skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you believe to be a reasonable duration of time to aggressively quarantine if health services aren’t overloaded?
I made a free word game (single player, arcade style) for web and mobile. :) Try it in a click without installing anything here:

https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid

Let me know what you think and what score you can get! There's intentionally no instructions screen (learn the game as you play) or title screen so you can get straight into playing. It's written in vanilla JavaScript.

I found this story from last month hilarious, which sums up the current mobile game trend I want to avoid:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52633088

> "I don't want jewels, cartoons, or potential dates. I want to play Scrabble against my friends and family. That's it. Nothing else," wrote one signatory.

> "They've turned it into some sparkly Candy Crush abomination," Ian Pym from Fareham, Hampshire, told the BBC. "I defy any adult to play it for longer than 10 minutes and not feel physically sick."

I'm also working on turning a web best practices guide I wrote into an ebook: https://www.checkbot.io/guide/
I went from knowing nothing of French to reading 20 thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne in French (the original language)

It's not that big of an achievement since I'm Brazilian and I already speak Italian, the romance languages are somewhat similar. But I'm happy and I want to keep learning new languages because that proved to be a rewarding experience all steps of the way.

I've used Lingq and Memrise, if anyone is interested :)
It used to be the conventional wisdom that domain-specific ASICs were unlikely to take off because of the economics -- the cost of fab time for the small feature sizes (meaning an expensive fab) and small batch sizes mean that the unit cost would be astronomical, and you'd end up not beating the price/performance of general-purpose chips, which don't peform as well, but have unbeatable unit costs because, being general purpose, they are produced by the billions.

The exceptions were GPUs, where there is enough of a mass market, and maybe super-high-value-added niches, like aerospace, where high unit costs are not a deal-breaker.

The article seems to get there, in the TCO section, but it looks to me like maybe genomics is another niche, where there's enough demand to make the economics work.

I had some hope that maybe fab technology was saturating enough that fab access was getting cheaper, maybe driven by SoCs for phones and all those ARM devices and RPis and stuff, that a new era of awesome ASICs was at hand. This appears not to be the case.
I'm sorry to hear that as someone who has done this role in the past I can tell you that it's the opposite of what a platform team should be doing.

When done right a platform team should basically not be noticed except that the tooling, developer experience and overall reliability of a system goes up.
Not taking sides, but I don't think it is so black and white if you frame it like that.

A newborn baby is pretty much helpless and needs its mother/other. If we go just by that, it means a new mother does nothing wrong if they leave their kid outside in the sun for 5 days until it dies. After all, no-one should give their 'bodily' well being. Yes, you can give him for adoption, etc, but by the logic here it means if a mother just leaves their kids to starve, not kill them directly, but not doing 'motherly' things, it is ok, after all, they aren't fully responsible.

(again, not taking sides in the pro-life/pro-choice argument, just stating it isn't black or white)
I suspect there's a study to be done here. In what way is the open blog post window intimidating? Or discouraging?

I for one often feel that if I have something long to write, I need to open a proper word processor rather than paste it into a nondescript box, less I somehow lose what I was writing. I also feel that in some of those tiny boxes, I can't adaquately arrange my thoughts, as I can't see the structure of what I wrote before adequately.

Perhaps the twitter format alleviates the writer's tension by forcing them to "chunkify" (packetize?) their writing into small portions, with the satisfaction of being able to hit "enter" and calling it done after every little one.

Of course, I think paragraphs can accomplish this as well.

But coming back to my original statement, I wonder how the common tools of today makes us look differently at how we compose and structure our thoughts. If I think of the way I'd communicate to colleagues over chat, or email, a collaboration tool, or heck, on HN or Reddit, and compare that to how I'd go about writing a blog post or paper, they're quite two different things.
Could you elaborate on why SVD requires an inner product structure (choice of scale) while eigenvalues do not? Do you just mean that the input and output vector spaces might generically have different units, and so one would need to use some sensible "normalized" units?
You don't need to tell me, I am on HN with you. It's the people out of HN that I am talking about, and they often have no idea Facebook is in fact not the internet. I am not kidding - I used to be a computer teacher for adults (as in "what is mouse?"). Facebook is trying to make it seem so really hard. BTW people today often don't even have email or know how to use it correctly - you can use your phone number for FB/Instagram/Whatsapp, so why bother.

> Except to those pesky shareholders. Which includes employees. Peoples' wealth is tied up in those stocks.

That stock is dead anyways if they forbid ad targeting. And no, the company does not have any such obligation to its shareholders - it only has to make profit for its shareholders as best as it can, which may very well include turning the site off for a few days (the public/gov does not need to know for how long it is turned off and/or whether indefinitely).
I built a SaaS for helping business owners stay on top of website and Internet security and best practices: https://domainproactive.com
BetterDev

Weekly links to improve your programing knowledge - not how to, tutorial style article, but interesting content.

https://betterdev.link
remember deno is written by same person who wrote node js so please don't judge immediately.
I made an app that will send a push notification to my phone when my build completes, so I can do dinner prep/make coffee/sit on the couch for 30 minutes rather than sit and watch a progress bar.

I used firebase cloud messaging to send a notification, and made a tiny app using flutter that just handles the notifications.
Tech labor has historically cheaper than in the US. It would have been nice to see more Canadian tech success stories at 1/10 the number that have occurred in SV alone. There must be some other variables that explain the difference.
When I was a freshman in college in Arizona, I went on a short "rock climbing" trip, nothing that strenuous or requiring equipment or particular experience, just clambering over large rocks on a warm and sunny, but not scorching day.

We were told to bring water, but I only took a small water bottle, and it didn't last that long. I was kind of shocked when my vision just went all blank and red with some random sparkles. One moment I could see, the next I was fully conscious but blinded. I wasn't that far away from other people, but I wasn't right next to anyone. Luckily I wasn't that far from rocks that provided shadow where I could get out of the sun, but I was afraid that by doing so, I would be hiding from anyone who could find me. And briefly I had no idea if my condition was permanent, I was going to die, or what.

Anyway, I wasn't a European or city dweller, just a clueless kid not used to the desert and/or outdoor activities much.

I think a lot of people do dumb things, and some survive and learn, and some don't.
Started on a alternative for pinterest/tumblr

https://collect.cat/

But work picked up sooner than expected.

Its fine for personal use atm but missing lots of features
Where did 0.3% come from.
> who couldn’t wrap their heads around JS loose nature

Ultimately, for any serious work, especially enterprise level work, your team members may include people of different calibers.

In such a case, where you have to work with code written by other members of your team, it becomes a serious problem to develop quality code.

For lone developers, it should not be a problem. But in enterprise settings, I think that is the reason why Node is not popular.
It seems to be available in browser, see script.js it's not minified.
Yes. I do not agree that me and my neighbors would be better off if we hid inside until 2021; I think the kind of trauma that creates would be more damaging than the worst-case projections for the virus.
I learned the basics of Houdini to turn Lidar data into visualizations [1], as well as take a point cloud scan of my wife to drive a particle animation [2].

On the non-tech side of things, our garden has been a real source of happiness. We planted everything from seeds with the kids and grew pollinator flowers, vegetables, etc. [3]

One of my favorite projects was finally making a sourdough starter and taking my pizza making up a notch. [4]

1: Houdini https://www.instagram.com/p/B_nG_jdpY7F/?igshid=r2pegr6lrr3l

2: art http://gregorywieber.com/insta.html

3: flowers https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-f3h5JWUq/?igshid=rf7jx6vaimgw

4: pizza: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAy8Hf0pF29/?igshid=1gipfxkhd9bh...
You could arrange to have a program write those tests for you based on your description of the project's data model. Oh wait...
Some people see this and say 'how did you do it?'. Others say to themselves, 'how would I do it?'. I'm in the second category...
Wirecard’s Braun Forced to Unwind Shares Pledged as Collateral
I guess that depends on how many other people like me have the same reaction, and how many readers he wants to actually have.

Could go either way. I'm not saying he should change the way he does things just to please me, and I might not be a reader he cares about, and that's fine.

I also understand that it could be the act of publishing a piece at a time, and having it immediately be publicly available, that pushes him to actually complete the post (adding just enough pressure on himself, or whatever).

I just wonder if the format choice might have a larger impact than he thinks.

My suggestion was intended to be constructive. I was thinking perhaps he could still get the effect of the twitter-like way of doing things, while ending up with a final format that would appeal to a broader audience.

Of course this is all just speculation on my part. Likely he will not even see what I suggested, not that I really expected him to.
> they're unnecessary effort and bloat for every single request

Oh the irony!
4plymag.com

A little data-driven magazine for skateboarding.

Superfluous? Yes. Fun? Also yes
A simple, minimalistic and beautiful Diet Log android app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lilbite.ai
Exactly! But you are not allowed to say this.
No-Cloning Theorem
Praxis.
This gotta be some kind of mistake. :) React 1986?!
Don’t read this. It will suck you in and you won’t be able to stop reading until the end, then you will want to lose yourself in his spy plane story.

You have been warned.
Spent time on an extremely silly yet immensely satisfying project: https://what2cook.today

What2Cook Today helps you save time by recommending new meals with recipes.

This project came out of sheer frustration trying to think of new things to cook everyday during this lock down. Currently, the website covers primarily Indian meals but I will hopefully cover more cuisines in the future.

What2Cook Today is a side-project that was a week-long one built in my free time.

Appreciate any feedback to improve.
Because that is the the part of software engineering which needs the most experience and general knowledge. There is no way around it. After all you need to know the constraints around a system before even building it and that is only possible if you have seen it before. It can help to study others people work before starting a project in a similar domain.
UX Gems from Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
I don't really get the beef with this. Twitter's UI for reading these tweet-streams is pretty decent these days.
The only really unique thing JS is bringing to the table is that it also has a privileged position in the front end. Your list of benefits it provides boils down to stuff multiple large languages all have, and the one thing that means you can learn just JS.

GP comment was presented somewhat snarkily, but I'm not sure they're all that wrong.
The economic downturns are cause by the pandemic, not the lockdowns, and the lockdowns are the result of poor response to the pandemic that resulted in uncontrolled community spread. People keep mixing up cause and effect in talking about this. Taiwan and South Korea didn’t have lockdowns.

Taleb has a good debate with Ioannidis about why his forecasting on the epidemic is wrong. I side with his view:

https://forecasters.org/blog/2020/06/14/covid-19-ioannidis-v...

Is your argument that at the moment there are no excess deaths? Because the CDC data you links says there have been a lot of excess deaths. Why do you think there won’t be a log more when we have uncontrolled spread in many regions in the US?
Awesome Bookmarks – Kill time by exploring my personal collection
I've written a simple p2p video call with LI capability.
I think the real question with the probability of life starting is eactly how easy it is to create life or even a good reproducing state given the proper conditions. What makes it dificult is that probabilities shrink very rapidly. If you cover every planet in the universe with billions of monkeys each typing randomly on typewriters, starting a new try every week for billions of years, they will never write Hamlet. They won't even get the first line. The probability to type the right n characters is 63^n, which grows exponentially. We can think of giant volumes of planets, but the number of planets will only grow linearly with the volume. The probability of creating even basic constructs is very small.

Even if you do manage to create a basic reproducing construct, that doesn't mean you are finished. The reproducing construct will only have a limited number of instances on its single planet. So once again, it is difficult to get to the next step beause your numbers are small relative to the the imaginable probability (of course what this is is not known).

On the other hand, the probability of us observing intelligent life is 1, since the intelligent life is the observer. No matter how few planets develop intelligent life, each will look at itself and say, "There it is." Our own existance or the history on our planet says nothing about the probability of life evolving without knowing the number of "tries" that failed to evolve life.

People who agree with what I have said so far may disagree with this next part, and that is ok. In counting the number of tries, we don't know that there is only one universe in which those tries exist, meaning we could be the only ones in this universe, and ours is one of the relatively small number of universes that have life.

Of course, I can't say the probability will be small. But I think it is also unfair to just assume the probability of life evolving is big.
I defer to experts. I would assume that once Rt is well below 1 and an aggressive testing apparatus is in place it would be safe to cautiously resume public life.
My Hero
Released a Creative Commons boardgame free for all

https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/
Google will shut down its AI-guided Photos printing service on June 30th
The compiled 'mess' that is shipped in the runtime is mostly due to SystemJS, not TypeScript - it doesn't handle modules, and compiles to very clean code if you target a recent ES version. I'm confused as to how dropping TS will help with the code emitted for modules.
I agree, kind of. I have also suffered from panic attacks and the problem with this is that I'm thinking that I'm about to have a heart attack. The mere thought of running makes it worse. Breathing exercises (this has to be practised in advance) helps for me.
Ask HN: Is there a place for MMS/SMS subscription for courses/content?
I was bored in my free time over the past week and threw together a web app that uses Twilio+Stripe Connect&Checkout to build a two sided marketplace for creators to distribute content via SMS/MMS at a subscription price they determine. Considering releasing something with it but not sure.

My intuition tells me that for distributing courses content, there's already online sites (Patreon etc.) that distribute content in well organized ways, and for courses there are sites like Udemy that organize content well already. SMS/MMS does have the advantage of being placed directly in user's texts inbox, but I'm not sure if this really increases the value. Curious to hear from others if they would use something like this.
Yes, there's nothing to prevent very small maps like what you saw - even ones that terminate with a dead-end before a road has been drawn (eg. https://random-roads--edwardcunningh2.repl.co/#1592758760947).

I considered adding logic to prevent this, but have decided to embrace it as a feature rather than a bug.

I quite like some of the small-ish maps, like this: https://random-roads--edwardcunningh2.repl.co/#1592759118928
YES!

This is exactly what I was experiencing. Well, to be exact, there were three or four different failure modes. What you described is one of them.

Another was sometimes I close the lid to put it to sleep, and instead the fans would rev to 100% and sit there forever until I held the power button.

I have the script running in a terminal window and haven't had a spontaneous poweroff for 2 weeks now.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

> As of May 1, 23,430 people are estimated to have died out of a total population of 8,398,748 in New York City. This corresponds to a 0.28% crude mortality rate to date, or 279 deaths per 100,000 population, or 1 death every 358 people. Note that the Crude Mortality Rate will continue to increase as more infections and deaths occur (see notes under the paragraph "Herd Immunity" below for details).

From a Google search of “Covid mortality rate”. As a healthy person, I would remain comfortable even if the death rate is substantially higher under the assumption that one can’t self quarantine forever and infection is inevitable.
Stallman prefers Epstein over Apple. We get it.
Forget backroads, when travelling by highway you will be met with a sign that says "No Services 120 mi". And there is literally nothing resembling civilization, aside from the road itself, for that entire stretch.
5nm is marketing name, it doesn't have anything in common with real sizes of transistors. They are much bigger than that.
I recreated parts of the Windows 98 UI using CSS. https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
I'd also recommend watching Baldwin's debate with William F Buckley. It's fascinating to see his clarity of thought, and how much it still ties to arguments of today. Different words, different terms, and more euphemisms now but same arguments of thought.

The topic of the debate is "Has the American dream been achieved at the expense of the American negro?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tek9h3a5wQ&feature=youtu.be...

Or even just watch the first 10 mins in from the youtube link point. The first 5+ mins slowing build to his point. Just watching their debate styles is fascinating.
I graduated from university.

I just made a starlink coverage map: https://droid.cafe/starlink

I started working at a job.

I've made quite a bit of progress on a game, but it's on pause for now.
Yeah, this evolved in my head from an early version that had to support IE, so it turns out there’s a bunch of cruft in it that I hadn’t realized wasn’t necessary any more. pcr910303 posted a version which uses the same APIs you mentioned, and I think I’m going to use that one in the future.
I've seen this blog on HN before. It has a lot of fun and interesting articles
I said "the accused", not everyone. If you are charged with a crime and if that footage could be evidence then it is required that the state turn it over to the accused.
The client code is available here: https://github.com/ente-io/frame

To be honest and upfront, this won’t be a freeware. I’m planning to charge a reasonable one time fee that’ll help pay rent. :)
> That stock is dead anyways if they forbid ad targeting

No, advertising can exist very easily without targeting. It's still advertising, and people still pay for it.

> And no, the company does not have any such obligation to its shareholders

You're ignoring that some of the people with the most stock are those in charge of the company. They'd be destroying their own wealth by "shutting down the site".
Just wanted to echo this sentiment as well. I just replaced my 15" 2010 Macbook Pro and the thing still runs strong. A battery replacement and SSD upgrade in 2015 really gave it a second life.

It's unfortunate it no longer gets software updates and also is plagued by the GPU Kernel Panic issue. Otherwise, I would keep it longer.

Hoping my new 2020 13" can last at least half as long!
I too go about my life as nothing had happened. Simple reason: many people who get it are asymptomatic, many who get it only have mild symptoms, yes few unlucky people will be dead but the number are exceddingly low. Not worth it to be worrying about it.
Did the platform team use their own platform? I have a theory that that's the right way to set up incentives, but I'm curious whether it works in practice.
GregHausheer.com

Freelance To Founder: how to start, build and grow an agency from scratch.

https://www.greghausheer.com/
Horace Dediu on App Store's Cut
Related: There are six surviving signatures by Shakespeare, and they are all different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_handwriting#Sign...