skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a huge fan of the idea of OpenDoc and component-based software in general, to the point that one of my side projects is writing a desktop environment in Common Lisp that is inspired by OpenDoc is not a clone; the emphasis is not on document embedding, but on increasing programmability and flexibility while maintaining a GUI environment. It would be kind of like a modern Lisp machine running on Linux. I was also inspired by a Hacker News post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573373) about the Linux desktop could have benefitted from component-based software, where some of the commercial problems of OpenDoc would have been sidestepped by the wide availability of free, open source components instead of building FOSS analogues of large proprietary software packages.

But with that being said, I agree with you that OpenDoc would have been a tough sell in the proprietary software world for the reasons that you gave. There's also the fact that 1997-era Apple was in no position to challenge Microsoft head-on by promoting component software. In order for the Mac to survive, Apple needed the backing of large software developers like Microsoft and Adobe who were willing to continue writing Mac versions of their popular, industry-standard software packages. OpenDoc might have made business sense in the late 1980s or even in the early 1990s as an alternative to the growing Windows ecosystem, but by 1996 it was too late; Microsoft Windows was the clear winner in the marketplace by a long shot, and Apple was spiraling down the drain before Steve Jobs returned. That's why it was a very big deal at MacWorld Boston 1997 when Steve Jobs declared that "the era of setting this up as a competition between Apple and Microsoft is over."
I didn't say I was surprised, only sickened.
When a landlord goes bust nothing happens, other the financial loss for the landlord.

It's like the old saying "when you own the $10,000, that's your problem", "when you own the bank $1B, that's the banks problem".

When 1/3 of NYC commercial real estate gets foreclosed, that's not just the landlord's problem, that's everyone's problem.
https://web.dev/web-bundles/
Usually you remove flags after they heva ebeen on for some time. I find in a "every few weeks" release cycle it works well to remove the flags of the last release (which by then have been live for a few weeks).
Machine Learning Attack Series: Backdooring Models
The positivity rate of testing is 1% and below. Guess what the false positive rate of the actual test is?

What’s more likely, the virus actually has a perfect 1.00 Rt factor, or there’s a systemic error introduced by humans?
Nope, it just changed landlord.
But such an attacker would need to know that the content was downloaded from the Tarsnap website, right? If TLS is configured with Encrypted SNI, the handshake no longer reveals server information and thereby TLS does add privacy.

(However, Encrypted SNI is not widely adopted yet.)
As far as I remember, the Amiga version did not have that bug. In fact some missions were quite hard at regular difficulty levels.

That changed once you had access to psionics and the blaster as weapon. It became a large shoot 'em up afterwards (probably not at higher difficulties).
As a pilot, I saw "gear up" and thought a 787 had landed gear up. What a terrible headline.
> So I guess there is historical president for it.

I think you'll find you mean 'precedent' :-)
It seems it also prefers feminine shapes...

Good test:
https://twitter.com/JeffFromRegina/status/130790367729056153...
One of my favourite things about XCOM was the destructible scenery. The isometric building design (on the procedurally generated maps) was superb, and you could blast holes in it to make your own routes through the map. Likewise the design of the larger UFOs themselves was so exciting - not to mention the variety of scenery a UFO might land in.

It was so far ahead of its time in that regard.
I don’t know about under the Emperors, but during the Republic the Senate was actually the house that tried to prevent war and the plebs tended to be hawkish. Wars tend to be sought after by up-and-comers.
Adding to that (because only when I use this example people understand clearly):

CompanyA is using ITS OWN assets, funds, IP, etc. you own it, you can burn to the ground.

BankB is holding other people's money. You can't go make a mistake, a bank losing 100m of OUR money and say "oops my dev made a mistake".

Edit: similar expectations are in publicly traded companies (aka companies where they use OUR money - we give them our cash and they give us stocks). This is why external auditors (e.g. Big4) do not like when they see "poor change management processes", such as inconsistent SoD.
You would do better to come up with innovative new jobs for humans to do. It's easier to come up with a new service jobs than it is new materials to build cranes with

Humans can always invent new forms of labor. Limited only by imagination and opportunity. We should be automating everything we can while actively creating new categories of employment for every person
BTW, why do you send such a hostile response without trying to answer my question? I genuinely just wanted to understand the Parent.
If you just want to write better code literally, then consider reading Clean Code[0].

If you want to dive deeper in to Computer Science and become a Software Engineer, then there's a lot more to learn. Here's some short tips:

- Learn a few programming language for their paradism: Java (OOP); Python, Hashkell, Scala (Functional Programming), Rust (memory safety). You don't have to actually work on them, just need to be able to write some algorithm and know their key features.

- Read more code, especially those from high quality projects.

- Experiment a lot. Don't just read articles, blog posts. You have to get your hand dirty.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsma...
In India, dangerous stuff often pays less due to caste and other considerations. Manual sewage cleaners have a really high death rate in India and are paid peanuts.
>>Just out of curiosity, if there was shortage of coconut harvesters, why were they poor? Can't they demand more money for the task?

Because at some point, it's not viable to harvest them. We're not talking about thousand acre farms. But if you have a few trees and a coconut ends up costing you xx whatever, then F it, let them fall when it's too late.
That would be fine and dandy if the decision to engage in risky behaviour only affects the individuals and businesses making them. However, this is not the case in reality.
That sounds like G Gundam.
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Mobile_Fighter_G_Gundam
Oh man I loved that game. It had so much personality...the characters and voices, the little web browser with PMC websites and gun stores, the email client, the sheer number of items, every little thing was so cool. I had no idea people were still working on it. Thanks for the reminder.
This isn’t about people making decisions for themselves. It’s about preventing the spread of infectious disease.

You might be fine, but if you are asymptomatic, you can directly harm or kill others and not even know it.

That being said, I’m not sure what the best policy is. It doesn’t seem feasible to have a complete lockdown that extends for many months. So we have to be clever, keep learning, and find good solutions. We can minimize the risks and prioritize health while allowing society to function in an altered fashion.
> "do you even realise what a service to humanity you are doing!".

I don’t know who needs to hear this besides me twenty years ago, but if you want to do charity then go home at 6pm and volunteer at a real charity. Don’t do it for a wannabe robber baron who will not share with you. Don’t do it for someone where even an emotional payoff is years away or may never come.

Find something else you care about and help some people just because. Not because you’re getting under-paid and over-guilted to do it.
> If people are scared and won't go to restaurants

If people are responsible and won't go to restaurants ...

Or long form: If people know there is infectious disease around with asymptomatic transmission and rationally decide not to go to restaurant to ...

Framing does a lot.
The 60 percent figure is people living their lives normally. Currently most people are social distancing, wearing masks and large gatherings have been cancelled. Under these circumstances 20 percent may well be herd immunity. But if Madison square garden was open and the subway was packed with people not wearing masks, its not clear that 20 percent would be enough.
Is there a particular portion of this study you're referring to? I don't see anything about risk at vs. beyond your table here.
This and Master of Magic were many _many_ hours of my childhood. Also some of the first programs/files I opened up in a hex editor.
> BankB is holding other people's money. You can't go make a mistake, a bank losing 100m of OUR money and say "oops my dev made a mistake".

Not only that, but once that happens, regulators will come in, and everybody involved can be held liable. Not only will the bank be fined, but depending on how bad your fuck up was, you'll probably end up losing your job and might face further penalties.

So in the interest of everyone, it's best to just avoid it all together.
> my inkling is still to explain NYC's current rates with mask wearing and reduced indoor interactions

Stockholm, Sweden has better numbers than New York yet people don't wear masks here nor are stuff closed. So you can't really say for sure that New York's numbers are thanks to those.
Hey, that's very nice. I think obfuscated languages (esolangs) lend themselves really well to this, because while doing seemingly trivial "logic" is quite difficult, creating algorithmic patterns and structures is not -- i.e. it's difficult to "steer" the structure in a canonical one but easy to get repetition, patterns and progression, which lends itself very well to art (and perhaps genetic programming as well? but that's a story for another time).

Just a heads up:

1 ) your synth seems out of tune (in particular the 'Octave', when selecting 'all notes' you have a chromatic progression, i.e. all notes seem to be 1/2 tone apart). I don't have a well trained ear, but most notes seem off, e.g. C4 to D4 doesn't seem like a whole tone. The way scales work is quite simple for (approximate) equal temperament: each note in a chromatic scale (that includes all notes) should be 2^(1/12) the frequency of the previous ones (called a semitone interval).

2 ) What you have there is not a "valid" octave either :) An octave in western music is usually played using either of two patterns of notes: a) a major scale, or b) a minor scale (there are other scales as well, less used). The most "obvious" choice is to start with a major scale (which generally has a positive-ish mood). Each scale has a fixed interval pattern which sets its mood.

What's confusing is that the letters A,B,...,G, don't correspond to whole tones (two semitones, or 2^(2/12)) apart. The letters were assigned on the basis of a specific scale, the C major scale. The full scale (chromatic scale) composing all notes starting at A therefore isn't either A,B,...,G or A,Bb,B,Cb,C,...Gb,G (a flat represents a semitone below a note). That's because the major scale has a pattern of Tone,Tone,Semitone,Tone,Tone,Tone,Semitone (completing an octave, 2x the frequency).[1]

The C major scale is simply (starting at C) C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C. This means there are half-tones between E and F, and between B and C. To build a A major scale, you get: A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#, A. (sharps and flats are equivalent in alphabetic order, except for the E/F and B/C intervals, where E# = F != Fb and B# = C != Cb), and finally the names on the chromatic scale are
A,Bb,B,C,Db,D,Eb,E,F,Gb,G,Ab (start anywhere in order), all a semitone apart.

As for frequency naming, the convention is that A4 = 440Hz (in modern orchestra), so A3 = 220Hz, A5 = 880Hz, etc. (this is the fundamental frequency). The rest I leave up you :)

Hope this was useful and not some confusion of mine or minor technical quirk!

[1] This tone/semitone pattern is a bit complicated for a compact explanation, although I think you can find online (I intend to write an accessible blog post about it sometime...) -- it has to do with how our ears identify overtones and we find matching (integer-related) overtones aesthetically pleasing/attractive.
This is what I don’t get. You’ll pay more attracting a new tenet than if you just forgave rent until the time came that the property could hold a viable business again.
The album you’re looking for is called Disintegration, not Unionization.
Individual choice is not really applicable in this situation. Everyone that gets sick becomes very likely to get someone else sick. You're not just choosing for yourself, you're choosing for them, which isn't good.

And there have been lots of spikes among the groups that actually changed behavior drastically, especially in places like colleges.
That's unfortunate. I use planar headphones, so a dedicated amp is pretty much a requirement due to the power draw vs. regular dyamics. I opted for a Schiit Bifrost/Asgard stack (they didn't have the magni/modi combo at the time) and had great experiences with them. I opted to perform one of the upgrades for the Bifrost myself, and after that had some issues with the DAC resetting and audio cutting out - emailed Schiit, told them what I had done to troubleshoot, and they shipped me a replacement upgrade part the next day.
> Western notion of pricing first hand

Describing pricing according to demand as being the “Western notion of pricing” is one of the most bizarre things I’ve read on the internet recently. I say this as a resident of a South East Asian country where Chinese and Indian immigrant merchants have prospered plenty due to a keen sense of price and value.
During 1970's time frame that OP is talking about, it is largely the effect of thousands of years caste based discrimination that denied education and basic rights for a big chunk of the population.

Today it is problem of economics.

Coconut trees typically grow in state of Kerala, a lot of the population there work in the Middle East oil economies , the pay is considerably better there. Paying competitively does not make enough money to be worth the effort.

Coconuts outside the big cities event today are dirt cheap you can get a dozen for something like $1.

Kerala is not easy place to be a immigrant, It is big semi urban region - think like American suburbs. There are hardly any cities where immigrants can get affordable housing, this is because lot of the money the state makes comes from remittances from middle east, they don't feel the need to migrate to the city for better jobs.

In recent times there has been some immigration into the state from North Eastern part of India especially in the food and construction sectors - housing is on-site or the restaurant is in the city.
hey thanks for the clarification.

here's what everybody is puzzled on:
it looks like the layers going forward are JAX -> Tensorflow -> Keras.

and we are seeing people moving to JAX directly. So this is ending up like a Flutter vs Kotlin issue (also within Google).

Do you envision JAX being low level .. and the high level tensorflow keras interface being the most usable api ?
The explanation I got for logic board was from the classic all-in-one Macs. They had a high voltage “analog board” for the CRT, and the low voltage digital “logic board” for the CPU.
They replaced cables so would seem the DSL signal.
Nitpick, that's "force majeure".

French always sounds more impressive.[1][2] Lawyers love to sound grand, as though they're worth what they're paid.

1."Paté de foie" sounds a lot nicer than "liver paste," n'est-ce pas?

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure
Here's a useful guide (along with a few reactions to it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2Scfj4FZk
Well sure, when you put it that way it sounds simple! I was 12 or so, and I spent a few nights trying to figure out the "plain data file" before shrugging and going back to playing X-Com.
No am I am not but I understand your assumptive nature. I did speak incorrectly. Here is a repost of my previous comment:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8743605/Nashville-m...

In Nashville, TN (USA) bars and restaurants are closed to stop the spread of the virus. In e-mails obtained by a local television station, and later confirmed authentic by legal council, the e-mails discussed how only 80 of the 20,000 positive cases could be traced to bars and restaurants.

> Tennessee Lookout reporter Nate Rau asks, “The figure you gave of 'more than 80' does lead to a natural question: If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn’t that mean restaurants and bars aren’t a very big problem?"

A day after the story broke they allowed bars and restaurants to re-open:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2020/09/17/nashville-...

Indoor recreation was shut down in this city for 80 cases in a city of 2 million aka .004% of the population.

Point zero zero four percent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535010
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It's not enough to just point out or dismiss different risk factors as if they're all the same, and both sides of this debate on restaurants seem to be guilty of this in some circles. Evaluating risk, done appropriately, is more complicated and involves at least weighting the risks of specific dangers of different options.
It's not antibody immunity. That's why I said we don't understand. 20% is nowhere near enough to explain the patterns we're seeing.

The good news is that even though we don't understand it, the NY experience does point towards a potentially more muted second wave in areas which were hit hard the first time round (as long as they take precautions at least), but we just don't know enough to be sure - anyone who is sure about the outcome at this point is probably overconfident and wrong.
Coasting is just stagnation in a different reference frame.
Well I was pretty good at XSL-T and XML related technologies, so that was at one point a good thing to be in to, at the time I leveraged that into doing standardization work on the Danish OIOXML project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML where I wrote the schemas for the first versions of the Danish efaktura project (efaktura is format for invoices based on UBL that was required by law for all governmental invoicing) and did a bit of other standardization work.

Now at this point if I wasn't such an artistic punk type I would have gone off to private industry and worked in banking etc. as the Danish OIOXML / Efaktura specialist doing consulting work for a few years at a few hundred dollars an hour, instead I got enticed by a friend to go work at a company that I hated for the next couple years because we were going to build a media management product we had tried to do a few years before but this time to do it right!

After which there wasn't such a big oioxml efaktura thing anymore but I did still have XSL-T so I did that for several years at Thomson Reuters and then when downsized from there nobody used XSL-T anymore but I had during these years developed my backup search technologies and frontend skills.

The last 5 years I've been mainly frontend with some 3-4 months every few years doing search stuff.
Gundam are people too!
Maybe they should apply QA to MS Teams. I have to restart the app many times a day to get it to work.
That's how every maeket works, sooner or later, things will be in a few hands.

At least indoe games still have a chance. (among us for example)
> There's not a lot of other options.

There's one I like the most, Microsoft .NET Binary XML. Here's a decade-old overview: http://const.me/articles/net-tcp/

Has unlimited extensibility and doesn't need schema /protocol to decode. May include typed values not just strings from XML, makes serializers/deserializers much faster compared to text/xml, no need to print or parse numbers. Has easy way to convert to text/xml, helps with debugging and diagnostics. All protocol elements are byte-aligned, with some experience it's possible to understand even without decoding into text.

The only downside, hard to implement outside .NET. Still, in 2020 all editions of .NET runtime support that thing, and these implementations are compatible across platforms.
If you think that's horrifying, let me introduce you to Dr. Jolly West and the Jimmy Shaver case:

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon...

Highly recommend Tom O'Neill's 'CHAOS' for some of the new details he dug up on MKULTRA. The rumor mill has it that he is working on a new book exploring its potential ties to the RFK assassination, the Grateful Dead, and the Jonestown massacre.

On the subject of the Jonestown/MKULTRA links, also check out this interview with an aide to Congressman Leo Ryan (who was killed when he went to investigate in Guyana): https://twitter.com/gumby4christ/status/1289361962917191681
I feel for you
Original creators definitely need credit, but in my opinion, they are not the only ones who should be adequately respected.

Taking an existing, but very expensive or impractical idea, and reengineering it to be orders of magnitude cheaper or practical, is a huge feat.

In case of SpaceX, development costs of the Falcons was a fraction of Space Shuttle's and refurbishment of the first stage is very simple.

To be fair, their operated under very different constraints. SS program had a lot of money, but to win over senators from across the US, the manufacturing process had to be spread over half of North America, which exploded the engineering complexity and the costs. SpaceX had to integrate internally, precisely because they did not have such a war chest of money.

Falcon 9 vs. Space Shuttle is also an interesting case study on the "more money is not necessarily better" topic. Ceteris paribus perhaps, but in practice, more money tends to come with strings attached and those strings may more than compensate (negatively) for the advantages of a larger budget.
> This isn’t about people making decisions for themselves

Making decisions for ones self is exactly the principal that the USA was founded on.

> You might be fine, but if you are asymptomatic, you can directly harm or kill others and not even know it.

See also: Drinking, condom-less sex, smoking, and junk food. All of these things directly or indirectly harm others and if this is about public safety then it's time yourself and others start movements to ban them.

The "you may be hurting people indirectly" argument never worked and it's getting more brittle with time.

Have a good laugh with me this Sunday night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
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