skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is really interesting to me! I never used VB, is the only difference here that it is "named" ByVal and ByRef that you think made it easier for people to understand than "pointers"?
Today for the coronavirus, tomorrow for what else?
I don't think whether they have changed affects their ability to buy Giphy.

Your CCPA point is interesting though. However my guess is the CCPA is unlikely to be used in that way as it would affect nearly every acquisition in every industry.
>I'm not talking legal, I'm talking moral

Knowingly violating the terms of service you agreed to when you chose to use a free service like Twitter also seems to have some moral implications. I don't see how you can draw some moral equivalence between the two. If one party involved is already acting in bad faith then how is it fair to put the onus of morality in the situation on the other party?

> And perhaps they shouldn't have the right to delete whatever they want for whatever reason.

So you're saying if you owned a website the government should have the authority to force you to host content at your own expense? This would be a clear violation of the Constitution.
I don't think it's that simple unless I misunderstand how GCP Pubsub works. I don't think GCP PubSub will give you deterministic delivery order within a partition the way Kafka will: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/ordering
A curated, searchable web directory might be a concept that could come to be these days. It would share some of its DNA with the old school web directory but also share some with a search engine.
Yes, they're definitely at risk. ksqlDB does not appear to have transactions at all.
Installing this kernel makes it work amazing: https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
I expect the ministry of food science and the ministry of drug science to be scientific. That's quite different from what you're talking about.

I have noticed that your comment is quite typical for people who want to say that we live in a post-truth world. There are certainly problems, but one solution is to double down on science.
> were somehow tricked into this proposition even though it was clearly stated 10 years ago?

Tricked? Please don't put words into my mouth.

You're right; technically, this email doesn't indicate he's forcing anyone. What it does say, though, is that he has his own agenda, and instead of trying to achieve consensus, he's intentionally making disagreement difficult while he forges ahead irrespective of that disagreement. To me, that represents disrespect for anyone who disagrees, and he's certainly not soliciting others' input.

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From reading some of the disagreements about systemd, it seems like there's two primary points of contention.

1. Whether or not systemd represents good engineering. For example, "it makes things super easy for sysadmins" vs. "it breaks things in weird ways", or "tight integration is awesome" vs. "muh Unix philosophy".

2. Whether or not systemd was introduced in good faith.

Does that sound like a decent categorization? At the very least, it would help us not talk past each other.
> turn each entity in a game into a server which sends events to other entities.

This reminds me of event-driven microservices. Is it similar, in principle?
The futurism probably could have stayed true if the political impetus had stayed toward space development instead of Cold War and oil concerns. But planting the US flag on the moon and probably other factors I don’t realize made the Soviets being on the moon less of a reality.

Edit-really wish we had O'Neill cylinders though.
Also, just about every JPEG image out there is pretty unoptimised, tools like ImageOptim and others can squeeze out more space without any visible quality loss. But few people bother to optimise their images, precisely because the default is small enough.
There's a good interview with Michael Mauboussin[0] in which he mentions the power of regression to the mean and base rates. He gets those ideas from Daniel Khanmen, I think. Anyway, an appropriate price is impossible to predict ahead of time, but using reversion to the mean as your guide, you see that we're pretty overvalued right now.

We're above the mean earnings ratios, FCF yields, etc, while at the same time knowing that we're almost certainly in the first leg of a major recession, and a period unprecedented economic uncertainty.

I think the bear case is much stronger than the bull case right now.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xoKZBcS4Y
Yeah, Go focusing on threads and channels I agree is generally a painful new concept for beginners to learn. I've also seen beginners often "over-correct" and start using channels and goroutines for things they really shouldn't.

How was your learning experience with Rust's borrow checking and pointers? Was it introduced to you early on, or later on?
VP8 in a WebM container is pretty much the lowest bar for most browser support, and comes with no licensing requirements.

Unfortunately, even that isn't supported for general video use on Apple devices. It was also never properly supported on IE and support was only recently added to Edge.

And that's for a standard that is over a decade old, which is now two codec generations behind the state of the art. Of course it still works to the extent that it's supported by the browsers, but it is quite poor in terms of efficiency and quality compared to the progress made with the later generations.

If everyone could just hurry along with hardware and browser support for encoding and decoding AV1, that would be great. However, until I don't need to hire a server farm just to encode a cute little animation in all of the different formats I might need for different visitors, I suspect we'll see animated GIFs sticking around.
I'm a bit confused by the use of the word "compiler" to refer to something that turns markdown into html.
A small company with a valuable patent can rapidly attract large friends.
Generated by Hugo, hosted on smallest AWS LightSail, own domain. Uses nginx, Lets Encrypt, FBSD. Auto-updates everything and if something breaks it breaks.
1000 days and zero maintenance.
https://blog.eutopian.io/the-stack/
Gmail won't let you put anything arbitrary with dots. So if you're whatever@gmail.com you can use what.ever@gmail.com but not whatever+somemerchant@gmail.com. Other email system obviously can work however they want.
Extremist positions of this sort lead to all kinds of awful unintended consequences.

For example:

"Don't delete child porn, just let people know upfront this is bad stuff and you shouldn't watch it."

Loophole for posting all the child porn you want to post and watching all the child porn you want to watch.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.
This is an infamous gap, and AWS has had to reboot customer instances in the past:
https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-Amazon-AWS-migrate-a-live-ins...

The question is whether something has changed.
From the first moment of our life we express emotions with voice. Not only that - adults understand them. I can express my own emotions without words. And I can change my mood by singing.

So the question is - what's there? Is it formants? Is it universal? Can we map them like syllables?

And music, it touches same emotions. Does it use same mechanism?

Edit: found "Emotional speech synthesis: Applications, history and possible future" [1], looks like melody is part of emotion processing.

If mapping is possible I'd love to see application in dubbing. Both as translate and TTS with mapped emotions and dubbing actors evaluation/autotune.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268260426_EMOTIONAL...
I mean segregating mouse actions. So: Drag, Click, etc. Also handling selection events and so on. I've been using love2d, which basically means you have to set up those manually. Then building a state machine in lua gets very messy.

I dunno, maybe I'm just overthinking it
I suspect that many of the people getting infected are not observing as strict of social distancing as you imagine.

e: Why am I getting downvoted? Just conditioned on | getting infected by covid, means more likely to have had more contacts.
tsk tsk. it's not like someone is going to need to write all of that HTML. some user will be doing this with twitter/IM/FB/etc where some dev will have implemented a node library that will have some method call to do this for you. it's not like anybody cares what the automated HTML in the background looks like.
When they do, they risk disclosure. When the secret is out, the monopoly is over.

Especially in a "first-to-file" patent world, a well-guarded-but-leaked trade secret could potentially even be turned against the holder of the secret.
Refactoring a growing system while maintaining bug-for-bug compatibility is extraordinarily hard. Most people I know who've gone through such a migration never want to do it again.
Still use coffeescriot when I need to do something quick. It has added all the async goodness of the more recent js implementations and it is still 10x easier to read and makes me 10x more effective.
Why do we need another standard?

webm webp doesn't work everywhere (or very many places at all), you can't copy paste files around, it's mostly just (some) browser based.
JPEG encoders got better over time.
I don't recall where or when I read it, but there is a strategy that usually beats Tit-fot-tat.

Tit for tat, but also a small (random) chance of forgiving (giving a break) anyway. I believe the reason that won is that this allowed for recovery in the face of understandings and as long as the chance wasn't that large the cost also wasn't.
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Nice! this one is also quite good https://docsify.js.org/#/
That’s a great question!

How: github pages. How, you ask? I don’t know. I set it up once, and now when I log in to github it tells me I set it up wrong and I should set it up again correct. I don’t know what I did or how to do it correctly - but visiting my domain works, so I don’t dare to fix what isn’t really broken.

So I guess you don’t need to know what you’re doing to host a static site on your own domain :)
So much this.

For a discussion site, Reddit's a really shitty discussion site. Good conversations rarely even begin, and die rapidly. I've discussed this a few times and places.

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16865105

It was a problem I'd identified when first trialing a Reddit-as-blog dynamic:

The Reddit Notifications dynamic is proving to be a very strong negative. Something Google+ got right is to keep re-engaging people with active, productive, posts. Days, weeks, months, even years later. This isn't something you want in _all cases (and can opt out of), but it is often useful, and means that conversations can develop. Reddit, sadly (after some five years or so of trying) is proving to be a Flying Purple Conversation Eater. This is a major site frustration.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/faq#wiki_so.2C_red...

That's from 5-6 years ago.

True conversation is fragile, rare, and scales poorly.

And, as noted in both links, Google+ managed this surprisingly well.
I also couldn't even figure out dead programming languages, for a long time not even a single answer. My first correct guess was Lisp after trying Python2, ALGOL, BASIC, QBASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and probably more, which I thought were all perfectly good guesses (even if I know FORTRAN and COBOL are still in active use and Python2 is still maintained by distributions). Turns out the answers are perfectly alive languages. Ruby? PHP?! I guess it's meant as a joke? Great demo, I could have spent that time better.
It’s used quite frequently in the US too - especially by those with beards in flannel shirts.
Arbiters of the French language say 'Covid' is feminine
I don't have the link but theres a great online experience (game, post, idk what to call it) that refers to what your talking about as copykitten
I don't want to belabor this, and I'm sure that your intentions here are good. I'm very aware of various technical definitions of inflation, and I understand where you're coming from.

I will leave you with this — do you think there might be a reason why the conventionally promoted inflation definitions and measures allow rapid increase in cost of living on fixed income to be called "not inflation"? Do you think that's a good definition, if it means someone with a fixed future cash flow can now buy a smaller stream of future goods? What/who is served by sticking to these (IMO gerrymandered) definitions of "value of money"?

We've gone deep enough and I will leave my contribution at that (though obviously feel free to reply). I too was educated on these technical definitions of inflation and I have become extremely skeptical of them as I have seen the mismatch with lived reality.

Edit: I won't make any more points, but I will say that I consider the implications in the response below here uncharitable and unresponsive to the points above.
Hey! Thanks so much. Yea, can't go into too much detail here, but I will say that more def isn't always better when it comes to the size of datasets. :) We aim for quality over quantity in order to achieve natural expressiveness from our actor recording sessions.
here it is https://ncase.me/trust/
There are countless blogging platforms, but surprisingly, I don't think anything hits the nail yet, which is why I think blogs are dying.

There's WordPress, Ghost, and static site builders, all amazing self-hosted solutions. They're hosted on your own domain, meaning you own your content and control your audience. This type of decentralized blogging makes it difficult for writers to find audiences, and it's typically hard for readers to find relevant content. These blogs are all over the internet, and only a few can make it to the top of Google. Setup, maintenance, and server administration are large barriers for those simply looking for a place to write something.

Of course, there's also Tumblr and Medium. I'm actually a fan of the idea of having more centralized blogging platforms, because they give writers audiences right out of the box. It takes just a few minutes to start a blog and begin writing your first post. But these platforms limit creators' ability to own their content, and even go to lengths to make content less accessible to readers. I especially don't like Medium's paywall approach, nor their policy towards not allowing custom domains.
and soap is both sufficient and great at destroying the coronavirus. https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticle...
"XXXXX with a computer."

"YYYYY on the internet."
Yes this I think should be the future direction shells go
like option does not really matter
In addition to what @junaru mentioned [0], about copying pasting GIFs, I would also add that I can send GIFs easy in emails and be assured it will be rendered in the email for the recipient. Unlike videos, people don't have to click multiple times to see them.

I've found this very convenient in sending small clips of screen recordings using ScreenToGif [1].

Of course, what would be really nice is if one could play / pause the GIF!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23207292
[1]: https://www.screentogif.com/
the videos don't play in safari, also there is no way to play them for me. They need a click handler with play().
ksql does not solve any of the hard consistency or contention problems you will face if you attempt to use Kafka as a datastore. Consider the simplest possible example: you write an "update event" to a topic and then read a ksql view of that topic. The view may or may not yet reflect the update. This is called read-after-write consistency, and you will need to create it in your application code.
I believe everybody knew there was not going to be a mountain. But people are curious creatures. The main question became: can it be done?

It is interesting a lot of money was put into the project while most people knew there would never be a mountain. But they learned so much from it. So I think you can't say it was a waste of time and money.

But for the coming years I still believe the Netherlands (lower countries) will remain flat.
I recently released https://notetoweb.com that lets you convert your Evernote notes to a blog. Let me know what you think.
I use https://www.11ty.dev/ + Netlify
I don't see a problem with it? The poster's name is probably Podesta, and pizza is a fun TLD.
Can't seem to name a dead programming language after naming some very dead ones. Broken? Just hearing the "bzz" incorrect answer sound over and over.
This is a great way to go -- bringing self-hosted blogging and social media together.
I was going to say, what every software engineer should know about Kafka is "don't use it". This is more a list of things people who are already stuck with Kafka should know.
> Most compilers’ follow on messages are so bad that the practical programmer ignores all but the first one anyway.

Because the only reason I would build a new programming language is only for it to not be worse than others?
Blockchains are a new type of database
Doesn't the Chipotle app just use DoorDash?
Every state except New Jersey now allows home-kitchen cooks to make and sell non-hazardous foods with a low risk of causing foodborne illness such as baked goods, jams, jellies and other items that do not require time and temperature controls for food safety.

Maine, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming have gone further, enacting “food freedom” laws that exempt home producers from food-safety rules that apply to grocery stores, restaurants and other food establishments.

The Wyoming legislature adopted the nation’s first Food Freedom Act in 2015, after rejecting it five times in seven years.

North Dakota passed a similar food-freedom law

The nearly limitless cottage-food laws in North Dakota and Wyoming are far from what’s happening in Washington. The D.C. City Council passed a cottage-food act in 2013, but final rules were not issued until December 2017.

New Mexico and West Virginia are considering food-freedom laws, while North Dakota legislators might clarify their intent in a 2017 law. A food-freedom bill in Mississippi died in committee in February

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

Your article also talks about Kentucky.

I am not getting an unstated part of my question answered: What are the laws in the Washington state (where I live)?
The critical flaw in this strategy is trivial: if you pit it against itself, both participants refuse to cooperate every time (and, presumably, die).
It would look very funny if you would shovel snow with a hammer ;)
exactly. gif is a choice about the limitations of what can happen. A gif will play and repeat with NO SOUND POSSIBLE.
>For one, a sha256 hash of 50kB would take a good quarter of a second (possibly more, I just ).

You're probably thinking 50MB. Hashing 50kB should be almost instantaneous.
I could have patented a number of innovations in D. But I chose not to, and they're finding their way into several other languages. While I'm a bit annoyed that they don't give credit to D for it, they don't have to.
I use an add-on called Unpinterested! to remove Pinterest results from my Google search results:

https://github.com/sellomkantjwa/unpinterested

All it does is add -site:pinterest.com to the search bar for image results (can be configured to also do it for Web results), but it gets the job done.
How does it compare to Dyon?
Private Equity Ruined a Beloved Grocery Chain
I think one of the underlying problems in search is that most search engines are more like recommendation systems.
> Google and Apple are the ones that decide what data is collected and who it is shared with. It is pretty remarkable how much faith we must have in them.

No, Google and Apple are one of a number of entities that have the ability to put a maximum on the data shared. Governments are free to pass laws that limit data collection and sharing (and some have!), and individual organizations are free to limit their collection and sharing. To an extent, individuals are also free to limit what data is collected about them, though I'll grant that this is difficult for many users.

Do you really want to go the route of compelling Apple or Google to collect data on behalf of a government?
> because the market crashed ~50 days ago for reasons that still hold

There have been a few big events in the past 50 days which would make me think the market is different today than it was 50 days ago.

For one the Federal Reserve has dropped interest rates and committed to backing up money market funds as well as short term commercial paper. I definitely think that this removed some risk for investors.

A large part of the fear was that companies would face serious solvency issues. I think companies access to funding (either selling new shares or selling bonds) have made this less of a concern in the short term.

Additionally, Congress passed bills to extend unemployment benefits and fund 2 months of payroll expenses for small businesses. While we have to wait to see the effects I don't think it is unreasonable to expect that paying people not to work will have some impact on inflation.

I completely agree that we are not out of the woods yet with regard to this pandemic but I would say that we are 50 days closer to being on the other side. 50 days ago, in the New York/New Jersey area where I live, our government officials were telling us we were days or in some cases hours from having our hospial ICU's at full capacity. While I am not saying that we can't find our selves in the same situation again, I do think we are in a different place now.

>You don't make an investment on the basis of "you can't prove to me this won't happen"

Just to make sure I am 100% clear. I am not making investment advice. I have no idea if the stock market will go up or down. You made the claim that the market will drop by 30%. I was interested in how you came up with that number.
Previous repo homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20200506092848/https://github.co...

> The goal of this project is to enable Remote Desktop Host support and concurrent RDP sessions on reduced functionality systems for home usage.
> We’re probably closer to a depression that we have been since 1929, and that depression didn’t bottom out until 1932.

And even in the great depression GDP rebounded within 10 years and had grown substantially by 20 years.
“After more thought, I determined that the rows do not alternate but are arranged in a repeating "ABBA" pattern.” ... which differs from Konami develops, who used a “BA” pattern in their roms.

Sorry, couldn’t resist. My brain did a thing.
Unless it's pixel art (lossy webp is chroma-subsampled). Another issue is that it often is a reencode from a gif, so it's strictly lossy if you don't use a lossless format for the reencode.
It's possible but more likely it's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory
Interesting. I guess I've been more fortunate. Most of the Java code I've worked with has involved reasonably well thought out classes. For me that mostly means I can read and understand parts of the codebase in isolation. There are usually a few piles of sometimes ugly utility classes and the occasional mess of deeply nested inheritance that nobody wants to touch. When the latter becomes painful enough, someone usually decides to refactor it, which is often not as hard to do as everyone fears.

It seems to be improving in the last 5-10 years, as most practitioners have found that both of these eyesores can be reduced. DI (sometimes messy itself, but it can be done cleanly) tends to make people rethink those utility classes, and shallow inheritance is now favored, with a focus more on interfaces and composition.
Yes, for like 2 years, then it went under...
Fortunately, this is about the (mis)use of set theory in philosophy and not mathematics. Why set theory, though? Since it is being gradually replaced by category theory as a more modern, practically better, and a more powerful foundation of mathematics, I expected that philosophers would be more interested in (mis)using category theory these days.