skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I echo the experience with "two cheapo media computers with Win10, 2GB RAM, 32GB MMC hard drive. They've been working BRILLIANTLY".

I have a couple of 2013 or 2014 vintage Asus T-100 TA (tablets with detachable keyboard) around the house still working like champs at tablet duties. I think they've been upgrade from the original Windows 8, and they even work with the Office 2013 apps that came included in the 300 euro sale price for each.

Not main work machines, but nice spares, and good for web, PDFs, tube and light games. And I get my fix of Metro Design interface not available on phones any more ...
Launching MIDL.dev, a cryptocurrency staking-as-a-service provider
Airbnb owners rush to offload their homes, Redfin CEO says
> We tested 1,020 serum specimens collected prior to SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the United States and found one false positive

This gives 95% confidence intervals of between 0.0% and 0.5% false positive rate.
Furthermore, while it can probably be overstated, it wouldn't be surprising to see a fair number of people--perhaps mostly renters because they can pick up and leave more easily--who have second thoughts about city living. Why risk living in close quarters if this may be a recurring pattern and pay a premium for doing so.

Not so much the Bay Area but there are a lot of cities where you can get a lot more space for a lot less money by moving out to even a fairly close-in suburb.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03085 - The disease-induced herd immunity level for Covid-19 is substantially lower than the classical herd immunity level

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.27.20081893v... - Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold

This effect will be amplified if the initial vaccinations are given (as they should be) to the potential superspreaders, like healthcare workers and essential manual laborers.
Open Source in China: The Game
No worries I ended up getting it to work for me
Let me give it a try. Suppose we have 100,000 people in a statistically representative town.

If 1% of people have had COVID-19, then that's 1000 people who have had it, and 99,000 people who haven't.

The test has a sensitivity of 100%, which means all 1000 people who've had it will test positive.

The test has a specificity of 99.9%, which means 98,901 of the 99,000 people who haven't had it will test negative; but that leaves 99 people who haven't had it, but test positive anyway.

That gives us 1099 people who look like they have immunity; but only 91% of those people are actually immune: 9% of the people are false positives.

If instead we have a specificity of 99%, then only 98,010 of the 99,000 people who haven't had it will test negative, leaving 990 people who haven't had it but test positive anyway.

That gives us 1990 people who look like they have immunity; but only 50% of them actually do -- the other 50% are false positives.
Rust Compile Times Are Not Slow
> Doing this well requires a lot of theory of mind skill, and that's something that I think a lot of technical people are not very good at

So very true.

"Theory of mind" is a good term. "Empathy" is another.
Nah; it would have been illegal, as was pointed out at the time. He was doing it for the publicity.
I'm not as afraid of being dead as I am about the process of getting sick and dying.
In my region (Northeast US), nobody even thinks of selling until May, and summer is when the vast majority of homes hit the market.
I'm mostly worried about the _optics_ of saying there's no runtime, because if people think "hey Svelte looks cool BUT I'm scared my bundle size will be humongous", then they won't convert. And Svelte sure could use some more adoption to get the adoption snowball going. That's all that it boils down to.
2 hours until the halving: https://bitcoinblockhalf.com
Seems like having this mutation from the beginning might be very different from getting it when you're 20+. Would you simply fail to develop even to viable infant stage?
A lot of vegetables have carbs.
No. The theory is that, in order to get to the sugars, the body has to first break down the fiber in the fruit. This "flattens the curve" of sugar that is available to the body. That doesn't happen when you mix already separated sugar with fiber. But, it should be noted: this is merely a theory. In truth, not much is actually known about the finer details of human nutrition.
> What data do they have that any MLS subscriber doesn't have?

Wouldn’t they have some insight into what people want to buy?
Are they still not including deaths in retirement homes as part of the fatality count or did they backtrack on that?
That seems orthogonal to his question.
The parent comment didn't make any such claims or use any vulgarity. I think you are putting words in their mouth and taking a very uncharitable interpretation of what was said.
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/are-there-re...

Not saying that's bad. It's just funny.
The person you are responding to is suggesting a scenario like the movie 'contagion' where people marked clean are given a wristband or pass of some kind.

In reality testing can be used as an effective tool regardless of whether or not people can be 'certified'
MetaMate – Your API for Everything
> Its call system does not support queuing! People redial hundreds of times a day through the maze of prompts just to be disconnected because there are too many people calling.

If that's the case, can you script out the needed phone tree selections to make it less frustrating? This still works on android:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/10/how-to-add-hard-wai...

People used to do this when calling cards were more frequently used. You could setup a speed dial with all the pauses to dial the calling card, wait, enter the account number, wait, and dial your contact number. I think it'd probably work to repeatedly navigate a phone tree menu.
For anyone contemplating on doing remote development on these otherwise underpowered devices, I just discovered Parsec (no affiliation) that is a free remote desktop solution with seamless mode and 60fps throughput. I wouldn't say that it is without problems (artifacting heavily on flaky connections, some hotkeys not being captured) but it opens interesting possibilities.
Related challenge: encouraging a culture of reading.

I've invested a great deal of effort in writing documents in the past only to realize that very few co-workers were taking the time to read what I'd written.

There are workarounds for this. The most famous I can think of is the Amazon culture where each meeting starts with 10 minutes of quiet reading, to ensure everyone is on the same page.

I imagine it's part of a writing culture though. Once people understand that an organization values writing, they'll take the time to read.
> proving string theory

Would definitely not consider string theory “proven”.

On the contrary, its odds of being correct (much less demonstrably so) seem to be decreasing by the year.
Snake Game JavaScript
> What an utter load of bollocks. These are people who are creating something that they enjoy doing and giving you information you apparently need for free. I don’t understand why anyone would trash their desire to write something that is personal and/or interesting to them about it.

They're mostly copying recipes from other places then applying SEO. That's it. The ridiculous probably-made-up stories are for SEO.
Probably, yes. I turn 40 this month, and was recently told by someone who just met me that I look 25. What exactly am I supposed to do differently now?
Half of the reason I want to run my own company is build this culture and hire that role. The team librarian position is probably the single best value for money multiplier possible on team productivity and yet almost no one wants to invest in it.

That's even before we get into second order effects of building new pathways into technology work.
I haven't done TypeScript/JavaScript in a while. What's the status of ESLint taking over from TSLint (for both the tool itself and the vscode extensions)?
> If the boundary is, in fact, reflective, nothing can leak out of AdS space-time. So any matter or energy put into the system could potentially get concentrated — perhaps to such an extent that a black hole would form.

So in space-time that does not have a reflective boundary, is the implication that matter or energy can leak out? Where does it go?
Just as an explanation, I was referring to "Denoising for Ray Tracing", because that's what the link points to.

I do not oppose ray-tracing in general, but merely the over-hyped denoiser.
Scottish Land Registry is currently closed so nothing can actually be sold atm, as far as I'm aware.
Fair point, thank you for adding this. I grabbed the notion from memory, and I don't even know if the source mentions age cohorts.

I think it is fair in the context of the OP as a mid 20's developer, but agree wholeheartedly that it doesn't need to be applied with specific ages in mind, but rather more broadly across an adult life.
Add the ability to train on arbitrary effects as inputs and this will a best-selling VST for whoever can make it first.
Do you think this could be sleep related? I still am guilty of sleeping a lot on the weekends (so Mondays feel great!) then running myself into the end of the ground by the end of week. Do not recommend for anyone.
VR in a Pandemic: Good News and Bad
It also has a timer built in that, unlike the default iOS Clock app, allows multiple timers to be run simultaneously. Just tap on any time in the recipe to start it as well.

Paprika is well worth the couple bucks.
It's already running an almost mainline kernel: https://twitter.com/mntmn/status/1259611758827835394
and what is left looks like it would be easy to get upstreamed. I don't know about the u-boot situation, but one can always ask Lukas on twitter ^^

I have a Novena around collecting dust too and used it a lot while it was still getting patches. I'm actually more excited about the reform2, and already held a prototype unit at 36C3. It's very much what got me excited about open hardware laptops in the first place, but packaged in a more user-centric way. the Novena was always a pita to use on the go.
Stripe is back up as of 16:42 UTC. We had some API issues -- we're continuing to monitor.

Edit: The errors occurred from 16:19–16:42 UTC.
Thanks to Ryanair a flight that started at 140 pounds in 1986 can be had for less that 20 today.i know someone who had to pay 400 for it when they needed to get to a funeral.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140520-the-girls-who-ne...

> A handful of girls seem to defy one of the biggest certainties in life: ageing. He has identified four girls with this condition, marked by what seems to be a permanent state of infancy, a dramatic developmental arrest. He suspects that the disease is caused by a glitch somewhere in the girls’ DNA. His quest for immortality depends on finding it.
Interesting what high-value might be though.

Popular claptrap might not be valuable. Engagement can be value, and a many-to-many thread is typically good, except when it becomes a 1:1 drill down match. I think a sincere controversy is exceptionally valuable because it frames something essential about the topic, at least when it isn't just the iteration of talking points. A bold provocation can also be useful because the quality of the responses may reveal unexamined assumptions.

Better? Meh, but indicative of a certain quality factor, I'd say no doubt.
I do use both YouTube-DL and FFMPEG, and producing high-res GIF is actually very easy. It took me two weeks (part time) to launch the first raw version that worked well on my machine :) but took over a year to be able to scale it so everyone else can use it as well.
We're still seeing errors.
I'm an ML engineer, and I agree with you- deep learning is by far the most common approach for new problems in informatics.

Imo deep learning is so popular because it "works". For a classification problem, if you try a linear baseline and a deep learning model, and you do a reasonable job of hyperparameter tuning and experimental design, it's likely you will outperform a simpler model. This holds true across many problem spaces.

I think the issue is that modern DL frameworks make it a little too easy to get pretty good performance on new problems. Other techniques generally require more background knowledge to make reasonable modeling assumptions, and still frequently perform worse than a naively applied DL approach.

I think DL will remain, in practice and education, a very popular tool. But it is essential to learn traditional statistical inference and other background to appropriately contextualize DL models so it isn't just some form of black magic.
Quickest way to bring Legacy Code under tests by handling global variables
But as always, there must be a katch.
I'm seeing lots of oversaturated people with giant pants on startup marketing sites these days. Don't really understand this trend.
Fair enough, how do you interpret what he said? I removed the mild vulgarity, I agree it was not needed.
It is going to sound very cynical, but something being illegal is not always something that would stop a company from doing things. Laws being enforced could and even then it depends on whether it is enforced gently.
Personally I think deep-learning is a bubble, and it will soon collapse to its natural place in computer science. Which is not to say that it's a fad that will disappear, only that it will retreat to being just a regular tool among the many tools we have for solving different kinds of problems. Its inscrutable nature is definitely problematic for some use-cases, and not so problematic for others.
> We must assume they are there because they have been selected for

It is enough for them to not be much of obstacle or to not manifest symptoms all the time. That is enough for them to stay.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "Recipe Filter" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/recipe-filter...

Cuts the fluff and puts the recipe front and center. I wouldn't be able to find recipes online without this.
It's definitely grown worse now, but I think that this originated from recipe sites that people actually used to follow, because the blogs were interesting and we got to know the writers, and what's changed is more that we're jumping to the first Google hit and we expect them just to grant us the information we wanted.

There is a difference between opening up a recipe site, like a favorite blog, or the New York Times (which does the same kind of spiel before its recipes), just to read and find out what interesting thing they have posted, vs doing a search for "pasta carbonara," clicking on the first link, and having to read a life-story.

I never mind opening up the recipe section of the New York Times and reading about what's so interesting about this recipe, and memorable times it was served. That's because I trust the article to be vaguely interesting, and reading it is a form of entertainment. There's a reason why no newspaper's recipe section has ever simply been: "Pasta Carbonara: 1 lb pasta. 2 oz Pancetta. 5 egg yolks. Cheese. Combine as directed below."

So I feel like the in-vogue hatred of these recipe site styles is more a reflection of how expectations on consuming and searching for recipes has changed, more than significant changes in how recipes have always worked.
you guys might be interested in a current Reddit thread (also on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23136688):

https://old.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/ghfyd2/secondgu...

specifically this sub-thread of Mithril's author and myself doing a "Hello World" Next.js perf assessment vs a full-blown ecommerce page:

https://old.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/ghfyd2/secondgu...
If you want simple, you can give Charge a try: https://charge.js.org

It's a dead-simple MD -> HTML generator that uses React for templating. No JS code on the client, unless you import your own scripts.
The DEFCON 22 badge was done on a Propeller. I did a little pokeing around on it--very interesting architecture. But they don't all run at once.... It's just a way to switch contexts instantly.
Also not an expert, but that sounds about right to me.

I imagine the difficulty in designing these models comes from modeling the variable factors, IE the parameters normally controlled by the knobs on the amp or effect. Some of these should be straightforward (for example "gain" increasing the volume on the input signal), but I suspect that in some pedals these parameters changing can have impacts on how other parameters behave. I don't see any mention of how this "deep learning" model works with that.

Guitar modeling gear has been around for about 25 years (The first Line6 amp debuted in 1996, I'm not sure if their were earlier products brought to market). They've been derided by purists, but have kind of turned a corner in recent years and are now becoming very mainstream.

Some modern products, such as those sold by Kemper, actually allow you to plug in to your existing gear and generate a profile based on the impulse response. The results, at least according to the reviews I've read, are actually very impressive.
While it isn't ready for full production volumes you can purchase a Propeller 2 evaluation board right now.
Cloud Native News State of K8s 2020, Investigate K8s Perf. & ChatOps BotKube
ASAP: As Static As Possible memory management [pdf]
The object syntax example looks very like what is already possible in Kotlin: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html

html {
body {
div {
a("https://kotlinlang.org") {
target = ATarget.blank
+"Main site"
}
}
}
}
I never said these were invented by HEP, just that envelope pushing research was done as a byproduct of collider/detector requirements.
"Fast and reliable HMR". I had to look this one up. It means "Hot Module Replacement".
If people are going to invest in significantly extending the lives of billions of people, are they also going to invest in drastically limiting human procreation? It seems pretty clear there are too many of us already...
Gmail has a HTML app which requires a reload whenever you click stuff and still manages to be faster than the JS app.
Same here. Also having intermittent trouble accessing dashboard.stripe.com at home.
I work with a lot of people who didn't take the college track to become what they are today. I'm not saying that college is necessary or that one way is better or worse than the other, but the one thing I notice most about them is that they do not communicate through writing well.

The single most important thing, in my opinion, that these folks are missing is they do not write with an audience in mind.

Our manager's boss doesn't need long technical emails.

"javascript|ruby|python developers" should not need documentation on how "javascript|ruby|python" themselves or their standard libraries work. There is documentation for that already, but I have been asked to document such things.
> the bible does talk about people who lived for thousands of years

I don't remember anyone mentioned living for _thousands_ of years. There are plenty of characters that live for hundreds, though. It is believed that Abraham lived to the age of 175, while I believe there was one character that lived into the 300's, but I do not recall their name. It has been a while since I delved into the old testament.
I’m not downvoting, but you do realize that subletting while out of town is both rent-seeking and distorting the hotel market, right?
Writing is premature optimization.

YouTube is the most important asset on the web.

In fact, we’d be better off if most “thoughts” weren’t committed to virtual paper.

In the beginning you want a medium that malleable, nuanced, high bandwidth. Speech. Visual emotion. Voice inflection. How we’ve evolved.

It’s in those moments where ideas are challenged sbd change form quickly.

Then once they’re a bit more solidified, take a pass at writing. Which adds further clarity.

I think eventually we find a place again for voice and video for remote work. Something that isn’t a huge production but still async.

Yac or Loom look really promising in this area.
So then, once a population reaches "ideal" mutations, if that is possible, then wouldn't the opposite start happening?
It's a well funded research area and in many cases outperforms other solutions, so it's not going anywhere in Unis for the next decade at least.

It's not completely inscrutable in why it works, follow the thread on deep learning theory research by starting from the names here: http://www.vision.jhu.edu/tutorials/CVPR17-Tutorial-Math-Dee...
No it doesn't. This so-called test is actually triggered by cell-sourced exosomes.
I believe you are are vastly oversimplifying this.

An impulse response will characterize only a system that is

* linear

* time-invariant

Many effects are not linear (especially distortion: the crunchiness comes from the nonlinearity). f(a) + f(b) != f(a+b)

And many effects are time varying, for example phasers and choruses which have low frequency oscillators controlling how the sound is shaped depending on when it comes in. Chorus for example will vary the pitch up and down.
From my experience, UberEats and Instacart are two pandemic essentials that most city dwellers aren't ready for in a rural environment.
Shameless plug, but if you plan to pair Next with an headless CMS, we (DatoCMS) make it super easy to handle responsive, progressive, lazy-loaded images with blur-up thumbs, as our edge CDN takes care of everything for you, without paying any cost at build time.

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If my understanding is right, de Sitter space effectively has no boundary, in the same way that a sphere has no edge.
In terms of build quality, MS laptops need to priorities quality over looks.

Windows software is still a mess.

I wish they that drivers can be used by all major linux distro and ensure that the surface lineup is 100% linux compatible.

Microsoft should develop a Desktop environment on linux based on the metro design or Fluent design system which will suit the touch part on the surface tablets.
Unfortunately, it is not that easy because one can get dropped into different IVR trees for no rhyme or reason where the same sequence of key presses sends one into at least one of the two different paths. One path at least theoretically leads to an agent while another path leads to a hangup. If she does not get approved this week I will have to resort to scripting Asterisk.
this person exists--- his name is Jared Leto.
As far as I can tell, Pixar only started using GPUs for previsualization around 2013 or 2014. It looks like Renderman didn't have real GPU super until 2018.

They've never actually confirmed moving from CPUs to GPUs rendering for their final production renders.

So, yeah, I think you're on to something.
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Generally a very nice addition to the lineup. I'm personally fascinated by the support for soldering on an additional RAM chip; depending on how painful it is to actually access that memory, the extra 8MB could finally be enough to run uclinux.
Every time I see someone on this site complain about the build setup complexity of modern frontend and having to fiddle with webpack/babel for ages I'm thinking of all the times I have done:

yarn create next-app my-app & cd my-app & yarn dev

and be up and running in 2 minutes.
Or just get thrown out completely because you are from the EU.
Book keeping: UK subsidy, main company USA(Stripe Atlas)
I have setup a US startup using (Stripe Atlas), I have setup a UK subsidy(Limited).

How do I do book keeping at the end of the year, for the US company..which service could I use?
There are some laws that companies will sometimes try to publicly flaunt. In general, laws around aviation safety aren't on the list; very expensive when all your planes get grounded.
No that is not my argument at all.