skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative to consider, not open source, but then again neither is OpenPose with their absurd license and restrictions:

https://wrnch.ai/faq/
Somewhat tangential, but I have a story about acid reflux that I think is worth sharing for anyone who is in a similar boat.

Basically, I was having reflux symptoms minus the heartburn. Lots of throat issues, digestive issues, coughing, etc. My doctor looked everything over and concluded that reflux was the most likely cause and we did a treatment of PPIs for a few weeks.

The PPI didn't help, but by the time the treatment was over we were in the middle of this pandemic so I couldn't go back into the doc for a next step.

Luckily a few weeks later I randomly stumbled into a fix. One day I noticed the symptoms were gone and when I thought about it I realized I had started taking an additional allergy medication a few days prior. So it seems that instead of reflux I had postnasal drip.

To be fair to the doctor he did mention postnasal drip as a possibility, but reflux was deemed as more likely because I was already on allergy meds and the symptoms were very reflux-y.

Obviously if you have reflux like symptoms, see a doc, but I thought my experience was worth sharing for anyone in a similar boat. It's fairly simple to try new allergy meds and see if that's the root cause. In my case adding a steroidal nasal spray into the mix was what helped. And it resolved the issue in a couple days, whereas trying out PPIs was a two month long experiment of continued suffering. (Side note: not all steroidal nasal sprays are created equal. I had previously tried Flonase which did nothing for me.)
VS Code Can Do That Workshop Notes
Designing Trustworthy AI
I have to parrot what others say about playing slower chess. I was around 900 when I started on chess.com and peaked around 1600. I did regress though as I lost the obsession.

This is what I did over many years:

- Playing alot of slow chess. This allows you to explore and learn from the exploration, but also gives you a small amount of pressure.

- Studying openings with mobile apps

- Consuming everything chess through books, apps, and videos. I loved watching analysis of the masters.

- Focusing on tactics over strategy. I learned from a really good chess player that strategy is more of an experts tool. I was never going to be an expert.

- Chess puzzles. This helps with pattern recognition, especially in blitz.
Wouldn't this kind of reasoning apply to every new virus, including new flu viruses that pop up routinely? A new virus pops up and appears to be just a routine flu, but technically we can't know about its long term side effects until many years later. So why don't we apply this same reasoning and lock everything down routinely whenever any new flu virus arises?

It seems to me that you're right, we can't know for certain until many years later, but in the meantime the world goes on, we can't all just cryogenically freeze ourselves. The best we can do is make educated guesses based on previously existing coronaviruses.
Why Nintendo Needs to Bring Retro Pokemon Games to the Switch
I think the plugins are very interesting. The videos demoing the features are pretty annoying. I can turn down the music, but most of the video is sat there waiting for the effect to finish. That should be skipped. More importantly, that gray out effect to highlight the cursor is way too heavy. It made me lose the context of where it is in GIMP and was very confusing. I would hope most people are like me and only need a some subtle highlighting to track the cursor rather than hitting us over the head with it and losing the surrounding context.
why NINTENDO needs to port the classic retro Pokemon Games [Red, Yellow, Blue, Silver, Gold, etc] as a monthly service for the Switch, and why that would help alleviate the issues the company is facing with upcoming game development delays and a light release schedule.
Fear is the right response to pneumonia.

If you haven’t had it you won’t understand. I can’t swim but if you’re a swimmer you might understand a parallel - it’s like not being able to swim - your head bobbing on water surface, sometimes you can breathe other times you are just gasping. If you’re in water the people will see you’re drowning and a life guard will pull you out.

Pneumonia is this “almost drowning” for weeks!and then bring barely able to breathe for months.

Again: fear is exactly the right response to pneumonia!
Lipid metabolism controls brain development
https://youtu.be/b4lNq4nhdDQ
Dazzled is the perfect word for it.

Thanks for the link also
I’m pretty sure we actually did run low on hand sanitizer.

Yes, there were some hoarders, but people also started buying and using a lot more sanitizer, the supply chain was overwhelmed. Companies didn’t have huge excess warehouses of the stuff ready to ship when demand suddenly spiked over the period of a few days.
First question: who runs the local National Parks Service (NPS), and who runs the the ferry company, and what's their [financial] link.
Doctors on front line of worst-hit city in world say it’s time to end shutdown
The way the section was phrased (it's removed now) it appeared to refer to some external source. The sentence "It is understood that the problems to follow should be taken in order, and begin with a statement of the original problem:" would make no sense otherwise. But if there is such an external source, it should be cited. This is the main problem. It's not about Wikipedia being a boring stickler for rules.
There’s way less abstraction going on in Lua app that has a hand-rolled GUI versus an app built on top of a web browser like Electron. Hand rolling you’re own UI doesn’t make it less native — is Ableton Live not-native?

Or are you drawing the line because Lua is a scripting language?
Waste of energy
Also on KDE and it works fine — but I have composing turned off.
Here's how I look at it. You're absolutely right you can learn everything on your own––but how long would it take? How much is your time worth?

Is $100 for five hours of video worth the years of experience the author might have? For me, it is.
I had a similar experience with putting a course on udemy. Made about $4k in the first month and $400-500 per month after. Completely passive income with no advertising and just word of mouth
Bogleheads has a lot of advice about investing in a low cost, relatively low risk, relatively simple way:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

If you sign up for the Bogleheads forum & follow the template to describe your financial situation you will likely get some reasonably good feedback & ideas.
Thanks for your guidance. This is a super early effort and I'm very grateful for the feedback I already received, but I will certainly better follow guidelines next round and appreciate the implicit second shot to get more hackers involved in the conversation.
> These aren't actual, real, problems.

Well, "our investors demand more monetization then what's possible when first-party servers don't have a monopoly" is a actual, real, problem; the problem is that the investors have too much control over the software design.

> There are dedicated servers for World of Warcraft.

There were dedicated (third-party, ie potentially self-hosted) servers; last I checked (when I wanted to give WoW another try) Blizzard has been agressively C&Ding them whenever it can.
I really dislike implicit routing like this - it's just so easy to accidentally expose an endpoint that's not supposed to be exposed.
I think the first time I ran into a router that worked like this was with yii2 and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Being able to register middleware is also something I really value in a router.
Their kids likely have grandparents.
I was using Signal before Keybase for exactly the same volume of chats and the difference in performance (search, input lag, displaying lag) was huge.

Once Skype was rewritten as an Electron app, I noticed the same performance issues. MS Teams at work, same.

This on very decent computers.

I really feel there has to be something that Keybase does differently on the front-end.
The cathedral got lucky as its skeleton, the walls, whats left after WWII fighting and bombing, were allowed to survive through the Soviet times. During 198x were was a flea/farmers market inside and behind it.

The Castle didn't get that luck - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg_Castle. It got bulldozed, and the boondoggle of Soviet glory - the "skyscrapper" (21 story in Kaliningrad region in 198x was almost mindblowing, add to that that it is on the top of the Castle hill, so it looms large over the city) - is still unfinished and

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg_Castle#Current... ) "Continuation of development was stopped in the 1980s as the massive building gradually sank into the structurally unsound soil stemming from the collapse of tunnels in the old castle's subterranean levels. Many people call this the "Revenge of the Prussians" or "The Monster"."

These underground tunnels (Kenigsberg and Prussia as whole has a lot of them) were back then and i'd guess even more today the scene of active exploration, in particular for hidden Nazi stolen treasures (e.g. "Amber room"), weapons/munitions/etc. and just out of sheer curiosity ( after all it is centuries of history starting from Teutonic Order). So you sometimes would find yourself facing a problem of "N tunnels in three dimensions" with some of them flooded/leading into unknown/etc.
This is something I have been tracking for a few years now. If anyone is interested please DM me.
Oh wow that's awesome. This sounds a lot like my project, in philosophy and practice: https://github.com/NickSto/life-browser

I've focused on Google Takeout exports so far. Only gotten Hangouts and Voice working at this point.

I feel like all of us need to be working on a common codebase for all these parsers. I just found out a week ago that the Hangouts format changed significantly and totally broke my parser (which I actually adapted from https://bitbucket.org/dotcs/hangouts-log-reader/)
Show HN: Pretty URLs and Custom Domains for Notion Pages
Very impressive, nice work. What was the course and would you recommend Udemy?
Interesting, natural sunlight is also a strong blood thinner - can it be used as a treatment?
Teaching passengers to wear masks when sick, wash their hands, etc., is the "let's roll" of COVID-19. A vaccine will be the reinforced cockpit doors of COVID-19. For most people, in 3 years, we'll be right back to where we were.

I don't see how airplanes are any more "petri dishes" than buses, trains, theatres, stadiums, conventions, churches, restaurants, or the DMV. (We're not going to start building everything 4x bigger in every dimension just so people can safely sneeze at an IMAX screening.) Instead of seeing that they don't need to fly, they'll see that flying is no worse than 20 other things they do.

We just have to hope that the government doesn't take advantage of the situation to create a TSA of COVID-19, with mandatory worse-than-useless "health theater".
JavaScript: Variable Hoisting
Yes, the rendering implementation uses gray-scale antialiasing.

But system uses ClearType - compare rendering in window caption (rendered by Windows) and the text inside client area.

Gray-scale may work on high-DPI monitors, but on typical monitors it will be blurry.

But Apple and Microsoft still use ClearType even on high-dpi monitors.

For that matter, Sublime Text, that uses similar architecture (but Python instead of Lua), uses ClearType.
After reading your post, the point practically makes itself:

If he can get Texas enlisted on the team to fight global climate change, that is a huge win. Clearly that's not assured, but a gigafactory and an HQ would not hurt.

With California, he's already mostly preaching to the choir.
> young, white males who use the internet way too much

What does "use the internet way too much" mean?
Straw man. No one thinks the media should "cover it up". However, It would be more responsible for the media to not present the public with so much obvious misinformation about the virus.
I simply read it as legitimately asking how long immunity lasts. I think this is a good question, not "doomer".
The same could be said for keeping a helicopter in z1, but obviously that would be silly.

I live in a far more rural country than your own (Ireland) and Dublin city centre is choking on suburbanites' cars and hgv's. Those same suburbanites vote down any cycling improvements in the council. I think it's morally repugnant that I'd be terrified to let my kid ride a bike to school so you can have easier motoring, and expect me to pay for it to boot!

I ended up leaving Dublin in the end, bitter at its catastrophically weak approach to cycling and tired of drivers being jerks on the quays.
Greetings Professor Falken

Hello

A strange game.

The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?
It's very strange to say that's male only and "off-putting" to women. Have you ever tried exploring female-dominated industries? Because women can and do display all those behaviors as well.
Do you mean 80% of democrats are pro-choice?
Epic will also make you work with proprietary older tools and languages that leave you lacking if you were to leave in search of another job. Ever heard of MUMPS?
Card counting was literally my gateway into professional programming.

The first "real" program I ever wrote was a blackjack simulator, in MS-BASIC, around 30 years ago. My brother and I were getting ready to go with my Dad to Vegas for the first time, and we were keen on not being typical dumb ass gamblers...we wanted an edge.

We quickly learned that the only beatable game in town was card-counting at Blackjack, so I got busy first verifying that card counting wasn't some casino ploy (it wasn't), and then modifying the same simulator code to actually "teach" the systems it was simulating.

I wish I still had this code... I absolutely loved developing it, and eventually it was a very powerful blackjack system. It had configurable everything..system counts, decks, rules, players at the table, etc. I literally spent 7 years plus working on it. Eventually it was ported to Turbo Pascal for speed.

I became a whiz at counting... I eventually settled on "Wong Halves", the most complex but supposedly the most accurate count system there was. Remember, this was in the late 80s early 90s, and back then casinos were wide open to be taken.

I was only a $5 to $25 player though, so I never got any real heat. I used a 1 to 5 bet ratios (1 unit at low counts and 5 as "big bets"), which was very conservative, and looking back, I had a good deal of small-time success. Unlike my brother, I was never banned... I was far better than he at "blending in" and being personable.

Nowadays, I live in Vegas, and they have completely destroyed the chances of winning any real money at the casinos. Hell, I remember my simulations showing me that the primary money advantage was made when you had a large bet out at a high count (favorable to the player), that the fact that blackjacks came at a higher rate WAS THE ONLY REAL MONEY MAKING ADVANTAGE THERE WAS.

This is why, I feel, that the high end strip casinos NO LONGER PAY 3-2 for natural blackjacks...an outrage if ever there is one! Strip casinos now pay 6-5 for a blackjack. I have had heated arguments with pit personnel that the game should no longer be called Blackjack, so "Blackjack" pay 3-2 for naturals.

Unsurprisingly, they never saw it my way. No matter how well you count, you will NEVER win long term with natural blackjacks paying only 6-5, so save your money and your time and just goto Vegas for a good time.
I expect mostly poor hygiene when it comes to touching contaminated things and faces. I basically can't go out in public without seeing someone with their mask pulled down to talk/eat/smoke. You should be sanitizing your hands every single time you don or doff a mask.
WhiteHouse: On May 8, 1945, America and Great Britain had victory over the Nazis
For it to be informative, you need to provide the adequate context that explains it. "New evidence shows that coronavirus can cause long term breathing problems" suggests that this is something unique or unexpected about this, when it's really par for the course for any upper respiratory infection that takes a turn for the worse.
Jump In Meeting – connect in 1 sec to conference calls on macOS and iOS
I found myself spending a tremendous amount of time on the simple task - connect to the online meetings. As a result, built these apps for myself, I hope it'll help you too.
Beautiful. Would love to see this front a headless nvim.
One of the primary things is that one doesn't know what is authoritative, and what is just some random kooks ramblings. In theory a certified course, from known academics (say), gets over that hurdle. It also allows you to put something on a CV (ie resumé), and allows you to check reviews first if it's a proper course (to measure how decent the course materials will be for you). If you don't follow a proper course you don't know what you missed; learning is improved with expert guidance of the pupil.
You seem to be the one drawing the line saying Electron isn’t vs something like this is.

Is a WASM app that renders to WebGL native?

I guess the point is native should probably mean “using the toolkit the OS provides” and we should just use “performant” in most cases.
Other areas with such wildly successful businesses grow into world class metropolises.

But since the Bay Area practically bans new construction of housing and infrastructure, you get the overcrowding, stress, and income disparity instead.
Preference Falsification
Contrary to the claims of this article I'm very skeptical that the admin UI is much of a success factor when running large applications in public clouds.

Cloud administration is inherently complex. If you are doing anything interesting you'll be managing configuration through tools like Terraform and Ansible. Also, if you don't understand virtual networking on your particular cloud you are going to have problems even there. Any cloud service that gives you good control over networking is by definition going to require effort to configure properly.
I'm not sure I agree. There needs to be a focus on building "quality everything" and not "quickest to make anything".

Move fast and break things has become the cancer of software engineering.
Which spray worked for you?
Yet, there is no support (yet?) for RTL languages.
There's this boogeyman floating around that "the economy" consists of a bunch of billionaires drawing lines on charts, drinking champagne and laughing at the proles. If any of that is going on and is costing lives, by all means, put an end to it.

But when I talk about "the economy", I mean the process that puts food on plates and electricity in houses. Someone has to grow the food, someone has to transport it, someone has to store it, distribute it. Sure, we could round up the world's billionaires and force them to do that, but unfortunately there aren't enough of them to do it for everyone, so someone else will have to do it too. And someone will have to service the cars and trains those workers take to get to work, and someone will have to watch their kids, and someone will have to provide toys to the people watching their kids, etc. etc. etc. THAT'S what I mean by "the economy".
I know some magic: the gathering players who did very well counting cards as part of a team. The “big bettor” sometimes worked in the way you mentioned but sometimes it was something completely different, like a crazy religious person who would bet small for a while while clutching a rosary, then When the deck was hot they would go douse themselves in a nearby fountain while praying loudly, then come back to the table, wet, and loudly claiming the Lord told them they were going to win big today and start placing max bets.

Can you do this every night at the same casino? Absolutely not. Can you do it once, then switch to a completely different persona at a different place? Apparently you can, at least ten years ago.

Edit: also, while the big vegas casinos do all this stuff properly, a lot of the small casinos on Indian reservations are more lax with their safeguards. The issue is that table maximums tend to be in the $500 range which makes the dollars per hour somewhat minimal.
what did he predict and how has it been proven false?
Normally you'd assume he's anchored this with his Board before announcing this.

Thought with Elon, who knows :)
Did you hear about how many Tesla employees in China died of the virus after they resumed production? Insane, right?
Yeah they're even closer but they're not flying. I'm not even arguing for SDV or against flying cars but I do believe that flying tons in cities is (unless you have Transformers level of tech) non sequitur.

That said I'm far more about co-disrupting the world by .. walking.
I've read very few reports of actual infection scenarios.

This is one
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article
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https://i.insider.com/5ea01ef938bf2357b9756173?width=750&for...

As we are two months into this, we really should be getting regular updates on infection events.
Quote from a virologist who caught it:

> Many people think COVID-19 kills 1% of patients, and the rest get away with some flulike symptoms. But the story gets more complicated. Many people will be left with chronic kidney and heart problems. Even their neural system is disrupted. There will be hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly more, who will need treatments such as renal dialysis for the rest of their lives. The more we learn about the coronavirus, the more questions arise. We are learning while we are sailing. That’s why I get so annoyed by the many commentators on the sidelines who, without much insight, criticize the scientists and policymakers trying hard to get the epidemic under control. That’s very unfair.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me...
I can still remember, on an evening back in the 1980s, newscaster Gerrick Utley commenting on “this particularly slow news day.” Even as a dumb kid, I understood that to be a good thing. But I couldn’t have guessed how much I’d pine for another one like it the way I do now.
I completely dislike the "isn't made is js/web/electron tech" argument

Because as you said "It's certainly not perfect yet"
You are completely ignoring the knock-on effects of this experiment, like driving an enormous population into destitution and fostering crime and violence.

Fewer than 300,000 people have died with nexus to Covid. Even if that population were to double, we're left with 0.0066% chance of death. It's great to be legitimately concerned, but those are good odds as far as I'm concerned.

What's an acceptable risk for you?
This resonates with me, just having implemented Dead Man’s Snitch style alerts with plain Amazon CloudWatch. Higher abstraction level tools are valuable.
The caveat there is that it is reputed to be quite inaccurate, so it may be useful as an indicator, but it may also cause unnecessary distress.
While there are some eyebrow-raising studies suggesting the correlation between PPI use and dementia, it is far from settled science. There are conflicting studies, and some meta-analyses suggest no association. Of course, studies saying drugs are safe don't make the news.

"No association between proton pump inhibitor use and risk of dementia: Evidence from a meta‐analysis" Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Jan 2020, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgh.14789)

"Dementia, cognitive impairment and proton pump inhibitor therapy: A systematic review" Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (August 2017, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgh.13750)

"Risk factors for dementia diagnosis in German primary care practices" International Psychogeriatrics (July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610215002082)

From the last article: "The use of statins (OR: 0.94; 0.90–0.99), proton-pump inhibitors (PPI) (0.93; 0.90–0.97), and antihypertensive drugs (0.96, 0.94–0.99) were associated with a decreased risk of developing dementia."