skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue there is a correlation between liking and trusting. Not just data specifically, but overall trust. I'd think data would fall under the umbrella.
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To be fair, the paper also looked at behaviors like increased washing you hands and found that they tracked with income as well.
No, more typical is a 22yo taking a pee against an alley wall behind the bar and being arrested for indecent exposure. Calling everyone a sex-offender just makes this a useless morass.
This is how pretty much all of this stuff goes for natural resource extraction in western US. Same thing happens for timber extraction/runoff/roads, etc. out west. If you want to stop it you throw speed bumps in its way and hope that administrations change. It is very likely that under Biden the EPA/Forest Service/BLM/BIA may have different priorities.
I've spent the last two weeks making an Arduino-based "air" MIDI controller. Kind of like a theremin but with cheap sonar modules (distance sensors like they use on toy cars).

It's incredibly fun to play. It's not accurate enough to control a pitch with precision but for a controller, to drive filters, modulators, etc. it's perfect.

Also, my kids love to play with it -- not in a "musical" way but to control the music while they dance. It's a way of using it I hadn't anticipated and it's super nice to see them do it.
A few months ago I spent a week of my vacation reverse engineering Zelda Classic[1], an awesome tool made by Zelda fans which has many awesome custom-made Zelda-like games made in it.

I'm a web guy, so that's my medium of choice. I called it Quest Maker[2].

The game repo isn't public (haven't figured out what I want to do with this...), but here's the tool I made for converting the binary quest datafiles to JSON[3].

Particularly interesting to me was extracting the sound data from the datafile to recreate a MIDI file, and then using a WASM library to play it in on the web.

There is also a gnarly encoding to the datafile, so I had to compile the Zelda Classic datafile loading code and employ cython so the bytes aren't just gibberish.

[1] https://www.zeldaclassic.com/

[2] https://hoten.cc/quest-maker/play/

[3] https://github.com/connorjclark/zquest-data
Five or six years ago, I would have said, "Great! Now my Fitbit will be better integrated with Android and my Google ecosystem. Plus it will inject some much needed stability into a faltering company, to bolster the quality and advance their products. Yay!"

Now I think about the fact that I just looked someone up on contacts.google.com, then added a visit with them to calendar.google.com, and talked with them about it via gmail.com. They know so much about me already, and now they'll have my health history.

The only silver lining is that their security is probably better, and my data is less likely to be hacked and stolen.

But otherwise... Looking forward to a nice Linux/open software fitness watch, from a Kickstarter or other effort, so some of us can take better control of our data.
All about ADHD
A virtual 80s supercomputing Lisp machine from a parallel universe, including hi res graphics, P2P-based "Z3S5 Net" with its own markup and browser, and a comprehensive help system:

https://z3s5.com/

The machine and its Z3S5 Lisp are working fine, but the page is just a placeholder for now. There is nothing to download yet.
This is British media, but your point still stands :-)
Tools for campaigns to improve the urban experience through crowdsourcing, ML & HCD.
>ing is great, has made important and significant strides, it's not a yet science. It involves essentially a series of sophisticated, mathematically informed recipes for feeding data to giant algorithms and having them create something useful (maybe very useful but still).

So... scientists need to do scienceing until it is. This is what happened with Biology over the last 50 years after 2000 years of pinning things on cards and putting them in draws.
> The biggest advantage of YC is not money; its the human network.

I feel very lucky to be in a position where I don't have to buy my friends.
Before the movement of peoples accelerated greatly in the mid 20th century, identity was determined by a few factors and they were practically constitutive of who people were

Think about the adhoc communal living options that are available to people who want to live in intentional community in SF, consider side by side people like conservative Mennonite churchgoers in rural Illinois.

The idea is not that anyone can or should pull an L Ron, the point is that those identity factors are more or less taken to be extraneous of someone's behavior

They are default bad reasons to ban someone, not an exhaustive list, just good rules of thumb
Reading a bunch of computational social science papers and trying to figure out whether pivoting into social science halfway through a CS degree was a wise choice :)

In general: trying to figure out if academia is worth it or whether I should go join a startup afterwards :P
If people can't (won't) compete by being smarter, working harder, taking long term views, innovating, up skilling etc, they fall back on "but I'm white".

That's all this really is. The economy has moved forwards. People either moved to cities and upskilled (hence the hate for a mysterious metropolitan "elite") or they sat in rust belt towns complaining their disability cheque is late again and worrying someone poorer than them might get the money instead.

That's Trumps whole platform really. That's where the racism fits in. That is all the bs about draining swamps and elites. That's "make America great again". That's rolling back climate change rules (even the tiny ones the US actually has). Bolt on anti-abortion single issue voters and tax cuts for trillionaires to keep the senate on side.

This whole thing is what happens when you have 25 years of social and economic progress and people get left behind and refuse to make any effort to catch up...
Not sure that the UK is that car reliant. I guess in rural areas, but that's true in most countries. In cities, not at all.
We are going to have fabulously rich 1% more than ever in the history of human kind, free from all checks and bounds, they can just dictate what is "fake news" or "alt-right" or whatever taboo label.

Even if we ever saw Jeffrey Epstein's tapes, a huge chunk of the population would deny it as "fake news" because it was reported by an "media outlet with poor reputation".
Holy crap thank you so much for this! This was the primary thing I complained about for containers and why I never bothered to use them. I completely agree this should've been integrated with it and it makes no sense to me why. Containers as it is are pretty tedious.
For non residents.
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Virtua Racing de-make for Pico-8
> The pigeon has not yet been caught, but the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment says it will have to be put down because of the _danger of infection to local birds_.

The problem (in this case) isn't the bird breeding, it's infections that it might carry. I can imagine it's possible there's a tonne of diseases it might carry that could be passed to the local native & agricultural bird populations that they have no exposure to.

Australia's relative isolation means that there's many diseases that local animal populations have no immunity to.
These days I keep tinkering with min (https://min-lang.org). It is a small but fairly batteries-included concatenative programming language I've been working on for years.

Not many people use it of course, and it's not going to ever become mainstream, but I am using it everyday to perform small tasks and also more recently even to build small APIs for other personal projects. Plus I find that working on your own programming language is a very rewarding experience, and it stimulates creative thinking.

I actually go through phases... I have a few open source projects I keep coming back to every few months to fix issues, add small (or big) features, tweaks etc. the most notable ones are listed on my personal page (https://cevasco.org) -- it almost feels like I have my own very quirky and opinionated software ecosystem :)
"books are black on white and we read those just fine"

Now I wanna see a B&W syntax highlighting setup that uses all the tools available to a book. Font sizes, bold/italics, the use of display fonts here and there, including Comic Sans to highlight Really Bad Ideas...
I'm trying to get Joplin Server[0] to production-ready status. Mostly doing a lot of refactoring to clean up the code and add test units at the moment, and learning how to best package and distribute a server using Docker.

0: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
This is a misconception about what aquafaba is. Aquafaba is not the soaking water, it's the cooking water.

My usual process for cooking chickpeas is:

- Soak overnight in a bowl. Throw this water out.

- Boil for several hours in new water. Save this water, and boil it down further to make aquafaba.

Not all chickpea recipes allow for this; for example, falafel is usually made with chickpeas that have been soaked but not boiled.
It is not clear how the bird managed to make the 8,000-mile journey from the west coast of the US to southern Australia, but officials believe he is likely to have hitchhiked on board a cargo vessel.

This seems most likely to me. There are plenty of penguins over the years that have been kept as "pets" by sailors, then released or escaped in other parts of the world.
I'd wager thats more closely related to your diet.
Also that reducing infant mortality rate and other early death rates means the weak ones live long enough to breed. Unlike IVF, this just stalls genetics. IVF actively selects for fertility issues.
Robot fish equipped with tiny cameras could change ocean rescues
They speak like my grand mother pretty much (who's not from paris but from the south). Slow, old words and expressions, same intonation towards the end.
The “pistol and boo” drama was national news in Australia for weeks.

One of our most prominent politicians threatened to euthanise the dogs personally if they didn’t “bugger off back to the United States”.
This is very cool. Well done.
Last I checked your Google Home wasn’t exactly open either :)

They are both cutthroat but Apple specifically has taken a stance on privacy.
all of my Kroger brand cans state that they have BPA-free liners, so it ought to be possible to avoid this if you want to.
I'm working on a game builder to make remote team events more fun — imagine a trivia or Jackbox-style game customized specifically for your company or team. The UI is mirrored after a presentation/slide builder (e.g. Powerpoint) but you can add all sorts of deeper interactions like multiple choice questions, vote-for-your-favorite-answer games, and even image uploads.

It's called Slides with Friends: https://slideswith.com

As you might expect this started as a pandemic side project, but it's since turned into a full-fledged company and we've had lots of demand to solve the very real and very difficult problem of creating team connection/cohesion remotely.

Message me if you're interested in this space, I'd love to talk!
Saudi Arabia launches 170km city built in a straight line
I realize that the pre-Trump era was a long time ago, but if you look back to what people thought about Twitter the company circa early 2016, it was not positive. Their stock was on a one-way ticket to the dumpster, they were laying off staff with frequency, they were losing popularity to Snapchat of all things, people were pumping out articles about who was going to buy them out. If you want to know why it took them so long to ban Trump, it's because Trump winning the presidency and making it his primary speech platform propped up the whole company.

You can try to minimize this all you want, but it's not clear to me that Twitter is some runaway train that will survive without him, ignore the fact the government is starting to sniff around.
Agree. Try to be a good person and be honest. Treat your hygiene as important, clean up your home and maybe think a little bit about some clothes that look nice on you. That's all you need to do.
As someone who wrote a limited amount of Perl 5 before writing a not
insignificant amount of Perl 6 (now Raku), I find Raku syntax to be
deeply Perlish while also being more modern and internally consistent
than Perl 5.

IMO Raku has three standout features:

1. Grammars in the stdlib [1]

2. The absolute most flexible multi-dispatch system of any programming language [2]

3. The best regex syntax of any programming language [3]

In 2015, I had to write a DSL for a double-entry accounting system. That's when I discovered @jnthn's Perl 6 grammar debugger [4], which allowed stepping through a Perl 6 grammar line by line and visually seeing how the grammar was consuming a string. At that time I had very little programming experience, which made Perl 6 far and away the easiest way to write a custom DSL parser.

If you enjoy Erlang/Elixir multi dispatch, e.g.

def format({:ok, %HTTPoison.Response{body: body, status_code: 200}}) do
body
|> Meeseeks.parse(:xml)
|> Meeseeks.all(xpath("/*"))
|> Enum.map(&Meeseeks.tree/1)
|> _format
end

defp _format([{"current_observation", _version, current_observation}]) do
current_observation
|> Enum.map(&_format/1)
|> Enum.filter(& &1)
|> Enum.into(Map.new())
|> Poison.encode!()
end

defp _format({"credit", _, [credit]}) do
{:credit, credit}
end

defp _format({"credit_URL", _, [credit_url]}) do
{:credit_url, credit_url}
end

Raku does that in an even more flexible manner, destructuring included. I love how declarative it makes the code read.

However, I must say I've left the honeymoon phase of Raku far behind me now. In my experience, Raku grammars are insanely slow: at least as of many years ago, it was taking ~40 minutes to parse a ledger-style accounting format log file that wasn't even very big. When jnthn's grammar debugger got really buggy and less actively maintained, that defeated one of the biggest reasons I had to use the language. I've also experienced numerous bugs with Raku's type system, and just in general wouldn't write many things in Raku.

But to your question — I would write even less things in Perl 5. I have no use for Perl 5 now that Raku exists, and don't know why anyone would write Perl 5 in the modern day given how many other compelling options exist in its niche. Raku is different, and it deserves to see top caliber core development. It doesn't have that yet, and that's sad.

Frankly Raku isn't capable of replacing really any mature programming language for anything but informal scripting tasks where you don't care about speed, and where you don't need an “academic” tier type system. For those tasks, it is quite a fun language. I remain optimistic about Raku's future, and would seriously question the conventional wisdom of using Python or JS in its place for many, many things.

[1]: https://github.com/atweiden/config-toml/blob/master/lib/Conf...

[2]: https://github.com/atweiden/txn-remarshal/blob/master/lib/TX...

[3]: https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes

[4]: https://github.com/jnthn/grammar-debugger

[4]: https://vimeo.com/32044632
Ask HN: Do you still use test coverage reports
I was wondering if people are still using test coverage reports, and if so, which tools and whether the reports are aggregated somewhere (on premise or in the cloud).
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Well, the incentive can be as tiny as "I don't like them." Recall Cloudflare's CEO waking up "in a bad mood."
No, and in this specific instance there would have been no viable introduction. From the article, I think it's a male bird. But if it happened to be a gravid female then it's possible a population could have gotten started.

That's basically what happened millions of years ago with Hawaii's native birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drepanidini

Also, all native Hawaiian bee species are decended from a single female bee that landed there millions of years ago. Same thing with their native fruit flies. All from one pregnant female.
> except for mining security
where did you see that? I don't think their security model has any connection with Bitcoin mining. They are not merged-mining with bitcoin
I am working on ultra-low latency emulation. I have a RISC-V emulator (https://github.com/fwsGonzo/libriscv) that I am creating to fork itself really fast and use almost no working memory. Programs can make do with 64kb memory, which includes the emulator itself and everything it uses.

https://cloud.nwcs.no/index.php/s/iP6aYJaoBtXbbqM

Those measurements are from a production environment, meaning these numbers are very real! In a synthetic benchmark the fork happens at just ~200 nanoseconds, and it's really a meaningless number.
Instant Payments Pix[1] & Fed Now[2]

-[1] https://openpix.com.br/
-[2] http://openfednow.com/
A social media website for music enthusiasts. Not the first to build this, but we (1 software dev and 1 graphic designer) hope to bring something new to the table that other sites like Last.fm, RYM and Reddit don't. We have 3,500 users and gaining about a dozen per day. ~300 DAU and ~1500 MAU.

Right now you can sign up and connect your Spotify account. It will automatically record your listening history to build a music profile, which we'll expand on in the future. You can add people as friends, comment on other people's profiles. We're working on supporting other streaming services and building a reliable revenue model.

https://wavy.fm
I have decided to work this year more on the macOS applications, started with the tools I always wanted and use all the time.

Pretty proud of building a true Open Links, Mails, Files in any apps application, that just combines all the features you need in one.

So right now working on the update. SwiftUI can be annoying, but adding support for TouchBar, better keyboard navigation, and more

https://loshadki.app/openin/
When California Went to War over Eggs (2019)
This gives me some hope.

I once made vegan tiramisu for a friend using aquafaba made from boiled dry chickpeas, and the sweet/chickpea flavor tasted exactly like the worst kind of vomit-burp imaginable. It is one of probably 2 or 3 of several thousand meals I've ever cooked that I threw directly into the bin after having another person confirm the flavor.
Seems like an advertisement.
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An alternative to Nix that uses Starlark (python syntax) instead of a purely functional programming language: https://github.com/maxmcd/bramble

I struggled to climb the steep learning curve of Nix/NixOS and wondered what it would be like with a more familiar (to me) syntax.

It's been very rewarding to write. I was able to implement some ideas from the initial Nix paper that aren't present in Nix. Nix is also quite dependent on the use of the /nix/store path, but I was able to allow a user to use almost any path for their build store without sacrificing on the potential for a shared build cache. I also want to have

- better native support for things like building docker images
- better dependency management
- no build daemon
- etc...

I'm currently implementing sandboxing and finalizing some of the build structure, but hoping it'll be usable sometime soon.
In the wake of COVID, providers are struggling to fill their appointment books. Here's some free strategies to fill that calendar without breaking the bank - a few of which I bet you haven't thought of!
I've been working on WeBase [1] for a year now and am happy with how the platform is coming along.

It is a No-code platform for building web applications without writing code. This space is starting to get crowded but there are still relatively few solutions that allow you to create custom data models AND custom views/web pages etc. Most tools do one or the other but not both.

WeBase does reasonably well at both. Plus now we can deploy No-code apps to Netlify to give users global infrastructure with a really easy tool to build with.

Check it out! :-)

[1] https://www.webase.com
this sounds cool, do you have a video of it somewhere?
They release progestin, not estrogen. And even then they seem to release a 3-7x lower volume of hormones per day than pills.

I also would ask for a source on the relative popularity of the hormonal IUDs vs the non-hormonal copper ones; I haven't seen any source provide that sort of breakdown.
Asking cloud providers that use open-source for a free ride for their own profit while not contributing back to either contribute, pay or GTFO is definitely something that more software companies ought to do.
The point is that it’s not their data and they shouldn’t have it in the first place. It’s your data. I mean do what you want, but I believe your logic here is based on fundamentally incorrect initial assumptions.
_ https://share.securrr.app/ secure document sharing for mobile devices
Launch doesn’t seem like the right word.
Go watch a sunset and be amazed at a non-blue sky.
Looks awesome.

I wish there were strings and trumpets available.
Does it preserve web page layout?

It badly malforms things like tables, lists, diagrams that contain multiple images etc... for me.

The Firefox plugin seems to frequently fail to communicate with bear.

It also can't seem to clip any website you're logged into, for say you have a private wiki you're logged into, you try clipping it and it ends up just clipping the authentication page.
building a platform/brand where artists can transform their work into apparel, and earn a fair share!: https://www.museema.com/
Building a URL shortener that looks to do a lot more than the current offerings. I've found it a solid way to use old/random domains I've had and keep shared content up-to-date. Its live at https://fixed.link/ - I'd love feedback (its free to use, even without a registered account).
But the vaccines are not getting into arms. In theory there are 3 vaccines and if others are approved and ramp up production (like Oxford) then the rate can increase. Right now, that is all theoretical and total coverage is scheduled for early September 2021. That does not include children (<16) since I am not sure there is a children's variant.
The core developers are very thoughtful bunch on what gets into Tcl as well. It's nice to watch the back and forth traffic.
That was my first thought as well. However the About page shows this was created in 2016!
I don't have any stats to back this up, but the impression I got from the states is that the weight gain is distributed unequally.

Some people seemed very very fat.

Edit found something that would support that idea.

Proportion of people who are obese over the globe:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-men-defined-as-o...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-females-defined-...
I've been from 10% to 25% body fat and an confirm 15% is about right for the muffin top, and 20% body fat at the cutoff for a healthy level.
A C++ implementation of minesweeper (with no assets except for the font used for the numbers). I’ve been writing C++ professionally for 4 years now but I’m looking to familiarize myself with parts of the language I haven’t used before.
Perl is still a common scripting language in some embedded workflows for "serious" projects, among others like TCL and Lua.
for tui or webapps ?
lower real income for working class.
I once looked into purchasing pure ethanol, for the production of a topical liniment for martial artists. The duty to be paid per litre is eye wateringly high, to the point that it constitutes almost the vast majority of the cost. I came away wondering how manufacturers make any money. I guess, by volume.
Nope, because this isn’t about simple title, but control by a subordinate sovereign whose interest can only be reduced voluntarily or by Congressional action.
Spend the week to learn and build my Nix[OS] environments for full time use. Nix on my Macbook and NixOS on my Asus G14

On NixOS use PapperWM. The only tilling window manager I've found that works out of the box

https://github.com/NelsonJeppesen/nix-home-manager