skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm just jaded by now, but these days whenever I see someone bragging about how much smaller their codebase is vs thing they want to replace, I start to wonder what edge cases they decided don't exist.

Like you try running this in production and 3 months later find out it instantly dies if there's more than 4% packet loss between you and the DNS server or something
They are moving the goalposts because there are several and ultimately very many reasons why IRC won't work, they just didn't bother to think of all the reasons and list them at once.
It's also not fair to blame people (well, companies...) for obeying the law.

Personally, I'd rather a world where companies obey the law than one where they pick and choose what laws they would like to obey.
They could have blocked the user in Iran. It's without sense to block the organization's account.
So where are the hospital ships?
Just wondering, does it also happen when connecting with Tor ? Would like to warn my friends and eventually tell them the workaround ...
I agree with you. It's alright to blame them, but it's unfair at the same time. The world is not fair.

EDIT: concerning hypothetical worlds, I pretty much not want to live in a world were companies blindly follow the law regardless of how harmful it is. We have tried these worlds in the past and they were not pretty.
My point is, if you need this sort of imagery, you don't need to wait for Facebook to never actually release a usable product out of this paper. Because that's generally what happens with these kinds of papers.
Go's HTTP server is typically imported as a package, just like `math/rand`, `time` or `fmt`. The resultant compiled binary would then be larger than if it had not been imported, but the package itself doesn't contribute to LOC.

FWIW, the app does import and run Go's HTTP server for "server" commands: https://github.com/geohot/minikeyvalue/blob/master/src/main....
What is GitHub supposed to do?
Presence of debug information affects LLVM code generation
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Did you try self-hosting and it lead to more downtime and slower performance?

From my experience, when I self-host stuff it's a lot faster (more server resources) and never had any downtime (server doesn't simply go down for no reason).
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Are you particularly proud of this GoFY episode? I mean, being all talk and no follow-through is ten-a-penny.
After watching the video the AI tools do look mind-bendingly useful, so I take back what I said before!
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Would be useful if you could elaborate on the things you think are broken with WordPress.

I happen to think WordPress will be dethroned by products that cater to specific niches better. A good case in point is in real estate where it is widely used but clearly not the best:

https://smallbusinessforum.co/why-an-alternative-to-wordpres...
It's a shame that every time that Telegram is mentioned, Signal advocates feels the need to let everybody else know how superior Signal is supposed to be compared to everything else.

I don't have anything against Signal itself, but this aggressiveness and arrogance is really putting me off.

Has this became some kind of religion? Do you people realize that you are not the exclusive bearer of Truth, and that maybe, just maybe people that use Telegram chose to do so for a reason and are not poor clueless persons that need to be indoctrinated?

To be extra clear, my complaint is about whoever insists on spreading the falsehood that Signal is objectively better than anything else [and maybe also adds a bit of compassion on top ("it's a shame") for the rest of us unenlightened].

I would have no problem, and would actually be more inclined to switch to Signal, if you tried something a bit more modest and honest. Dunno, for example something along the lines of "If you would like an alternative to Telegram that has E2E enabled by default and on all chats, you could maybe be interested in Signal!".
But what kind of discussion can we have if the argument is always "Signal is so much better, it's a shame that you people don't realize it" ?
GitHub might start blocking countries doing any trade with Iran in order to comply with "laws".
According to the article, the bat caves are nearly a thousand miles away. It seems unlikely peasants were traveling a thousand miles for the purpose of visting the market.

It also presents some reasons why bat viruses on their own were unlikely to become as contagious as COVID, citing the example of RaTG13's discovery.

So the "zoonotic transfer from bats" theory requires an extraordinary new strain (possible!) to travel a thousand miles before spreading enough to be detected.
If you're pushing a weird idea that on the face of it makes no sense, then the onus is probably on you to demonstrate that it works, not on other people to demonstrate that it doesn't.
PDF/A is meant for archive purposes (e.g remain pixel perfectly the same when read out of some tape archive 50 years from now archival purposes) and doesn't allow things like javascript. Plus it requires fonts to be embedded.
That's a bit like saying that we shouldn't use lossy image/video compression.

Do you realize the amount of 'waste' that a 32bpc†, 4:4:4, imaginary color triangle gamut picture would have ?

†it looks like the human eye has a sensitivity of 9 orders of magnitude, with roughly 1% discrimination (so add 2 orders of magnitude). So, looks like you would need at least 37 bits per color with a linear coding, the overwhelming majority of which would be horribly wasted !
Reawakened geyser does not foretell Yellowstone volcanic eruptions, study shows
That's a really great, interesting paper ([2]). Thanks for linking it here.

This is a more recent (Dec 2020) paper by one of the authors on combining empowerment and extrinsic goals: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9284556
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Is there anybody who ever thought the previous "sweeping visual rejuvenations" were good? I don't use windows much, but I prefer the windows 2000 style to windows 10 style.

And it is really the same thing with Gnome, the Gnome 3 "improvements" were (and continues to be) a dumpster fire.
1/3-scale prototype of supersonic airliner to fly this year
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While that is true it doesn't take into account what happens once hospitals reach capacity. Once all doctors are busy and beds are full the fatality rate of strokes, heart attacks, car accidents, cancer goes way up which is something that has to be avoided.
This is from someone who rebuffed the initial argument point by point:

https://www.triplemint.com/blog/why-real-estate-tech-is-so-u...
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A ‘heart attack’ is an episode of myocardial ischaemia (restricted blood supply to the heart) usually through a blockage of an artery. Angina is a pain associated with myocardial ischaemia of a usually temporary nature. A cardiac arrest is the stoppage of the heart.

Lots of people survive the first (apart for the 250,000 Americans for whom the first presentation of heart disease is sudden cardiac death), not so many survive the latter
> What is GitHub supposed to do?

Disobey the law, make a public statement about it, and deal with the consequences. This is not a new problem, it was treated by Kant a few centuries ago.
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That is really cool to read! I love seeing the early seeds of big projects!
It's very unlikely that you'd get a one step transfer from a bat that yielded a spike protein with the level of affinity it has for human ACE2. If you look at that protein alone, the most-likely proximal hosts are primates. If we seriously believe in zoonotic transfer, we should be looking at those populations, and understanding how orangutans and bonobos infiltrated Wuhan and transmitted the virus to unwitting humans.

The other recent coronavirus spillovers actually have rather low infectivity that increases with the course of the epidemic through adaptive mutations. But amazingly, with SARS2, it appeared already fully adapted.

The phylogenetic tree makes a clear statement about how long SARS2 has been circulating in humans. At the publication of the genome sequence there were only a handful (~4?) of mutations known and most SARS-CoV-2 genomes were, incredibly, nearly identical. See https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global. If we tend to see one mutation per transmission, that would mean that the spillover happened in October or November 2019, and almost certainly in Wuhan. All SARS-CoV-2 we've observed fits into this single tree, and there is no evidence of any previous progenitor strains. This means that SARS-CoV-2 was fully-adapted from its most-recent common ancestor. What are the odds of that happening directly from a bat?

We're only now seeing, with b1117, a big phenotypic jump related to changes in the spike protein. It has arisen in a context that suggests that it may also be the result of strange environmental conditions for the virus that are capable of accelerating its exploration of the solution space. A widely-considered hypothesis is that it arose in an immunocompromised patient receiving antibody treatment and convalescent plasma, both standard practice in the UK. In this context the virus could have achieved extremely high population (~ many candidate solutions, faster evolutionary computation) and feedback about the immune response of the entire population (to the degree that they would have received multiple donations of plasma).
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Sorry to burst the tax evasion bubble, but it is pretty easy to stop cryptocurrencies. Just require KYC at points of entry and exit into the ecosystem.
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Depends on your definition, which is pretty personal. I do enjoy social democracy, but I do think democratic socialism is something different with other priorities. You can guess that this meticulousness hints at thoughts about socialisms problems with totalitarianism.

"This reasoning is why so many socialists are prefixing it with “democratic.”"

North Korea is democratic too...

I understand the antagonism towards capitalism. I see that as neutral and an expression of our egos. Denying egos will very likely lead you to commit crimes against humanity. However, there is a lot of merit to curb these ambitions, but that is also a personal decision if you really want to promote democracy.

Freedom and equality compete and necessitate each other. Neither pure capitalism nor socialism provides an answer where to draw lines. The focus should be democracy and not socialism. Wealth and solidarity arise from there.
It's George hotz, literally all edge cases are left to be considered as "an exercise for the reader"
What's the difference between a Chinese company and a US company? None. Both work for the state, although US ones operate under the guise of democracy.

This sort of union between tech and politics is not going to take us anywhere.
Failure to convert: why the United States still uses Imperial measurement
Send a patch!
>The author did himself a disservice by attracting chess players to criticize his example

Heh, I think the author's example is fine if the reader gives it a charitable interpretation. The disservice is from all the overly pedantic people who want to argue about chess instead of the philosophy of science.
Looks like someone reinvented operators. Or am I missing something here?
Assuming they're talking about the US, where being older rather than younger, being rural/exurban rather than urban/suburban, and being male rather than female are all indicators for both political conservatism and obesity, this is very likely to be the case. Hard to prove without some very peculiar polling, but it is statistically very likely.
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The main real-world uses for bitcoin are (1) evasion of currency controls and (2) facilitation of extortion and fraud. That's all illegal, btw. The surprise is FinCEN didn't act until now to align its surveillance of bitcoin with the rest of the financial world. I also would speculate that the short action timeline and comment period have a typically cynical purpose to deploy one of a grab-bag of regulatory actions at precisely the moment the price of bitcoin has again caused a stir.

Bitcoin isn't worth fighting for here, sorry EFF, but it is a useful canary warning about the current state of low financial freedom and privacy (by historical standards) and surprising degrees of unofficial suppression of viable alt-moneys. I would be happily surprised if the FinCEN reg forced unlawful use cases out of the bitcoin ecosystem leaving a vibrant, healthy marketplace....
Are you really suggesting that companies should willfully break laws? We already have this in reality I guess, but don't think we should suggest them to do it further. Right way to get change would be for companies to get together and lobby for the change they wanna see, not just break the law.

Although I agree the export embargo is fucking stupid, especially when it comes to online technology, I really want to see less criminal behavior from companies, not more.
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That's a great development which I welcome whole-heartedly, but I don't think this diminishes my broader argument. There are still many conditions besides COVID-19 that only have a therapy available but no cure because of business reasons.
My experience with RocketChat is that it works quite well on the surface, but after using it for some time, some very annoying bugs emerge:

* You get notifications for channels for which you have suppressed those notifications

* Some channels are marked as having new notifications, when they haven't

* Notifications for new messages in threads you are involved in are quite hard to find (horrible UX)

* Some UX choices are very confusing (you get a column of options related to notifications, and for some, the left option is the one leading to more notifications, for some the right option)

* There are some overlapping features that lead to inconsistent usage (channels vs. discussions vs. threads)

* Threads are hard to read, because follow-ups in threads are shown in a smaller font size. You cannot increase the font size at all in the desktop application

.... and so on.

Also, I tried to submit some bugs, but for that I'd need to have some information which only the admins have that run this instance, and in the end it was too much effort to get all that information together, so I didn't even bother.
Is it from adiabatic expansion, or is it just the LOX vaporizer/heater being overwhelmed?
Pretty neat. Thanks
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You have no questions about the validity of data coming out of China?

The fact that there is China's first biosaftey level 4 lab in the same town where the virus originated doesn't arouse any suspicion whatsoever?
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I would be interested in the other SSL implementations:

- https://github.com/awslabs/s2n

- https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl

- https://bearssl.org/

Are these subpar implementations or there are other reasons not to use these?
This would still leave cryptocurrencies as a valid currency for the criminal underworld, and the points of entry/exit will become stolen/illegal goods/services.

Not taking either side, just pointing out this fact.
Be interesting to see how the author sees China with its mercantile socialism fitting into this framework given that it claims to have more billionaires than any other country? According to MSN news: 878 billionaires in China versus 700 in the US.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinas-number-of-billio...
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It's a ZX81 right, not even a Spectrum.
I find strange talking about this kind of vector ISA without mentioning ARM SVE/SVE2 which is/will be similar..
> Although I agree the export embargo is fucking stupid, especially when it comes to online technology, I really want to see less criminal behavior from companies, not more.

The law is not stupid, it's criminal. By following it, companies are precisely engaging in criminal behavior.
This is correct and well established; prone positioning and non invasive ventilation was shown fairly early on to have a significant survival benefit. Not that I agree with the rest of the OP’s attempt at making some sort of statement
There are thousands of wet markets in China, but very few provincial capital cities (Wuhan is one). Out of all the wet markets in China, the virus just happened to originate at the one next to the provincial administrative office? That alone is enough evidence to make the provincial administrative office the most likely origin of the virus, right?
It has happened on Android.

Most importantly, Malware creators can just convince people to enable other sources. Most users don't understand the significance.
Don’t disagree. However there’s some evidence that ventilators might not have been the best treatment.

The data itself is incomplete in the linked study.
> EDIT: concerning hypothetical worlds, I pretty much not want to live in a world were companies blindly follow the law regardless of how harmful it is. We have tried these worlds in the past and they were not pretty.

Personally, I think a distinction is necessary. Companies IMO should absolutely obey the laws regardless of if they like them or not. It's entirely unfair to blame them for obeying the law.

They (as well as individual people) are free to oppose those laws in an attempt to change them, however until they are changed, they should follow the laws or cease trading in the country who's laws they disagree with. It's entirely fair to blame them for not fighting stupid/wrong/harmful laws.

Allowing companies to choose which laws they are going to obey is never going to end well.
Doable.
Github refused to help me regain access to an 11 year old account when I changed jobs so lost access to 2FA and email account at the same time.

We lost access to tens of thousands of dollars worth of project code which we had to rewrite.

The customer service support was Google style brick wall.

I wish this guy luck in getting access.
I build my first PC in 10 years this summer. My work machine is a 16inch MacBook Pro and since I had a laptop and I was not satisfied with the performance of my Mac I decided to build a PC. I have nothing against RGB as it gives me the possibility to change the mood at my desk at will. So I thought. I made the grave mistake to buy RGB RAM and by the love of god the manufacture thought that it’s a cool Idea That the default pattern is the rainbow color animation. My motherboard can control RGB for most devices from Bios but not all! So I can configure that everything is dark at boot except the RAM. My grafixcard is also sometimes acting up and shows a single static color on some LEDs. That is all not so bad as long as I boot into windows. The tools on windows start up and set it to my preferred setting (some static color or off). But Linux is a different beast. I hoped OpenLED could help but it won‘t work with my hardware. I managed to get my RAM to show up (at that point my goal was to shut all down when in Linux) but it only finds 2 of my RAM slots. I have 4 modules and still room free for 4 more. Means I can only disable or set colors for 3 modules the rest rainbow circles still. I thought about replacing the RAM but at the moment I lived with the Lightshow.
Sorry, your use of "could" instead of "can" made it look like a hypothetical.
Block requests from Iran, display a message that connections are blocked for legal reasons. Allow account to be used when not in Iran.
http://are.na/ could be an alternative
And he founded a self driving vehicle startup? Oh dear...
People told me it was habit, but the Windows 7 start menu eats the new crap alive. Sometimes it just doesn't even work on Windows 10. Clicking an app just doesn't do anything. If the link is invalid, you don't even get an error, but it randomly happens to any app. It is complete junk. For many months Windows wasn't able to sort icons on the desktop on multiple monitor setups.

So forgive me if my enthusiasm of this message is slightly dampened.
How can I scrape Google Maps for business data?
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I don't think this is a good counterexample given the very specific circumstances involved & clear requirements to get a vorking COVID vaccine ASAP.
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