skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are great but they are very bad for seo, so they are vastly underutilized.
I actually just ride to beat segments and get in the top 3 at least. This will take out a huge part of enjoying cycling outdoors for me.
It took a lot of fossil fuel to industrialize. Could we do it again without it?
To clarify a bit, what happens with Perl is that The Perl Foundation funds the community in various ways. I'm a TPF board member, so I have a pretty good idea of what we do.

We fund a number of long-running grants for the Perl 5 and Rakudo/MoarVM language cores. We also have a smaller grants program for one-off projects, which have included things like documentation work for core & libraries, funding of work on existing libraries, and infrastructure projects for the community (websites, etc.).

We also work on marketing the languages by doing things like having a table at FOSDEM and other conferences, etc. And of course, we provide an organization to back up conferences and other events, to do things like carry an even insurance policy, help with Standards of Conduct, and lots of other background activities.

This is all good stuff, and I'm glad we do it. I don't think we could announce a plan to just give money to everyone who uploaded to CPAN. For one thing, that's thousands of people, so we could maybe give them a dollar or ten each. For another, the value of each person's contribution is obviously hugely different. I can't see how any community foundation could do this without causing more problems than it solves, even if the foundation had the funding to do it at any sort of scale.
Subtle creeping influence is often more effective is the long term than just an all once take over
You don't even need a discrete GPU for that.
The most I've ever paid for a phone is $300. I value open/libre more than $0, but not more than I value the phone itself.
Show HN: How Much Adobo? – An Adobo and Rice TDEE Meal Generator
I don't understand the obsession with "fighting procrastination". It's like you have to be doing something always or else you've wasted time. There's no finish line here. You can't win.

http://subgenius.com/

Go ahead and procrastinate, then don't feel guilty. Do nothing "useful" and enjoy it. Whoever/whatever it is that's making you feel like you have to do more, it's probably just abusive manipulation of labor forces.

We have most of the technology we need for a "Fully Automated Luxury Space Communes tm", and who's fault is it that we're all still working our ass off? Someone probably.. but now is the time for pointless, meandering, meta procrastination posts on some special corner of the internet.
Strava's co-founders, who recently returned to run the company, sent a fairly transparent email to users about the changes. The rationale is clear: Strava needs to achieve profitability. They've been around for over 10 years and have completed 6 rounds of fundraising. They see three paths to profitability: 1) ads, 2) sell user data, 3) subscriptions. They're all in on option #3.

The biggest challenge they face with subscriptions, as mentioned by other posters, is that the majority of features that users want are available in the free tier. Most of the subscribers I know (myself included) pay the subscription fee because they want to see the platform survive, not because the subscription tier is dramatically better than free. This model works for non-profits (kind of), but probably doesn't work for a company sitting on $42M in venture funding.

Therefore, they quickly need to a) make the subscription tier much better than free to pull free users over and/or b) pull free tier features behind the paywall. Both are very challenging. If 'a' was easy, you'd think they would have done it years ago. And 'b' is going to risk user churn, which will ultimately erode their network effect. This makes me wonder why they're not considering advertising to free-tier users? Haven't most people accepted the "ad-free for paying users" model?
It looks like it's not a fine in the sense that refusal to pay can result in suspension of your driving license and possible wage garnishment. They don't even call it a fine but a "penalty". Basically they ask you for $50 or $100 depending on which limit you exceed, and refusal to pay risks a court case. I'm guessing the bridge needs to be inspected after the weight limit is exceeded or if a taller vehicle strikes the structure. The cost of inspection likely exceeds the penalty. They could easily ask for thousands of dollars in compensation. And even if you win the case, you have to pay for a lawyer and spend time in court. It's easier for both parties if the driver just pays the penalty.
He is probably Portuguese speaking, and his autocorrect changed the spelling.
I’m planning to ingest all my historical email into the model and then I’ll have a generator that writes for me using my voice...
That sounds like an additional variable that's part of a coupled system.
I’ve made a list of online boardgame platforms:

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/online-boardgames-platf...

Boardgamearena and yucata have the largest collection and the best user interface in 2D. Tabletopia and tabletopsimulator are 3D and (mostly) paid.
Most of these are retrospective and observational, and they fail to answer the question posed by the very controversial (and flawed) Raoult paper: that is, that early administration during the course of the disease provides a clinical benefit. Also in many the control is standard of care, which can mean everything and nothing.

The positive studies suffer from the same issues, by the way. Especially controls are pretty bad.

These studies can't give the answers that a proper randomized controlled trial (against placebo), like the U of Minnesota one (but there are a few others) can.

Some studies focus on mortality, but I doubt HCQ helps there: like remedisivir, the measure should be time to symptom clearance / hospital discharge. Time of administration also matters a lot (see again the NEJM paper on lopinavir / ritonavir, a failure, then the Lancet paper that gives more insight at earlier time points). One study I've read gave HCQ at 16 days post symptom onset (median): that time is definitely too late for any antiviral therapy.

I reiterate: I have no personal interest in having HCQ succeed. What I want to see is good science.
Re television advertising: '...
As an ad agency head put it to me a couple of years ago: ‘subscriptions are down and viewing is down, but budgets are flat, so CPMs are up’

I suspect the demographic of people who still watch broadcast TV is aging out fast. TV was a 'sit back and watch at 9pm' experience for those generations, and aside from live events such as sports TV watching seems to be very short attention span if watched at all in the pervasive online video and streaming world. I therefore think TV advertising - and broadcast TV - is going to fall off a cliff soon.
In my view, there are 3 plausible scenarios:

1. He is lying about it and not taking it because he wants to prove he was right that it is OK to take or whatever.
my view: plausible.

2. He is actually taking it.
my view: implausible, with his weight, heart condition and hypertension no doctor would prescribe it.

3. The doctor gave him a placebo to get him off his back about it.
my view: highly plausible.
The advantage of doing it on the desktop is that you get to print the desktop version of the site.

There probably is an avenue to automate printing from your desktop as soon as it receives the email; who knows, maybe even

The inconvenient of your way is that your bookmarks are only available on the Desktop, from your mobile all you can have is the list of URLs you sent yourself. It's still probably better than having some service running all the time you want to query though.

Your system is surprisingly "low-tech" and sounds extremely interesting, I'm tempted to start doing it as well. Do you have any kind of organization or viewer for your stack of PDFs, or are they just files amassed on your hard drive ?
"Thank you" doesn't seem to suffice. Where might I donate?
Okay, he removed the 5 hour bar. I get what the author in your link is upset about, leaving out data points. But imo that's not good enough to make me throw out all the information in that book.

It sounds like the author is upset a book about getting enough sleep is getting so much attention. If they're upset at the way Walker misrepresents information, then I'd hate to see the author's blood pressure while feverishly researching the bias of every article they come across
This is my biggest issue. I tried using Firefox exclusively for a period of time but experienced a 10x increase in the number of reCaptcha manual verifications I had to complete. Going to the same sites on Chrome has no reCaptcha.

For me, this is blatant anti-competitive practice and should be punished.
Depends on what you define to be advanced and deep.

If you know linear algebra, that opens up a variety of state space techniques. If you know a little optimization, that opens up optimal control, including the incredibly common LQR strategy. This stuff is typically accessible for an advanced undergrad with a few of the right prereqs.

But control theory is a deep field. You can find papers that use differential geometry, topology, information theory, etc. for designing control systems.
> Never in my life have I found these totally generic advice collations useful.

I only check the HN comments for posts like this. That's where the real meaty content is where actual programmers/engineers talk about what may or may not have worked for them.
Disney’s head of streaming leaves to become CEO of TikTok
Apple reboots retail experience, now features temperature checks and long lines
Yes. I'm just saying that the majority of restaurants in the greater bay area will have lengthy delivery times during weekday dinner hours... the exception being if you order from a place physically close to your delivery point.
yeah now I'm on concerta and can procrastinate 3x better than before =/
"He's the angriest man you'll ever meet. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup." (Noel Gallagher, about his brother)

I found the quote relevant ("a man with a fork")
I find it very enlightening when people who find issue with my expression let me know about it in a friendly way. I think the commenter took a lot of care to phrase their concern in a very nice way; when people do this to me I thank them. It’s the only way that I can keep learning how the language changes with time.
https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/

I made that _tiny_ website for evenings with friends. It works great. You enter a few names, hit the save button, you get a list with scores and a +1 button for each players. When you refresh the page the scores are reset. The most important feature is the _ding_. The ding makes it fun.

It's ridiculously small, but it brings lots of fun.
> Such conditions could be expected to occur naturally only rarely – about once a century.

> They are now at least two and a half times more likely to occur, with a frequency probability of about once in 40 years

> If global temperatures rise by more than 2C (a rise of 3.6F) above pre-industrial levels, such heatwaves will become one-in-20-year events in the region
Well then this is kinda your fault for not providing a market for ad networks that don't invade peoples privacy now isn't it.
It is fair to say that using your cognition to measure your own cognitive decline is unreliable ;-)
Proof of digging?
I successfully ran game promoting ads at the end of march, without any limiting despite having "virus" words in the ad. 2 weeks later, the game was released and got banned on Google Play one week after the release.

More story and screenshots here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229073
My job, food, apartment, utilities, entertainment, all come from private companies.
Why are they bad for SEO? The author seemed to be talking more about CSS and JS rather than content - does not using bootstrap or ReactJS mark you down on search results?
Infectious SARS-CoV-2 in Feces of Patient with Severe Covid-19
I worked in this area for the state of MD at one of the foremost traffic records outfits in the US and have done this work previously, there are a few considerations you are leaving out which comes as a result of knowing these data.

You want to never look at things at the citation level, you should group it into stops. One driver can get many citations per stop, which confounds your findings..grouping can be done by making an ID of DL#+Date of stop. If time is included, put that on ONLY if it has the same time for all citation issued in the stop (like it is here in MD) - You could end here, or you could add an indication Y/N for whether a citation was issued. This way, you are looking at stops where at least 1 citation was issued, instead of 3 counts for a race off of one stop where three tickets were issued.

Also, the racial categories are based upon the DMV database, and what options they have permitted. The confounder here is racially ambiguous persons may be misclassified, while obviously black people etc will reliably be called such.

Additionally, you want to use something like the National Household Travel Survey to get an idea of the racial background of DRIVERS in the area you are examining. It is quite possible that an area has more drivers of a certain race. Note this still will not be perfect due to out of jurisdiction drivers.

Please contact me with any questions. Very interesting stuff, I just want to make sure you do it right.....if you hope to make any changes at the govt level, these considerations will be widely known in the traffic records sector.
Just curve the test so that 80% pass.
To me it is always a mark of internet noob when someone doesn’t receive email at a domain that they own, for precisely this reason.
+1. Also worth noting, the implementation would be fundamentally different. On the Quest it's running on-device on specific chips, whereas on the Rift S this processing would be done on the user's PC.

It's doable, but you probably can't just drop the implementation for hand-tracking on one platform and have it work on the other.
>Take it from a trans person, that is _not_ what most of us are asking for.

statements like this are not useful for building understanding.

rather than speaking in negatives and stating what it is that you're not looking to achieve, tell us what is being sought.

Being disconnected from the struggle/lifestyle/issue, I do not know what to take from your statement.

What, in your opinion, are most trans people asking for, and what makes you sure that the majority seek that?

For what it's worth, I already use 'dev-hours', but not from any gender/rights perspective, it just sounds better and correlates the specific industry to the metric. It's also about the same amount of verbal effort as 'man-hours', so the change was easy.
Store of Progressive Web Apps
Yeah! I am with you on this. I've used nothing but HTML/CSS for all of my side projects for years. I manually create, update, and publish each page. Hell, I still drag and drop via FTP. It is indeed very fun.

Here's a screenshot of my latest project, nothing fancy, just starting to tinker with Tufte CSS and typography (Lyon Text and Concourse): https://cln.sh/BzBD
> I'm a master procrastinator. Mostly because I have so many things I could do that I have this background feeling that I'm neglecting everything else if I focus on one thing.

That low-grade background anxiety is actually something that better organizational skills can fix. Although I suspect that if you did fix it, you'd discover that there's more to your procrastination problem than that.
Why did you guys drop the derivative part? I've always found that pretty useful.
It's very frustrating to spend a lot of actual energy and time on trying to reduce sexual assault on platforms like this - only to get sniped for supposed "victim blaming" by an anonymous person on the internet because I didn't virtue signal hard enough.

You want a virtue signal? Here you go: sexual assault is the fault of the assaulter, not the assaulted.

Unlike most people passing by this thread, I have actual experience with this topic. I'm close to several women who have Couchsurfed solo, and I have hosted countless young women (men as well, of course.)

If a discussion about American gun deaths came up, it would not be victim blaming to explain the context and the source of most of these deaths.

My comment had several purposes. One was to explain the most common reason for sexual assault on the platform. Another was to help people getting into Couchsurfing. There will undoubtedly be a number of HN users joining Couchsurfing as part of this thread, and I wanted to pass along valuable safety information to any women among them.
I gave a talk not too long ago about running Rust on a Nintendo 64, with the slide deck written in Rust and running on an N64.

https://twitter.com/DebugSteven/status/1054903603985559553

So I guess what I'm saying is that I have pretty hands on knowledge with the system and would be happy to answer any questions I can.

One thing I'll throw out there, is that one of the biggest limitations of the N64 (its 4KB texture memory) gets called a texture cache a lot, but that's a misnomer. It's a manually managed piece of memory, and (IMO) the system would have been much better off if it were actually a cache rather than having to load an entire texture in regardless of what was being sampled. Nowhere I've seen in Nintendo's literature do they call it a cache either. The crazy hacks that Rare did to subdivide their geometry on texture boundaries wouldn't be necessary for instance. I'd maybe even be into a 2KB cache over a 4KB chunk of manually managed memory.

One other aside is that I think the system still has tons of unlocked potential. So much of unlocking it's power seems to be centered around memory bank utilization. Switching which page of DRAM within a bank is expensive in terms of latency, but it seems like if you allocate your memory in 1MB bank chunks you can get around a lot of the limitations of the systems having the slow memory that developers complained about at the time. I don't blame developers at the time, they were coming from SNES where it was single cycle access to RAM, to the N64 that had a very deep, very modern memory hierarchy and what all that means for your code. The industry as a whole didn't really catch on until about halfway through the PS2's development cycle. But applying some of those PS2 techniques back, the system really purrs when you have dedicate a 1MB bank to each streaming source or destination. I can't wait to see what crazy stuff happens when the demoscene folk really start to get their hands dirty with it.
Ask HN: Who has had experience in working for a political campaign/organization
Disclaimer: Not interested in a discussion on politics.

I would love to hear about experiences as a data scientist, software engineer or product manager in a political or organization. Also, any guides/blogs/threads recommendations on data and politics would be great.
> Persian, for example, is a genderless language: it has no 'he' or 'her,' no 'waiter' or 'waitress,' no 'actor' or 'actress.' And yet I think most folks would say that Iran is far less gender-neutral than any English-speaking country.

I don't want to be that person but Zoroastranism is the religion you should be comparing against -- it predates Islam by a good deal and developed alongside Farsi. And Zoroastranism does hold men and women to be equal. [1] Iran was actually a pretty liberal country prior to the Islamic Revolution (which was really more of a rebellion against American control).

[1] https://www.hinduwebsite.com/zoroastrianism/gender.asp
Atlanta Fed's GDPnow nowcasting estimates that the US Q2 GDP growth was -42.8 percent on May 15 (annual rate of change, not change)

https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
At the risk of being a downer: I'll be so happy once we move past the "preschool playset" era of hand-tracked software.

I wonder what it is that's keeping us from moving past these dull tech demos. Is the issue the interaction design being too simplistic ("Look, I can pick [thing] up!")? Or perhaps the opposite: that, without suitable haptics, too much energy has to be devoted to a very unnatural way of interacting (essentially with phantoms). It seems that games like BeatSaber and apps like TiltBrush have cracked the code, but you have to wonder how.
> It is not painless: it is dissonant

The dissonance should be cause for reflection and growth. Why does the gendered version sound harmonious? What does that answer say about the society that evolved our language?

> and takes another syllable.

That's just silly. If typing three additional characters causes you pain, you shouldn't be writing comments on the internet in the first place.
Address for an individual, in Australia (e.g. john.smith@id.au)
I understand that. If you don't have a # readily available, but your editor allows you mark a line as Heading 1 by pressing Ctrl+1, then it does in fact address their problem.
This is a very nice description of what I've noticed moving to a large organisation. There is also a lot of busy work. As the organisation grows, communicating and negotiating between groups requires extra effort that often ends up being the role of a new management level, and groups have self-preserving incentives to stay relevant leading to lots of entropy (busy work, repeated work, hero projects that are just there for internal branding). As someone who has recently been put in this level of management I spend a lot of time having to negotiate out of new project initiatives invented more to attract exec attention or satisfy a rogue execs dream project. Makes me really look forward to moving back to working in a smaller company.
Edvard Munch's The Scream needs to practise physical distancing, say experts
It's interesting, but it doesn't look like the reaction time windows are particularly tight. 500ms is a generous reaction time. And the FPS scenario didn't really test snap accuracy or reaction time, the limiting factor on completion time seems largely dependent on movement.

I think a more interesting metric of reaction time would be using a competitive FPS or fighting game, that require tight reaction times and decision making. That way, any change in reaction time will be reflected.
Do you also log into your computer as root or administrator so you don't have to be bothered with pesky warnings?
This is a power move by TikTok.

They’re looking for new ways to capitalize of the attention they have on the platform.

Does anyone give a fuck that they’re run by the Chinese government though?
Wow. Well, I wish I would have known abut GNU parallel before I wrote that massive bash script a few years ago. Thanks for posting this.
I'll use the "fear is the mind killer" [1] quote when I'm upset or anxious quite often. I really should add this one to my arsenal as well. I've never thought of Dune as a self-help book but I might now. Weirdly enough I'm also currently re-reading it, after watching the miniseries due to quarantine, and I'll try to find more things like this during my reading.

[1] “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
I wish so much that 3rd party clients weren't directly against the TOS of Discord. I sorta miss the old days where it seemed like anyone could hook up to MSN/Yahoo/AIM.
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