skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first came across Immer, I wasn’t impressed. I though “If you’re going to the trouble of using functional-ish state management, why add a “mutations-like” API in there. Surely you’re “crossing the streams?”

But then a couple of weeks later I had to wrangle data in subsections of three “slices“ of state at the same time.

Immer lets you focus on just the state you want to change, and hides the problem of maintaining the state you don’t want to change. Brilliant. I’ll take the “it looks like mutation” hit for that.
> if you want to do 1024*436 it is better to fire up a calculator

You lose your history this way, while you can easily keep it in Excel.
Isn’t that the point of an ERC-20, and the reason that Ethereum is still relevant?
Synthetic Media Landscape
People complains about this setup but WASM is optional. I've been using Golang with Lorca without WASM. I actually don't see the value of WASM here.. Anyway, I used Svelte on the frontend, pretty straightforward but any other lib would have been as easy to bind. And it just... works.

The main advantage over Electron is the size of the bin (~20MB for a medium app vs. >100MB if it was Electron). If you know the people who are going to use your app have Chrome installed, it's definitely better than Electron and you get the best of both worlds - quick crafted & beautiful UI and performant backend
Loads of countries have sent search & rescue teams (the Dutch one returned after two days already because there was plenty of help on-site), hundreds of millions in relief funds have been gathered by countries across the world (https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/lebanon-a...), charities all over are collecting, celebrities, companies and nations are donating tons (https://www.popsugar.co.uk/celebrity/george-and-amal-clooney...), and local charities and donation numbers are being set up worldwide.

HN can help by getting their super wealthy excessively profitable FAANG & co employers to donate money. Apple alone has $193 billion in cash on hand, more than twice as much as Lebanon's total GDP (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/apple-q2-2020-cash-hoard-her... they could rebuild Beirut three times over and still have money left. Amazon has in the range of $70 billion cash on hand.

Don't feel like you have to donate when it's corporations that hold (and hoard) all the wealth. Call them out on it if they offer a pittance.

Apple / Tim Cook has indicated they will be donating, but no mention of how much: https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1291746412779069440 Couldn't find anything from the other big companies.
Agreed - I have a few Shanghainese friends, and they tell me their parents discourage them from learning/speaking Shanghainese, since there is no "value" in doing so. They used to push them to learn English (but maybe that will change a little now). Perhaps they have a point, but when you're young and still good at learning language, you don't have to choose one or the other.

I have heard similar stories from Europeans coming from places with strong dialects / local languages, so it's not unique to China for sure.
Well, we're also downplaying it a little bit, as component stack traces in production or fixing event delegation semantic across roots are significant new compelling use cases. :-)

But yeah, I'm mostly just referring to quality-of-life improvements as being a focal point of the release.
The medium is probably just coincidence, but I found the "what do you want to be when you grow up" onesie an excellent meta-comment on class mobility:

https://www.teepublic.com/onesie/328209-what-do-you-want-to-...
Perhaps "For The/Those Interested"?
Why Are Some Groceries Still So Hard to Find During Covid?
Would https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/ be what you’re talking about?
The name check isn't universally supported, so it is better to say that it is strictly optional.
https://archive.vn/ydg08
I remember seeing some Enron merch at my Dad's desk. He had no idea of it's value and just laughed when I pointed it out.

(Enron pulled some shenanigans that were quite an annoyance to my dad at work. He had a greuling month working with them.)

He had no clue that he could sell his little trinket on eBay.
Helping Native Bees Thrive in a Honeybee World
Being Hacked Launched My Career in Cybersecurity
It was less virulent and more deadly than some people thought originally. There were estimates that the factor of real cases compared to positive test result was really high - that a lot of people were infected but asymptomatic. Turned out to be wrong.

So the "let it spread, it can't be stopped" strategy turned out to be wrong and caused a lot of deaths.

The countries who had more serious isolation measures had a lot lower amount of deaths.
The strange case of Prometheus alert severity levels
The entire Bloom filter is a loss in terms of space. The Bloom filter may give me better lookup performance (by skipping lookups in the underlying data structure) at the expense of this space. But this is if the Bloom filter itself is fast.
Wow, thank you for introducing me to `dash.el` and `s.el`. I tried to learn Elisp a year back and was frustrating by the lack of basic functional facilities that I'm used to in my primary language (Elixir).

How do you recommend diving deeper? I feel like there is so much to Emacs that would make me much more productive, but I'm apprehensive to dive below the surface
Thinking about it; maybe not.

If you're one of those loud folks who dislike instagram/facebook (like me) then this is a nice way to ensure your content and data does not end up on the platform.

Of course, they're only enforcing it themselves, so it's unlikely to be permanent. :(
Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use
I think they meant hardware in the sense of U2F tokens like Yubikeys, not TOTP based ones.
Ok, so [0]:

slavery noun
slav· ery | \ ˈslā-v(ə-)rē \
Definition of slavery
1a: the practice of slaveholding
b: the state of a person who is a chattel of another
2: submission to a dominating influence
3: drudgery, toil

Or [1]:

slavery
in British English
(ˈsleɪvərɪ )
NOUN
1. the state or condition of being a slave; a civil relationship whereby one person has absolute power over another and controls his or her life, liberty, and fortune
2. the subjection of a person to another person, esp in being forced into work
3. the condition of being subject to some influence or habit
4. work done in harsh conditions for low pay

Or [2]:

slavery
Pronunciation /ˈslāv(ə)rē/ /ˈsleɪv(ə)ri/
NOUN

1. The state of being a slave.
1.1 The practice or system of owning slaves.
1.2 A condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.
1.3 Excessive dependence on or devotion to something.

Like others said: use better dictionaries.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slavery (Merriam-Webster)

[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/slavery (Collins)

[2] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/slavery (Oxford)
Mine is public record. If someone asks they are probably not local and I can ignore them since I am not interested in moving right now.
>The math behind computing the Reed-Solomon error correction codes is omitted because it is long, tedious, and not very interesting.

LOL! That's probably the most difficult part of creating a QR code, the rest is just framing/padding the data which is pretty obvious.
Those clocks are not available to the general public, and is one of the reasons that things like spanner have an edge over alternatives.
Precisely, except businesses are not individuals and as such they don't enjoy the same rights. An ISPs business license can be taken away from it for using huawei because the government has the authority to regulate commerce. They cannot however ban individuals at those companies from receiving or sending information to huawei.

Americans can mount free 4k cameras with hd audio in everyroom in their house that streams directly to china snd they cannot be stopped from doing so based on the fact that the government does not approve of the information being transmitted.
> Then Massalin discovered that he could turn it around and use the superoptimizer to discover and design better machine languages.

Any reference on this?
"Vladimir Putin, the country's president, announced one of his daughters has already been inoculated."

https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/11/vladimir-putin-claims-da...
Let’s say I really wanted to compete in a triathlon, have kids and see them grow up and have families of their own, be a surgeon, etc.

How many of those could I do starting at 60? There are lots of life choices it’s easy to make at 25 that are not easy to make 65.

Even something as simple as 3 month cross country road trip. My parents retired at 55 and did that twice. My parents are still independent, but with their eyesight and hearing going they couldn’t decide at 75 to hop in their car and spend three months on the road.
It is not public nor commodity information.

> We generated content that could not be found anywhere else on the web and that had never existed previously in response to demand in the marketplace. The information we produce to this day is unique. It is not commodity information like the height of a famous building or the time of day.

To call it the open web makes it sound like the wild west, and it's not: are Google SERPs on the open web? Can I copy the search results for 1000 words and paste it on my website? No.
hacker news: "if left unchecked, the powers of the federal government will prove quite onerous"

also hacker news: "i need this hat" [pays $700 to u.s. marshalls]
Ground-Penetrating Radar
They can ban the speakers from being imported but they can't ban americans from transmiting content to huawei
Hahaha ... has that ever worked?
As a Lebanese who lived in Lebanon for 5 years (far away now, happily) - I always found it amazing that glass facades were being built on the newer buildings. For a country/city that's known for the occasional explosion it definitely doesn't seem like a good idea (as this event has shown).

That said, even regular windows were launched into people's houses (along with their frames) so I guess it wouldn't necessarily help here.

Laminating the glass would probably help for your regular/occasional explosion, but not for this, as you'd just have a giant pane smack you hard i guess.
If I interpret beefield correctly, they're not talking about being able to create new currencies but rather a currency that anyone can mint.

Here's an interesting one, an attempt at decentralized UBI where each individual gets issued individual "coloured coins" and participants accept currency based on a web of trust: https://handbook.joincircles.net/about/whitepaper.html

I think this direction is very worth exploring. Today fiat currency is generated through creation of debt between banks. Most cryptocurrency is generated through validation of transactions (be it PoW or PoS).
The idea of moving currency minting down to individuals in a way that can maintain a sustainable inflation is very attractive to me. The really hard part is squaring the triangle of no privileged centralized parties with censorship capabilities while neither being vulnerable to sybil attacks or locking out disenfranchised minorities from the economy.

Circles is the only serious attempt at that I've seen and I'd love to see more innovation and critical analysis in this venue.
The impression I got from reading comments here is that CelebrityNetWorth.com isn't much more than a compilation of net worth figures in a database. I don't think this is a fair analysis of the holistic value of that website.

For instance, when I look at the analysis of Tim Cook, https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/t..., who's in the news this week partly because Bloomberg reported that his net worth has reached $1 billion, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/apple-s-c..., I see the value of CNW's news articles. The CNW news article has a similar value to the analysis that's present in the Bloomberg article reporting on the same thing.

In terms of how much of the intrinsic value of CelebrityNetWorth's website Google should be allowed to report directly in its search results, I'd say it would be fair to report CelebrityNetWorth's estimate of a celebrity's net worth so long as Google clearly attributed the data to the site that is their basis, and provided a link to the original information.

But in my opinion, the real value of CelebrityNetWorth.com in 2020 is the curated biographical content about the celebrities and their analytical pieces presented in context with their net worth estimates.
Or fusion power. Or natural language conversations with computers (as opposed to largely rote voice recognition).

Deep learning/machine learning have made remarkable advances in recent years--primarily because of both computational (esp. GPU) and storage/data advances.

However, in spite of a lot of money and talent expended on understanding organic brains and human-level cognition over the decades, progress has been slow and there's a general belief among scientists who work in AI spanning CS and neuroscience that there are aspects to human learning and reasoning that we just don't really understand yet.

And that more deep learning, data, and programmed rules won't get you to autonomous vehicles outside of some limited domains. (Which is valuable by itself; it just doesn't get you to robo-taxies.)
A market platform I recently worked on allowed users (free sign up) to create multiple wishlists and then send those wishlists to arbitrary email addresses. The user could set a custom title, limited to 100 characters or so.

We soon discovered a similar problem to OPs - bot accounts (mostly @qq.com addresses) were registering by the hundreds per day to create wishlists and then send those wishlists to other @qq.com addresses. They were setting the titles to arbitrary code blocks.

I found it fascinating, if terribly inefficient. Some colleagues and I were speculating on the purpose, perhaps someone experimenting some kind of laundered botnet control path?

We tried all kinds of measures to prevent it but ultimately we blocked all @qq.com accounts and eventually disabled the wishlist feature altogether as it had such little real usage.
Good idea actually! One day one of these efforts will succeed.

As a front-end programmer for 7 years I feel I have a fine understanding about how a relational database and its queries can support my usecase. I understand the basics well enough to advice the backenders. Anyway, SQL or any Object oriented abstraction on top of it gives me migraine.

Let the critics criticize.
Most people mistake pragmatism (SQL) for sound solutions anyway.
I do feel there is also a need for graphical editors. Yet it is much better to build a graphical editor that compiles to something with comprehensible syntax.

Good luck
I feel like you're disagreeing with me but I'm unclear what we are disagreeing on.
> you get global influence and alliances

The US already has that.

> You don't get world-class talent moving to your country by being a totalitarian state

Which is why immigrants prefer US to China, banning tic tok is not going to change that.
Why do social media sites treat "links to X" as directly posting X on their site? Surely the former is not against their terms of service? (Here am talking about legal adult content obviously)...

These overarching powers to censor anything for any reason is disturbing to say the least.
What language server did you use? These days both ccls and clangd should be able to handle Chromium.
The problem for SQL is (apart from horrible syntax that makes any query re-factoring tedious) that databases are very strict structures, that through their rigidity make some operations very fast, but some operations impossible (to perform in this fast manner).

When you are crafting good SQL query (crafting is the right word as each non-trivial SQL query is a little puzzle that may take you few days to solve because of the constraints) you need to stay within the bounds of the this fast db world.

Whenever you are forced to open a cursor or use CTE for recursion or even have a full table scan you already left the fast land and landed in the world that all general purpose language inhibit, where you have to iterate and recurse and everything takes ages. And in that land any other language beats SQL because any other language has the syntax designed to make things easier in this world while SQL has the syntax that's just good enough for the fast world where operations are highly restricted and when it ventures into the slow world it's just a horrible mess.
>"Archaeology

Ground penetrating radar survey is one method used in archaeological geophysics. GPR can be used to detect and map subsurface archaeological artifacts, features, and patterning.[7]

GPR depth slices showing a crypt in a historic cemetery. These planview maps show subsurface structures at different depths. Sixty lines of data – individually representing vertical profiles – were collected and assembled as a 3-dimensional data array that can be horizontally "sliced" at different depths.)

GPR depth section (profile) showing a single line of data from the survey of the historic crypt shown above. The domed roof of the crypt can be seen between 1 and 2.5 meters below surface.

The concept of radar is familiar to most people. With ground penetrating radar, the radar signal – an electromagnetic pulse – is directed into the ground (it is important to not get GPR surveys confused with electromagnetic surveys, a recent survey of an Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire recently revealed the discrepancies between Magnetometry, EM and GPR surveys over the same area). Subsurface objects and stratigraphy (layering) will cause reflections that are picked up by a receiver. The travel time of the reflected signal indicates the depth. Data may be plotted as profiles, as planview maps isolating specific depths, or as three-dimensional models.

GPR can be a powerful tool in favorable conditions (uniform sandy soils are ideal). Like other geophysical methods used in archaeology (and unlike excavation) it can locate artifacts and map features without any risk of damaging them. Among methods used in archaeological geophysics, it is unique both in its ability to detect some small objects at relatively great depths, and in its ability to distinguish the depth of anomaly sources.

The principal disadvantage of GPR is that it is severely limited by less-than-ideal environmental conditions. Fine-grained sediments (clays and silts) are often problematic because their high electrical conductivity causes loss of signal strength; rocky or heterogeneous sediments scatter the GPR signal, weakening the useful signal while increasing extraneous noise."

PDS: Also, Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) -- is Star Trek's planetary scanners -- just version 0.0000001... <g>
Linktree, the service the author aimed to replicate had similar problems according to Wikipedia [1].

> In 2018, Instagram banned the site due to "spam," although it was lifted and Instagram issued an apology.

> Rumors circulate that Instagram will issue another ban.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linktree
Took a look at link 2 in Firefox, both the inline and block equations render excellently. Great looking project!
I was thinking on a more basic level than UG; just the presence of linguistic universals [1]. I agree that functional languages are in a certain way more expressive than imperative ones, but that seems mostly orthogonal to the syntax of the language.

I’m thinking about basic stuff like improper nouns, denoting a clause’s role by inflection or adposition instead of word order, and having a clearly defined spoken representation- none of this is specific to which abstract structures the language is describing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_universal
Standard employees also can just not show up as they want. Entirely possible for both contractors and employees.
If by datalog with Clojure, you mean Cognitech's Datomic, yeah it's pretty friggin' cool. Really really liked it (well, the concept)... Until we started working out licensing and realized we were going down a rabbit hole of unclear future costs. They upped the cost on us in the middle of working on a project, their tooling was awful, they deprecated the REST API (which was a selling point for us they pushed) halfway through our efforts. We lost a lot of time, money (we paid for consulting work which was useless), and our product was delayed significantly. I know Stu will probably read this, but it's just the way it is. We also threw away Clojure then and never looked back.

Doh, that's not what this discussion was about. It's an old wound that won't heal. :-)
> You are missing the subtle point that all those deaths occured despite all the measures.

That's assuming lockdown was effective...hint: the most vulnerable/elderly mostly died anyway.
from what i've heard (informally) google is matching donations.

edit: dug up the fb post a friend had about it, it appears to be an internal programme
Self-driving in good weather on specific roads (probably limited access highways) is indeed a very useful goal for both convenience and safety. It just won't satisfy the people who want to be driven everywhere and never have to even own a car.