skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely- the original NNW and I believe this successor could use server sync to avoid needing to spend time polling things which hasn’t updated but it’s always been a bit more resource intensive than it seems at first, especially when they do things like diff-ing items to detect changes.
If buying a heated butter knife is "risk-taking" I am in the wrong timeline.

Seriously, just say sales. This is a textbook marketing study.
Interesting taste of my own medicine. Will do, thanks for the reminder!
You might care that you are paying $10 for $1 quality burger?

But more I think people want their money to support the businesses that are making the food. Restaurants are very difficult businesses, and people that like them want to support them vs the VC backed startups.
What if PubMed had something like Google's "I'm feeling lucky"?
What if we could explore PubMed by selecting a random PubMed URL instead of searching?
This script generates a random PubMed URL.
To do this we need to know the maximum PMID number in the PubMed database. The current max is included in the script and will be saved in a 9-byte file named "max-PMID" when the script is run.
If run with the argument "update" it will search for a newer max PMID.
If a newer max PMID is found, the script updates the number in the max-PMID file and in the script itself.
An alternative is to use the ftp server[1] to find the max PMID; I noticed the latest ftp update was missing new PMID's caught by this script.
If run without any arguments it selects a random PMID between 1 and the max and outputs a URL.
uses socat, GNU sed and requires a fifo named "1.fifo"
1. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/updatefiles/

#!/bin/sh
test -s max-PMID||echo 32446294 > max-PMID;read x < max-PMID;x=$((x-1));h=pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov;
test ${#x} -eq 8||exec echo weird max-PMID;sed -i "/test/s/echo [0-9]\{8\} /echo $x /" $0;
case $1 in update) mkfifo 1.fifo 2>/dev/null;test -p 1.fifo||exec echo need 1.fifo;
(grep "<title>PMID .* is not available" < 1.fifo|sed 1q|sed 's/<title>PMID //;s/ *//;s/ .*//;' >max-PMID)&
y=$((x+10000));seq $x $y|sed '$!s|.*|GET /&/ HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: '"$h"'\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n|;
$s|.*|GET /&/ HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: '"$h"'\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n|'|socat - ssl:$h:443 >1.fifo 2>/dev/null;
;;"")awk -v min=1 -v max=$x 'BEGIN{srand();printf "https://'$h'/" int(min+rand()*(max-min+1)) "/\n"}';esac
> Trump in for a 2nd term. And he goes on a media blitz to convince people to not take the China vaccine.

Why would he do that? He's in the pockets of big pharma. The president is pretty much a puppet. Both Biden and Trump will push any vaccine presented to them by the big pharma giants (Gavi/Gates/GSK/Bayer/etc.) because that's the base that supports them. Biden and Trump may promote different vaccines from different companies, but it's just depends on which one gets elected and which particular giants are backing that candidate.
macOS cannot verify the developer of “Room Service.” Are you sure you want to open it?
Hi. I am the author of that article. I'm still trying out my hand at writing. I posted it here to gather feedback and comments about it. Thanks in advance.
Then you have to struggle to find another word to say that it's nice, remembering that saying "it's interesting" is forbidden, too.
Would agree on that. I've ran a DB of over half a billion domains from past and present, 95% of them have no "SEO value" according to the metric tools. Anything gTLD getting dropped is mostly getting ran through an auction and/or dropcatch process which means anything available an hour after expiration is either a ccTLD that others didn't have in their DB, or for some or reason wasn't attractive to other prospectors using zone files.
You may want to delete this comment too.
And if immunity isn’t long lasting?

And how many people have to die to reach it?
> Flushing down 40-60 hours a week on a useless piece of knowledge

That is only if it's actually useless. I haven't programmed in haskell for many years, yet I am very glad I did. It was hard at first, but it made me think about code, data and transformation from a different perspective, expanding the repertoire of paradigms, regardless of which language I code in.

YMMV, but personally, I'd much rather hire or work with someone with 3y java + 1y erlang experience, than just 5y java experience. In general a polyglot rather than monoglot, especially if it's a different coding paradigm. Nevertheless, I may not actually want them coding random bits of work in erlang or whatever random language.
> We should have more courage and attempt big things.

> Like writing the program we already wrote....again.

That's not named courage, that's named stupidity. Specially when the program you talk about is several millions lines of code and the results of years en engineering of entire teams.

> We take this option off the table. Cannot rewrite. Definitely not in a safe language! Surely we have ceased to dream?

There is people that dreams and there is the one that code.

Evolution are (almost) always preferrable to Revolution.

In this case, Evolution can mean:

- Rewrite progressively the security sensible part in Rust mixed with the legacy (aka the Mozilla way)

- Develop the tooling to make C++ safer/ or even better safe. That has already been done for a subset in the aeronautic industry

- Work with the comitte to make C++ itself safer, which Google is already doing.
It matters if you like the burger place. There are restaurants in my community that I am genuinely worries will go under in these COVID-19 times, not only because of the good food, but because of the good people I want to see succeed and the people I see when I go there. I don't want to screw them over if I can help it.
A better comparison would be the yearly death toll due to flu for the US, noting that the current COVID-19 death toll is over a 2-3 month period. Preliminary estimates for the 2019-2020 US flu season [1] put the number of deaths for a 6 month period (Oct 2019-Apr 2020) at 24k-62k, so the COVID-19 attributed deaths are 2x-4x that of flu over half the time (3 months vs 6 months).

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
Build things for other people you like or care about.
“If it cost $1 in slave room and board while the whipmaster pocketed the extra $9, does that make a difference to me, the noble opportunity-maximizing consumer who simpl- hey wait where are you going?”
The Netherlands has something like this: Rijksoverheid (state-gov) fonts.[1]

They were designed by Peter Verheul[2] and were used in replacing all the logos of Dutch government agencies with a new style that is easy to recognize, combined with the new Rijkslogo.[3]

[1] https://www.rijkshuisstijl.nl/basiselementen/basiselementen-...

[2] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Verheul

[3] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijkslogo
or maybe windows was just terrible.
> May I suggest alternative perspective on the matter?

Can't reply to that since it's too nested so I'll reply here. I warmly recommend getting off tree you climbed on and actually reading the article because if you do - you will see you are not disagreeing on that part.

The article is a mostly technical analysis of the transaction isolation levels and where they hold. The main criticism is how MongoDB advertises itself. If they didn't claim the database is "fully ACID" then the article would have just been a technical analysis :]
I'm an old Ubuntu user and I love Unity. It's pretty, space efficient, & keyboard friendly. I'm sad to see it was discontinued and don't know what I'm going to eventually switch to.
U2F keys start at $15, so there’s a barrier but it’s hardly “super expensive”, and they’re supported by a fair fraction of major sites (Facebook, Google, Twitter, GitHub, Gitlab, login.gov, etc.).
Wondering if there are any news on Zheap?
Huh. That sucks. It seems like some people do have this issue: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...

I honestly don’t see it on my machine though.
It doesn’t even have to mutate if the antibody reaction fades over time, as there is evidence for with other coronaviruses.
Growing Virtual Plants in the Terminal
Solid advise. Any motivation to build something for others is soon gone, whereas you will keep working on that little library you want to use yourself.
How CERN is using Kubernetes
Chaos theory helps explain the weirdness of the Covid-19 pandemic
I care, so I judge the quality according to the money I paid to obtain it, in this case I judge it as $10 quality burger.
Is this for the current coronavirus outbreak or historical? If current, can you share a few links to those. Honest question.
looks like reserve requirements are currently 0%
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
So does this generate more energy per unit cost or area than conventional solar? I mean, you could just put tape over half of it and put it in the sun?

Im guessing the output for are is insanely low compared to regular solar, because there is so little actual information in the article that guessing is all I've got lmfao.

I get the feeling that this tech has an insanely narrow use case.
Every tech downturn has a silver lining
Ryzen 4000 laptops promise to improve battery life to match Intel.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15624/amd-details-renoir-the-...
The restaurants can “seal” the bags. Getting the drivers to break those seals to search for marketing materials won’t look good for grubhub
Last I looked System76 gets their laptops from Clevo. Not sure if Schenker does the same.
Unlike Safari and Chrome, Firefox doesn't have a financial incentive to prevent ad-blockers. In fact, they did extra work to their Firefox Preview (mobile) app to integrate an ad blocking plugin as early as possible.
I don’t think Java is an option either for writing a web browser specifically for reasons of overheard. Rust is probably an option now but bringing up Java in this context was weird.
What pains do you experience with hotels? I find they're the usually by far the easiest part of an international trip.
fully in, letting go
I haven't checked if they offer it, but places to research are Square Payroll, Wave, or the big ones ADP & Paychex. A lot of accounting software can also do this, so Quickbooks Payroll, Zoho & Sage. Let us know what you pick.
For me, the maker and distributor of the app, they cost similar amounts of money. So I need them to be similarly profitable, or else choosing the wrong one might ruin my business.

And while there are classes of software that make the most sense as a phone app, there are also classes of software that only make sense from an idealistic point of view, but not financially.

For example, the average indie phone game costs more money to make than what it'll bring in.
This is different because it’s the app you are USING. It’s been added to the chain late in the game and therefore we as a society care about how the restaurant has been affected by this new development. Like are they in a race to the bottom now.

It’s a bit like the Trolley problem where you only agonize about the latest decision, and not what happened before you came on the scene.
It depends what you're using it for. Postgres is a very good all-around choice these days (compared to when the whole 'noSql' thing got started) and also supports document-based scenarios quite well via JSON/JSONB columns and its support for these datatypes in queries, updates, indexing etc. Sharding and replication can also be set up via fairly general mechanisms, as described in pgSQL documentation. (For instance, the FDW facility is often used to set up sharding, but it could also support e.g. aggregation.)
> for people 49 and under

It’s always easy to downplay the risks if you start excluding the most vulnerable.
> According to reddit, Apple Pay works on jailbroken devices, but still, something like this might be at play in all the other similar scenarios.

I can confirm that Apple Pay works on my jailbroken devices, and as far as I can tell, no jailbreak has managed to affect the Secure Enclave.
It works the same way as for the worker, if you pay is $10 but they took $9 then for the worker the pay is really is $1, no different then if the bos pay $1 with 0 deduction. Then what the worker do is to decide whether it worth to do the job for $1.

Of course if you are taking about actual slave then it moot point.
> "New UIs are worse because of screenshot driven design."

This. (I have high hopes for Apple, now that J. Ive is gone.) However, mockup screenshots had always been the medium of communicating designs to the client. But the more prominent role of screenshots may further the concentration on just a few paths of usage, as we may observe it in the common reduction of interface options – which may be fine for the few selected usage paths and may provide the base for a "cleaner" design (which should actually be a design job, not a content issue), but necessarily fails a number of use cases.

Another point may be made about an overly application of metrics. The issue here is that all metrics that may be actually useful are in the qualitative domain, which is rather labor intensive, complex and expensive. (Especially the process of transforming qualitative data into quantitative metrics.) So everyone is going for quantitive data, which is cheap and supposedly easy. That only few of those involved have a background in social research and would actually know what they are doing, doesn't especially help. So we may add data driven design to the list of possible issues.

(Much of this may be understood in the old dichotomy of "art or engineering". While the engineering approach is fine for managing exchangeable labor, it's failing in many other aspects. Meaning, what you get is an exchangeable product and chances are that, if you actually have a unique product, this approach will fail your needs – or, at least, the needs of your customers.)
> They're not "government resources",

Yes, they are.

> they're public resources.

They are public resources that the public has elected to administer through the government. It is possible to have resources that are public because there are no constraints on their use, but the two types of public resources are not the same.

> We all collectively own them.

In much the same way that corporate shareholders collectively own the assets of a corporation. And, for much the same reason as this is not true of corporate shareholders and corporate resources, the constituents of a government don't each individually have the right to arbitrarily use the resources administered by government on behalf of the public.

> The government is an agent that we use to manage those resources, but it doesn't own them. The public does.

The public collectively does, but being a 1/~300millionth owner doesn't give you the right to arbitrarily use resources so owned in contravention of the direction of the management agent employed by all ~300 million owners to protect their interests.
In my country workplace regulations forbid working on laptop screen anyway - if a worker is supposed to work on computer for more than, iirc, 4 hours a day, then external screen is mandatory. And it's not really about a screen size, it's more that you are not supposed to be looking down, so the external screen top border must be at the same height as your eyes.
Show HN: Programmable Recipes with Markdown, JavaScript and Handlebars
Lockdown side project whilst I’ve been learning to bake!

I’m pretty forgetful so I wanted to be able to scale recipes up and down but still see ingredient amounts inline and hide information in collapsible panels.

I like to write my recipes in a minimal, military style so I can just execute them. Unfortunately I couldn't find a great tool to do this.
If you want to go from deals worth thousands to millions instead then:

8. Take them to lunch, dinner, and karaoke.

Relates to #2.

It's all about people, relationships, and trust. Once you have that you have everything you need.
Most of the important parts are left out.

at this point opensource and apple are sort of on life support.
There are several rivers, small lakes and many nature in and around the Berlin Zoo. Probably wasn't that hard to find a living ground at the time.
Please steal any of my ideas! :)

https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/eric

Some software ones that I like:

1. A nicer web viewer for Google Spreadsheets - https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/d239cea3-7d1b-429f-afd4-ab9d...

2. Airbnb guest guidebook creator - https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/d239cea3-7d1b-429f-afd4-ab9d...

3. Thai writing trainer - https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/d239cea3-7d1b-429f-afd4-ab9d...

4. Instagram account tracker - https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/d239cea3-7d1b-429f-afd4-ab9d...
2020 might be The Year of the linux desktop
The delivery fee should be based on distance - not how much you spend on food.
As someone who has been treating COVID patients since early April, my working theory has been that many if not most of the secondary disease processes (non-respiratory effects of the virus), and even to some extent the worsening of respiratory function, have been largely driven by micro-thrombotic disease. Delicate capillary beds, like the ones seen in the lungs and kidneys, are highly susceptible to becoming blocked in this sort of setting. When these small vessels get plugged up, end-organ dysfunction necessarily follows. The kidney won't work properly if the blood needing filtration can't reach the nephron (functional unit of the kidney).

I'm in large part guessing here based on clinical observation, but my feeling is that you can extend this logic to other syndromes that accompany COVID-19. For example, we often see worsening liver function in the setting of this illness (albeit delayed by a few days). This could be explained in a number of ways, one of which is by impaired perfusion within capillary beds in the liver. Further, there is a myocarditis-like picture we sometimes see as well that could be explained by direct viral infection or again by impaired perfusion of the cardiac muscle by small vessel clotting.

When the thrombotic disease progresses, you start to see a more macro version: think strokes and pulmonary emboli in patients who are otherwise low risk at baseline. Thus, there's some interpolation going on here.

Hope that makes some sense.
A "better" shibboleth is using "new" and "old" as identifiers. It serves as a good barrier to avoid accidental C++ compilation.
Lord Varys from Game of Thrones.
That depends on the allocator used. The default libc one works but isn't great performance-wise. It is possible to intercept calls to malloc/free by using LD_PRELOAD on Linux. That will allow you to use allocators such as jemalloc or tcmalloc instead.

Of course, repeatedly allocating and freeing is poor for performance. Cache/pre-allocate when you can. This goes for managed languages too.
Two In Five Adults Have 'Changed for the Better' Thanks to Lockdown
Id need a sim card slot implemented in order to consider thinking about buying this laptop. I'm a Thinkpad user and my last and my current laptop are equipped with one and it's such a convenience to have connectivity on demand without sacrificing the phone's battery.

In order to actually buy this laptop, I'd really need it to have the trackpoint. Implemented not like HP does it sometimes, or Dell, but like Lenovo does it. The response and overall feel of the trackpad is the best among the options I have tried so far.

Other present specs are more than fine.
> I think the confusion stems from the fact that US citizens are used to thinking of "the government" not as their representative but as an independent agent that has its own interests that don't necessarily align with their own interests.

I think the confusion is on the other side, and stems from the fallacy of division, wherein people mistakenly treat what is true of the public collectively as true of members of the public individually.
Another good dam video worth watching, about undamming the Hudson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg2wxsYtzOs

I think because of the Michigan dam collapse I've been caught in a YouTube loop of getting recommended (and watching) dam removal videos for the last 24 hours.
His videos seem informative but I worry that he has sort of a bias for supplementation and holistic medicine. His videos lately seem to purport that this virus can be handled by mostly OTC supplements.
And yet adult contact is down overall, sex workers cannot communicate online anymore, and covid is seen as a 'nothingburger' by half the people I meet reguardless of political leanings. Never underestimate a good disinfo wave. Hell, even Biden is singing the old 'we don't know if it is safe, better keep it illegal' refrain.
The Fight over Alternative Education
Which version 'fixes' WAL in your opinion?
One minor thing that drives me crazy is that pubmed always sorted by newest papers first wherever I used now. Now it's been changed to default to "best match", which is usually not nearly as relevant to most scientists.
People buy shit from companies like this still?
The context you seem to be missing is that, unlike death itself, COVID-19 has been with the human race for only a few months.

Its introduction into our population was an event that we observed more or less directly. We can learn from that, and (motivated by that event's total cost) we can try to do better next time (and something similar will almost certainly happen again). Can't quite say the same about death itself.
> interestingly, toggling it off doesn't bring back the delay for some reason

Noticed the same; it should come back if you disable it and reboot.
All you are measuring with your chart is the late ramp up in testing in the UK. Deaths is a much more reliable indicator.
async def process():
time.sleep(JOB_DURATION) # simulate CPU time

This is synchronous (blocking) code, so if that is scheduled all at once that will block the event loop and make the heartbeat late. It's first come first served cooperative concurrency after all.

A better solution is to make the CPU intensive code cooperative by running it in a different thread or process.

> Never, ever use unbounded queues.

Hmm... I rather like them. But the consumers must be able to keep up with the producers or their must be some form of back pressure.
Korean town repays war debt to British town
Show HN: Shooting pose analysis and basketball shot detection
A little more than 4% of the world's population and almost 1/3 of the deaths. It didn't have to be that way.
Really, is this where we're at?

"Sure Covid19 has killed 100,000 people, but really that's no big deal--when you compare Covid19 to death itself you can see that death kills way more people."
I am stealing a few Eric.
I'd hate to stay in a hotel room with no Windows.
For me it was just looking for a procedure that annoyed me so much that I just had to build a tool to fix this.

Why do we still have to open our calendars, look through endless event notes to copy and paste a link into a browser that then launches the native meeting app? That's why I built an app called Meeter [0] for that.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/de/app/meeter-fast-call-initiation/id...
I started using chownow, who has upfront cost for takeouts. Haven't done delivery yet.
A bit OT, but I really like looking through other people's utilities. I've never used one of these as a whole (e.g. pulling in the NuGet), but you occasionally find some real gems.