skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, yeah, here we go:

1. Tooling, yeah, you gotta have node installed, but that's pretty much the last time you have to touch it. I'm not anti-node or anti-js by any means, but the tooling around them often turns me off. Getting to do front-end work without _having_ to think about 'em is a breath of fresh air.

2. Less duplication of effort. I don't need to define schemas twice... once in the "backend" and once in the "frontend" application. You don't think this is bad until you spend two hours adding a adding, removing, or changing a simple property to your application because you have to update the backend, the backend's api docs, its tests. Then on the frontend, adjust the schema, adjust the frontend tests, and finally see if it's working.

3. Faster iteration. I prepare a new context, and can immediately consume it in a view. Views are reloaded instantly when changes are made during development reducing the time it takes to get feedback and increasing how fast I get shit done. Also less duplication of effort REALLY helps here...

4. We (at least me) got S(F)PA idea totally fucking backwards. The idea isn't to make you're entire web site a Single Fucking Page Application, but to make individual (single) pages which NEED TO function like applications do so... Quintessential examples that do _NOT_ need an SPA: a fucking FAQ, about, or contact pages. In fact, having an "application" on top of them is more burden than not.

5. CSS is really powerful these days and provides a lot of what the 2008-2012 JS movement was trying to do. If I combine that, with being able to re-render only part of the page, I've got almost the entire flexibility of what SPAs offer with almost none of the complexity.

6. Going to a new page, and causing a page refresh, but totally knowing the next page isn't going to be broken because of the previous page's state. Page refreshes are awesome. Growing up on 28.8k that wasn't the case, but ever since I got above 10Mbps its really not something I ever even notice (though I do notice when pages are broken that shouldn't be because they're SPAs and not just fucking content).

I could probably keep rambling but I'll stop here...
> What about hearing phrases "Sacrificing a Chicken to Moloch," the "spirit cooking" culture and related symbolism rampant in elite political circles? Shouldn't we be more interested in that?

excuse me...w-what?
The Unity licease works.

I think any licease that takes 50% of revenue would be fair to both parties with a minimum for the small user.
Six Strategic Pen-and-Paper Games (From a Strange and Bottomless Mind)
I don't think you can be confident that this is F-STOP, multiple indications support that it is fan made.

There is an obvious reason why F-STOP wasn't finished though: Valve never finishes anything. Episode 2 came out 13 years ago.
Sorry, yes you are technically correct. What I meant is that most countries seeing significant numbers of people infected with coronavirus are also seeing excess mortality.
Like blood thinners maybe??
However most of the time we'll only deal with simple queries such as select where and join. More complex example is just group by and simple aggregation such as max min count.

People struggling with sql because they usually don't know easier way to query that they resulting to use more complex query. For example `select where id in` and `case when` are both powerful query that many don't know or under utilized.

With `select where in` for example, we can do object mapping / join on application level instead db level.
Backblaze B2 also requires a verified mobile phone number in order to use it - even if you've already given them a credit card.

I would love there to be an option available at Backblaze B2 pricing, without a massive invasion of privacy. Right now I'm using Linode's Object storage, which is priced at $0.02/GB per month which is still reasonably priced for my needs.
There’s both inductive and deductive reasoning. A fact can be proven be mere logical reasoning.

I don’t need a double blind study in that case because gravity has been proven before and there’s no reason to assume it doesn’t apply to everybody (or rather every body) alike.
It means Confœderatio Helvetica
I normally run a https://crxcavator.io/ check on any extension, but cannot because it's free. I'm assuming this is all done locally?
The essential words in that article are...

> There are some non-standard ECMAScript features in JavaScript that work differently in the presence of PTC.

Java has a strict spec, and the relevant methods which would break aren’t non-standard like they are in JavaScript.

If you’re willing to change the spec (I think Loom does) then yeah, but you can’t implement it as an ‘optimisation’ until then, because it’s not an optimisation if it changes behaviour.
I do the same. One for work, one for personal, one for gaming and all on their own isolated networks.
Your points are correct. I created it for myself and my use case (and I am really, really happy with how it turned out), so the target audience would be devs who have are already building their own websites, but I didn't really think about it as a product.

I also thought maybe others could get some ideas from my methodology, implementation and reasoning.

I am also thinking of ways to make this more useful for more people (more devs), most likely by adding a useable theme for it and maybe also offering my landing page codebase.
This has little to do with common sense vs Science. You can easily make the scientific case towards controlling the borders and isolating, it simply hasn't been done in Sweden's case. Handwaving away the necessity for scientifically vetting the idea of closing the borders, behind the idea that every country in Europe is already infected isn't good enough to claim a meritious victory for science over common sense.

The four debates Jordan Peterson did with Sam Harris about the reduction of information down to science and the necessity for building value structures and behavioural interpretations of facts proves to me that Science can't tell you how to behave. It can show you what facts will prevent death and what won't, but we never have enough resources to sciencetifically test every single decision tree outcome, there are an infinite number of objective facts. We make best guesses about which idea to follow based on value structure and gathered information we build over time.

Sweden's version of common sense is to follow what the scientific signallers are telling them, their reaction to the virus is an expression of culture and law that has little to do with the facts. They can't lockdown even if it was better.

Australia locked down and followed the norms for great success with double the population to Sweden, despite having similar issues with aged care facilities. Finland is performing well.

I don't see the evidence to support the Swedish solution, nor it as virtous example of science over common sense.
People are defending Riot Games installing an anti cheat driver, so that's not very surprising if you ask me.
Easily one of the most successful consumer products in history. Nearly half a billion iPads have been sold since 2010, with around $300 billion in sales in those ten years.

In electronics & tech, the good scale comparisons are few, things like the iPhone, Mac, Windows, Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox.

To put that $300b into better context, that's equivalent to the total sales of Windows throughout its entire 30 year history up to about 2014. The iPad will probably end up being the second best selling consumer technology product of all-time behind the iPhone. It has already well passed the iPod in units and dollar sales.
The bulk of the (public) opposition is from people who like their employer provided insurance. We'll soon learn if the mood changes, due to pandemic induced high unemployment.
Every country was widely acknowledged to be too late in its lockdown. In the ones that have seen disasters the accusation stuck, while in the ones that haven't it's been quietly forgotten.
>evidence (ie, science)

An abrupt leap.

I would move away from a passing vehicle without peer-reviewing its existence. If international and inter-city travel had been shut down in early February some nations would have remained fully functional today. Not to say I agree with current quarantines, but you have to admit there are thresholds for action.

I'd like to know your stance on climate change, btw.
Concurrent World Editing, on the Cheap
The network dynamics of social and technological conventions
For the uninitiated (like myself)

Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" starts with the line:

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"
It doesn't sound like it would be hard to write your own. Not sure how useful it is though, since it doesn't make any attempt to replicate the kind of errors you would see in the wild.
Yes, a lot of people do. However, as you indirectly point out, this would not be a real fix because presumably most people do not use Apple's servers for their email.
Strong leadership "can" mitigate this danger. An interesting question is how likely it is that it'll mitigate it rather than exacerbate the problems. I suspect the type of strong leaders humans usually elect are not the ones that will maximize the chances of mitigating.
Everyone's stock price is not down. Another false statement. The majority are down though, as they should be.

I am not defending bailouts, I'm saying you should get your facts straight.
> If stricter measures always resulted in less deaths, as you argue, why are so many countries doing worse than Sweden?

The UK acted too late. Compare Sweden to Australia. Australia has 2.5 times the population of Sweden (25.6 million versus 10.3 million). Sweden has had 1,937 COVID-19 deaths and Australia has had 74. Sweden's deaths per million population is 192 and Australia's deaths per million population is 3. Sweden's rate of testing is 9,357 tests per million population and Australia's is 17,743:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Australia's had fewer cases, fewer deaths, and is doing more testing than Sweden.
On the contrary, the parent's point seems pretty clear about the obsessive aspect: "There's no real need to always seek new music, obsessively [...]".
On the other hand, before 3-4000 years ago, the largest "city" in the world probably wasn't even 100,000 people. So you go back far enough anywhere and the cities were more like villages if that.

It's interesting that the biggest cities plateaued at about 1 million from about 100 BCE to 1800 CE, until the industrial revolution kicked in.
It's indeed better than that: storage costs decrease over time (probably at an exponential rate), which means that, in theory, you can pay upfront to have your data stored until the end of time (or our civilization). Well, at least if they can protect the money from inflation. (I've played with the numbers a few years ago when I got upset that my bank won't preserve my records nor my statements, at least in an accessible form, for more than 6 months.)
This reminds me of an idea I fell in love with: an app can be a home-cooked meal.

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

We can build software that can't scale and won't sell, solely for the enjoyment of those we love.

We're not running out of ideas. We're just limiting ourselves to the small subset of problems that are worth solving for money.
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Fit it also had quality issues. My wife owned several and used all of them until they fell apart, which was always less than a year. They were garbage. Counterexample: I have g-shocks that have been abused for decades and are going strong.
"pretty secure"

It's either completely secure or it isn't secure at all.

Blurs can be deconvolved if the point spread function is known or can be guessed. Two blurs is just security through obscurity and hoping that numerical precision / stability issues work out in your favor.

Just black out sensitive areas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution

http://refocus-it.sourceforge.net/
If the pub is around the corner, just walk.
American public messaging is trying to draw a distinction between proper masks (surgical and N95, needed for medical professionals, no reason for you or I to get them) and coverings (just any piece of cloth in front of our face holes). It seems convoluted but I think it's no longer dishonest.
When this project was first published, the name of the company that published it was AOL. Before that, the company was called America Online. Subsequently it was named Oath, and now it's Verizon Media.

Names change. The common theme: names are not easy, sometimes they are beloved brands, sometimes they fall out of favor. Sometimes they were just bad ideas from the start, but happened anyway.

This gives rise to an interesting challenge for open source projects when you have an open source project in a github org, and the name of your company changes (or your company gets acquired), should you move the project? The problem is real since you don't want to lose your community, but you don't want to be stuck in the past.
> Hugo is different in that it basically just transforms local HTML/Templates/Markdown. That's always fast. Even JS can handle that.

Do you know of any benchmarks that show that? As far as I know, most static site generators can take minutes to process a few thousand Markdown files with Hugo being the exception.
The antibodies in colostrum don't make the animal or human immune in the usual sense of the word - the body is able to generate an immune response to a foreign substance.

It's more similar to therapeutic use of antibodies. Once the colostrum is gone, so is any protection against infection.
And without any intellectual property rights, what prevents someone from simply ignoring the license?
Ask HN: Raise VC/angel for tech services in growth vertical?
Hiding behind a throwaway to guard business details.

So here's the story - I work for a small 20 year old business in California with a blend of development consulting services, a cluster of specialized SaaS applications and a fully bootstrapped enterprise SaaS product that is revenue positive with growing MRR even during covid.

We cater to a vertical niche that analysts see being in the "safe" or "growth" category for the post-covid recovery, faster than even the rest of tech sector. I'm seeing even bigger opportunities for what we do in the rebound. We work globally too.

Our owner / CEO got the PPP loan very easily and we've found that banks seem unusually interested in us beyond the PPP loan. We recently found a product-market-fit for our enterprise product and are learning that we can reliably make the services side of the business profitable. And there's now a model to scale it..

Up until I joined the company all of our business was word of mouth referral. Great CTO but no COO, no CFO (the CEO is both). I'm the BD. No CMO or CPO either. So even modest investment in growth (marketing, sales, ops, product, finance) would bring significant ROI. It's just a services business so slower growth. Less hockey stick more like.. banana?

My question is - would it make sense to ride this wave of interest towards raising more capital than we actually need for covid runway? Is that even doable for a business that's 70% consulting services?

Could we raise VC/angel and use it for growth? Is this an opportunity? Should I be putting together fundraise plan and pitch decks?
I like the idea of a utility that can add ECC to any arbitrary file. You'd need to ensure you had an uncorrupted copy of the utility that you could use in the future though, or the images become unreadable even if they're uncorrupted themselves - unless the ECC is contained in a sidecar file.
The waitlist isn't new. But it's worth pointing out that at least in some areas (for example, in the San Francisco East Bay area) all online Amazon Fresh grocery shoppers are effectively on a no-delivery list. There hasn't been a delivery availability since mid-March. Beginning a few days ago, the Amazon UI hasn't allowed even checking for delivery slots more than two days in the future. Fresh is dead?
Ask HN: What are new Tools to help create online course?
I have been looking at newer tools that people have posted in Hacker news to use them in creation of online courses. I hope to create an online course in Music using these newer tools. More than that I think it would be good to get a listing of tools out that have potentials to used for online courses.

Just to name a few that I have seen:
Barbra -- https://barbra.io/ -- to share notes among class takers.
Edanswers -- says mainly for learning plans. Don't know how to use it yet.
Intention -- https://about.i.ntention.app/ -- good tool to setup goals and stay motivated. Don 't know if the goals can be shared among users.

My idea so far is to have the whole course laid out as a mindmap (haven't found a tool yet), then linked to goals through Intentions with notes in Barbra.

Looking for suggestions on tools and systems that I could use.
Note: I could use a big system like openedx, but I would miss simple, yet great ways of doing things.
Maybe I'm misreading something but do you mean their status as a person engaged in public policy? There's obviously a lot one can sensibly worry about while an LPR but I have a hard time seeing how even the most ill-advised engagement in public policy (short of things like fomenting insurrection) would lead to loss of the actual LRP status. Like, what would even the mechanism be?
Inadvertently capturing social security numbers does actually open you up to a lot of PII laws. So yes, that is still a problem.

Any time you get data from a user, you need to be careful about what you're grabbing.
Exactly. They typically give pregnant women a Tdap booster in the 2nd trimester. The mother develops an immune response and she transmits those antibodies to the baby. When the baby is born, they have some temporary protection against those diseases, but as you said, it only last a month or two.
Where can I read more about early identification of this risk by the UK govt?
If you look at the documentation for something like "create sequence", databases often mention that the database will reserve blocks of numbers so that they can hand out values from memory (and also without coordinating with peer databases). There's normally a way to turn that caching off.

But you may still need to check what the behavior is during a transaction, as you could have two requests trying to add a bunch of rows at the same time.
Maybe if one is able to activate the feedback feature and attach their CV, Google will offer a job interview.
I don't think your parent comment meant "is is not the case that there exists at least one person in the past who was more selfless and less economically motivated".
Expanding on the Nintendo analogy: Magic Leap was/is building a killer gaming console, but with no games to play on.
Commensurate with pollution taxes I propose reductions in taxes on productive activities, so that it is revenue neutral.

Keep in mind the maxim:

1. to get more of something, subsidize it

2. to get less of something, tax it

The CO2 tax proposal failed in Washington State because it was perceived as a money grab by the state. If it came with a corresponding reduction in the sales tax, it likely would have passed.
Tons of books out there, very difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. The following is what I found useful. Its a mixed bag, academic and coffee table.

- Beveridge W. I. B., 1950, The Art of Scientific Investigation, New York. https://archive.org/details/artofscientifici00beve

A charming and easy-to-read enquiry into how scientists conduct research. Old but (like all good science) still applicable.

Kaufman, J. C., & Sternberg, R. J. (2010). The Cambridge handbook of creativity.

Tons of great material. Section 1, chapter 2 gives a literature review of the topic.

- Johnson. S., 2010, Where Good Ideas Come From, Penguin UK.

Packed with lots of good anecdotes, this is a very accessible book.

- Currey, M. 2013, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Knopf.
Blog avaiable here: http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/.

This started off as a blog and developed into a wonderful and useful little book. In my opinion, creative rituals are a very under-estimated component of creativity.

- Sternberg, R. J. (2001). What is the common thread of creativity? Its dialectical relation to intelligence and wisdom. American Psychologist.

A very readable 3 page essay.

- Christensen, C. (2013). The innovator's dilemma: when new technologies cause great firms to fail.

Perhaps the most well-known book on this list. It was this book that addressed the idea of 'disruptive innovation'... innovation that completely destroys some businesses, and creates others. He uses the railroad as an example, but clearly the internet falls into this category as well.

- Seelig, T. (2012). inGenius: A crash course on creativity.

This evolved from the course notes from one of the first university courses on the subject of creativity. A bit annoying to navigate (her chapter headings are 'too creative') but it has good stuff.

On top of this, there is almost everything that Edward De Bono wrote (the lateral thinking guru).
>I don't see the evidence to support the Swedish solution, nor it as virtous example of science over common sense.

The strong point of Sweden's response is that the Swedish economy is going to suffer much less. Other countries will have to piece their economies together after their lockdowns end. Furthermore, Sweden can keep things going as they are for a long time. How long do you think Australia could keep its lockdown going?

If there's going to be evidence to show that Sweden was right then it'll likely take a few years before we can measure the economic impact and all that brings with it. I'm not saying they are right, I'm just saying it's too early to tell that they're wrong.
Techies will pay for hardware though. But it's got to be good hardware.
> Also, if the overheating issues are true then macOS should issue a warning when charging from an unsuitable port.

It doesn't seem to be an issue with the port being unsuitable - the SE post mentions[1] that the right side similarly increases in temperature significantly when in use. It just doesn't trigger the same throttling behavior.

Looking at an iFixit teardown[2], the ssd chips are located next to the left thunderbolt controller. I wonder if that may be why temperature spikes on the left side trigger more aggressive temperature management than spikes on the right.

[1] Quote: Note that high temperature on the right side appears to be ignored by the OS. Plugging everything into the two right ports instead of the left raised the Right temperatures to over 100 degrees, without the fans coming on.

[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Touch+Ba...
I thought he did?
Windows 10’s Defender fails on filenames with two consecutive dots
Nope. Non profit doesn't mean they do it for free. It means that the goal of the organization is not making profit. They'll still pay their employees and they'll still charge for their service (even if they'll call it a tax-deductible donation). At least this is my understanding.
Swedish officials, rightly or wrongly, don't believe that can be done.