skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I messed up in my haste to experiment :)

I expaned my tests a bit and your version does indeed queue a task and not a micro task. I did find it to be somewhat less reliable than setTimeout, is there a particular reason why you used this scheme instead of a setTimeout based solution to queue tasks? Why did you choose this method in particular to queue tasks?

Also, AsyncTask and MicroTask are not fully equivalent. MicroTask is equivalent to a bare `await 0;`, but because AsyncTask wraps that in another async function it will queue a second micro task when the first one resolves, and resolve the promise when the second micro task resolves :)
I mistakenly used 0.1 instead of 1.0 but the _numerical_ error is still x10-17, the modulo is further introducing a discontinuity that creates sensitivity to that tiny numerical error, whether that is a problem depends on what you are doing with the result... 0.19999999999999996 is very close to 0 as far as modulo is concerned.

I'm not arguing against you just clarifying the difference between propagation of error into significant numerical error through something like compounding; and being sensitive to very tiny errors by to depending on discontinuities such as those introduced by modulo.
Reading through that article, the FB lawyer’s argument is pretty reasonable:

> I go into a classroom and invite a hundred friends. This courtroom. I invite a hundred friends, I rent out the courtroom, and I have a party. And I disclose — And I disclose something private about myself to a hundred people, friends and colleagues. Those friends then rent out a 100,000-person arena, and they rebroadcast those to 100,000 people. I have no cause of action because by going to a hundred people and saying my private truths, I have negated any reasonable expectation of privacy, because the case law is clear.

Was there more context the article left out about the specific level of privacy the party expected?
It would be an awful idea.

Latex can't produce HTML, it can't produce EPUBs or any other reflowable document type. It can't produce any document which is accessible to blind people (other than giving them the raw LaTeX file).

Note: You will find various libraries that claim to produce HTML output. I can tell you from experience none of them work, given a random LaTeX paper you download from, say, Arxiv.
A notice of no objection for Sunday’s march has been issued.¹

1. https://www.police.gov.hk/info/doc/nono/POERN19007953E.pdf
I would be willing to pay a premium for a car with no integrated circuits.
I recommend `latexmk -pdf <mainfile.tex>`

(This just runs latex and bibtex in the right order and the right number of times..)
The one car that actually gets software right?
It reminds me about the feeling of competition. You might fail during a tournament, but you know perfectly where you stand now.
I had used Thunderbird's RSS reader for ages, but last year I needed to work on both machines concurrently, so went looking for an alternative and found newsblur - https://newsblur.com is awesome, and works on mobile as well. (unaffiliated, happy paying user. it is free software so you could host it yourself if you want).
Another potential reason- especially for a reseller- is that they don't want to get commoditized. If they're just reselling x product and every reseller puts their price on the website, then one party will cut the price a bit, then another party will cut it more, and pretty soon it's a race to the bottom. Opaque pricing and an air of mystery helps them preserve margins.

Just like healthcare, come to think of it. Good luck finding out what the cost of procedures are at each hospital or provider
I could never understand why does a browser even have to know what codec is used in a video (let alone implement it) when there are ffmpeg, DirectShow and whatever the Apple alternative is. Same thing with picture formats: if I were developing a browser I would just support them all via ImageMagick or something like that.
> Proponents embrace LaTeX because of the total control it offers for document layout

Erm. Doesn’t a word processor or a specialized publishing software like Adobe InDesign offer more control over document layout? I thought LaTeX sort of takes over the control (which, some would argue, is a good thing, because you can focus on writing instead of formatting your text).
> The reason why consumers are unwilling to pay for service is because VCs have funded companies ability to give away tremendous value to achieve fast growth. Because of this consumers now have an expectation for free.

> Previously when software was sold at retail, consumers had no qualms paying for software.

When was this? I recall the warez, cracking and keygen scenes being huge years ago (before the rise of SaaS).
To be entirely fair I had the exact same problem with a "knob" interface. The variable resistor in the AC knob broke down putting the AC in the "just blow air as hard as you can, always" mode.

With a fully digital solution it should even be easier to provide workarounds for situations like that (e.g. remote screen on your phone). I'm not a big fan of touchscreens in cars though, but this particular argument doesn't feel strong to me.
While LaTeX makes a good language for writing maths, I always feel I want to add it is an awful system for accessibility. The PDFs / outputs created by other systems like Microsoft Word are much more accessible.

For blind users, LaTeX Tables come out as an unreadable mess. The large-scale use of Latex to generate PDFs makes academia extremely unfriendly to anyone who needs accessible documents.
From my own experience, no, at the top universities the upper middle class demographic is far more concerned about lining up high paying jobs, networking, and/or working on their general social status than any sort of political activism at all. The activism comes from other groups, if even then.

Maybe at small liberal arts colleges or less elite institutions your viewpoint might be true, but I can't speak for that.
>The argument is "if you share it with friends you've abandoned the right to privacy cuz they can share it with others".

If those are the rules then it seems copyright is out the window. Looking forward to Clash of the Titans 3: Facebook vs. Disney
Users grasp the idea that posting on social media is a public thing. It's like getting on stage and shouting to everyone in the room... It's not private.

But, Facebook is invading privacy in subtle ways that users aren't so good at grasping. Like the fact that Facebook remembers every website they visit. And how long you linger on a post in your timeline. And collects your location data even when you're not trying to broadcast it. And analyzes all of your private messages. And trains neural networks to recognize you so they can correlate you with other pictures throughout the internet (and who knows, maybe they're sharing those models with random governments or other companies).

That stuff is the real privacy violation, not the public posts. And that stuff is intentionally obscured from the users and vaguely articulated in their privacy policy.
Side note: I am the co-founder of Aidlab - a device and a platform that is widely used by biomedical scientists and students in their research (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY0YPOKNk88)

In my free time I am working on my next project - an open-sourced platform where everyone can contribute to help fight death. The platform allows uploading anonymized, structured health records - publicly available. Why? Dying is a number #1 problem that should be solved together.

OP, if interested, drop me an email: jdomaszewicz (at) aidlab.com
This is just one of numerous monographs written by Paul Baran (co-)inventor of packet switching, and cofounder of the Institute for the Future (IFTF).

I'd stumbled across these a couple of years ago and was proufoundly struck by Baran's thoughts and concerns. The entire set of his writings at RAND have been generously put online for free access:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html

There's very little from today's discussion not present in earlier periods.
It's pretty reasonable in the same way that the right to bear arms is pretty reasonable considering older technology (muskets), but perhaps worth reconsidering with M16s (much less nuclear missiles).
Why do you think it's less reliable? setTimeout gets clamped by the browser to a minimum of 4ms, so you waste a lot of time when all you want is a task boundary.
The assumption that most of western society is busy with securing basic survival seems like a constructed knockout argument. The fact that you are here to discuss the matter indicates that doesn't apply to yourself for instance.

As for how society would decide it, I see consumer pressure as decisive, the more ethical handling of data becomes a selling point, the more financial incentives companies have to implement and market it. It's visible right now in how Apple positions itself against Google as the more privacy minded company with enough public appraisal to challenge, if not invalidate, your assumption.
> like a sponge or a box of spaghetti

In what way is a sponge like a box of spaghetti?
> It is true that LaTeX requires some time to learn, but it definitely compensates for the time you can loose using word.

Yes but with LaTeX (or anything else that requires signifcant time to learn) you have to make a noticeable investment of your time upfront. If you already use and know Word you may be aware of its shortcomings but it can still be difficult to justify spending the time required to learning something else.

Especially because while you know that your current system (in this case Word) is annoying, you also know that it works. In the sense that you are able to produce whatever it is that you are using it for. Even though you might also recognize that the result could be better.

With switching to anything new, you don't know

- How much time it will take for you to learn it and become effective in using it.

- If it will solve the problems that what you are currently using has.

- That it won't have other problems instead.

And I think to a lot of people the perceived risk outweighs the potential gain. Especially for people who are working a full time job, have a family etc.

Furthermore, a Word document can be edited by "anyone". If you collaborate with someone else on something, switching to LaTeX means that either they have to learn it too, or they will have to tell you what changes to make and then you must do the editing.

Also, not every document is worth typing out in LaTeX.

I used LaTeX for a couple of years. It has some benefits but I rarely use it myself any longer. Most of my documents I write in Google Docs or in Markdown. Sometimes I use Markdown with a sprinkle of LaTeX and run it through pandoc to produce a pretty PDF with some formulas without having to use almost any LaTeX at all except for in a few select places in the document. For some documents I use Adobe InDesign.

Even one of my best friends who used to be a hardcore proponent of using LaTeX for everything I don't think he's using it that much any longer. Not to the extent he used to back when we were in the university.

In summary, the time cost is a hard sell and it's not given that the time spent learning it will actually be worth it.
Haha, not sure about that, but you most certainly aren't the "majority of professional developers". Neither am I, that's a whole bunch of people who couldn't care less about how you or I want to work.
You're pointing at the other side's violence to justify your own. You're the living example of what I'm claiming happens in this thread.
I got that, but if you don't know what a "webring" is I can understand how it's not that obvious at first.

I understood what it's about after reading it in detail but I don't blame people who have questions here. That's all I'm saying.
Wonder if you could go really low-end and successfully use Amazon Turk for this?
The Series of Unsurprising Results (SURE) Journal is starting to do this, but only for economics papers: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/surejournal/

Vox recently ran a good profile on them and the importance of null results in general: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/5/17/18624812/public...
This whole thread was quite overwhelming. I was starting to feel, can we just have a normal CPU machine and some C in it? That is horrible too, but in a way I can understand. And sure enough, emscripten gets mentioned. :-D
the right number of times

Unless the authors managed to solve the halting problem, I guarantee that latexmk doesn't always run them the right number of times. ;-)
This is awesome. Love seeing people dive into publicly accessible data, make sense of it, and highlight features which really stand out.

Good use of a data set and illustrates what's possible.
Oh, this is interesting — Observablehq isn't free software? It hadn't even occurred to me that it might be proprietary and not even runnable off the platform. You say, "when business is involved, there's no absolute guarantee", but to me, that sounds like an absolute guarantee that your documents will disappear — consider how many companies are still around from only 3000 years ago, right before the Bronze Age Collapse, and compare to how many documents survive from that time.
You have more power than that. If you want to hurt Facebook, spread the ideas that Facebook is unhealthy, uncool, and/or a detriment to society. In addition to stopping your personal use, influence your friends to deter them from using it too.
Never met a practising discordian who called themselves that, though I've met Subgenii and chaos magicians. I'm currently reading the Illuminatus! trilogy that supposedly kicked that movement off, but I only know about that through Steve Jackson Games' frequent references.

I don't know whether they're hiding or gone, it doesn't seem like a movement that would be big on recruiting so who knows?..
I figured out it was a notebook when it just showed a blank page in the first two browsers I tried to read it in.
Why are you so sure that that's what "society" wants? Most people do not want to pay Google $20/month to look stuff up on the Internet. If that's what you think "society" wants then you live in a hermetic bubble.
As far as i understand the bill doesn't apply to those with political or religious offense. what are these people protest against?
"Do nothing until we've solved poverty."

And there are many assumptions in your post that are not necessarily true:

1. Services could still be free to most users, with paid versions that provide more functionality.

2. Privacy invasion and advertising has a cost, that those very people worrying about food have to pay. They don't have to pay 2$/month for e-mail, but then will spend N$ for the expertly marketed toy/cereal their child is throwing a tantrum over, and their own purchasing choices will also be affected adversely - advertising works.
SJWism is a revanchist ideology and posture and as such it will never lead to anything other than negative sum outcomes. Since the readership here is well above average in intelligence, it’s unsurprising that a destructive ideology is met with some skepticism.

Edit: Why on earth is this flagged? The article we're discussing is exactly a negative sum outcome.
More and more countries are banning certain uses of plastics such as plastic bags and one time use plastics. Do you think that’s gonna have a distorted economic outcome? I think we could step out of the economic bubble sometimes and do things that are good for the environment - without which there would be no economic activity possible.
I work with the DOE and was at ORNL before Summit was released (I got to play on Summit-dev). When making these models there is A LOT of exploration happening. There's a whole class of visualization techniques called "in situ" that visualize data as it comes off the press (memory is then dumped because there's neither enough storage space nor can we write to disk fast enough). I'll tell you that there will be a lot of restarting those simulations because the scientists need to explore the data as it is going on. Going in the wrong direction? Made a small mistake that causes cells explode? Realize you're not looking in the right region of interest? You restart the sim (thank god for restart files, right?). Exploration is one of the most important things in research and it is getting more and more difficult. I believe this is what the gp is after. Having these understandings helps you explore the data better. Creating these tools is hard work and takes a lot of collaboration too.
It is kind of reasonable, but when you post on Facebook, you can choose between public post and post that only "Friends" can see. When I post to "Friends", I expect only people that I am "Friends" with on Facebook to see it.

So they need to STOP using the term "Friends" and start using the term "Friends and Corporations" instead.
Like, all we have for dinner is tomato ketchup.
I don't see how it's reasonable for Facebook to enable an app that advertises itself to users as a simple "academic survey" to harvest the private data of not only those users but all of their friends as well. Is it so unreasonable for users to expect that their data would not be harvested by a survey app installed by an online "buddy" who they may have never even met in person?

Also I think the analogy the lawyers brought up is misleading. Instead of renting out an arena, it's more like just one of those friends accepted a 1000-page terms of service a couple decades ago for a random forum, and instead of "rebroadcasting" what's "disclosed" at one party, it's more like the forum is now publishing their per-minute GPS location for the past year.
Not who you are replying to, but in general I would say that the things you point (extra help women receive right now) are in general working, and that the fact that they are working is supports the fact that they should continue. This doesn’t mean that men should not also receive targeted help, as should anyone who is disadvantaged, whether through socioeconomic status, race, disability, or otherwise. Solving problems that classes of people have on a class level and making those classes of people more successful is a good thing, and we should be doing more of it. There is a huge issue now where young men, especially those of low SES are not encouraged to or given the right pathways to find success and I see the wheels slowly start turning on social movement to facilitate positive change on that front as well, especially starting in early childhood education.
This is a very sad state of affairs, therefore I would like to bring your attention to a petition towards open sourcing all scientific (and generally tax-paid) software:

https://publiccode.eu
The only reason that private/censorship-free platforms end up filled with nazis, is that they have nowhere else to go. If all the platforms are private/censorship-free, then the problem is mitigated.
What you can count on to never be reported in the Western press is that hk wasn't a democratic society under nearly all of British colonial rule. It wasn't until right before the handover that the Brits instituted elections to create hostility between hk and China, as they had a habit of doing in their colonies like between sunnis/shiites in the middle east whenever such division benefits them.

Of course their political allies like the us can be counted on to trump up "democracy" as a wedge issue when it clearly never cared so long as hk was ruled by Brits, same as it never cared when toppling democratic leaders it doesn't like.

So please don't pretend to be the good guys given how much it insults the intelligence of anyone who's ever paid attention beyond the propaganda.
Good. There are far too many sitting comfortably in their ivory towers these days indoctrinating kids turning into adults as their personal army. There's too much hatred of certain races/genders (typically from what I see its white/men, but by no means are those two groups the only ones who are victims) that gets ignored.

Many years ago (tho not that many) blacks would have their businesses routinely ransacked, protested, and strong armed out. I don't doubt that it still happened to this day. We learned about that in civics and history - the atrocity of racially based attacks in the past to financially ruin others. Now it's 2019 and the very same institutions that led those concerns are themselves causing the same problem.

This can't go on. Free speech is fine. If you have an opinion and you want to state it - then state it. But when you weaponize your speech to ruin others, especially when those others are merely doing the most basic thing they ought to (ie, protecting their business and livelihood of themselves and their employees) - you deserve to be punished. There's no room in a progressed society for small groups to usurp control beyond legal frameworks. To establish witch hunts and expect that you'll get away with it.

I hope the individuals at the University also face financial and legal hardship for their actions. It's despicable.

Edit: At this point I expect downvotes for speaking honestly and truthfully. The very people down voting are the ones who promote the hateful rhetoric this college exhibited.
It's also fairly difficult when they intentionally make it hard for the distinction of public/non public to be understood. "People you may know" is a privacy violation. "A friend commented on such and such post" is a priacy violation.
> The platform allows uploading anonymized, structured health records - publicly available.

Hi, I also started something similar, but there was no interest: https://juvmed.com/plan

Would you please share more details publicly about your plan?
To anyone who finds these models interesting and wants to learn a lot more - I’d highly recommend Mor Harchol-Balter’s textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Modeling-Design-Computer-...
(She is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon).
Target hit by nationwide payment outage
Hmmm, I think I know where the OP saw this link posted originally :-).
I never owned a BBC Micro but my school let me borrow one every holiday. It was a comprehensive, a state school, so anecdotal.
As I've said previously: the next time someone asks "who could have predicted the downsides of the Internet?", you can tell them: the guy who invented it, in the 1960s.
look like you belong, the more psychopatic you can ignore the fact you're crossing the line and act if you're everybody's friend the better
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Like that complex multi-position dial so many cars have to the left of the steering wheel to configure the headlights

I drive multitude of different cars and models and i can assure you that i can find and operate most of the basic controls at first glance, lights are at the left wipers at the right, first position is parking, 2nd low beams, 3rd high beams, pull stalk flash, push stalk high beams. there are some exceptions but it's like that most of the time, it's intuitive.
There has been some speculation that automakers are going to be left holding the bag but it seems they don't share that fear.
Just to clarify, I have spent the better part of the last decade at one of the institutions in my response. I have seen generations of students come and go. Your experience may differ but at least where I am, the qualitative change is this: earlier this decade, it's been really only small groups.

Now, with students born after 2000 and having grown up fully immersed in social media being on campus, what would have been relatively niche wokeness in 2010 is 'common sense' for many. Including extremely low tolerance for view point diversity.
I think the favorites are xelatex and lualatex. I normally use xelatex, because it handles Unicode well and can use otf or ttf fonts. Not sure about lualatex, but I heard it's nice to have Lua as a Scripting Backend.
Yes I feel sorry for people who's entire livelihood rely on these apps - there's no phone number or name to contact just a black hole to email.
Probably not the answer you would expect, but one very simple action you could do is to sign/share this petition: https://publiccode.eu.