skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than "Source Code is Worthless", I find it makes more sense to think of the lesson learned here as "Source Code is Only Worth Something to the Public if it's Well Documented and Stable", which happens to be true more often in practice.

For example, someone I used to know would always say that while the Linux kernel as a product (a free and open source operating system) is priceless, the source itself is worthless unless you have an understanding of its internals, and I think that this is generally true for codebases of similar size and complexity, although I'd argue Linux specifically doesn't fall into this area only because of the fact that drivers make up most of the code in it.

Stability is especially important when considering long term worth of code. When youtube-dl was removed from GitHub not too long ago, people were worried that the project would stop being updated and maintained, despite the fact that mirrors of the source code were everywhere. In that case, because the project needs constant updating and maintaining to keep up with websites like YouTube who have no incentive to continue to keep a stable API for downloading videos.
So we're all going to go to the library and start removing (maybe burning??) all the books that are no longer proper?
Insurance doesn't bill the patient.
Self-driving doesn't work until we develop AGI with a self preservation drive akin to that of human beings.

Doesn't matter how good your sensors are if you can not efficiently integrate sensor inputs into a model of the world that is useful for driving including so called "edge-cases." (Edge-cases are the whole problem by the way...)

Lets use this analogy. Imagine a person with severe mental retardation or a person zonked out of their mind on a dissociative drug. Their eyes (sensors) may work just as good as anybody else...but would you trust them to drive a car?
There's a third choice - just show it unedited. Put a disclaimer if needed. You can still buy a copy of mein kampf and read the loonery Hitler wrote.

You don't learn from history by denying it's existence.
Totally agree! I would suggest adding KIR as well. Curious what your background/interest is?

I have consulted to National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match [0] off and on for several years. There are typing labs using long reads but most reporting/matching/analysis is still performed at the nomenclature level [1].

I hope in the near future we'll be able to simply assemble the entire MHC for each sample, as messy as it might be, see e.g., "A diploid assembly-based benchmark for variants in the major histocompatibility complex" [2].

[0] https://bethematch.org
[1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18564-9
Well it's clearly blackface, 100%. The lips, the wide smile. It's the typical cartoonish depiction of Black people at the time. That was the gag --> "Jerry falls into shoe dye and now he's a negro."

Incidentally, another favorite of mine from the 40s --The Spirit comics by Will Eisner-- also feature a character with the cartoon black face: huge lips, etc. Unfortunately, that limits the exposure the comics will get with modern audiences.
Used this recently for installing Erlang and Elixir on my Debian system where apt was out of date.
I completely agree, but some parents might not want their kids to watch old stuff. A content advisory is a good middle ground, since it doesn't censor the past while giving the streaming service a free pass.
I’ve never been unhappy when provided with thorough documentation.
It is like Calendly, where you have a URL, and others can leave audio messages for you. Great for birthday wishes, clarifying emails over an audio message and more.

I had a need for one such tool, especially when trying to explain something to a customer who sends a lengthy email and expects a lengthy response from me. Now, I just record an audio message, share that URL to the customer when replying, and they reply back via audio message.

Made a world of difference.
The Backstory on GME and how we got here
If it doesn’t come for BeOS/Haiku OS, it’s not a complete solution.
Maybe the fundamental problem isn’t double dispatch itself, fair.

The fundamental problem is that you need to teach the computer how to choose which of a number of computations to run depending on two enumerable dimensions, and you need to embed that into your program in a way that covers all the possibilities, is bug free and maintainable.

Like, I need to be able to add shapes to my program, and things I can calculate about shapes to my program, and whenever I do so I need to either add all the new calculations for my new shape, or add my calculation for every existing shape.

That’s the essential complexity at the heart of this problem.

Double dispatch is the problem you then get when, in looking to solve that problem, you want to express the operations you want to run as functions that take every pairwise combination of types, and you are at a point in your code where you have a couple of objects and need to choose which of those functions to run. Like, I have an operation I want to run (could be calculate area, could be calculate perimeter), and a shape I want to run it on (could be a square, could be a circle) and I need the computer to go and run the correct one of four possible bits of code for me right now.

This is a double dispatch problem no matter what facilities your language has to address it. If your language can pattern match on typed tuples you can use pattern matching to dispatch to the right piece of code. If not, maybe you need to use something like the visitor pattern.
VisiCalc should get the credit: Lotus 123 and Excel are both derivatives that would not exist without VisiCalc (though it’s a given that someone else would have come up with a similar concept ex nihilo around the same time, imo).

Lotus Notes is awful. It’s Exchange, but worse. They wanted it to be an “open” platform for applications to be built on top of but failed to win over hearts and minds (and especially not hearts...).
There was a pleasant news today about Krita and Blender: https://twitter.com/Blender_Cloud/status/1356968817071636482
I have an "enhanced driver's license" in New York which has a character block that looks very similar to what's in the article.

I think that's for compatibility with the passport system, as the EDL will get me into Canada and Mexico.
South Australia has a population density of 1.7 persons per square kilometer...approximately 1.7 million people spread over a million square kilometers. The surface area of the earth is 510 million square kilometers and the equivalent population at that density would be less than one billion if people could inhabit the ocean surface. However the land surface is only about 150 million square kilometers including Antarctica. The Earth's land surface population density is 52 times that of South Austriala. Even the absolute population density is 15 times that of South Australia.

A lot of people would need to never be born to create an environment with similar conditions to the model.
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Even before the pandemic there were lines worth of people entering on these low quality jobs, this is not a consequence of the pandemic itself, it has just further highlighted the issue of service based economies and poorer wages/standard of living for working class people in higher income countries
So it looks like this is an open source implementation of the airplay server. So Apple devices using airplay can stream to whatever server is running this.

Is there a program that does the same thing for the client? Such that I can run the client software on my laptop, and airplay to a raspi connected to my TV running the server software?
Yeah I was thinking this is awfully close to some kind of federated system. It's not the same but it's pretty close to Signal asking for people to decentralize their service a bit to overcome censorship, which is one of the main arguments for decentralized systems.
you missed the part that says "So, to date, a complete, uncut Hanna-Barbera collection has never been released on DVD in the US"

No, I didn't. You missed the part of my comment which stated: "And even then, there are huge gaps in DVDs. Probably half of VHS tapes made it to DVD."
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Reading and writing scale in theory. They require an organization staffed with people who are strong readers and writers. Unfortunately, many people, especially those forced into remote work during the pandemic, are not. They will not read through explicit, clear, but long documentation; they will not respond by writing questions of their own, and will often fail at writing explicit and clear documentation of their own.

You are who you hire.
I think this is a really good example of why this article is pretty damn accurate. Both true liberals and true conservatives look on their own and the opposition party as being too corporate focused because the majority of neither one represents their interest. It's on the fringes of each party that politicians that represent the interests of the people exist and those fringes are those maligned as fascists and communists, since everyone on the other side wants to pick on them and nobody on their own side wants to defend them. There's a suitable Noam Chomsky quote for this

> In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
A very good comment.

I would like to point out to everyone that the correct expression to use in these discussions is rights holder NOT author.

Anyone still imagining this as a fight between pirate and "author" is strongly misled. Most people will happily support the author - just look at youtube/patreon. But most are also aware that buying or pirating a book ... has very little to do with the author in either case.
How McKinsey Is Making $100M Plus Advising on the Gov Bumbling Covid-19 (2020)
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/issues/3 is the major issue with the current proxy and hopefully it's fixed quickly before a bunch of folks set up a proxy and forget about it.
Canada is easier for legal immigrants, and much harder for illegal immigrants.

If you try to illegally immigrate into Canada, they will deport you
I'll also say I'm loving this, well it did seem a little weird epic games sponsors Godot ( absolutely an attempt to cut in a Unity's market share) , I'm happy they got some funding.

The more engines which exist the more you can find what works for you.
We're not talking about libraries, but private streaming services like HBO Max and Disney+. They've made their choice.
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Worse. Most of Enron management was directly sourced from McKinsey and McKinsey was intricately involved in its strategy and accounting. One day the story will be told of how they got away with it but Andersen took the whole blame.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-fea...
No, Nobody even signal can't, that's the whole point of e2e
Cutting production to 33% on one line and 66% on another for their crown jewel F-150.

The company reports earnings today after the market closes, so I read the "for a week" part as calm optimism. Same goes for the "this could be over after the first half of 2021" comments (paraphrasing) from Ford and others affected by chip shortages. If demand stays high, then the only way out of this shortage is to build more fabs, and that takes time. Bosch has been building a fab for the past 3 years and AKM had to outsource to Renesas because its production was affected by a factory fire.
> Smartmatic, which provided services for the 2020 election in only one county

> Smartmatic’s complaint takes into account not only the reputational and financial damage the company said it had suffered, but also the harm done to the United States by the claims promoted by Mr. Trump’s allies and the Murdoch-controlled networks he had long favored.

It appears that they are also trying to add the United States of America as defendants after Fox News slandered them with lies during the post-election period.

In other words, this lawsuit is going to be laughed out of court. I agree that Fox News lied a lot, maybe even more than usual and is at least partially responsible for the riots on the capitol, but these guys are nuts I don't want them representing me against a giant media empire.
Ammonia is currently considered as one of the more promising options for future shipping fuels.

There are a number of projects planning to create green ammonia at scale, e.g. this: https://asianrehub.com/

Ammonia is already made from hydrogen today, making that green is pretty straightforward, you just need enough clean electricity. Just get the hydrogen from electrolysis, the ammonia synthesis process itself is well established technology.
Unless the government can seize Starlink's assets, or shut down/harm their operations, they can't really tell Starlink to do anything. E.g. if they can shoot down satellites, they'd have influence.

This is especially true for economies that are as disconnected from the US as the Iranian one is.

The only thing a state has control over is payments from users. But if smuggling in transceiver equipment with pre paid traffic isn't that hard.
Yes, that's what happens causally. But the gag is that the result looks like blackface. At least I'm 90% certain that was the intention of the writer / animator.
I've watched videos like this where there's this big push for making modular parts where "the pieces are just like legos" and "construction needs to be more like manufacturing". And then the video shows a bunch of construction workers using fairly typical techniques. Yeah, you can position it to make things more optimal and whatever, but I still see people doing the same kind of things. The main difference I see is where they're doing it.

When I hear about modular construction my expectation is that you take those modules down to the sub-building or even sub-room layer. Take a floor piece, add four wall pieces, add a ceiling piece and you're essentially done. Outlets, wiring, HVAC, and even lighting are just built into those pieces and hooked up at the corners or edges.

I assume that this isn't the way because of the nature of timber to flex and twist as it dries, making every single structure (including these modular ones) a collection of bespoke pieces. Is there someone with more knowledge that can corroborate this?
Many years ago (2006 and 2009, respectively) I had to choose European and Asian locations for rsync.net storage arrays.

My primary, overriding criteria in choosing locations was what would be the coolest, most interesting place to visit for installs and maintenance.

I chose Zurich and Hong Kong.

Measured results have exceeded my initial models.
I thought I wrapped NSAutoreleasePool but maybe I just used it directly dynamically. If something is not wrapped in the source that doesn't mean you can't use it. objc.Get("NSAutoreleasePool").Alloc().Init()

Unfortunately I can afford some leaks at the moment, so if that's critical to anybody else and I'm doing something wrong just submit a PR
Irrc we were using a Bayesian classification model on top of of fixed pretrained features from transfer, something along the lines of refitting a GP every time the number of classes changed. This was images as opposed to text, and after an epoch classification was ~ok but during training (eg the active bit) we didn't see much benefit.
At least in Emacs, it shows the type as a tooltip if I hover over the closing paren of a function call.
We got Streams that don't short-circuit properly and Optionals that throw NullPointerExceptions, what creative fuck-ups do you reckon we'll get with sum types & pattern matching?
This is the very same problem that Tor faced when Tor bridge use started to pick up in China around the late 2000s / early 2010s. You only needed a single Chinese user to connect to your server for it to be probed by the Chinese censors. Older versions of the obfs Tor bridge protocol could be detected by active probes and thus blocked very much like these Signal proxies. This is a cat and mouse game that Signal could very easily lose should Iran start to care about probing all new active connections that leave Iran.
The benefit is that you can decouple the implementation of the operation from the implementation of the sum type. For example, a library can provide a sum type, and users of the library can implement their own operations on it. This is often necessary for proper separation of concerns. For example, the sum type may be a domain object, and the operations may be database operations, UI operations, or other I/O or conversion operations. You don’t want the domain layer to have dependencies on the database, UI, I/O, etc., which it would have if those operations were implemented in the sum type itself.

It’s exactly the same benefits provided by language-native sum types with ADT pattern matching (aside from the visitor pattern requiring more boilerplate).

The operation can itself be a polymorphic operation on a different type hierarchy or sum type, which is the scenario you are thinking of, but that’s not necessary for being able to benefit from the visitor pattern.

Read the original description of the visitor pattern in the GoF book. It’s about implementing operations on an existing type hierarchy without having to modify the code of that type hierarchy.
This is easier to reason about if it’s not about your own code. Consider this: would you swap your own codebase for your competitor’s if you had the chance? For me, it’s a resounding no. I bet it’s the same from their perspective.
Hmm.. is jsx a standard tool these days for new React projects?

Sorry if this doesnt make sense. I am mostly backend/servers.
Almost everyone in these comments is asking questions of various degrees of pedantry or outright dissing signal/moxie/no federation/whatever...

Just spin up a server if you can spare the expense and help some people out.

Action > inaction.

edit: you can get the connection details via @appliedlambdas on twitter!
>Here's a table of latencies from London to other world cities with more than 5 million people, comparing against the theoretical maximum speed, the speed of light:

This is a flawed comparison because it looks like he's comparing ping latency (round trip time) with speed of light (one trip), so the "Slowdown factor" columns is off by a factor of two.
The great suspender pulled from Chrome store
google has flagged it as malware. If you have not received the notification you may want to disable it.
They could certainly do this, but they would only see which local IP is trying to communicate with Signal (and thus trace the user). The traffic itself is end to end encrypted so they cant read it.
Storage of hydrogen in a solid has come around a few times already.

University of New South Wales. (2020) [1]

Lawerence Livermore Lab (2018) [2]

University of Salford (2006) [3]

Older approaches involved lithium hydride chips. Not ICs, just chips of metal. The University of New South Wales system used titanium and other secret ingredients. That one is being offered as a product for stationary storage, Real Soon Now.[4] Original article said it would ship by the end of 2020, but it has slipped to June 2021. You can pre-order the "launch edition" now. It's not a Kickstarter, but it's close.

Unclear if this is a good idea, or the next Bloom Energy Server.

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/alchemy-of...

[2] https://str.llnl.gov/2018-01/wood

[3] http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/16768/5/Hydrogen_storage...

[4] https://lavo.com.au
One time I watched dugsong hacking away at something on his laptop... he had drawn a crowd. I wonder what happened to all the monkey.org people... I imagine most are in the security world at this point.
Tina. Real estate, bonds, cash. Buying companies while state run capitalism in the east cold wars against American mega corporations like apple, with a neoliberal pro-trade administration, it should be easy to see why equities are a popular choice.
No, a company's ability to be more efficient (as well as general increasing efficiencies) is priced into its value. That's where P/E ratios come into play.

Currently the entire stock market doesn't reflect value, it reflects growth. Shiller P/E (CAPE) is normally between 10 and 15 depending on that efficiency that you're talking about. It's at 35 right now. (https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe) That's higher than Black Tuesday and any other time in this market's history outside of the 2000 crash.
Rust-Analyzer is much better than whatever IDEA/Clion uses IME.
> when the plague comes

It might have helped to have some mgmt consultants on vaccine distribution.
It may be unique only in the regard that the impact directly affects the US citizens, but multinational corporations that work in underdeveloped regions are known for their shady practices. You can probably write 10 articles on Nestle alone.
Iran blocks every major foreign messaging app, except WhatsApp. Signal escaped it until now only because they had so few users. Also keep in mind that while WhatsApp claims to use the Signal protocol, they installed a backdoor that allows them to MITM conversations. So yes, I’d say it’s virtually guaranteed that WhatsApp is sending unencrypted message data to Iran, and of course to the US too.
HBO Max has the worst web video player UI of all the streaming services. The most annoying anti-feature is that skipping forward 15/30 seconds takes almost as long as just watching those seconds. I also had to install an extension just to be able to skip via keyboard!

I really don't expect HBO to get anything right for streaming. Even Amazon has a better video player despite some of it's own major annoyances like constantly losing focus, so you can't use the keyboard. Both Netflix and Amazon skip forward almost instantly though.
That is precisely why I am suggesting using a CDN. Old school CDN that is. Back in the day, if you had Akamai, your site would just use one (or many) of their generic names. Nowadays you can use your own domain to front their network, but you don't have to. If Signal was using a few CDN's and cycled through many generic end-point names, then Iran would have to block all the CDN's which would be nearly the same as shutting off the internet. This would not have to be the default mode of Signal. It could be an option that the client suggests. "Hey, it appears we are blocked. Use alternate proxies?" Then cycle through many different CDN's using many generic end-point names. Some of the CDN's can also do layer 4 vips and not have to decrypt anything. They can just act as a TCP tunnel if need be, just costs more.
Unreal engine has shared source and accepts PRs, so you could potentially edit the source code to fix issues as well.
It's not like petroleum is all that nice though, it's just that the handling around it has been pretty much perfected over the decades. You can collect spent sludge at the same place a scooter has to come anyway to refill and then re-hydrogenate the sludge into fresh paste.
> Our world is defined by it, and yet we struggle to ever define it

> German psychologist Gustav Fechner provided evidence that people prefer rectangles with sides in proportion to the golden ratio (if you’re curious, that ratio is about 1.6:1)

Glad it mentioned the Golden Ratio and beauty seemingly being in the 'eye of the beholder' as mentioned here:

> Despite his experiments with the golden ratio, Fechner continued to believe that beauty was, to a large degree, in the brain of the beholder.

IMHO Beauty can be subjective, but there are entire industries built on the fact that some beauty is unquestionable, like in the modeling/fashion industry.