skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They keep popping up because ticket/todo-list software is a perfect medium for people to project their aspirations for success. People believe if they use that software they will accomplish their goals.
And that robot artist will be named "Weird AI".
Looks right up my street. Will await with interest.
LA Times has statewide and by-county graphs here: https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case...

The trends there and in news reports like the OP are going to look different from your R_t site because it's based on the official numbers rather than a model.
> That being said Google, Apple and other American companies collect your information too

Can you point to examples of Apple collecting your browsing behavior or other similar data?
It depends on your approach, if you try to learn the idioms as part of the learning process as opposed to just syntax, you can prevent this.
Given that we seem to know (1) a vaccine will almost certainly not be finished within a year (2) the US government doesn't have the competence or trust to successfully implement contacting tracing (3) years of lockdowns are infeasible ... I find it hard to arrive at any other conclusion except that the band-aid will need to be ripped off, Swedish style.
Since I'm mostly using Linux as a server OS I decided to ditch Ubuntu LTS and go straight to Debian. Why go with a middleman if I can just use the original distro?
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I have a darter pro and really like it, no complaints about the build quality

its the best experience I've ever had with linux on a laptop, everything just works with no fuss
Good for you.

<First, it is somewhat related to the post but not very related, so the comment adds more noise than information. Perhaps you can submit it as an independent post instead of a comment.

It's very related in my opinion. I submitted a post once about a important new method of electromechanical desalination but it didn't get anywhere so it seems like comments are the surest way to get eyes on the info here. I have been reading the bickering scene here for awhile and just recently signed-up to post, not sure how the algo works.

< Prototype or it didn't happen.

They have two working protypes already after many years of research. Check the vid.

Actually perhaps the most controversial part of what they have done with their work is validation of the Electric Sun theory. The energy spin-off was not the original goal.
To be fair, web programming isn't programming in Javascript.

Instead, it's programming FrameworkDuJour(tm) in Javascript.

And the half-life of that is measured in months. So, the longer someone can drag their heels on learning FrameworkDuJour(tm), the better off they are.

You can know Javascript cold and still be useless at web programming.
GCC 10 RC coming tomorrow
Oh, it was more a reference to the opposite thing - we have some projects under an org umbrella (gilab/yellow/slicker gitlab/yellow/wellingtons) - and those issues aggregate nicely under (gitlab/yellow).

But both for managers managing many top level projects, and for developers that are part of those (gitlab/yellow, gitlab/pink...)-gitlab falls down a bit on keeping things organized - it's hard to see if issues in yellow is keeping someone busy and so leaving issues hanging in pink.
Redis is a flexible tool. Some things you could potentially do:

- This DB query is pretty slow. Cache the result in Redis.

- I'm using server-side sessions, but I have multiple servers. Where should I store session data where it'll be super fast, but all my servers can access it? You could use Redis.

- I need to do distributed locking. Use Redis

- Simple job queue? Redis.

- I'm processing a lot of inbound webhooks, and I want to avoid trying to process the same one twice. I'd like to keep a list of all webhooks I've seen in the last week, and quickly check if a new webhook is in the list, but it needs to be really fast. Redis.

Basically, Redis has support for some nifty data structures, and it's very fast. There's a lot of places in most apps where being able share a very fast list, set, map, stream, whatever between servers can be useful. Of course, all the above uses cases can be solved by other more specialised tools too, and in some cases better.

(That being said, it's so useful and generally applicable that you should be careful not to ignore fundamental issues. For example, if you have an unavoidably slow query, then by all means cache it in Redis. But if all your queries are slow because you forgot to add indexes, maybe you should fix that instead of using Redis to cache every query!)
Rich people will get poorer in the part of their wealth that is largely virtual anyway - stocks and other investments, the value of which is so far removed from the real world by now, it's all just make-believe. The actual physical assets that provide them with improved quality of life will be just fine, for long enough that all those virtual losses become gains.

But the poor and the middle class will be hit - are being hit already - at those physical assets. So their quality of life plummets directly and immediately.
I agree. Hiring is expensive. Why would you decide to revoke an offer after learning of a minor crime that's not relevant and doesn't expose you to any risk?
This handy Chrome extension makes Meet work via a push-to-talk using the spacebar, with many config options
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-push-t...

But why doesn't Meet have these features already...?! ️
They concluded that their model "is capable of generating pieces that are multiple minutes long, and with recognizable singing in natural-sounding voices." Which part of that is dishonest? I would assert that being able to make sense of the lyrics is a nice bonus but not fundamentally relevant to their conclusion, in that a person can appreciate singing in a foreign language, and recognize it to be natural, without any knowledge of the words whatsoever. Besides speech synthesis in terms of intelligibility is basically solved, that's not really the thrust of what they've achieved here.

And more to the point, a full 815 of the uploaded songs have no pre-written lyrics, so your premise that they are reliant on "karaoke style lyrics" is mistaken to begin with.
> We are required to do this by various certifications such as soc2

Some other certifications might, but SOC 2 certainly doesn't prescribe the list of courts you need to check. A very superficial check can satisfy the control, SOC 2 mostly just cares that you have a control in place.
Ask HN: What news topics do you follow and wish there was a newsletter for?
For example, funding rounds, product launches, new IPOs, research papers on a specific topic, etc. I'm working an NLP-driven news aggregator and am curious what you guys can throw at me from a potential build/modelling perspective.
First of all, this looks awesome and go Canada! Random comments:

Is there a way to try without giving access to my github account?

Less importantly:
Can you put your email in your HN profile?
Can you add LayerCI Twitter handle to your site?
I've this "inverted classroom" approach work well, although it can have problems also; if the course isn't self-paced (which I think is much better) you have to make really sure that students aren't overloaded with video lectures, because it's easy to "fall behind." It can't be an excuse for instructors to cram more stuff into an already packed course.

Some other things I've seen and experienced that have seemed to work well and that I'd like to see more of:

- course staff who serve primarily as advisors and guides to provide and help students find, discover and use resources for self-directed learning and to help when students encounter difficulties

- schools that helped students buy cheap paperback books for recreational reading

- scaled out peer tutoring, where the school pays students who have taken a course to tutor students who are currently taking the course

- self-paced learning without harsh penalties for "falling behind" other students or an arbitrary course schedule
Too late in what sense?
Raspberry Pi's improved camera module supports interchangeable lenses
> In theory, it should be really easy to write a social media app in Urbit.

Did you read the post? Have you looked at OS1? This is literally what OS1 is; it allows you to create groups which share notes, links, and chats. You get notifications in the dashboard if anything happens in any of the groups you are part of.
> It's not called "Moldbug OS".

Yarvin/Moldbug's blog is titled "Unqualified Reservations" and is stylized as "UR" written in a serif font.

Changing the name and cleaning up the obscurity would be a genuinely good idea, but personally I'd prefer for this project to just die in obscurity. I don't think there is anything redeemable here, and the shitshow that follows every time it's brought up is exhausting.
Internet.nl Website Test: Google.com
no paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-pushes-college...
Yes and no.

Learning Rust is a good example. Sure, you can learn the borrow checker and other stuff fairly easily. Patterns are fine. Error checking was a bit more iffy before "?".

And then you try to build a doubly linked list and the language fights you at every single turn. (for good reason, but it fights you nonetheless).

Nobody expects that. That's the kind of thing that languages often aren't good at documenting.
Russia had a lot of political unrest back in the 90s, when it was at the bottom of its descent. It elected extremist parties to parliament - commies had the majority for how long? - and street politics was also... messy at times. I remember growing up in that period, and back then it would have been entirely unsurprising to wake up one day to see ballet on TV where news are supposed to be.

So I wouldn't call it a good example of being okay. It made it through that political unrest without blowing up as a whole (but with plenty of local crises, like Chechnya)... but it was not smooth sailing at all.
> I was fed the same line of shit by courts.

Hmm... when I was a lot younger I got charged with a felony (burglary) that was then downgraded to a misdemeanor (breaking and entering), and I was told that it would disappear from my record completely when I turned 18. Does anyone know if that's true? I always figured that some kind of deeper background check would uncover it.
This is an equivocation fallacy. We have not had a few centuries to sort out the implications of Urbit.
Chrome Extension that turns YouTube into a Language Lab
You mentioned "how Italy got overrun", so I was talking about the timeframe that you brought up. I'm not trying to change the subject.
> It's 3 years away!

Or closer to 5 years away ( rounded up ) if you consider that 2024 also includes a december 31st as well as a january 1st.

> It's even crazier when you consider that the lander hardware has not even been designed, let alone built, tested, certified and man-rated.

You are talking about a technology that's more than 50 years old.

This isn't a time or technology issue. There's plenty of time and moon landings have been done before. It's really a business issue. It seems like the industry has come up with a business case for it ( I'm guessing space tourism initially followed up by mining perhaps ).
There's a list of some companies that use Clojure here[1].

I use it for my startup. It's great for web dev. There are some really cool databases written with Clojure also.[2][3]

[1] https://clojure.org/community/success_stories

[2] https://opencrux.com/

[3] https://www.datomic.com/
You have to give Minecraft some credit for Mod Coder's Pack (which they allowed to exist and currently hires the founding developer) without which stuff like Forge would have been a lot more difficult to maintain. They also didn't go out of the way to make modding impossible either.
As desktop user I don't care about power consumption, I care very little that it has x% more power then last year processors (at least when the x < 100) because current processors have enough power for anything you throw at them, but what I do really care is this:

-Do they still pack that PoS Intel management inside the CPU? And are these new CPU still vulnerable to Meltdown? Because if any of those questions are answered with "yes" then no amount of cores, GHz and performance % is going to change my mind from Ryzen
It seems like you jumped into the conversation part way.

Here is my actual opening:

> Just out of curiosity, have you verified in some way that your alternative is legitimate?

The entire conversation has been me trying to to get the other dude to verify (unsuccessfully) a claim he made in the opening comment.

A more accurate re-cap:

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Them: Nock is pointless, you can just use X

Me: How do you know X would work for all Urbit's requirements?

Them: Of course it would! Nock is pointless. Read this article.

Me: I couldn't find anything in the article to support your claim.

Them: You didn't read the article correctly.
How many tests were taken over this period in the Bay Area versus LA? And what people are being tested in each area?

They still barely even acknowledge that the amount of testing is part of this.

The reporting should be about estimated total infection spread and the ways they are estimating it.
This is sooo true. By staying on the back-end for a few years, I managed to avoid front-end JavaScript long enough to watch Angular come and go.

Unfortunately, React has had quite a bit more staying power and I ended up having to pick up some proficiency with it. That said, the ecosystem evolves enough that no two projects ever seem to use the same tooling.
I don't care about their science, haven't looked into it. When is their first production reactor coming online and serving a community?

I suspect the answer is, "There are no plans for a production reactor", but hey, prove me wrong!
The common law has treated many monopoly platforms as common carriers for quite a long time. In the US, this has been explicitly enacted via statute for certain types of carriers (indeed, this is what the FCC Title I vs Title II issue was about for ISPs). While I agree that ordinary private companies that are basically competitive should have few if any restrictions, it seems quite suboptimal to permit monopolies (including Google, Facebook or Amazon) to make extremely arbitrary decisions on a whim with no review.
Oh those are interesting stories! Thank you for sharing. I would love to read more about such financial oddities of history, maybe a blog post?
Indeed, the extent of generation is obvious in the ‘continuation’ mode on any track that is rather familiar for the listener (ahem Rick Astley). Besides, in the full sample browser there are tracks without lyrics.
Do you have a source for this history of income sharing? Just trying to learn more.
Jitsi Meet desktop app:
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases
Representing meaning as a number, or more specifically a point or set in some vector space is fine. I'm not suggesting a more sophisticated concept of understanding than the status quo here, basically text in, a number/numbers out, which as I understand it is how most intent analysis works currently.

So meaning in this sense is very much quantifiable, yet how far along are we in parsing out even the most basic meanings? Can we build something which discriminates between "I'm moving in to <address>" and "I'm moving in on <date>", using the latest and greatest word embeddings? Not without some extra layers of external rules imposed on top. So the model does not 'understand', even in this limited scope of understanding.

Don't be fooled by the sentence recycling is all.
It's not a pyramid scheme - it's a reverse funnel system.
So... compared to other nonsense it passes muster?
i don't care i'm not a politician. people like you get away with spouting nonsense because no one ever shames them for it (they've always gotten the benefit of the doubt about their intelligence). i'm a firm believer in shaming people for their stupidity when it affects others. you have zero stake in this mr webdev and you should at least be forced to ante up your ego. so i don't care if you're persuaded, only that next time you'll think twice about opening your mouth because you expect everyone will just politely disagree with you.
> the beachgoers maintained proper distance

I sure hope this was the case for their sake and that of everyone else in southern CA, but I feel like it'd be really tough to maintain distancing in a public place like the beach (and while going to and from, parking, etc). And that's if you're actively trying to and aware the whole time.
> it never quite came through.

Hard disagree. The Clojure ecosystem is great.
Rome was not built in a day! They need time to aquire the sophistication of the US data brokers.
Out of curiosity, do people have issues with Nvidia in Linux? I've seen similar sentiment in the past but I've never really noticed any issues with the nouveau (open source) driver. Due to CUDA work, I primarily use the proprietary drivers which work well too (other than an annoying suspend bug introduced in 18.04 and seemingly unfixed in 20.04)
1) There aren't shares to own. He owns some urbit identities, which will be worth real money IFF urbit is ever actually popular, which doesn't seem very likely at the moment.

2) You're calling a real live human being racist. Are you sure you know him well enough to stand behind an accusation like that? Or are you relaying third-hand opinions about his blog? I'm not a fan of his, but the blog posts that launched the #cancelyarvin effort seemed pretty innocuous to me.
Wow...we have very different views of this conversation :)
> This is the thing that is really the most shameful and outrageous thing about the US system.

I think the shameful thing is how college is such a waste of time for most folks. I think the money would be better spent traveling and learning on your own for a small fraction of the cost.
> Somehow it feels like back in the Pentium 4 days again.

What we've got here is actually the mysterious, long-overdued Pentium 5 (which was known for its greater-than 5 GHz clock speed and never released due to the huge heat dissipation issue). History repeats, but this time, it actually got released.
lol yea right now people that call you out on your meaningless blather are russian bots haha

>But yes, I would be happy to contribute to a support fund to support such individuals.

cool you can start by donating to absolutely any charity in need right now.
And we know only Catholics pack the California beaches out, right?
Hahaha, just this morning I'd made a 19.10 live USB to re-install PopOS on my desktop. If only I had procrastinated a little longer...
You have a point about "journalistic research" (very likely what he means by "research" for obvious reasons) - I am applying my value-smuggling and reading "research" (which is all it said) as either academic or "post-academic" (i.e. the sort of research you might do as a working practitioner with a PhD). A generalist writing for Wired might well be more reasonably expected to take 7 steps (give or take) than someone already practicing in an area.

That being said, you're histrionically exaggerating for no apparent reason. When did I call these "evil" or call for the death of the promulgator? I have never wished death on anyone from Wired, not even for those responsible for the very worst color schemes in the earliest days.

I think it's reasonable to read my response at the same level: "OK, so here are some things you found to be true? Well, fine, here are some things you wrote that I find to be a load of bollocks".
Don't beat yourself up for that. I tried Go sometime back (year or so may be) and found it an awkward language. It probably has its own design philisophy may be that I missed.

Things like lack of generics and type system makes you repeat things quite a lot (e. g. It was pretty impossible to write a true ORM or a DI system in go). I found the interface system quite awkward in that types implicitly implement an interface if they have the same method signature was weird to me. I think method overloading wasn't supported either, if I remember correctly.

I think people who loved Go initially probably came from C. It feels a lot like C with better standard library, memory safety and fast compile times. I like Go for the same reasons actually. But until there's at least some way to write generic code, it's an awkward language to anyone coming from more expressive languages. I program in C# mostly which is an extremely expressive language with classes, interfaces, generics, expression trees, linq, delegates (akin to function pointers). Go is far behind other languages for application development, my two cents. But for systems programmers used to C which is a very small language, Go must be like a transition to paradise :)
A while ago I was arguing with someone online about the best way to structure a matrix library. Then around four years later I realized he was completely right and I just didn't know enough to realize why. I'm sure this is a universal experience.
Open-source, microscope built with LEGOs, Arduino, Raspberry Pi and 3D printing
I see that you have not read either GPL. 3: ”... nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License." And 2: "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works".

I see that you also do not understand revocation. Your license rights under the GPL are, indeed, revoked if you violate it. GPL 3 spells out both temporary and permanent revocations.

I see that you do not understand mutuality. There is no mutuality, in contract terms, if I or my agent have not communicated with you or your agent.

And, as been noted twice before, courts are frequently confused about the differences between licenses and contracts. That there might also be a contract, written or implied, associated with certain licenses does not make the license itself a contract.

This is not just a matter of opinion. There are specific laws spelling out the differences, and a large body of case law affirming the differences, albeit with occasional confusion that serves to generate legal fees (which judges tend not to see anything in that needs fixing).
The piracy is really incidental. No one who chose privacy over Netflix would suddenly reverse that choice if they couldn't pirate content. Especially given that we are talking about phones, does anyone find watching Netflix on their phone actually ideal?
>Flattening the curve was about limiting cases so hospitals don’t get overrun

I agree that was one of the more widely repeated intentions, but ascribing it to every national and state official is inaccurate. The White House's recommendation for lockdowns was primarily motivated by Imperial College's worst-case death projections[1], not the hospitalization numbers.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/inside-the-white-ho...
Let me sum up how I saw it go...

-you can get more done if you avoid addictive black holes for attention

--if they don't want you playing around they should pay you more than the salary you agreed to work for

---yup, still getting paid the same. company is getting theirs, go get yours (I think this reply was actually sarcastic)

----how do you live with yourself

-----if you have integrity you're dumb

------most people actually work for money, you'll probably get found out eventually otherwise

-------you won't get found out if you embed yourself in a big enough company where you can hide, rinse and repeat

It sounds less like an argument to pace one's self, and more like cynical entitlement.
IANAL but it seems like a sticking point would be the intellectual property assignment and patent assignment agreements.