skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember my group of friends being really hyped about this when it first came out. I ended up writing something for Emacs that let people ssh into a common server and each have their own "point" so that they could sort of get the same effect in Emacs. Exactly 0 people ever used it and we promptly forgot about collaborative editing.
People get good quality healthcare and spend less doing it?
Have I Been Sold?
>I find that the dumbest code is the best code

Not always, though.

See every bug and exploit with C arrays or pointers that exists because C devs think even minimal attempts at safety are too complicated or slow, or old-style PHP code that builds SQL queries out of printf strings directly from POST values, or probably countless other examples in other languages. C++ code that uses raw pointers instead of references or that uses std::vector but never actually bothers to bounds-check anything.

It's entirely possible for code to be too dumb for its own good.
I heard British prof Steve Jones on the radio recently say that 15 minutes in the middle of the day was enough at this time of year.
Multilayer hazes over Saturn’s hexagon from Cassini ISS limb images
I really hope this is an automated post as I doubt there any people here who would fall for such a cheap scam.
I have a few photographs, (may be most people have too,) of a few plants/fungi and animals/insects I couldn't identify, even after consulting resources like Wikipedia. What is the best way to get a species identification from a photograph.
Presumably this would be suitable for soldering Dead Bug or no circuit board style - component to component.
This isn’t true - I used to live around the corner from a clinic in New Orleans (not the planned parenthood) that got picketed all the time
theres actually a fair few things that do work with wine. any of the GUI stuff (although it looks a bit ugly), writing and reading to a file. menus. lots of other bits that i cant remember now.

but it only works with other programs that are running in wine so theres not a whole lot you can do with it at the same time. ive mostly been using it to process strings and that sort of thing.

ive been thinking i should try and make a list somewhere of what is working and what isnt. it would make it easier to test things every time there is a new version of wine released

i made a script for autokey that will run the selected file in wine when you press alt + r. if you download the portable version of autohotkey and add the path to it then you can use the same hotkey to run the a script

https://gist.github.com/davebrny/9850223119c4ee55485dfae1fcb...
I agree 100%, here you can see the result of an all-nighter getting my dumb engine to finally render models properly with GPU skinning (the problem was vertices with 5 weights, I'm dumb too!): http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449
Oops, meant to say "use-after-free"
If comparing for the _same_ functionality, power consumption will typically reduce unless it is dominated ny other components. Both positive and negative examples below to explain:

* An audio amplifier: Power consumption is ultimately dictated by the energy conversion to sound and the conversion efficiency of the speaker. The system will consume at least that much irrespective of the technology developments. In practice however, the efficiency of the amplifier also comes into play. The static power drawn by an efficient amplifier would be much less than the above basics for creating sound, and so going to higher technology nodes would make much less percentage difference.

* Computations in a digital circuit: Power consumption in these is sometimes dominated by communication (interconnect; bus) like between processor and memory. If the bus is internal to the chip, advancing to a new technology node would typically result in power reduction.

* If the power is dominated by computations alone, there would surely be power reduction, again assuming the functionality is held constant. Circuits have static leakage power too, which happens irrespective of the computations, however, it is still usually lesser than dynamic power by design.

Typically however, more and more functionality is frequently added like in this case of computer vision added to the sensors, which results in an overall increased power consumption to an extent that the customers will accept (e.g., battery life asked for).

Back to this specific case of computer vision on the "edge":

Having the same functionality achieved by having computer vision on the sensor itself vs. the cloud, can result in orders of magnitude savings in power. There is a lot of power associated with transferring the data back and forth. Even if computations are handled by a processor on the same board as the sensor, significant power is spent as compared to when the communication lines are avoided.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23202839
So apparently you need cookies to show text.

"We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.

It seems your browser doesn't support them and this affects the site functionality."
September 2019 qualifies as "after the backlash"
If you look at the actions of the elected officials you will see a pattern.

libertarianism for YOU

socialism for ME
Sounds pretty standard for the genre honestly. Give him a few years though and he'll start to experiment.

Or not. Who knows. My guess is this is a hobby for him.
Didn't he make that bet essentially by saying index funds would beat hedge funds?
Not sure what they're called, but there are subreddits for identifying bugs and plants and stuff
The trace model: identify each infected person, trace all their contacts, test all of them, expand outwards. Full quarantine the infected. Intensive but it works; see South Korea and New Zealand.

The "herd immunity" plan can only work with more than 50% of the population infected, of which about 1% will die and some slightly higher percentage suffer lingering ill health, which in the US means at least a million people.
thank you for this great summary; i couldn't understand it myself, but can with your help.

my only regret is that now that I understand it, i realize it's not interesting (to me personally)
Define older phones

Firefox Preview has minimum API requirement the Android 5.0, whereas Chrome, Edge browser and Brave, to name a few, work fine on the older Android 4.4
Reading the twitter thread he mentioned in the introduction gave me a very bad impression of the author. He started a nonconstructive flamewar, called all constructive criticism misguided, and thereby shit on half a dozen video game development VETERANS. The arguments by Omar in particular are worth reading much more than this article.

Also, all his code examples are bad. No one would build a texture atlas the way he did for example, and in any practical algorithm one wouldn't be able to use folds like he did. So suddenly one would have to use something entirely else like a for loop or std::accumulate().
A good friend and I have been making meditation seats for people that are inflexible and struggle to sit cross legged. It’s been going really well! https://www.practicemeditation.co
NYC seems to disagree (at least some market makers are currently considered essential businesses).
Honestly since I discovered the Stylus plugin for Firefox (Stylish for other browsers) powered by https://userstyles.org/, I have dark mode everywhere and more.
Twitter can be useful. But that takes work. My block list is probably 10 times longer than my follow list.
I may be wrong but I suspect that there are many undescribed types of fungi out there and describing a new species isn't that unusual and there is nothing of interest in the fact that the photo in question was on twitter.
OCaml fits the bill.
That would have likely ended in something along these lines:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/world/europe/boaty-mcboat...
actually no. in the past it used to be exciting to set up a new laptop and find out the subtle differences to the previous model. Now I am already content if everything stays the same for many years (yes, I run debian).
It looks like they've been slowly pursuing all three strategies.
I do think they’re growing the overall pie by increasing total takeout and delivery spend, but restaurant margins were always razor thin, so losing 30% off the top will just drive many restaurants out of business.

I think the long-term here is probably just different, not worse. Many restaurants will go under, but new ones will arise that optimize for this. See the ghost kitchen phenomenon. And hopefully a combination of restaurant and user revolt, the threat of regulation, and competitive pressure from other delivery services will drive fees down to something more reasonable like 10-15%.
f i n a l l y !

This is very welcome, now how about organization-level branch protections please!
Yep, bright screens give me headaches and sometimes migraines, which means I end up needing to lie in a dark room for an hour.

I try to dark mode everything I can as well as have monitors in reader mode and contrast turned down.
People don’t really need UBI. They just need an affordable place to live, and some food to eat, and some electricity to run their fridge, so they don’t starve, or freeze, and keep the lights on. And some internet services, so they can communicate with others to stay connected.

The primary problem, is that after 2008, instead of fixing the problem, the morons in leadership, bailed out the rich. They lowered interest rates so low, that it forced a bidding war on housing. Which drove up the cost of rent, which put some people on the streets.

For others, their rent became so high, relative to their income, that they cannot save any money.

Meanwhile, the rich kept buying more stocks. The corporate buybacks forced a scarcity issue in stocks, that it drove prices higher. Then, they cash out, and take that fake money, and spend it out on the real world.

So now, we live in a world where the rich are safe behind their walled gardens, and the poor are sacrificed as the essential workers. And Bezos is about to becomes the first Trillionaire.
I like it too. At least 10 years ago it was good but I haven’t listened recently. Prince and Stevie Wonder are timeless and much larger impact though
I don't agree because that argument says that the price is sensible because it is the price. You could equally make that statement about the price of tulips in 17th Century Holland, where "single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsworker." [1]

Of course the price is what it is due to supply and demand but I don't think that's what most people mean when they say the price is 'not sensible'.

The stock prices are so high because stocks and real estate are the only investments that might provide any sort of real return, and we've been in that situation since bond returns crashed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. In that context, stock values are massively inflated (in terms of P/E) relative to what investors may have considered sensible before 2008.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Microsoft’s Billion Dollar Polish Project, Musk’s FB Rant:Top AI News
Google used to let you blacklist websites many moons ago, that would go a long way already.

Now there are a few extensions that do that, but obviously they only hide the results from each page, so sometimes you will see pages with 2 results, if any at all.
Small request while you're at it: preformatted/code blocks don't display well on smartphones in portrait mode, as there's too much margin at the sides and scrolling becomes awkward. You can test it here:

text = '"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram—a sentence that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. It is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and other applications involving text where the use of all letters in the alphabet is desired. Owing to its brevity and coherence, it has become widely known.'

for i,c in enumerate(text):
print(i, ord(c))

Update: turns out that the margins problem also exists on desktop, but the problem doesn't cause as much problems there.
Show HN: Automatic ISS Docking in JavaScript
so what should be done, in your opinion, if it works very well for 51% of people, good enough for 48% and breaks the work flow of 1%?

easiest answer is to say get rid of the inter-dependencies, but that's throwing money and time at a problem affecting 1% of users, at no benefit to the rest. Maybe it's still the right answer, but who's to pick up the slack?
They designed their own payment protocol that only works with their wallet. Their original intention was to make the payment processor better (a laudable goal), but no one has adopted it at this point.

This means the vast majority of users see a bitpay invoice, and can't figure out how to pay it with their bitcoin wallets.
You are thinking of these:
https://www.w3.org/Tools/csvtotab-vv

Agreed, they are excellent.
Then they're being treated exactly as they prefer--no charity all bootstraps baby! :P
Should Djenghis Khan and his successors not also be on that list?
Don't over-do it: just start by inverting all the colours ( https://imgur.com/a/uOVCoWz ) and then tweak as necessary for branding.
Map of the Soul 7
Hmm I love having cake...

...and eating it too
> that over-promotes stocks as an investment vehicle.

But what else is there? Holding cash is terrible because it even loses value and the real estate market feels grossly over-expensive. So if you earn more than you spend, where do you put your extra money? I don't think that bonds, p2p-lending or precious metals perform better in risk/reward.
It's not a forgone conclusion that the ships will be there. In liquidation those ships have valuable equipment and scrap metal that could be broken down and sold, returning value to creditors and investors.

Ship breaking is big business.
For desktop HN I use DarkReader[0] and for Android HN I use Materialistic[1] — both provide a superb dark-mode experience.

[0] https://darkreader.org/ | https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr... | https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
> media the same as Chinese media

Not quite. Western media lies because they want to earn money and survive.

Chinese media lies because they are government controlled and the CCP propaganda arm has a well planned communication strategy to steer public opinion in the desired direction. Both in China and worldwide.
Oh what the heck. I had the same reaction.
When our immune system is over-fit to the wrong kind of thing, we call that an allergy. People who have been raised with animals or who have had to fight off parasites tend to have less allergies. I think this idea holds for our society; our societal immune system needs to be tested too, otherwise we attack ourselves (identity politics, the culture wars...) So I disagree with the author, I think we will be better off when this is done. We will go back to the bars and we will enjoy our lives more, we will think about our long term goals and make better efforts to get to them.
Wow, that looks pretty annoying. I'm glad I don't have to use Jira.
The site has just the right number of modal windows hiding the content: a cookie consent form, a covid 19 information at the bottom, and some recommendations on the right, and if scroll back up the site banner...
Libertarianism is the free market version of Communism. Maybe it will be good if it reaches a pure implementation but in reality it has never been achieved and probably never will be.

If Libertarianism isn’t implemented fully then it will almost for sure devolve into cronyism. It can only work if there is no way to influence government or courts to do things your way. It also can’t really deal with things like pandemics or probably even war. In a pandemic you would have a lot of people die before the truly free market figures out which treatments work and which are scam.
Number of users that finish crossing the road divided by the number of users that start crossing.
There is a search engine with this exact goal: https://millionshort.com/.

I haven't had that great results with it myself though.
My fix-the-internet idea is MeowCat, a distributed microblogging / macroblogging / wiki / social networking platform that uses ActivityPub for distribution.

It's at https://github.com/cabalamat/meowcat2

Is this the sort of thing Mozilla would be interested in?
This is a great question, I also want a way to search the internet but exclude all major media domains as well as any company over a certain size. So I just want to search through old blogs, SO, non-corporate social media, weird forums, etc.

There are so many cool things I remember reading on the web like 10-20 years ago that still exist that are so buried now on Google they might as well not exist. Nowadays searching any topic seems to always lead you to CNN and Microsoft and Facebook and other huge corporations. Search results are just becoming more sanitized and beige and meaningless every day.
What you've described is the antithesis of libertarianism.
They’ll resist the lockdown again until people start dying in large numbers and hospitals fill up and then it will be too late.
The old dl.acm was no amazing bit of modern design, but it was definitely much better than this mess.

Yet again the ACM showing how out-of-touch it can be with its members and patrons.
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> or are you asserting that large team game dev is unique compared to other industries?

Well, that would be a good question to ask to the author, since he titled the article "modern C++ gamedev" and not simply "modern C++" although to me what is discussed seems to be general enough, and "gamedev" here happens to be just the type of project the code comes from... To me, it does not look like he makes any significant contribution on how "modern C++ could serve specifically games development". IMHO he has detected that people in games react strongly to content about C++ and he benefits from the additional exposure he gets by putting "gamedev" in his C++ articles/tweets/anything (which is something I am not judging btw).

Personally, I do think that when your code is simulating a whole parallel universe using a not-super-high-level language, you might end up with challenges regarding readability and flexibility of the raw code that other softwares might not encounter. Not being really part of that industry I feel I can't know for sure, and therefore I have applied the same reasoning to him since he is also not part of that industry, it seems.
I am working on my open source app [1] which allows shop owners to keep track of number of people in their shop, whilst also generating interesting analytics insights for later use.

[1]: https://github.com/Enteee/count
Isn't that true for, like, any code? Don't turn your code into an academic exercise. You are not writing it for the compiler - you are writing it for me.

It's not that different from the English language either. Laying out your thoughts in a clear and structured way is the real skill. Start using words and expressions that I have to constantly google for, and I will hate you very quickly.
I've worked with several ex-GS people, all of whom were convinced they were the smartest person in the room, none of whom were even close. Some of the 'GS do it this way' ideas were so terrible we wondered if part of Goldman's strategy was to seed their competition with them as part of a sabotage effort.
And "they don't contribute" is one of the _less_ harmful things. Look at what Amazon did to Elastic/search.
NASA announces Artemis Accords to standardize how to explore the Moon
Nothing changed recently, the situation is bad in some sense since people started treating stocks like toys and not as pieces of companies. Investing used to be building companies and shares were the ways to raise the required capital, now people play with it and more money are extracted from playing with the stock than the actual output of the company the stocks are speculated.
Humans are complicated–do we need behavioral science to get through this?
Prey speed influences speed and structure of raptorial strike of praying mantis
Isn't that sort of OPs point? I.e. we treat gold as the datum (or ultimate asset) to measure everything else against?
10K Kubernetes Pods for 10K Subscribers
I know this is likely to not reach many on HN, but I have little resources beyond leaving this comment

I am genuinely certain that Australia is the largest country that will fall under indirect control of China through our economic dependence on our exports toward them

Our primary industries (predominantly coal and iron ore mining) in the late 2000s and early 2010s were utterly dependent on China. More worryingly, our higher education system is UTTERLY dependent on China. Domestic students pay their fees mostly through our HECS system. International students (predominantly Chinese) pay up front and at an increased rate, so higher ups in universities (and related organisations) are obsessed with accommodating as many of these students as possible, their jobs depend on it.

If Australia does not address this as soon as possible, I fear for our future. I am posting this through an account I created on TOR, I do not wish to be expelled from the university I currently attend (one of the few in Brisbane other than UQ, which I dropped out of in 2016).

I am scared for our future, we do not have a bill of rights, nor any explicit documents defending our rights against foreign influence. This is much more scary as an Australian than you can imagine sitting in The Bay, we are afraid to discuss this on any sites (non-Chinese or not) and even in person.

Help us.
US-China trade enters new era after Huawei, Foxconn and TSMC announcements
What would you buy (that you currently don't) if the price were reduced by half?
There's less of point to developing industries if other countries will sell you the product of the industries for a competitive price.
> If I have a HttpServletRequest somewhere in my code, I have a good idea of its structure just by knowing its type. The same cannot be said of a blob of maps and lists.

Non-trivial data structures are always conformed to some specification, doesn't matter if its Clojure or an OOP-language. If you receive an HTTP request over the wire you will have to check it. Once you conform it to the specification you know exactly how it looks and there's no need to jump through hoops to access the information.
Researchers have created an AI that can convert brain activity into text
Why Linux?

Solutions based on Netbsd's rumpkernels exist. There's nothing about unikernels that says Linux.
In the US, it was the catastrophic failure of government that led to inadequate testing and fears of ventilator shortages. Businesses stepped up with tests that work and factories shifted production to ventilators and PPE to rapidly make up the shortfall.
C64 Memory Map
And they sometimes say open source software is blind to users' needs... I suppose part of the problem here is that even though Jira is a paid product, the users are not the customer (and the enterprises don't care).
Anyone else disappointed this wasn't about Lucasarts Loom (1990)?
The GPL is all about giving rights to individual users of your program, not the world in general. It does so by turning copyright upside down, instead of restricting rights it grants rights (it’s like the opposite of those FBI warnings you get on DVD-discs) to those, and only those, who you give a copy of the program to.

But that is all. It works exactly like copyright in that regard. To be subject to it you need to have received a copy of program.

So no, running the program in the cloud is not distribution.