skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK privately-sponsored healthcare specialises in things that you cannot get free from the National Health Service or things where the wait time is long - for example knee surgery.
People don’t use private healthcare for emergencies or intensive care.
For example the prime minister was in intensive care in April - in an NHS hospital.
One of the biggest realizations for me was that I need to be free with defining my own categories. It’s more about recording why I’m interested in something than its surface subject— I’m more likely in the future to do something related to my current interests than the article’s subject.

To take a concrete example, the April 2020 issue of Smithsonian has a feature about a tidal power generation startup. I filed that under “sustainable power generation”, as you might expect. I also filed it under “Island communities” because of only a single sentence I found in the article: The startup’s target market is small- or medium-sized islands that are powered by imported diesel fuel.
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Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech
Yeah that's exactly the problem. It's an afterthought in the system. How certain can you be that the system you're using is compostable with any other code brought in to your system, even from libraries outside? In erlang, failure domains are the raison d'etre of the language, so everything in the ecosystem will play nice.

Ultimately, systems like akka are extremely complicated to get right, even for experts, because you have to think about all of the vm bits underneath. I can (and have) teach a junior programmer basic OTP concepts with the confidence that they can't mess things up. Now, they wouldn't be able to come up with the architecture I designed as a good idea, but I could tell them to implement it (with tests!) and expect them to get it right.
Hi, AI nub here. What’s the AI part of this?
Simple guidance for you in Mount Yushan
Personally, I quite like Polly's voices. But Polly already offers custom voices, such as trained with a particular person's voice. [0]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/polly/features/#Brand_Voice
That was my first thought, too:) I've played lots of 0ad and xonotic on $50 machines off eBay; it all depends on your taste for graphics-intensive/new games.
Could be dietary related too, or factors relating to multiple generations of families cohabiting. That said, these are prevalent in the sunny parts of Asia too, which doesn’t appear to be suffering so much, so my suspicion would be Vit-D related.
Keajs has been amazing I upgraded from 0.28 to 2.0 yesterday and had 1 small issue, had to delete [actions.] from the reducers.

I use to use just Redux and it was such a pain.

I know you have added even more features in v2 that I will need to take advantage of.

If you need to add examples https://versoly.com/ is what I built on top of keajs.

Has about 8 logic stores that have 100s of actions, thunks, reducers and some interesting selectors.
That's not right.
87.8 + 12.2% = 100% of insufficient etc.
Active case = not dead
You can prevent forks from running actions which guards against external parties.

Nothing to be done about internal parties except policies.
Qml supports ES7 so you only really need to touch C++ if you're not making "casual small GUI apps". If you need to draw custom items or do low level networking then yeah you need to use C++ but even then Qt is much friendlier than using the standard libraries.

Here is a Qt C++ example:

QString str = "/a/b/c/";
auto parts = str.split('/');
It also doesn't help that dodgy folks started buying trusted extensions. One update of a trusted extension and you're just as bad off as installing a dodgy one in the first place.
A native look and feel is definitely an implicit assumption I held. You’re right that eliminating this requirement changes the level of difficulty significantly.
In case you weren't aware, controlled trials have shown that vitamin d supplementation protects against respiratory disease [1]. This is evidence that the association you highlight is more than a spurious correlation.

It's likely to be causal.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
>"Materials such as bilayer graphene have been shown to have vastly different electronic behavior, ranging from non-conductive to superconductive, that depends sensitively on the angle between the layers.[3][4]"

My thoughts: Could a transistor be constructed from this?

Keywords: Bilayer Graphene, Superconductivity, Moiré patterns, patterning of space, 1.1 degree angle, etc.
No. If you try to use exceptions to guard your failure domains in this fashion you will not have a good time.
I should have added it to my first post - SDL provides precompiles libraries for different platforms. All I have to do is to distribute them with my game. Does it solve the problem?
This white paper may help https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9296680?hl=en

At some point I want to put together a simple Node.js server and ExtensionSettings policy to demo a basic working setup, but unfortunately that's back-of-the-bus level backseat at the moment.

https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?po...
Thank God. Let's just be honest here brands like the North face and others are horrifically overpriced for their typical gear. yeah I remember when Patagonia and North face were basically only used by expeditioners and they only sold top pulling line stuff made in the USA. The fact that it was made in America kind of explained the cost. but now they just make it all in cheap countries mark it up and hog the money.

At least now I can go out and get a mid-range backpacking set up without going completely broke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon

"Rashomon (羅生門, Rashōmon) is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller/crime film directed by Akira Kurosawa...

The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative, self-serving, and contradictory versions of the same incident."

Now that is an esoteric reference!
Obligatory, "Fucking Twitter thread" complaint. I dread reading

- Bullet point

- After bullet point

- In the form of a tweet per bullet point

- Trying to skip the bullshit

- And find the conclusion

(I'll stop now) ...and having the anxiety to be disappointed that I'll read so much bullshit and end up with nothing. Yes, in the end he links to the abstract which has the (unfortunately harder to parse) meat, but also yes, the Twitter thread disappoints, because he ends up tooting his own horn that they were the first, "this [study is] extremely important" and how he needs a sandwich... and seemingly that's where the thread ends? (TBH, thank god for that).
Every programmer of course reads some source-code because they must read their own source-code. But such a programmer might use an Open Source library without reading its course. Whereas if you are truly hacker you are interested in how things work and you would more likely be reading such source.

I agree that definition of "hacker" is somewhat vague but mostly people understand it the same way depending on context.

I assume that reason dedicated programmers are called hackers is that earlier the the word "hack" referred to writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_writer

What the hack, there's even a pub called "Old Hack"

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g188644-d10512...
Have you ever seen that episode of The Office where the boss comes back from vacation to Jamaica? I see it as that but for wanting to sound smart and intellectual.
Lots of people use it (I use it for all my personal stuff) and it sees regular updates. [0] I think it coordinates well with modern client-side frameworks like Mithril (... and experts agree [1]). It has kept up with the new stuff in javascript, and it often does the new stuff better than JS. Example: in coffeescript you don't need the goofy function declaration flags that JS requires: "*" and "async". In coffeescript a generator is a function that yields and an async function is a function that awaits. This is clearly better.

Obviously, Typescript is more appealing to management. It may not be obvious from this thread, but bragging about how old-n-busted coffeescript is compared to... whatever was a lot cooler a couple of years ago than it is now. Nowadays the cool kids complain about npm or rollup or something.

[0] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/commits/master

[1] https://mithril.js.org/signatures.html#splats
There’s some negative sentiment toward Ozark Trail among the set of people who have seen abandoned tents as far as the eye can see at the end of music festivals. Not sure if that’s common enough to lower the value of the brand.
I don't do much thinking when playing a FPS game
> Which seems daft since lower consumer prices mean consumers, i.e., the people, are better off.

I don't think that necessarily follows; price is big, but not everything. I don't care how cheap products are on Amazon, I still refuse to buy computer storage or anything that goes in the human body since they are either unwilling or unable to deal with counterfeiting problem.
Everyone, breathe a sigh of relief.
I've noticed this when applying to FAANG. The online resume site doesn't cut it. You need to know people to get past the resume screening, even if you have a bachelor + master in CS, TA experience and some work experience. Someone did reach out via HN recently, which I am really grateful of [0]. I'm curious to see how that works out.

It's only FAANG, I've also seen this everywhere in The Netherlands. I've been looking for a job for 18 months -- I've been picky as I was very ambitious during my uni (yep, my mistake, ambition can be very detrimental to one's career as it can make someone quite picky, aka only big corporations). The irony is that a couple of months ago, I walked into my old university, met an old colleague that had a startup and wanted to hire me straight away after the most relaxed interview I've ever seen. They wanted me to read some code and explain what was happening, it was about some caching system.

So yea, it's all about people.

From my perspective, there is little meritocracy to be found in the tech world [1]. Maybe past the resume screening? Definitely not before it.

[0] Next to my own gratefulness, what I always find amazing to see is how some people in really dire situations get completely picked up by HN and sorted out, in some cases. I really feel for the homeless people in the tech industry, because it's a relatively rare issue, but it does exist! And those people tend to be able to find help here.

[1] Maybe there's a lot of it by comparison to other industries, but if a house has been burned to the ground and other houses are starting to catch fire, while in other cases entire city blocks are on fire, then I wouldn't call it a good situation in both cases.
Asia got all the same plagues as Europe
Very interested in knowing the specs of your setup and how you saved.
Correct, apps are depreciated and you can still upload new extensions.
Big giant company that has been undisputed and can use it's power and money to politically influence for positive legislation in it's case == monopoly
J C Penny has been dead man walking for 20 years.
hard to open source it when its implementation is tied to the XNU kernel
There's libraries which wrap SDL for Swift and run on Mac, iOS and Linux. Someone should help them to get support for Windows.

This project has a good list of SDL Swift libraries at the end of the page: https://github.com/ctreffs/SwiftSDL2 - but I don't know which one is the best one..

Then, we need to get Swift to compile for Android..
Nothing. Make recovery email/code/phone optional. You can't use email for 2FA recovery anyways.
Yep you’re right, I said something daft. It looks pretty much like a Gaussian doesn’t it?
But don't please. Semicolons are not optional. When you don't put your semicolons, they will inserted by the parser and it can introduce some buggy code especially if you are using some formatter.
Banks, especially big established ones that have been around for hundreds of years, are well established businesses that work hand-in-hand with the government to ensure safety of both a country's economy as well as the bank account of individuals.

Got your credit card stolen and someone makes fraudulent purchases? Go to the bank and let them know, and they can do a chargeback and perform an investigation for you.

Someone hacks your bank account and takes out all the money? Go to the bank and they will perform an investigation and follow well laid out procedures to try their best to recover the money, as well as work with the police to identify the hacker. Of course there is no guarantee they can recover your money but, they are experts are figuring stuff like this out and have many fail-safes in place to prevent a hacking attempt to happen in the first place.

But with crypto exchanges, not only are some of the basic securities measures not foolproof, more absurd stuff can happen. Several big exchanges had to file for bankruptcy due to getting their coins hacked away. And if you wants a totally nuts crypto exchange story, look up Quadriga.
Not to mention the same also applies for load. You get about 10ms at 10, 1000 or 1000000 requests per second, again irrespective of how much data you have.
But, Android ships with chrome installed and set as the default browser, with Google as default search engine. And 99% of customers will never even think to touch those settings. You can't break into a market that most people don't ever realize exists.
Curious why Spotify is on this list. As a user, I've found their clients to be buggy.
The Otto-cycle engine in Ford Model T engine from 1908 - 1927 was the spoils for the SECOND world war?

No mate, it was a rip-off.
This is true for Chrome/Safari, which are the most popular mobile browsers. But Kiwi can run some/many Chrome extensions, and Brave has this on the roadmap for 2020.
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Someone being sympathetic about boring code migration work gave you a 'kids these days' moment...?

My take away from that was more that if you can avoid the manual labor do so, which seems fair enough to me.
Every time mobile cross-platform is discussed, someone brings up Qt when it's less popular for mobile development than React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, or PhoneGap/Codova. Maybe even less than Ionic, NativeScript, or Appcelerator. Why even bother with such a niche solution? Are there even live cases of mobile apps using Qt?
L.L. Bean isn't quite as bad as Patagonia wrgt price point. Have you tried them?
This is not governance of a state. It's governance of a private entity. Having token holders control the subreddit is no different than having shareholders govern a company. Assigning shares to owners, and having decisions made through shareholder vote, has proven to be the best way to govern large companies.
small tails. maybe. it could be anything though with the right parameters.
I meant cumulative cost.
If I find a podcast really informative, I get a transcription and then save it to Evernote. It's good to have a reference to go back to.

I use http://podcasttranscribe.com for converting it to text.
Presumably for segment differentiating. You can buy an inexpensive car camping bag or a more expensive, lighter one for a little backcountry camping.
Thank you so much for CoffeeScript. I find it an ongoing pleasure to use.
I think this is exciting. I suspect the gear will be bass pro shop quality, not cabella’s, bit that’s ok, most people only take a few short trips and don’t need to spend a lot to have a really fun time.

Backpacking, like many such activities, has a significant gearhead contingent, but I like to bring as little gear as possible, and as little “pro” gear as I can get away with (some things though, like my stove, are specific). But say for winter camping I haul extra gear around in a Walmart deer sled and it’s great.
That's not how evolution works.

Cystic fibrosis is a predominantly Caucasian genetic disorder because one copy of the gene helps protect against certain historical plagues in Europe without being too debilitating. But two copies kill you gruesomely at a young age. And it kills you primarily by making you more prone to infection.

Kind of like how Sickle Cell works. It helps protect against malaria, but two copies of the gene are bad news.
In addition to grades, these headband readings add additional pressure to kids. Forcing kids to improve their grades at the cost of their mental health is unacceptable.
Wow, this is crazy to hear about! Back in college I worked on a fun way to share snippets of music with friends directly in iMessage called RapBits (essentially audio gifs). I reached out to Adam Leibsohn who was the COO of Giphy at the time. He immediately replied to my cold email excited about the idea and offered to help. He also asked about how we were handling legal. We didn't have an answer, in fact UMG had basically threatened to shut our app down in a meeting we had with them in LA originally thinking it'd be a great partnership meeting (the music industry kinda sucks). Really appreciated his response in that moment, he basically told us to keep going and see what we could do with it and just have fun!

Kind of wild to see such a fun / not-so-serious seeming product have such a huge exit and profound impact on the way we communicate now

Anyways, here's a quick demo of RapBits: https://rapbits.com/video/ad.mp4

Even had a brief stint of fame on /r/hiphopheads: https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/64ea1v/my_room...
The introduction of karma/upvotes had a similar impact on forums, and eventually led to forums improving in quality.

You could see karma/upvotes as a sort of proto-money, with a limited range of monetary qualities.

This just takes the same effect, and magnifies it, by fully monetizing those points, so I anticipate it will lead to better content and curation, just as karma/upvotes did when introduced.
Very interesting - so basically it will be versus React Native on Windows & Mac (using Typescript) https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

Arguably people are already used to creating desktop apps using JS/Typescript using the Electron framework. React Native builds upon that.

2021 is going to be interesting
Exactly this. As someone who abandoned OOP, I find that my programming has improved a lot. But whenever I hear criticism of OO, it's always about this ancient taxonomic structuring (is-a has-a) idea that no one doing post 90s OOP is doing at all. And it's always proponents of "simpler" procedural paradigms that harp on about this. Weird.
Firefox for iOS has an “Enable Night Mode” that does a great job with HN in dark mode. Maybe you can start with the Firefox iOS Night Mode CSS and minify from there...
Despite Hard Times, People Lived Longer During the Great Depression
I always forget that "poor" over there doesn't also mean "unable to get healthcare" and "living in a tent under the highway".
I really enjoy swiftUI. It appears like it tried to emulate react and succeeded on a few fronts, is better in a few fronts (child modifying parent variable), and worse in a few fronts (side effects).

That being said, my experience with SwiftUI users is that they don't like it because it is so different from the standard Mac experience (props and re-renders and state...). And the documentation is poor (IMO has been Apple standard from MapkitJS to iOS Swift documentation to SwiftUI) which leads to a negative dev experience. Try finding what causes a component to re-render in SwiftUI vs React. If you find it great and please post it, but it's not easy to find in my simple research.
That case alone costs basically what an XBSX is going to cost.
AMD 3800x processor (8c/16t @ around 4.5 GHz), $330

AMD 5700xt GPU, $450 for the better versions

512 GB Corsair Force MP600 (5gbit/s NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD), around $115 iirc

32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM for around $90 iirc

ASUS mini-itx X570 motherboard, around $200-250 - X570 is the highest tier of AMD chipsets but is needed for PCIe 4.0. Could save $100 here with a lower SSD. This one also has the latest Intel WiFi 6 chipset.

$100 for power supply, $100 for case, $30 for quieter fans.

Including tax and everything the total came out to around $1600. After deciding the specs I spent some time looking for comparable laptops and they were all much more expensive. I didn't do anything special to save. You could get this exact same build for a bit cheaper today I think; I did this in November. I just purchased a second one of the same GPU this week and it was $20 cheaper. The other components have probably also had some drops in price.
Unless you are writing TCP drivers I don't see how knowing the exact TCP handshake is useful for software development.
The actuals from now and the predictions from a few weeks ago aren't aligning quantitatively. The shapes of the curves, though, do make sense.

Here's the Financial Times graph of actuals, country by country.[1] No predictions. The pattern that shows up in some of the actuals is "huge spike, tight lockdown, big drop". See Italy, Belgium and the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man puts people in jail for weeks for violating quarantine rules. The US didn't have a huge spike, but isn't seeing a big drop, either. US deaths are at about 2/3 of peak.

[1] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&are...
Sun exposure is far more likely to be the causal factor.
Well it was going to be my internship, but that's been pretty much cut. So I plan on doing some sort of ML / Data Mining project at some point. Actually gonna be working in a small group of other college students / grads whose internships were nixed and are trying to build projects for the summer.
On my phone I find the regular site difficult to use anyways, so I go with hn.premii.com, which has a dark theme.

For those who don't mind using a bookmarklet or using something like TamperMonkey, this bit of js does a pretty good job darkening most sites:

!function(d){d.head.appendChild(d.createElement('style')).innerText='html,img,video{-webkit-filter:invert(1)hue-rotate(180deg);filter:invert(.9)hue-rotate(180deg)}body{background:#000}'}(document);
The author uses podcasts as an audio Wikipedia, and the article explains what benefits they see and how their system works. I don't see how this trivializes anything, nor is there a need to detail the history of the systems.
How to try a free software operating system
Most models ("AI" or otherwise) behave very poorly in the situation known a "structural break" [1]. In extreme instances you can even end up with something like Simpsons paradox where the predicted correlation is the opposite of the true correlation [2]. I've had to deal with this exact problem before. The trick is to have a meta model that sits on top and tries to detect when the recent data is highly unlikely to have been produced if the existing model is true. When that happens you flush the older data. This might be what our brains do [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_break
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
[3] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/06/predictive-processing-...