skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more in-depth reply :)

> Do you know if it's widely used yet?

Not sure which project you mean?

* Roslyn code-gen - not many

* LanguageExt.Core - yes, lots - 1.6 million downloads on nuget and counting

* LanguageExt.CodeGen - not much from what I can tell, but that might be because there's the runtime Record system that makes a type have structural equality/ordering/hashing and serialisation by just deriving it from Record<TYPE>, i.e.

public class Person : Record<Person>
{
public readonly string Name;
public readonly string Surname;
public Person(string name, surname) =>
(Name, Surname) = (name, surname)
}

It builds the IL and compiles it on first-use, so it's code-gen without any of the hassle of setting up the tool chain.

Some of the additional benefits of using the CodeGen instead is that the With function and lenses are built automatically, but that might not be enough to make people use it. Also, things like [Union] and [Free] (monad) are relatively new, so perhaps it wasn't compelling enough until recently. There's obviously benefits to compiling the code up-front rather than generating the IL, so I'd expect it to pick up over time.

I and my team certainly use it a lot ;)

> Any insights/gotchas to share? I see it's using CodeGeneration.Roslyn.BuildTime

None really, the CodeGeneration.Roslyn.BuildTime hasn't had much love, and a new version they built (to support plugins) just fundamentally didn't work, so it clearly wasn't tested properly. But, the version I'm using is stable right now, I just can't migrate to .NET Standard 2.1 until they bring the new one out, so that is a limiting factor for me at the moment.
I didn't get on with it. The sheer number of disjointed settings sheets made it seem like a second job to get a proper understanding of how the app worked. Then, despite paying the subscription, I could not even download the Mac version (which is an iPad port using Catalyst) without being asked for another $35 up front.
Stopping climate change isn't even hard, just place a large solar sail on a sun synchronous orbit to block part of the sun's energy from reaching Earth.
That's where Angiotensin I (ACE = Angiotensin Converting Enzyme) is converted to Angiotensin II, which acts on tons of blood vessels to increase blood pressure. That's essentially why ACE inhibitors have a blood pressure effect. On top of that, Bradykinin is an inflammatory mediator that is degraded by ACE. It's heavily implicated in the side effect ACE inhibitors have of dry cough.
That's going on to an extent over here as well, except that it has more or less been incorporated into government strategy as a way to differentiate local farmers from lower cost competitors.

As a result, meat is expensive, but the quality is much better than what you get across the border(s).

The real kicker is that Zürich is now ground zero for food tech, and there's a real chance that they're going to outcompete local farmers on quality, price, and ethics.
> Dropbox requires all of your data to be synchronized to the local computer

This isn't true at all.
at least i got something for what i do everyday (browsing)
To be fair, nuclear power plants are base load power generators.

So while the cost for wind power is just 57.5, I wonder how much will be the energy costs for, say a town powered with wind and with nuclear.
As opposed to the US or Russia China or Africa where the bill is footed by...

Oh yes the taxpayer
Because 7 billion people can only do a single thing simultaneously.
SDS and this library are implemented completely differently...
I man, the situation is extremely dire. I'm just amused by the 'toilet buying' craze which in comparison to everything else is a very mild issue.
Is it crazy to think that if they work (and they do) they'd be much more useful if they're used by health workers than by the average joe ?

But to me the real question is how fucked up your country is if it isn't able to reallocate stocks to hospitals instead of supermarkets/online shops. France isn't China but they requisitioned factories to produce masks and disinfectant exclusively for hospitals and pharmacies.
We had chat long before the era of SPAs -- no JS was required with things like long-polling, although that's one of the applications where I think a bit of JS will definitely be useful and welcome.

As for video streaming, that's not hard at all, especially now that there's a <video> tag.
Solar sail or solar powered ionic thrusters are much more effective going to Mercury than Titan. So, total deltaV of the trip is not a great measurement of effort.
> Why should they?

The average person does know (or at least should know) the difference between an exclamation mark and a question mark; it's part of literacy. One could argue that knowing the difference between a forward slash and a backslash is part of digital literacy (and that it's a worthy goal for the average person to have digital literacy).
Methane is a "greenhouse gas" itself, worse than co2. Mostly a problems from cattle digesting food. So burning it actually reduces climate change.
Can anyone else relate to these TensorFlow 2.0 woes?
Meanwhile, China has been investing steadily in nuclear power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
Unluckily it is the thruth, here's an interview with a medic on one of Italy's most prominent newspapers (I linked the google translated version)

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3...
this is the US you're talking about. Italy isn't US. Make sure you read the rules and the fine print before you agree to such terms.
> Imagine your country stamps gold coins. If you can take a coin of unknown origin and weigh it against a known good coin, you can pretty easily detect a forgery by it having lower weight.

That hasn't been required since the middle ages. So if modern society reverts back to using gold for trade (because there isn't a currency left, that's what the dollar collapse means), I'd rather have stocked up bullets and kill those who has the stuff i want, rather than trade for it. After all, there's no guarentee that they won't just shoot me in the back after the trade anyway.

What i'm saying is that anyone in a western country that invests in gold is implicitly investing in a hedge against collapse of the dollar (or currency in general). And in the event of a collapse, the gold is going to be useless, if you don't have the bullets to back it up and defend yourself.

Or, speculate on the price - sell when it's high, buy when it's low. But that's literal gambling, not investing.
Actually the banks do just create the money. They put an entry on the balance sheet "they owe us this much" and call it an asset.
You don't want quality time, you want garbage time
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Ceph's S3-compatible object store is a layer on top of its core distributed storage. There's also a block storage layer, which is used to run VMs. :-)
The dark truth behind advertising on the internet (2018)
Where A.I. jobs are exploding in number (it’s not in Silicon Valley)
It is strange. Is there more published information about the tourist guide? Perhaps it's a very rare case because she had other health problems.

Perhaps 99% of the people get enough immunity. Vaccines don't have a 100% of immunity protection neither.

The video linked in the article doesn't add much more information. Note that the written description says

> So, they need to prevent infection by increasing their physical activity, says Chinese expert.

that doesn't make any sense, but the translation in the video says

> cured patients should enhance their own health safeguards

Edit: I found https://globalnews.ca/news/6623287/coronavirus-multiple-infe... and https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-japan/japane... . It's not very clear, but it looks like a continuation of the first infection after a few week of no symptoms. Anyway, another reason not to infect 50% of the population on purpose.
I'm seeing a lot of unwarranted conclusions in this thread. In vitro work usually goes fast in drug development. The painfully slow process is human testing.

The article says nothing about shortening the time from in vitro discovery to first use in humans. As far as I can tell, it just promises $125 million for early stage work. That's a lot of money, but a drop in the bucket by drug development standards.

Good to know the effort is being made, just keep some perspective.
I've built more than one VPN network over the years - and I don't use the ones I built. My philosophy has always been that I can't trust the network after I no longer own it - and if the code isn't open.

The hard reality is that you have no way of knowing what's being logged if you don't have full access to the servers. I've always pushed for leaving VPN servers on operating systems running in read-only, on read-only disks, and open to the world (i.e customers who log in). It's one of the best forms of real transparency that I can think of.

Funny, I never won that one.
May I suggest you suppress the internal panic that is leading you to deny reality?
There are also existing cashierless stores in China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKrHi-G9WQ
Modern left wing politics has no interest in facts except the ones they can cherry pick to attack the president...

Get your political blinders off. Both sides will twist any fact to attack the other.
The Case for Privacy Optimism
Teaching STEM through artistic wearable electronics
We bootstrapped to 8 figures in under 3 years
> The only downside can be can be cost.

And we're killing them off with pesticides.
This would be impossible to maintain. Facebook regularly changes the layout of pages, and mangles the DOM to defeat adblocking, and also likely take anti scraping measures.
Absolutely agree, it's a difficult line to draw but better to try, with the examples you give, rather than knowingly (or in ignorance) cause harm.
Which tools are you using for effective remote meetings?
I guess the problem is mostly weight, which you need to shield the thing off from its environment.
Of course, hopefully mortgage relief will make it possible for more landlords to offer rent relief.
I am propably among the most ardent critics of twitter and social media when it comes to Corona. And then comes a guy like you. Stuff like that should be among every top comment, everywhere when it comes to this. Along side the WHO situation reports and guidelines. So, thank you!
Putting R&D in China is basically asking the question, "can I make more money before an employee expatriates my product?"

Interesting thing about zoom though is that the technical side of it doesn't seem particularly complex so I guess their value is their enterprise customers and aversion to change.

Also if someone at zoom can answer this for me: why do you require a desktop app to function? Can you please kill it if you're only going to legitimately support windows? Just use a webpage.
Pick Operating System
I will start:

- Zoom - GChats - For video conf and sharing screen (zoom.us)

- Comeet.me - Agendas / Meeting Next-steps (synch&track) / Meeting feedback (www.comeet.me)

- GDocs-Slides - Pre-reading Presentations/Memos (gsuite.google.com)
Recovered in what way? I know a couple that just recently had the price of their home return to the price they paid for it over 10 years ago. With inflation taken into account, the house is still worth less than what the couple got it for.
Please see https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

> In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is often misunderstood: the principal way is through commercial banks making loans.

> Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money. The reality of how money is created today differs from the description found in some economics textbooks:

> • Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits.
> • In normal times, the central bank does not fix the amount of money in circulation, nor is central bank money ‘multiplied up’ into more loans and deposits
How to Build an Effective VM Disaster Recovery Strategy
ForwardTacotron – Generating speech without attention
Where's that clean thorium reactor that never appears to manifest itself beyond vaporware.
That is creating liquidity, what they are doing is essentially selling debt. It is different from just creating money.
The lack of mutation is both good and bad. It means the virus is less likely to get worse, but also means the virus is less likely to mutate to a less lethal form that would likely still provide some immunity to the more lethal one. On the brightest side, it may mean that we're not going to see waves of new infection each year like we do from influenza.
> I don't think anyone expects price parity -- but I'd expect at least basic features to work?

I only worked on the LPD platform for a brief period of time, but as anyone in industry knows, the LPD-17 Class does indeed "work" - far above and beyond the basic propulsion and maneuvering.

>I don't think anyone would complain if flight deck failed, or new combat systems failed to perform to spec.

Tell that to the family of the sailor who was crushed by a rotating gun turret while checking his phone because an audible alarm failed to sound.

Tell that to the crew of the adjacent ship during a training excersize when the gun barrel flips 180 degrees due to an erroneous sign-flip in the software.

Tell that to the tax payers who have to pay for new flight deck non-skid and deck repair after the V-22 exhaust burns the old non-skid off and warps the deck steel (hopefully the FOD from the nonskid didn't get ingested into the aircraft intakes and cause a crash killing the crew)

It's these kinds of uninformed statements that are dangerous to the very people trying to defend their country because average citizens don't take the time (and honestly don't have the time) to look into the true reason for defense costs. Instead they get their information from non-peer-reviewed papers by authors who make horrendous summations on topics they know nothing about.

Yes, spending needs to be monitored and checked thrice, but the truth is much more complex than can be summed up two pages (not that this write-up even scratched the surface of the truth).

This write-up is more than ignorant, it's dangerous because is spreads easy to digest and believe falsehoods that seep into the minds of the public. It may as well have been written by Trump himself (I'm a patriot and respect the POTUS office, but I still think the person in office is horrifying, even if he does want to increase the naval fleet size, which is needed to protect the country).
In Ontario, Canada we get a large portion of our energy from nuclear. We have a decent amount of wind, but if you click on the "Supply" tab you'll see it is very variable, and gas turbines kick in to pick up the slack:

* http://www.ieso.ca/power-data

Especially evident in the '5-11 Mar' data series.

Meanwhile nuclear chugs along at 10 GW day in and day out.

Eye-ballying it, if we added another 2500 MW of nuclear, then Hydro could probably pick up the slack with regards to the daily variable load in the province.

I'd be curious to know how portable this kind of set up would be: it's the variability of wind (and solar) that's of most concern to me. You have to build back-up capacity for both of them, and it's usually gas turbine.
I think you may misunderstand what others mean when they say "premise".

For this paper, the premise is that GitHub commit history indicates language quality.

The methodology is then the implementation of the study: how do we classify each commit? How do we identify the base language in a repository? What would lead us to discard a repository as a data source?

The methodology may be perfect, but you may still end up with nonsense because GitHub is not a comprehensive or representative source of data for studying programming.
This is a great take, and one that I wish framed more of the research in programming languages than is currently the case.
We've just open-sourced our first text-to-speech project! It's also our first public PyTorch project. Inspired by Microsoft's FastSpeech, we modified Tacotron (Fork from fatchord's WaveRNN) to generate speech in a single forward pass without using any attention. Hence, we call the model ⏩ ForwardTacotron.

The model has several advantages:

* Robustness: No repeats and failed attention modes for complex sentences

* Speed: Generating a spectrogram takes about 0.04s on a RTX2080

* Controllability: You can control the speed of the speech synthesis

️* Efficiency: No usage of attention so memory size grows linearly with text size

We also provide a Colab notebook to try out our pre-trained model trained 100k steps on LJSpeech and also some Samples. Check it out!

* Github: https://github.com/as-ideas/ForwardTacotron

* Samples: https://as-ideas.github.io/ForwardTacotron/

* Colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/as-ideas/ForwardTac...
Rainbow fringes around light sources, particularly low-quality LEDs. Aberrations are minimal at the centre of the lens, but progressively get worse toward the edges (which is why contact lenses don't suffer from this problem). Driving at night became a nightmare, especially with LED headlights. I'd see cop cars out of the corner of my eyes everywhere when LED headlights would appear blue and strobe through a centre median. It didn't really bother me that much during the day though. For reference, I have diopters of -8.25 and -9.

I still have high-index lenses, but ones with a lower index of refraction and therefore a higher Abbe number. I don't remember specifically which material I have, but I think it might be high index 1.6 (index of refraction) with an Abbe number of 42. Chromatic aberrations are minimal enough with these lenses that they don't bother me much anymore (although still present).

For comparison, crown glass and CR-39 plastic have Abbe numbers of about 58, but will result in much thicker lenses at stronger prescriptions. Regular high index plastic lenses have the some of the worst Abbe numbers, and the higher index you go the worse it gets (Abbe of 32–36), but lenses can get very thin with high index 1.74. More on this at [2].

I've worn contacts several different times, but not only could I not get used to removing them from my eyes, I didn't like how much they worsened my close-up vision, and you can't just take off contacts like you can glasses.

This[1] comment by @mindslight on HN last year was a big help. In the end, I did have to switch providers when Costco didn't have any other material options (I got my glasses from Zehrs Optical in Canada). I payed about $325 altogether, but there was some sort of deal on so I don't know how it would be normally.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315769

[2] https://www.2020mag.com/article/does-material-abbe-value-inf...
At that point you might as well just dual boot Windows and have compatibility with all games. The advantage of Mac-compatible games is I don’t have to reboot.
Wait until you find out about Zenni Optical... they're so cheap I don't even bother with vision insurance anymore. My prescription hasn't changed in decades, and at Zenni prices I can buy a new pair of glasses (frames + lenses) every month for less than a single pair from Warby. I've had my favorite pair (that were originally <$20 with lenses) for about 5 years, so durability isn't an issue. Their customer service is similarly good in my experience.

After being a Zenni customer for years, Warby Parker's prices seem really high. I've tried their glasses on at one of their retail stores, and I don't see much of a difference in quality.
I'm assuming it contains silicone too and just doesn't have to mention it in the MSDS, but that's good to know. Thanks!
Yes, but are you familiar with the tool Youtube-DL, which is open-source, runs on Linux, and allows users to download content from youtube? This tool is very useful, and is constantly being updated after changes on YouTube that break the tool. If the tool doesn't work, you simply invoke it with the "-U" flag and it updates itself. So far, this tool has not failed me.

I think a similar approach could be taken by this scraping library, though I admit it would be a lot of work to maintain it.
Do you have any data? Are you from Italy or speaking from your bubble?

I couldn't find any data about Italy. From personal experience in neighbor country Croatia, all universities are Microsoft shops and nobody even knows what Zoom is.
My comment was specific to Italy :) I know people in at least two universities that are using Teams and Stream for online lessons (many universities in Italy use Office 365)
Here is a cosine based gradient generation [1].
And an example implementation from thi.ng/color [2].

[1] http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/palettes/palettes.htm

[2] https://github.com/thi-ng/color/blob/master/src/gradients.or...
Those are brilliant ideas. You've really inspired me man. I really needed this to keep going on it.
Sounds like "clean Coal technology" to me! No Thanks.
It's from an era when software was largely not ad-supported nor infused with "telemetry", and written by one person who never "sold out" (and sadly passed away long ago), so I trust it far more than all the shady "privacy" services today. It's been around long enough that many others have reverse-engineered and analysed it substantially, understanding it enough to make patches to improve and fix, as well as near-equivalents. Look up "Proxydomo" if you want to go down that rabbit hole...
Yeah, you are so right. What realy bothers me in the way people, on HN, TV wherever, is treating numbers. You try that at one famous FAANG company and once to often, meaning a third time, and you can consider yourself lucky to just end up on a PIP.

Everbody is using the selection bias of both, testing and reporting, to confirm their own biases. Experts are not heard or ignored.
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And what about the Faroe Islands?
The people of the Orkney and Shetland Islands of Scotland are fond of claiming Scandanavian heritage too.
Personally this article turned out to be more interesting for me than the original post. I've seriously thought that it existed only as a movie effect and not in real life.
If no browsers support the extra bits, what's the point?
I think colonizing the Moon is a good idea must mostly just the south pole to start with. On most of the Moon you have 2 weeks of frigid darkness you where you're living off batteries followed by 2 weeks of intense sunlight. At the peak of eternal light at the south pole you can just slowly turn your solar array 360 degrees over the course of a month and have (nearly) continuous power.

There's a big difference between having to have 12 hours of battery power, as on Mars, and 336 hours on the Moon.