skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Result/Either types are fashionable but strictly worse than exceptions, in my view. Even checked exceptions should be improved rather than junked.

Really, error types are only a small step above what C uses. That approach was tossed in favour of exceptions for good reasons that the industry now seems to be collectively forgetting, often with poorly reasoned arguments. FP languages like Haskell use them as if they were C because of laziness and insistence that everything be modelled as a mathematical function, not because they result in a better developer experience. Exceptions have many usability benefits that I'd be loathe to give up on.
It is not refactoring if it changes functionality.
And I make the prediction that Tesla's "Autopilot" in its current form of camera-only navigation will not be able to be safer than new drivers and the elderly (below 80) within the next 20 years, maybe ever.

To be it must navigate any situation without any driver intervention:

- parking in tight spaces

- follow the assigned turn lanes in an intersection

- follow the local laws on turn on red

- navigating streets that are less than a meter wider than the vehicle and have vehicles parked alternating between right and left but are still both ways (very common in Europe)

- nighttime driving in heavier rain

- following diversions that are not published, badly signposted, and were set up quickly by the city due to sudden a hole or similar in the street

- follow streets without any or even wrong markings on them

Most importantly it must not drive people into dividers, well-lit emergency equipment, and/or crossing trailers.

The fun thing about this is: we both won't ever be able to prove our theories right because neither enough elderly nor enough new drivers will own a Tesla with "Autopilot". They are just too expensive.
> We don’t like you; we want you to suffer. Very 2020

That seems to sum it up.

I don’t think there’s a way to legislate the way we treat and feel about each other.

I guess we need to do that the old-fashioned way, by getting out of our pods and talking to each other in person, like the ending scene of Surrogates.
Protein spikes your insulin just as much as carbs do. A steak will raise your insulin levels more than a plate of spaghetti.

Whole carbs with the fiber intact can be quite satiating. Most of the problems people attribute to carbs really only pertain to refined carbs.
I had a friend once who tried going "vegan" for a few weeks and eventually gave up because he said he felt like shit. His "vegan" diet? mostly coffee and cigarettes..
> What is the consequence of Twitter/Facebook not being responsible for content that appears on their site?

Well it’s what we have now. Mass misinformation and lies constantly being spread around. The trade-off we made was that it was supposed to be an unfiltered cesspool because it wasn’t feasible to censor views to match the editorial decisions of the company.

However, AI has made if feasible to censor at scale and the companies want it both ways. They want editorial control and they still don’t want any responsibility for defamation.

> Maybe you should be able to sue the NYT reporter. I think you can, in fact!

That’s worse than being able to sue the NYT. It allows the NYT to hide behind pawns they would love to sacrifice in the name of spreading convenient lies.
Depends how desperate the workers are. But I've known two companies now that lost 50% of their IT staff when they tried to enforce going back to an office so I don't think anyone can generalize.

People who have little choice will do as their employer commands. The rest will move on.
> There is no architectural reason in Matrix why it should be slower than TG.

Then why is it ?
Experts call on CRA to get serious abut cybersecurity after 800k users lockedout
I'm really struggling to find a good Similarity/Distance metric between two vector shapes. E.g., something that would indicate mutual information or edit distance—such that I could quantify the distance between a particular shape instance and a prototypical shape.

In my case, I am trying to quantify the difference in shape between outlines of rock carvings
on Stonehenge (purported to be axeheads) and outlines of several different styles of actual bronze age axeheads.
Plague of Athens
For that particular driver

If the same amount of people die except it’s nuns and orphan busses instead of drunks and other unsafe drivers then the “good” drivers odds just went the wrong way.
+1 to the food diversity point. I've never felt the need to supplement protein, but I've always been a big peanut butter eater, that probably helps. I've also really started enjoying tofu and tempeh recently.
I don't think I'm insinuating anything. I'm forthrightly saying I don't think the evidence is clear enough to support the conclusions in the OP. I then pointed to specific problems - we don't know the publication date for the first book, the piracy date, the trend of sales before piracy, or what trends are typical of similar books. I also think the author's jump to accuse an Amazon employee of piracy is evidence of a tendency to jump to unsupported conclusions.

I personally doubt the author is lying. I assume the author is stating what they think and giving the evidence they have. That's good, but I don't think their conclusion follows from their evidence.
I have done my PhD on T cell activation. The persistent focus of the media and even some of the science community on Antibody induced immunity was completely beyond me. T cells were largely simply ignored even though they play such a crucial role in the body’s immune response.

Antibodies seem to be a concept much easier to grasp. Maybe we should call T cells "Police Cells or "Anti-Cells" instead. You know, some marketing might help...
So NFTs are valuable because they’re unique- but this guy has created a fractional ownership screen so an unlimited number of people can own 1 NFT. Oh and he’s lying about his identity and business relationships.
Rust Internals: Syntax for returning early with an error
Thanks for those links. Sorry, I meant to say, I was in borderline to being deficient. Because I understand, once you are B12 deficient, you have to take those b12 injections all life. And I learnt it from a blood test and from physcian.

However, it really depends on what the family gene-stocks looks like for these vitamins and how well one can absorb those vitamins. For example, the iron in meat is mighty absorbable compared to say when you eat anything in vegan.

So I would like to urge Vegans to be highly highly skeptical.
It has been already analyzed in very fine detail, what you mention is an obvious double/triple check. If you have a sample that changes whole global narrative, you can make enough detailed tests on it to have statistical chance of error close to 0. Too bad they don't have earlier samples, we could possibly find it way earlier.

It wasn't October 2019, actually Italy had September 2019! A few countries had it back-identified before official Wuhan ones. France had December. Its very well possible that Covid originated elsewhere, but that's another topic.
Kotlin extension methods can't be grouped and abstracted over like traits can. And moreover they are not virtual methods. Virtual methods are useful for all sorts of reasons.

In Kotlin extension methods are best used as a nice way to add utility methods to code you don't directly control, and as part of the 'extension lambda' system that lets you make DSLs. The way Kotlin defines language integration features using methods with magic names makes it easy to add a thin layer on top of a Java API that makes it much nicer to use, without needing to fork or patch the actual library itself.
That they escaped the legal liability despite clearly having the capability and intent to moderate. The reason the exemption was put in place initially was because they had no editorial goal and could not reasonably moderate users.

Now they are no different than the NYT with a crowdsourced author pool except they aren’t liable for libel.
Thailand isn’t and has had an identical approach work _pretty well_.
Saying I'm not a lawyer does not excuse you from doing the slightest bit of research.

You never had a due process right to be heard on facebook in the first place so 230 didn't abridge this completely fictional right.

It wouldn't abridge site owners rights to remove 230 it would just break the internet as we know it in the US. Your suggestion isn't a lot better. It would create pointless process that would likely be abused by vexatious litigants so you combine doing nothing for average joe's with giving special interests lisence to ruin the internet.

If you have not the slightest idea what the law us how can you hope to anmend it.

How about we leave everything as is and if you don't like how facebook runs their show you make your own site...with blackjack and hookers if desired.
> You can see a few places where New Zealand got lucky already

This is a case of "you make your own luck".

The UK has presumably been lucky more often, but we have never had the opportunity to observe it.
Nice idea, but being vaccinated against something does not mean you can't carry and spread it.

Given that's true, those older folk, at the most risk are the place to start.
This is exactly it.

For the ultra poor we need to get them the wealth for animal products for the micro-nutrients. It's too difficult to get them on supplements (exactly like vegans and B12)

Then it's about satiation, satiety and palatability.
> I'm not even going to go into what "intelligible" theories is even supposed to mean

The idea seems silly now because we know that fundamental physics isn’t directly intelligible to us. But before Newton, the hard-headed ‘scientific’ approach was to analyze nature without any appeal to magical hidden forces, action at a distance, etc. etc. Turns out that’s not possible, but who could have known?
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> people excel when given support and opportunity to grow.

Some people do. Many don't, they'll take that support and rest on it. Plenty of European Countries have UBI for all intents and purposes (free health care, housing, utilities, enough cash money for everything else including entertainment and communication).
People don't excel, and plenty don't bother to contribute, because it's not necessary.

> We can find sufficient challenge and adversity as we need to move us in our own selves, relationships, and field of endeavor.

You're looking at a tiny subset of people that wouldn't stop working (but maybe work on different things) if they won the lottery, and extrapolate from them on to the general population. Not everybody is like that. Any solutions that pretend that they are will fail.
The US Has a Covid 'Scariants' Problem. Here's How to Fix It
Works great on Safari on iOS! But it seems to replace the actual image of the moving object with a red mask/silhouette. Is there an option to retain the original frames, even if the moving object is blurred?
Are Market Makers Evil?
I disagree that Minix is conceptually interesting. It's a half-way house between monolithic kernels and microkernels with the disadvantages of both and none of the advantages.

I'm a big fan of microkernels, I think Tanenbaum had it right in his spat with Linus but at the same time Minix' implementation is very far from what could have been a fantastic little OS.
A project to keep an eye on, to replicate 'autotype' support offered by many password managers, is wlrctl¹. A popular alternative is ydotool², but brings some additional risks the operator might not be comfortable with.

¹https://git.sr.ht/%7Ebrocellous/wlrctl

²https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
Show HN: JGen – Text-based journal generator
Crikey. Covid anyone?
Hey HN, quickly threw this together over a couple of nights.

I like to use a simple text file as a journal, I put this together to automatically generate properly dated entries.

Let me know what you think.
Thanks.
A lot of the cost for space based missions is also in instrument design. When you make a telescope, you don’t need to just design the mirror and the stuff that holds it up, and a camera with a series of filters. You need to design spectrographs and other complex systems that need to be “space-hardened” and extremely well tested. A “sensor package” doesn’t really cut it. See for example this spectrograph:

https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann13071c/

Huge instruments like these that actually power today’s science is another reason why ground based astronomy is required, and why we can’t just move all observation to space if satellite clusters ruin the night sky.
I'm in Germany. I get the very occasional message via signal but it doesn't look very widespread yet. It seems, mostly people installed it on their phone and then reverted back to using whatsapp because that's just the default for a lot of people. I also have Telegram installed but have zero activity there. Just my observation. It might be different outside my bubble of friends and family.

I've so far not accepted the new whatsapp terms of use just because I'm curious to see if they will actually pull the trigger on this and disable access. I know many people that are sufficiently annoyed to refuse to click "agree" on that one for the same reason.

My prediction is that Whatsapp will weasel their way out of that one when their self imposed deadline comes up by simply forgetting about it. I agreed to terms of use when I first used the app. So, they could just drop the whole thing and accept defeat. If there's something in these new terms that they need me to agree to, they just need to come out and tell us what that it is exactly. Either it matters or it never did. They are basically saying it doesn't matter but we still need to agree. The corporate weaseling is what is generating the suspicion. And of course Facebook doesn't have a great track record in general.

The alternative may be having to disable millions of accounts which would predictably lead to lots of the remaining users discovering Signal or other solutions when their exiled friends start using those exclusively. I don't see why Facebook would want to let that just happen. So postpone, silently drop the the new terms of use (because as they assure us over and over again there's nothing new in there anyway), and move on.
I'm very much in agreement with this comment, it is a fair assessment of Minix' weaknesses.
I was more thinking of roughly hubble-sized telescopes, but as a program optimized for having several telescopes. Like spending 1 billion in total for a larger amount of telescopes, which can be easily replaced should one fail or new instruments are required.
Medium's easily circumvented paywall drives me crackers. Prevented me reading this one.
Please proceed to explain why in your opinion prepared statement don't help preventing SQL injection.

I might be wrong and I'm always happy to learn new things but give me some arguments instead of downvoting (as i guess it's you).
CUDA is an industry standard, and AMD's lack of support is why NVIDIA enjoys a monopoly in the deep learning community.
meat is never served directly to customers.
its served as part of dish (chicken curry/chicken biryani etc.,).

to increase profits, hotel owners, mix rat meat with chicken because its cheaper and impossible to detect.
Parser ambiguities have never really been a major focus of Chomsky’s research. He’s certainly never argued for the existence of UG on the basis of parser ambiguities.
I think instead of "skeptical" you should say "not assume you are automatically getting the nutrients they need". There is no need for "skepticism" - a well planned vegan diet is healthy at all stages of development.
First release of mmv for over 30 years
I am the new maintainer of the venerable-yet-still-modestly-popular batch renaming utility, mmv (Debian popcon has 1.5k installs). I was astonished to find that other than a couple of bug fixes and a handful of portability patches by the Debian maintainers over the years, the code had remained pretty much untouched since 1990—quite an achievement by its original author, Vladimir Lanin, and his testers and helpers.

I picked up mmv because, having used it for years myself, I noticed that it deliberately refused to rename directories. There seemed to be no technical reason it could not do this, so I lifted the restriction.

I then took the opportunity to unifdef the code, ANSIfy it, add a modern command-line parser with gengetopt, use autotools and gnulib to make it more portable (including to Windows for the first time—the original version ran on DOS!), and remove custom code (including a memory allocator!) that is unnecessary on modern systems.

I also removed the fragile support for interactive renaming, which didn't cope with various odd filenames; this functionality is already well-served by renameutils, and a more recent program also called mmv.

The result is 60% the length of the original, most of the savings being from removing the DOS port. With a bit of luck, good for another 30 years!
I fully agree with you. I started studying linguistics since I come from a math background and Chomskian promise of mathematical linguistics was something I found very enticing. I quickly became disillusioned. Most of the Chomsky-inspired research boils down to fitting carefully selected data into an artificial formal machine and manipulating the said machine into accepting more and more data, until the machinery ends up being turing complete therefore rendering any result trivial. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of very smart people working in that particular field and they have produced some very interesting results and observations, but IMO the real academic value of these models if very limited. It's all about solving intellectual puzzles in a theoretical void. But does it advance our understanding of human brain, learnability or language change? After being a linguist for over 15 years, I'd say "not really".

And yes, as you say, Chomsian followers are a highly guarded, closed camp. There is a strong tradition of giving maximal support to acolyte who wants to work in this area while casting out the "heretics".
What changed since 230 was enacted is simple from my pov ... There are few platforms.

Without those few enormous platforms shaping the public discourse, 230 is largely good and unproblematic.

Which is why I’d love to have more platforms, while retaining 230.

But I also need to acknowledge that’s not where we are heading to.
Thailand’s 50m people with 3,000km of mostly unpoliced border, they made it work. Vietnam made it work. Locking borders early and moving to quarantined entry apparently works, and when some knobs walk over the border with Covid, as has happened with both countries, you can unleash an almighty track-and-trace and isolated lockdowns because the health system isn’t already on its knees.
It would be foolish for a business to enter into BTC-denominated contracts because that would expose them to a huge foreign exchange risk in return for nothing.
For my fellow autists: normal = 2019.
There is a very obvious lack of respect for all other possible effects in the reddit post. A good reason for sales to drop 40% would be book sellers not featuring it anymore as "this years new and hot" a year after release. Another one might be the saturation of the market that is the authors larger social circle. Not mentioning such effects at all and just going "sales drop - must be pirates" sounds unreasonable and more like scapegoating. Honestly the whole post seems to me more like a desperate attempt at advertisement instead of any reasonable foundation for discussion.
Do you always need to rebuild everything? In FreeBSD, for example, you can do eg “cd bin/ls && make all install”; takes seconds.
This is definitely not my experience as measured with a continuous blood glucose monitor. I repeatedly and reliably got a much lower excursion from a steak than from pasta. There is a lot of idiosyncrasy in these responses but my pattern is the usual. This chart is typical:

https://i0.wp.com/www.gestationaldiabetes.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Is that Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky ?
How Books Are Handmade at the Last Printing Press of Its Kind in the US
91.5cm x 61cm: https://www.ukposters.co.uk/posters/beatles-abbey-road-v6
2m is pittance for professional astronomy. Hubble may have a 2.4m mirror, but remember that is a 1980s era telescope.

Current and future telescopes target 10-30m mirrors, purely for light capture reasons. We’d need to put something that big in space for it to be worthwhile.
Sometimes downvotes are used for disagreement instead of a signal that a comment thread is off-topic or boring. FWIW asking why you are downvoted also makes for boring reading so is also discouraged. I'm somewhat doing the same to explain this but I'd rather you know for future discourse.

As far as why they disagree, I'd suspect it is something more or less in the same ballpark as the below.

Excerpt from https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

> If you said "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher"

> I regret to inform you that you are wrong. I know that you've likely heard this from someone else -- perhaps even someone respected -- but it's just not true. The law says no such thing. Again, I encourage you to read it. The law does distinguish between "interactive computer services" and "information content providers," but that is not, as some imply, a fancy legalistic ways of saying "platform" or "publisher." There is no "certification" or "decision" that a website needs to make to get 230 protections. It protects all websites and all users of websites when there is content posted on the sites by someone else.

> To be a bit more explicit: at no point in any court case regarding Section 230 is there a need to determine whether or not a particular website is a "platform" or a "publisher." What matters is solely the content in question. If that content is created by someone else, the website hosting it cannot be sued over it.
What is a “deplorable”? If you’re using it in the same context as Hillary, that’s not really helping your argument because it’s an ill-defined slur used to describe millions of people.
> I guess the privacy invasion comes in via linking to Fb and graphs of who's-messaging-whom.

In the interview he explicitly says that they do not share phone book data with Facebook.
You might want to crop in to that photo.
Different strokes and all but I will never return to an office to work there while at the same time me and my wife have been a complete and embarrassing failure doing a workout routine at home so we just accepted our flaws and started going to the gym regularly.

For some people like the two us, having a dedicated recreational space is motivating you to do the recreational activity. Trying to do it at home invokes thoughts like "What's the point? I'll inhale so much dust and smog, what's the healthy aspect of that?".

So for us it boiled down to a psychological lock which seems mostly bound to proper air and temperature conditioning at the gym.
What sort of suits do you wish could proceed?

When you say due process regarding being banned what would that look like? Why should anyone have to justify to you why you can't use someone else's website?

Under what terms and situations would they have to reinstate you? Why?