skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can run WASM to grant fine grained access to certain APIs. You might be able to do this with a sidecar that provides the API over HTTP and then let the untrusted process only access the side car but why do this when you can just grant API access to a WASM module? From the perspective of the third party user the API can be called directly via a function instead of doing a HTTP request.
You might like this: https://github.com/marian42/wavefunctioncollapse
Two mid-Atlantic routes. Gravel-focused to stay off roads and in the woods, but the valley option is very doable on a touring bike or hybrid.

https://www.transvirginia.org/

I’ll be riding one or the other next Memorial Day. I’ve ridden parts but never the whole length.
I doubt there is a correlation. I have four siblings but no friends really. My closest siblings are the closest to friends that I have, I think. Other friends, alas, just haven't proved to be worthwhile in the long run.

Much like the author, though, I struggle with the definition of a "friend". I have people I am friendly with, but none with whom I share my deepest, darkest secrets or anything like that. I simply have no need or desire for such a person in my life. Others have shared such things with me, though. So maybe I am their friend? I don't know (or care).
Nice interactive map here: https://gis.railstotrails.org/grtamerican/

I live about a mile from a connecting path into this system. As nice as that is, it also means I always have to go up some short but steep hills to get home from a ride. Great fun when coming home from a century. :o)

Electric assist is tempting, but that becomes extra weight when I'm not using it.
That's common in the region. You announce major new projects, start them, and don't finish them. New leadership comes in, ignores the old projects, and starts a new set. You don't fix or finish old things started by your predecessor. You start building new ones.
https://makemediumreadable.com/. It helps, but there's nothing you can do about the free article limit. At least it won't nag you until then.

Edit 2: I think this might be a paywall only story? Is that right? Is there a HN policy about paywalled stories?
Didn't Ryan Air just buy 75 of these?
If - and it’s a HUGE if - it’s actually a technological signal - would be cool if it was a Contact-like repeater probe designed to eventually get our attention. Because the Proxima Centauri neighborhood doesn’t really seem like it can harbor life for long enough to evolve to at least the level of radio communication.
Surgusphere was the worse fraud of 2020 and I hope people won't forget those involved with it

(Discussions of HCQ regardless, talking about effectiveness is one thing, falsifying data is another)
> If anything, businesses expect the opposite: maximum ability to transparently move their load between various cloud providers and their own on-prem machines.

Is this actually true? In my experience, being technology-agnostic is something that engineering orgs prioritize somewhat, but is fairly low on the list of priorities for business orgs, if at all. A lot of the most successful business tech has high degrees of lock-in.
How Discount Brokerages Make Money (2019)
What fraction of houses in California are really exposed to wildfire loss? Primarily those outside of the major cities. Inside the cities? 1% of LA? And even in the worst fire season, how many of those houses are lost? 100?

What percentage of houses in California are in rural areas? 30%? And if those houses drop from $400k to $300k because the owner now has to pay market rates for fire insurance, then that’s going to destroy the economy? That’s an overall 7.5% drop in the housing stock value.

This article appears to overstate the risk.
I'd go with something like "30 years after publication or 30+5 years after creation whichever is earlier". (Duration to be bikeshed)

The "after publication" part is the common case and easy to handle this publication dates are easy to figure out. The "after creation" part is a fallback in case works are discovered long a after their creation. I don't like basing it on the Author's lifetime, it feels both unfair and complicates the rule significantly.
> Any shame you want to should on the authors of that chapter. Why are you so afraid of scientists being corrected here? We have enough bad science

You should redirect that shame to the authors listed on this page. Why are you so afraid of scientists being corrected here? Scientists are human and get things wrong. Just like a coding bug, bad science needs to be corrected. So I disagree. What's dangerous about pointing out fault with this example?

> 6 In the category of “not retracted but should never have been published,” we’ll offer up this book chapter, which claims that the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic hitched a ride to Earth on a meteorite.
> algebraic data types, match, type inference, static type checking

Of those, C# only has static type checking. AFAIK C# does have some limited type inference (when using LINQ), but it’s nowhere near as powerful and ubiquitous as F#, where the following is completely valid:

let Add a b = a + b

and it will be inferred as:

let Add (a:int) (b:int) : int = a + b

This also works in more complicated cases like when you’re accessing a property on a record, for instance.
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I do not know whether it was your intent, but you appear to be endorsing the view that anything goes, unless it reduces NPV.
AWS’s regionality and stronger region separation boundaries are a huge selling point for regulated (data regulation) industries and enterprises.

A bank, for instance, may be required to prove it cannot replicate customer data across regions, and that no third party provider will replicate its data using their own BCM or DR systems.

Regardless of CSP, startups should think about rules on movement of data among data jurisdictions (such as GDPR) and architect accordingly.
> It's just like watching a movie vs watching TV

yet here you use the same word without problem, don't you?

I guess an appropriate word for "casually reading" would be "browsing" ?
For our notebook format at Nextjournal we use an edn appendix to store metadata like results and environment (docker image). The user-edited content is just plain markdown, while also being runnable reproducibly. See [1] and run it at [2].

[1]: https://github.com/nextjournal/notebook-format-demo/blob/mas...

[2]: https://github.nextjournal.com/nextjournal/notebook-format-d...
Yeah. I also struggled with that. We are told from a young age that we need both friends and someone to have sex with. It makes you feel pretty inadequate to be missing one or both. But at some point in my life I realised I just don't care what others think. I do have someone to have sex with, and if I absolutely had to use a term I despise, "best friend", she would probably be it, but ultimately the only constant in my life is me. Everyone else is on their own path. Our paths may cross. They may even align at times. But our paths are our own.
I feel like they missed a great chance here:

23 ...
iii Everybody loves parenthesis

With a hyperlink to someone complaining about Forth or COBOL or something.
Borland C++ and Turbo Vision were a killer combo back in the DOS times. Borland's decline over the years was painful to watch. I guess that what happens to the engineering driven companies that get overtaken by the MBA types.
That's a bit biased. I could argue the other extreme by highlighting the quest for truth aspect in academia, the freedom from market influence and safety to pursue wherever the interesting research takes you etc.

Contrast that with working at an adtech giant to increase measurable engagement by applying some amazing $&@! that make users addicted and miserable, your workers burned out and the upper classes even richer. Or work on some prototype that never gets in the hands of users, either because it's just a PR stunt pet project for a higher-up or it gets killed off for internal company politics reasons.

You can pick your narrative by picking which academic and industry position to focus on. You can do awesome stuff at both and be miserable at both.

The top of the top usually do both at the same time. They spend part time at a top university, but also advise top companies with top research groups.
Complicating READMEs may not be the best idea. This is under the assumption that README will be rendered in a full featured web browser which may not always be the case.

That said, I definitely see how this can become invaluable in documentation for DevOps tools.
I’m not saying that it’s not also legal in nature. What I’m objecting to is philosophizing that ends up saying “It’s not wrong unless you get caught.”
As others said pick up a trade, you'll take a pay cut initially but if you work towards opening your own business you might be alright. Make sure you really want it. I worked in kitchens for a while and pay is shit and work is really, really stressful and hard, I'd not recommend that path.
> Our current culture over-values individuals and loves the myth of the one wo/man show. Teams are boring. Give us someone to follow.

People repeat it often, but it's not true, it can't explain Blankpink, BTS, Twice, Red Velvet, etc. It's probably just americanism to emphasize individuals, but big music is produced by teams (and not small teams) regardless whether it appears to look like an individual.
The underlying platform is ahead-of-time compiled WebAssembly but AssemblyScript, a variant of TypeScript, will be the only supported language:

> Theoretically any language with a Wasm target can be supported, but the effort developers spend to conform to our API is better focused on solving problems for merchants. That’s why we’ve chosen to provide first class support to a single language that includes tools that get developers up and running quickly.
With the standard practice where a 2nd team gets tasked with reducing code defects in existing code, with their only metric being reducing the number of defects (that the given tools generate), without regard to the quality of the fixes, and preferably staffed with high churn rate junior developers, the outcomes are not surprising.
Suggesting COVID-19 science is "bad science" will lead to people dying. You are condoning murder.
I assume that's something of an edge case in that there's a fairly successful Amtrak extension to the Northeast Corridor and further extending it to Maine's capital seems pretty logical.

I expect most rail trails are on old rail right of ways that have no realistic hope of being converted back to rail in the foreseeable future. That said, it's a valid concern that rail-trails pretty much squash any possibility of that ever happening.
> I got flack on here after the MAX was grounded because I said no-one will ever fly on one of those planes ever again.

How much would you wager on that?
>It also exposes host calls.

Only if you grant explicit access to them. What usually happens is that there is a vendor provided API that only gives you access to exactly what you need which is significantly less powerful than a complete linux process that can write to files, spawn background threads, etc all by default.

Yes you can block access to these things but you're going to miss something at some point.
When you get anything close to abstracting syntax, C# lambdas start to require more boilerplate than the concrete syntax. Any advanced functional structure is completely not available.
We have a converted rail road track that's now a bike path near where I live. It's nearly completely straight and so pretty boring. Plus, because it's not a loop you have to ride back every time, which feels like drudgery. Practically it's a good idea because there are not a lot of uses for an old rail track, but you won't get kids to do it repeatedly and us adults get sick of it pretty quickly too.
I'd think a language tied to a platform only can be considered if you want your product to be tied to such platform.
I don't think the claim in 2) is that they'd necessarily be in politics. It's that they might be way more productive than incentive structures currently permit.

The academy can encourage social climbing, pointless competition, and careerism to the detriment of intellectual honesty, sane policy, and good science. Academic institutions can be moral mazes just like other public or private organizations.
> We have the ability to create a database connection that would give you live data updates.

An alternate approach to using a DB connection could be creating periodic point-in-time reports rather than live updates, and having visualizations and narrative point out the interesting deltas.

2019-2020 and 2020-2021 are going to have lots of interesting deltas, I think.
archive.is helps: https://archive.is/JWdSM
I don't necessarily agree. 2077 fails at streaming at the macro level, not just the micro. Entire basic structures fail to load sometimes. And if modding has thought us, at least on PC, the Rockstar streaming engine is capable of streaming many more assets than initially designed (or optimized) for. W3 was OK at streaming, but obviously not at this scale. So, in my opinion, what is going on is that they stressed that system to the breaking point, and instead of rewriting it, or at least optimizing it, they called it "good enough". In my book, streaming open worlds is a solved solution in modern times. Certainly in the days of GTA3 and Driver, it was a novel concept and there was a lot more leeway for LOD issues and streaming problems. Consoles and PCs also had much less memory and slow spinning disks. But we are not at those times anymore, so I don't see any reason why we should give them slack just because they dreamed big bug failed completely at the technical level. It all boils to the overall issue, which is why they released it at all, if it's so completely broken, and so completely cut of promised content. Just delay it until it is done; it's not like the Witcher cash cow didn't provide enough cash.
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The running joke at that time was that the fastest way to acquire a starfighter was to buy a plot of land and wait. That thing was nicknamed widowmaker for a reason.
I believe in much stranger things that are inclusive to aliens.
Impressed by your attentiveness. I’m sure prosody is a fantastic product, I don’t mean to drag it through the mud.

What I should expound on is that in the Jitsi server configuration that out of the box they don’t have good documentation for getting room size, participants, total number of rooms etc. I did find the Jitsi community forums where the Jitsi devs tell community members how to enable some prosody plugins. There was an issue for my vanilla configuration where I needed to update Lua and download 5 other lua rocks. Then the mod-muc-size plug-in needs to be modified and the nginx configuration needs to be updated as well. This is my rough memory from a month ago.

So it would be nice if Jitsi had a more out of the box solution for this integration, and I understand prosody is just a piece in the whole production.
Although I think README need to be static, I still think that having some images clearly describe what is this project for or some code example is better. English is not my first language, so I don't like to read a wall of English text. Short paragraph with code example and images are much more approachable for me. This is also a reason why I rarely use manpage, and use "--help" or just Google it instead.
Basically the advice is "when learning to use a hammer, see everything as a nail. Nail everything, and use no other tools."

IMHO terrible advice.
I think its more about Culture being driven buy corporate profits. Pop music made by people who don't own their masters seem to be slaves of streaming. If you like underground music or music by people who do own their masters then the experience is very different.

For example Greg Pucaito is killing it. Amazing debut album doing really well in all the charts. 100% in control of his and can anything he wants like his recent "Fuck Content" event
Interior Design Impacts Real Estate Image Editing – YouTube
You know how shady mattress and TV retailers mix up the model numbers so you can't comparison shop? Your next flight might be on a 737-super-1912713-b.
Where's the WHO+ telling us that masks are dangerous? Was that not retracted?
beware the surprise 18% grade cooldown.
Indeed, the middle ground depends on your perspective. In my view F# is actually the middle ground between pure functional programming and traditional OOP!

F# is much more than just C# with lambdas btw. If you want to write .net code in a functional style then F# is easily worth the time investment to learn.
Stanford apologizes after doctors protest vaccine plan that put frontline last
Hooks are not an alternative to redux, although you could use then as one.

Personally, any time anybody has ever suggested using redux I have always fought it. I've never seen the news for a global state management library, since react has always had tools to manage state built in.
Perhaps we need to adopt something like a "TRYME" as a standard way for people who want to sample a project or do a little interactive learning with it.
California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
Opening medium articles in incognito mode removes article limit.
ungated: https://archive.is/v9pLw
Mir in 2020
this is very useful, contains ff instructions also
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Doctors Revolt over Stanford’s ‘Absurd’ Vaccine Rollout
> Ideally, a VM should be indistinguishable from real hardware

VMs wouldn't achieve the performance they do without paravirtualization. VMs don't meticulously emulate all attached virtual devices. Paravirtualized device drivers more or less forward the I/O request to the hypervisor which handles it in a VM-specific way. For example, it's not super useful for a VM to emulate all the bitwise register-twiddling dances needed to talk to a SATA controller, it can simply have some "backdoor" channel into the hypervisor that says "Queue request to write X to LBA Y for this VM".

Since paravirtualization requires specific drivers, it will always be detected.
No, come on, let's assume good intent here.

History is littered with failed products that were very well engineered. For any business to last there needs to be an effective partnership between commercial and product development areas of the company (or, if you prefer, MBAs and engineers, not that the distinction is so clean).

GP is merely pointing that out.
This is an amazing comment and I would really like to read more if you ever have time to write something up!
Those things are deserving of being explained, but do they really need to be in a readme? Can't we just link to them?
? Those are reasons to use JS not WASM.

"A wide ecosystem of mature language toolchains." - yes, for Javascript, not for WASM, which isn't deployed really anywhere in production and there aren't even best practices for it.

What language are devs going to even write these scripts in? That's not clear.

"Simplicity" - nothing is more 'simple' than JS, which is why it's used the world over.

"Portability" - again, nothing more portable than JS.

The reasons to use WASM are 'performance' along with 'black box' - but in most cases performance is not necessary and the black box for all intents and purposes exists with v8.
"There is power in restraint. The less a language does, the more can be done to it."

Assembler
You haven’t tried a wide variety of languages then. I have found the language chosen massively shifts what is possible to write and what is convenient to write.
I remember being in a Canadian ICU with a family member and thinking it was weird that no one wore masks. What if someone in there had the flu? They made you wash your hands but masks were only for sick people (lol).

Seeing people with an IFR of 0.07% demanding vaccines destined for people with IFRs of 10% is a little surreal. Apparently you can learn statistics or medicine, not both.
You are confounding two things. The impact of research and the impact of the researcher.
Increasingly more research is done in publicly funded academia, not the opposite at you claim. OTOH the relative impact of individual researchers has gone down, but this is mostly due to problems being tackled being increasingly harder.
In industry you can have relatively more impact because you are not doing research but you are building things using knowledge somebody has already collected for you. Maybe that is what you wanted to say.
Firstly, I have a problem with meta analysis in general and the sheer volume of meta papers tends to drown the Cochrane papers.

Additionally, I challenge the judgment calls about honesty of authors, be it the source trial authors or the meta authors. There is a _really_ large interpretation gap between what is written and what really happened depending on how you encode the data into the dataset and the analysis model.

I am a clinical researcher. And TBH, I think it's not really possible to conduct truthful and fundamentally believable clinical research given the current social and technological environments of academic research. I'm far from the only one slaving for professors who don't know what they're doing. If I did not have a family to feed, I would not accept doing the work I am doing right now.
I would really like to get to learn how to use a smart card or yubikey type device but I don't know where to start.
Hum... There's no better way to know how a screw behaves when hammed in than by taking one and hamming it somewhere.

As somebody already posted in another comment, just be very clear on what you want to achieve. I'd also add that you must be very sure you can throw it all away afterwards.
I've known a number of writers, and as a class they are difficult to be friends with. If you can imagine most people being surrounded by a kind of spherical bubble, or maybe one with a few edges that represents their personal boundaries, a writer would have a kind of star shaped boundary, where in the crevasses they appear to have almost none, and at the tips they extend out further than normal and can be quite pointy. Fragile pricks even. I have no doubt people will ultimately say he was a good writer, a wit and wry observer, a fascinating person, even a fine husband or father, but I would wonder if anyone will say he was a good man, because friends are the only ones who can know that. I'd suspect that masculine friendship is something in particular that he's finding difficulty with, which is something there just aren't a lot of adequate words for, and what makes it such a complex and nuanced thing.

Personally, I can enjoy months of relative solitude, but I also have dozens of people in my life who recognize me as a friend. The reason I was able to make friends is because I made personal boundaries that make friendships both viable and durable. There is something to be attracted to, but still very much an "other," that lets you be you and doesn't want your stuff, and we're all different enough that there is no danger from mimicking each other ("mimetic violence"). As a writer, Ford's entire stock in trade is in transgressing personal boundaries, and that is what makes friendship a kind of received concept for many writers. It's why I don't read the Guardian, as it tends to trade in a kind of sympathy that seduces readers into moralizing their feelings of inferiority by standing up straw men to take down with neurotic criticism, and that dynamic rewards the very things that make friendships difficult. To me, it's like some kind of Imposter Syndrome Daily. However, if he would like to be friends, I'm sure we could work something out.
If Boeing goes under, then Airbus becomes a monopoly.
AR to me, while interesting, seems to be rather limited in daily life.

I can think of numerous applications for small-unit military scenarios. Pointing out where your friendlies are in an overlay, etc.

But I don't see many use cases for day to day life. Construction site / management? Okay sure. But again, it seems limited.