skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't need to be gross to dislike the weird baby talk "uwu" stuff. Although seeing it in much more technical contexts will make me laugh - https://github.com/mpaland/printf/issues/15 - "Scawy big no functionality at all UwU #15"
Waitrose, Marks and Spencer, high street takeaways, restaurants doing delivery, for example are all open in my village. But we don't have any Deliveroo, UberEats, etc, coverage where I live as it's the North.
I didn't even have to click on the link. I knew exactly what you were referring to.
You've proved his point. Similar spec with some components, but the Apple machine costs a few hundred more because other components are better than the XPS.
The delivery food options are so over-priced, I'd rather just get my fat arse off the couch, and pick up my food.
Yeah, discoverability in modern computer UIs is terrible.
CEO of Code Climate here. We have a product Velocity (https://codeclimate.com/) which offers what we call Engineering Intelligence. There's some great discussion about the value and appropriate use of data in software engineering, so I thought I'd chime in.

What we've seen is that engineers inherently want to be productive, and are happiest when they can work friction-free. Unfortunately, it can be quite difficult to get visibility into roadblocks that slow down developers (e.g. overly nitpicky code review, late changing product requirements, slow/flaky CI), especially for managers who are one or two levels removed from programming. These are situations where data-backed insights can be helpful for diagnosis.

After diagnosing issues, with data or simply qualitative insights from a retrospective or 1:1, we also see teams sometimes struggle to set goals and achieve desired improvements. A common theme is the recurring retrospective item that people agree is important but doesn't seem to be resolved. When it comes to implementing improvements, data can be useful to make objectives concrete and make progress visible to the entire team.

It’s important that metrics do not become the objectives themselves, but rather serve as a way to demonstrate the true outcome was achieved. Metrics also are not a strategy, and quantitative data cannot be used alone to understand performance of teams.

When quantitative data is used properly in combination with qualitative information, strong communication, and trust, we’ve found the results can go beyond what can be achieved without metrics.
Vue is nice because it takes the boilerplate out of simple variables that map to <input> while also supporting events for more complicated data flow.
CSS Algorithms (Strangeloop, 2019)
If there are many different strains loose in a region that don't confer immunity to each other and immunity only last a year people could be perpetually sick with the virus. A vaccine combines a variety of weak or inactive strains that give your immune system a big picture view of the virus to develop a comprehensive response to COVID-19 instead of COVID-19 Strain 93A.

The flu vaccine works the same way: scientists predict which strains are the most likely to spread and create or find weaker strains that are all combined into a single vaccine.
The rate of infection is 90% worldwide.[1] It's not just careless parents and lack of awareness, it's endemic to all of mankind.

Given that asymptomatic shedding occurs there's basically no way to not transmit herpes to your partner. Unless we remove kissing from our social norms, it's going to stick around.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_herpes_simplex
It's also my favorite one. It's just magic. It's just as fantastic as the first time I heard it about 29 years ago or so.

(I also happen to believe that massive introduction of nuclear power is the only thing that will make the earth comfortably habitable for our grand-children, but that's a topic for another thread.)
I get like 3-4 ReCaptchas literally every time I encounter one, so I have zero problems with them changing.
Required reading for anyone who uses Vi (or wants to take the dive)

"Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi." : https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118

Anecdote time:

Just a few hours back, I was working with a json file and needed a way to copy data between 2 matching parens in a Json node.

'v' is vi-speak for switching to visual mode
'%' is vi-speak for skip to matching param
'y' is vi-speak for copy (or yank)

So 'v%y' is for switching to visual mode and jump to matching param (which visual mode highlights text) and then copy the highlighted text.

Ah, the joys of vim! Truly one of those tools that can elevate your whole productivity once you grok the basics! :)
FWIW, GDPR has very little to do with cookies.
Don’t tell me you installed wifi-menu but not wpa_supplicant!
If you're going to use a "if React isn't going to handle X for me, why am I wasting 100KB on it?" argument, then it wouldn't be 100KB for very long, now would it?
> It took me an admittedly very long time to reach this conclusion, and I think it’s because the standard wisdom goes something like, “In order to break the rules, you must first master them.” That threw me off. If, instead, the writers and books I’d learned from had said, “These things are much harder to get right, so if your story goes wrong, try replacing them with something easier,” I’d have come to my epiphany far earlier.

This really is a much better way of framing the classic "master the rules before you break them" principle. It certainly applies to other creative disciplines outside of writing, as well.
More debt, improving margins: How startups are retooling in the Covid-19 era
It's hard to make a profit from a code editor - i think. but will it allow MS to grab developer mind share to focus on C# .NET and Azure?
They wait until a vaccine is available. That is obviously what they are shooting for using this tactic.

It's actually very smart. You can try to achieve herd immunity if vaccination proves nearly impossible, but why not wait and see while you can?
Doesn't make a difference. If I access your site as a EU citizen through a VPN, then you must follow GDPR.
My wife and I were exclusively using Seamless until we read an article in Eater talking about how Grubhub/Seamless charge restaurants $6-7+ per phone call.[0]

..but then when we started trying to call or order directly through restaurants, we kept getting turned away and told to order through one of the apps. It seems many (most?) restaurants aren't in a position to take orders over the phone or directly through their website, even for pickup.

[0]: https://ny.eater.com/2020/4/23/21231943/grubhub-nyc-phone-or...
It's much much lower than that now. The numbers we've been fed to justify this quarantine are not real.
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You could "just" draw a furry avatar if you have the art skills.

Or you could pay an artist to do that for you.

Neither tactic really scales, especially when your game is coordinated inauthentic behavior i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1RhQ1uuQ4 and you need thousands of convincing fake accounts.
The article maybe should explain why not just apt-get install cups and wifi-share the USB printer (AirPrint included) without the need for downloads from github or an account somewhere which presumably can get a copy of your every page.

I did exactly that at home, and also installed a second printer driver which prints into a PDF file, piled into a HTTP-served directory, so I can easily “print” stuff from my iPhone to reference later or to send to a friend, without any paper.

Very happy with the results.

Raspberry Pi Zero W (10 euro IIRC).

Drawback: it’s not very fast.
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I have one more line of questions. I have, um, observed that "cam" sex workers use teledildonics as a kind of "proof of life". The idea is that paying customers send signals to a sex toy in use by the performer, whose reaction reassures the customer that he is paying for a live show. It affords a way of (apparently) "doing stuff" to the performer in spite of the virtualized nature of the show.

Two part question:

1. A sufficiently sophisticated operation could use canned footage to fake the apparent call and response here. Is there any current research in the direction of possible authentication methods to prevent such fakery?

2. What are we to make of the way this form of remote dominance (simulated or real) has been commodified and put in service of capital accumulation? Are not the paying customers even engaging in a form of self-domination, helping to reproduce their roles as wage slaves, by participating in this system of production?
> People still get infected, die, etc.

Yes, but fewer of them, which is the point.
Nobody asks you to ask for that pop up at all. Just don’t track the users :)

Very sane.
I see this as a major competition to Repl.it
they have had GitHub integration for some time, but it's clunky in my opinion...
I'm specifically talking about the GDPR which is the cause of all the popups we're seeing (but to be clear, doesn't require a popup), not the earlier "cookie law", which I agree is crap, and that you linked to.

However, that law does state that you don't need to get permission if the cookie is:

"Strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user"
That would mandate server-side storage for sessions and any kind of persistence though. It feels like that's throwing away the baby with the badwater.
The special theory (among other goodies), but I am willing to bet nobody was investing more quality time at that problem at that year(Theoretical physics was a game played in a few European cities). For the General Theory he spent 10 years (1905-1915), he worked at the patent office until 1909, and even yet, he got almost scooped by Hilbert.
nor coronaviruses, those pesky colds stay with us because the antibodies don't last
When the only thing management can imagine to do about labor organising is to fire the organisers, that's a failure of imagination, of leadership and a failure of fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. When management cannot make peace with labor, investors end up paying the price from strikes, customer boycotts, government over regulation, and poor workplace morale. It is worthwhile to live in harmony with labor, ask German and Swiss managers why.
Not because they are better at fraud detection, but because US issuers levy much higher fees from their customers across the board and so can eat more fraud-related losses.
Kairn is a new task manager focused on speed
I like the focus on making it easy to get items into the todolist
thank you so much for getting rid of all the garbage that is chronically clogging HN. great work!
It’s still very realistic considering how many people’s actual OCs are just a popular character with a flood-fill of a different color.

* original character https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/original-character-do-not-ste...
Giant cost to society?
I just checked one of the author's projects and it's a service to automatically feign activity on GitHub to... make the activity grid on your profile look active. Is this some sort of post-ironic jab at the SaaS industry I'm not getting or people actually pay for it unironically?
It is mostly about sex. Most furries are spergy enough not to realize that the tingly feeling they get from the baby talk is a sexual pleasure, though.
The law has stupid unintended consequences because it would kill the business of the tracking companies it targets, if they where to follow the intention of the law.

The same companies have their customers convinced that they need data collection to turn a profit.

As a result we see all kinds of stupid attempt to circumvent the law because an entire industry of shady data collectors and brokers have convinced businesses that the only way of making money online is by tracking people.
The 'Zombie Apocalypse' to me is more about being stuck somewhere(life/work situation) fully surrounded by living people who don't use their mind. And then you go about gathering a merry band to fight the mindless herd.
Thanks for this! I was quickly able to find some interesting new and niche types of things to read, in contrast to what my normal strolls through news.ycombinator and hckrnews give me.
any source? I know that many people who have it don't go to hospital unless severe (have few colleagues like that), plus tons of +-asymptomatic folks, but these are just words, no hard data
https://archive.md/Khk4a
If something is unprofitable, that is a signal that resources are being misallocated.
>"I think the popular notion that physicists are all in search of the eureka moment in which they will discover the theory of everything is an unfortunate one,” says Katie Mack, a cosmologist at North Carolina State University. “We do want to find better, more complete theories. But the way we go about that is to test and refine our models, look for inconsistencies and incrementally work our way toward better, more complete models.”

And yet Einstein did just that in developing General Relativity. Yes, his theory produced made predictions which could be falsified, but GR still represents a paradigm shift, the sort Katie Mack thinks of as "unfortunate".

I am not endorsing Wolfram's work at all. But the idea that science has to progress in a step by step, gradual, collaborative fashion is a naive and historically ignorant view.
I can speak for the mac trackpad on windows via bootcamp, and the experience is noticeably worse. Even scrolling feels like I stepped into a time machine to 15 years ago.
See .. you're speculating on what they mean. Wouldn't it be nice if they provided a bit more information so we wouldn't have to parse out meaning out of ambiguous statements? You know, they could provide some details on what needs to happen to re-open. Are we waiting for a vaccine as a precondition for reopening? Or herd immunity? Or case count to drop below X?
Has somebody read the book and can let us know how it compares to similar books? Would you recommend it as an introduction to topic?

I've always heard that it's a bit on the dry side of things, but haven't actually read it myself.
It was updated IIRC (I don't know if the FDA has updated the indication to follow)
Is GPU Database a Hype?
All GPU based databases boast hundreds or even thousands of times faster than traditional databases. From their annual revenues and growth in recent years, however, they have obviously been going nowhere. Will GPU databases be pits of hypes that simply burn VC cash?
I'm not sure what the big deal is in calling if I'm just calling in to order a pizza or a sub.

That aside, at least part of the value of the aggregators is a lot of people apparently want to just go to one place and order from a variety of restaurants. Personally, I don't really get it--I just have menus from the very limited number of decent takeout options around where I live--but setting up your own site doesn't help with that.
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I don't think cloud game streaming is good enough for most people who want serious graphics hardware. But seeing how more and more laptops get Thunderbolt 3, and how USB 4 is planning to effectively subsume it, what really changes the equation are external GPUs. At this point, it just makes more sense to have a light laptop that can be conveniently used on the go, and plug in a powerful GPU specifically for games that need it (which are also unlikely to be played on the bus etc).
The example in the article had the same environmental engineer question, is it just memorizing responses and spitting them back?
I suspected that meat shortages are localized (much like the R(t) of the new coronavirus.
Why are all the top comments about UberEats or food delivery apps? UberEats isn't mentioned in the article at all and this has nothing to do with food delivery whatsoever. I thought I was in the wrong comment section at first... but nope.
When someone builds something and doesn't actually mention why, its not unreasonable to ask what the motivation was...
> Nice job trying to cover it up though. Virgil!

Yikes, can you please edit out personal swipes from your comments to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are? We're here for curious conversation. It's also best to avoid denunciatory rhetoric, not because things don't deserve denouncing, but because it degrades internet discussion quality badly.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I was really blown away by the results you achieved. Amazing work! My jaw hit the floor when I saw the witty farewell "fun guy" quip, and I was in stitches when I read the song about baking. I look forward to the day I can take the model for a spin - unfortunately I don't have the requisite $18,000 hardware ;)

I have a few questions: Could this be used as a tool to get a feel for public sentiment? For example, could you ask the bot what it thinks about gun control and have it spit out a policy that appeals to the common public? If you ask the bot what it thinks about how a company will perform, how accurately does it predict? I know that the model will contain the biases of the data set, but I'm curious if you've run these types of experiments. What do you think the results would be if you had an even bigger, more diverse corpus? (devil's advocate, for the sake of discussion: perhaps everyone's fb messenger and WhatsApp chat history)

Finally, you have clearly gone to great lengths to make the bot pleasant to interact with. What sort of results to you get when you train such a huge model on an uncurated corpus and don't try to tweak its personality? I find myself wishing that you didn't try to do this as the bot seems to be hyper-agreeable. I. E Too many responses like "You like watching paint dry? That's super interesting! I love watching paint dry!".
Git it a try, pun intended? :-D
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Well, I'm now aspiring to the same level of dedication to avoiding eye contact.
> there is a self empowerment that comes from creating your own income

This is something that's rarely said (or snidely dismissed as "lifestyle business") but is so very important.

Realizing that you are not completely reliant on someone to employ you, that you can derive income from multiple streams and then actually seeing it happen is an incredible feeling.
The way I read that is, "The US government has done a lot of meddling in Central/South America" and "You'd think as a result of such a long history, our private sector would have gotten good at it by now too."
Great point about flipping around vs. detaching.

During my year with a surface book, at no point I just detached the tablet and used it on its own. When I wanted a "tablet" mode, I would usually disconnect the tablet, turn it around, attach it, and then close. Which essentially flips it around and puts in the same position as X1 Yoga.
Wait for radicle.xyz
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 reactive T cells in Covid-19 patients and healthy donors
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I don’t really understand how so. Countries that have handled it aggressively at least have the option to open borders and allow the virus to spread if they felt like that would for some reason put them in a better position. But this way they can hold off for a vaccine or effective treatment and have a far better outcome.
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Makes me glad that I moved the last of my devices off of Wink about two weeks ago. Makes it easy for me to unplug it. I am considering throwing it in the trash, but maybe someone has a way to repurpose it.
It's incredibly offputting that the team tasked with showing off the UIframework doesn't really understand UI.
This used to be a feature of Firefox. You could get a pop-up asking if you wanted to allow, allow for session, or disallow cookies from a domain the first time it tried to create a cookie. This was removed for some reason.
Yes there is value in the product, its like fancy Regus, which is a real business. Its not worth what it was worth.
+1 to this. $DAYJOB has some proprietary ssh handling, but I can dev from my work-issued macbook into a Linux desktop in the office and vscode "just works"
Any chance of pavlok support? It doesn't exactly vibrate but ... (and if the answer is "patches welcome" I can always make another attempt to convince my rpi to talk to the bloody thing myself)
Or maybe the world is an ambiguous place?
That's the trick. Present value is only so much of the picture. If I dump hecka carbon in for 350 years and then suddenly go clean for one year, I still have to account for my 350 years. The UK has a lot of sins she has to clean up after. No lectures from her till she cleans up her mess.

"Yeah, I didn't kill anyone today." doesn't get you off the murder charge.
CUPS runs on nearly anything, a Zero W is <$10 and a Pi 1 is $5-15 here. I think it's not so much for when you're specifically wanting to buy a non-networked printer, just stuff laying around.
It was also the first time Apple was reacting since the imac days. They were leading of computing UI innovation almost everywhere since.. and then they started to have a me-too moment, trying to make flat-ui right the Apple way. Very odd.
I mean if I write a VSCode Buttplug plugin now I guess there's github codespaces...
The Whisperer in Darkness
By H. P. Lovecraft

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/wid.aspx
Is it not possible to be intrinsically motivated to achieve your goals? I get what you're saying, but I feel like there's a middle ground.
I once thought about filtering HN based on the content served by the link: page size, JavaScript amount, image count, special items (Facebook share button, GA), etc.

The goal would be to focus on small and light websites which is what I like the most. I doubt it would work effectively though.
AI as stereotype enforcer is the next filter bubble
Volvo bucks the industry, will sell Lidar-equipped self-driving cars by 2022
My impression of new Zealand is that it's mountainous, easy to move inland a short distance for the minority who would be effected.
> GitGardener is at $151 MRR.

TIL people are willing to pay for fake GitHub activity.