skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frohes neues Jahr euch Allen!

A bit late to the party, but I still want to thank dang and the HN community for the many thoughtful discussions and for the space to give your mind some time off, when needed :)
This was true even before the internet. The Oxford English Dictionary owes its existence to the paranoid schizophrenic Dr. William Minor, who did his work from an insane asylum after murdering a man.
> Globalism 2.0 will put checks and balances for healthier international cooperation.

I'm curious about this one. Who do you think will put the pressure / lead the change? (In terms of organisations or gov groups rather than countries)
Even though Corona was already in the news at that time. Oh well, at least we weren't the only ones to get caught of guard.
You could get it to synchronise the time with just a teeny bit of JavaScript. Add this CSS:

*, ::before, ::after {
animation-delay: var(--delay);
}

… and this JS:

var d = new Date();
document.documentElement.style.setProperty("--delay",
-(d.getHours() * 3600 +
d.getMinutes() * 60 +
d.getSeconds() +
d.getMilliseconds() / 1000
) + "s");

I think this would do it. It roughly matches what I did a few years back for an analogue CSS-only (except for this) clock.

However, this does still have a weakness: if the browser is suspended (e.g. machine in standby) it gets out of sync. It doesn’t care about leap seconds, either. You could fix these things by triggering this position update every so often, but that would be missing the point of it.
I honestly expected Monero or Zcash to take off because it they both progressed on this issue but that just hasn't happened.
I believe the GP meant developers within Nintendo, e.g. making first party software.
Well, VCV rack is far from the definitive solution here. There are commercial alternatives like Reaktor which are much more powerful. Reaktor is powerful to a fault, you might say, but if you are running into limitations with VCV Rack then something like Reaktor is the obvious upgrade.

As an analogy, if VCV Rack is like a Unix shell that lets you pipe programs, then Reaktor is like a C compiler.
Tech's top seven companies added $3.4T in value in 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Parliamentary_Alliance_o...
When he wrote "state of fear" he had dunning-kruger syndrome
> As someone who has thousands of tabs open

This behavior always confuses me. To what end? Have you ever derived any value from a tab you chose not to close?
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Doordash for weed

Tech companies will close offices and have most employees work from home

Google will finally make a smart watch on par with the Apple wacth
I am using my game genie daily these days. My 4 year old does better on my old Nintendo since the controls are so basic. I had to replace all the capacitors on the nes before it would work and all my old games didn’t work right away they had to wiggle back and forth before making a good pin connection and I assume wear some of the tarnish off since the games since start better no messing around. I have always wondered how the game genie worked on a technical basis I will have to see if there is anything out there on the matter.
Vim already supports a decent file explorer view, if you edit a directory instead of a file. It’s sort of like emacs’ dired (DIRectory EDit).
Fireside Friday: January 1, 2021
Sony and Canon both have phase detection on the sensor. it's fairly accurate and would serve the same purpose as lidar, get really close to perfect focus so contrast detection af can bring it to perfect focus fairly quickly.
Some friends are the type who like things in part because they're weird, unpopular and unusual, or because a product flops and they're curious to try it before it's gone.
Physical synths are great because they have knobs and are great for real time tweaking along with playing. Also, some people enjoy some of the "special sauce" that analog synths have due to their imperfect nature.

...with that said: the DX7 is digital, and its UI/UX sucks. It has only buttons and menus, so no realtime control, and it's a bit unpleasant to use IMO. There used to be an external programmer unit with knobs but I never saw one in the flesh.

So, your VST is light-years better in terms of both UI/UX and sound due to better anti-aliasing filters and probably new features. Another good option if you enjoy the DX7 sound is the Native Instruments FM7.

If you want to experiment with a real analog synth may I suggest something in the subtractive synthesis family? Something Moog-ish is a great start! Behringer makes some very affordable ones!
Happy New Year from San Jose! Really glad to be surrounded by all of you in this community!
Brexit deal calls for DNA profiles to use a 20-year-old email app
Happy New Year @dang! Thanks for all your hard work as always.

Thanks for sharing these stats -- seems like HN is similar to other internet communities. 2% covering 83% of all comments is certainly pretty skewed. I do notice a tussle over upvotes/downvotes when making comments that might be against the HN vocal orthodoxy, so maybe that's where the silent majority make themselves heard? Via upvotes/downvotes?

What percentage of uniques have accounts here? Would be interesting to know if commenters are also a minority of total lurkers.
My response as well. But, that being said, he kinda nailed it.
Comparing the protein sequence between the virus and vaccine, it looks like codons 986 and 987 code for different amino acids. I looked it up and it seems like a very important bioengineered constraint. Membrane fusion can be blocked by mutating S residues 986 and 987 to prolines, producing an S antigen stabilised in the prefusion conformation. The introduction of this two-proline substitution yields soluble prefusion coronavirus S ectodomains (overcoming a major hurdle in subunit vaccine dev).
so kc tier
2021 will be the year of Linux on the desktop. You heard it here first.
Will have to model specifics and follow up.
I heard that story about Columbus, Ohio. I think “the industry” has a shortlist, though. https://www.columbusmonthly.com/article/20150126/LIFESTYLE/3...
If this is a serious prediction, I am sceptical. A number of years back Google tried to develop a non-invasive glucose monitor. The monitor relied on a sensor attached to a contact lens, that measured chemicals in tears. They failed. Measuring glucose without having access to the fluids inside the body is something that I doubt even Apple would be able to accomplish.
Space Karen, lol
I often feel these waves of ... something ... flush and course through my head when I drift off and am still semi-conscious. I know it happens when I begin to nap, I think too it may happen early in the morning, just before waking. It feels almost chemical.
Thanks for sharing, that's super interesting! If it's easy to dig up these stats, I'd be interested to know—how does that compare to unique viewers? What percent of page views are logged in? I suspect these numbers would be even more striking in that context.
These days the biggest issue is getting a decent labelled dataset.

Once you have that you just fine-tune a BERT-dervived transformer neural network.

See https://paperswithcode.com/task/sarcasm-detection/codeless for some examples and datasets.
After experiencing the brutal summer/fires in the Bay Area this last summer, I have decided to hedge my bets on a long life by smoking one cigarette a day. I also cycle 70 miles a a week, so I'm not sure if my plan will work
I would agree that the DX7's sound is really dated has honestly really negatively impacted some of my favorite songs recorded in the the 1980's [0][1], but I really cannot think of an specific instrument as distinctive and widespread as it. The Telecaster and Stratocaster were very popular, but it's very tough to pick them out in a recording from other types of electric guitars. Hammond Organs are distinct and popular, but nowhere near as ubiquitous as the DX7.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRLozwejDk
Facebook had an anxiety producing 2020
The British comedy panel show QI (Quite Interesting) had a segment on this. One of my favorite shows to learn all kinds of random topics.

Series N, Episode 15 -
https://youtu.be/PNKgry1c8Qw&t=100
Have terrestrial radio sources been ruled out?
Indeed, the Genesis (aka Mega Drive) brought a sound very different from what was around at the time. As an example, here is the rendition of the Battletoads soundtrack for the NES [1] which you can compare to the Genesis version [2]. Both by legend David Wise [3] of later Donkey Kong Country fame.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCFqF-IeeAk

[2]: https://archive.org/details/md_music_battletoads/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wise_(composer)
Yes–I go back and read them occasionally. By keeping things open I get frequent reminders to look at things and sometimes I do.
Show HN: New Yearly Pricing – 1MB Online IDE and Website Hosting
I predict that we'll see a sharp drop in real estate prices and rents in major cities. They are way beyond reasonable at the moment; my presumption is that the decline of small businesses will open up at lot of space. Given this and the radical shift to work from home, I presume that the cities will attract far less people (especially in high paid jobs) and therefore the apartment searching madness we see right now will hopefully come to an end.

In turn, of course, suburbs will probably rise in value and attractiveness.
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The IDE support use to be very poor but nowadays there are two really nice contenders :

- Jetbrains IDE with the Rust plugin (maintained by Jetbrains itself). The free IntelliJ IDE Community works really well. CLion or IntelliJ Ultimate are necessary for debugging support

- The Rust-analyser tool. A language server that can be used, in theory, on any IDE supporting the LSP protocol. Code is the most used IDE with this tool since it is the reference IDE of the project.
I know WU from the dropoff points where cheap labour bring their money to send home; they use an extremely bad conversion rate. Like paypal but even worse. Sources: official WU dropoff points in HK, SG, TH, NL and ES. The exchange rates + fees are indeed 10-20% removed from what they really are. Maybe if you send online it is 1%, but most use it to bring cash (from cleaning houses etc) to families abroad.

Edit:

> The pricing calculator literally says

Please go to a meatspace WU point and compare the conversion rates with the inter bank rates.
Related paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/35/E7348
A miner can not tamper with the ledger. A miner can prevent certain transactions from coming through if they are the only miner on the network, but they can't forge transactions.
The motion combat was fun but it's pretty brutal if you have a Wii MotionPlus that slowly drifts :(
As someone who helped migrate a university course from Matlab to python I must say proprietary features of Matlab had nothing to do with the reason it lasted so long.

Basically, it was mainly inhertia. Older professors that liked it and rarly used anything else and the fact that generally no one gets rewarded for actually rewriting parts of an existing functioning course.

As an instructor you basically create more work for yourself in the first time you migrate a course's programming language. (And you also annoy some senior staff when forcing them to learn new things)
If you get the time, you should. It's really a great game.
Using single process Firefox forks I often load in 500 tabs plus another 500+ suspended in under 4 GB. Of course I'm also running NoScript temp whitelist only and most sites are websites not web applications. But 1000 loaded tabs is certainly doable in way less than 16GB of ram if you don't use a multi-process browser. It's just a shame this is written as a chrome style extension (which modern FF supports) and not a firefox extension.
I can imagine a few reasons why a leash ordinance isn't being enforced, ranging from the relatively benign "no one has actually made a formal complaint to animal control", through the scandalous "one of the scofflaws happens to be a prominent local citizen, city official, or member of law enforcement" or " the park in question is in a poor or minority-dominated neighborhood", up to and including the entirely tragic "local law enforcement is preoccupied with a rampant violent- and property-crime wave". Most of these imagined scenarios are not mutually exclusive.

I'd bet on some combination of the above like "nobody has even made a complaint in 20 years because 'everybody knows' such complaints are ignored, but the Good Old Boys responsible for stonewalling back then have since retired".
I don't mean to suggest that your experiences are not valid. Or to make you feel like you're on trial. I mean to make you feel that you may benefit from a tweaked perspective.

What I disagree with is that there is such a thing as 'biasing positively'. People seek to build diverse teams. In my opinion, your colleague wasn't necessarily being done a favor if it happened they were performing poorly and didn't have a good feedback loop. Your CEO may have been profiting from this situation at the long-term expense of your colleague.
Why? The teams app is an example of poor engineering. I don’t see how you don’t realize this.
Since “find a geeky massage therapist” is not helpful, my guess would be to convert BC -> USD -> RUB.
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Same - and although I've been able to resist it so far, it's so tempting to retort, well fuck you too. I can see why people get pulled towards the extremes. The reasonable (in my case progressive stand point) is not good enough for the extremists.
Yes, but we're not talking about people who read the Bible here.

One example off the top of my head, Jeff Sessions once invoked Romans 13 to defend Trump's immigration policies:

>“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order,”

If he had actually read that book, he would have reached Romans 13:8.

>Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Or Romans 15:1.

>We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

At some point, you have to recognize that many people don't actually care what their holy books say. I maintain that a curse clause could work with those kinds of people.
I have a Freestyle Libre glucose monitor. It's not exactly continuous. I believe it lets me get a glucose reading as often as every 8 minutes. When I had to do finger sticks I would test my glucose an average of 4 times a day. With my new monitor I'm measuring an average of 20 times a day, without the pain of finger sticks. Inserting the sensor is almost completely painless, and I only have to do it every two weeks. Current CGM devices may not be "revolutionary", but they are a hell of a lot better than what I used to deal with.
Interestingly, none of the top posts have been about COVID, which has been arguably the biggest event of 2020 (the only thing that is related is the Twitter work forever from home announcement).
Wait, isn't $10k a seriously meaningful amount to hobbyists? E.g. Cleanly reverse-engineering SM64 was done by clever folks in their spare time.
In Megaman Battle Network, the “shadow net” had a name: UnderNet (UraNet, in Japan).
Same here. I quite like some of the filesystem interfaces Linux provides (cgroups for example)
Exploit Your Interest While It Lasts
So by their theory blind people don't need to sleep? Total bullshit.
I think the biggest synth from the current era will be the eurorack. Yes, it’s really a form factor and not a synth but it’s taken off in the past few years in a really startling way.
In this article, there is a mention of "constant battle going on inside our brains between different sets of neurons, fighting over who gets control of certain parts of the brain." Because of which visual cortex always gets activated (even in sleep)so that it's neurons are not repurposed for other activities. Hence we dream.
http://m.nautil.us/issue/91/the-amazing-brain/your-brain-mak...
Really?! That’s stone cold.
I've also heard of contractors selling nearly identical software to multiple agencies and charging each the full price of development (one reason open source has faced opposition), and sometimes decent excel macros can solve the actual problem.

You're totally right that if the incentives don't change, the choices made by execs won't change either. For example, a contracting officer I've met saved their agency a billion dollars by not continuing a failing contract, and was punished (to the point of leaving that agency) because that wasn't what the incentives supported.

How can USDS/18F be helpful to you and others in your position? The messages you list at the end are all true.
I'd say that roland drum machines and bass synths would be up there, especially in the past 30 years.
Twilight Princess is its atmosphere, though–it's just not the one that Skyward Sword is. Skyward Sword has more compact dungeons, sure, but I actually found them to be easier than Twilight Princess's. Sure, Twilight Princess is pretty big and a bit empty at times, but I feel this is just a setting thing. (Skyward Sword's overworld is kind of a weaker, larger dungeon to be honest.)
Regular use gradually bent the pins in the NES cartridge slot. Without really good pin contact, the NES10 lockout chip wouldn’t authenticate the cart, and the flashing red light and blanking screen were the indicators for authentication failure. Using a game genie increased the stress on those pins due to its altered insertion angle for the cartridge. So it wasn’t your imagination: game genie really did “break” your NES.

As it turns out though, the pin array can be easily removed and serviced (just clean the pins and gently bend them back into shape) with next to zero risk of damaging the NES. Of course, none of us had the web to look any of this up back in the day, and we were left with schoolyard superstitions like blowing on the cartridge. Now though, it’s quite easy to get a “dead” NES working again. Or just get the revised NES model from 1993 that dumped the NES10 lockout chip and the failure prone front loading slot.
My city has done quite a good job of making itself much more cyclist friendly over the last couple of years and reducing the speed people drive. Most of the roads were already more than wide enough before for bike lanes, but that came at the expense of people driving at 60km/h in densely packed urban areas (the speed limit is 40, but nobody cares).

- On quieter roads in retail areas they added painted white lines, but most importantly they've enforced them so delivery drivers don't park over the cycle lane.

- On roads in busier areas that had street parking they've shifted the street parking inwards a couple of meters, and put a cycle lane between the street parking and pavement. This means the driving part of the road is narrower, so people drive slower.

- On other streets that were too small for a cycle lane and street parking, they have removed street parking and put up a cycle lane separated with small bollards (a few cm high, so can be driven over). These are usually in areas where you would have only driven at 20km/h. We have a lot of cobbled streets and they aren't (I'm wondering if it's intentional) very well maintained, so most are very uneven. The only issue with these is that delivery drivers do park over them, because now there is nowhere else for them to park. Of course people complained about the reduction in street parking, but that issue was quickly forgotten.

- They changed a lot of road directions (bikes are exempt) so that you cannot drive through the city center to get across the city. This did increase traffic a little in other routes (this happened at the start of this year, so hard to tell because of covid), but it means that as a cyclist you can easily cycle through the city center which has much less car traffic. Of course people complained, but again it was quickly forgotten.

- A few streets that were popular for commuters were tested being pedestrian only in the summer (case numbers here were fairly low then, so traffic levels were maybe 75% of normal). Again people complained, but the issues were quickly forgotten.

- Proliferation of food delivery services have meant there are much more bikes on the road, so drivers are more cautious.
Fiction:

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. Very moving.

Piranesi by Susanna Clark. Like her earlier books, it had a strong story + original style + was very inventive.

Non-fiction:

The Great Leveller - Walter Scheidel

Sid Meier's biography snuck in after Christmas + I really enjoyed that one.
Who gets to decide if the result “ax + b” is biased? And by how much?

I believe in the wisdom of the crowds. I like democracy, direct democracy even more so.

We should stop pretending we know better than what our data is telling us, even if it hurts our feelings. Not everything true is going to make us feel good, more often the inverse is true.
HAPPY FUCKIN NEW YEAR, nothing like a kia ad and imagine all the people to start 2021. HAHA
So does melatonin give enhanced brain benefits since it leads to vivid dreams?
> cis male heterosexual married father

How I long for the good old days when people used the word "man" to describe this.
dang tootin'
Internet Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20201228100715/https://merecivil...
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> Korg M1 piano sound which became the "dance/house" piano of the 1990s.

And it's bass became famous from Seinfeld. Every time I hear that bass, I think of the irritating lead in to every Seinfeld episode. So grating.
I think Bitcoin does help people in North Korea though. Just not the average citizen.
Should the tech giants really be punished for being too successful? I don't think so. They got to their size by being better. Nobody thought yahoo would ever be unseated. Yawho?
That's not what aliasing means.

"Lollypop" sampling vs. real DAC output: https://mk0soundguyshosprmrt.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload...

As you've observed, the output of a real digital circuit includes the flat parts, unlike the infinitely thin "lollypops" that you see in DSP textbooks.

But the jaggies themselves are not aliasing, they're actually the result of anti-aliasing. The sample-and-hold reconstruction filter that practically every DAC uses is an anti-aliasing filter, albeit a crude one, but if you've chosen your sampling frequency correctly, the harmonics from the jaggies exist entirely outside of your passband. A simple RC filter removes them almost perfectly.

This is aliasing: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Al...

Digitally sampling an analog input signal is usually where you need to actually put some design effort into the AA filter, because you don't necessarily know whether the analog signal at your input has a lot of energy just outside your passband. Such an input can cause you to see an alias that's comparable to or louder than your signal of interest, and there's no way to get around that with direct sampling except for arbitrarily sharp AA filters.

But with a DAC, you know exactly what you're putting into your AA filter (your sampled signal convolved with a box), and you can easily arrange things so that the AA filter both works perfectly (sampling > nyquist) and is easy to design (sampling >> nyquist).
Chrome only preserves browsing history for 90 days.
Keeping tabs open can work around that limitation
Huuuuuge opportunity for this.
Particularly the P5P form of vitamin b6 will cause pretty crazy and vivid dreams