skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sidekiq Pro version was inspiration for me to create a pro version for my Ruby gem called knapsack that automatically splits tests in parallel on CI nodes/jobs.

With the knapsack_pro version I focused on common needs of users and there was simple validation method to verify if particular feature was needed. People just pay if it brings value.

In case of free open source tool, people tend to want something but you don't know if they actually will you use it and sometimes people demand a thing while you have to put the hard work.

When you do paid version of your tool then somehow people are polite. :)

Nowadays I have also support for running parallel tests in JS.

More at https://knapsackpro.com and here is detailed technical explanation how it works https://docs.knapsackpro.com/2020/how-to-speed-up-ruby-and-j...
Hey, I'm actually one of the engineers at Innolitics working on improving the DICOM Browser, and we just finished a relatively large update to it.

Thanks for linking the site! If you have any suggestions or encountered any bugs on the site, please feel free to create an issue in the repo: https://github.com/innolitics/dicom-standard/issues
Google even more outrageous qet-out-of-jail-free card is the "our servers aren't in your country so we don't have to obey your laws"
Microservices – Strengths and Weaknesses
Regardless of your plans to have kids, you once were a kid. Supporting you when you were young means supporting other people's kids too.
Healthcare in Europe is weird you end up with a lot of parallel systems, all healthcare data in Europe have to be digitized and there is a standard for digital EU healthcare records including mandated interoperability between all providers in various member states.

Even within the same healthcare system you can have drastic differences and a layer that sorts (or tries too) the entire mess out.
Money computer goes beep boop. Money printer goes brrrrr.
Well technically I linked to my comment to provide the context, so I don't think it'll come across that way.

And yeah I'd love to read those insights in a more structured form when they're ready.
I support several family/friends that are computer novices. It's super easy. Just install the latest ubuntu LTS, drag off all the icons except for the settings/sound (for earphones+microphone) and the browser icon.

Instead of weekly complaints (lost windows, things changing, sound not working, etc). I get the occasional query once a year or so. I can login remotely to tweak things, or share their screen if need be.

WAY WAY WAY less pain then it was under windows.

Zoom works and video hangouts work. Webex does not, but that doesn't seem very popular with home users.
mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)
>It's high time they conform to the western liberal democratic model of government.

Seems like we haven't learned anything over the failed regime-change exercises of the past 2 centuries.
Could not agree more, HN is taking the "we know best, so we ask that you blindly listen to us" highbrow approach. I lost 20% of my karma because I took a non-popular stance within a single thread lol. My stance was backed up by references/facts/data, but none of that mattered.

In a comment above, I mentioned the possible solution (to the issue discussed in above thread) that HN create a publicly available list of "marked off topic / down-weighted / removed / flagged as duplicate" actions. I feel like HN could squash 90% of these concerns with that simple feature.
I started my first workday today and I prepped for tricking my procrastination skills. I can't post on how it worked out yet (I might do 2 months from now), but here is what I did to trick myself:

- When in the shower, do one yoga stretch to get acquainted with yoga. I do this one [1], but then really really badly. I keep asking myself the question: what do I find fun about this? And relentlessly focus on that. It took a while to develop, but one answer is now: it feels relaxing. And yes, I'm still terrible at it.

- Whenever I walk in and out the door of the living room I have to do one set of weights (8 reps). Again, I ask myself what I find fun about it. Over time, I'm noticing that I like the adrenaline rush. But I first needed to get used to the intensity part of it.

- I'm a bit of an insomniac, so I go to bed around 22:00 (which was 20 minutes ago, hehe) and wake up at 06:00. The reason for this is to have a lot of wiggle room for my insomniac tendencies. Even going to bed a bit too late is much less of an issue ;-)

- When I wake up around 06:00, I reward myself with a morning run (I love running), no one is out on the streets at 6 AM where I'm from.

I am now experimenting with using my positive momentum to get into full workout/stretching routines.

I really like the idea of acquainting myself with topics by having a simple place (shower, living room) and trigger response (end of shower, leaving the living room). I thought of it myself, I never heard anyone about it. And it feels quite unlike doing a "30 day experiment", because I am actively looking for the fun of it.

I hope it works. I got inspired by it by reading Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Everyone has their own system as the author said, so I'd encourage more of us share our systems. As having more systems to read from might be more inspiring to some procrastinators to take action and experiment.

[1] https://www.verywellfit.com/thmb/gliK2-_bmUZk-YpGJRua9YSEtTk...
Do you know what software is usually used to get fMRI timestamps? My last position was in an fMRI lab, and we had this in-house piece of Windows 98 software that did real-time recording down to <10ms, but it was a huge codebase to maintain and pretty much impossible for me to migrate it to Windows 10. The output file was pretty hard to decode too. I've always wondered what else is out there.
Utah County sees 75% increase in domestic violence 911 calls during pandemic
Does the new plugin architecture allow me to provision plugins from a config file on startup? Like installing the Kubernetes App without `grafana-cli plugins install kubernetes-app`
The site is weirdly ambiguous about this but: I am assuming by "offline-first" they mean that the "full-text history capture" never leaves my device, right? Or does it get synced optionally? Or only synced to other devices I have?

It's baffling to me that they put "privacy-centric" front and center and then do not in any way explain what that actually means.
I have never once called an Uber because it was cheaper than alternatives. It's more convenient, reliable, and except for certain times transparent about pricing.

They can increase the prices significantly and I will continue to use them over cabs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23227840
>And in the metro areas there was a lot of convenience to be gained from their app and matching supply and demand side of the equation

Yes, people forget about the pre-app days when hailing a taxi involved finding a suitable street corner and sticking your hand in the air while often competing with others doing the same. And even in midtown Manhattan, perhaps the best-served area in the country, try hailing a cab during rush hour when it's raining. Taxi services have largely caught up and have apps now, but it was a nightmare for a long time.
If you follow your logic through to completion, you will see it leads to multiple issues.

I'm not saying that immigration is bad.

However, having a country advocate zero childbirths - and trying to keep population up entirely foreign migration is a recipe for disaster.
I found the critique very convincing. What do you disagree with?

> Sleep is very much an open question.

Walker's book is very much at odds with that statement.
Freud's theory: Why do we have terrible nightmares if our sleeping mind could instead be imagining an Elysium of pleasantries and amazement? We spend our waking hours tormented by our desires, to be healthy, wealthy, beautiful or wise. We are slaves to our emotions, each day wracked by insatiable lusts. Only in the fantasy of our dreams can these desires be resolved: our body decays in the mirror, we find ourselves lost and alone on the streets, we are naked at the office, our lungs are empty but we cannot gasp for air! Finally, our soul is free from torment, the conflict has been resolved. Our human nature is to be ambitious and to rise towards the heavens. The price we pay is the agony of desire. Enough is never enough. We can only fail totally, or continue onward, and onward, and onward ...
Here is a policy of a London casino explaining their facial recognition to be compliant with the gdpr. I suppose this was written pre-brexit.

https://www.hippodromecasino.com/facial-recognition-policy/
tongue in cheek. lately musk has reminded me not to have heros :(
Interesting line drawn by the ruling. The government can enforce consequences but not forcibly vaccinate.

>Justice John Marshall Harlan delivered the decision for a 7-2 majority. He rejected Jacobson's claim that the Fourteenth Amendment gave him the right to refuse vaccination. Harlan deemed that the Massachusetts state punishment of a fine or imprisonment on those who refused vaccines was acceptable, but those individuals could not be forcibly vaccinated.
Thanks for asking. My use case is programmatic. I wrote a couple of ruby and bash scripts that automate a few different things. One is a poor-mans SMS scheduler that allows me to have it fire off at a set time. Another parses incoming messages and alert me differently based on content (matches against a set of regexes), and in some cases will auto-reply. Another, I had a case where I need to individually send out the same SMS to a couple dozen people. With termux (and ruby) it was trivial for me to script it up.

The possibilities are (or were) endless, which is what I love about a platform. I've always hated the UX of SMS, but people insist on using it anyway. At least this way I use it on my own terms.
As part of my work, I occasionally need to deal with a wireless comms setup that moves data from a roof-mounted RF antenna down into the network. Instead of having to carry my laptop up to the roof with me (sounds simple, but oddly enough dealing with the laptop up there is actually kind of a pain) or call someone downstairs to run the ping to make sure the network configs line up right, I use Termux with a scripted command to do that myself right from my phone. It's been a major boon to my workflow, and it's going to be frustrating to lose it.

Like a few others on this thread, I've got a PinePhone on order, and now I'm even more stoked to have access to a terminal through it now that Termux isn't going to be an option on my Android.
ditto. Books. Right now it's: Who Killed Homer, and Sophocles plays.
I'm really worrying that the mindfulness and how to think gender neutral courses will be cancelled which would be a great shame. Furthermore I fear that I can't spend time on a completely new revolutionary javascript framework which makes all the other ones obsolete.

Sad times...
That's very cool ! My microframework is on there and I wasn't even aware.
I will add to your point that high salaries + not losing it all to taxes is the kind of equation that matters. Some developed countries with strong social policy have reasonably high salaries, but much lower after taxes.
Most books frame this as "one common mistake is ...". I always understood this phrase to mean that the author has personally made this mistake more than once.
I think there is a bigger point in between the lines which is that most Americans can't actually afford nice things. I am remarkably well off making good money in a cheap city but I still feel financially insecure because of how many times I hit the wall of not being able to realistically afford the "high quality leather boots" so to speak.

The fact that staples are so incredibly cheap has made everything else so ridiculously expensive in comparison. All of that would be surplus income that's supposed to make me feel "wealthy" has been gobbled up by ever increasing rent and healthcare.
Looks great. Would be awesome if it had a hook to easily generate Anki flashcards from text selection.
That's not your call to make.

Literally folks with cars are telling folks without cars (but who use uber when needed) that uber is not necessary (ie, partial access to a car is not needed) while they have 24/7 access.

Anyone who has NOT owned a car will tell you - uber is essential - full stop.

30% of the population has HOUSEHOLD income from all sources of $30K or less. The cost of parking alone can be a major issue (many cheaper apts do not have dedicated parking).
This might come as a shock to you but most people do not care what the political opinions or behavior of a car manufacturer's CEO are. Likewise the internet does not at all reflect the views of your average person, and I would wager that despite Tesla fanatics being very aware of Musk and his eccentric behavior, most Tesla owners moving forward won't even know or care who the CEO is as they rollout to mass market. This won't make a dent in his customer base. Musk is beyond reproach at this point, his "fuck you" warchest is too big.
There's a lot of literature spread across a bunch of fields. The one I first saw was "Active Nonlinear Tests"[0] from the systems dynamics / complex systems area. The idea is that you perform searches of parameter space for a simualation to find the places where it exhibits dramatic nonlinearities.

I've since seen something similar but not identical in the Statistical Process Control world: robust process (or product) design[1]. The idea is that any given system can be thought of as a function that represents X = F(a, b, c, ...) + E, where E is some measure of error or noise that can't be removed. The goal is to find settings for a, b, c etc that minimise the effect of E. So that even if uncontrolled noise swirls around, your process remains stable. You can imagine flipping that to look for maxima instead.

[0] https://www.santafe.edu/research/results/working-papers/acti...

[1] Web search results are underwhelming, I refer you instead to Douglas Montgomery's Introduction to Statistical Process Control.
TSA passengers highest since 2020-03-24
>Lol, that’s clearly untrue

I don't think you know Buffetts track record.
Texmlbus (Tex to XML BUild System)
And who gets to decide what is "best interests"?

Google Search is a consumer focused product, if they don't serve up the stuff that the users want - they loose viewers. No viewers - no revenue. Their bottom line depends on giving each person the best search results possible.

Pretending that they'll just decide to cut off even 1% of users is insane.
> We manage 33 tenants / units currently.

That's outstanding!

konarahomes, yeah? Will do. I signed up for your newsletter already this morning.

I'm not a domain expert in real estate, urban design, or regenerative agriculture (I took a Permaculture certification class from "Farmer Dave" Bloom, the "Alcohol can be a Gas" guy, but that's about it) but I'm really passionate about the subject.

If I had the capital I would buy some raw land (preferably damaged-but-not-a-superfund-site rather than pristine wilderness) and create something like Village Homes, sell or lease the units, and repeat.

I'm sure demand would be high. Village Homes sold every unit before they finished building, and there's a wait list.
> Well that’s where management steps in and doesn’t let you disregard the deadline. It makes for a miserable work experience but you can probably achieve a lot that way.

That's the kind of management that would go whip the sea for disobedience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_I#Invasion_of_the_Greek...

> According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges. In retaliation, Xerxes ordered the Hellespont (the strait itself) whipped three hundred times, and had fetters thrown into the water.
Are you aware it is a variant on a very old joke on Economics?
First human trial results raise hopes for coronavirus vaccine
Or become a falconer and have his bird "accidentally" take the drone down.
May be more of the same but I find my filter also declines substantially, so I basically turn into a colossal pain in the rear to deal with. Longer-fused patience or optimistic thinking becomes short fuse rage and negativity. There is no bandwidth to deal with multiple things at once or compartment, and no bandwidth to ingest any signal except the thing in front of you in your mindset.

Not a place I’d recommend if you can avoid it.
Why should I use this instead of Zotero?
I would rather apps be automatically suspended and the install marked as potentially dangerous than have my device goatse'd to a malicious developer for any amount of time.
I'd think that, but I have to say that china model 3 factory went from mud to producing cars amazingly quickly. The ended up being what 9 months ahead of schedule?
This would be an incredible public service. While I believe Google is within its right to censor information on their platforms, the opacity with-which they do it is imo unacceptable, given the scale of their influence on the public dialogue. Similarly, I think any media conglomerate should be required to publish any formal lists of in-house gag-orders.
if you have your own domain you can set up a mail server
Which is appropriate because the efficient market hypothesis is half-refuted.
also, highlighting/annotations
The problem isn't uneaten food on your plate. Just think about it, if you finish the food on your plate, how is that going to help someone that is going hungry and can't afford or access groceries?
Does this "full Linux environment" support e.g. audio? I've seen reports that early versions of Crostini didn't even support that.
Look at the MRNA stock ticker. They have been losing money and never had any product approved for the last 10 years. It seems like the opening paragraph was wrong about them being developed quickly.
I read the whole thing, but knew from the get go that these tricks wouldn't work on me.

Mostly because I know the source of my procrastination and it boils down to two things:

1. I've gotten away with a lot of stupid shit in the past.

2. Because of that I think too highly of my skills.

I have no incentive to start preparing tasks or being organised because I've come to enjoy the thrill of doing everything in the last minute.
So now being against freely printing $3 TR, and sending out handouts is considered 'unacceptable'?

I personally know friends who claim that they'd stop working if they keep receiving handouts. And I live in Canada, where handouts are MUCH easier to come by.

You claim 'broad public support'. Any source to back that up?
I read a lot and have read very few books more than once. This is one of them.
Look at the time line for the model 3 factor in China.
Not just America, Europe as well!
I'm not arguing that there is much you can usefully change now. It's probably far too late to make much material difference to public policy now, for the reasons you have set out yourself. But this could surely have been much better handled during a usefully long window back towards the start of the year when attention was starting to be paid to the virus but it hadn't taken hold in the UK on any significant scale yet.

Also, just to be clear, all of the specific issues with the Imperial code that you've mentioned here and in other parts of our discussion today, such as whether to rewrite for better multi-core behaviour or just use single-core, are coming from you not me. My argument is a much simpler one: when it started to become clear that this virus was a significant risk, the government should have provided the necessary resources and the expert advisors should have switched to a model where scientists did the science and programmers did the programming. I don't think anyone can credibly claim that there wasn't enough awareness that this could potentially become a serious issue and so that bringing in broader expertise was appropriate by the time we had things like COBRA meetings being held and secret expert advisory groups being assembled.
that’s because you should be choosing UTF-8 as the export encoding. Don’t depend on default.
What is the context for the Scott McNeely quote?
godammit i just actually found this this weekend.
Still quite a lot of circular gotchas, so it's not a panacea for studying the docs!
This reminds me of Steve Pavlina who successfully slept 2-3 hrs per day for 5.5 months and reported no ill effects.

source: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/

We definitely need more people to try variations on this. If you're in confinement, this is actually a great time to try.
The title is that Android 10 is killing Termux. But it's not, it's killing exec() on writable files.

There's alternatives Termux could take, which the Google issue tracker already mentions such as bundling the executables in the APK & using extractNativeLibs=true so they can be exec'd ( https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128554619#comment4 ). They could use a loader that mmap's the code with PROT_EXEC but not PROT_WRITE, that also works (this is how JIT's work, and Android is obviously not breaking JITs anytime soon)

It's not entirely clear why Termux hasn't seemingly made any move on the alternative approaches raised a year ago (that's how old the issue is: https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072 ), and there's a bunch of nonsensical alarmist bullshit muddying up the waters which isn't helping.
I keep wanting to use this because I love the idea, but the implementation last time I tried didn't seem to jive with me. I navigate the web with Tridactyl, and I think some of the keybindings were interfering - which would be my fault.

With that being said - I love the idea, and will continue to check every so often on the status of the project :)
Nope, also outdoor. If you're queuing up for e.g. shopping, you must distance and wear a mask.

From the first article I linked: "Are you leaving the house? Facial coverings are required to be worn by anyone older than 12 while waiting in line or inside any essential business, using public transit, riding in a taxi/Lyft/Uber or seeking healthcare, as well as anytime you come within 6 feet of someone from outside your household."
If you're using adblock on my website - you're an asshole. You're consuming my work without a just compensation.

If it were easy, I'd have my server not serve anyone using an adblock... and instead present them with a paywall... Which you would probably bitch about.
Inertia, or lack of real reason to upgrade. Personally I'm still on a CPU from 2013(Intel Core i5-4570S). Havent really felt the need to upgrade. And pretty happy that I went with 16GB ram back then, since its still enough for me today(browsing/light gaming/coding). I've probably spent 10 times what that CPU cost on SSDs since then, so its not a cost issue for me. And more recently a Geforce 1070 TI. I've been thinking about upgrading, but I really need to see significant IPC lift to bother. So maybe a Zen3 or Intel next-gen sometime in 2021. If they manage to raise IPC.
Oh, is that why it takes forever to load google search on firefox? how is that allowed? I'm speechless.
> Almost all the consequences were a fallout of sexist cultures in China against women killing or abandoning their female children.

I have no direct information. But I read a while ago that some of the gap is due to record keeping shenanigans by rural party officials. Meaning inconvenient female births are sometimes omitted from the records. And then quietly corrected later.
I imagine some kind of VR tracker for the Quest will come out eventually. Something like the Vive trackers but smaller. Agree, it would open up all kinds of interesting applications.
You are trying to impose an impossible burden on me, and I have no choice but to reject it. I realize that from your point of view, the claim that "I can just feel it" is unsatisfactory, but that really is the essence of it all.

If your are sincerely curious meditation and/or drugs may be a path.