skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reads stories of pork/etc carcasses that aren't being processed right now, perhaps we could ship those onto barges and into the ocean and dump them overboard to seed new pockets of offshore life on the sea floor.
Ask HN: What side-project idea that you are not working on?
Hey guys, I've been focus on a project for nearly 2 years. It makes me to start losing have new ideas (which I consider boring)

I'm just curious that if you have a side-project idea that you are "not working on". And why.

Thank you!
> exploited by bad faith actors

What? How?
Obey. Obey. Obey. Obey. -Google's new motto
When I was in high school I spent an entire summer grinding my own mirror out in the barn for a 6" Newtonian telescope. It was the most fun and satisfying project a kid can do. I bought the mirror blanks and basic parts from a mail order company (it was 1972) called Edmunds Scientific. They are still in business but they sell toys now, they have a serious branch https://www.edmundoptics.com/ but I don't think very many people grind their own mirrors any more.
> All income should be taxed the same.

Why?

There's a big difference morally between earned and unearned income.
Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions for a Scala Project
I visited Pakistan a few years ago, my homeland, after some 20 years of being in the states.

I was being driven around by my 18 year old cousin. At some point, just completely randomly, some youngin' - I would estimate about 15 years of age, entered the car, in the backseat. My Urdu was a little off, I couldn't make out exactly what had happened, I assumed the guy was my cousin's friend.

No, it turns out he was just doing a chore for a few pennies.

It's the strangest fucking thing, dealing with these people. They're always there, just one command away. Being in America, I say my thank yous to cashiers or anyone of lesser means, exchange pleasantries, I never see them as lesser humans than me. But in that part of the world, if you look a certain way and dress a certain way, these folks will come to you for chores for a few pennies -- and they will almost present themselves as if they are lesser persons than you. And I would be speechless in those situations, I wouldn't know what to do or say. That properly fucked me in the head for a good while.
Where coronavirus hospitalizations are falling
You can make Double Commander on Mac. it's open source and you can compile it for Mac. Double Commander is 99% same as Total Commander.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Commander
Leasehold land is mostly a thing in communist countries that claim to temporarily implement capitalism.
Microsoft’s marketing department should leverage the opportunity to host graduations for free.
Key takeaways (for me at least):

1) GDP = Measure of Consumption

2) We've produced more than we can consume since about 1900.

3) Consumer Confidence has a very important role in the Economy -- because it is intricately, intricately intertwined with credit AKA borrowing -- which is in turn, intricately, intricately intertwined -- with spending, which of course, is the backbone of the Economy...
It makes me wonder, how could we rebuild things?

It's not a tooling problem. There are several high quality forum tools out there. Discourse being one of them. But getting people to actually participate seems impossible. I've had a Discourse instance running for family for over a year now. It's basically empty.

I've tried inviting friends to a another instance, and only one ever showed up.
Here's mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsaFmx5l7Hk
> 4. Keep the blank lines at the start of the program. They are important.

lol
Facebook+live+OBS+–+how+to+start+Live+streaming+on+FB?+–+zmamen.com
And who decides what the issues are that get voted on? This is an important flaw IMO against multi issue voting with this system.

If the people making the list of issues are biased they can make one big issue for all the stuff they care about, and a thousand little issues for the stuff other people care about.

Every issue needs equal footing to overcome this, meaning each issue needs to be its own independent election, effectively making QV useless.
Seconded - the code integration is fantastic as well. Intellij magically complains when I'm typing a SQL query in a string and get a column name wrong and all sorts of weird little things I miss when I don't have them, IJ is unbelievable.
disclosure: ive never been to college, I went to a trade school.

Im sure this is a novel and gimmicky way to hold a graduation during a quarantine, but do college kids get any refund on tuition for having to do this? To ask another way: How much money did the college take from students specifically for their ceremony before deciding to use a video game.

This is an important question. most college students will face decades of undischargeable debt after college, and im concerned that this gimmick is flashy enough to distract them from the fact that they are graduating on the cusp of a financial depression.
> Maybe it was not intended to make that case.

Please.

> Still, somehow, it appears as more attractive than modern architecture and neighborhoods to the masses.

This isn't true in Denver, where I live. I've lived in two older (originally developed circa 1900) neighborhoods, Baker and Highlands. Old, poorly-maintained or poorly-constructed houses gradually bet replaced. You can walk down 2 blocks and see a house from 1900 (or even before), a house from the 30s, a house from mid 50s, and a new house. Every single house is identifiable as being from a particular period. If modern architecture is so sucky, why do people build it, buy it an live in it today? Why not imitate the grand, universally loved styles of the past? That could easily be done. But it isn't.

The article's premise is entirely unexamined, and isn't at all universal. The author just looks at what tourists want to see on vacation, not what people live in in ordinary, not very touristy cities and parts of cities.
Regular Expressions – not so regular
He might have expected less, as Germany treats speeding comparatively casually. Two years ago I got a ticket for 50mph in a 40 zone (construction on the Autobahn, on a Sunday, with a radar trap behind a bridge) and it turned out to be a whopping 30 euro. Paid via the Internet and bank transfer.
I only ever got to participate in live user testing once. We shelled out for the room with the one-way mirror and everything. Watching normal people use our thing was most excruciating and educational. We were literally hopping up and down on our side of the glass, hooting and shouting. It was brutal.
> Vetting a possible maintener or fork is >0 work

Who said anything about vetting?
Exercises to offset too much sitting
How could we dump it to the bottom without surface-dwelling scavengers tearing through the carcass?
FYI: "With no commission" is a bug, not a feature. Typically, when you pay commission, you get better prices. Let's say you buy 100 shares of SPY at Interactive Brokers. You pay $1 commission and get it for 268.28. At a free-of-commissions broker, you might get your 100 shares for 268.30. That's $1 more than the trade at IB. TNSTAAFL.

It's exactly like how duck typing took over programming in the last decade or so with, "Whee, see, less typing!!", and we lost the value of having static types ("strong typing"). Why are we tempted so easily? Now we have the horror of Javascript everywhere. Even the Node.js founders recoil from their own creation and are going a step in the right direction with Deno.
Physics before computers and differential equations
The Ownership Crisis
Thank you for making a point that's not propped up by unexamined underlying assumptions.
> The primary reason I follow Corbett is that he is good at doing research. However, I can't always follow the connections he attempts to make.

I agree, his view is very pessimistic, but that can be valuable to kind of recalibrate your own view and maybe reach some reasonable middle ground.

His research and the facts that he finds and presents are brilliant though, can't argue about that. It's beyond obvious that he's dedicated to his work and puts a huge effort into it.
Do you have any reference on `legit factor stats`? I do not understand how leverage will be beneficial. Leverage will also multiply the potential downside risk after all? I would like to understand more how the trading cost would make up for it on average.
Gitpod has been around for a while longer.
State and New CDC Data on Covid-19 Testing Don’t Match Up
Well no. Becoming a farmer takes years, and our society needs to keep more or less the same number of farmers.
The limits of small neural networks
AppSumo and Their Fake “SaaS Lifetime Deals” Model
This sounds an awful lot like tortious interference.
JSON doesn’t handle int64 or explicit date-time data types, which makes it nearly as painful as CSV in practice when used for data integration. Both of those are explicit types present in nearly every real-world database schema.

So you end up with many of the same problems as CSV. You basically get an application-specific JSON dialect to interpret.

Header row or not? Is a long series of digits in quotes an int64? What happens when someone puts an ISO-formatted date string into a field that is supposed to be a simple string?
I don't think this post deserves downvotes because it is a good question.

I think few people really think of what happens when a whale dies over deep ocean. It apparently has huge nonlinear effects. That is pretty cool in its own right, but there are some practical reasons why many HN readers may like this.

Most of us working in areas where there is a complex interplay of technology, competition, big economic actors, small economic actors, evolutionary incentives, multiscale processes, etc. Whale falls map just enough on what we do such that it is a fresh starting point in thinking about the enterprises and industries in which we work, and just imprecisely enough such that it can spark some new thinking about things that we are working on that we might have missed before.

I used to work for a multibillion dollar enterprise that is averse to public embarrassment. Already I am re-thinking of what really happens when a dying megaproject is sent off to quietly die without canning all of the people, some of which are actually talented and creative.
Judge Reinstates Charges for Engineer in Philadelphia Train Wreck That Killed 8
This is the closest thing I've seen to Borges' fictional language described in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. The language has no nouns, so words are made of up sets of adjectives.

"moon" becomes "round airy-light on dark" or "pale-orange-of-the-sky".

Because of this structure, it was possible to create poems in the language that consisted of a single long word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...
I'm not an expert, so please take the following with the grain of salt.

One of the examples of computation formalisms providing the classical logic at the type level is the Parigot's [λμ-calculus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-mu_calculus). λμ-calculus adds μ-abstraction to the classical λ-calculus.

μ-abstraction resembles the notion of continuation. With that addition Peirce's law of classical logic becomes deductible without any modifications (e.g. double-negation translation). The program that proves Peirce's law is just call/cc function.

This topic seems to be an ongoing research, so you may find lots of articles in public internet space. Many interesting introductory articles are among the advanced materials of [this course](https://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/courses/tt-2011/), including the original Parigot's paper.
Actually, no. Land in the PRC is under state ownership, but except for exceptions that would tall under eminent domain here, it is mostly priced by auction, outside of agriculture.

In any case, public land ownership is not in conflict with rent auctions.
I didn't write about the point of taxes, but about the point of a type of taxation. A government can collect the same amount of tax with different rules and procedures.

I agree with you, providing defense and protecting real capitalism, stopping oligarchies/long term monopolies from forming is important, to be able to have a return on investment on the taxed capital in the country.

As I wrote before, countries are competing for investor money, that's why it's important how they collect and distribute taxes. The counterforce is usually corruption inside the political system though.
> They complement each other. There are certain things that I’d love to pull up a command line for (e.g. quickly aligning dozens of objects using a non trivial heuristic); but on the other hand there are plenty of things where the act of visually working through it, placing multiple options side by side on the canvas, rearranging things by hand etc., helps in solving the problem itself.
> What would be really nice is if we had a solid set of standards for inter operation, such that I could work on the same video editing project in After Effects, through the command line, through some open source tools someone else wrote... etc.

The big challenge I see here is a two-way mapping between code/representation and GUI. Ronin here has code >> graphics, but question is how to have a clean mapping from graphics >> code?

> I’m not holding my breath because this kind of computing, while more aligned in philosophy with the early composable UNIX roots, is IMO most entirely incompatible with the state of the (creative) software industry/economy (Adobe, like everyone else, would like to do as much as they can so that you do not give any of your time or money to creative software other than Adobe’s).

I do wonder if this is going to be a space that gets disrupted. We're already seeing this with smaller players like Sketch and Figma going into the image space. Still GUI tools, but proves that the barrier to entry isn't quite as high.

Is the technical moat for audio and video THAT insurmountable? I get that people won't be making the next hot music video on open source software right now, but I personally could use something dead simple to compose together a bunch of screen recordings into a demo video.

> I have a project right now where I have assets generated in Sketch, some other assets generated by Python scripts, all feeding into an AE project, the output of which gets fed back into some of the Python scripts... I can do great things, but it’s super kludgy/buggy to work with, and as a software engineer see so many trivial ways in which it could all be so much faster and more pleasant to work with (e.g. After Effects natively only supports very limited JS like scripting, so I have to have duplicated Python + AE code... and if the AE motion tracker could serialize tracking data for Python...).

Whatcha making in AE?
Are you saying that alpaca charges a commission on trades by inflating the price and taking a cut?

Or through what mechanism do commissioned trades get lower prices?
Online Study of Reading Software Shows Widening Achievement Gap
The Future of Travel
It works wonderfully
Your statement is 100% correct but misses the entire point - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854475
Only time will tell if your one-persone startup in your garage is going to kill Facebook eventually. But until it grows, it's a bit awkward to compare them.
I love this book and will not only will it help you for game development, but all software engineering in general. Highly recommended.
It depends on the in vitro experiment and the context. Something like "kills cancer cell" is nearly meaningless (hence the famous XKCD comic). Here, this is a well known mechanism of action (remember balto and the diphtheria antitoxin and the Iditarod? This is fancy antitoxin kind of). And the in vitro experiment is a test to show that it is a neutralizing antibody that binds to the virus and stops entry. The in vitro model is the exact same mechanism of entry the virus uses in the body. While there are still lots of unknowns and unknown unknowns, and of course sorrento will have to run through extensive (or perhaps less extensive under the circumstances) clinical testing before we know for sure it works, this is more promising than your usual popsci "strawberry shortcake kills cancer cells on vitro" experiment. We also have some human data from convalescent sera I believe, amd this is essentially just controlled, high quality convalescent sera that you dont need to extract from humans, so even more validation there, which is why so many people are excited about and pursuing and antibody approach (sorrento isn't the only one or the first to develop a neutralizing antibody to covid)
And as long as licensed video codecs are a thing, the UX for gif's will always be better.

Yes, videos lose quality and sound when converted to a gif. They also lose proprietary encoding and all their metadata (including licensing information).

This makes gif's infinitely more transmittable on the web.
Why is VLC not a consumer level product? Even people who don't otherwise use OSS use VLC because it'll play virtually any format you throw at it.
This is basically spam.

This was posted already, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198596
> Sometimes a distributed system is unavoidable, such as if you want extreme availability or computing power, but other times it’s totally avoidable.

But so much of our sales pitch involves these shiny cloud systems.

Who ever sold business by telling the customer: "Your use-case really isn't exciting, and a boring batch-driven process is completely appropriate"?
We wrote it in c++ on top of seastar.io
"The dabbawalas have deeper reasons for doing it. Serving their customers is like serving their god.”

It could be because they see their purpose as delivering food to people on time and it doesn't seem like the nascent services have figured out how to do that well at scale - thus they may make more over there but are less fulfilled in their life mission?
Real Arte Teatro Federico Herrero Director Profesor
I thought that book was great, it's on my must-have-ready-access shelf. As an overview of the perils of misunderstanding statistical uncertainty and how it manifests it's second to none. HOWEVER in spite of the title the actual advice regarding visual presentation is pretty thin on the ground and some of the charts used in the book are not really as good as they should be. I'd love a new edition where the charts matched up to the quality of the text.
Free brokerages generally don’t execute orders as quickly in order to sell order flow which allows HFT firms to front-run your trade. If you’re a buy and hold investor, the fractions of a cent you’re losing don’t matter much over the long run but the issue is still there. Generally when you pay for something, it means that somebody is beholden to you if there’s issues. Robinhood et. al. are free because they suck.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-dur...
So I figured I’d try a few of these with “Seattle vegetable garden blog” as the keyword. Either there aren’t a lot of blogs on the topic or most search engines miss them because results are sparse and they really shouldn’t be.
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This instantly remembered me of this: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-longest-method

Kubernetes sometimes shows its Java roots.
You can’t internalize that you don’t have to sexually whore yourself out to strangers?

No one looks at that kind of stuff and goes ‘that’s inspiring, I aspire towards that’.

It’s the same for drug dealing.
This is uninspiring, shameful stuff.
> American Voters barely understand the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college -- to ask them to view the results of QV votes as fair and legitimate would be a bridge too far.

It is not like simpler voting methods are without subtleties (and I certainly wouldn't call electoral college simple!), but these subtleties are well-known and everybody is kind of accustomed to them. Again, immediately abandoning ordinary voting and switching to QV on the level of countries would be stupid, but I don't think they are advocating that.

> Hell, I know a fair bit of math and CS, and I would feel uncomfortable quickly deciding how to divide my votes across issues, let alone advising other people on what to do.

This can probably be less of a problem with sufficiently good UI. Imagine that you can play with some sliders and immediately see the consequences of your actions. After some fiddling you will probably get pretty close to what you want. Some friction can even be beneficial, encouraging people to be more thoughtful about issues. There was a study (link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2755844) where they used QV in opinion polls and were able to get more information about relative preferences of participants because they were forced to think about correctly allocating their credits instead of blindly answering "strongly agree"/"strongly disagree" even if they didn't really care about a particular issue.
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Flipping Fear on Its Head
thanks for your work on debezium! cdc to kafka has been a game changer for our data pipelines, so much easier to make generalized tooling at this level. our old pipeline requires either immutable rows with autoincrement primary keys or last modified dates with a secondary index on every table. it doesn't capture all the changes for example if a row is modified twice before the pipeline sees it the first update won't be recorded in the history. it also doesn't propagate deletes. debezium solves both of those issues plus doesn't require the application developers to do anything special for their data to get into the analytics systems. now instead of sounding like a broken record telling people to add last modified dates to all their tables i can sound like a broken record telling people to stop violating single source of truth by dual writing (which is a much better problem to have as before i had given up on single source of truth even being possible in a large organization)
Set up a gaming rig on GCP/AWS in 30 minutes
Try to imagine the calibre of restaurant that would even serve homeless people. We're talking about the very, very low end.

So, in no way is it comparable to your hypothetical of eating out all the time costing as much as your rent.
The one big thing missing is an ORM. And making those things is notoriously difficult. Hopefully something will turn up
We're already doing it ;) But SMBs is a new audience for us so we're looking into feedback for this part.
Really? I thought it was quite garish, plastic-y, especially the blue version.

I still think that in the Windows timeline, original Win95 (with actual toolbar buttons) was the best. It got all "designy" with each official iteration afterwards, but at least the progress of time meant that the weird third party shenanigans died out (like Borlands(?) huge buttons with the cross/checkmark).

Switching back to 9x looks, moving away from Nappa and installing a real file manager was always on top of my list when switching to Windows.
It's a treatment that stops viral replication within four days. It might not shut down cytokine storm, but if administered earlier, it stops replication which would be a cure if it works. Biotechs tend to avoid the word cure early on, you'll see the word treatment, because cure is a word that's hard to define and often meaningless or with blurry boundaries.
This is an iteration of Allan's code
Interesting feedback! Thanks. I had a few similar feedback as well, and we're going to address it!
U.S. ‘doomsday plane’ takeoff for exercise
I do it like that, it's always met with excitement like "oh wow, all these other companies were telling us how hard and costly and lengthy it will be, thank you"