skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decomposing a Monolith Does Not Require Microservices
The lack of civility is pretty disappointing. I linked a bunch of data for you, ignore it if you wish.
I think it depends more on the time that people are exposed to pollution for. I don't know for how long this Issue has been existing, but I don't think that any significant increases are going to happen for the first 30 years of such an Issue.
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Trip.com’s Nearly Quarter Century Odyssey as a “Can’t Lose” Travel Domain (2019)
I made my first game: https://elymar.itch.io/social-distancing
It's super simple, but I learned a lot.
I am building react native templates at https://atozui.com
Many people who want a stay at home are at risk and don't want to die. Where is their compassion?
Thanks for the heads-up, will look into that!
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To decode H265? I don't know why this is such a ludicrous proposition to you?

Less jokingly, it was a side output of his bigger project to automatically parse the H265 spec using a tool called O-Meta. This made it surprisingly easy to write a minimal frontend to produce an (unoptimised but working) decoder in C, Javascript, etc. The actual product became https://www.broadcom.com/products/embedded-and-networking-pr... : a codec test suite. Incredibly valuable for those companies making hardware decoders. Similar in structure to an input "fuzzer". Found a number of bugs in the official reference decoder's C code.

Originally sold as https://web.archive.org/web/20190310224609/http://www.argond...
Actual employees of reddit can investigate and remove mods who act outside of guidelines, but they don't.
The cloud is just someone else's laptop.
It's the r/juststart amazon affiliate way. I'll be really happy when Amazon finally cuts commissions to zero. There's just so much unbelievably poor content on google results.
Its kind of funny but also terrifying how the human race is ending itself.
An open source trading bot framework available as a sprint boot starter https://trading-bot.cassandre.tech/
I've seen that recommended here in HN before, maybe I really need those lessons before venturing any further. Thanks for the recommendation!
https://hansenzhang.com/

I finally put my photos up on my personal website. The only constraint I gave myself was to build a site that doesn’t need Javascript to load.

In the end I ended up using Next.js as a static site generator that pulls all the routes from my directory structure, making it possible to add new photography collections and filters as I go.

Might be overkill for the use case but it was fun to learn. The irony is I had to write a bunch of JS to produce it.

Still need to optimize the image sizes and I am thinking about adding filters for b&w/color/format.
All vices experience an uptick in usage during social upheaval. You can add gambling, illicit drug use, gluttony, and all the others.
Archon was fun. Also recommend Elite (and google the history- it was quite a programming feat at the time).
Writing demos for my Javascript library, trying to push it to its limits, uncover bugs, etc. Fun stuff.

Also writing "teach yourself" lessons for the library ... which is not so much fun, but does helps uncover "softer" bugs like: "why do I expect people to code that thing this way? Is there a simpler, happier way to do it?"

(Yeah. Talking to myself out loud. Not a good habit to develop during the lockdown.)

Beyond coding, I've mostly been putting back on all the weight I lost over the past two years. I'll start exercising tomorrow.
If you are not using the mod account then you are not actively modding the subreddit, so sounds like the system works exactly as it should.
Drank a lot of G&Ts and wrote a serverless database https://github.com/adrianchifor/Bigbucket
What's the life expectancy in Delhi, and for what fraction of their lives have old people in Delhi been exposed to the high levels of air pollution?
Yes, for the generic case we have like 6 other languages that have better support, better libraries, better ecosystems, ...
you spoke on our behalf
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I'm so glad it's not just me, as other user said maybe I need to use some cloud notebook or go with CPU. Hopefully those options are more fruitful. Thanks!
I created a live coding music environment in Kotlin: https://github.com/pjagielski/punkt

Here's a demo: Daft Punk's - Da Funk remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQQJPpL6Lo&t=138s

It uses Kotlin scripting as live-coded sequencer and SuperCollider as sound engine.
I think it was Greg Stein who made a significant attempt on removing the GIL back in the 1.x timeframe? IIRC, the penalty was much less than 50%, but it was still a significant cost.

I think that as time has passed, the inability to simply utilize more than one core becomes more of a problem. The transition to supporting async serves mostly to highlight its inability to use a thread pool like Go, as an example.

While I agree that C extensions (and especially, the standard extensions, like eg. socket) really help a lot to limit the impact of of the GIL, I think the usual advice to "just move it to a C extension" or "use multiple processes" are kinda ridiculous to anyone who's not used to the situation.

Unfortunately, fixing it will almost certainly require breaking the C API, and we've only just about recovered from the 2->3 breakage: I don't think the language can afford to do it again, perhaps ever.

Which is why I think it's a shame that the last transition didn't actually achieve more ...
I feel I have the grasp of the material but I cannot teach them about it. So things like long division are done with minimal explanation. I think I did okay with multidigit multiplication (ab * xy). In general, I feel the time I have spent explaining stuff to her is insufficient.

Today she said she does not know how to write an essay. I kinda fudged it for the case in front of her (Intro, your points, an opposing point or two, conclusion). I think there is a better structure in teaching writing 'essays' - I just dont know how to teach that.
> Learning a new walking technique is super hard, it takes at least months, if not even years.

I guess that this might strongly vary with age. Anecdotally, the two times I consciously adapted a new gait, it went pretty quick:

- At around age 13 I adapted a "bouncy" gait with outward pointing toes, because I thought that it looked cook (cringe). Took about a week IIRC.

- Around 17 I switched to what I would call a standard gait (toes pointed straight ahead), because I was afraid my previous gait would cause bowlegs (probably an unfounded fear). Took me about two days (with a lot of walking though), and also had the benefit of better posture in general
I want to see a source on this. Golang's GC is often touted as better than Java's but every real world benchmark I've seen shows that it sacrifices a lot of throughput for low pause times, essentially by running much more often.

Java's new garbage collectors, ZGC and Shenandoah, have average pause times of 0.3 milliseconds on heaps less than 4GB. I find it unlikely that another language has pause times shorter than that given the sheer amount of work put into Java GC over the years
I'm still active on a forum for those types of games. They're still probably about as active as they've ever been. It's obvious why it would never work on a large scale though. Each post got the user profile next to it, their signature, and a lot of space.
It's been four years since I've got an associate professor position. This quarantine is the first time since then that I found the time to actually do research. I finally started to work on a project I had in mind for years. And I'm glad to say that it's working and the implementation is efficient, and I'm currently writing a paper on it :).
Gallowboob has it as a fulltime job, I believe he gets paid to run a few facebook pages. He gets onto mod lists saying that he'll deal with any comments that say anything against him.
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The idea of the above example is to show a controlled distribution can be made that would verify all levels of imports if needed, which is very promising.
i'm getting straight URLs at the bottom of the page. Vermont related URLs.

Neat photos though.
While the Tweakers system might be nicer in some ways, I think the problem of new comments having no visibility still applies to the site in practice. Maybe that's less of an issue because it's a news site, but still.

Sidenote: what's ironic in your linked post is that the only comment with a +3 rating is factually incorrect. The author claims that there is no currently known quantum algorithm that breaks ECDSA.
Thanks for the heads-up! That's probably a lot more viable for my situation. I scrapped around 3000 images of pigeons from the internet hopefully it's enough for a decent POC.
Just for fun, I went to the front page of Reddit and clicked on the usernames of a few of the top posts. The very second one was "peke_f1"[0], with a post about an F1 announcement. Checking his post history reveals that he is very unpopular for somehow always managing to get the karma for large announcements, with someone accusing him of being "Gallowboob's karma farmer". Indeed, someone actually beat him to it this time - and yet his post is the one on the front page, and a post pointing this out has been removed [1].

So I assume that even many subreddits not obviously controlled by "central management" are still part of the hierarchy.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/peke_f1/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/gjip7f/congrats_u...
A great article on compile-time computing (with CL): https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/a-gentle-introduction-to-...

There are good references and snippets on the Cookbook: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

for libraries, see https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl (and see the lparallel or lfarm libraries, channels, cl-gserver, the built-in SBCL threading functions, etc)

Also note that CL is not purely functional, you can throw in FP or OOP or iterative code.
Servers never reboot, so no one cares.
Great piece.

Haven't seen Beagle Bros mentioned. Their awesome catalogs:

https://stevenf.com/beagle/contents.html

Also haven't seen mentioned Pinball Construction Set- an absolutely amazing piece of engineering, by Bill Budge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set

Last I checked, Budge was still working- for Google- on the V8 runtime. Think he is on twitter.

And while there are a lot of 6502 assembly resources around online, fondly remembered books on 6502 assembly and graphics programming (still have em):

https://www.amazon.com/High-resolution-Graphics-Animation-As...

https://books.google.com/books/about/Hi_res_Graphics_for_the...

Super cool memories from my childhood.
Impact of Automated Testing on Virtual Reality Services
Growing veggies! I tried my hand at starting a small vegetable garden. So far we have tomato, cucumber, and zucchini seedlings, and are planning on planting carrots and beets once we finally stop getting snow (Ontario).
This is great! I've been wanting to do something similar for a while, to call people out for making unfounded assertions - with the goal of trying to encourage more humility in making predictions.

Will follow with interest.
I've started doing some maintenance on my old computers. I just finished recapping my Amiga 1200 earlier this week and this morning I ordered a long T15 torx driver so I can open up my old classic Macs.

I'm also planning on looking into modifying an old digital clock radio I have with and ESP that uses NTP to keep time more accurately but I haven't gotten very far with that yet.

The lockdown is really only half the reason I'm doing these projects now. The other reason is that I moved to a bigger apartment earlier this year so now I actually have space to hack around with this kind of stuff.
Thank you. Follow up is definitely also an issue, see also stories based on a scientific article which is then retracted. I guess information overload is partly responsible, there's always something new happening somewhere.

I've tried to address this by only accepting quotes with a 'due date', so I can easily bring them back into the spotlight (top of the home page in the Open section) once they can be assessed.
Wherever I worked, getting a bigger server or sharding the users better was always the easiest solution.
I have an Apple ][+ that stopped working a few years ago, and I don’t have the time to fix it up. I don’t want to throw it out, as it seems a piece of history (and it’s the computer I grew up using so there’s some nostalgia...). I have all the original manuals and some floppies with it.
Anyone know of good places to find it a home? Any groups of vintage Apple users to post it to, or something like that?
Yes. The master's thesis is often the first time someone does real research from start to finish. Make sure it's not just implementing some already existing idea, there are a lot of "easy" topics like that being offered. You want the opposite, being part of defining what the solution looks like, or what the goal should even be.
Interesting, did you take inspiration from gradle daemon?
An adversary with MitM capability needs to commit to being detectable in order to read encrypted traffic.
57.7% of comments removed. Huh.
And beazley wouldn't care, right?
I also hope they used a patriotic Flag-Lite.

https://maglite.com/collections/full-size/products/flaglite-...
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Thanks for the reference. I'm not looking for a job, it's just for scratching my own itch.
This reflects the experiences of close relatives with unskilled labour. In some fields, it's difficult to get people who consistently show up sober and on time. Those who can do this rarely stay for long.
The article is easier to read on the site where it was originally posted:

https://theconversation.com/zoom-fatigue-how-to-make-video-c...
Well, I don't know the policy of your company, but at mine we've been encouraged to take some days if possible.

Not only for mental health, but also to avoid that everyone take time off at the same time. On another hand we have 30+ days per year, I guess it's a different story if you only have 20 days or less.
> I like ruins and scenes of industrial decay

You might well like this:

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/
There is a whole news agency that is build upon GPT-2. There is a social media influencer bot that also uses GPT-2 and also responds to comments and is mostly coherent.
>if you have an approved extension with https://*/* permissions and active users, malware authors will offer to buy your extension for a very high price.

This is interesting, and I didn't realize this was a thing.

Are there any lists of extensions with these permissions, or ways that as an average consumer could easily audit my list of extensions for this?
This guy's strongman "I've got news for you" philosophy is productivity porn. I do like the idea of the focus crown if you've got kids though, that's a good one.
Horses for courses. Some people will respond better in one environment, others won't. There's no One True Way.
In Chrome Dev version there is a flag for "Tab Groups Collapse", but it doesn't work yet, so it's coming.
Tl,dr. The point seems to be, "shared nothing makes concurrency and GC easy". Congrats. But also lots of big fast systems use shared memory, so just relax, STFU, and understand that tradeoffs exist.
Oh man this looks great. Going to give it a try today. I can’t live without containers at this point. So much better than multiple Chrome profiles.
The damned pigeons don't come to the balcony when I'm there, and make a mess everywhere. I don't want to hurt them just that they hang somewhere else!

My background is anthropology but I've always worked as a data analyst (read: excel guy) but got "promoted" as project manager for a team that has some data scientist doing automation projects and got interested in CV and NLP. I know python but for data analytics (pandas, seaborn, scikit, and so on) but never did anything for myself in DL and just wanted to learn more while building something (I miss doing stuff besides slideware tasks).

Regarding virtualbox, I will probably give up and look again into dual boot Linux. Will ask a friend that is an experienced coder to hold my hand while I do that.

Thanks for your reply!
I didn't talk about the probability to get COVID. Just the cultural similarities in general.
I'm always constantly over 100. It mostly spirals out of control when deep in research and going down the rabbit hole.
Do you know you're dead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213696

>gjs278 on Feb 21, 2019 | parent | favorite | on: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and ...

>go into your profile and mark the ability to see [dead] comments. a lot of them are useful.

None of yours are. That's why you're dead.
I don't wanna type function to define a function.
Installed to give it a try. The UI is fine, a bit too flashy imo but that's ok for a game.
The game itselft was just not very fun, maybe it's meant to be played by many people at once ? i tried it alone, and it was either an instant guess or a long wait for the timer to end while the phone was bleeping. Maybe show 3 or 4 different mashups at once, and give them a shorter timeout ? Also, if this is a wrapped web app, why not just make it a website ? There are APIs in vanilla js to get speech recognition.
A monopoly is the only logical path to take when, you know...they go around claiming they know nothing about an app to support the US govt .../s
Would that be legal in the US?
(Intentionally deleting/promoting material as moderator without disclosing that you have been hired to do so and marking it as advertisement)
Host watch parties, invite people and applaude the speakers!
https://applause.now.sh

Auto archive long standing open tabs (chrome extension)
https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/12533505569718149...

Continuing to work on ReadMo - read viewer app + audio player
https://twitter.com/giuseppegurgone/status/12376578494146805...
(OpenSource, Android) InstaGrabber (Instagram Post Downloader)
How did you deal with C-extensions, since apparently most don't support it at all (which is a shame, apparently we messed up culturally here).
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128 bits a reasonable bound for "nontrivial information" (information you'd never arrive at by guessing). 1664 bits is enough to write a short poem.

However I don't think a 1664 bits is an accurate count. You must subtract the information provided by knowing it represents the alphabet, which constrains the number of possibilities to only a few choices per letter - say 2 or 3 bits at most. So a 64-character alphabet is right on the edge of "reasonably nontrivial", due entirely down to the combinatorial complexity of choosing which glyph to use in each case. A single glyph should not be copyrightable.
I don't see anything here that isn't possible with OneTab except that the tabs are all open. At least with OneTab I can (manually) move tabsets between Chrome and Firefox as well as between machines: https://www.one-tab.com/
Vivaldi has this feature.
Nice comic! I think I face this trouble less because I document everything extensively. It costs a bit of time, but every bug I investigate will have notes on my notepad/a google doc to go along with.
> What do you mean the cancel method doesn't cancel?

Try it.

@Test
public void cannotCancelARunningFuture() {

// Future that just sleeps
CompletableFuture<Void> sleeping =
CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> {
int i = 0;
while (true) {
System.out.println("zzzz: " + i++);
threadSleep(300);
}
});

// Make sure it started
threadSleep(1000);

sleeping.cancel(true);
System.out.println("Sleep was cancelled");

threadSleep(1000);
System.out.println("Haha no it wasn't");
}

===============================

zzzz: 0
zzzz: 1
zzzz: 2
zzzz: 3
Sleep was cancelled
zzzz: 4
zzzz: 5
zzzz: 6
Haha no it wasn't
It even happens on subreddits that aren't as popular. Many years ago I posted frequently on /r/astrophotography, using very crappy equipment[0], but focusing on the processing part, even sharing my own python scripts.

Then one mod decided to actively undermine me, even banned one of my posts, because I didn't use PixInsight (like the rest of "the pros" do). I got my post back up, but that ruined the subreddit for me.

Funny thing, I grew up, graduated CS/software engineering, specialized in image processing and lo-and-behold, my techniques, though rudimentary, were pretty solid.

[0] old binoculars steampunk-ly tied to an old digital camera -- being a teenager with no income meant $0 budget -- but worked better than you'd imagine!
https://clickradar.io

Some small real problem I faced before: test\validate idea by counting how many times website visitor clicked the certain button. So I automated it with google sheets and some custom script\backend.

Landing is still in progress... Don't kill me for the language skills, English is not my native)
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The traditional solution for this on mailing lists and Usenet was to tell the misinformation spreader in no uncertain terms that he is an idiot.

There was a reason for the tone back then and it worked.

Flames however are also censored nowadays, since it is essential for the people in power to maintain polite meaningless conversation that will never lead to any actions.
> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Sort by deaths/1M. You’ll see the US doing better than UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, etc.

And in absolute terms, there’s still more cases and deaths in Europe as a whole (I find it funny that when it comes to GDP, we like to think of Europe as “United States of Europe”, but when talking about corona deaths, not so much).
https://freshreader.app/

I became overwhelmed with the massive list of content I saved in Pocket/ Instapaper but that I knew I'd never read, so I built myself a similar app where saved content disappears after 7 days.

If I don't read something in the week after I save it, there's a good chance I'm not going to read it ever.

Works well for me so far.
I hear you.

We're fortunate we both still have jobs and can work from home, but doing so full-time while caring for a demanding 3yo, homeschooling an inquisitive 8yo with ADHD and cooking/ cleaning/ washing/ housework; we feel like incompetent plate-spinners. We too take it in shifts, up at 6am, to bed gone midnight.

I've never felt more knackered or guilty. Guilty neither of our kids (nor our employer) get the best of us. Guilty at feeling hard done by when we're not really: we've friends who've lost their livelihood and know health workers are risking their lives. We know it ends, but man... not soon enough.
My wife wrote the story, and we worked with an illustrator to get the book to where it is now. They’re mentioned at the end of the book - Gustyawan Studio.
Once I read an article related to similar problem, The author was keeping track of specific birds and small animals at his back garden. As I remember, they used openCV and Tensorflow for project and trained system with images(may be 1000 images) set of birds. pretty much successfully identified birds most of the time.
Came across this, it just slammed two words together

instrument/adjective
in·stru·men·t/ad·jec·tive

an instrument related to a keyboard in that it is played rather than written
"an instrument/adjective keyboard"
Minus the "ticket", the same traffic light is in every kindergarten in Sweden, as well as a majority of public spaces.