skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary downside is that they all get discarded when we restart the server process.

For solving this, http://arclanguage.com/item?id=20996 has some theoretical ideas.

It's way easier in elisp than in racket, but, the idea is to write out the function + the closure variables to disk.

The hard part is that you'd have to fix up object references. (If two closures both capture x, and x is a hash table, then the values of x for both closures should be the same hash table after a reboot.) But it's doable.

And of course, if it's possible to write the closures to disk, that means you can write them out to a database shared by multiple Arc webservers. As long as the state is also shared (perhaps the values of the variables can also be stored in the database?) then this means the technique can horizontally scale, just like any other.

I spent like a year trying to brainstorm ways of showing that Arc can go toe-to-toe with any of the popular frameworks, with no downsides. "Reboots wipe the closures" implies "Arc can't scale horizontally," which would be a serious limitation in a corporate setting. But in principle I think you could write closures to disk.

That would also result in a funny situation: if closures persist forever, it means that a closure could potentially be activated years after it was first stored. So it'll run with years-old code, rather than the latest version. :) But if people are using global names for functions, then it'll just call the latest versions of those functions, which will probably work fine in most cases.
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On the other hand a lot of people think we are going to start buying like there is no tomorrow when the immediate crisis is over.
Even if there are multiple ways to avoid crazy student debt, the existence of crazy student on a society-wide basis produces social and financial distortions that everyone should be worried about.
In a thermodynamic sense, information input (say, of photons) is generally going to increase the entropy of a receiving system. Only certain kinds of information can reduce the entropy of the receiving system. Too much information (i.e., too many photons) can literally burn your eyes.

I don't see how to square those manifest physical effects with the immateriality of Shannon information entropy.
"Making a definitive claim of who was first is complicated by inadequate documentation of events, conflicting definitions of what constitutes a radio, and national pride."

What constitutes "a radio"?
> Prices wouldn't significantly change. You still have people/pension funds/governments with lots of money to invest (the people who currently buy mortgage debt). How would you prohibit this money from just buying houses and renting them out?

This won't happen - because:

1. Up until the 80s, houses used to cost closer to three years of wages, as opposed to ten. Yet, there was no shortage of people and pension funds in the 80s.

2. Individuals borrowing mountains of money for their first home get tax advantages, compared to institutional investors. It's individuals pulling the price of houses up, not institutions.

> And even if you could lower prices, how would you compensate the current homeowners for destroying the value of their largest asset?

The same way we compensate people who bought pets.com stock in 1999, the same way that we compensate 22 year olds who amassed $200,000 of debt, and an English Literary History degree, and the same way that we compensate someone who invested into a coal plant, when utility solar starts selling electricity for 2 cents/KWH.
Insomnia [1] is a good one, it has all the necessary features to navigate REST APIs without the cloud clutter that comes with Postman.

[1] https://insomnia.rest
> If you can't see past that, the great thing about media, is you can choose to ignore it.

If only the world were so simple. In a democratic system, what is highlighted by the media affects everyone. Politics, culture, daily life. Certain political figures would not be political figures if the media didn’t cover their vulgar and obnoxious behavior constantly.
429 too many weebs
Actually, I installed LineageOS but skip installing root binary (it's an optional step when flashing LineageOS) as I don't need root anymore. Without root I can still use my banking app because Google safetynet is passing on my phone.
Reminds me of CS 314, the musical http://captainchang.com/cs314-musical.html

> Think in hex, think in hex

> Look around you, who needs dec?

> You can do anything in base sixteen or I'll go to my rest!
Why do so many people need to go to college? Especially before they even know what life is really like. Couldn't they work a year or two and then decide to go to college?
Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts
> Senators will have the opportunity to hear directly from senior government health officials regarding what we know about the virus so far, and how our country is prepared to respond as the situation develops.

So, non-public information regarding what the government response might be, including perhaps advising states to issue shelter-in-place orders that would tank the economy?

> there was nothing in that briefing that could constitute insider trading because there was no information revealed there

You have a transcript?
As Chinese propaganda on Covid-19 grows, U.S. social media must act
Which in turn makes me think of New Math by Tom Lehrer :)
2 things that I feel hurt US and probably be why we lose to China.

1) Predatory college loans (which lead to overpriced education)

2) healthcare tied to employers where providers can charge after they provide service months later. Very little transparency and insane markup.

Both are very specific to US, and absurd compared to every other wealthy nation.

Fixing education and healthcare to be reasonable for lower and middle class would do wonders for this country. Currently millions are in perpetual debt due to medical bills and college loans. They won’t start companies and build great things.
Anyone thought that they don't?! Cmon, they sell nice smartphones for 80-100$, why would they do that? They have built-in ads, so they probably study our behavior to send more relevant ads and make more proper contracts for advertisements.
> but in the best case you are not losing anything.

This is starting to not be the case, I couldn't get the wide angle camera working on my newer Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite for example. I had to fall back to miui.eu based rom to get it to work.
Great app!!!
I guess they pay you?
Choosing to do their own thing instead of helping define and adopt the development community consensus approach, spewing FUD and criticism of the community for 2 or 3 years, then finally giving up and adopting what the rest of the community did in the first place.
Oh yeah, you pretty much have to use breeder reactors to use seawater uranium. That has been the plan all along, e.g. Cohen 83: http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/docs/...
COM is both an evolution of VBX and a subset of OLE 2.0.

.NET was going to be what UWP is now, an evolution of COM, but then Java happened, and they went with something similar instead.

There are some references to how this all happened in the story of F# evolution, given that Don Syme was part of the team since the early days.
I know it's anecdotal but April was our lowest spending month for 20 years, despite having plenty of cash on hand.

You can't spend much when most shops are closed and visiting the ones that are open comes with quite a risk.
Personally I think the SEA curries are a bit more forgiving than the Indian ones. Indian curries use a lot of dried ingredients, where as in SEA they tend to use pastes made from fresh spices (in Indonesia and Malaysia this is called bumbu) as the basis for a lot of their cooking. Which gives you a little more room for error when it comes to quantities for most things. You just grind everything together with your onions (or usually shallots), fry it off a bit, and get on with the rest of the recipe. If you add a little too much fresh galangal, it’s not much of a problem, but it’s a lot easier to throw the balance of a dish off with dried powders.
The article doesn't state what an 'active user' is. It does clarify these are not paying users. Is it just anyone who has opened the app?
How does understanding loss functions and regularization require understanding Bayesian statistics? Those notions are literally part of linear regression theory.
Nobody included that risk in their calculation.
A bit tame compared to our “les tutos”. It’s hilarious I recommend watching :)
https://youtu.be/belUlgnhu9M
Thanks for the positive feedback! I'm gearing up now to start putting out a lot more YT vids leading up to my next major expedition.

I've never been to India, though the Northern regions are high on my list of must-visits!
> It's a cognizant choice that learning isn't worth the effort.

They're very often not wrong. If you're trying to optimize for learning new concepts instead of new implementations (particularly when said implementations are ephemeral), then the right choice is usually to ignore the latest stuff unless it becomes an absolute necessity to adopt it.

And most 'cutting edge' frameworks can be picked up in around a week or two once you have experience anyway. I remember it taking me about 4 working days to get the hang of RoR (with ~2 yrs of professional experience).

Most developers would be better served spending their time learning soft skills around productivity, networking/politicking, communication, writing, and otherwise living well-balanced lives with the rest of their time. Hell even doing Leetcode is probably a better use of time than picking up the latest framework.
Debian works fine on my 2016 XPS 13 and my 2012 x230.

To be honest all Ubuntu would give me these days is a preconfigured DE, but XFCE default on Debian works fine for me.

Also, now I run the same distro on my Dev box as in production ;)
It’s turtles all the way down.
The company trying to buy .org was planning to raise prices.

(You could have googled this.)
Java has been doing that for 25 years, still don't see how it is better than Java.

I stop copy pasting code and using code generators around 15 years ago.
I find it... meh. I don’t understand why he has so many views.
I know I have been, entertaining myself by buying things online that I didn't really need like vintage film cameras and things.
I agree that all of these things are bad - my point is that it's the worst system except for all the others.

Neither of your proposed replacement systems seem like they'd make things overall better with regards to the actual concerns of .org domain name owners.
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Added DD/MM and combining availabilities
> There are no pull requests or merge requests. We use email, which is how Git was designed to be used.

I get that some people really like mailing lists, and I am aware of the shortcomings of the pull/merge request model. But I've never really contributed to a project that used mailing lists, and there are some problems I see with mailing list. Perhaps it's just my lack of familiarity with the workflow, but these are some advantages I think the github-style flow has:

- Ability to subscribe to individual pull requests. Many mailing lists are very high volume, and afaik, it isn't possible to subscribe to individual threads. Yes I could subscribe to the list and set up filters, but that is more difficult than subscribing to individual pull requests in github, and getting the filters right could be tricky.

- Ability to search by tags/labels

- Automatic linking between related issues and pull requests (with backreferences)

- The request is itself a git branch, which makes it easy to compare both the current state of the request to master, as well as see incremental changes to the request as individual commits. I'm not sure how to accomplish that in a mailing list.

- Highlighting changes in the diff (source hut actually does this)

I'd be curious to know if proponents of the mailing list flow have anything to accomplish functionality similar to these. Or if there are any tools or tricks they use to make dealing with patch requests in email easier.
> We use email, which is how Git was designed to be used.

> If you insist on everything having the same workflow, then what utility is there in different tools?

I'll admit many if not most git users have only ever tasted the GitHub workflow, but there are also many who have experienced the old school email workflow and the GitHub workflow and legitimately prefer the latter. Two major considerations:

1. A lot of value-add around pull requests, both in terms of organization/filtering and lifecycle features (inline comments/reviews, CI/CD integration, policy enforcement, merging from web interface, etc.). I planned to go into details here and actually wrote quite a few bullet points before realizing I can't do this topic justice without spending a lot of time to produce a huge wall of text, so please excuse me for the lack of details. (Note: not saying CI/CD integration is impossible with the email workflow, but it doesn't seem possible on sr.ht at the moment without manually pushing someone else's patch to a branch of yours -- correct me, and other implementations I have seen are nowhere as streamlined as those provided by GitHub and clones.)

2. Difficulties around git-send-email and git-am. git-send-email.io only covers half of the equation and coverage isn't complete (e.g. In-Reply-To is not covered). Even the incomplete coverage highlights the complexity. Now what about the git-am side of the equation? How do I fish out a patch from my email client, any email client? How do I figure out which commit to apply the patch on top? Then there's the branching and git-am dance. Maybe it could be streamlined if you use some sort of hacker's mail client with ninja plugins, but you'll have a hard time convincing most people to give up their preferred mail client just because it's not git-friendly. The PR workflow, on the other hand, stays within the boundaries of push/fetch/pull/checkout, the basic operations required for working with any git remote and core competency of any git client (if you choose to use one); no ninja mail client required. hub(1) makes it even easier.

I don't think "how Git was designed to be used" is a strong defense, Linus isn't almighty and what he originally designed could be improved.

I can understand not being a GitHub clone, but when flexibility is a stated goal (I'm sort of reading between the lines, correct me if I'm wrong) maybe it doesn't hurt to support multiple workflows (a lot of work of course). Rejecting a popular and arguably superior (for many if not most git users) workflow means leaving a lot of potential users on the table, which is in itself okay depending on your goal.
Actually - Is it?
What's the likelihood there'll still be a state investigation or a court case about this? What I'd love to see is the California AG pierce the anonymous ownership structure of Ethos Capital so we can see who really is behind it.

The way this sailed through, it had to have insider influence. How dod this deal glide through ICANN (prior to its announcement)? Who made the decision to approve it? What paper trail is there?

As much as I'm glad this deal was killed, we shouldn't stop here. Let's weed out and hold to account the weak, inept and corrupt who allowed this to go this far.
You are quite right. The article seems not to know the difference or is very sloppy in applying the correct term.
I think you've been hanging out with the wrong "Gurdjieffites".

At least some of those terms are pretty easy to figure out.

"organ kundabuffer" was a specific organ that excreted some kind of drug (in Gurdjieff's pre-history.)

"being-partkdolg-duty" is the task and operation of remembering oneself.

"the sacred Rascooarno" is death of the physical body.

...and so on.
Does anyone understand what point he's trying to make, or is it that the point is a very generic, "hey censorship is bad," which most people will agree with, but is argued rather poorly?

At the end he writes, "From everything I’ve heard, talking to doctors and reading the background material, the Bakersfield doctors are probably not to be trusted. But the functional impact of removing their videos (in addition to giving them press they wouldn’t otherwise have had) is to stamp out discussion of things that do actually need to be discussed, like when the damage to the economy..."

Does taking down a video of a couple of charlatans, "stamp out discussion of things that do actually need to be discussed"? I don't see how at all, maybe I'm missing something about why this has upset Taibbi so much. Other than, maybe anything that involves Google/Facebook playing a role in removing content from the Internet will just make him mad, regardless of the issue at hand.
Yup - one of my smarter colleagues had a go at getting it compiled on Windows, and basically gave it up as the library dependencies were such a mess on that platform.

No one seems to have packaged up binaries for it either.
Therein lies the issue. To be blunt, human nature is tribalism, it's desire for food and sex, and, unfortunately, it's waiting until something is a matter of life and death to respond.

Activists imploring people not to watch YouTube and whatnot in 2020, should work just about as well as activists imploring people not to watch MTV and play Doom worked in the 90's. I predict we'll basically have to wait until something better comes along to unseat the incumbents.

That said, it's also highly likely that whatever unseats the incumbents will have all the drawbacks activists didn't like about the incumbents. Just as CoD or Modern Warfare still gets blamed for school shootings today, Doom was blamed in the 90s. Just as MTV was blamed for making society less intelligent in the 90's, Twitter is blamed for the same today.

My suspicion is that whatever replaces Twitter or Youtube will be just as censor-able, (maybe even moreso with builtin tracking and tracing). It'll just have much more content on it, and that content will be prettier. I'm thinking in the digital information age, it's impossible to go backwards to privacy and freedom.

Different strategies will need to be pursued. Like surging information you don't want censored. Or having your devices generate believably fake access trails for trackers and tracers to follow.

I don't believe either of those are illegal in the US yet? Could be wrong though?
I think you would be surprised how many people have still been making stuff in the mean time. They closed down non-essential stores here but many companies have still be producing stuff.

Also, no need to make more car tires when the demand is 0 and they have stock, but the guys at the yeast company were running 100%.

Just as demand comes back production ramps up and the existing stock will take care of it in between.
You or someone else from Pipedream commented on my Twitter thread, the last time I asked about this. Is this a coincidence? How are you monitoring everything?

I did see the Pipedream recipe but I believe the concept was to run a function in the cloud which looped forever until a time had been reached. Doesn't seem that scalable.
Is this not the problem of Maxwell's Daemon, if an intelligent agent observes and interferes with a particle system to reduce the system's entropy then overall entropy is still increasing because the agents needs to store and calculate information in some physical medium, be it brain matter of silicon.
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I'd bung in the garam masala at the end, champion (after turning the heat off).
I agree about repairs/maintenance. Dentists too.
System designed from scratch so there can't be anything like Facebook hoarding your data or Google tracking everything you do, because they just can't be built.

I know it doesn't explains what Urbit actually is but, it provides an overview of the tip of the iceberg for those with some technical background, while highlighting some of the features of the architecture that common people can easily understand.
Tesla’s Laid Off Janitors and Bus Drivers Say They Can’t Afford Food
We (the founders) are heading off for the night. If anyone wants to get in touch, my email is colin@layerci.com
If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience
It's a cooking show on youtube. I think we'll be ok.
Or how about Kill Dash Nine the rap song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGjtlsKo4s
I have Pop OS on my Thinkpad now, but the latest Fedora release has me thinking about switching.
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Why do you reject the premise?

In the last twenty years, a motivated political establishment executed a fraudulent war, with most of the media either being complicit or negligent. Within the same era, you had a financial establishment that concocted economic fraud that was akin to a financial terrorist attack that literally collapsed the economy. Again, the media/press was mostly complicit or negligent as it happened, and the political establishment was mostly unwilling to administer criminal justice in the aftermath.

So, that’s roughly two bullshit wars, and economic collapse due to deliberate fraud on a massive scale, all wrapped up in a package of negligent media coverage, and zero justice.

These institutions don’t deserve respect at the moment. It will take a long time to reestablish integrity on their part. I understand if you find this general attitude snobbish, distasteful, and pretentious, which is fine, you may be more polite than the rest of us.

But the premise is not inaccurate.
Being left is not mutually exclusive with being mainstream. The NY Times is perhaps the classic example of a left-oriented establishment paper.
Thank you! It took a lot of refining to find a pitch that resonated.

Let us know if you have a chance to try out the tool and have any other feedback. :)
It's in the next tab over, "State by State" [1]. Click on the state name to see the breakdown. For example, if you click on "Alabama" it will take you to historical data [2]. Cheers!

[1] https://covidtracking.com/data

[2] https://covidtracking.com/data/state/alabama
Within an ecosystem (MS-only, Apple-only) it sorta works; much worse, if you need something from outside, then it doesn't.

RE replicators, you're right! I don't know why I haven't thought about it. PADDs are very simple as electronics go (even as today's standards go). DS9 showed people recycling dishes and food through a replicator, so the same would work for PADDs.
I don't think Apple has specified the way they measure active users in their SEC filings, but if they followed the same methodology as the analytics in App Store Connect it would mean 125M people opened the News app for at least one session of at least 2 seconds.

In Connect this doesn't map 1:1 to users (it shows active devices and is gated by the user's analytics privacy settings) but close enough.
It is very easy to become jaded about the continuous onslaught of new technologies. However the flaws in JavaScript are right there, in your face as soon as you start using it.
But isn't the information gained from a message necessarily subjective? It depends on just on this message, but from the distribution from which this message was drawn, and more appropriately, the distribution anticipated by the observer will determine the value (information content) of the message. That is exactly how it becomes useful in practice.

This "surprisal" can be parametrized by relative entropy (Kullback-Liebler divergence), which reduces to the Shannon entropy formula only when the observer has the correct anticipated distribution.
YouTube became possible because Google funneled billions of dollars from other divisions for many years until competition was completely napalmed out and finally it became profitable. No other company or private investors can do this kind of investment for so many years. Google should be split up.