shared storage just appear in their containers. To them it doesn't matter in the slightest that it comes from NFS, Gluster or Ceph.

* Devs just see traffic hit their app. They don't know or care anything about our LB or caching setup.

* Logs and metrics are sent to magic addresses and names on the inner network that map to the real vms outside.

* Same with the DB, Redis, Memcache, Queues, etc..
They can't process those animals for sale because the plants are being shuttered.
It's meant to provide a (poor) justification for a huge portion of their workforce getting sick on the job.
If you remove the profit regulations insurances will keep doing exactly what they are doing now while making more profit. The won’t pass savings to the patient unless forced to do so. Health care is just a very bad area to apply regular economics. As far as I know most countries have some kind of price control including the US with Medicare.
It's the same reason why those concerned about climate change inform the public rather than just tell Congress. If our food supply is in danger, that is as concerning as climate change, is it not? Or is this different because it is a corporation warning us rather than a scientist or former Vice President?
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JavaScript is great at small-scale manipulation of DOM elements in response to user events. It should've stopped there.
The perishable inventory is going bad before it gets to the store and can be panic bought.
Of course there is a balance to be struck. I'm not saying don't plan things out at all. I'm saying limit the time you spend doing it relative to the impact of the decision. That's not always easy to gauge which is where an experienced tech lead comes in to have the final say on what gets done and how long the debate goes on for. A strong tech lead is essential.
I thought they were slaughtering animals without benefit because they lacked the labor to slaughter them for retail sale. Iff that's the case, panic buying helps them not at all and maybe makes the PR side of things even worse.
A thread from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22212503

And one from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699627
What's important now is that we raise awareness of this so we can pressure NHSX to change their plan. If enough people refuse to use a centralized system they'll change track.
More systematically: offer a "good housekeeping" seal. Presumably those who have good implants will cooperate and open their books so you can look at who they install to and outcomes. Being a reliable 3rd party, cooperating and getting a gold medal seal will help with sales.
Possibilities:

- Cover for raising prices

- Cover for unpopular people practices they may (or will) be implementing that will leak and trying to get in front of the bad press

- PR support for the GOP push to get people back to work

- Cover for outbreaks or contamination that may hit the press
Bayes Classifier via JavaScript Implementation
As far as I understand, padding bits are indeterminate until you observe them via a memcpy into a buffer, at which point they will collapse (only in the buffer) to some arbitrary but now-constant value. Is this correct?
> We already have that in the form of TypeScript

While an improvement Typescript is a far cry from the likes of Ada and doesn't really compare.

> There's not much than can be done when the sole core maintainer of a popular library lands in a penal colony.

Perhaps the solution is to not use Javascript, since it always forces you into an "ecosystem" of "frameworks" at every turn - and they are not cheap! Just another thing to throw on the stack. mb's be damned.
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It's totally possible to create an anonymous and decentralised contact tracing app that does not share private data. That is what Apple-Google are working on, and what projects such as D3P-T, or my hobby contact tracing app [1] are trying to achieve.

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[1] https://github.com/RaphaelJ/covid-tracer/blob/master/README....
I don't know about vote inflation but I'm pretty sure we need some karma inflation. New users need easier ways to get in the game.

(Of course karma is silly and no one cares very much about it, but it's not nothing, and as long as we have it we should have a system with better circulation.)
Absolutely people do the common sense social distancing, but schools, restaurants and malls have remained open. Now most of the malls are empty and restaurants are not packed, but schools opened is huge compared to rest of the countries.
> Are we not greater than that as a civilization?

Are we so great that we have totally conquered disease? That we can keep everyone alive forever?

Certainly not. To assume otherwise shows an astonishing level of hubris.
Disney: Tweet with hashtag MayThe4th implies you accept Disney's TOS
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>They tried corona virus vaccines already after the first SARS outbreak. When patients were re-exposed to the virus they had severe auto-immune lung pathologies. Sounds super problematic.

You're talking about a candidate vaccine, there are thousands of those at any given moment. My company is currently working on 9 vaccines, and there are dozens of different formulations of each that we're testing for. Vaccines that fail safety do not get manufactured. Vaccines with documented adverse affects do not get manufactured. No regulatory body is going to give license to manufacture such a product when there is substantial evidence that it harms people. I think you need to understand more about the process before leveling such accusations.
Thank you for letting me know about that. Last time I gave it try it required building the analyzer and then installing the extension manually. The process is much less tedious now.
I thought the program was explicitly conceived as the country paying for a couple months of payroll to help get companies through the covid / social isolation recession. Even if you have money in the bank, every business that doesn't have years of cash on hand has to be looking at their employees and wondering if they should cut now. I think preventing this was an explicit goal.

Hence, I don't understand why people are upset?
There is a micro howto (video) in spanish language https://youtu.be/0hMmdXetxXM
Ask HN: Canadian founders/consultants, what are options for ext. health benefits
Going out on my own starting May 1st, curious to see what others have done for extended/supplemental health benefits. Partner is on mat leave so we get some benefits through her plan, but I’m wondering if there are better options than Blue Cross or Manulife. Thanks
Which OS? In QNX this isn't an issue. If you have hard real-time requirements you need to use a Real-Time Operating System.
Your experience does not match mine.

I worked through the pre-Javascript world, the jquery world, the angular1 world, and now the react world (not to mention a decade of native GUI development before that). I am vastly more productive with react and my UIs are much easier to use.

Every time I submit some 1990s or 2000s era form that gives me an error because I typed some field wrong, but also wipes out half the other fields I spent 15 minutes typing... and of course, hitting the back button wipes out the remaining fields... I want to reach into the screen and throttle someone.

No thanks.
You are proposing a cost spiral due to greed; why doesn't this happen in every industry which provides 'essentials' but has no profit-limiting regulations?

Examples would be grocery stores, clothing, transportation, etc. You can say 'this one is different' about every single industry, but why does that difference matter?
For anyone that hates "native vlogger-style ads" in youtube videos https://sponsor.ajay.app/ is a godsend.
Yes, we basically have a short lived periodic job on our Alertmangaer server which does a `sync` from the S3 bucket which stores the configs. If something has changed, just trigger a `docker restart alertmanager` basically.

Alertmanager doesn't have any solution for this, although if you decide to use the Alertmanager using Prometheus Operator, then you get automatic config reloads. We decided to keep our AM cluster independent and out of K8s, as we pointed out we have a hybrid environment.

Hope that answers your question.
The external port was a requirement for kits like this

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/411PQXERG6L...

But signal testing kits also used it.

This survived until 2G the 5110 still had it.

When 3G came out the coverage was good enough and I’m guessing that issues with signal strength in cars was more or less solved.
I always thought it was kind of a bummer that so few games leveraged the Gameboy Color's IR.

AFAIK, the only game that did anything with it was Pokemon Gold/Silver and their "Mystery Gift" trading feature.
It does not, but it seems like a popular request: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/40
Certainly, it would. I raise chickens, but less than twenty, and mine are actual chickens that live for a while not factory ones. Decently sized coops, going for a walk once a day for a few hours (I suppose happy, they seem happy) and are quite good at seeing off the odd predator when they're out and about.

You're correct, I put them in their chicken-wire yard at night for good reason. A neighbour has geese. Geese get freaked out very easily. If a stray dog comes by at 3am the entire street knows about it.

I'm not from the farm. Interesting thing to learn is to let an egg rest a couple of days, no washing no refrigeration of course. Surprised me, wonderful variation in taste.
Joking aside, the power of any water driven electricity generation is dependent on the difference in water levels on either side of the generator. Dams don't get built in deep canyons for convenience: the sites are chosen because they maximize the height of the water column.

The potential energy of a municipal sewage system, while not zero, since there is flow, is so small as to be useless, unless your city is bisected by a 400 foot cliff.
So basically the NHS wants to make it a surveillance system because they think they will get some interesting data watching every movements.

They may be right. But this piece of dirt won't be on my phone.
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All food production is a pretty terrible place to work. The only exceptions might be highly automated foods like diary and egg processing.
It's not too complicated, at least in theory. Typically you decide a lens model ahead of time that has some unknown calibration parameters (eg. focal length, skew, radial/tangential distortion). For a given lens/sensor system, the calibration parameters can be determined ahead of time by taking pictures of a calibration pattern (checkerboard, AprilGrid, etc.). The calibration pattern provides some ground truth distances between multiple points in the image. An off-the-shelf non-linear solver is then used to solve for the unknown calibration parameters.

This usually provides acceptable results for applications like correcting lens distortion, even across multiple instances of the same lens. However, sometimes better accuracy is needed - either because the lens is very cheap and inconsistent between different examples or for applications like SLAM where better camera calibration translates directly into better results. In that case there are techniques like online calibration to tweak the calibration parameters on the fly.
Here's free collection of Tolstoy's Fables for Children

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/leo-tolstoys-fable...
You would simply have a vector of 128 for each timestep (I'm not sure how discrete MIDI goes), and any of the 128 instruments turned on would be non-zero. It's not a dense encoding, by a long shot, but it's quite literal and explicit so you don't have to worry indirectness making it hard to learn (assuming you have a model which can handle such long-range inputs to begin with).

Personally, I'd rather try redoing BPE encoding for ABC-MIDI specifically.
> Not sure exactly what you mean by "vote inflation,"

The fairly literal definition of "posts on the front page get more votes than they used to", which is usually the effect of more users being on the site but occasionally also users upvoting more than they used to.
They behave like class property & method declarations. But scattered about in a function and looked up by order rather than name. This is exciting and not considered redundant and obviously a bad idea, for some reason.
I happen to be a close personal friend of the author, and happen to know that he answers deep and difficult questions from his children very directly and well; and that he allows them to see all facets of life (an eagle eating a mouse; a deer not surviving the winter) as a matter of course. Perhaps the paragraph is simply lighthearted :)
They want to use the fear of supply shortages to pressure Congress into granting them limited liability for their employee work conditions?

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/04/17/as-workers-face-virus-ri...
I've watched some German TV recently and heard politicians claim that Apple/Google demanded access to the contact tracing data if the government were to get it as well.
> >fearful/cautious of men

As a complete side note, I've always wondered how dogs tell human males from females.

Are we even sure they do?
If you to use this on Windows, you'll need to update `less.exe` with my patched version - https://github.com/lzybkr/less/releases/tag/fix_windows_vt
How so? AT&T is a big carrier but it doesn't have near the size of the Bell system, no?
This is awesome. I hope it will still be up and running in 10 years to give the future a glimpse of the past.
Have used both and had relationships with both companies. They can help fill a need, particularly if managing across Google and Bing and social. However in my experience, they lagged behind on access to the latest features, and there's an open debate on how effective their bid strategies can really be vs. Google when they cannot make auction-level decisions like Google can. The flip-side to that argument is that for some advertisers, they may not have their conversion data in Google, or may have other bid considerations factoring in that can be better handled with an external bid platform.

Ultimately, this needs to be worth the price though when their fees are measured in % of media.
I'm glad to see Show HNs ticking up a bit. We've been putting more effort into finding good ones that fall through the cracks. Anyone who wants to help with that should browse https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew.

If you see a Show HN (or any submission!) that's particularly good and isn't getting attention, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. We'll take a look and maybe put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.

The best such suggestions come from people who aren't personally connected to the article or project, but just ran across it.
Majority of authors 'hear' their characters speak
It could very well be that real users are disregarding ads (either with technical solutions such as blockers or by just ignoring them) and fraud has picked up the slack so that overall the number of clicks hasn't changed but the ratio of real user to fraudulent user has changed significantly.
See also pytorch-lightning (https://pytorch-lightning.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), which has had cluster support but coincidentally just added support for Horovod, and will add support for ray next release.
Yeah, that's the thing.
"The bigger the charity, the guiltier the conscience..."

Makes me wonder what the last generation of Gates did to these people he is now so intent on "helping".
Am I wrong to think this is a nonsensical question? I mean PTSD is just a term. I'm not saying there is not a real phenomenon underlying it but it's not something that can be objectively tested for in the sense of a blood test or something. It seems to essentially mean a subjective evaluation of "severe emotional trauma with lasting consequences"

So if you ask: "Was there severe emotional trauma with lasting consequences in the medieval world" and assuming that people 600 years ago were not biologically incapable of having emotional trauma, than yes of course, if we tested some of those people using the procedures and criteria we use today to diagnose PTSD, of course yes, we would conclude that they did have it.

Hearing psychology professionals take tautologically nonsensical questions like this seriously really makes me lose faith in modern psychology.
Just for #MayThe4th? It would be a real stretch in the first place if they made this statement about #MayThe4thBeWithYou, but just #MayThe4th???
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Thanks for showing why Bayesian reasoning is superior to frequentist thinking.

(Yes, adding the disease prevalence % is essentially bayesian, but testing everybody isn't)

Even better than knowing the disease prevalence is knowing possible proxies (again, Bayesian).

Your Covid-19 test might have a low sensitivity but if the person has a temperature and other symptoms you might want to redo the test later even if it comes out negative.
You can also compile rust-analyzer yourself. It doesn't need any custom stuff from what I saw, and supports Rust stable.
It should be noted that your privacy is not preserved if you test positive and need to upload your Daily Tracing Keys to a server. Your broadcast IDs for an entire day can be linked together, making it easier to de-anonymize you. I understand that they use Daily Tracing Keys to reduce the demand of the backend server, but I think it would be better for user privacy if they either reduced the linkable period from a day to say an hour, or used an unlinkable design.
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Three percent chance coronavirus will kill us. One hundred percent chance not having any food will kill us.

We need to re-open our food infrastructure ASAP.

This is really risky for workers, yes, they'll be exposing themselves to the virus. So let's double or triple the pay for the workers involved due to the hazards. Add generous survivors' pensions for the families of those who die or become disabled from COVID-19, as some certainly will if we send them into factories while the risks are there.

Maybe we need a program to shuffle unemployed people who have already had COVID-19 into high-exposure jobs like meat plants. Or send in the troops and man the plants with military personnel. We need somebody to produce food even during a pandemic. Getting those food plants open before we run out of food needs to be a top priority!
Yes, that's exactly how it works. Every scientist I've ever asked has stood by that. Science dispels untruth.
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