skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now do one about live music vs recordings and then after that do one about making music vs listening to music.
This is impressive. I wonder if any language that used these techniques would also have to use such a rigorous effect system. It seems so.

Their implementation requires annotations on all functions which are effectful (throw exceptions, log to the console, etc). What wasn’t clear to me was whether or not the callers of those functions also need to be annotated, but I presume they do. If so, that’s a pretty tedious limitation. While I like explicitness, changing the signature of a deep, oft-called function (e.g. to add temporary debug logging) requires changing a lot of other code.
2 seconds. You can't reach for the lever/switch in two seconds. That's insane.
Yea, that's a really insightful take and I didn't take that into account when I was thinking about this earlier. Appreciate your take!
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and for the east coast north to south route:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bicycle_Route_1
Not only that, you can vet someone's blog, decide you are ok with the trackers and revisit 24 hours later only to find that they've changed since you last visited.
Perhaps I over-simplified, but, from what I've seen, performance benefits from multi-channel memory architectures are pretty variable and not something a programmer should typically assume.

Partially this is due to configuration variability. A lot of laptops are still configured in single channel mode. Even high-end laptops tend to be dual channel setups, even if the CPU itself supports more. I'm inclined to say that high-end CPUs configured for 4 (or more) channels are rare enough that you probably shouldn't expect to be able to enjoy one unless you're developing in-house software where you can know exactly what kind of hardware you'll be running on.

And partially it's due to contention. All the memory channels in the world won't help you when memory access starts to pile up on the same bank. Which is, in practice, going to be something that will happen all the time if you're not taking steps to keep it form happening, because that's the kind of unhelpful jerk that stochastic processes are.
If you should want to spend a birthday not-alone, throw a party. And if you don't have any bffs, it's totally fine to invite people you kinda sorta know.
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I really don’t understand why you would criticize the article for writing about elementary ideas like symmetry over and over again only to write your own introduction. Also your characterization of the Langlands program is completely off.
Diagnosed burnout here. It takes WAY longer than months to get back to where you once were (if you ever get there). Its been 7 years for me. (Thanks, Academia.)
With bare metal, you just have to roll your own monitoring.

Primarily, only buy what you can work with easily. Mainly, esure raid monitoring can be scripted, and you really need not depend upon the manufacturer's horrid software (which I agree is just that). A bit of IPMI for failed power supplies, or what not. If a box dies, it dies, that's what failover is for.

I don't your logging complain, you need it no matter what you do. Just use an rsyslog server, logcheck or other app, monitor for important events, done. I've never used anything off the shelf, and yet all I hear are complaints from those that do.

I get how people might want to eschew the above for simple stuff, but once you start needing heavy monitoring, it's all the same ball of wax.
It reminds me a bit the "training" we do in finance. Is the right answer "call the police" or "help the terrorist hide the money in offshore accounts"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8RLHv1j4

"Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs"

Raph Koster (lead designer of Ultima Online) gave a very good talk about this problem and the broader topic of VR/AR being used as a weapon.
It is for US companies operating in China.

In any case, it appears that the fabricated evidence was intended to suggest to the employee in charge of terminating accounts that the targeted users were violating US law in addition to Chinese law.
The mere fact that Facebook is protesting that consumers get a choice on whether they are tracked, something that many countries have literally legislated to be a lawful right, shows that this is absolutely necessary.

At that point, it matters very little what Apple's motives are, and it matters little what this change means for any business.

What matters is that Apple is implementing a change that represents a technical necessity for consumer rights.

All current measures do not work. These opt-out websites largely do not work and, besides, the law in most places legislates opt-in and not opt-out.
Apps continue to ignore any privacy setting, including facebook.

It is sad that we need to rely on Apple to make that change, but I am happy for any incentive Apple has to do so. I am sure it will take quite some time before we see something comparable on Android, if ever.

Again: Our rights as consumers are blatantly ignored. All current methods that are supposed to implement these rights are useless and largely ineffective.

Devices need to ensure that no one can grab data without consent. Apple does this.
It is good.
Since we're here talking about Shopify - nearly every small shop (1-10 person makers) I buy from who uses the platform could not (in the past 30 days):

(a) change the email address associated with an existing account with history, and

(b) could not delete or change or transfer the orders from the old account to the new

I'm working through an email change and have discovered the above via hundreds of my logins - Shopify by far is the largest defunct platform which locks your account in using an email address, neither the user nor admins can "fix" it. All shop owners indicate to me they've emailed Support and gotten no help, every solution has been "just make a new account".
> intricate left-wing, working-class, Marxist, etc. mission.

I think this is a mischaracterization. When conservatives complain about the Guardian's (and the BBC's) left-wing agenda, they don't mean the older socialist working-class left. They mean the modern elite leftism focused on identity politics, critical race theory, critical gender theory, and so on. That conflict is still playing out, as we saw with Suzanne Moore's recent defenestration. Interestingly, this older generation of leftists are being published by traditionally conservative publications like the Spectator and newish center-right publications like Unherd and The Critic Magazine.
I think the train would clearly register and it would not really be pointless. If the coal train passes every 3 to 4 hours and takes a few minutes to pass you’d register a total of perhaps 30 minutes, the rest would be cleaner. Best place to put this device in a basement though
if you would like to view some examples in use, the recent lyric video for blue monday [1] has some of mr saville's code visible.

[1] https://youtu.be/c1GxjzHm5us
"Cyberpunk 2077 has likely already paid for itself. In a memo issued Friday [Dec 11], CD Projekt — the parent company of developer CD Projekt Red — said that its revenue from digital pre-order sales alone exceeds all of Cyberpunk 2077’s production costs and all of the company’s marketing and promotional costs for the game this year."

https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/11/22170468/cyberpunk-2077-s...

CDPR said they had 8 million preorders, and Steamspy is saying 10-20 million copies sold on Steam alone. The game industry has been growing quite quickly the past decade so it maybe isn't that surprising that they are certainly in the top 50 best selling games of all time already and could be in the top 20. It seems likely they will make quite a lot of money even with issues. Sony has a new more capable system to sell anyone disappointed with the performance of the old one so I'm thinking they will do quite well also and both of them are just playing up the issues for free media attention.

The game industry is strange, buy at release and you usually get a low quality product. Wait a year and not only will it work much better but you have a good chance of getting it 50% off as well.
I mean, two days in january: https://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-designed-coronavirus.... According to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gam-COVID-Vac), the Russian vaccine was completed in May and it's Phase 3 trial is expected to be concluded in May 202021. It's far faster & the timelines of the trials roughly match.
FYI, AssemblyScript is a TypeScript variant targeted to WASM. If someone would ask why you want to use another JS to use WASM, it is not a scripting language. AssemblyScript produces WASM binaries with minial runtimes so its WASM binary size is very small, even smaller than C outputs (with Emscripten) most of times.

So if you want to write a low-level WASM code in WebAssembly text format (WAT), it is probably a good idea to use AssemblyScript instead.
Statistics tip: if you're shilling for an insufficiently tested drug, don't show the 95% confidence intervals.
In the examples provided, I find the original text quite readable in text-only format. It just has additional richness if interpreted in notebook form. (I'm sure that someone will take the examples quite a bit farther and make portions of the documentation less accessible in plain utf-8 format, but major portions will still be entirely usable I think.)

Are man pages not readable because the original source form is troff?
For the longest time I thought I was a loner and an introvert... until I found the right people. I'm still enjoying me time more than average, but at least I know I don't have to "train" to socialize - I just have to find people I click with. And yes, it can take the longest time to get there, and it can happen in the unlikeliest of places.
Apple seemingly did some screwy things with Apple Match and so forth and I've had to fix up some things in my library as a result. (I actually have a batch of CDs I need to re-rip.) But what's there today seems to work pretty well separating what I have my own copies of vs. what I only have available via Apple Music.

Though maybe you're saying something differently.

I think the music industry is perfectly happy to sell you music at $1/song and even physical CDs if you like. It's just that, for most people who don't already have large curated collections, it apparently makes sense to subscribe for $10/month rather than buy albums for $10. For me it makes sense to subscribe and occasionally also buy something to add to my owned collection.
Love that this is a project, anything to get more people doing long distance biking in the US.

I'll just add that on my tours, I tended to avoid rail trails. They are nice at first, but quickly become boring. Too straight, too flat and monotonous. Roads are far more exciting. That said -- I'd probably prefer a rail trail in those parts of Wyoming that you have to bike on the interstate!
There would not be a monopoly if there was close substitutes.
20 years ago laptop weight was measured in pounds, clock speeds we're in MHz, storage was in single GB ranges, and battery life was a quarter of what it is today. Dial up was common, there was no youtube or spotify. Let's not hold ourselves to the standards of 3 generations ago of technology
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As someone that has been preparing for an influenza pandemic since 2005 I can tell you that the yearly tri or tetra valent influenza vaccines each year are often, in the last decade mostly, down near 50% protective. And you don't get 2 influenza shots.

This is not something new or special. And people being ignorant should not change how things are properly done. Yes, they're going to freak, but it's because they're idiots. Don't base behavior on what they think. Accomidating them will not change their behavior at all. Their behavior does not reflect external realities.
If people know they can walk out and get a job tomorrow making good money they are a lot less likely to tolerate abuse of any kind. That’s true in CS, most Engineering fields, Economics, a few other places. If you’re in a field like English literature or Anthropology with 10-100 applicants per tenure track job and shag all industry demand for your skills your exit options are substantially worse. And culture reacts to incentives. In the end people will treat others like garbage if they can with no consequences. Good labor conditions always come down to having a good BATNA, a good exit option.
I have a 4k 43" monitor. Now I can easily see 8 separate chunks of code with my monitor split into 4 columns and 2 rows. Or I can see 2 columns and have the app on the left half of the screen with a debugger. I break the 80-char rule frequently, but having code be limited in width is still useful.
Even as a paying user of Amazon (via prime), google (via one), netflix, spotify, im still subjected to ads and tracking on those services.
I wonder if there is a market for people to go to like a private bootcamp to make friends. There is definitely something to be said for bonds forged in adversity, and maybe people would voluntarily place themselves there to build new connections in their adult life. But, if you have the means to stop your regular life and do this, you can probably make friends in other ways.
From my understanding (not a vlogger, not a streamer), it may be safe to buy music from content platforms[0] but generally music is tricky business: no matter what you use, you are risking some YouTube music ID bug or frivolous DMCA takedown shutting down your channel at any moment.

Even if you have gotten a green light from the original musician, go prove this to a giant corporation that will never have a human representative speak to you. (Stories about people publishing their own music on YouTube only to get it taken down due to a false positive were posted even on HN, I believe.)

Thus, creators seem to use either 1) no music at all, 2) their own music, or 3) generic-sounding music from some royalty-free content platform.

I am wondering whether Bandcamp will finally do the next logical thing and streamline the process of licensing music for video creators directly from musicians (those who opted in).

[0] For obvious reasons, few good musicians are willing to publish music on those royalty-free commoditized music farms.
Amazon gets lots of airtime and is a Shopify competitor. Stripe gets lots of airtime and is a Shopify competitor.

Anyway, Shopify’s engineering blogs can be worthwhile, so they make it to the front page. They do interesting work at pretty big scale, provide in depth writeups from time to time, and folks like me enjoy reading them. I see nothing suspicious about it.
Well, some people can't stay at home because they are poor, and some can't stay at home because they are evil.

For example, if you don't stay at home because you need to get to work and there is no option to work from home, you are probably poor. But if you don't stay at home because you are like "who cares about thousands of people dying, I want to go to a concert now, and anyway it's mostly old people at risk and I am young", I would frankly call that evil.
So how about garbage collection?

WASM doesn't have GC in the machine model, right? So either customers have to use a language with manual memory management, which is hard work, or use one with GC and then compile the collector into their binaries, which means bloat, and possibly a sub-par GC.

I guess what I'm saying is that it seems like it would have been better to have used a JVM.
Writing WebAssembly by Hand (2018)
> I didn't say they would succeed, but that's not really the point. If people don't ask for this, no airline will implement it.

If you address the right people in the right way in writing, you may elicit a written response and (if you're extremely lucky) some form of compensation. It is very doubtful that many companies that can afford a 747 Max will change their operations unless political pressure is put on them due to an extreme imbalance of power.

If we lived in a world where the imbalance did not exist, things would be different. In some cases, we can see that in smaller airlines which tend to be more responsive to customer concerns and needs. But those companies are flying much smaller planes to start with.
> which should work just as well 6 months later

Do you have clinical evidence for that? I doubt it. OP still has a more valid point. Public trust in the vaccine and its apparent effectiveness ASAP after the vaccination campaign begins will be gigantic factors in its success.

We all know that a hard lockdown brings down the new-infection numbers WEEKS after beginning the lockdown, yet there are still a lot of people on Twitter, YT and at demonstrations (at least here in Germany) where folks are angry that the lockdown doesn't work 2 DAYS after its beginning.

The amount of truly wary/ignorant people out there is around 5-15% of the entire population in Germany and handing out a 63%-effective vaccine will be fuel to their bullshit stories.

I wish people would start taking this more seriously. We have a huge chunk of the population (5-15%) where discussions don't work anymore because their arguments aren't based in a common reality (e.g. "viruses exist and may pose a threat" is surprisingly often not a supported opinion).
21-year old Firefox bug finally gets some movement – native macOS menus
TLDR: We are going to have a housing crisis because climate change.
That should give you an idea as to how seriously you should take this article.
What's the problem with making a new account? Should take a few minutes at most?
Stallman expanded on this somewhere else. The argument was that it uniformizes, degrades the work and focuses on just the mere aspect that it can fill up some container. Like the contents of standard cargo ship containers. Video, podcast, article, whatever it is, the important part is that we can serve ads alongside it and we can market it and we have all these "interfaces" that have nothing to do with the ideas conveyed or the artistic effects or intents etc.
> We have been trying to make our languages able to put algorithms in libraries for a long, long time. So, usually they are.

No they are not, not in the context of the GoF design patterns which is what the thread is about, nothing else.
People who do this kind of thing are not the people who will do the dying, nor be affected by it in any way, plus they will never go to jail for that and what really counts is that short term profit. Get this thing over the line, collect the money and move onto something else. The problem is that there are no real consequences to what they done. Why nobody is doing life for this and you have people doing time for a bag of weed? Why would they care?
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Losing years worth of order history with that vendor? Having ghost accounts in a vendor database you can't delete, which has your previous order's PII (home address, etc.) tied to? The problem is not making a new account, it's appropriately dealing with the one containing personal information you're leaving behind.
> That 1% have the ability to devastate the healthcare infrastructure.

Additionally, other people will die at a higher percentage from other-than-covid reasons because covid patients are taking up all the resources, which can no longer be used to treat other patients.
Readme files aren’t readme files anymore. Now they’re collaborative team documents used for all sorts of purposes, such as onramping new people or explaining bureaucratic structure.

The times should reflect this evolving need.
There was a comment here a few months ago about a person bringing their young child to visit somebody in the hospital.

The patient had a TV in their room, so they handed the child the TV remote, and the child asked how can they fast-forward the current show.
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From people who pretend to be their friends, but mostly care about the money, I guess.
What IS the revenue agreement? This seems to be the most closely guarded secret in America.
Probablty thats the point, even if you give evidence to the person who asked, they would soon forget about it and move on with their convictions.
Unlikely? Sounds like you think it could happen.
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Our first intercontinental flight the smell was unbearable, I thought it was just normal

So we spent time on our trip getting vicks vapor rub etc to combat the smell

Only for the return flight to be fine
>Or only work in a browser.

Shouldn't everything only work in a web browser? I'm not sure why documentation hasn't been migrated to containerized microservices deployed on K8s with a React frontend yet. This stuff is all sooo antiquated. /s
TimescaleDB tech lead calls VictoriaMetrics comparison biased
Placebo is a name for procedures and drugs that have no direct effect. They might have indirect effects, such as alleviating anxiety by convincing the patient that you are taking care of them. Or, it might just be indirect effects where people try to be helpful and report some improvement in their conditions, even if none has occurred. Or, it might just be reporters fudging the data to support the medicine's effectiveness. They may also change patient behavior through effects such as 'sunk cost' or more complex ones, like circumcision possibly reducing sexual pleasure, therefore decreasing the chance of risky sexual behavior.

But there is 0 evidence of placebos having actual positive effects aprt from the first one about subjective symptoms.
Can they? Is Youtube's system set up to allow that? They'll still get hit by content ID or automated takedown notices from labels or whatever, have to fight each case, and still have the possibility of the strikes causing their channel to close, or the entirety of the income from a video being diverted to a record label.
The stories you heard do not contradict the analysis from Joel, do they?

"They thought they could make money from Java": yes, but if you are a hardware company, you shouldn't push for the development of software that commoditizes your server.

"They were worried about Windows-only software": if you make money from hardware, you fight Microsoft by integrating/developing/fomenting software that can run exclusively on your stack. IOW, do what Apple did and still does.
I used this program to make saddle bound books:

http://quantumelephant.co.uk/bookbinder/bookbinder.html

Works great for it's functions. I decided to craft my own saddle binding script (a mere 179 lines of code) in python by using the output of this program as a guide. The java program here works well enough for one book at a time. I needed fine control over margins and being able to print two books at a time from the same round of printing.

I make pocket sized books no larger than 72 pages. To achieve a professional result using an inkjet printer it requires about 17 minutes of work and waiting time to produce 2 of them. The paper stacks are cut in half, folded, stapled, crushed in a press, and then trimmed with a sharp paper cutter. It is possible to achieve a remarkable level of quality with these methods.

If working in batches of more books at a time the books printed per hour is increasing but the limit seems largest on the printer which can only print about 2 sides a minute.

I thought there could be no way that an inkjet could possibly compete with a laser printer for cost per page but I was pleasantly surprised when I found ink tank printers. The quality is fantastic at least.