skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don’t get that obsession with “pluggable databases”. Abstractions have a real cost, and they typically complicate a lot: I would advice to just make sure you centralize the access to your database in a single module / class / whatever, but other than that, swapping out databases seems like a non-goal to me.

I tend to agree, as long as the database you’re using is of the free and open source type so it’s a low-risk dependency.

The “pluggability principle” holds more strongly for higher-risk dependencies, IMHO. For example, if you’re working in an online environment and you can’t readily integrate a new payment processor or messaging service or whatever, your existing dependency starts to look like a single point of failure that is not under your control. Some careful abstraction of the essential features and avoiding dependencies on the peculiarities of any specific platform can be a valuable safety blanket if your external dependency catches fire one day.
Considering they quite explicitly ignore the nice way to say "don't archive me" (robots), yes, it is a bad user agent.
Probably because according to the paper, Covid-positive patients not on ventilators also had the mental impairment problems, only to a lesser degree.
I’m a little surprised they went to a press release but didn’t say they identified a structure in a cadaver. So, at the moment, this is sort of like a geological feature that’s only ever been seen using a satellite.
This is a very English way of expressing oneself.
The results of cloudflare analytics look like the old awstats results: You know instantly that something is wrong because the numbers are much too high.

Interestingly that was the exact reason why Google Analytics got big as they had basically no bots in their statistics (in the old days running js was so complex no crawler or bot did it). And now we‘ve done a 360 degree turn and be in the same position with inflated server logs.

Is there any good analytics solution which is only server side? Getting some good statistics but not exposing to visitors they are tracked (even in a friendly mode) would be nice.
That doesn't follow from the title as it stands. Automation not "matching" human skill means that automation cannot cover 100% of operations performed by humans, but it doesn't say what the percentage actually is. Could be 0% (like your rhetorical hyperbole insinuates), could be 99.999% (not yet probably), could be 80% (more likely).
There's also this: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-researcher...
I don't think there's any free TSDB available. The project is maybe 3 years old.

InfluxDB is more recent and quite limited. Things like sharding is not supported and they stated it would never be supported except in a paid edition when they make one.

Prometheus is more recent. Similar story with scaling. They changed storage formats and rewrote once or twice in the past few years, it's moving really fast. It's more of a standalone product for server metrics (node exporter + prometheus + grafana), wouldn't recommend to use as a general purpose database.
The flu can be nasty. I had a severe case a few years back, and IMO I never fully recovered from it. I consider myself healthy, but I feel that this flu was like getting five years older within two week.
It kind of is. If you see a country next to yours building up a massive army, and starting propaganda about your government being evil, that's a good reason to prepare. If we learned of alien life in the galaxy, we might want to prepare too.

And with diets and diseases, if something has a short-horizon effect, that's good evidence it might have a long time-horizon effect too.

The seriousness with which I respond to COVID19 is mostly due to short time-horizon effects giving strong implications of possible long time-horizon effects. I'm less concerned about the 3% CFR as I am about the larger portion of individuals who might have long-term disability, lower economic output, etc. If that passes, we'll be feeling that for many decades.
If this was the behaviour of an app up to 2009 you could at least serve certificates to those apps still.
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Pretty much all the remote work I'm aware of in my area is done using RDP, so AD is still relevant. I think your opinion may be biased towards smaller and younger companies.
Long ago, in the mists of time, (1987) I wrote a program that worked with hand held computers, barcode scanners, and was meant to be run by folks working in a power plant.

I wrote the code, and got it working in about 2 months. It did everything in the spec, and the customer (Russ) loved what we had, but it turned out (of course) there were many things missed in the spec.

A week or two later, we worked out a deal for all of their power plants, provided I would work with Russ to make sure it did everything they wanted... it would take about a year, in the end. Russ taught me everything I needed to know about users and how they think, in a direct and very effective manner.

He was the assistant plant manager, so he would pull a random person into the office, and say to them "I know you're not a computer person, I want to you to do X,Y,Z... but don't worry... if anything goes wrong, it's not your fault... it's Mike's fault (Russ points at Me). He then tells me to just watch... It took exactly 1 minute to learn the first lesson... there should always be "Press F1 for Help" somewhere on the screen.

It was a very instructive and productive year. I've carried those lessons from his forcing function with me for decades. I love telling the story, thanks for listening.
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During my consulting, every fork I've made that was integrated into a project, was upstreamed via a PR. Either that or just, you know, leave the fork available on a company Github account. And if an org requires sensitive, and proprietary modifications, maybe that org ought to be investing the time and resources to make it from scratch?
Show HN: DDraceNetwork – Open-source cooperative online game
Still trying to grasp what is legally considered a monopoly in this country. I've come to consider it as "market leader of a sufficiently large market with a history of anti-competitive practices." Is that essentially accurate?
I'm solidly in 'that' crowd.

The is _so_ much churn and worthless changes in the JS ecosystem. AFAIK it's the only ecosystem that has this much churn, which proves that it's not necessary.

My best example of this is the fact that I can now no longer yarn install <package>. Instead, yarn informs me, the command is now yarn add <package>. For gods sake.

Every time I upgrade or build a project more than a week old I'm almost virtually guaranteed to have a deprecation warning somewhere in my stack, that's infuriating too.
DDraceNetwork (DDNet) is a cooperative 2D platformer, played online with up to 64 people, working your way through maps. You will see the best and worst in your teammates when they save you from certain death or leave you behind in the dust.

Two months ago we released DDNet on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/412220/DDraceNetwork/

DDNet has been in development for 7 years, it's all open-source and available for free: https://github.com/ddnet/ddnet

The active community is making new maps all the time to keep the experience fresh and have new challenges.

For the official game servers we run servers around the world to ensure people have a good enough ping no matter where they are located: https://ddnet.tw/status/
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What is it about cryptography that creates a tendency toward hagiographies?

During the Snowden Leaks the same thing happened with Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange. There was no critical analysis on what they were actually doing or a lot of the advice they were giving people.

It's almost like the field somehow requires a defacto head who conveniently fits the media stereotype.
Didn't the servo team mostly dabble with Rust? What a bad idea from the very beginning to invent a new language and base core components on it when all you have to to is speed up an exisitng product and you are already using the fastest known language fot that task (--> C).

A slow Firefox was an architectural problem not because of choosing the wrong tooling.
What does that mean? (Zero medical cadaver background, with regard tk the distance of validity between one or the other). Satellites are a lot more powerful (hehe) than our eyes, so my understanding Of your point failed.
Well it's not unEnglish.
I had a quick check and it looks like Microsoft doesn't have an automatic clean-up bot running which is really nice to see.

Compare it to the Istio project which just deletes your issue if someone doesn't respond it to after 28 days. Despite the issue often being quite real.

Also I wonder how these larger projects will fare once Github rolls out the Discussions feature.
It has the potential to be profitable, but it is not currently.[0]

[0]https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/financials?p=NET
Yep. Erlang uses a single TCP connection between each pair of nodes. Older versions had problems with large messages blocking heartbeats (and other messages) for a long time, but that's been resolved last year in https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2133.
Nice! all the sources are free?
There are news about Pakistan and Hungary in Poland.
It's legal Julia.

Julia editors or VS Code with the Julia plugin support LaTeX commands and will perform autocompletion and convert it to the unicode character.

For example, if you write \nabla it will offer autocompletion and write ∇.

I think it's a neat feature and makes a lot of sense in scientific computing contexts but I feel I wouldn't like a code-base that abuses it too much. Sprinkled here and there can help make code more readable, succinct and pleasant.
> What if people with lower cognitive ability are more likely to falsely report having had it.

And that's why we generally shouldn't base studies on self reported data. If you had the opportunity to compare self reported data to empiric data (measured, tracked, etc.) you wouldn't believe self reported data any more, because it's heavily biased.

BTW I am pretty sure we could observe significant cognitive deficits by people abducted by aliens as well...
Thanks!

No, but you have a documented tutorial to do it manually if you prefer, without entering any admin password :
https://doc.duple.io/configure-your-router-manually/
Can you give examples of which apps you noticed it working for? and what desktop environment/distro? I will most certainly test.
That's not their scope of analysis, that's just the introductory sentence. It's meant to reflect on the existing body of knowledge prior to their study. To paraphrase, it's essentially saying "this is what we know already, and here is what we're adding to the body of knowledge with this study"

As always, it's best to read the source material directly but these are relevant excerpts from the abstract :

"Case studies have revealed neurological problems in severely affected COVID-19 patients. However, there is little information regarding the nature and broader prevalence of cognitive problems post-infection or across the full spread of severity...

...People who had recovered, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group and pre-existing medical disorders. They were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised, but also for mild but biologically confirmed cases who reported no breathing difficulty."

The last part directly contradicts the idea that this study is limited in scope to severe cases.
I had one of those in my trachea in 2 different occasions, sedated the whole time like you said.
For very few moments I was a bit lucid and I detected the foreign object. But you cannot move, you can barely move your eyes. I fought against it with my tongue and it was problematic so the nurses had to rush to sedate me a bit more, but you know that something is going on; you can hear some beeps and rushed steps around you. For a few short moments your brain is thinking about possibilities. You ask yourself if maybe you are in a comma, or in a vegetative state. And you get really sad. I remember crying while going back into sedation, terrified and in despair. And I was just 14 and 16 years old.

For me, having that ventilator -something that when you read about it, or you talk about it, doesn't seem like much- was a traumatic experience that I will never forget.
... you can't prove mathematical theory with social science 'theories'. The latter is not even well defined.. ln(x) \approx x (for interest rate)? common...
It's unsettling how they try to make themselves look like the little guy fighting for justice... They get over $400 million revenue per year, much of it from Google. They're part of the problem. They're gatekeepers.

Also, their funding initiatives to change the web are total BS. They don't want to change anything. They will only fund projects that reinforce the established order and help to lock out the competition. They like things just as they are. They have no idea what it's like to actually be the little guy.
Some sites at least detect scraping and make it a little harder, but if people are doing it, must have some effect and more than to just the end-user down the line. If you are just completely bypassing a site to read text on your phone in an unrelated app, how do you expect that service to survive?
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Think of it being well-written, but turning far more metaphysical. For myself, I recently re-read Dune (it still holds up amazingly well), but I found myself not really enjoying the sequels.
Yes, there's a safety limit to how close trains can be.

Sure you can make trains bigger but many times trains are already the necessary size for their time windows, destinations, etc.

Also simply making bigger trains puts more control into the hands of a few companies. If there's going to be more competition driving prices down and offering more options, then there needs to be smaller margins in safety controls to make room for more competition.
Maybe that is not a bad thing? Maybe the current state is encouraging people to hang on to impossible hopes for things to get better. And if Google would become synonymous with the internet the people would drop that hope and start building something that would really benefit users and not big co?

Something like a paradise after apocalypse scenario. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking.
If anyone can distinguish bot visitors from real visitors server side it should be Cloudflare. Don‘t they sell that capability as a service?
> But things like autoimmune issues, persistent 15-year brain fog (I'd rather call it frosted glass layer) which randomly clears once a month to remind me how nice it is to be able to think straight

I've been experiencing something similar for the past 5 years: brain fog (frosted glass is a much better way of putting it.) and some short term memory issues. The doctors put me through a battery of tests to find...that they could find no reason for my ailment. Curious to know what if anything has helped you the most. The 'randomly clearing' brain fog for a day happens to me maybe once every 3 months and it's both a blessing and a curse.
Why Emacs itself is my “favourite Emacs package”
I've seen a fair number of Julia posts on HN lately without any big recent developments in the language. It's a fine language but there is a type of preachy blindsighted hype that comes across as arrogant and is extremely offputting. Not quite at the level of Rust but it's getting there.
Pre-press. Where in under a decade I figured out from scratch how to automate packaging artwork production successfully: by building the automation for, and putting it into the hands of, the artworkers themselves. i.e. The folks on the ground who do the actual work, and understand what that work entails.

Alas (for me), scaling that success to a $1Tn global packaging industry has proved way harder, in significant part due to the penny-pinching bean counters and talentless middle-management hacks: useless people who won’t spend a penny or commit to change when they can pay themselves the same salary for never taking a single risk or decision at all.

So what are the chances that Cook’s Apple filled a room with highly-educated experts and told them to invent a grand impressive automation solution without ever sitting with all those “little people” who make the stuff by hand in order to learn their jobs from them? From what I’ve seen of “real” applications development, and the gall of major industry vendors who rake in millions selling big-iron “solutions” that simply don’t work out on the shop floor beyond their glossy canned C-suite demos, I’d wager that’s the norm.

Ah well, now I know how Papert must’ve felt. Back t’drawing board…
Some of the best wisdom in this whole series is at the end of part 2 where the author summarizes the lessons:

> This process obviously took me a long time, but I hope this article can save others 80-90% of the effort of digitizing and sharing their home videos. The next section has a detailed walkthrough of the nuts and bolts of my solution, but here are some general tips for digitizing and sharing home videos:

> Capture as much metadata as possible during the raw capture and edit stages.

> Labels on the tapes often have valuable information.
Keep a record of which clip came from which tape and in what order.

> Note any clues in the clip about the recording date.

> Consider outsourcing the raw capture to professionals.

> It’s extremely difficult and expensive for you to match the quality of a video digitization company.

> ...
still arxiv and not published... it does say a lot of about the paper.

.... and the paper is written in MS Office.
> But I didn't come here to argue politics, just asked for someone to describe their superior optimization process

Look. I don't believe that P=NP. I can't describe a superior optimization process, and if I did, I would claim the Clay Math prize. I'm also not an economist.

My takeaway is that any simple strategy is almost certainly bad in the long term. You can optimize your own personal take, but in doing so, "the invisible hand" isn't going to somehow flip that into a benefit for all.
Does anyone know why the text claims that "2^-5" is an error, but the output shows it returning 0.03125?
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I'm not sure it is bots, I think it is just the difficulty in counting hits vs page views and page views within a "session" which has no meaning whatsoever on the web..
This is one of the reasons I still use http primarily and do not promote https.

There are many barriers to an https connection, and this is one of them.

Another is the version race, meaning browsers as recent as 2012 are no longer compatible with today's https sites.
This has some parallels to what happened to me as a child, in that case it was clear that some kind of post-viral syndrome was in effect, but I never connected to the brain fog (I would describe my sensation as my brain turning into fog) I got some years later.
Julia uses `end` because it is derived from MATLAB which also uses `end`, it's not to save ASCII characters.
I assume that the idea is to "break apart" the company voluntarily--in a way that doesn't affect overall profits that much--before the US government breaks apart the company by force (through anti-monopoly laws), where Google would have less say in what the end results would look like.
Have we ever "busted up a monopoly" using 2? Is the FTC able to retroactively split up a company that was originally formed via large mergers and acquisitions? Split out e.g. Youtube from Google as it was originally an acquisition? That seems unlikely to me but I don't know much about it at all.

If you can't do that, then you're basically just preventing a monopoly from happening in advance, right? Or trying to at least.

At any rate, I'm assuming US vs. Google will be required to reference precedent set in Sherman & Clayton + subsequent court rulings and _not_ be able to use their own mergers against them as they were approved by the FTC in the first place. Is that also correct?
It used to error, but exponentiation with negative literal integers was made to work. Perhaps the notebook hasn't been updated since then.
It does mean not being very careless about getting infected, and weighs against the idea of going for herd immunity without a vaccine.

Here's a Twitter thread listing post-infection syndromes from other vital infections: https://mobile.twitter.com/aetiology/status/1318676570467409...
Google’s search results have gotten worse
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The problem is that project like VSCode racking up these bugs, and letting them to snowball. It's not that they can't sort them out with 30+ full time professional QAs at Microsoft.

Once upon a time, GNOME had 300 bugs in evolution bugzilla, and it was felt as "the end of the world."

What they need to do is just like GNOME projects a decade+ ago did: make a really hard, like HAAAARD! feature freeze, and keep doing long series of "housekeeping" releases as long as needed before unfreezing work on features.
Not gonna listen to an organization regarding political matters in the name of fairness and competition when they have a past of firing employees over their personal political matters that do not interfere with the organization. In my book they have nothing to say unless it's purely about their product.
I agree. Even if I theoretically could inspect the sources I never do, and pretty much solely rely on "if this had something malicious in it, somebody would have screamed about it already".

edit: What I originally wondered was what was meant with the "RIP karma" comment by the parent?
Please allow Julia tooling to easily compile to a native binary/dynlib/dll that can be deployed on both desktop and mobile OS'es.

Right now, it appears like a niche interpreted language for numeric geeks only.
If you want to be sure it works in the EU I guess you could use the EUPL instead of AGPL which gives many of the same gurantees, but fits into european law.
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This might seem a bit out there / like woo woo to some, but have you tried "breathing exercises" (intermittent hypoxia) and cold exposure to counter those effects you are talking about? Particularly, the Wim Hof Method?

I know it helps for people with autoimmune diseases anecdotally, but there's also some good scientific evidence for it.
Most news articles mention multiple locations. It's probable that those pieces talked about both Pakistan/Hungary and Poland, so will be found in both countries.

The locations are ordered by salience (proximity to start of the article, number of times mentioned), but not completely filtered, so on this specific visualization you will see a lot of matched locations which you wouldn't consider part of the article, but were mentioned in passing.

Trying to understand the content of an article is still really, really difficult, and error prone.