skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a backend concern, not a frontend one. The backend shouldn’t naively accept input without making sure the input is within the backend’s limitations.
As good as even not-top-shelf voice actor talent is a really high bar. I keep my eye on this space because there are a number of things I do where having even just decent "radio voice" TTS would be useful (and better than I can do myself). But nothing is really there today. In some respects, it's better than I can do myself but certainly not consistently.
Blogs are still here ...
UIKit is iOS only, not Mac
Contrast ratios that are mathematically derived are not always nice or correct. It's notoriously hard to determine perceived brightness from hex codes. That said, it might need some tweaking. I only spent a little time on it and I know it helps to revisit a color scheme a couple of times during different light circumstances.
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Yeah, but wouldn't you include at least one "clean" voice in the samples to show what the system is capable of?
> I wouldn't say generics are an approximation of templates

Template (at their origins) are nothing more than generics, and a pretty clean, powerful and zero cost way of doing generics.

What you name "hazardous, unergonomic" macros style is not the template system itself. It is mainly due to all the 2005-styles SFINAE hacks that have been invented by abusing templates properties.

SFINAE in C++ is nothing natural, it's at best a dangerous trick to have compile time resolution/execution.

Fortunately all of that should die progressively with C++-17 constexpr for the good of humankind.
Limit request size and/or time at the HTTP server, and validate input on the backend.
I've often wondered what the precedent is when the president is the one sharing so called "fake news".

Does propaganda count as "fake news"? Who gets to decide what is and isn't real? I guess those with the most power are immune to rules about what they can and can't share.

Trump could literally tweet to inject yourself with bleach and I doubt twitter would remove the post.
Let me just sum up the soon to be ensuing argument.

Side a: twitter is a private company, and has the legal right to ban or not ban what ever they want for what ever reason they want.

Side b: but i'm a private person who can bitch or not bitch about twitter's use of that right for what ever reason that i want.

...

Rinse

Repeat.

Profit.
Financial numbers are harder to come by for private companies but I have no reason to believe that PE ratios for companies like Bloomberg or Mars or Deloitte are hugely out of line with similar public companies.

But if you mean small businesses like a restaurant or a dentist's office or whatever I would say that the comparison you are making doesn't really make much sense in the first place. Large companies have huge economies of scale and brand value compared to a mom & pop enterprise who's revenues are just as much labor income of the owners as return on capital.
I have four new interns who recently started in my team. I'm setting them up for blogging and made the same point to them (almost verbatim).

Another thing that died is the practice of linking to each other like it's going out of style. These days the majority of backlinks are earned through aggressive SEO techniques, not organically like 10-15 years ago. This penalizes regular blogs in favor of crappy blogs run by SEO experts.

I still believe in blogging and I think that the lesser competition, in a roundabout way, makes it easier to stand out. However, discoverability in Google can be a frustrating process both for readers and publishers.
This is a very clever native ad.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tortuous
Lol I came here for saying this :)
https://seabetter.com/
I didn't touch the typography indeed, but I also didn't just invert the colors. What would you suggest to do with the typography to make it better?
There is a non-legal point that I sometimes find useful when I'm browsing: it illustrates that someone updated the website in 2020.

(or at least that they future-proofed it).

In this sense, it shows the website is alive.
> diagnostic testing adds some amount of bias in the results.

How does it add bias? Also, this is not the FDA's stated concern.

> The quality of these home tests needs to be proven.

They have been. That data has been submitted to the FDA a month ago.
I plan to add more languages or frameworks this weekend (latest Angular, Python, Go).
Lessons from Nietzsche’s Awful Publishing Results
Please let the BROWSER show the scroll-bars. Now it's fairly unusable.
Yeah, before you know it, you’re in the land of colliding mouse down events.

Best I’ve been able to do is group interaction views together (think inventory and character menus vs the character controller).

Separate these view groups so they are triggered by a mode state using an event system that tells each view group which is active.

Only update the active view group.

This isolates each view group to receive mouse/key events by itself. It also keeps menus that interact with one another consolidated together in one place. This helps you reason out the mouse/key events more easily since you know this view group won’t disrupt the other inactive view groups.

Within a view group though, a focused control pattern is a good idea. A simple way is via hit bounding and z-ordering. The top-most, mouse over bounds control is active to receive click events. Everything else is ignoring input.

tldr; hierarchy your input controls into groups so you can ignore the input on inactive/not visible ones.
This reassures the hypothesis that you probably won't catch the virus from a brief contact in a grocery store or similar if you keep your distance.

Infections happen within families, and spread from one family to another by friends/coworkers. The infected people should be easily able to list all exposed out by name.

An exception is of course mass indoors public events that are forbidden now. This is where a contact tracing app would probably prove to be the most useful.
Usenet / NNTP. That's what needs 'reviving'.

These days, light and responsive client app/interfaces with little Javascript (service worker) scripts could be busy UUen/decoding and uploading/downloading all those distributed binaries and 'news' with ease! ;)
Although a quick search reveals that:

https://www.google.com/search?q=1960s+music+blog+from+singap...

I'd guess the issue is simply people aren't looking for it.
Pandemic Survival Tips for Restaurants
For reference, https://icelandmag.is/article/capita-champion-world

Also most chess GMs per capita, 2nd most cars per capita, it goes on..
Maybe I'm behind the times, but my understanding is that web browsers are a rather large chunk of malware installation vectors.
"...superiority in nukes..." Seriously?
Is it relevant how many more times one can destroy the planet the once?
Nothing, we’re just all gonna have to learn to deal with each other this way on this scale and move on.
Hmm, Mastodon sounds to be the kind of "platform" you are searching for ?
Which black bar do you mean exactly? I decided to let go of the full orange bar and give the text an orange color instead. I think it looks more balanced.
It is fair to say this group is the reason we didn’t have an even worse outbreak, and it was solely due to defying the Federal officials:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/em...

“By Feb. 25, Dr. Chu and her colleagues could not bear to wait any longer. They began performing coronavirus tests, without government approval.

What came back confirmed their worst fear. They quickly had a positive test from a local teenager with no recent travel history. The coronavirus had already established itself on American soil without anybody realizing it.”
I think Reddit getting big also killed a lot of the old forums. The frictionlessness of joining a community made it hard to compete. And the general lack of personality to user profiles in Reddit avoided the "cool kid's clique" issue that happens with a lot of forums where everyone knows each other.

I remember in the "dying days" of some of the forums I was on the conversation had largely devolved into reposting and discussing memes and things that were happening on Reddit. From there it's just a matter of time before the discussion moved to Reddit too. This fate perhaps could have been avoided if "Sign in with Google" type capabilities were more widely available at the time, or if we had a more universal login/forum scheme like Disqus back then, but they all came around too late.
Is there a way to prove it was flagged or removed by Twitter?

This is the problem with censorship - the very nature of doing it enables the complainers to be victim, even if you didn't actually do it!

Twitter should unabashedly not delete anything unless it is a direct call to violence or an imminent threat to public safety. If they do wish to curtail misinformation, they should label it with their rationale.

"This video makes a series of factually incorrect statements" or "This video is full of bullshit and lies and you're a fool for believing it" or something. Clearly, there is a lot of misinformation/disinformation made to sow division, and Michelle Malkin/the alt-right, Fox News "truthers" are as awful as they come. But the very possibility that Twitter could or would remove a video, not discuss it or list a reason why, is itself fuel for the alt-right's garbage.

There is no easy solution, no easy win against misinformation. I believe, though, that light is usually better than dark with these people.
Stock market PE ratios are up a little bit over long run historical averages but hardly out of line with fundamentals. The same goes for price to rent ratio of most real estate.
"I'm sorry you don't like the actual math"

How is that a response to widely reported data? What are you disagreeing with? Are you saying my data is incorrect or that I'm interpreting it wrong?

My list is based on numbers from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - is there an issue with their sources?
There's also harm if you don't tell them a correct result. There's especially harm if you stop testing their neighbors to monitor community spread during a fucking global pandemic over this pointless red tape about providing results.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/mac_catalyst
Show HN: Simple web app to help my daughter with her math
As someone whose user agent is Firefox, I’d rather that maxLength didn’t exist at all, and given that it does, my user agent ignoring that seems like the best solution to me.
Something is seriously hosed with your configuration if it takes up to 30 seconds to load an issue, especially on your specs which can probably support 5000+ users. Multiple servers won't fix your problem...probably should have support eyeball your configuration.
As an everyday sufferer of the Medium bullshit, I've this on my idea bucket list, just never got to actually build it.
It’s not something most people care about anymore, and it was nice when it was.
I've long argued that RSS should have been NNTP.

I never get far with that, though.
That's exactly what Go does - it works fine
I remember reading, in a book on GAs published in the 90s, that a “tit-for-tat” strategy* handily beat evolved players.

*Wherein the player does whatever their opponent did in the previous round.
I had to build something on top of systemd-journald recently for work. I was prepared for the worst after hearing all of the gripes people have with systemd.

And you know what? It’s fucking awesome. Structured logging is just baked in. I don’t have to parse fields back out that have been smashed into a string. I get full timestamps, machine IDs, pid, uid, gid, and all the rest. I get a cursor that I can use to durably resume consumption of logs between restarts. Shit, the cursor even lets me ensure that I’ve consumed logs even when they’re being aggregated from multiple machines, without a single change to my code.

Sure there are a few warts here and there. Everything has them. But it took less than a week for me to be convinced that it’s past time for plaintext logs to die.
> From 2013 to 2018, 10 states passed so-called “cottage food laws” allowing home bakers to legally sell their goods in a variety of venues, including online, says Emily Broad Leib, faculty director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic. Many other states amended existing food laws.

I wasn't aware of this, I thought you needed to have a licensed kitchen. Neat!
This app tracks users’locations using GPS data and according to the article "allows investigators—with permission—to look at whether those with a positive diagnosis are potentially spreading the disease"

Without also being able to know the location of people without a positive diagnosis, the app probably doesn't help that much.

But I don't think this necessarily applies to apps being developed for other countries where Bluetooth is being used to measure person to person contact directly.

This article lacks any real insight into what isn't working or why.
Made with Svelte/Sapper, source code: https://github.com/vnglst/tafels.app
Neither can I but it’s not much of a problem because I’m interested in both!
https://blog.mainframe.dev/

I'm never going to install, or even program, a Mainframe. But the technical details are very interesting.
Since a filter sorts particles from air molecules, this would imply that the hardest particles to filter are just a couple atoms large.
Actually filling up workday.
“Emotional load can reduce the requirement for semantic coherence.” - great insight
They don't even have the resources to check the food supply in the US... olive oil, fish, are often not what they claim. So that would not surprise me.
Innovation Can’t Be Forced, but It Can Be Quashed
No, it's based on the actual numbers of new cases.

Per capita data tends to have very small countries at the top because they have a larger urban proportion and a larger amount of interaction with foreigners.
I have recently been enjoying exploring gemini [1] - a new gopher-like web protocol that has been mentioned a couple of times in recent days here on HN. There's not a great deal of content at the moment, but that which does exist does tend to be of a personal, blog-style nature, and also remarkably interesting - if, that is, like me, you're fond of beer and steel framed bicycles (fill in your own stereotype here...).

[1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
The best way to bring back blogs is to start with your own. It looks like this is the author's fourth post and s/he hit a home run with the top post on HN.

But that's rarely how things work.

The thing few people tell you when you start blogging is how futile it will seem - for a long, long time. You'll start by posting something you put a lot of work into. You'll publish, thinking of all the comments and emails you'll get.

Then, nothing. You'll check the analytics. Abysmal. Nobody is reading!

You may write a few more posts, but it's always the same story. A lot of work goes in, but not much comes out.

And this is the point at which most bloggers stop. After all, how can you justify more time spent on something that doesn't pay back?

The problem is that with a blog you need to think in terms of years. You have to write regularly over the course of years before you'll get any kind of reliable following.

In the meantime, you'll notice how blogging regularly changes you. You'll notice patterns you never noticed before, especially if you stick to a particular "beat." You'll get better at choosing topics. You'll figure out ways to write faster. You'll get better at pushing through mental fog and procrastination that keeps so many others from writing.

You may also discover that you really, really hate writing. Nothing wrong with that, but understand that many people also dislike writing anything longer than a tweet. And that's why good blogs are kind of scarce. And therein lies the opportunity.
So you don't have to hash a terabyte of data that some DOS'ing asshole sends you.
The author might be surprised by the amount of high quality literature that's been created over the past thousand years, that no blog can compare to.
I would agree that Prisoner's Dilemma is an exceptional case, except that it can be used.

Someone in a position of power may choose to set up a prisoner's dilemma - let's say, between you and your colleagues - to disadvantage you both, while giving an illusion of choice.
Showing people a mirror is something that happens way too rarely here. At least allow people to be confronted with their bias.
> Acetaldehyde occurs naturally in coffee, bread, and ripe fruit,[10] and is produced by plants. It is also produced by the partial oxidation of ethanol by the liver enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase

Doesn't really sound like a problem in a topical solution like hand sanitizer given people ingest it regularly.
kOS (k language as a standalone OS) was a project but I guess it got canned. Unfortunate, I would love to have tried out a standalone kdb+/q installation.
If GM (in indexes) goes bankrupt and Tesla (not in indexes) stays alive, or if IBM (in indexes) goes bankrupt and Palantir (not in indexes) stays alive, then you as an investor in public indexes do not reap benefits of the economy improving.
See also:

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9668734

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994180
Why don't we have a modern, laymen version, universal replacement for RSS? The hurdle with RSS at the end of it's popularity is it required a special tool to subscribe, and a little technical knowledge to make sense of it all. My mother wouldn't ever be able to figure it out.
Either that, or have separate webs for different disciplines (maybe one for academia, one for arts, one for jounralism, one for programming, etc.) that are kept separate from each other. I'm not sure how it could be implemented, but a forced partitioning like that could probably serve the same purpose without gatekeeping (if the partitions are small enough).
Could give examples how finding blogs is easy and "lots of lists out there of people's favorites"?
Michael Jordan: NBA Champ, Marketing Legend and Toxic Worker?
There is no good solution to the disemination of harmful information in a free society other than education. America barely has that, and I don't see any signs of this improving.
and isn't the death of the traditional blog just linked to the death of the personal website?
Reddit is great when the original poster or one or two of the immediate replies are insightful and informative. It's awful when either the original post isn't that great to begin with, or if a knowledgeable comment comes too late or happens to be a reply of a reply of a reply.

Case in point, my original post, which was one of the first ten-fifteen comments, has a bunch of up votes. There's no way this would be true if I missed the original post by an hour or if it was the n'th response in a large comment chain.
The top post is #828282 on top of #f6f6ef, a pretty low contrast of 3.541 compared to 21.000 for black on white.
here is the covid19 info website in iceland, if anyone is interested in how many tests have been done and other statistics; https://www.covid.is/data
Anyone with a bank account and a regular phone could participate in the stock market starting in the early 80s with Charles Schwab.

Robinhood has maybe 20B in AUM. That's a drop in the bucket for a US stock market worth something like 30T.
Filter google against Alexa rankings?
Thank you for elevating the discourse with phrases like "fucking global pandemic over this pointless red tape". A global pandemic is exactly when we should be thinking hard instead of trading insults.
That assumes consumers actually have a choice to make in the situation. For example let's say you disagreed with how Comcast throttles the internet or behaves in monopolistic behavior. Your only option to make the moral choice is to simply not have internet at all in certain regions.

A more topical one might be if you disagree with a company using sweatshop labor. Figuring out which companies engage in sweatshop labor and avoiding them is a remarkably difficult task, not in the least because companies do whatever they can in order to hide said actions. And even if you do manage to create a list of good/bad companies, there's no guarantee that you can purchase solely from the good companies without having to go through some other morally dubious medium such as Amazon.

The idea of shopping based on your moral conscious might've worked 50 years ago when the supply chain was far smaller, but nowadays it's so complex as to be almost unfathomable for one user to shop their moral compass without touching at least one thing they disagree with.
I'm looking at different times scales. There have been pops every 7-10 years or so and they get worse every time. That is part of the business cycle. Sure, things recover (in huge part do to QE), but that doesn't mean bubbles do not happen on a pet frequent basis?
NZ is also postponing app tracing as our cases hit zero, and our PM recommends old school ppl power. (200 tracers on standby with more being trained just in case)
But Blogger was shut down by Google years ago

Nope. It still exists and I use it.

And I'm given hell for it.

The degree to which my blogging gets so much hostility from people does not mesh with articles like this one claiming they wish blogs still existed. I can't get traffic for my blogs. No one shares them but me and then I get crap for doing that.

If you want that kind of internet, foster it. Look in the mirror. It's not just choices made by big companies or whatever that shape this space.

You shape it with your actions. And I get a fuck ton of accusations that if I advocate for something, it's "content marketing" and not my actual opinion. And the many people who know I'm dirt poor and most of my blogs have no ads, etc, usually don't bother to come forward to defend me or make sure to post first before some random internet stranger can thread shit.

Downvotes: Ironic evidence of the veracity of my claims.
Unfortunately, most states restrict online sales under the cottage food law due to safety concerns. The article portraits a seller in West Virginia, and it was just in 2019 that a change in their cottage food regulations made it possible to take online orders and ship food. I hope more states will take a look at this and check if this is a successful model they could apply too.
>I would argue that the public internet has lowered in quality, and the lowering quality of search results simply reflects that the information you're looking for often isn't out there.

Isn't think kind of a feedback loop though? Search gets bad, so people don't bother putting useful, relevant, and high effort content since nobody will find it. Thus, search gets worse since there is less useful content to crawl. Thus even more of the content out there starts leaning towards clickbait and SEO rather than thoughtful writing. And so on and so forth.
Subgame Perfect Equilibrium
Good thing your in-laws in some small town in Oklahoma isn't representative of Trump supporters or any group for that matter. Another very good thing is that we don't make policy decisions based on the anecdotes of random people on the internet.
Very nice. In a similar vein, I've used https://ricostacruz.com/flatdoc/ before, which is a bit more full featured and includes support for code samples.
Client side validation does not replace server side validation, and vice versa. Just because you validate server side doesn’t mean you can’t also do it client side and avoid a round trip.
Google Searches for 'Java' Spiked During Friday's Online AP CS Exam
Now notarized and macOS Catalina friendly. Plus you can look at wave view and spectrogram at the same time.
*nods. I was friends with Dave once too.