skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi thanks for raising this. I will add more details around benchmarking and the points you have raised to the documentation. Some answers for now:
- One may use the `shared` keyword in order to override the default copying semantic of Concurnas for mutable data. In this way one may spawn 10 isolates operating on an array without copying it 10 times. Of course this may introduce non deterministic behavior if they overlap in terms of how data is proceed in that array, so care must be applied. Also, a class may be marked as being shared, again suppressing copying, this is handy if if one is importing already thread safe Java code.
- In terms of off heap support all classes are augmented with runtime generated serializers and deserializers (https://concurnas.com/docs/offHeap.html#serialization-of-obj...). Off heap memory support is an area where I'd like to improve Concurnas some more. I think that some form of value type support would be beneficial here. The goal being for it to be possible for one to implement an efficient RDBMS or NoSQL system in Concurnas itself.
- For remote computing, yes there is caching of code to avoid retransmission (the documentation could be better regarding this, I will update the following in due course: https://concurnas.com/docs/distComp.html#request-dependencie...)
- The point about work unit size for remote computing is interesting, I wonder if there is a framework/general method for solving this sort of problem (feels like a solved problem).
> This is approximately the same phenomenon that causes medical students to self-diagnose themselves with every disease they learn about

Could you say more about this? It seems pretty counter-intuitive that medical students could look at some diagnostic criteria—which I assume often contain some fairly straightforward things like, "green spots on armpits" or whatever—and come out convinced they have the disease.

When you say diagnostic criteria function as a "tool," what is the purpose of the tool? My only guess so far is that it's about leaving things up to the doctor's case-by-case judgement by leaving the criteria overly broad. Maybe this ties into legal concerns as well as the fuzzy nature of real instances of diseases (i.e. it's rare to be able to exactly specify the symptoms in a way that works for all cases)?
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It seems like they're spamming a lot of O(buzzwords).
I took a critical thinking class in university, which covered deceptive messaging from advertisements fairly heavily. I'd like to think they all came out of that class no longer able to be fooled by this sort of thing, but I know it isn't the case.

It's easy to get people to question advertising, because they aren't emotionally invested. Once you stray into religion and politics, people often stop caring that they're hearing plainly untrue, or even self-contradictory, ideas.
AFAIK, Airbus won’t hire American nationals. Boeing will hire Europeans, at least on the commercial side.

The defense part of Boeing used to be a separate company (McD). DoD could easily let commercial fail and spin out McD again, or just shrink to defense only. For a long time, Airbus has claimed that the DoD spending subsidizes the commercial side. So TBH, letting commercial fail would result in more bang for the DoD buck.
Snowpack's web_modules build step produces a single-file ESM bundle for each NPM lib?

I wasn't aware of this, that's actually a pretty cool feature and incredibly useful.

A bit unlearned on ESM modules, how are they different from
the isomorphic browser/Node single-file bundles produced by Webpack/Rollup?
Where Did RSS Come From?
So much of American how society functions is going to be rethought after this - telework, hygiene, respect for healthcare and "essential" workers - but somehow, I don't think "the dignity and health of shy or introverted people" is going to be part of that. Extroverts are finally seeing what the other side looks and feels like, but rather than reconsider how their privilege might come at the expense of our health and happiness, they're clawing at their cages like rabid beasts to get out and "get back to normal."

And if you have to live with one, you know that the first few weeks were bliss, until they started getting antsy and began offloading their nervous energy on you. Can't win.
Sorry for the confusion! Help docs are in Settings > Help.
I had this recently with my phone. It was on silent, so ringing wouldn't help. Still connected though.

I then looked at the signal values in my AP. Kicked the phone from one AP, so it would connect to the next. The signal strength was almost the same so I figuered it must be in a room with somewhat equal distance to the APs. I went to that room, no lights on, called and the display turned on.
It was a reference to 1984
+1 for this request, which would allow better interoperability with "The Archive" (from zettelkasten.de). I built my Zettelkasten links in "The Archive" using [[UID]]. Obsidian looks fantastic and I'd love to give it a try but my existing links do not work. As a side note, the other feature from "The Archive" I miss is the ability to create buttons for custom searches in the left sidebar.
neural models will constantly run in background

This doesn't feel like progress to me.
For similar-goal prior-art, see Unpoly[1].

Also the IETF asks[2] that you please stop using "X-" to prepend your custom HTTP headers[3]

[1] https://unpoly.com/tutorial
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648
[3] https://htmx.org/reference/#headers
Is this really important research? I think not. Scientific American used to be a serious science magazine with very high standards. Probably to stay in business, it has morphed into the pop-science tabloid it is today. Sad.
I don’t follow. This app would work on top of your existing markdown files, and if they go out of business there is nothing preventing you from either keep using the app, or take your markdown files and take them elsewhere.
Stats indicate that Vit D defficiency is very common.
i.e. a typical diet does not provide enough vit D.

A "typical healthy diet" can provide even less vit D since much of the vit D consumed it from fortified milk and breakfast cereals.

I think a lot of people would benefit from boosters right now. As you say, it does no harm.
IIRC AT&T is handled by Yahoo so pester them at https://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?page=contactform&loc...

EDIT: https://www.att.com/esupport/postmaster/digital-signature/ checked the AT&T support about delievery. Seems like they do use Yahoo these days.
> How does anyone think this is a good idea?

They don't.

> Just heard from the Image Search team that this is an oversight and they'll add the feature! Sorry about that and thanks for the report!

https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1265688067706245120
the question is "how does evolution work so well to create the appearance of design?" dawkins answer is unguided mutation and natural selection. so, a guided computer simulation fails to demonstrate his point. darwin does the same bait and switch in his origin of species, presenting animal breeding as an example of the power of natural selection
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Your statement appears to be counter-factual. From the report's conclusion: "The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion"

If anything the MSM didn't do enough to publicize the Mueller report's conclusion or the Senate report.
IIRC the exhaust trail aftera a rocket is actually ionised and efectively grounds the rocket in flight, creating a giant lightnjng rod. This was discovered during the Apollo 12 launch and caused serious but thankfulyy not fatal issues. Since then people are rather careful about preventing launches if lightning danger around the launch area is too high.
i think we can confidently say it’s certainly not because of a “generation of pussies”
Sure, and the dinosaurs perished. What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China?
> I don't think your government had a course of action that would have made a lot of difference.

The obvious counter-argument to this are China and India. Significantly larger populations, living in far greater densities, possessing fewer healthcare resources, yet far fewer overall deaths. Even if China had 10x the deaths they're reporting (which would be hard to cover up, but you never know), it's still lower than the US. Their lockdown wasn't for as long. Schools in Wuhan reopened this month.

> It caught everybody on the planet off guard.

It caught China, and maybe Italy and Iran off guard. Surely after learning that a Chinese province of 20 million people had been put on house arrest, the rest of the planet should have cottoned on.
pfft. whoever heard of sending light over a fiber?
Point.

However https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave quotes a researcher estimating that at any point in time there are an average of 10 rogue waves somewhere in the world.

So the second quote appears to be a misquote. And everything else makes sense.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems clear to me: Other bundlers = change one file, `n` files are rebuilt/bundled. Snowpack = change one file, only that one file is rebuilt. Building "from scratch" will necessarily be O(n), but incremental rebuilds can be O(1), no?
Although it's not markdown based, we're building https://www.remnote.io/ for this purpose; it lets you take hierarchical, nonlinear, linked notes and internalize them with spaced repetition.
There was an article recently in New Scientist about appetite, it was actually the leader as well. 23 May 2020, no 3283. (Subscriber content): https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632831-400-you-have...

The point of the article is that we have five appetites, not one: protein, carbs, fats, sodium and calcium.

Then:

"The thing about ultra-processed foods is that they tend to be low in protein – which is expensive – and high in cheap carbs and fats. It is these foods that have largely been responsible for the dilution of protein in Western diets since the 1960s. And the more ultra-processed foods people eat, the more calories they need to consume to get the target intake of protein, with disastrous consequences."

So, get your protein (nuts,meat, fish, dairy, etc, etc) in and the rest should follow naturally. Once you fix up your protein intake, you may find that you fix other diet related snags as well. This is another telling quote:

"Intriguingly, in our experiments with people, we found that most of the extra calories eaten by those on a low-protein diet came from savoury snacks, especially those that tasted of umami, the signature flavour of protein. Protein-deprived subjects were craving things that tasted like protein, even though they were made of carbs. Our food environment is awash with such umami-flavoured carbs and fats, which we call “protein decoys”: crisps, instant noodles, crackers and so on."

I don't think I have overdone it on the quotes but the message is quite clear. You may need this to join the dots:

"Ultra-processed foods make us fat, but not because we have strong appetites for the fats and carbs they contain, as is often thought to be the case. Rather, it is because our appetite for protein is stronger than our ability to limit fat and carb intake."
It's kind of gross that the only way to use that is to have it pollute your file space, rather than just having a document to open.

Also, on Mac it should be under the actual Help menu, the same way that there should be an Obsidian -> Preferences... menu item (hotkey cmd+,) to open settings. Conventions are important!
I have trouble saving a word document nowadays, since they close the document when you want to save or print. (You press file, and now the document has been closed and replaced by some menu. I do not know if my actions will apply to the document that I had had open before the program helpfully closed it and makes me feel very uncertain. I do not like to use Word for this reason. It is completely unfathomable to me why of all menus, the File menu is the menu that closes your document. I thought it should be the one to help you interact with it most.)
>[..., but] Twitter didn't do this.

I was talking in a broad sense. I never accused or defended twitter of doing anything. Please stop making such weak strawmans.

Regarding the rest of your arguments, you're basically agreeing with me with a different set of words. I am glad you got the point :).
Don't forget "whatis" as your standard third entry point on Unix.

macOS does have a standard Help menu, and you can even live search from within it; it'll find a command within the menus and show you where it is, even if it's deeply nested. Or it will search through help topics if the application provides them.

> And context sensitive so it may not even be possible to see actions until certain condition is met.

That's gotten worse as developers have jammed more and more features into applications, to where they can't lay out their commands in the traditional menus.

We somewhat dodged a bullet in this regard. Apple and Microsoft both did experiments in component software back in the '90s, with Object Linking and Embedding on Windows and OpenDoc on the Mac.

They flopped for a variety of reasons, but one was the insane complexity of the UI: any object in a document was now potentially a mini application and had to negotiate control of the UI with other objects.
Looking forward to cars like this being featured in a crime thriller where a hacker takes control of a fleet of cop cars and force this feature to turn on while they're driving.
From what I can tell it's a wholesale replacement for Webpack + Babel + whichever other loaders you're using. If you're not from the JS ecosystem and that description doesn't make sense to you, I can see why it might be unclear.
Instead it should have one dysfunctional government :)
I'm a consultant and I love the idea of having Postgres instead of NoSQL on the backend, coming from Amplify.

For me the MVP, before I could use it for my commercial projects, would be: DB+auth. At that point, I could switch - and probably would.

Also, kudos to you for being the diametric opposite of a 'useless' startup. Not only would I use this once I could, I'd talk it up to everyone in my space.
A friend, who is an adjunct professor at an east coast university, was laid off on April 30. He's still looking for work.
It’s not “without conscience” to change the default from opt-out to opt-in and it’s not “without conscience” to withdraw the entire feature citing negative feedback, so I think that’s a very uncharitable representation that you’re making.
What's the concern for? A lot of great jobs still have penny-pinching managers. I've worked somewhere notoriously Frugal that was good and paid well but had no problem denying requests like this.
You must be insane, not just because of your willingness to speak with the dead.
Do they mean O(1) with respect to a change? If you make a change, only one file is rebuilt. Not all of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

To sum up: If the platform becomes the "information content provider", defined as "any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information", then they loose the protection. The statute also excepts federal criminal liability and intellectual property claims.

Creation or development of information can exclusively be moderation, as has been shown in copyright cases. Cutting (deciding what to show and what not to show), re-arrange or changing the context can create new original work, which would make the creator an information content provider for that. At the same time, doing either of those does not automatically cause the moderator to become a creator of original work.

As lawyers like to say, it all depends on the details of the specific case. To take a extreme example outside of this twitter discussion, taking an video interview and cutting it to create a new narrative would make the editor responsible for that whole new version.
Thanks, that's useful!
Yeah, I wouldn't risk not using MICR ink just because you will eventually run into a party that uses a bank that still uses MICR readers and it will turn into a massive headache. But it's misleading to imply that MICR is a security feature, it wasn't even used until the very late '50s.

The security model of checks is complicated. Ultimately the paper document is not really regarded as any kind of authentication, it's usually destroyed fairly early in processing (by the depositor's bank) and replaced by an image. In some cases, less common today, it may later go from image back to a "replacement document" which is a brand new copy of the check produced for convenience when clearing with a bank that doesn't yet support clearing by image. Nothing about the document itself is important to or required for clearing, only the data on it.

Yet it is common for printed checks to contain various anti-counterfeiting features. From first principles this seems a bit confusing.

But checks are not authenticated by their own right. A party who accepts a check is taking on a certain amount of risk, the amount of which depends on the nature of the situation. They are not really "authenticating the check" but actually performing a risk analysis, in which only one of the factors is security features present on the physical document. When you ask to cash a check at a grocery store, they are unlikely to cash it unless it is a payroll check from a nearby company and has expected security features---this is because they are taking on a relatively great risk. But when you deposit a check via ATM, you're often credited the full amount (up to some limit) instantly with virtually no verification besides the ATM trying to parse the number. This is because, as a holder of an ATM card, you have an ongoing relationship with the bank and they feel fairly confident that, if the check is bad, they can recover the value from you in some way.

My point is that talking about forging checks for payroll direct deposit reasons is kind of the most extreme possible case. The only reason you're asked to present a check is because most companies have had way too many incidents of people providing the wrong routing and account numbers and it turning into a real headache when their paycheck disappears. If you went to the trouble of forging a check in order to set up DD, I suspect it's also very likely that you got the routing and account numbers right, clearly you put some effort into this. So in practice a "forged" check is probably every bit as good for their purposes as a legitimate one.
Maybe we have different experiences but you talk as if substitutions are not a regular part of the process - I'm not a massive delivery shopper but in the pre-Covid era it was almost unheard of to get a delivery without at least one item substituted when you forget to deselect substitution. I switch amongst three of the major chains and the experience is basically the same.

Also I don't think your approach need be how it's enacted. You could quite easily run a set of adjustments against the restocking priories to see which had the least negative effect on profits and that would likely result in this kind of substitution the way it's observed. This wouldn't even need one to put on a "let's do evil hat", couched in these terms it comes across as perfectly reasonable.
To use a different example, somebody today used the New York Times web site: Section 230 gives them immunity for anything posted by randos in the comments to their articles, where they operate as a platform.

Section 230 does NOT give the NYT immunity for anything in the articles themselves, where they operate as a publisher. However, absent S. 230 protection, those articles and their publisher still enjoy regular First Amendment protection, which is quite strong. In particular, there are nearly insurmountable obstacles for a public figure to win a defamation lawsuit in the US.
How does it work with shared dependencies? Does each direct npm dependency get bundled with its own copy of each shared dependency, or do those get re-wired to point to a shared module?
A quick Google found two:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/obama-tax-inve...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-obama-financials/obama-th...

Not sure this will support the original commenters point, as these "threats" have a basis in reality and appear to be good causes unlike Trump's, but these are "threats" by Obama at least according to the journalists involved.

Edit: why the downvotes? I am showing that the Trump supporter above is full of shit, Obama's "threats" were for good causes
Webpack/Parcel: Save file changes, app bundle gets regenerated to hot-reload, this takes a bit of time.

Snowpack: Run a module build script one time (or again when adding new NPM libraries) on project to generate some assets, but no re-bundling time between changes.
Maybe we are mean and they are right, who knows: they said "exponentially slower", which might be true if somehow executing the instructions of the O(N^2) code runs in O(2^N) time due to CPU/RAM/disk limitations.
Hi zalberico, I'm h0p3. I can't say I get it either. My wiki is a place to store stuff and to tell myself linked stories. Maybe it is a hypertext castle, a rabbithole, a garden, a mind map, an exobrain, a Zettelkasten, an existential mirror or conduit. Despite significant effort, I'm not sure how to describe it well enough. It's a site I like to see. It's where I do muh thinkin, I tellyawhat.

Also, Fraidyc.at works with Tiddlywikis.
Were it up to me I'd personalize all liability, including legal. No more corporate fines. Fines levied against corporations should come directly from the personal fortunes of shareholders and legal malfeasance should always result in prison time for the decision makers, even if it's as little as a single week in jail.
I believe they are saying O(1) since it only builds the single file that you just changed and will never just build all your files. They also mention that it only builds the files as requested by the browser, so in terms of the compiler it would be O(1), however it would effectly become O(n) the first time you use it if you include all the individual requests the browser makes as a single unit.
Probably, but saying “each O(n) change takes O(1)” is a pretty confusing way of putting it.
There's also https://danstonchat.com/ in France (formerly known as bashfr)
Sort of. What they're talking about is the time it takes to rebuild during your dev-cycle, when you will typically be editing 1 or 2 typescript files and then refreshing your browser. In this case N is the total number of files in the project. Other bundlers will be O(n) because they need to bundle all N files together (higher values of N result in longer build time). While Snowpack will still be O(1) because the time it takes to rebuild the 1 or 2 files you edited does not increase with the value of N.
How many people died in WW2 vs all wars after WW2?
I agree, the meaning of life is just that simple: to be alive. No greater meaning exists, and that's fine. We can live life without so much meta-analysis.

To arrive there though, we often need to see other personal sources of meaning exposed as illusory, or at least I did. I am trying to describe that process in the third paragraph.
I will only say that censorship is pretty similar to dictatorship.
Minor gripe: The planned extras do the dark pattern of "per month, billed annually".

It's either $4 a month or $48 a year. If you're charging me $48, you're charging me $48. Obfuscating that is scummy.
I just realized that the "UI" presented by the supermarket shelves as you walk by them is very dense and yet we are good at identifying things quickly.

Short of a full VR experience, I haven't seen a similar UI on a computer.

My problem with shopping for groceries online is that there is no easy way to browse and discover new things. Especially nowadays when some favorites are out of stock I keep finding new things in store that I like.
Isn't this how most bundlers work? AFAIK, ParcelJS for example caches results and only updates what changed.