skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case someone reading this doesn't know: the word "news" is literally the plural of "new". When you want to read about all the "new" things that are happening, you go and read the "news".
Last time I checked they hid the format description behind an NDA ... aside from that no issue indeed.
Because everyone actually stayed inside, unlike this time around. Lockdowns don't work if people ignore them.
Vim + Alacritty + Gruvbox = Happiness.

For me at least.

I've found that I get perfectly passable syntax highlighting with vim, and haven't needed anything else on my current install. If I did use an editor other than vim, I would probably use VSCodium because open build, and I do really like the visual style.
Good point, my inclusion of Google was mostly in jest, but in hindsight, it come off as misleading, as actual browsers don't actually function in the simplified way presented in the article. I will remove the reference to Google.
No, Gilgoyle's name is a reference to Anton LaVey, the head of the Church of Satan and general weirdo
Assuming they're a healthcare worker. My friend who works for a plastic surgeon gets tested all the time.
It's concerning to me to see this downvoted. As far as I know, almost every health official on the planet believes the virus can't be eradicated at this point, even in the countries that have kept it heavily suppressed. The long-term goal is to get it under control in the same way as tuberculosis.
> but if he had never met Nunzio Tartaglia (and basically stole his secret sauce -hey at least they mentioned Morgan Stanley)

I always have my skepticism when I heard of "he stole my source code" kind of complaints. If you were so good and you invented the whole thing, and he was so bad that he had to "steal your source code" in order to just get started at the time you were already ahead in the game, why can't you beat him?
Find the Positive Integer Solutions
I don’t agree that Amazon is taking advantage of the pandemic - people were making similar claims about Amazon before any of that happened.

Wal-mart could ship me products and I would be happy to buy from them, but since March everything at Walmart has been pickup only or doesn’t ship to my zip code (NYC), so I order from Amazon.

Target is even worse off - it’s not that items are pickup only or not shipping to my zip code, they are simply unavailable.

So my message to Wal-Mart and Target is evolve or become the next US Steel.

Amazon built a logistics pipeline that fits in well with the new normal. Walmart built a bunch of super-centers that don’t.

Spoils to the victor.
Personally at least it's being at home more motivated me to improve the setup. Also just a growing distrust of US based services inspiring me to host more myself.
> That is basically 3 frames of latency difference on a 60Hz monitor, and would definitely be notable for the average person.

Having done some UX work in this area, I can say that people greatly overestimate the effects of latency on text entry when they're just looking at the numbers. End-to-end lag is more obvious in situations like dragging objects, but even then people manage to work around it.

Typing isn't performed on a tight feedback loop in the brain. We don't wait for the letter to appear on screen before starting the process to press the next key.

Typical human reaction types are on the order of 250ms for a simple visual stimulus. Recognizing letters will take even longer. A difference of a few 10s of milliseconds isn't generally going to be noticeable for typing unless you're really going to great lengths to A/B test.

Consider that people can SSH into remote machines all of the time with 100s of milliseconds of latency. The experience may not be optimal, but our typing doesn't fall apart over SSH.
On the contrary, a donation of 10s of millions of dollars allows more people to go to those universities, not less, and actually helps reduce inequality, by increasing the amount of people who can go to these places.
" So I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please.'".

Mission accomplished.
> look at the sun with the naked eye

Not recommended.
Virus stats make the people at the top look bad. More testing - more accurate stats. More accurate stats - more outraged people. So they delay.
I really want to do this. But considering my product is effectively a service to help deal with unsolicited mail - sending unsolicited email about on-boarding feels wrong.

I decided not to do it (after sending one, doh >.<). After sending that first one, I thought about it and I don't really like receiving unsolicited on-boarding messages.

Though I am going to build something into my on-boarding process so that people can opt-in for these.
Check out Procyon's[1] java decompiler. Another great tool would be CFR[2]. Never know when these might come in handy.

edit* mind if i ask what game it is? :)

[1] https://bitbucket.org/mstrobel/procyon/wiki/Java%20Decompile...

[2] http://www.benf.org/other/cfr/
No mention of Calvin and Hobbes, which came out a few years later and made a comparable splash?
I'm sorry that was your experience. If that's true it reflects really poorly on the firm. I have considered applying to DE Shaw in the past and I've heard a few stories like this, which have mostly made me stay away.
I wonder if the seemingly declining popularity of the oxford comma is related to a lack of knowledge of the use of non-restrictive appositives. Because your knowledge of the latter is what makes the use of the Oxford comma important to the classic phrase "We invited the two strippers, JFK and Stalin."
House panel reschedules Big Tech CEO hearing for Wednesday
Sounds like burnout to me.

When I got my current job I was throwing things at the wall trying to find something that could pass as a business. Ultimately I found what I'm working on but ran out of money and it wouldn't generate very much or anytime soon.

I got incredibly fortunate and found a job at a big company right before COVID. When I started working I was pretty burnt out myself and found it hard to code on either the side project or the work projects. But I was broke and in debt so I had to keep going. The drive came back to do better at work and on the side project.

Sounds like recharging might be in order for you. Idk what your financial situation is but as a dev taking a year off hopefully shouldn't be too much of a burden. It was for me and I lived off CC's. I still recommend it, especially if you're burnt out and considering leaving tech.

Maybe once the world reopens take a year off. Don't open your laptop lid for 6 months and pursue other passions and then reevaluate.
It's a branding strategy. The psychology of Veblen goods is fascinating. See example below.

"Things changed in the 1960s, with McKinsey leading the way. In 1965 and 1966, the firm placed help-wanted ads in The New York Times and Time magazine, with the goal of generating applications that it could then reject, to establish its own eliteness."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/how-mckins...
SpaceX Satellites Ruin Photographer’s Shots of Comet Neowise
Same - I was doing a bit of contract work on the side when I quit. Did some traveling (briefly) and then ended up making those gigs my job. Haven't even touched my FU/1-year-savings money yet after almost a year...
I suspect they meant the former finding, i.e.: "volume increases in more brain areas, including the cingulate cortex, insula, corpus callosum and sensorimotor cortex"
"freedom" isn't our Achilles heel. ignorance is our Achilles heel. it comes from awful education and leads to a culture where your own opinion is as good as some other guy's fact.
> Or before that, do you even know what an APT is?

You mean that Linux command thing? ;)
This is a good point about practical implementations of hashing based randomization - incorrect table sizes can invalidate assumptions about uniformity and cause guarantees to fail. However, this work was primarily about the theoretical analysis of these data structures, which presupposes that we already have a means of generating uniformly randomly distributed bits over the table space, hence the lack of discussion about table sizes.
In case it wasn’t obvious (with overwhelming probability) he received a tiny tiny fraction of the headline 250M number. Those initial lawsuit magnitude numbers have little to no relationship with what numbers settlements happen with.
Exactly- it’s unclear why this is not reported..
I'm extremely glad he's back. I'm sure some part of why my brain is the way it is in 2020 is due to reading old collections of Far Side cartoons as a kid. Some of them I didn't understand properly until years later, but others (like the all-time classic where the cows are in the field standing on their hind legs, until one cow yells "Car!", and they all stand on all fours until the car is past, or "when potato salad goes bad", or the "Llamas at home" one) are the kind of thing that goes straight into your little-kid psyche and stays there.
The fact that the suspected secret data is not in the public “download your data” tool is not really an argument that it doesn’t exist.
> The “second wave” is the whole point of flattening the curve

We didn't really flatten the curve except briefly in a few places like CA; the supposed national curve flattening is an artifact of the fact that the New York epidemic peaked a declined as the rest of the country was (and largely still is) on the upswing.

This is just the first wave hitting more places with no effective mitigation, not a second wave.

> as long as hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, our response is successful.

Hospitals are overwhelmed in a growing number of parts of the country, out response is not successful.

> Look at our respective stock markets for a more accurate view of the situation.

Not really, the big firms on most stock markets are international conglomerates, and the major indexes don't really have much to do with national conditions.
Can't view in EU.
I prefer control-W
Gravity and sub-atomic forces are much stronger at short distances.
Do you have evidence that this is true? It's pretty hard to believe that people were more willing to stay inside in an era when nobody had the Internet or even TV.
>Your monitor likely has some input processing as well, adding anywhere from 10-20ms before it sends the frame to the physical display.

This is more in the 1-2ms range, even for non-gaming devices.
Came here to say this, too.

I think at least a 100-level knowledge of account is beneficial to nearly every developer. Bookkeeping is, arguably, one of the oldest and longest-practiced "data processing" disciplines. It seems arbitrary and somewhat old-fashioned until you grok the reasoning and history behind it (double-entry sourced from summaries of various different "journals" to facilitate separation of duties, closing periods and rolling-up detail entries into totals because human computational power is limited, an equation that balances implicitly when there aren't entry errors, etc.)

From a personal finance perspective I think everyone should get some training in account but, sadly, that's probably way too optimistic of an attitude.
Should health insurance, private or public, really pay to deal with people's self-induced health problems from eating too much, smoking, etc?
It's not clear what the status is. But I doubt that new hardware is required if it releases.
A few months ago I found my old GameBoy and played through part of "Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland". I know its not the most well-known game, so the relevant detail is that it relies a lot on timing and quick movements.

I was completely blown away by the responsiveness of the controls. The control feedback was instant, frames were rock-solid, and there were no loading screens at all.

When I put down the game, I was just tremendously sad. I'd forgotten what instant feedback felt like.
They are still doing contact tracing, and even doubling down on it
Camera shows the indicator just like every other app.
I'll tell you what; just say the words "Nunzio Tartaglia" in front of that bag of pus and see what happens. I'll make a nice side bet to a charity of your choice if you video tape the evidence.
haven't read the article but it seems that every week there a new looming crisis in America
Kinda reminds me of the time I "bonked" on a bike ride. I realized that I was hypoglycemic, concluded that I wasn't thinking straight... so I started saying to myself "if you do something stupid, pull over"... that turned into a bit of a chant... 5 miles later I realize that chanting to myself is a stupid way to handle the issue... 5 miles later, I actually pulled over, and ate every calorie in my pack. Saying it feels good, doing it is real good.
Unlike the movies, The Watchmen graphic novel takes the time to point out Veidt's homage
Even “100% pure data” isn’t necessarily safe. Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint decks, etc. (and their Google Docs counterparts) are all suspect, because they can contain embedded code. Some “data” formats are really not data formats at all, but code which produces the data you use (e.g. PDF, Postscript, or any Excel sheet with formulas). It’s even possible to corrupt certain otherwise inert data files in such a way as to cause malicious behavior by exploiting bugs in the software that reads them.

So, yes, while you’re technically correct that 100% inert and uncorrupted data files are safe, you have to prove that those files are not corrupted. And, so many data formats either are code or contain embedded code, so these need to be treated as suspect until proven otherwise, as well.
Does this data dump include the metadata for the data transfers made to the NSA?
The Galton Board
Isn’t the official limit 150 for vanilla K8s? Google defaults to a 30 pod limit iirc.
Terry Davis' TempleOS Brutal Take Down of Linus Torvalds
I would be delighted to help if you want to write one.
Basic maths is pretty much the only pure discipline I can think of, unfortunately. Indeed I cannot think of any reason for politics to influence math teachers.

There are still people today in the US who consider teaching evolution a step too far. In the US one of the major parties considers modern climate science off limits because they disagreed with its conclusions.

Then you get into history and literature and it’s almost impossible for politics to not influence what should be taught and how it should be taught. Yes, the teachers should still primarily be trying to impart kids with the tools to analyze things and seek knowledge themselves, but some topics are just too human to believe that they can be taught from a completely apolitical perspective.
Agreed, and I think this is obvious. Facebook probably has a thousand metrics of how long you spend looking at things, what you tend to look at, how likely you are to look at something different. None of this is downloadable.
Battery life always takes a dive when you have Fb apps installed, including Instagram.
While this is clearly xenophobic and just plain awful, it seems like the most sensible workaround for this is for universities to offer very small (4 students or less per session) in-person classes specifically for their new international students. This could work essentially like office hours with faculty leading small group discussions to help acclimate international students to their new lives abroad. I can imagine anyone moving to the US in the year 2020 (the peak of our crazy) could use some emotional support.
Flagged the submission, thanks
I'd really like a self-hosted videochat solution that had a native client. Basically something like Mumble (https://mumble.info) but for video.

The reason I want it is because most large videochat solutions have a really high variance in latency and reliability. If I just want a small group chat with friends, I'd have far fewer issues if I just self-hosted. I've already found this to be true for Discord audio versus self-hosting Mumble.
The US centrally plans the healthcare supply and then doesn't control prices (sort of).

We can and should have lots more doctors (and other primary care providers), but we've long restricted that because people have wacky ideas about things like economics and intelligence.
It's been a few years, and I can't recall the specifics with certainty. It was a serious Chromium SVE that was unpatched in the middleware we were using.
Good question since we can see snow/rain lines slowly rise over the years. Certain ski resorts are in danger of losing a reliable snow pack. People will keep skiing, however, and our clientele puts in an incredible amount of effort to find snow to slide on.
Larson on the proper use of the English language:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c4/ad/81/c4ad811c149c46a576bef2554...

https://bookriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/it-just-says...
Yes, the time's not the test, it's getting the sample from where its collected to the lab (e.g. a doctors office that may only get collected from once a day), assembling a batch, running it, collating the results and sending them back out. Any batch-oriented, industrial-scale testing operation will suffer the same delays regardless of the actual process.
Can you describe that? I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Bombs I assume, detonated where?
What I really don't get is why people are still downplaying this.
I addressed the “states can’t run deficits” when mentioning that the federal government could, and should have stepped in. As to the Republican playbook of starving programs for funding and saying “Look! It doesn’t work,” that’s literally part of the problem.
PHP 8.0.0 Alpha 3 available for testing
I'm glancing at my phone for apps/services that I paid for because they were better than the free alternatives. Here's sampling: Dark Sky, Dropbox, Quizlet, FiLMiC Pro, Camera+, Zoom (but recently canceled).

I paid for Anki iOS app but the interface is so clunky (even though experts swear by it) that I never really got good use out of it.
Good G-Sync or FreeSync gaming monitors can get down to low single digit millisecond numbers, but the typical 60Hz non-gaming monitor or laptop display will be more in the 8ms-15ms range.

Example: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tests/inputs/input-lag (Scroll down to the non-gaming monitors)

The gray-to-gray response time for the physical pixels is in the neighborhood of 2-4ms, so the additional latency comes from the processing.
>I am not expert in this area

> But this field is different, there is lots of sound research.

Come on man: pick one. I read the article as you did, and it seems like a big pile of moosh, just as most things in psychology that don't involve large sums of money. If you know something about it: share why I should trust this shit other than "trust me, the non expert." If not; not saying anything is an option.
My response to that right now would be “Too damn bad.”
They left out the other version, Horace Smith's "Ozymandias":

---

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,

Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws

The only shadow that the Desert knows:—

"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,

"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows

The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—

Naught but the Leg remaining to disclose

The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express

Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness

Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,

He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess

What powerful but unrecorded race

Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
Big discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926699 , but this has a few more details about how he build the image. He got like 20 images It's not clear how many images he took. (They have 30 seconds of exposure time, you can take like 120 in an hour.)

Anyway, in a comment by vilhelm_s in the previous thread has a link to a site that explain that the usual software can select correct the parts of the images and create a nice image https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/imaging-foundati...
The New Yorker is known for its superb standards in regards to grammar, though it does tend to favor passive voice like academic circles are wont to do. This is evident here, with a focus first on Larson's work, then an introduction to his person, and given that the article's main focus is on the work and not the person, this is a logical decision.

You have just used what would have been a useful opportunity to discuss Gary Larson's unique art style to insist how much more you, a Hacker News commenter, knows about prose than someone employed by the New Yorker.

Further, due to your comment's lack of clarification, I ironically cannot tell if you are insinuating that the author of the article used "its" correctly or incorrectly. For the record, because this possessive pronoun is referring to Gary Larson's work in the previous sentence, the usage is correct. [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_possessive#Pronouns
Depends on what your goals are of course. Entertainment, staying current etc. But here's a rough heuristic: if the book has survived for a while, say a few years, decades, or centuries, it's a good book. With limited time choose something of quality rather than sorting through the noise. Or take the opposite advice if you have different and just as valid goals.
> he is also a garbage human being who has made the world worse

His company went on to create Anton and actively pursues computational chemistry and drug design research. To me, that's an active (and expensive!) attempt to improve the world. The extent of your bitterness towards him seems wholly unjustified to me.
And its mate by Horace Smith. http://www.potw.org/archive/potw192.html
Which is why I mentioned the federal government could have, and should have stepped in.
valuable and insightful comment
I have also incidentally noticed Google equating ghetto girls to black girls when doing a site specific search.
If you really believe that you're sensitive enough

It's pretty obvious when using extended shortcuts or a string of keys that are committed to muscle memory, like Ctrl+Shift+P (+ first letter of a cmd) or Ctrl+K combos.

Imagine playing an instrument wired up to headphones and then adding a 30-60 ms delay... the longer the delay the more it creates that "off" feeling

Don't forget too, those are bare metal calculations. Stick those apps inside a VM like many devs do or add some other latency along the I/O chain and it all helps to create a perception of lag.
Maybe the health insurance companies should sue tobacco and fast food companies amoung others?
The WHO reports that transmission from animals is known to have occurred among some mink farmers. Whether it can be transmitted from common domestic animals is unknown, although dogs and cats can definitely be infected.

(https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...)
I don’t see declining usage. It’s never been AP style which you see in a lot of newspapers and press releases but not elsewhere. It’s OK with AP but mostly if it would be otherwise confusing.
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Given that the link was broken, I am thinking I may put it back on various sites of mine as an option and see if it works. I still don't have enough income yet and having more payment gateways seems to open up options for people to pay how they prefer.

I prefer PayPal for tips (and Patreon for something I can count on at the start of every month), but if that means some people aren't tipping who would if there was another payment gateway, then I am leaving money on the table. That's something I can ill afford to do given how cash strapped I routinely am the last half of every single month.
> It should be easy to reinstall to a known good image with all the relevant software, settings, drivers, etc

It should be, but enterprise servers are often the embodiment of configuration drift.
You're looking for Jitsi Meet.
Did the accomplishments decay or are they part of the fabric of reality?

Is the 2nd law really the only truth?

Could it be locally false for long enough to not matter?
It's there (along with another favorite from that era I was wondering whether would rate a mention):

> On the comics page, “Calvin and Hobbes” and “Bloom County” shared Larson’s wild playfulness;