skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the beginning of React (before Webpack) when server compilation looks fine and that magic works as <script>react.js</script> in browser. This looks like new era where HTML is fixed. But no, we have 15 standards now. Everything is finished when I found Webpack 3-line module with 20 lines Readme description. We have 1000 modules and 1000 weak points after that. React has x1000 overhead

Any package and package manager has hot points:

- no standards, api connection issues (different programming styles and connection overhead)

- minor version issues (just this 1 hour bug 0-day)

- major sdk issues (iOS deprecate OpenGL)

- source package difference (Ubuntu/CentOS/QubesOS need a different magic for use same packages)

- overhead by default everywhere that produce multiple issues
Ask anyone here trying to access unemployment benefits. Bureaucracy is universal, and sometimes an intentional design pattern to discourage people from applying in the first place.
Everyone has their own personal rock bottom and you can’t know if you’ll hit a lower one later.

My first rock bottom was caused by depression and anxiety fully hitting me post-college, a tough job that wasn’t going well, then my longterm girlfriend (who I planned on marrying) cheating on me and breaking up over text message. Full on panic attacks, moving back home, suicidal ideation, the whole works. Therapy, exercise, and medication with SSRIs brought me out of the funk. I had a strong support network which made it easier.

My second rock bottom was during a period of intense professional stress, that through a strange sequence of events, almost resulted in serious legal consequences and potentially prison. Was some very dark days with similar suicidal ideation, panic attacks, etc. But I came out of it far stronger with much higher risk tolerance and knowledge of myself and capabilities.

Was I homeless? Tortured? Disabled? No. But for me, it was rock bottom, and I don’t want to be there again.
Fark/Totalfark was fun for a while but descended into an echo chamber of cliques and in-jokes. It was a good preview of what reddit would eventually become.
I don't see them advertising it like that.
Thinking it's technology doing that is a mistake. It's people doing that. Like the folks who ruined their Easter Island environment.

Technology has also saved us from environmental disasters. Whaling was stopped when oil was found. The denuding of trees from the landscape stopped when coal was discovered. (It's still going on in the Amazon, sadly.)
Guide to Using Shared Slack Channels with Customers
That's true, but in my opinion unless there's actually some active on-going service, just charge for new versions and/or maintenance. This whole saturation of everyone charging everyone $10/month is tiring and frustratingly expensive as they know most will not pause or meter their billing in periods of inactivity.

There's still examples of software developers charging for software. For example, https://www.just-great-software.com only sells their software, they don't even charge for new versions or updates most of the time nowadays.

Yes it may not make a fortune, but with some ad-buying maintenance, upgrades, etc. there's likely an okay business.
"LMD: catchy ambient-esque piano piece" is pretty good. I could see it as background music in a game. I like "Pop MIDI, rapid jazz piano?" too.
For what it's worth, the scientists at the US Geological Survey who study Kīlauea do not agree with the Nature paper:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/hvo_volcano_wat...

"""

Our analysis indicates that increasing pressure in the magmatic system, which far exceeds the change in pressure modeled as due to rainwater infiltration, was the primary driver in triggering the 2018 eruption.

For HVO, the smoking gun is found in the ground deformation record across a broad region of Kīlauea Volcano leading up to the eruption.

...

In summary, our consensus interpretation of HVO's monitoring data is that magma pressurization was the driving force in triggering the events of late April and early May of 2018.

No external process, such as rainfall, is needed to explain this.

But what about the rainfall hypothesis? While the role of groundwater and rain infiltration impacting the behavior of the volcano remains an interesting area of research, we know that extreme rainfall events have occurred many times in the recent past when no eruptions occurred, and the spring 2018 rains were no greater than many previous rainstorms.

"""
Liero & Soldat. What a memory. Funny how little pixel sandbox game(couple with extremely violent imagination) can keep us entertain for hours back then.
10 millions laid off workers in Japan IS an economic crisis regardless.

This is the equivalent of all the workers from the top 20-30+ companies in Japan no longer working.
Coronavirus Genome Xkcd #2298
Not sure about that.

https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/
Go full They Live and just replace every ad with "Consume"
One thing I was told in college is that compilers are much better at assembler than people.
Big Bang Theory - 18-20 mins
https://trakt.tv/shows/the-big-bang-theory/seasons/10

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - 21 mins
https://trakt.tv/shows/brooklyn-nine-nine/seasons/7

The Office - 22 mins
https://trakt.tv/shows/the-office/seasons/9

M.A.S.H - 24 mins
https://trakt.tv/shows/m-a-s-h/seasons/10

Golden Girls - 24 mins
https://trakt.tv/shows/the-golden-girls/seasons/1

Cheers - 24 mins
https://trakt.tv/shows/cheers/seasons/10
May I take "I write my specs for machines" to mean that you simply omit the parts of the specification that are not expressible in the formalism at hand?

A specification with parts deliberately omitted is deliberately incomplete. An implementation of a sufficiently incomplete specification may be formally verified to satisfy the spec without ensuring much of anything, although it may suffice to justify payment.

This attitude is typical in formal specification.
96% asymptomatic FOR NOW. We’ll see later.
I’m no expert in biology, but I live with one. This statement is incorrect. The DNA is the blueprint. It’s like saying the information of a Mandelbrot set doesn’t exist in its expression. It’s not a perfect analogy, but in both cases, the information in question is emergent from the starting point and the rules. Both parts are defined in DNA.

Edit: I have a feeling that this article isn’t telling the researcher’s whole story. The implications of epigenetics are vast.
BoJ’s money printer has been going since well before cv19. They pioneered central banks buying ETFs (its even called Japanification..) I don’t believe the crisis would have been avoidable since salaries are only one part of the economy (ex:how does debt work?)
Stephen "Blue" Heaslip is still at it, ~24 years later, doing daily updates [0]. Full archives stretching back to 1996. Quite a bit of history in there.

[0] https://www.bluesnews.com/
Fanned Fret Guitars
I meant the GameFAQs message boards
I was going to say I missed http://zombo.com/ (because at some point I had checked, and it no longer worked).

But I just tried it, and it's working again.

Hurray! -- "you can do anything at zombo com!" :-D
That was our go to radar site. With dark sky off Android, what's good now?
Unless you’re a woman
When I look at the Archives on Project Euler, the same general idea is there but the site I miss wasn't programming focused. I seem to recall a giant red, blue or green background and the puzzles weren't just text-based, but visual.
Is Bank of Japan not going to print money to finance this?
https://www.spyder-ide.org/ quite nice.
The PPP loan program was actually pretty close to this, if executed well and funded sufficiently (obviously, it wasn't). The unemployment benefit extension and hack (unemployment + $600) was the real critical mistake that we'll spend a long time fixing.

The QE / money printing is complicated, but it's worth nothing that Japan has been "printing money" for a long, long time, and QE is a mainstay of Abe-nomics (so the Japan subsidy here is absolutely coupled with aggressive QE). Battling deflation to hit inflation goals is a reasonable goal for a central bank, IMO, but obviously it's not cut and dry.
Visual programming languages are commonly used for the creation of chatbots in frameworks such as IBM Watson Assistant. They end up being an absolute complete mess. The reliance on global variables and go-to statements for control flow makes them extremely bug prone and unintelligible.
Indeed. In many fields, especially applied or related to life, only the less "professional" are assertive. Experts profess very nuanced thoughts.

Countering assertions which are proven false is good (pointing to a FAQ is sufficient). Censoring, on the other hand, seems counterproductive to me and nourishes the usual "they censor us because they cannot produce a valid counter-argument".
Send me a message if you want - I'd love to share what I'm building with you, as it is intended to resolve that exact feeling. I sympathize entirely.
Your handle looks suspiciously familiar. How's Kathleen doing?
Also the StarCraft role-playing scene.
Perhaps if FOSS infrastructure (like PyPI) charged for use they wouldn't need to ask for donations to keep their services up.
Echo.com - steaming audio

Sidewalk.com - social events
I played a lot of Liero around 15 years ago. I also looked at the various remakes at that time.

My problem with all of the remakes back then was that none were very faithful to the physics/handling of the original Liero. This was at the time an acknowledged problem, that the excellent Liero physics were hard to replicate.

Has this changed? How closely does this mirror the original Liero in terms of physics? (I'm not at a device where I can fairly test it myself.)
Thanks. I'm thinking about how I can improve. Maybe an image gallery too.
Given that the BoJ literally can't seem to generate inflation no matter how hard it tries, this seems like a no-brainer. As close to helicopter money as they've yet come.
Don't loop the 2 or you'll have the problem with alpha, as they show a few lines later.

Crossing the Z resolves the need to loop the 2.
Oink's Pink Palace. Yes it was a torrent tracker so arguably illegal, but the breadth and depth of music it cataloged (not to speak of the community) is still unmatched.
The V shaped recovery is going to depend on rebounding consumer demand. Not convinced a lot of jobs will come back as soon as things reopen, and even if you have a job will you actually feel confident enough to spend as you did before?

My main point is that the government has done little on the demand side. I think it will be very weak coming out of this.
Simple observation isn't the most accurate though. Simple observation has planets going backwards in their paths in the sky. That was really confusing when simple observation led everyone to believe the Earth was at the center.

Whatever assumptions anyone makes today is on the shoulders of giants that preceded them.
I'm not sure what's evoking more emotion in me now because of the comments here: Me being angry at the fact that many comments show an inherent but unconscious racism or Me resigned to the fact that despite the educated and 'informed' discussion, there are HN commentators reducing discrimination to a data collection/flaw-in-the-study argument.

I'm disappointed in you HN.
I remember Robin Hanson [1] used the second fact to recommend "variolation", injecting everyone with a tiny amount of the virus so that they'll get the immunity without the sickness (making it a "natural vaccine").

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/variolation-may-cut-co...
This game would be so much fun with better controls. Even just adding mouse aiming would make it infinitely more playable.
SOMETIMES AN INTENTIONAL DESIGN PATTERN TO DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM APPLYING
My understanding is that promoting a window to hardware overlay is only supported on Kaby Lake and later Intel integrated graphics, and there it's a heuristic, so there's no way to guarantee getting it. You do have to be in flip mode, but in flip mode smooth resizing can't be done without artifacts. Currently druid downgrades to direct2d hwnd render targets during a live resize, but this feels hacky and is likely creating other problems.

I've spent a fair amount of time investigating this and have a mostly written blog post on it, but right now I'm kind of sick of the topic - it's a good illustration of how easily software evolves into stuff that's complex and broken.
Actually that's a very interesting question. Is the rate of sexual assault on Japanese Trains higher or lower than their average auto injury rate?
> robust depth estimation is not possible with just cameras

I can believe this statement, and am definitely off put by the false promises and failed timelines of autonomy released by Tesla over the past 5 years, but the more important question would be “is the necessary amount of depth estimation to achieve autonomous vehicles possible with just cameras?”, and intuitively the answer is yes, seeing as that is how humans achieve an acceptable level of depth perception for the same task.
I wish we'd been taught this in high school.

One habit I did learn in high school is writing x as two 'c' shapes in a mirror image. This is clearly an x rather than a multiplication symbol. I prefer it to the version listed in the article.

I find it hard to distinguish the author's X/χ
xkcd #730 (“Oh, so you think you're such a whiz at EE 201?”)
If it's a log cabin, just tell me where to be, and I'll show up with hammers and saws!
If you’re going to print money then spend it on the people to shore up demand, rather than prop up companies where the demand will never be there or come back post lockdown.

Without shoring up the demand side I’m not seeing how we get to this rosy V shaped recovery the stock market seems to be predicting.
I mean half the benefit of unemployment benefits is the employment you generate via bureaucracy.

It's something I find a lot of UBI proponents miss. Sure you "save money" by cutting bureaucracy, but that bureaucracy is employed people. The savings probably aren't as considerable when you have to lay off a ton of people in order to put them on UBI.

And sure, for the private sector, bureaucracy is generally something they try to quash (with varying effectiveness), but in the public sector it's almost a desired outcome because it means more jobs, more metrics, more budget.
I spent nearly six years homeless. I got back into housing about 2.5 years ago. I started multiple websites while homeless and I still run multiple websites, some of which are pertinent to this problem space.

This comment seems to list all my homeless sites:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804929

2020 is proving especially challenging for the homeless population. The pandemic has made things very hard for homeless people of late.

Libraries are currently closed in many places, as are eateries with wifi and so forth. Some shelters and soup kitchens have shut down during the pandemic. It's pretty brutal at the moment.

But things like tablets are cheaper than when I first became homeless and websites are generally optimized to work well on smartphones and tablets, which was not true when I was first on the street. So there are ways in which it is easier than ever to figure out how to problem solve and create an income from the street and get your life back.

U will throw in this piece, which I didn't write but it's about me:

Homeless to housed: Her virtual life helped her out of homelessness

http://alexandralindelof.com/story-package/
Another not-a-website submission, but Usenet with actual discussions. Web forums still annoy me compared to the elegance of Usenet, with hierarchical categories and sophisticated client software that can do things like score and filter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September the whole Internet feels like the Eternal September to me. It all got dumbed down.
Right, or there's always git stash. Either way, it's a pretty expensive and cumbersome operation.
"Put a loop on the q, to avoid confusion with 9"

yet the given example looks like a (badly drawn) 8 to me
They were the number one team for Folding@Home for a long time: [H]ard OCP is how they styled their name.
Sounds about right.

Humans inherit mitochondria only from the mother, and an egg cells is about 0.12mm vs a sperm cell at 50μm long.

Edit: fixed a word
Thank goodness for my pi hole, but unfortunately that only works at my home network! I'm always unpleasantly surprised whenever I leave the safety of 192.168.1.1
This made me laugh! <g>

Just sharing, because it did so! <g>
The whole thing maybe.

But often I'm in a function and I'd like to know "who calls this", or "what does this call". So being able to get a graph limited to the current function (node) and a couple of levels out on either end could be very helpful. Or maybe being able to mark two functions and see the ways they are connected (if at all).

I guess there might be some tools that do this though, haven't looked.
- 2008 - 2010 /g/ when Bitcoin was pennies on the dollar

- GBATemp.net during the height of Wii Homebrew

- [Wii/DS/Nintendo]-Play.com - first online community for Nintendo Friendcodes

*edit one more

- The community surrounding Half-Life 2 and specifically Team Fortress 2 circa 2007-2009
>Don't legally recognize gambling debts. If people lose a bet they can pay it if they want to, but the law wouldn't recognize or enforce the debt.

This is how you get people with broken legs. As much as I dislike the payday loan places... they largely eliminated loan sharks.

You have legal gambling to keep it out of the hands of organized crime who will collect with illegal methods... not through the courts.
Nuclear weapons don't actually have that much of an impact. They don't do anything socially or economically. They don't prevent all conventional warfare either. If one country annexes territory from another and the target responds with a threat to nuke the aggressor, the aggressor can just call their bluff. Mutual destruction over a flesh wound isn't credible. The only things nukes do is ensure that actors can't be forced off the stage with military conquest. Barring that, the rest of the military-economic-social game plays on as it did before the nuclear age.
> That’s interesting - I would expect CS drop out rates to not be significantly different than engineering/STEM in general if that’s the case since any of those are likely to have similar levels of math.

The level of math in most engineering fields stays within the bounds of applying techniques from calculus, and rarely involves proving much if anything. Most engineering degrees don't require any math courses beyond calculus and statistics. CS is one of a small number of degree programs where undergrads are likely to be exposed to a significant amount of proof theory, along with topics like algebra and graphs.
Work for anyone with reduced hours, furloughed, or in between jobs
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Businesses that are hit by Covid-19 and looking to shore up or pivot

Startups that are trying to capture opportunities during this time of tremendous change

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Depending on your requests - if you want us to match you with part-time gigs we could do that too, let us know
>> That’s not where T14 comes from.

>There have been rare exceptions to this, however, such as UCLA School of Law appearing in the top fourteen instead of Cornell and Northwestern in 1987 and University of Texas School of Law displacing Georgetown in 2018, although the significance of these changes has been debated.

People select measures for a number of reasons. It's perfectly possible the single and only reason T14 is used is for the reasons you lay out.

OTOH I have personally had conversations with people who argued that the T14 is a measure of merit when Georgetown was in the T14 then "debated the significance" of the measure when Georgetown dropped out of the top 14 in 2018.

It was not clever or endearing.
Ask HN: What should I do with the domain linuxtablet.com
I picked it up recently and want to build some sort of news site for the linux tablet devices.
Vorbis became competitive with MP3 and AAC many years after those commercial codecs were introduced. So again, the FOSS codec was nowhere near state-of-the-art.
The response from a(nother) mathematician: don't worry too much about this specific advice; it's one guy's convention, not dogma. But do have very definite conventions of your own to which you adhere carefully and faithfully, whether they're this author's or anyone else's, or your own custom blend. As the author mentions, too many undergraduates don't pay attention to distinctions among similar-but-different symbols, but I've seen even professional mathematicians who don't distinguish properly among, for example, w, ϖ, and ω. (I even refereed a paper once whose author didn't distinguish between o and 0 as subscripts!) Don't be one of them!
It sounds like those tradeoffs make sense for your use case. Personally I find any slowness whatsoever in a phone to be unacceptable because it’s such a fundamental computing device (for me) and because I’m not a highly price sensitive consumer if I’m getting a level of performance that makes it worth it to me.

In other words, the market is working as intended, allowing consumers to optimize for the factors that matter to them :)
> (My VR goggles will gray out billboards, etc.)

I think it'll be the exact opposite. I think the Black Mirror episodes are closer to what will be in our (not too distant) future. The content will track your gaze, and if you are not looking at the ad, then measures will be taken to get your attention back to where "it should be".
Ted's+Woodworking
Later Hubble sent Shapley a letter that changed his mind in one fell swoop: "Here is the letter that destroyed my universe." He became a great mapper of galaxies and superclusters. Bravo.

Then in 1946 he was called up by the House Un-American Activities Committee for suspicious associations:

> HUAC committee chairman John E. Rankin commented, "I have never seen a witness treat a committee with more contempt" and considered contempt of Congress charges. Shapley accused HUAC of "Gestapo methods" and advocated for its abolition for making "civic cowards of many citizens" by pursuing the "bogey of political radicalism."

Bravo again Dr. Shapley.
Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
> Could compositors be optimised to eliminate the extra frame of lag in the case where every window on-screen is being displayed “directly” by invisibly switching to a mode that maps each scanline and pixel column to a window’s framebuffer

Yes. This concept is called hardware overlays and there are varying levels of support for it in different GPUs and compositors.

There are tradeoffs. Using multiple hardware overlays may cost extra power and/or memory bandwidth, the number of supported overlays may be very limited, alpha blending may not be supported, and the transforms that can be applied to overlays may be very limited. The extremely hardware specific nature of the restrictions and the lack of good APIs exposing overlays means they get much less use than they should.
One would suspect, but one would be wrong. The data bears this out but also food that's bad for you tends to be cheaper than food that's good for you and Bureau of Prisons isn't known for doting upon its charges.
Put your PiHole in the cloud. There's no place like 127.0.0.1.