skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I still have a moral obligation to show some concern for my fellow human, even if they live on the far side of the planet. Cheaper, reliable access to food is one part of that.

2) Famine causes stability problems, unstable countries are more likely to turn into problematic countries and humanitarian crises. See: Syria

3) With globalization, a rise in food prices on the far side of the planet still has (eventual) price effects in other parts of the world, including here.

4) I don't feel comfortable washing my hands of it and saying market forces will take care of the problem, when it means the price of food will fluctuate above the grasp of the least fortunate. The resulting easily preventable deaths are on our hands if some trivial amount of subsidy or technological progress would have kept prices low enough for those who need it.

5) Same thing goes for access to water -- we should support access to water while making it more sustainable and cheaper.

6) I'd like to get to a post-scarcity world, not just a post-scarcity country.
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a big military contract for Hololens. Before that, they announced a Discord acquisition, before that finalized Bethesda acquisition, etc. You're right that it might be my bias (I work in games, game engine and XR, not web), but all of those were reported by tech media like The Verge and mainstream publications tech reporting, not gaming or niche VR sites.
All this in an environment where new unemployment claims are coming in at 700000/week, almost three times baseline.
Hi all, visualization developer here.

The idea for the visualization comes from my challenges working with user session data in several tech companies (however, it can readily apply to process data in manufacturing and services industries, sequences of plays in sports, etc). Raw events/logs are usually considered hard to work with, so it is common to collapse them into key metrics/dimensions and plot those in dashboards. This works well for basic reporting but not so much when one needs to root cause observed changes/differences in metrics or wants to explore data to find product gaps/opportunities. Here are a couple of very common questions: why have conversions dropped in an updated UI? What do users do when they don’t convert?

Additionally, SQL-based tools, which are commonly used for analytics, are pretty inefficient for querying sequence data. Most table schemas and query languages assume metrics/dimensions data structure, which doesn't readily lend itself to asking questions about the order and relationships between events in the same stream.

With this data visualization, I am exploring two major questions:
how to visualize sequence data in an intuitive way?
how to intuitively ask questions of sequence-data?

To play with the first question, try hovering, clicking, double-clicking and right-clicking on the Sunburst graph. To explore the second question, read through a few examples of the query language below the graph and then try adding a few queries into the “Rules to filter & modify sequences” widget. This is just a prototype, so can be rough around the edges.

Would love to get your feedback and ideas for improvement! Especially curious about interesting questions, which the visualization can’t help answer yet, and ideas how to add that capability. Would also appreciate ideas for other popular datasets to plot. If you have a business sequence dataset, which you’d love to try with the visualization, please reach out to me over the email in my profile.

Thanks for checking out the data viz and happy to answer any questions!
I like cooking for people, haven't had much occasion to do so this past year....
Heh, I've had to haggle down to sticker price. Keep in mind that increasingly dealers are putting significant line items on the sticker. "Underbody rust prevention spray", "Upholstry sealent", 3rd party alarms (often just a kill switch), and things like "market price adjustement".

Seem various hot/new cars (WRX, WRX STI, Forester XT, Ford Focus RS, VW Golf R, etc) list on the floor well above MSRP.
This is very smart & creative.

Without stealing any bit of thunder from OP, there are Free/Open CDNs to host entire Blog package. All you need is a device/machine to generate static content & push them to these free CDNs (eg GitHub pages or Hostry).
Agreed, but I think your Google idea would be pretty funny.

Google sunset - from now on each product will have a countdown clock on its webpage to its death which is either when the clock hits zero or the lead dev makes promo, whatever comes first.

Another easy target would be the release of the 16th chat application that’s even shittier somehow.
It sounds like a loaded question, but a perfectly valid one :) If you're asking whether I actually change the tools I complain about then the answer is "no".

The reason is that if you hate how, say, coreutils works and have a strong vision of how it should be restructured, it will boil down to being off-putting to the mainteiners at best and - at worst - becoming a rewrite anyway. This is why I see my role as more of a propagator of tools that want to dethrone the current defaults: I look out for new exciting projects that have wildly better ergonomics than what's most common and I recommend them to my friends. And given that I'm running a hackerspace in my city, I have a bit of a reach so I think that this strategy might be a net good. I also try to share knowledge on how to code and keep in touch with FLOSS communities, so while I might not be contributing code directly, I (hopefully) end up bringing contributors anyway.

And while we're talking about spreading the word when a project has good ergonomics, here are some examples I personally love:

1. "glances" - a tool that combines a couple of tools like top, iftop, iotop and various other monitoring programs into one CLI dashboard. It's a bit chunky, but its functionality justifies it.
2. "fd" (cargo install fd-find) - a simpler version of "find". instead of crazy "find -iname 'something" you can just do "fd something". It's also faster.
3. "ripgrep" - like fd, but for grep. Defaults to recursive grep and skips .gitignore, so you can just type "rg variableName" and see all occurrences of it within files in your directory tree.

But you're right, I love to complain and quite frankly, in many cases I'm disappointed by priorities some projects choose in terms of ergonomics. Disappointed up to the point that I gave up sending patches - or even filing issues (example: GitLab). Perhaps a solution to the problem would be to have something like a GitHub badge signalling "UX feedback is welcome" or "RTFM", depending on one's design philosophy? That would help developers reach their target audience, regardless of which side of the argument they prefer.
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I already have SE, I just wanted to know why I'd ever use it; from what you list it seems like everything can be covered via mods in the regular edition?
The surprises never cease:

> Further below, in § 4.2.2, it's noted that the ordinal day number of the week starts at 1, which is Monday. 2000-01-01 is defined to be Saturday and the week calendar continues as a series of contiguous calendar weeks. This leads to e.g. the first day of 2019-W1 (a Monday) being 2018-12-31.
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> Docs aren't a replacement for a good UX.

Tmux is a command line application, and the man page is a well understood convention for anyone operating on the command line. I don't think it's unfair to fault tmux for poor discoverability because its manual is informative, easy to read, and fits in a single man page. It's also unnecessary to "read through all of the documentation" before using tmux, spending 3 minutes to read the first two sections would suffice.

> Press ctr+b, then ?. Compare this to screen's ctrl+a, then ?. Both are quite terrible, but tmux definitely leaves users more disoriented.

There's no difference between the two. People who refuse to read the manual or any of the abundant online tutorials won't be able to deduce either.

> A simple message saying "you are in XYZ mode, type :help xyz-mode to get help" could go a long way.

I'd prefer applications like tmux not stand out more than necessary. Displaying that sort of message every time I press some key can get annoying pretty fast.
Send all your reports of possible violations and all tips about wrongdoing to /dev/null. The Protocol Police are listening and will take care of it.
Expelled.
Former Seattleite... those are (were?) legit KOMO news anchors. I believe the person on the left's name is Keith Eldridge. I don't remember the name of the person on the right, but I do recognize them.
> You buy a cert-

Where though? This is what I mean by place, I would like to know the best place people get this certificate.

Again, coming from Mac, I go to Apple, for Windows where do I go?
It ought to be possible to find another clip of the same anchors in the 90s, which would settle the issue. I spent a few minutes on Youtube and found a lot of KOMO news clips from 1995 but none with those anchors. I still think it's authentic because it would be so hard to fake. If anyone really cared they could probably get someone at the TV station, which still exists (https://komonews.com/), to confirm that the clip is real.
> I'm assuming Seattlites would be able to confirm.

Perhaps, however remember the Mandela Effect. I'd expect ong time KOMO viewers and staff to recognise the presenters, and I'm sure they were the right ones. I wouldn't trust their recollection of this story though, especially once they had seen the video - after all the camera never lies.

Remember news anchors read dozens of these stories a day, to recall one specific prank 25 years later isn't likely. Unlikely KOMO still have recordings of their output from back then.
Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus?
A lot of post viral stuff seems to be autoimmune, and we don't treat autoimmune well. Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia weren't even recognized as real things not that long ago. Others like RA or Hashi's we suppress the immune system and/or rely entirely on simple tests to determine medication levels instead of relying on patient testamony and testing instead for over medication symptoms. These feedback loops are amazingly complex and looking at a few numbers doesn't cut it. In addition we know diet and environmental triggers are a thing from many studies, but doctors don't say "eat more greens" anymore, they say lets do a test now take this pill.
I think that’s a right of passage! https://twitter.com/nepthar/status/1324812161479311360?s=20
Beautifully said.

What is to be done? (What then must we do?)
No. No, they didn't. They might have, perhaps, if they were there and had seen it. But they didn't, because they weren't there. You were.
I'm willing to bet that there are a lot of people here who simultaneously believe two things:

- People should be able to put their money into anything they want

- There should be strong safety nets to protect people who have lost their money/income
What extra "safety margin"?
Build quality is fine on mine. The biggest issue, by far, is the steep rate of decline in battery capacity. I have a 2 year old Model 3 Performance, which started at a 310 mile range. In only two years, my maximum range, at full charge, is down to 255 miles.

It's a stepwise function, also, not linear. You might wake up one day expecting to take a road trip and discover that the BMS has decided to randomly take 5kWh of cells out of the pack.

In about another year, my car will be limited to local commuting only.
$60 BTC, $20 Coinbase, and $20 ETH is what I'm considering moving to, from previously $100 BTC.
Oh my. Sorry to who hosts that site!

(FWIW, I think the darkhttpd's website uses... Apache)
> New mutations will have to overcome that partial immunity (through vaccination or prior infection), or mutate very far, which is very rare.

We don't know whether it is rare or not. And we don't know how long immunity lasts. The Flu hits us every year.
The fetishization of Asian women is insane. If you search for "asian" on Reddit, the vast majority of results are porn subreddits.
I suspect that we aren't so far apart on this as one might think. The more central an issue is to your life, the better the rewards for developing some local expertise are. One can imagine that this is why some people develop into the domain experts they are, that field was central to their life.

I think, however, this is a different discussion. The article was about the value of domain experts and trust in them, and I feel it's sad this is somehow contentious (although thankfully less so on this forum). I believe another article could be written about the need to improve access to relevant domain experts (your premise I believe) and the need to increase accountability of experts/professionals (another person's premise). Both are worthy areas to examine once we acknowledge the importance of domain experts and offloading/delegating to them...
Yes, Free and Open Source software can sometimes be difficult to build and set up. And even that's better than the software not existing at all.

The tweet misses the point. The choice is not between "hacky, janky free software" and "well-made, professional free software". It's between "hacky, janky free software" and "paid software".

Don't like FOSS? Pay.
It's not though. What definition are you using?
Because there are no flights for airmail to travel on. We have the same problem in HK since the border is almost completely closed. We can only send mail by ship to most destinations unless it's couriered.
Presumably it was the tape that degraded over the decades (perhaps stuffed in a box, moved from house to house, thought of as junk until they had the idea to post it on the internet)
Good, the US has almost no one unemployed so I see no reason we shouldn't be adding to the labor pool.
Usenet would have, there would be mentions on a pro or anti (mainly anti) microsoft group about it. It was 1996, not the stone age

Google has lost a lot of old posts from those days, but I'd be surprised if it would have lost all of them.
https://weatherchannel.fandom.com/wiki/KOMO-TV#Previous_Pers...

From here, I looked up pictures of anchors who worked in that time period, and I see Eric Slocum (now deceased) and Margo Myers who did evening news together in that time frame, and look quite similar to the people in the video.

EDIT: someone else identified Keith Eldridge, who definitely looks like a match for the video.

https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge
This hits hard. I entered a new position being passive/humble and now it's difficult to turn it around
I think that there is some nuance:

Day trading and short term plays are a casino. It is a zero sum game where every winner has a loser.

Long term holds, index investing, etc. Is arguably not a casino since there is very much a way to play that is not zero sum. You are counting on dividends, actual value being created, and it is possible to make money without there being a 'loser'.
A model being coupled to a system == a model that can influence the system's state through a means

> a model that is meant to guide action (basically any useful model) needs to be tested in action

No, it doesn't. For example, the vast majority of work on modeling the stock market is done on machines completely sandboxed from any ability to make trades and are owned by companies who will never make a trade themselves but instead return an API response with a yes/no. Whether that is fed directly into some sort of automated action is largely irrelevant as the ability for an individual trade to cause a measurable impact on the market is negligible until it isn't. So, these systems are built separate from the system they model and learn entirely through observation.

tl;dr: weather forecasting models don't have an action to take and also can't influence their system. And yet they learn and grow more accurate.
Which in no way directly excludes the export of vaccine to other countries - as I have mentioned the US has directly exported to canada and mexico and its properties are creating vaccine for over 70 countries including every country in the EU.
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Good call, this definitely looks like the same guy: https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge
Not currently, but I'm interested in supporting that.
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Could someone post a link to a PDF of the original article please?
I don't tend to read it as shouting unless the contents are clearly angry. I've always seemed to parse it as more of a monotone 80s/90s computer voice. I think growing up using DOS and BASIC made me just associate all-caps with computers.

Honestly I'm a little surprised that people who've likely seen their share of BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME would still read that as shouting.
Rather than texting the consumer a security code and having them enter it in the browser, you could display a security code in the browser and have them text it to your automated system.

But there’s still no way to know if that number later gets released to another person.
I am both surprised and not surprised that a /r/ISO8601 exists.
There is a short video showing the site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKYo1XiyVWU
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Perhaps, but Reddit ≠ the internet.
That explains it probably. I now remember the IT-admin mentioning FTP. Thanks for the insight
I had both vaccines shots and prob got covid last week. Had no nasal congestion, 100F low fever coming and going, little fatigue, night sweats. After I felt more normal, developed a little cough that I still have.
Just tried this and did not get a single NWS result. Skin care was #2
Or PERL Embarrassed Rasmus Lerdorf!
Don't have the time to host myself, much rather use something already built and battle tested.
The Earth “day” also drifts over time. If you’ve ever thought today was longer than the last, then you are statistically correct!
They're clearly taking a reinforcement learning approach. Just a few thousand more returns and you'll be good to go!
I'm also interested in this topic and have surveyed the existing and am sad to report there is no excellent and universal solution, merely good enough ones. Adopting DBus goes a long way because it gives you introspection, GUI control and concurrent access for free.

The way forward seems to be to stick to a single blessed extension language and try to reduce the pain points when integrating with IDE, debuggers etc.
They remained a couple of genes because Excel routinely mangles the names into dates. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
Thanks for sharing these and I think these really help
Design systems which mirror their own communication structure
Disappointing that your manager, who you liked and described as fun and effective, wanted to fire you for it.
One in 8 died is pretty bad for average age 65.
For a long time, the internet anonymity was considered to be main differentiator between modern, free America, and more strict regimes.

However, until privacy is guaranteed by constitution, there will be always a temptation to make things easier by tying your personal id numbers to accounts.
Dr Fauci spent the initial months of the pandemic telling people not to wear masks. We can rationalize why he did that, we can understand that experts make mistakes, but the end result was an undermining of public confidence when later the consensus in the liberal media switched to people who don't wear masks are stupid and selfish.
This framing makes the whole thing sound like a nefarious plot, but I suspect the reality is more simple: you can't pump-and-dump a lottery, the draw is tightly controlled.

The parts of the penny stock / meme stock world that are drawing lots of negative attention right now are the online communities where anonymous people are giving plenty of "not financial advice" and disclaiming it away with a statement like "do your own DD" (due diligence). Obviously, yes, you should do your own due diligence when acting on a stock tip from a stranger. But even that assumes that the stranger's tip was made in good faith, and wasn't just designed to help them unload something they bought and want to get rid of profitably by hyping a market to unsavvy buyers.

With a lotto, you can see the projected winnings, know the draw date, and usually even know how many other people are buying tickets. With penny stocks from reddit, there's a decent chance the guy offering the tip about which stock to buy plans to exit long before his target price, because he strung together a plausible hype pitch to trick you into getting stuck holding the bag.

The state is usually prevented from lying about possible winnings to sell more lotto tickets.

I'm not sure whether more regulation for retail investors is a good thing or not. But I do think it isn't a very genuine comparison to say that regulating financial markets is a farce because lotteries exist, there is much more information asymmetry in retail stock trades.
I think their formatting got swallowed by HN:

char-- 16 bits

short --16 bits

int --16 bits

long-- 32 bits

long long -- 40 bits

float-- 32 bits

double -- 64 bits
I never liked this socialist angle. Even a worker-owned collective is capable of the same abuses that a capitalist-owned corporation is capable of. Humans are fundamentally selfish and vile, and they will always oppress each other if given the opportunity and incentive.
You could see an investment in Coinbase as more diversified. It's an investment in the entire cryptocurrency space.

If you buy a specific cryptocurrency and that particular one is hacked or whatever, you lose. But Coinbase won't be sunk by any one cryptocurrency failing. It will be approximately as successful as the most successful cryptocurrency regardless of which one it is, because they all eventually need some kind of connection to the banking system and the US dollar.
That's very expensive for what's effectively cordless broadband internet including unlimited texting and calls?

Not compared to contemporary broadband prices in the US...

Also the price drops if you setup autopay.

What are you comparing to? This is Starlink territory.
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