skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing devil's advocate... doctors are neither omniscient nor perfect.

> Shouldn't my doctor morally and by default be suggesting the best treatment for what I have?

Shouldn't programmers by default be suggesting the best algorithm/programming language/design patterns for the problem at hand? In a perfect world, yes. But we live in an imperfect world where sub-optimal choices are made due to time constraints, lack of knowledge/experience, etc. Doctors are not exempt from this same phenomenon, in fact it may be amplified because there's just so much more knowledge you need to index and access compared to programming. Just as you don't know about every web framework in existence, doctors don't know about every medicine in existence.

"Ask your web designer to see if using Svelte is right for you."
Reminds me of the famous case of a letter addressed solely with a drawing of Alfred E. Neuman being successfully delivered to the offices of Mad Magazine!
Also the ability to upload custom emojis.
This doesn't work for everyone, but if you can do it then it works well. Don't answer any calls from a number outside your contact list. If it is important, they will leave a message. You can then call them back by looking up their number on the website.
This is the way of thinking about it that works best for me. As you fall into the gravity well of the planet from behind it, the planet is moving in the same direction as you. That means you spend more time in its gravity well catching up to it than if it was stationary. As you pass the planet you have picked up as speed boost from its pull. But as you travel away from it, because you are going faster you spend less time in its influence, so the deceleration is less than the acceleration you picked up on the approach.
This is a good middle ground. Alternatively, you can charge an incredibly small amount for the book, like $1. Even asking for donations when you download the book suggests greater worth, in my mind.
I've got it (albeit limited to 7 digit numbers) in an interview before.

Lots of fun edge cases to handle.
Geez, your writing voice does not sound 16.
> Dealing with Riot/Matrix system/client confusion. Most people don't care about such distinctions, I should probably just focus on talking about Riot.

The thing I haven’t figured out is... why would people find this hard to understand for chat, but not for email? Everyone uses email, and everyone knows they can send an email to whatever email address they want no matter who their provider is.
As is mentioned elsewhere a lot of that might be the case of just no one talking about it publicly. I went to high school in the era when smartphones just started to be a thing. No one was really talking about sex out loud, people would get caught with drugs occasionally (a lot of xanax and weed), but why would anyone talk to the person who sat at the lunch table with the kid who wore a tail everyday.

I was also in one of the first schools that issued laptops to all students. The use of them was similar to how the parent post described smart phones. The honors/ap kids would either type notes or just not use them. The CP kids would be on... whatever the unblocked site of the day was (people figured out pretty early on that google docs/google wave were good ways to chat). The weirdos like me were playing cat and mouse with the tech people hosting proxies, imageboards, and meebo (IM client) repeaters. I'll never forget the day we went to the stupid url we used for it, and it redirected to barney.com. We also had a rather robust sneakernet set up for distributing giant packs of flash games and early versions of minecraft.
It's possible to make visual user interfaces to text based programming languages. And that's especially convenient for programming languages that are good at drawing graphics.

Here's an interactive visual programming and debugging user interface to the PostScript programming language, implemented in the NeWS dialect of PostScript:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-shape-of-psiber-space-oct...

The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines — October 1989

Abstract: The PSIBER Space Deck is an interactive visual user interface to a graphical programming environment, the NeWS window system. It lets you display, manipulate, and navigate the data structures, programs, and processes living in the virtual memory space of NeWS. It is useful as a debugging tool, and as a hands on way to learn about programming in PostScript and NeWS.

The PSIBER Space Deck is a programming tool that lets you graphically display, manipulate, and navigate the many PostScript data structures, programs, and processes living in the virtual memory space of NeWS.

The Network extensible Window System (NeWS) is a multitasking object oriented PostScript programming environment. NeWS programs and data structures make up the window system kernel, the user interface toolkit, and even entire applications.

The PSIBER Space Deck is one such application, written entirely in PostScript, the result of an experiment in using a graphical programming environment to construct an interactive visual user interface to itself.
Brain-decoding computer can partially restore touch
Why does the school allow anyone to keep their phones on their desks, much less tolerate use during class time?
Bubble Sort in JavaScript
I would guess that more of this difference is explained by class/social factors than by the passage of time.
The 19 MB difference is alpine linux crud, musl and other base things in my custom docker base image.

In theory I could do the multi-stage docker approach to get an as-tiny-as-possible setup (and I actually do this: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/master/Dockerfile) but that won't cover ca-certificates generically.
> I've seen both sides, and it's really surprising how well this unwritten system works.

Mind giving more details for someone who was last a teen more than a decade ago? :-)
Weird distinction.

There’s no difference from this over using weechat relay.
It's not just that, but we became a culture where your neighbors will call the police if you let your kids walk around the block alone.

The Baby Boomers criminalized and curtailed almost all the risk that made childhood and teenage years adventerous. I got to watch things getting systematically removed as I grew up. My brother is a few years older than me and we went through the same junior high. His experience including shop class, wrestling in gym, and dissecting a frog. Mine didn't.
The size of your orbit is proportional to the energy of your spacecraft. Use manuever nodes to change the trajectory of your encounter with a planet like Eve, and notice how massively you can change the total size of your orbit (up or down, depending on the direction of the encounter). This implies a significant change in your energy during the encounter. This is from your gentle collision with the planet through its gravity field.

Everyone should play KSP. :)
> What a time to be alive.

This technology was already available in the 60s with Kalman filters.
Why do you thing the coup failed ? The military isn't a single entity that decided to make a coup, otherwise who would have stopped them ? The great Erdoğan himself ?

Wikipedia even state their numbers:
"97% of Turkish Armed Forces ranking officers and 66% of the military's top leadership" sided with Erdoğan. The coup was attempted by a little over 10k people.

I frankly don't think you researched any of what you're talking about.
Wait, so I can’t restore my iPhone backup without the other phone?
Strange, I finished HS in '95 and was taking mostly honors and AP throughout. We partied plenty. Drugs weren't rampant, but pot, X, and assorted pills were common. College choices were generally strong - most of us landed at UVA, VT, or W&M (hard to go wrong in VA) but a some landed at the Ivies, Chapel Hill, Duke, etc.

As far as I can tell, the big difference between then and today, at least here in metro DC, is the competitiveness of admissions to the top-tier state schools. UVA, VT, and W&M used to be sure things for anybody with a B+ GPA, some AP coursework, and 4 years of consistent extracurriculars. These days, everybody has a better-than-perfect GPA (due to AP bonuses) and a lifetime of hyper-focus on one or two extracurriculars. Doesn't seem to be any time for exploration and just having fun any more.
It's harder to be forgotten. One mistake can follow you for the rest of your life, via social media, via background checks.
Exactly. I think the parent comment may be a little misled about who's fucking and who's doing what drugs.
Ever thought of a career as a script writer? You’re a natural.
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Running my computer at full blast (GPU+CPU), the loudest thing in the room is the death metal from Doom Eternal.
Can you outline a few for us?
If you are going to say they skew young (or make any claim), please provide some figures. I did a search, from https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.j...

<18 Under 18 6 0.0%
18 Ages 18-21 1,866 1.1%
22 Ages 22-25 8,366 4.9%
26 Ages 26-30 21,931 12.8%
31 Ages 31-35 28,182 16.4%
36 Ages 36-40 31,206 18.2%
41 Ages 41-45 26,545 15.5%
46 Ages 46-50 19,979 11.6%
51 Ages 51-55 13,749 8.0%
56 Ages 56-60 9,475 5.5%
61 Ages 61-65 5,467 3.2%
>65 Over 65 4,746 2.8%

Whether this backs you up or not depends on what 'young' is.
Most people are chained to a hotmail or gmail and don’t really understand the underlying architecture in my experience.
Yeah, that's why I chose that figure; it's roughly what it costs to park for a day here in Manhattan. And that's before the bridge and interstate tolls, if you're coming from the west.

To most people it isn't worth it to spend that much, especially because traffic on the bridges and tunnels is usually so bad that the trains are not only cheaper but faster, too.
I don’t think you can put this back anymore though (unless it’s as part of a complete restore)
Solo – Distraction-Free Writing
You can use some iPhone 8 parts inside an iPhone SE
Lol. We would a sat through like 10 minutes of white text on black background with quiet dramatic music but it'd be worth it.
The problem with that idea is that he actually used more advanced features to make it worse (any_cast). This is not how you would do it if you picked up a beginner C++ book and read the first few chapters.
Given just how much our lives in urban areas depend on package and prepared food delivery and grocery delivery, I've often wondered where the point is where vacuum-tube delivery to individual apartment buildings becomes cheaper?

If the "last mile" of all deliveries for all items under, say, 1.5 feet in diameter, were handled via computer-controlled canister. (Or these days, if it weren't even by vacuum, but just electric motors buzzing down tubes.) Where your hot dinner arrives in 5 minutes rather than 25, and your Amazon Prime purchase shows up from the warehouse in 20 minutes rather than next-day.

For places like Manhattan, it's just hard for me to imagine that over a decade, it wouldn't be cheaper to build and use a system like that, than to maintain our current army of tens of thousands of delivery people across restaurants, UPS, Amazon, USPS, etc.
You don't go to jail just like that in Turkey. This is not DPRK.

They need to accuse you of something and have a trail. All can be unfair and it is often unfair but you don't disappear, you can fight in the process and it catches a lot of public attention. Being a doctor means that the public loves you, trusts you, you have the money and the connections to fight.

If there was a cover-up, I am sure that doctors would have been talking because there are many doctors openly critical to the government and they even have a society for that. This is not Iran, China, DPRK or whatever country where you can just disappear.
IRC is more than a protocol, it’s an ecosystem. You cannot simply talk about IRC in complete isolation.

It’s akin to comparing SMTP with chrome.

You have to include the clients and surrounding infrastructure.
Netflix promises subscribers it won’t run out of new content
I once had a UPS driver deliver a package to me where my entire name and address were so badly mangled that I had no idea how he did it. It was almost random, looked like a base64 encoding, but wasn't. But he got it in one try.

It was about the same size as a few other recent deliveries I'd had, so maybe that explained it. But I decided it was UPS ESP.
As stored on the device the files are encrypted that way. For backing up they are decrypted and then (optionally) reencrypted with the backup key.
Sounds like a problem that should be fixed by setting the tax value equal to market value.
Y hub
> or the banks are no longer solvent.

Why not? If they're not paying interest to the Fed to borrow the money, it doesn't cost them anything to just leave the loans sit and not collect interest.
Are We Crossing the Chasm in Online Grocery?
>Even development of the Linux kernel itself and closely-related projects is largely funded via voluntary contributions to the Linux Foundation.

Development of the Linux kernel is largely funded by companies paying for developers to work on it (and by paying membership fees to the Linux Foundation to cover professional LF salaries like Linus').
> It doesn't decrypt other people's media files, as the title could suggest.

It can be used to decrypt other's files as long as there is physical access to the device and the user's passcode. This was published as a result of the Bezo's phone examination report, where the author stated it was impossible to decrypt the media file. A claim that was largely refuted by the digital forensics community.
Beaglebone uses PowerVR, unfortunately. This is a very powerful little platform (PRUs For The Win!) held back by closed source graphics drivers.
The robbery is in reference to giving away US money to US grain companies.
Chinese Language Datasets for Machine Learning
I feel like being a postman is a pretty sucky job nowadays (it’s essentially the same time-pressured “throw the parcel at the door” service that FedEx and UPS insist on, but for the government.)

But there’s a lot of potential for it to be a good, rewarding job full of community-building. And it used to be! Postal workers used to provide all sorts of informal, impromptu community services, since they were one of the few people in a town that would visit everyone in town, or in an area of town; and so one of the few people in town who would know literally everybody. Postal workers were asked to check up on people no one had seen in a while; asked to escort people’s children to their relative’s house (which tabloids called “mailing your children”); and many other “little” services that nowadays have no real locus-of-responsibility on which to fall.

Maybe the problem is that there’s more mail to be delivered than there are postal workers to deliver it; and we can’t afford, through our taxes, the number of postal workers that would actually be required to deliver all the mail while also going above-and-beyond in all these other ways.

I wonder whether, in a world with Universal Basic Income, being a postal worker would be seen as a vocation, like being a priest. Not something you do for money; rather, something you do because you like the effect it has on your community, and want to be a part of that effect. I have a feeling that there’d be a lot more stories like this in such a world.
i have bookmarked a couple of your github repositories in the past. microui is one of them. i really love it and all the immediate guis out there.

i hope you will write more blog posts and tutorials about microui.
Honestly, so far the quickest delivery I've experienced was from local businesses. Some local stores switched too what is almost pizza delivery. I ordered gear at lunchtime and got it delivered in the afternoon. But it really depends on the supplier. 48h delivery has been hit and miss too recently.

Now what the article doesn't say is that a lot of the businesses on "Le Panier Bleu" do not even have an online catalog and you need to call them. In these cases, it's pretty much the yellow pages with a different color.
What's coming in Go 1.15 [slides]
> Which means a response three to four times as strong as the one to the seasonal flu would be appropriate.

I'm not sure that's a meaningful statement. Our response to a seasonal flu - for which we spread a vaccine in advance and have a population with scattered levels of resistance due to similarities to previous iterations - cant be "done but 3 to 4 times more".
My employer calls this "far field" audio, and has a number of hardware/firmware solutions: https://www.cirrus.com/products/cs48lv41f/ (we're also very secretive, so I can't really discuss it beyond the public website)

The specific improvement Microsoft are touting is blind beamforming, without knowing where the microphones are located relative to each other. Regular beamforming is already in use in some products.
Shitty SEO content at the top - articles with repeated the same phrases to get better rank, ads.
The obvious problem there is the safer at home laws and lack of socializing would have an impact on your average deaths in the opposite direction. So comparing average deaths in the past to now are apples and oranges.
This is a great service and I’d like to thank the developer regardless of whether there are other services out there that provide similar services.

Why do I say this? I’ve just spent the last year and a couple of solid corona weeks doing some development on a personal project which requires historical access (-1 day mostly) to high / low / open / close data on all LSE companies.

I’ve hunted round for companies that offer this as an api even as a paid service and I’ve found it ridiculously difficult to get data. Most of the product offerings mean I have to login each time, download a file and parse the cvs or pay for access to incrementally tiered historical data.

In the end I’ve had to scrape data which costs a lot in processing time.

My point is here that this will be useful to someone somewhere. And I’m willing to bet they are also willing to pay for it.
Btrfs Authenticated File-System Support Looks to Be Revived
Physicist here. The lack of any formal training in most programs is a problem. In 2020 it's essentially impossible to do research without being able to write and maintain code, yet there are no real standards of knowledge for the dicipline as a whole. I dont know of any undergrad programs requiring physics majors to take even intro to cs. Most incoming grad students have never used version control, and probably about half of professors have never used it, let alone want to start using it. Larger collaborations tend to be more rigorous with coding practices because they have dedicated software engineers who enforce order and show people the way. Small groups with a few students and a professor are basically the wild west as far as writing software, and vary wildly.

In practice most grad students get coding experience by working on projects, which is a great way to learn, but its rare for anyone to look at the code itself afterward if the results are sensible. I dont know of any small group with a formal code review process. I think we could make relatively inexpensive improvements in science by bringing in more dedicated software people who can educate others and help with the software engineering aspects. Its not unusual for a lab with half a dozen groups and 50+ scientists to have no software specialists, and 1 or 2 IT people whose responsibilities are purely infrastructure oriented.
About 50% of the population in that study is over 50. I think it's a bad idea to draw generic conclusions about the disease from a diverse age range. You end up with conclusions that aren't relevant to either. Glossing over the tables I don't see any data about symptomatic over the two weeks by age. I'd be shocked if the rates of becoming symptomatic are not much higher for the elderly and much lower for the young. Didn't read it in depth though.
And this makes Turkey a military dictatorship? In the UK 100% of the forces are loyal to the government, that must be one awful military dictatorship then. sight.

I don't claim that Turkey is a functioning democracy but this doesn't make it a military dictatorship. turkey has many problems, that doesn't make it wrong or bad in every other aspect too.
The IRC client I use/d inlining of images and gifs.

“Reactions”, custom emoji, ease of integration (webhooks), and ease of signup are the things I hear quite often.
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I've been doing Thunderbird with quick folder extension to achieve near the same functionality however in Tabbed view.

nonetheless a great idea. will test it soon.
The state is running these studies. I guarantee you New York State has many good lists of people living in the state. Start with the jury duty list, for example. It pulls data from the DMV, voter registration files, state tax filers, non-driver's IDs such as NYC ID, and more. That covers all the adults. You can get a good list of adults residing in the state to pull your random sample from, and to include the children go get data from the school system and/or just test whatever children live with any given adult that you pick randomly.
> This could actually be a huge step forward in not needing videoconferencing equipment in meeting rooms. So far, one of the biggest reasons has actually been dealing with echo and feedback -- when people are in the same call with multiple devices in the same room, it tends to end badly. But if the audio processing is designed for that... the results could actually be quite amazing.

> And it's well-known that the "bowling alley" visual of meeting participants (camera at the end of a long conference table) isn't ideal. If each participant has their own laptop camera on themselves, it could be a vastly better experience for remote participants.

It seems to me that these days the simpler solution to both these problems is to just have people use airpods.
I saw it now, it's an issue with the GeoJSON, I'll fix that soon!
People normally don't care about realtime death stats, so in many places there is a delay on reporting because nobody ever cared about doing it any other way.
> There are still many apps that are not multithreaded

Can you give some examples of CPU intensive apps that are not multi threaded in 2020?
I can do one! At one point they send in three people in scuba suits to drain the water out of the suppression pool. It is said that if the core falls into the water, a steam explosion with the force of (I believe it was) 4 megatonnes would occur, rendering Europe uninhabitable for decades.

Well, it turns out that if you postulate a fully liquid chernobyl fuel core and take its heat capacity and use that to vaporize an infinite supply of water (an easy worst-case thermodynamic calculation), you can see that this estimate was off by roughly 5 orders of magnitude. Someone said it best along the lines of: "if that were true, Hawaii would be blown off the face of the map multiple times daily."

Classic scare-mongering dramatic BS.
This might be the right thing to do at the moment. In the long term though I'd prefer a system where stimulus package is not based on one's employment. This has the same problems as employer-tied health insurance.
I think the parent is referring to the Flynn Effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect?wprov=sfla1
i think fasm has a nice assembler syntax and i wish it were adopted everywhere.
> Exceptions complicate mostly everything, so the best thing to do is to turn them off and not rely on anything that uses them, for example.

Look forward to all your users ignoring your return codes and never calling valid() on your objects that can only signal construction failed that way.

Also the impact of exceptions on performance is overblown, even in high perf situations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342183

Throwing is slow, but throwing is supposed to be rare. Don't use it as flow control.
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