skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my theory (I of course welcome feedback!):

The UK has had a health crisis for 20+ years, and that is obesity / poor-diet / little-exercise. We are one (it not most?) obese country in Europe, and we are seeing people with diabetes and heart-conditions to be people at most risk of COVID-19. It will take a generation to put this right - and my hope is that people in the UK will realise they need to sort their health out in case COVID-XX comes around.
I use man all the time for exactly this. In fact it is something man really excels at.

The other nice thing about looking up options in the man pages is that you often see other useful options that you didn't know existed. I've found some of my favourite options this way!
Fuck HTTP
You know what, fuck HTTP. Why does each of my actions need to take 2s to complete? I am gonna change the entire internet to run over WebSockets. <100ms for EVERY SINGLE ACTION.

You wanna change the world, shift your app from HTTP.

HTTP SUCKS.
That is very nice, a little broken in some places: the [001]-how-to-not-build-a-router link doesn't work, you have to click the .md file, and your github link is broken

But it looks very nice and I love the idea.
Do it, do it! Though I think you need sudo in front of it :-)
If all else fails, convert to SVG in Inkscape and edit it there. Export back to PDF when you're done.
The "cliff-edge" hasn't materialized because the UK is in a negotiated transition period during which nothing changes. That ends on December 31st, 2020. On January 1st, new arrangements are supposed to come into force -- except they haven't been agreed yet, apart from a customs barrier within the UK (between Northern Ireland and the mainland).

Meanwhile -- before COVID19 -- Sterling devalued by about 20%, the government began borrowing heavily to cover a yawning revenue gap, an economic slowdown cost the UK economy more than the gross total of all UK payments into EU funds since joining in 1974 (many of which were redistributed right back in the UK), and we have a prime minister who, when told that the Confederation of British Industry was worried about his Brexit policies, famously said "f*ck business".

Remember February/March, when everyone was sitting paralysed in the oncoming headlights of COVID19, wondering if it was going to be bad and if it was going to be necessary to make any changes? That's where we are with the end of the Brexit transition period, right now.
> I could be so lucky!

Heh, so, what I meant to say here was more like:

"Even if you don't have kids, you wouldn't even be here if your parents didn't!"
Soldiers Martyred in Balochistan
Wouldn't it be much more efficient for everyone (and even lucrative for the owners) to also provide the studio stems at a slightly higher/different price?

(not that some of these are not already available when you know where to search, but it's not very... structured)
A tiny drop in the pool of developers available worldwide, it won't even reach 1% most likely.
All the limitations you mention are already explicit in the text.

You have any other studies demonstrating lack of cognitive decline in 22 year olds on 4 hours sleep? Otherwise, you're just poo pooing on someone having actually having done the damn experiment. Yeah, n=1, but it's better than your n=0.
Print-to-PDF, put the important sites in a Folder on your Desktop ..

The URL for every single site is in the PDF.
Do you have anything to back this up though? My understanding is that too many children is only really an issue in developing countries.

Also, not enough children can be problematic - just look at Japan, which has an aging population and not enough people to work.
It's a reasonable opinion piece and I agree with a lot of it -- particularly not having Cummings in SAGE meetings and the embarrassing state of PPE, but;

"he floated an approach to “build up some degree of herd immunity” founded on an erroneous view that the vast majority of cases would be mild, like influenza"

as far as anyone knows, they are. the (limited) data we have is making a strong case for that.

and in any case, 'some degree of herd immunity' wasn't the policy, it was (and still is) an inevitable outcome

we'll need to wait on Roche's antibody test to have a robust sense of how succesful our delayed lockdown (or sweden's complete lack of lockdown) worked
> provided you treat them as a Java based OS

This topic is about Termux, an app that aims to provide a Linux environment on Android.

I can treat it as a "Java-based OS", but then I don't get the benefits of real Linux so am not sure what the advantage is.

My dumb phone was also "a Java based OS", iOS is just an "ObjC/Swift based OS" etc. The only thing this mindset does is to ignore the restrictions by giving into them and am honestly not sure why would one do that.

> Just because one cannot use GNU/Linux command line it doesn't make it less usable.

Sure it does, this very topic is about an app that does precisely that. If one doesn't need that, they didn't need Termux and thus of course this whole topic does not apply to them.
Arguably accuracy is more important than transparency, and people in general have a strong tendency to interpret a single account of "we're all out of PPE" as "there is a general shortage".
In fact we're living in the real world where most countries can see that the UK is about to slit its own throat in pursuit of a tabloid fantasy - which has been promoted by naive internal interests who are being taken advantage of by hostile foreign actors waiting to pick over the bones of whatever is left after the dust settles.

Brexit makes as much practical sense as 5G COVID conspiracy theories. And they appear to have been promoted and astroturfed by the same sources, which should be a bit of a clue - as should the UK's utter failure to deal effectively with the pandemic.
Yes, I/we were charged this tax on more or less every rick/taxi ride.

If I even asked for the meter (in English, mind), rather than negotiated a price beforehand, we invariably got a rigged meter anyway! I'll try it in Hindi if I ever get back though!
I think you've mis-read the reporting, she was removed on May 5th, before the issues you listed, after being asked to censor the data.
An Intimate Look at Italy’s Saffron Harvest
DaVinci Resolve has pretty unfortunate restrictions on what graphics card drivers you can use on Linux

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DaVinci_Resolve
Not only that, you also surely close old doors for the mere possibility of success.

The article opens with a story about an old lady which went to the US during one of the most immigrant-friendly times and then started a furniture store during the peak house construction boom time when land was still cheap.

I'm pretty sure that a similar immigrant entering the US nowadays will not only receive a less warm welcome, but also struggle like the rest of us during the recession.

But no matter her financial fate in the US, she'll probably have to sacrifice family relationships back home either way.
That's true, but unfortunately in reality you don't have any other viable places to distribute your game because the market is already monopolized. If you want to reach the biggest userbase you must release your product in the most popular stores.

What is the best place to release premium android game?
Google Play - biggest userbase, integrated payment, integrated with your google account.
Call for EU state aid rules to flex for startups
I think the premise of this blog post is flawed.

> During my time using frameworks I've become more and more out of touch with the code I'm writing. For example, when I plonk down a button in the Ionic Framework I get a beautifully engineered and designed button, but it also has 10 CSS classes attached to it that I don't really understand. I sometimes feel like the thing I've created isn't truly "mine".

That seems to be the nature of CSS utility frameworks. Composition over inheritance; or in this case monolithic element styles. Is the utility function to fetch elements from the DOM tree also truly "yours"? Where's the line drawn? I could get the text representation of the DOM tree and write my own parser? How about that?

> I therefore decided to go back to the basics and code my own tiny website. I already knew how to go about it, you probably do too, it's really easy (if you don't know here's how). However, I'd never actually done it, and I'd not made a website without a framework in over a decade.

Ah! And there's the problem! Are you creating a website or an application? I do understand that this feels like a cleansing of sorts. But in my opinion doesn't reinforce the original argument.

I think the more experience you gain as a developer the more often you will come to the realization that technology evolves and also becomes more nuanced over time. When confronted with this fact of course the first instinct will be to feel overwhelmed and return to basics. Which if you're creating a mostly static website in this case is perfectly reasonable. But you can't be an expert in everything. Thus frameworks and tools emerge to alleviate some of the pain that stems from designing applications not websites.

Which again reinforces another often quoted realization: the right tool for the right job.
> Wouldn't a well-designed bitmap font beat all of them in crispyness?

Not necessary be blurry though. Some great fonts like Pragmata Pro [1] are designed for bitmap representations on the screen in mind. I don't know if Iosevka does it.

[1] https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
Haven't they also cost lives from hindered access to medical care for stuff unrelated to Covid-19?
I probably would have bought it if it was still around the £800 mark but it's now up over £1000 and that's just insanely expensive considering what else is available at that price point.

I'd love to see a proper competitor to the OP-1 come out to force their price down.
This may not squarely answer your question, but when I was investigating this for a production project, the following tools seemed to be both essential and well-supported.

SBCL, SLIME, SLY, ASDF, quicklisp, and ultralisp

Other tools and solutions are available, but familiarity with this seemed to be what was required for comfortable use.
Until all execution of foreign code is blocked (like Apple), then all that Android does is to add a bit of nuisance to malware, as they can no longer download the actual payload to disk but have to download the payload to memory and execute it from there. Not really a big deal for a malware author, but likely a dealbreaker for a Termux-like program.

And if Android implements a policy like Apple's to block all execution of foreign code (which is the apparently inevitable conclusion of this type of security arguments), then browsers and everything else will be gone, exactly like Apple (for the record, where every browser is just a wrapper over Webkit).

I used to think that Android was more open than iOS based on principle, but now I realize that no, it was more open than iOS just because they lacked the technical means to enforce the draconian restrictions.
I think it's because I was able to connect with people so well when I was young that I went down this path.

It was just a game at the end of the day. Make the right moves, win the right prizes. But like any game, you lose the magic after a while. And unlike video games, you can't just step back and take a break from doing it, it's an unavoidable part of being human.

But you're not off-base. At this level you definitely lose touch with everything people find "normal." I've found myself not caring about other people or their problems. Why would I?

Group dynamics are emergent behavior that's coded into our DNA to increase survival, prisoner's dillema style. If someone does nothing for me or adds nothing to my life, why would I give them any of my empathy? Can't they fix their own problems? Do they wish some knight in shining armor would ride in and save them? Do they want a handout? My empathy, for free? How selfish is that.

Every problem has a solution, endless complaining gets one nowhere. When I was broke and homeless, I'd get my own hands dirty. Now that I'm comfortably wealthy, I can throw money at whatever problem pops up.

Whatever problems, emotional, physical, mental, sociological, economical, yada yada yada, that you have are your own responsibility. No one really gives a shit about anyone else; all relationships are transactional, and if you're not offering me gold beads, you're not getting my muskets.

Ranting aside, that's a brief intro to my experience and worldview. If any particular piece resonated with you strongly, please leave a reply. I'm always interested in seeing original ideas, how infrequent it may be.
US overtakes China as most attractive country for renewables investment
The author/editor has mentioned elsewhere in this thread that he was using dummy data (which contains mistakes). For this dummy December flight LHR would be in GMT (UTC+0) and not BST (UTC+1).
About a month or so ago I moved to a new Mac. I had the option of porting over all my bookmarks, starting fresh, or sorting them out. I took a lazy Sunday and sorted through ~7000 bookmarks I'd accumulated in the 7 years I had the previous Mac.

About 50% of the sites or pages were now offline. 45% were irrelevant to me, either because I was no longer interested, they'd been superseded by something better, or they were outdated code snippets or examples, etc. 3% I (finally) read or skimmed, none of these changed my life. 2% were useful sites, mostly collections of things (stock imagery, audio samples) I would struggle to find in Google now or I don't manually type in frequently. I added keywords to the titles (you can't tag in Chrome) and sorted them into folders.

I was also a tab monster. I'd have ~150 or open at all times (thanks Great Suspender!) - usually things I wanted to read later or come back to.

I drew a line - tabs get 48 hours and then they're closed. Websites only get bookmarked if they contain something likely to last and I'd struggle to find if I Googled again. Both the tabs and the bookmarks created unnecessary mental load. Every suspended tab and "read me later" bookmark became another weight around my neck that screamed "still haven't got around to me, eh? Fail!" Now I'm working to the "read it asap or act on it asap - or it's not something you _really_ wanted." I guess a kind of Marie Kondo for my head, which is really rather freeing.

Perhaps Memex is a good middle ground. A chance to drag up the past as and when _my life_ is ready for it, without the future affecting the present. I'll give it a go.
I've had a similar experience with artificially masking my energy levels.

I stop reading what I've written and introducing a large number of typos; the grammar becomes weird; etc.

This is why it's important to allow yourself to be exhausted and to notice exhaustion: your little mental model of yourself is incredibly inaccurate. You need to be constantly alert to keep it updated, and if you don't, you will collapse.
I'm not a lisp programmer, but I have used emacs in the past.

For people w/ lisp dev XP, can I ask this: Is the ".emacs/config bankruptcy" issue a general problem? Specifically, when you use so many powerful devices, macros etc; but with little predictable code structure, then further development that sits well with existing code becomes pretty difficult.
My game got banned without any specific references as well. It was a pacman clone where you were shopping in a store and had to avoid other patrons who were a virus in disguise. Banned for "taking advantage of a tragedy". We re-themed it as zombies and now it's on the stores.
Nice way to find out what everyone is reading while gathering addresses of smart people. ;)

> Sometimes, they might incorrectly remove images and other meaningful content. So in such cases, having a full PDF snapshot is quite handy.

Also interesting is that the context is preserved locally across visits to the site - over 10 years, I have gathered a pretty interesting view of some of the various A/B changes that have gone on, on my favourite 'daily visit' sites ..

And, it is often very revealing of my own habits. This highlights the privacy-factor of having a local-file based bookmark/ontology system a little more in my favour.
Writing a letter about this to some representatives in Washington might resonate well
Exactly. There is still a lot that we do not understand. And scientists have not impressed either, with theri lack of knowledge about spreading of the virus.

What I find remarkable is that eastern European countries like Hungary, Poland and Czechia have done remarkably well during this crisis. Also, countries like India and Sri Lanka have barely been affected. What are the reasons?
OnePlus 8 Pro’s color filter camera to be disabled via update
You've just written off 50,000 excess [1] deaths in the UK and 90,000 deaths in the US as "limited data." And also repeated the lie about "herd immunity" somehow being a thing that magically happens because of exposure, and not because of vaccines. (It doesn't. Ask any surviving polio victims how "herd immunity" worked out for them.)

[1] Excess meaning those people would not have died for some time yet - decades for those front-line workers who were in their 30s/40s/50s.
I wonder, has anyone tried making a guitar that outputs the signal from each string's pickup coils separately, and then an amplifier that distorts each signal separately?

edit: Looks like this might be exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EUbO59OO_Y
You don't have to use skinny variants, there are a lot of weights.

I personally run with a custom Iosevka build with medium/bold weight everywhere.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/gl1VZZz
You're looking at the total number of deaths, not the death rate per capita.

Every country has a different population size which means the total number of deaths needs to be normalised in order to be comparable.

Belgium has the highest death rate per million population in Europe - 79.25

The UK is 4th in Europe behind Belgium, Spain and then Italy.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

The fact we're 4th does warrant some concern as Spain and Italy were hit hard before us.

But then all these death statistics are compiled using different definitions anyway, so there's no useful direct comparison right now.

Belgium, for example, include all suspected covid deaths in their figures whereas the UK does not.

So probably best not to jump to conclusions until some thorough and rigorous global modelling/analysis has taken place.
Thank you for your responses. I was interested in learning about these concerns for Common Lisp only, and not the other dialects including scheme, clojure, racket ...
Pretty much the reason De Gaulle didn't them in the union and they had to wait until he was dead to join.
IIRC, modern versions of 'FORTRAN' dropped the all caps name. So Fortran 90+ is standard now and implies modern fortran version.
Nice one, a few quick thoughts after playing for 2 mins tops (so take with some salt!):

1. When all players in the game have voted, just turn the cards to show the results right away

2. The tutorial moving around the screen was only ever so slightly annoying, wish it stayed in the one spot (or let me advance using arrow key on keyboard or something?) so I could just click through and read faster

3. I assume the link we get given is persistent and never expires? We'd want to have it as part of a recurring slack call for example without having to generate a new one each week.

EDIT: 4. I didn't think to click my username arrow to see all the menu options (especially 'Go unlimited') you may want to consider making at least that a bit more prominent.

Nice work.
The author updated the post with benchmarks for Guile 3.
Yeah, that was where I also had guessed he was going as I was reading. :-)
I misunderstood what the gp meant by "the public are out demanding that reopening happens".
I had kind of forgotten about the consequences of Brexit - but a recent interview on Radio 4 with someone from the US Department of Agriculture reminded me of the kind of problems ahead - he seemed to regard the (relatively) high standards of animal welfare in UK farms to be the result of unnecessary regulations, which sounded rather alarming to me.
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Is there really a monopoly play here for food delivery?

Granted, DoorDash can possibly be used for other kinds of delivery, like medicine and groceries.

It seems the cost of labor and transportation is too high to make it feasible.

But the actual play, might be robotic. To first take over the manual market, and then, conduct research into automated delivery services, like aerial drone delivery, or robotic dog delivery.

Once that technology is viable, then phase out the human delivery people, and replace them all with robots.

I actually never thought something like this would ever be economically viable. And then one day, a pandemic hit the entire world.
A fitbit has been lifechanging for me on that front. Get one, and ruthelessly focus on improving your sleep.

I have three layers of blinds (get portable blackout blinds); I use earplugs; I try to keep the room temp low.

My mood, ability to think clearly, happiness etc. is very sensitive to my moving-average quality of sleep.

I think a week or two of "fair" (fitbits levels) sleep is a catastrophe for me -- I need a high average.
>structure contained in HTML.

As long as I can read the site, I have what I need. Why do I need to read the HTML?

>So depending on how you want to process your stored data, saving as PDF may or may not preserve sufficient information.

As long as I can read it, the PDF is sufficient for my needs.

For everything else, there's wget.
Drawing Early-Bird Tickets: Toward More Efficient Training of Deep Networks
This is quite good news, to say the least. This is one of the most well-integrated, sensible engines and development environments I've ever used.

Can't wait to patch more native moonscript support into a fork :evil:

If you want to see an overview of a somewhat typical and polished mobile game done with Defold, here's a non-King dev showing off his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4pJ8A3YS4

Also, in relevant news, Corona (the other major Lua game engine[1]) is also being open-sourced, and renamed to Solar2D: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326462

[1] with dev ecosystem of extensions, build services etc - without that Love2D might also qualify
Basically auto playing anything for me is bad UX.
The popular narrative is JC Penney, among some others, sustained a great amount of damage from the pandemic ultimately resulting in their bankruptcy. The words "coronavirus" and "pandemic" are used 2 and 4 times, respectively, within the 10-paragraph article. While articles and coverage don't say it forthright, several attribute bankruptcies such as this one to the pandemic by association. To clear up any selective amnesia about what a dumpster fire our dear poster child of brick-and-mortar retail was before the pandemic (shocking, right?), here are a few articles on the very topic published between February 2017 and March 1, 2020:

https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/news/companies/jcpenney-clo...

https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/11/investing/jcpenney-loss-ret...

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/17/investing/jcpenney-earnings...

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/16/news/companies/jcpenney-ear...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/investing/jcpenney-stock/inde...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/investing/jcpenney-appliances...

The analogy of "the straw that broke the camel's back" is not lost on me, however I am not a fan of the fear porn pushed on readers by simple association for a company making the news for its death throes for ~10-15 years now.
It's not meant to be science. It's a geek experimenting with his body. Hacking your sleeping patterns is a classic that all geeks do at some point in their journey.
Here's an article discussing that argument http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/what_if_copyright_d...