skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn’t fit. You don’t discover you’re terminally ill and then brainstorm a game while you're out trying to find yourself. If you think you're terminally ill then your notebook is likely to be full of meditations on the day's endeavors and thoughts about your legacy, and your mortality, maybe even your family. You write about a game when you're nowhere near a computer, it's because you're imagining eventually being back at a computer. Or if you have the hubris to think someone will type your ideas into a computer and this game is gonna be your enduring legacy, then you write with an audience and try to tell people what they are reading -- not a private notebook.

But I think you're onto something. Non-terminally ill could be a different story.

This is almost certainly not what happened, being hyperspecific, but let me tell you a compelling possibility. If you were a programmer with a really mild form of epilepsy that was slowly getting worse and worse, you could imagine thinking that it was related to all of your time playing games and staring at screens, like you find that your eyes just kind of lock on a screen where action is happening and your heart starts beating too fast as your brain goes into overdrive processing too much action and you know you have to tear your eyes away but your eyes are not cooperating. Really uncomfortable and after a really bad episode you will probably feel like your brain is out-of-joint and any encounter with the wrong stimulus might send you back into an "acid flashback" type of situation. Possibly that sort of situation includes hiking for too long or so. Supposing you were of that mindset you might be thinking that this was environmental and, “I am going to get out in nature and these things will quiet down and I will plan my follow-up game." Mild recurrences on the trail are explained as just "no I haven't finished healing yet." Then triggered by heat and being lost and stressed in a Florida swamp, maybe you have another really big one. Zapping in and out of consciousness, maybe you don't have the mental wherewithal to figure out where you are and how to get to safety. Something like that.

Again, that particular scenario is deeply unlikely, but it shows off the basic features: he's writing in his notebook because he expects to return to work, he's taking an extended vacation in nature because he cannot stand to keep working in his current situation. Maybe.

I am really reluctant to post this, something about joining the internet's quest to solve this guy's case seems... I dunno. Fetishistic. I don't really have much to contribute except that I wish the scans were better so I could read this guy's notebook more clearly.
thanks for sharing this link. is it possible that other cancer cells are further downstream mutations of B cells?
I think that it is generally a bad idea to rely too much on a single provider. What I want from a payment processor is to handle payments, that's it: collect this money of money from that card and deposit it to my account.

This is more work so may not be your first step, but IMHO this should be your goal to be achieved sooner than later.
Not correct, the data on earth that is reliable is based on carbon ratios, which are a far better hallmark. The older morphological stuff, while fun, is really just speculative, still.
there is nothing high about this salary, the bay area and west/east coasts are insanely expensive places to live.
Everyone who gets married signs a pre-nup.

The difference is that a few people people pay to have a custom one drafted for them, and everyone else just accepts whatever default one their jurisdiction provides.
That is correct but the spelling of that name would be "Boniface".
This is great if the inventory is there. I don't mind paying an extra couple dollars for a book; for me the reason I return time, and time again to Amazon is because I can reasonable expect to search for a book and have it ordered in less than five minutes.

Recently I have become more interested in buying used books online, and had success ordering from https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ and https://www.thriftbooks.com/.

I'll check this out if I am looking for something new.
Yes, so much this. I want to be more secure but don't want the solution tied to my American phone number. I've even thought of getting a dual-sim phone just so I won't get locked out of my accounts when abroad and using a local sim.
<if you're in a real rush, just read Section (c)(1), which is only 26 words, and is the part that basically every single court decision (and there have been many) has relied on.>

(C) Protection for "Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material

(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
The $955M in Bitcoin Hackers Have Been After Just Moved
I think it would be a little harder to make monetary gains off of this. You still needed to be in physical proximity to trade. I'm not sure if you had the ability to script over the mailbox and change recipients, that could have worked perhaps.

You'd get much more bang for the buck getting access to the whole account.
Modern trash incinerators don't have that problem. A friend of mine works in the industry, and they're starting to build co2-traps as well, which makes it an even better choice.

I know the US is severely behind on trash incineration compared to for example Sweden, but the knowledge and technology exists, it's just a matter of building the plants at this point.
But what's the battery usage? And handling meshing? why not just use Syncthing?
Exactly. You can even add some more on your own. Just add the file ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and fill in. I added M-f and M-b but you can add more to make the experience even more Emacs-like.
BW topic is not related to container registry, but worth mentioning as it is being discussed in this thread. Regarding the outbound data transfer pricing for a $5/month droplet, you get minimum 1TB/month free Internet-bound BW. The price of 0.01/GB kicks in only after that.

Disclaimer - I work for DigitialOcean.
True, but I'm about to start an FPGA contract where a Lattice FPGA would be a good fit. Doesn't need a huge amount of gates and performance would be just fine. There are a lot of designs that can fit in that design envelope.
The thing with these apps is, not your suggestion in particular, is its not ever as it was 20 years ago "use this app it does this", now it is, "use this app it will maybe ask to ship your data to NSA or China, ask for account registering signup, for sure it will make some network calls to who knows where and include adtracking and other nastiness, and will nag about some license or buy-up".

Termux, ssh and rsync. Thats it. It works. I tell my phone, try to rsync when its been charging for at least 5 minutes and its evening time. Hurray.
It's important to have alternatives to Amazon and other big platforms. I'm happy to see someone build this innovative middleground between online and offline shopping and don't mind paying more for it.
Show HN: Flyable - One of the fastest way to execute Python code
Recently, I saw few Python accelerators getting a lot of attention, and I thought it would be a good time to finally present the project that we will make available to test in the upcoming days.

Flyable is an ahead-of-time compiler that takes your Python code, analyses it, and outputs very optimized machine code. Micro-benchmarks show that it produces programs that run between 10-70x time faster than Python. Flyable is certainly one of the fastest and easiest ways to accelerate your Python code. It finally allows Python to compete in the ring of fast and efficient languages without having to add nasty non-python stuff that some other implementations need.

Here is a quick demo (1 min) :

https://www.loom.com/share/ed55eb4bf05d4de3bed4443bdb130fc3

You can freely register to the beta to try it out at

http://flyable.dev/ !

Thank you !
What do you assume the source and cause of the upvotes were? Browsing /r/all it is easy to attribute the post and comments as pre-programmed.

Faulty algorithms?
algorithms working as intended?
vote purchase?
intentional spam?

Do you scrape, log, and track, and compare user comments, and profiles on reddit or any other site?
What data do you collect?
> 60 to 90 percent of households have access to two or more options for fixed (wired) broadband[1] depending on how you classify broadband, and that's not even counting the wireless options.

That chart says 52 to 80% if you're looking at wired internet, the upper end relies on classifying "3Mbps+" as broadband, and the "or more" part of "two or more" is doing a whole lot of work when it turns out 80% of those have two options. That means 48% of US households had a single or no choice if they wanted download speeds over 25Mbps.

...and we don't actually know what the real numbers are because the FCC doesn't require household level reporting, it's census block level reporting, and it's not even if a single household in that census block has service, it's if a single household in that census block could have service "without an extraordinary commitment of resources" by the ISP.

See [1]. Spoiler: the updated maps still aren't in.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/the-fccs-horribl...
I thought there was some people building things similar to this (not as bright) and they were using lenses from the front of LCD TVs. But I may be remembering the details wrong.
Sorry I must have gotten pretty confused. The tool is mainly responsible for going video -> markdown rather than being a video solution?

That seems better but putting effort into written communication is why I like it more than video anyways.
From Bruce Kushnick, himself:

"I've been tracking the telco deployments of fiber optics since 1991 when they were announced as something called the Information Superhighway. The plan was to have America be the first fiber optic country -- and each phone company went to their state commissions and legislatures and got tax breaks and rate increases to fund these 'utility' network upgrades that were supposed to replace the existing copper wires with fiber optics -- starting in 1992. And it was all a con. As a former senior telecom analyst (and the telcos my clients) i realized that they had submitted fraudulent cost models, and fabricated the deployment plans. The first book, 1998, laid out some of the history "The Unauthorized Bio" with foreword by Dr. Bob Metcalfe (co-inventor of Ethernet networking). I then released "$200 Billion Broadband Scandal" in 2005, which gave the details as by then more than 1/2 of America should have been completed -- but wasn't. And the mergers to make the companies larger were also supposed to bring broadband-- but didn't. I updated the book in 2015 "The Book of Broken Promises $400 Billion broadband Scandal and Free the Net", but realized that there were other scams along side this -- like manipulating the accounting."
I've been playing around in my head with tangential feature. I run into situations where I must make some assumptions about a codebase and its context which aren't translated into the type system. I add comments to remind readers whenever I feel like an assumption should be stressed.

However assumptions change with time. I'd like to be able to cross reference all the places in the code base where certain assumption was made to a readme section with necessary details and background. In my ideal world IDE would resolve these links and made them easier to maintain.

_EDIT: word order_
Some of the second world war propaganda looks so very quaint in today's world. It had a very different style to what we see today. The push was to get citizens to unite and all pull together to make the war effort a success. Today the main goal of the propaganda that's being so widely disseminated seems to be to tear systems down and drive people apart. It's sad.
Funnily enough, for Serbian (Croatian etc.) speakers, Russian sounds very archaic, probably due to lots of Latin, Greek, and German loan words in Serbian.
Very nice write-up. We had the same requirements and went through the same stages and similar conclusions. Though we opted for #2, using Stripe+Quaderno, to create us tax reports. The VAT submission and processing by our accountants has been trouble-less. A bit extra paper work (well, PDFs) but the accountants do most of that. Quaderno writes and emails the invoices and there's some issues with customization, never mind some users get confused seeing both Stripe and Quaderno URLs. Automated testing is a challange with two API involved, we found mocking responses to be impossible, and both APIs keep changing over the past years. Starting fresh in 2020 we might have gone with Merchant of Record, too.

> Note that VIES is a government system that has been known to be down for maintenance

Way too often. And each country has different maintainance windows.

> Post-Brexit, I guess that the UK will be treated as if it were a non-EU country

That's our assumption, too.
This is actually one of the more advanced features.

Since Paircast works with git, we can link each LOC to the point in the video where it was created. Take a look at the `git blame` and the Paircast links in the sidebar.

https://github.com/haxordx/paircast-demo-1/blame/main/main.j...
Kudos for building a game engine, especially in Rust.

What was the machine's spec to run the benchmark on the ECS? I don't mean to pour rain on the parade, but 1 millisecond to retrieve a component looks really slow. Was it mislabeled as in 1 microsecond? For a game with a 1000 entities, there would mean one whole second to process one component of all the entities.
Based on the "being in tech for about a decade" his "initially looks old with the beard but has young looking eyes" and your comments here, I'd put him squarely in his 30s.
The slightly odd thing is that that looks like the author of Screeps.

I'm sure it's not though ;-)
MI5 moves UK Terrorism threat level to “SEVERE”
I think Don Rumsfeld could definitely help bridge the gap between Nassim and Nate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
Well, you could definitely burn yourself with a powerful mm wave generator; but I'm not sure if that really says anything about safety.
I was miserable with my PinePhone until I found out about https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch - this is an Arch-based distro that works very well, ime. Previous attempts results in glacial response times, sub-day idle battery drain, broken software updates, and overheating.
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I think you missed the part where we run the test 100,000 times per iteration. I promise its really fast :)

edit: but i do agree that the title is a bit unclear. ill fix that now
Yes. I am entirely comfortable in saying that the economic consensus is strongly against the Austrian and Chicago perspectives. Both of these schools value prior ideology over empirical data. It's a "debate" on forums like this, but not even remotely so amongst the economists I talk to.
Ask HN: Alternatives to q/kdb?
I'm not referring to the much talked about speed of k. Instead, one idea I really like in k is how the database is the programming environment.

The standard e.g. python + postgres setup suffers from having the data wanting to live in 2 places: in the db for long term storage and in your application memory, for manipulation/research. So you end up marshalling data to-and-fro, writing boring code dealing with the subtleties of slightly different types in python vs postgres. Maybe you even try using an ORM, which comes with a host of problems. You also have the problem of not knowing exactly where to put business logic; usually, if it can he expressed as a constraint on a table, it should leave in the database. But that's not always the case, so you end up putting some stuff in the client code.

In q/kdb, the database and your application process are the same. It's a joy to naturally interspread q-sql with q code - it's the kind of step change that maked you wonder how were you managing before discovering it.

The closest I've come to reproducing this is with pandas + storing csvs on disk, but this has a couple of problems:

1. Pandas syntax is, let's be honest, a hack. They're doing their best, but they have to comply with python syntax rules. You also have like 50 different date and time types. The table index is either useless or actively getting in the way most of the time (and I could go on).

2. Using csvs is also a hack. It's not nearly as efficient as a binary format, type information is easily lost. The format doesn't allow for easy partitions either, so it's limited in how it can scale.

Anyway, rant aside, are you aware of any other attempts out there of moving code into the database?
You Have an Hologram Call
I'm sorry but this is simply false. Example in German, "die Hose", "der Sport" - s is spoken completely differently. Also, "die Schule" - sch is spoken (almost) the same as s in Sport. In Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian if you write "s" you say "s", no matter if it's first or second or third letter or if it's surrounded by "c" or "t" or "a" or whatever.

Especially it's false in French with 17 different ways to write "e" or "o" even though it's spoken the same...
I would have loved to store the media within the git repo that Paircast creates, but unfortunately that requires `git-lfs` which developers absolutely hate.
Similarly my previous trash company raised rates several times the year before last nearly doubling the cost, then a competitor came in at the original price and virtually everyone switched. They offered to lower us back down when we canceled the service but they were a day late and a dollar short. They still send us letters begging us to come back.
That "Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000" is way out of budget for me.
$1300?
Thought this thread related to home office printers.
Competition is great for consumers. The government should be allowed to compete along with the private sector. The winners of this scenario are the citizens and the people who work for these companies.

I've seen exactly this scenario play out in Santa Cruz. Comcast had a virtual monopoly. Even as recently as about 5 years ago one of the best internet packages was up to 20mbps (4mbps in reality) for $40/month.

The city announced a partnership with Cruzio for municipal broadband and virtually overnight Comcast started offering 200mbps for $50/month.
Today you can get around 400mbps for $55/month.

We should do the exact same thing with healthcare (public option).
There are no spelling bees here. We learn to read and write (with two alternate scripts, Latin and Cyrillic) in the first grade, and that's it. It's easy, unless someone has dyslexia, or a similar condition.
Taleb is seriously proficient at probability which can be judged from his technical publications.
It's definitely easier to talk about coding while you do it.

I make heavy use of voice notes myself.

A transcription of those voice notes isn't something I've found useful. I have one, since it's just a little script but there is a very good reason that "stream of consciousness writing" isn't how we do ... anything.

I'm very curious to see how this can be used but I'm not immediately convinced, you generate commit comments while you write code, documentation is a completely separate thing.

A stream of comments on the why of some parts of code, for people who screencasted the development, would be useful. You could reorganize that stuff and get a really nice set of data about the reasons for code evolution.

That's not user facing documentation however, and providing design docs as documention, especially as stream of consciousness design comments seems like it might not be what people expect or want.
> I'm curious why cities don't directly lay down the infrastructure work for broadband access.

Wondering the same thing here (Switzerland), but I might not understand the context: decoupling the "cable" from the "provider" is not common in the US, or there are some other complexities that I don't understand?

In my case the company "Swisscom" opened half of the sidewalk, connected my apartment building to their FTTH infrastructure, then sent me a ton of flyers etc.. to advertise their Internet, but I still decided to use a tiny provider located 100km away (being small, high customer focus etc...) => works since 7 months perfectly, latency is good (e.g. 2-8ms to ping 8.8.8.8), etc... .

My parents had basically nothing (half-broken copper wire), then on a random day the city's electricity&water&gas company team suddenly turned up, installed the FTTH cable (old house => turned out to be super-complicated to push that tiny cable through the house's structure => took them 4hrs), then they left, that's it => me and my parents then had multiple discussions about providers and they finally chose "Sunrise" (one of the major ones in Switzerland) and everything so far has been perfect.

As far as I understand how things work here, the company that provides the cable earns money paid by the providers that use that cable, which in turn earn money paid by their customers => everybody earns money, everybody is happy.

For very small communities (e.g. the one where my parents live - ~800 inhabitants), the town/village might have to directly finance a part of the costs needed to lay down the cables (which in turn are covered by common taxes), but that in turn makes the small community more desirable by whoever takes it into consideration when moving.
10 miles is a lot if you're just getting into it and have a heavy pack. To suggest that only something extreme could cause that is naive. Could be limited by a minor foot problem.
Being able to automatically translate the texts would be a killer feature. It's probably outside of the scope for this product but language is quite a significant barrier for at least 80% of world population that doesn't speak English.
Hancoski also has an active facebook page. I won't link it but I found it with a Google search and he last posted in Dec 2019.
Sure, that's the vendor lock-in that Xilinx and Altera both bank on - A sort of Stockholm syndrome. But as newer players enter the FPGA field (a lot of the basic FPGA patents have expired over the last five years or so) open source is going to be the best bet for them to both get decent tools and win some market share. It's not like Xilinx/Altera will lose any significant market share anytime soon, but I can see a slow erosion on the lower end over the next 10 years or so. It'll probably look like the FPGA pie getting bigger with newer players (like Lattice) expanding into the smaller design niche. BigCorp has apparently been doing FPGA designs for many years now, but there are a lot of smaller companies that are just starting to consider jumping into doing FPGA designs.
Given that the audio files don't need to change too often, is storing them in plain git an option?