skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that their awake is asymmetrical (though in a different way) and so there might be a favored way to arrange them, but as they are inefficient compared to conventional turbines, and because the blades undergo a large cyclic variations of wind load with each rotation, they are not cmpetitive for large-scale commercial use.
Toyota is still focusing on fuel cells, which, I think is dead for consumer cars, however I think makes sense in long distance travel for large vehicles (trailers, for example).

I think the death of ICE manufacturers is overblown right now, pending a major increase in battery tech by Tesla, which would just be awesome - but Buying an electric car right now is not a financially smart move for most buyers. First, the biggest market in automotive, crossovers and SUVs, there are not any affordable options for electric vehicles. Even in the sedan segment, with gas so damn cheap, the Model 3 just isn't worth it if you care about saving money.
Looking forward to the cyproterone shortages after people start trying to suppress testosterone to avoid catching covid.
It was a response to their main point, but the subtlety was lost on people who don't think critically.

Just because you see or don't see attacks doesn't mean you are more or less secure. It just means you've finally noticed there is risk. It doesn't mean there is more or less risk. It's the same risk, it's just more visible.
KDE Connect[1] is great if you're on Linux (KDE has it built in, Gnome has GSConnect which implements it, early releases are available for Windows and Mac). File sharing, notification sync, clipboard sync, remote media controls for the PC, use PC as a keyboard for the phone, ring the phone, etc.

[1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
I've been trying to learn about AR by making some kind of tool to let people understand social distancing (sort of took a break from this). The other thing I am trying to do is make music using Logic Pro X.
You are right, the STOCK act to prevent insider trading was passed in 2012. Since then, it seems studies have shown the advantage has disappeared [0]

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w26975?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_med...
> common third party

so you're proposing one unelected entity which basically has full control of all personal assets of the legislature?

seems like a pretty big potential for vulnerability
I am aware of lot of losses that went back to the originating bank because of inaccurate marketing material.
Do you have a source for 'cigarettes boost T'? Is it the nicotine or some other chemical in cigarettes?
Stream of consciousness, but as a New Yorker, here are my two cents:

Anecdotally, one of the first things I noticed while driving through the Upper East Side about a month ago was the number of lights that were off around 8pm. It was a little disturbing to see, but people have their own prerogative and there is no way to tell someone that they should stay in the city to support the people who live here. Lately, I do still see people moving out. Typically one or two cars loading stuff. A lot of furniture on the sidewalks if you’re into that type of thing.

I am keeping a pulse on things by watching rental prices on Craigslist. I enjoy seeing the sublet ads that ask for someone to take over a 3000/mo 1 bedroom apartment in Hells Kitchen. They’ll be back in September. Until then, pay their full rent to live in a neighborhood that was sketchy before, but barely habitable now. I don’t even feel safe driving through there after sundown.

Which brings me to the point: I think the racial imbalance in terms of who gets sick is clearly driven by the ability to work from home, ability to actually socially distance, and the ability to just leave the city and go back home until things blow over. I’ve lived in a three generation apartment in the boroughs. If one person gets sick, they all do.
It seems more oriented to browsing/scanning, and particularly nice for that IMHO. What would be a baseline for comparison?
> truly native web apps

God forbid. I happen to like adblockers, inspecting app DOM, and applying custom styles and features with browser extensions. I can customize even poorly-built web apps like Youtube and Facebook with enough poking around and custom selectors. It's great.

Don't bring native UX sensibilities to the web, or we'll retaliate by pushing Electron even harder for cross-platform native development. And yes, that is a threat. ;)

Every time this conversation comes up, I make the same point: the DOM is not a layout tool, the DOM is a user interface. The DOM forces you to give your users a pure-text representation of your current state -- it forces you to think of your current state as an XML-like data object before it allows you to think in visual terms. That's the point: your user interface is XML, not pixels.

Imagine if every native GTK app forced you to come up with a universal text interface that worked in terminals before it would let you add any of the weird keyboard handlers and unresponsive layouts and HDPI-unfriendly menus on top of it. That is how the web do.
But what you’re describing with lightbulbs is basically an ode to the technical limitations of the time they were invented.

We have had dimmable bulbs that are far less jarring for a long time and now smart bulbs can do the easing automatically when you flip the switch, and change color and brightness depending on time and environment.

It’s such a nice improvement. I don’t even notice until I turn it off and I realize that white light at night is piercing and yellow light during the day makes me sleepy. Or that 100% brightness in the morning and night is way too much.

I think it’s a case of not wanting to go back once you realize what you’ve been missing.

Sure the world you describe with flashing bulbs would be horrible but that’s not what it’s really like.
I didn't graduate college. I work at an HFT. Nobody cares where you went to school or what your major might have been. I work with some people that dropped out of high school. The only things that matter are whether they believe you can currently help the company and if you can reach agreement to some terms under which you will do so.

It is true that HFTs are more easily accessible to top schools but that's largely due to employee alumni networks and HFTs sending recruiters to school mixers and competitions. We sponsor competitions/hackathons at places like CMU and MIT (and send recruiters/reps to network/scout). If you go to $StateSchool, just apply through the usual channels (check websites for internships/graduate roles). If you can pass the automated tests, you'll get a phone/video chat screening.
Like anything with health, it is the system not the parts that matter.

> Q: What are the implications of women’s genetic superiority for the current coronavirus pandemic?

> A simplified way of thinking about that is this: A specific gene on the X chromosome, TLR-7, is often used to recognize single-stranded RNA viruses like the novel coronavirus. Having two versions gives them an advantage in recognizing the virus.

> Additionally, we think that COVID-19 uses its spike protein to enter cells in the body. They do that by unlocking the ACE2 protein on the surface of the cell. And, as it turns out, the ACE2 gene is on the X chromosome. Which means all of men’s cells are using that same [version of the] ACE2 gene. So if they unfortunately encounter a strain of COVID-19 that has a spike protein that can perfectly unlock their ACE2 and enter their cells, men are in big trouble quickly.

> On the other hand, in females’ cells, 50 percent are going to be using likely a slightly different version of the ACE2 than other cells. It’s much more difficult for a strain of corona to have a spike protein that could equally infect both populations of cells.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-reason-more-men-...
Well, I meant for devs who are doing it innocently ;)

The fact that it took four years in your example implies that permission shaving isn't hugely risky for devs.
I was disappointed to find that this post falls into the same pit a number of these defences of the modern web fall into - creating a false dichotomy between "literally no JavaScript whatsoever" and "a framework-authored site with client-side routing". None of the features mentioned in that particular paragraph - user interaction analytics, preloading data and content [on link hover], transitions, avoiding full page loads - need a site to be an SPA, nor are they "fiendishly difficult" to do for the [near-]static sites MacWright discusses in his blog post.

I think it's a shame that frontend web developers have thrown themselves behind the SPA paradigm so hard that the notion of a JavaScript ecosystem that doesn't try to do pull _everything_ into its own domain is unimaginable. I'd love to see more mindshare go towards building libraries that are drop-in/"just add water" progressive enhancements for static sites.

[edit: minor grammar correction]
It does not and actually assumes locale-dependent separators (usually semicolons if your locale uses a comma as a decimal separator and comma otherwise).

If you want to specify separators you have to go via Text Import.
This is nice. I think I will integrate it in my new stock events app. It's exactly the kind of content that belongs there. Thanks!
I think CSV is more popular than one would think because Excel was awful back in the old days.

A lot of the crufty edge cases are artifacts of whatever people had to deal with in 1995 to get data into spreadsheets. We all got used to pushing data around with CSV because the people consuming the data needed it.
China ready to put Apple, other U.S. companies in 'unreliable entity list'
Healthy or in shape? The terms are conflated too often for my liking. Same with food, low-calorie or low-fat / sugar foods are often labeled healthy, but IMO that lacks nuance.

They are factually low-calorie for example. Whether they're healthy is another matter entirely because that depends largely on your overall diet.
There's evidence it was in Europe long before it was ever noticed in China.

Was France and Italy covering it up to harm the planet? There was an irregularly high number of pneumonia deaths in Italy oct/nov 2019 and yet you won't see allegations of a a conspiracy because it's an absurd assumption given him much self inflicted harm it caused.

Going down the cover up and "act of aggression" rabbithole, the whole world knew about it months before ever impacted them and had all the time in the world to prepare.
My then-roommate got one and I remember being impressed at the lack of branding. All laptops until then have had a company logo.
Someone somewhere is playing to win, though. You can only successfully use diplomacy from a position of power. I think some of the sabre rattling is an attempt to suggest power.
Cruise cars are constantly driving and testing in my neighborhood in SF. I can assure you, I will never step foot in one of those death machines. I see them make mistakes all the time.
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Spring Boot 2.3.0 has been released
"Building algos for clients" may refer to implementing the algos designed by traders/quants.
fread can also accept a shell command which it will run and use the result as input. I use that to grep the lines I want from files too big for RAM.
How about greed? How many decades of repeated patterns of cooking figures, "losing" paperwork, and outright fraud does it take to see that a sizeable percentage of people running the largest financial companies just want to rake in whatever they can. Since so many products are so arcane and/or never disclosed in detail, there's ample opportunity to mess with and profit from just about anything that isn't prima facie simple.

I don't know how to rein in the seemingly endless stream of schemers... and the thought that "everybody does it" (think LIBOR), and that shining the proverbial sunlight into the back rooms will cripple what financial system we have just makes me want to burn it all down anyway.

Lots of frustration, little action. No answers.
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Try a UTF8 CSV with Windows-1252 free-form text in some fields. I believe dealing with character encoding is the most frustrating thing a developer can do.
Digital “Spite Fence” in Cryptovoxels
Maybe I'm just unlucky, or it's a case of No True Scotsman, but I've yet to experience a good working Scrum environment that doesn't devolve into micromanagement, meeting hell and cargo-cult behaviors. I've seen it kill all the initiative, enthusiasm and curiosity in a developer team. Pre-Scrum, a developer might look at some code, think "hey, I'll spend a bit of time optimizing that, looks like it needs some tuning", maybe have a quick chat with their lead and/or teammates, and get on with it. Now it's "I'll have to make a card, which will probably be a spike, put it in the backlog, wait for it to be groomed, and maybe we'll get round to it in Sprint 12 this year". That becomes too much effort, so they don't bother. This is classic bureaucracy as a cudgel : make the form-filling and meetings exercise so burdensome ordinary people just give up, and the bureaucrats win because they thrive on the form-filling and meetings.

Scrum - as I've seen it practiced in the wild - seems to go against the entire spirit of agile and developer empowerment, and even calling it "agile" is pure gaslighting, but at the same time the arrival of Scrum is the signal that the company you work for is no longer the fun, challenging little startup you joined, but is now pulling on the big-boy enterprise pants. That may or may not be a good thing for the company as a whole, but as a developer it's the signal that you either should buckle up and prepare to be a more secure but unhappier cog in the new beaucratic machine, or move on to greener pastures. Because Scrum is just that: it's a tool for to corral your unruly startup weirdos into a growing "serious" enterprise organization, and to push out the ones who can't or won't comply. People just make the naive mistake of thinking it's about increasing productivity and efficiency.
You make no sense:

> Compare to NYC, which has no cohesive plan for people movement without public transit.

Yes, NYC is far too dense for cars, but how is this a contrast with London trying to reduce car use, and which is only a little bit less dense?

> Our cultural dislike of walking and biking is going to make healthy recovery much more difficult.

Biking should be public transit, as storing bikes in houses and offices is a waste of spaces and bicycles. The city should have taken over from Motivate, at which point it would be political suicide not to expand to the rest of the city immediately.

In particular, let me rant on this a bit. The equitable way to expand is to cover everything within `x` feet of subway, along with the densest areas not covered by transit. What they've done instead is blatantly prioritize areas where out-of-towners move to. Note this is about social class not economic: starving artists moving east to Bushwick get their bikes before rich native New Yorkers in Forest Hills, or more native but closer to a transit hub Sunnyside.
Yeah, no disagreement that putbacks occurred, but those perpetrating the fraud aren't being held personally responsible. It's a slap on the wrist for the bank, cost of doing business. Call me when they're doing perp walks and handing out Maddof length sentences. Those are incentives to not violate securities law.
It's quite well known if you venture outside the mainstream media.

For example there were opinion polls done by western polling orgs in Crimea where the vast majority supported unification with Russia. It's not hard to understand. Salaries in Russia are ~10x what they are in Ukraine for the same job. Economically they're not comparable, and that's before you get to the whole conflict in Ukraine starting because the government was overthrown by rebels supporting a new government that amongst its first acts, banned the Russian language.

Remember that Ukraine's response to the peaceful annexation was to cut off Crimea's entire electricity supply. That's hardly the work of a friendly government trying to help its loved citizens. Russia had to send in generator ships, if I recall correctly.
For Bind9 named.conf configuration file, I’ve been working on Vim syntax highlighter.

873 rules, so far. And 99% done. Arguably Vim’s largest syntax file to-date.

Best part? It highlights RED if you type the configuration wrong. As well as TODO, FIXME and nested 3-style comments

https://github.com/egberts/vim-syntax-bind-named
You're misreading that statement. Downloading an app is not difficult, _getting_ people to download one is.
Trudeau was, rightly (to the extent that he was involved/aware), lambasted for that decision...
Oh yeah I forgot about the Smith Mundt Modernization act. Probably because of Russian mind control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
I personally don’t have much problem with the 100+ apps on my phone, but really it’s an app graveyard. I use maybe 10 regularly. I’ve also cut social media apps from my phone due to battery usage and privacy violations.

Downloading an app is more personal, phone storage space is still a premium for many people. App devs don’t seem to care at all how big there app is. We yell at at web devs when their page is >1mb. I’ve tried downloading simple apps whose size are 400mb, what the hell are they doing? If I can visit their site that’s 1mb or download their app that’s 400x, maybe I’ll just visit the site and be on with my day.
shrug I'll bet my business on waiting an extra 15 minutes for analytics code to run.

Seriously. There's little most businesses really needs that I couldn't do on a nice 486 running at 33MHz. Now, if a $5000 workstations gives even 5% improvement to employee productivity, that's an obvious business decision. That doesn't mean it's necessary for a business to work. So dropping $1000 on an NVidia graphics card, if things ran faster and there were no additional cost, would be a no-brainer.

There are additional costs, though.

And no, you can't just go back from faster to slower. Try running Ubuntu 20.04 on the 486 -- it won't go. Over time, code fills up resources available. If I could take a 2x performance hit, it'd be fine. But GPUs are orders-of-magnitude faster.
JavaScript downloading and parsing is much more computationally expensive than html parsing.

The DOM seems slow, I think mostly because it requires translating between rendering systems - the representation of the html has to be updated, the styling has to be applied, and the change has to be painted on screen. This explains why updating a documentFragment as a batch operation is much faster than changing the dom directly in a loop.
This page is extremely difficult to read.
Positive, supportive comments have always been welcome on HN.
>> we could target drugs that temporarily minimize androgen receptor affectiveness to control the spread

Modifying key hormone functionality across the population, what could possibly go wrong? The impact on other diseases, not to mention behavior, is huge open question.
How reliable does it need to be? A bare-minimum Linux VPS for a few bucks a month and an SSH reverse tunnel would give you "hide me" functionality and its (IMO) a much easier setup to debug if something isn't working. It's probably also got some resources to e.g run a proxy cache (and thus reduce the amount of traffic to traverse the weakest link: the tunnel), if that's at all helpful
That is not the takeaway I get from the paper. I read it as establishing that because testosterone levels has an well established impact on muscles growth, low testosterone should thus impact respiratory muscles size at the point of getting the infection which in turn impact outcomes for people with respiratory disease. However this logic also imply that men should have an overall better outcome to respiratory disease than women, as men has on average more and larger muscles than women, but research into this tend to be more complex than that.

Low testosterone has also been linked in research with increased inflammation response. One of the causes for deadly outcomes of Covid-19 is an over inflammatory response, thus the paper argue there could be a link between low testosterone levels and increase mortality for Covid-19 patients.

The paper also mention a potential risk for people with high testosterone levels because a related gene which biological function of is unknown but which is connected to the function of prostate cancer cells. There seems to be indications that this gene can also modulate covid-19, and if we would inhibit the gene the theory is that it may reduce the effect of the virus. Clinic studies will have to show if it helps, do nothing or makes things worse, because right now its just a theory based on a gene which from my reading we don't know much about.
A Guide to Practical A/B Testing
I have built a rust based version of the 2048 game which runs in the terminal. The most interesting and fun part is the small AI that I implemented and which can be used to play automatically.
It's nothing very new, but I enjoyed crafting this small game in the most elegant and efficient way I could.

https://github.com/adrienball/2048-rs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
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> The web is not a success. It's dying. Consumers vastly prefer native apps — one recent study (https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web/) tells us that 90% of mobile time is spent in apps vs 10% in browsers.

Does that really mean anything other than you can do more things with mobile devices than just browse the web? I might use WhatsApp on my phone, draw with Procreate on my iPad or play games. I don't see why any of those things should involve the web browser, but that doesn't mean the web is somehow dying.

I mean, to draw an analogy, it doesn't mean Netflix is dying if I use 90% of my time at home not watching Netflix.
In my experience there are two kinds of parents that homeschool: ones with exceptional circumstances and ones with exceptional political views. The children of the former group seem to like homeschool just fine, the latter not so much. Where I lived, most people were homeschooling because they thought the government was going to indoctrinate their children.

If you don’t have exceptional circumstances, my opinion is the best choice for kids is a more traditional school environment.
Tiny Differentiable Simulator is a header-only C++ physics library
Awesome! I did not know that.
I was not enraged but you're right. I see your point.
I would like to see a general purpose DC-DC connector that could be used to hook up your car to other battery power equipment. It would be nice to be able to recharge your battery powered lawn mower / string trimmer / chainsaw without having to go through an AC/DC converter.

In a perfect world it would be great to be able to share your juice with another car. This would come in really handy for places that you aren't familiar with or don't have great charging station coverage. Imagine your on vacation and your hotel doesn't have charging; borrow some charge from a fellow traveler. Or your on a road trip and see a fellow electric car owner stranded at a rest stop; slip them some of your charge.
A web based vector drawing program for dynamic visualizations inspired by Bret Victor [1]. Think adobe illustrator + excel... every property on an object can be a reactive mathematical expression with data and object dependencies. Data changes -> property value changes -> rendering changes. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities here!

[1] http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
Alpha vs Beta (as far as that concept is useful) is a question of behavior, attitude, and being able to love yourself; not T levels. Your comment betrays that you have a very shallow understanding of these topics. I encourage you to do some reading on this from first sources to get an understanding of the topic.