skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24931862
> And Go let's you communicate by copying. That's what a Channel is. Pass a struct and that is copied. Pass a pointer and the pointer is copied. The thing it points to isn't copied for glaringly obvious reasons.

Copying large structs is not ideal, but passing a pointer to the channel means the other side of the channel can mutate that data. If Go had immutable types, you could pass a constant pointer, allowing the other end of the channel to read from the pointer but not modify it.

> And what would you suggest is a good alternative for returning multiple parameters. Currently this basically forces you to handle any possible errors and results in software you can very easily reason about.

What he's talking about is returning a union type. You have a single return value, it's type is either a valid result (i.e. a string) or an error. The compiler expects you to do runtime type checks (basically) to assert whether your return value is actually a value or not.

The explicit return values get clunky in some situations. If I have a function that processes an array of items, where each item can fail individually, in Go the cleanest way to handle that is to make a struct that holds a pointer to a value (so you can check if it's nil) and an error. And you return an array of those structs. In languages with Options, you can simply return an Option object, and let the upstream caller figure out what to do if it's an error.

Javascript/Typescript Promises are a similar, though less featureful, implementation of the same kind of idea.

Not sure what you mean about human reviewers needing to check errors.
Pharmaceuticals on the market today don’t have a great track record in treating chronic depression. The first time a depression victim takes a drug it has a 66% failure rate: https://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/treatment-resistant-d...

Drugs like MDMA are being evaluated as a potential treatment as well: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/mdma-depression
Fascinating indeed, especially considering that legalizing MJ nationwide would easily add a few percentage points to their ratings, and they don't even have to do anything - just get it de-scheduled and strike out the statutes criminalizing it. If you want to do it right, let out all people who are in jail for possession too. I can't think of any legislative measure that would get more popular support. I'm not a user myself, but I have tried it (after voting for legalization in my state), and it's ridiculous that it was illegal in the first place.
It is a statement from the Prime Minister of Denmark in the press conference explaining that the government is culling the minks.

The Prime Minister is being alarmist, but quoting people verbatim generally isn’t; they are covering the facts of the event, including the fact that the person in charge and responsible for the newsworthy event said this statement. The AFP is not reporting whether the statement is true or false.
Yes, declare it on taxes. AUD exchange rate. Australia.
We are, sort of, when big cities test sewage.
There was a study done that said in South America, these mosquitoes became more "robust". A UK company tested these GMO mosquitoes on brown people first.
"Oxitec conducted pilot releases of its altered mosquitoes in Brazil, Malaysia, and the Cayman Islands, it knew the inserted gene wasn’t inevitably lethal. Lab tests had shown that when the GM males mated with wild females, roughly 3% of their offspring survived."
At first, the mosquito population does decrease. After the population "rebounds", some of these mosquitoes appear to be hybrids that can reproduce in nature.
Yale study report notes, ‘rare viable hybrid offspring between the release strain and the Jacobina population are sufficiently robust to be able to reproduce in nature.’

Who knows what these implications have...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6#Sec10
How do regular people like us fight oligopological market consolidation of commodity goods vendors?
> I was frustrated and angry with all sorts of things

About the oversold parking spaces? Dorm lotteries? The infamous male/female ratio and its subsequent effect on the females which had its own acronym?
Unless you're a broadcast studio, aren't most videos client-encoded one way or another? Does YouTube even let users upload raw, uncompressed video? Speaking of which, IME (mostly with audio), exploits more often seem to relate to encapsulation--container format, framing, etc--than to the low-level compressed blocks themselves; and those parts certainly are controlled by the client, at least at ingest. I don't know if that's simply because more people (albeit still small in absolute terms) are capable of understanding and breaking encapsulation implementations as opposed to the math-heavy block (de)compression routines, or because the (de)compression algorithms natural bound the scale of the output--e.g. a compressed 44.1khz AAC frame is not going to expand to more than 44.1k samples, and each sample won't be larger than the parameterized bit size. Either way, anyone distributing multimedia should account for this stuff. Alas, most don't seem to bother; they just pass off files to an ffmpeg binary or wrapper and hope for the best.
At least until recently, there was no money backing it. Support for unpopular policies is presumably backed by rich corporations, right? I'm thinking relaxing environmental regulations and war as two examples that come immediately to mind.
> Monero is even worse. Money laundering is built into the protocol, to the point where being able to determine the chain-of-custody over some funds is computationally infeasible. Cryptocurrency is designed to increase the scope of money laundering rather than just the scale, because it makes money laundering the default.

I would replace 'money laundering' with privacy and anonymity.

These properties are desirable. These properties give the individual undertaking the transaction a semblance of control. These properties prevent authorities from taking that control away except by using the law, which i think is a fairly good way to enforce control.

So if the individual feel that the law is unfair, they have the option to _not_ obey. If enough people choose to _not_ obey, it forces the court's hand and legislator's hand - this serves society.

Under centralized control, the individual does not have the option to not obey, because their transactions require approval from authorities. This approval becomes a chilling effect for change, and it makes it easy to target them before the general society is able to transition or understand. Civil disobedience is thus impossible under centralized control.
Don't spend it on a course. Start with a free or cheap course for the basics and then get a professional coach with several years of experience to coach her. Direct teaching is the most effective method. (Codementor.io is pretty popular for this)
England Hospitals 2020
TeX or LaTeX?

TeX is a typesetting system that may be interesting to learn if you're interested in that sort of thing. LaTeX is a collection of TeX macros that are used while preparing documents, and probably isn't worth the effort to learn unless you have a specific need for it.

LaTeX has a number of positives. One is that it encourages the writer to focus upon the logical structure of documents, rather than the formatting. This is useful when preparing an articles or books for publication (when the publisher supports or accepts LaTeX). LaTeX is also good for certain types of technical publications, particularly those involving mathematics, since it handles the typesetting.

Beyond that, LaTeX is an unwieldy mess. If the standard macros don't do what you want of them, you either need to create your own or find some made by someone else. In many respects, it is like working with a library with programming. You'll need to figure out how to properly install those macros and you will need to figure out how to use them. Most people avoid the former by installing a rather massive TeX distribution that satisfies most of their needs. There is no way to get around the latter. You will have to read the documentation.

Once you have everything you need and know how to use it, there is the problem of creating the actual document. Tables and figures may not appear where you wish them to and there are times when you may wish to do something unusual, such as placing a wide table on it's own page and rotating it 90 degrees. Pretty much anything you may need to do is doable, but it is non-trivial to figure out. Not only is is non-trivial to do, but it is entangled in markup that is frequently difficult to read and may require a "compilation" to see the outcome.

None of that is meant to discourage you from learning LaTeX. There are cases where it is tremendously useful, it may be easier than the alternatives, and the quality of the product is usually quite good. The problem is that you pretty much need to know when to use LaTeX to reap the actual benefits.
I no longer see the warning on the readme, but, this relies on SharedArrayBuffer, so it is not currently supported on mobile
(except Firefox for android) and some other browsers: https://caniuse.com/sharedarraybuffer
Sadly, bugguide is less useful to me here in Singapore. As stated in the header for the site:

> Identification, Images, & Information

> For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin

> For the United States & Canada
My current office at CMU is actually Randy's last office before he passed away. He was really fun in faculty meetings, everything you see in the video was exactly what he was like in real life.

When I was in grad school, I heard from some of his students how, every so often, he would get the itch to do some programming (I think this would have been Alice, their 3D virtual world). The students asked him to mark where he started and where he ended in the source code, so they could go fix things afterward, all in good humor.

Randy also claimed to be the person who started the trend in SIGGRAPH papers of including a giant splash image at the top of the first page, as part of his Aladdin paper. Here's a copy of the paper.
http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/arya/Papers/ACM/SIGGRAPH-96/Storytelli...

He was also notorious for how he started the first day of class of Programming User Interfaces (a class for non-programmers about prototyping user interfaces). He would bring in a VCR and a sledgehammer. He would talk about how bad user interfaces would make people so angry, they would want to smash things. He would then proceed to smash the VCR into bits. I heard that some students would come to the first day just to see him do this. (I took over that course several years ago, and no, I definitely don't do that!)

Randy was a really great person, I still miss him.
How does the licensing here work? It claims MIT Licensing but FFMpeg is GNU LGPL
anotha one: https://tixy.land/?code=b%3D1.1**i%2Ct%2B%3Db%2Cb%252%2B2*si...
I feel inclined to agree. Dropbox additionally shoves all sorts of features I don’t want down my throat (no, I don’t want a password manager or hellosign integration, thanks) while depriving me of basic security features because they’re “enterprise” like password protecting a Dropbox file url.

The only part of Dropbox palatable nowadays is the desktop sync, which still is pretty invisible. I can’t even open .org files as plaintext in the Dropbox iOS app right now. The same app opens to a default pane not of my files but of Dropbox paper files, a product I’ve never used ever.

I renewed my Dropbox membership this past year mainly out of laziness: but not next. It’s fairly clear Dropbox doesn’t care for me as a customer.
Google Breaks Gmail on Firefox
Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease Traced to Genetic Mutation in Common Enzyme
Indeed. Other trial designs may also be appropriate such as crossover or waiting lists. Depends on the aims of the study. Double blind RCT simply isn't feasible or appropriate in every circumstance.
"The sterile insect technique was proposed by scientists Edward F. Knipling and Raymond C. Bushland, and was rapidly adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1958. The technique centers on a unique reproductive handicap that prevents female C. hominivorax flies from mating more than once."

From wikipedia.

So, probably not effective for mosquitos.
You're right - the people you're replying to obviously think nobody ever masturbates since why don't they just lower their standards all the way to the bottom as surely there's always someone? At some point as you lower your standards more and more, you think 'well I might as well just have a wank rather than fuck someone so unhealthy' and now possibly 'well I might as well just fuck a robot'.
I think you're over-interpreting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_logic
There's also another factor to consider in interspecies infections.

Over-fitting.

A virus "trained" on multiple species is targeting biology that is ubiquitous in higher life. The wider range of species a disease can infect, the less likely an individual member of a species is to have genetic variation that leaves it not susceptible to the disease, and the worse an outbreak is likely to be.
Okay, so that's like 5/40 of your workforce that's in training at any particular moment, right? That's not a trivial cost.
Can you think of...

A steady 70%+ agree our infrastructure needs a lot of work. We don't agree on how to get there yet, but at least we have a shared goal.

IMO the fact you can't think of an issue is a sign of how the wedge issues concentrate attention on themselves.

it just seems like you personally value education funding over gun control

https://co.chalkbeat.org/2020/11/3/21548349/proposition-ee-c...

68% Yes on EE, while only 55% went for Biden.

"Ceasefire" means nobody is really satisfied with the status quo, but you agree to suspend the fighting for a while.
apparently yes,
Apple event scheduled for November 10 at 10:00 a.m. PST
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3pxbkk0n
The 'problems higher up the abstraction chain' are the ones that are closer to labour, or factory work. Mundane and repetitive, relatively speaking easy - requiring less thought and being to die extent trainable as working within a pattern/template.
Make sure to lobby to grow your own.
Verily tried it in Fresno, and it kinda worked: https://blog.debug.com/2020/01/three-great-years-of-debug-fr...

They repeatedly released sterile male mosquitos, though, instead of a gene drive, which is better from a PR standpoint, but worse from an actual effectiveness standpoint.
Is there any way for me to actually try this in the USA?
And the Democrats were the party of slavery.

The similarly is just as that isn’t the same Democrat party as today, neither is the NRA.

The NRA supporting some specific gun control schemes is what caused their coup.
Was Nixon Robbed? (2000)
Source code and build system used to generate the book Hands-on Scala
I think you've misunderstood. I'm saying that I wouldn't want to directly serve a client-encoded video without doing an encoding pass on the server. Youtube re-encodes all video regardless of the format it's uploaded in.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6#Sec10

This study is interesting. It relates to the company and what happened to the mosquitoes when they tested it in Brazil and Malaysia.

TLDR: Mosquito population became suppressed at first but rebounded to pre-release levels and some carried the genetics of the GM mosquitoes (3% survival rate and can reproduce), unknown implications of hybrid vigor.

"However, it is clear from the data in Garziera et al.6 that the effectiveness of the release program began to break down after about 18 months, i.e., the population which had been greatly suppressed rebounded to nearly pre-release levels. This has been speculated to have been due to mating discrimination against OX513A males, a phenomenon known to occur in sterile male release programs

The release strain, OX513A, was derived from a laboratory strain originally from Cuba, then outcrossed to a Mexican population7. The three populations forming the tri-hybrid population now in Jacobina (Cuba/Mexico/Brazil) are genetically quite distinct (Extended Data Fig. E2), very likely resulting in a more robust population than the pre-release population due to hybrid vigor.

These results demonstrate the importance of having in place a genetic monitoring program during releases of transgenic organisms to detect un-anticipated consequences."
It likely didn’t really leak. It’s a trick/scam they play on the naive. One can replace the cleartext section in the wallet with a unrelated tx reference that doesn’t match the actual encrypted private key. The wallet will act like the real one (it will show the referenced tx in the UI) but even if you could decrypt the encrypted private key, it would be for the wrong pubkey.
The Trinity folks are maintaining Qt3 as well, so that should not be an issue.
bitrefill.com is a decent start to bridge that gap.
I'd pay a pretty penny for a decent, stable, well-supported open GPU.

It'd need to cover the corner cases well. Multimonitor setups. High res. Etc.
Just went through the USAA signup flow. No military service or affiliation with someone with military service indicates ineligibility for both banking and insurance products (and bounces you out).

https://www.usaa.com/inet/wc/why_choose_usaa_main (Control-F “Who can join”)
To be fair Amazon Go also doesn't use robots for any sort of inventory management. They literally have humans go around the store as needed, based on information collected by the cameras & tracking systems.
The people who took part in the Summer of Love were a minority of the population of 18 year olds at the time from what I understand. Around 100,000 according to Wikipedia[0]

That's not to say that drug experimentation wasn't more widespread than that group: I know my father experimented because he's told me. However he has become pretty conservative as he's gotten older. Or at least supports conservative American politicians and voted for Trump probably both times.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love
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It's a side-effect of our gerontocracy. Even moderate political candidates under 40 support it. Younger conservatives will even get behind decriminalizing it. Problem is seasoned leadership (who skew older) don't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Smoking cigarettes, smoking pot, smoking anything should result in a fine in any public space. Do what you want to do to your body in your private space, but don't expect me to participate in your activity.
Amazon contribute plenty to open source, both in code and in money, although they can definitely afford to do more sponsorship.
> If you really want to do this, then I recommend you join a security company and do it as an employee to get that protection.

“My boss told me to do it” is not a defense against criminal charges.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200131/11153743831/crimi...
Larger, earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24987691
This is what it seems to be.

The repo in this thread depends on another package which is the actual bulk of work: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm-core (fork of ffmpeg with emmake in a build script).

There definitely does seem to be some other work in there in terms of getting it to actually work though. And tests.
A Pedometer in the Real World (2015)
Right to repair in Mass was also popular vote and won in a landslide. Republic democracies are no longer representative of the people. Instead of the blue and red football team we should get direct ballot votes.
Randy made a surprise appearance at my commencement (CMU School of Computer Science, May 2008) just weeks before he passed away. [1] He concluded his speech with the piece of advice that has probably had the greatest impact on my career and my life:

"Please, don't think of yourself as a computer scientist who happens to be a human being. Think of yourself as a human being who happens to have the tremendous, precious, rare skills of a computer scientist--with which you can help all the other human beings."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160304152555/https://www.cs.cm...
or what-about-ism, it would seem.
You are right: Spravato has to be administered in office, it cannot be taken home. The doctors who were offering it weren't even covered by my insurance, so I'm not sure if the drug itself is covered.
I understand you don’t agree with the cheaper cars argument, and I don’t either.

To the people that would seriously make this argument though, I ask them this:

If the location or other telemetry data is so valuable that the manufacturer selling it can have a real impact on the purchase price of the car, then doesn’t that value have to come from somewhere? Other companies wouldn’t buy that data if they didn’t think they could use it to make more money than the data is worth. That money the data buyers then are hoping to make would come from the very people that the data did, in most cases, right? So the consumer has ended up with less money compared to if they didn’t have their data sold, even if they got some trinkets in return.
>But judging the "destroying your lungs" aspect is nobody's business but the person doing it.

There's a limit to how far this principle goes. If you saw someone trying to saw something out of their arm, would you think "whatever, it's their arm," or "this person is having a psychotic break and desperately needs medical attention, including restraint?" A lot of people would extend that to most forms of irrational self-harm. I don't want anyone to extend it to anything I do, though, so applying the principle of liberty even when it involves letting people destroy themselves for no reason, still seems attractive.
Most legislators now are pretty awful at their jobs.

Changes to law are coming from the courts, ballot initiatives, executive orders, and the bureaucracy, not from legislative bodies like they're supposed to. Legislators 'dunk' on Twitter all day and very little legislating actually happens.

It's an easy out for them -- they rarely go on record for supporting or opposing things now -- and can blame presidents, bureaucrats, and the courts for anything that turns out to be unpopular.
Oh look. Another HN UFO and aliens thread.

People often ask what HN was like in the good old days. I don't remember drivel like this in the first 5 years.

I think the underlying reason for these types of threads is that HNers want to virtue signal that they're interested in science, but too lazy to do the actual study and work to understand and contribute. Pro tip: just follow the Twitter NASA channel. You'll get pretty pictures, with no real effort.

An analogy is when the Linux kernel team started a kernel newbie project, and got nothing but white space patches. So the project had to be abandoned because of low quality and the burden of wasting time for, you know, actual kernel contributors.
Replace with Black Soldier Flies.
But on the serious note, not all mosquitoes are 'bad'. There are over 3500 species of them. Harmless genus such as Toxorhynchites are actually helpful.
The real enemies are mosquitoes from the genus Anopheles that carry Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria.

tldr: Only a hundred or so pose a risk to humans.
> losing half of his fortune in the case of a failed marriage

Marriage isn't a necessity for this to happen. In some jurisdictions (e.g. Canada) you even don't have to have been married to pay alimony in the case of a split.