skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they should ask the people who live there?
Good for anononimity, may be bot so good at influenza prevention: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
Very useful list, and well organized. I’ll be sharing this with family, friends, and coworkers. The payment section seems a bit thin, since it offers up only cash (as in paper money) and Monero as options. Are there no centralized providers that respect privacy by simply operating in certain countries?

It would also be interesting to have this entire list ranked or tagged for resistance to censorship or deplatforming.
So were the epidemiologists wrong about herd immunity and the USA has hit herd immunity at 50% vaccinated (plus natural infections, some of whom also got vaccinated)? I do not think we know what is going on right now, it is very strange that infections are receding in the USA. It is not due to weather, the USA South had spread last Summer while the NorthEast receded. We have been experiencing waves but it is not entirely clear what is causing them. 50% vaccinated is not enough to stop the spread so something else is. My theory is that there is much more asymptomatic spread than we know of and the waves are due to variants. Each new variant spreads and burns itself out till the next takes over. People who were naturally infected instead of vaccinated may be more susceptible to variants; what happened in the Saychelles may support that idea:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/covid-19-vac...

If that is not the cause of the waves, were the epidemiologists just wrong about herd immunity and we are already there? If variants are the cause of waves we could see another wave in the USA in several months as vaccinations taper off. I have not seen a good explanation for the waves yet. Some say people's behavior is the reason, but that can not explain what is currently happening in the USA.
Seed means semen.
> Invidious
And it skips ads, and if you are playing music on your mobile devices it allows you to turn off the screen and still play music. Invidious and Youtube are both a very good side by side comparison on what a video sharing site ought to be if it s build for user, vs build to extract information from user.
I’m somewhat amazed with how fast the reputation and trust of Freenode has been ruined.
Missed a big opportunity to go with godash.
There was a thought expressed in one of the original drafts that went along the lines of "the only people worrying about generics will be library authors", which I think will and should be true. The structure and architecture of existing codebases won't change, but the removal of casting to and from interface{} when using libraries will be a welcome change.
> 1984 could happen in 2024

Then again, it has already happened in the 2000s.
No there is clearly not enough detail to assess the story. Apart from the question if it is justified to name the Arxiv paper (I believe pointing out scientific dishonesty publicly is very important), he could have named the field and journal without revealing anything.

I clearly pointed out some gaps in the story that everyone vaguely familiar with scientific publishing would find, that's why I'm asking for clarification.
You must be joking.

We've gone down that route before or is your memory fuzzy? When every single god damned device needed it's own special overengineered crap to charge?

But then again you might be old and rich enough to not care about it.
Water goes through the water cycle. Even if it's absorbed by the ground, it eventually leads to collection, evaporation, and precipitation again.

If most of the water collected in underground pools, then eventually we'd have no oceans.
> Like, if I want to parse command-line arguments.

What command-line parsing libraries have “a bunch of unnecessary type parameters”?

Only library I can think of which even has them would be structopt, and that’s not unnecessary, the entire point of the library is to deserialise to a structured type.

And of course rust was designed from the ground up to leverage generics, e.g. by design it does not have reflection / RTTI, interactions with variable or foreign types are thus generics based (often, sometimes trait objects will do though they have their own tradeoffs), or it doesn’t have overloading so while not handing all overloading use cases by a long shot it uses conversion traits (aka generics) for “convenience” overloads e.g. foo(string) and foo(path) become foo<T>(_: T) where T: AsRef<Path>.
I've been waiting to do things like that in Go for a long time. It can be done efficiently just like the Java Stream interface.
It is nowhere near as cross-platform as pkgsrc - it only really supports macOS and Linux.
Cloud Spanner trims entry cost by 90%
The main reason being that you don't want to be working with both hands, since then current can travel in one and out the other, directly across your chest.
I've been exploring a lot of these tools recently and it seems like there are two ideologies. Hugo, and many others in the jamstack/SSG space, are basically full-fledged content management systems. These come from a long line of tools all meant to basically replace Wordpress in a content-focused workflow. This means they support a lot of bells and whistles with document schema (categories, tags, site maps, etc. etc.) and taxonomies. There are even workflows like draft posts, setting future publish dates, etc. (again very Wordpress inspired). You could build a recipe collection site just as easily as a technical documentation site with hugo for example.

On the other end of the spectrum you have tools like MkDocs (or mdbook, docsify, docusaurus, etc.) which are more focused on technical docs in markdown format. These tools put much less emphasis on schema, layout, taxonomy and really try to go from a pile of simple markdown files to a rendered site with as little friction as possible. You typically just lay out files in the filesystem, make simple markdown links between files, and the tool takes care of all the details of building a doc site like layout, rendering, linking, table of contents, and even search.

The big tradeoff between them is complexity. There's a _lot_ to learn to fully use something like hugo. You can spend days going through all of its features and building complex asset processing pipelines, themes, taxonomies, workflows, etc. But this is also a bit of a downside if you just want to turn some markdown files into simple technical docs--you have to do a bit of organization, add frontmatter, and learn a few hugo quirks. You'll have a fancy base to really go wild and add tons of content... but for technical docs you might not need all that power and complexity.

MkDocs strikes a really nice balance in this regard--you basically just write markdown files with simple links and it will figure out the rest. The Material theme here is _very_ slick and one of the best out of the box themes you'll find for any technical docs generator (or even SSG in general) period. This combo is so good Spotify use it heavily in their developer portal system Backstage: https://backstage.io/blog/2020/09/08/announcing-tech-docs That's a pretty strong endorsement IMHO.
pkg_rolling-replace -u
No way would homeowners lose money long term if San Francisco turns into Hong Kong. They are land owners first and foremost
For more complex technical documentation AsciiDoc would be a better fit than markdown. A simple table with code blocks is not possible with markdown, for example. I think the target audience is pretty much the same as for AsciiDoctor.

https://asciidoctor.org/
Too little, too late, no clue.

Lee will never be trusted again by all the FOSS project irc communities he's fucked over, and is unlikely too be trusted by other FOSS irc communities he hasn't (yet?) fucked over but who are watching on in horror.

WHo would ever bother starting a community relying on infrastructure he has any control of? Who would stay on that infrastructure after this? So far as I can tell, only people who don't actually care about "community" or the people in them. The sort of people who'd talk about "representing your brand" on irc.

Freenode is dead. It just hasn't stopped writhing around in it's death throes yet. Brand representatives and their ilk do not bring any value to irc. The people who do create value in an irc channel don't need to put up with this sort of manipulative shit. (And this is why you should build your FOSS chat communities on open protocols and platforms like irc and not locked up in places like Slack or Discord. Lee _thinks_ he has the power/ownership of the communities the way those platform "owner" do, but he totally doesn't. He's trying as hard as he can to introduce friction to communities moving off shitty-freenet, but in reality there is very very little friction. He can try and "trap" newbies who follow old links of discussions directing them to freenet, but there will be nothing of value in those channels for newbies once the community that used to be there is gone.
The "system doesn't work with negative datum" bug allegedly hit F-16 flight control software, resulting in a plane that would flip upside down on crossing the equator.
Am I the only one who feels like it’s a bit late for high powered USB-C when Apple’s M1 is putting the squeeze on other manufacturers by showing how low power and high performance can go together?

I just got a screen that delivers just 40W over USB-C that keeps my M1 MBP fully charged and it’s been a revelation. Suddenly the fact that this machine’s charger is unique in a house full of other MacBooks is irrelevant.
Such a thing exists - https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
Not in full-range. Narrow-range "tv" is [16,235] for Y and [16,240] (128 +/- 112) for Cb and Cr. Full-range is [0,255] and [1,255] (128 +/- 127) respectively.

The spec isn't that bad to read, though it's not loading for some reason right this moment: http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT.709-6-201506-I/en
Right. The shadowy cabal of sinister operatives investing time and effort manipulating the extremely consequential decision of what chat technology a GPL tool substitutes for a staffed helpdesk just to tinkle in your cornflakes. Totally a plausible and reassuring take on things, that one. If there’s one thing we know with certainty about FOSS development, it’s that it takes place in a late-career le Carré novel and carries roughly the same stakes and supporting cast.

Great read, Kojak. Couldn’t be that you terrify people and projects who are accustomed to an insignificant amount of churn in the way of things. Nope, it’s the GPLigans conspiring against you because everyone in free software apparently has nothing better to do than obstructing whatever glorious product hell it is you’re cooking for Freenode.

Do you really have nobody in your life to call you on this shit?
Where and when?
It's not a claim [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27299538
This is a bit all over article.

Of course Apple needs to follow Chinese law to operate in China. Similarly it has to follow Indian law in India, and EU law in EU.

Just as TikTok follows US law in the US.

None of these companies can solve human rights issues in the countries they operate. Broadly speaking human rights issues betters slowly over time as a country opens to the world through trade and other forms of engagement.
Why companies don't treat sales as a science
A related article on the challenges of decommissioning coastal towns:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/this-is-...
Totally agree race is a social construct.

There seem to be open questions which I wouldn't expect if there was strong consensus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...

There are a lot of “problems” with that study and my intention is not to imply anything by linking it. My point is simply that I don’t think it’s honest to say scientists everywhere agree case closed.

I think a more accurate snapshot of the state of the art is: “the subject is incredibly difficult to study at all because we frankly don't really have a clue how the brain works. It seems there is a blend of both biological and social factors that contribute to a person’s perceived intellectual capacity. Whether any of those (genetic or social) factors are specific to a given race is essentially impossible to discern”.
A-lign increases EMEA presence with 40 new jobs
For example: Ubuntu has, for almost 10 years, had a whole "IRC council" to manage their IRC presence. They voted to leave Freenode. It was apparently unanimous.
HN is so funny - here is a thread where I tried to articulate how incredibly broken the academic system is, and tons of HN academics claimed it was perfect and downvoted me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27242576

I guess the system is inherently broken after all?
And what's more, the "proof" that he's pointing to is a commit from someone who hasn't contributed to said linked project since June 12th, 2015 (not counting the merging of pull requests).

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that he has no meaningful response, so he instead diverts attention elsewhere.
One reason to try it might be that pkgsrc mostly solves the problems Nix solves with conflicts in a much simpler way, by allowing multiple co-existing branches installed to different prefixes.
An utterly crushing day for Big Oil
I dont understand the list of supported features. In my opinion currying and variadic functions are supported in go to some degree.

Variadic functions even links to the go example, but classifies them as unsupported in go.
Another comment in this thread prompted me to research a bit. While building expensive housing is probably fine, it seems that the cities with the most success have adopted a housing first[0][1][2] policy. Building cheap housing (and housing homeless there) is a major part of what is seen by many as the most effective solution.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-06/why-is-ho...
[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-homelessness-housing/...
[2]https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46891392
Using USB-C for charging is not really the highest bar to clear. High res video would be, for example.
Yes, I actually had a graph theory session with 6 year olds ! We talked about graphs, graph coloring, eulerian paths, etc all with pencils and paper. It was a 'talk about your job to schoolchildren' day, and I thought they might relate to graphs.

It was so successful that all kindergarten teachers in the same school started doing it as well.

The unexpected part was the other parents, who looked at the poster the children had made about chromatic numbers complete with examples : quite sadly, they were a lot more scared than their children!
Ex-Royal Marine becomes celebrity in China for fitness app
I mean there are several journals who publish based only on "technical soundness", Nature's Scientific Reports is probably the most well known one. I don't think it helps, in fact IMO it's detrimental because journals would be even more flooded with publications.
Also in the article they talk about the conference getting 10,000 submissions, that quickly becomes unmanageable as a conference to accept.
You make a good point about mono culture forestry and also forestry of the same age. That is bound to cause a lot of problems.

However, agro forestry where multiple types of fruit trees etc are grown and which can be accessed by the community is a viable idea because the communities living around these forests benefit from the produce available from these forests and it also leads to a thriving ecosystem for animals and birds as well.
> He ended up graduating two years later than planned.

This is so unfair, some cheaters from China got free research papers to their name and the legit author had to waste two years of their life
> I am a bit too tired to engage with this kind of outright insanity. If you have a problem with what "people state", but not specifically with what I state or what has been stated in this conversation, then go have arguments with "people".

Touchy! I am claiming the people who want always explicit casts have not actually used a system where they're all explicit much (because like in Java, some are still implicit) and would find it annoying if they did.

That could result in performance compromises, like using int arrays everywhere instead of smaller types. Which is fine for scalar values, but for arrays it wastes memory.

> Java is a language, it's the programs that you write with it that are correct or incorrect.

Surely this language feature is intended to promote correctness. What else are errors for?

> Incorrect, it is an explicit conversion.

But `a = (uint16_t)b` and `a = fromInteger b` aren't the same thing - in one you have to name the destination type and in the other you don't. One is more explicit than the other. Is one of them bad?

> "Ordinary Haskell code is not formally verified" is not news.

It is news to people who don't do numeric programming. "If it compiles it probably works" / "if it compiles it's probably correct" is a real thing said about the language said on this forum.

C clearly has issues (the implicit unsigned short->int promotion is totally wrong) but I think trapping on overflows at runtime would be a much better improvement than adding compile errors.
If the lack of abstraction is a requirement, why use a language like Go at all? Shouldn't you be using C for these sort of projects?
Not their fault but old answers really suck. A 2016 answer about Azure is useless. Even a 2016 answer about react.

Also it’s a trope that the select answer isn’t always the best so there is a meta conversation about what is the “really best” answer
Amazing to see people defending telemetry especially in free software. Amazing, and sickening.
Reverse engineered a shock collar's protocol in order to control it via programmable SDR antenna.

Implemented a basic HTTP server that'd dispatch commands with a simple access control and permission system, messed up the rate limiting, big mistake.

PS: I don't have a dog.
> do not manually create my mixtures because I do not want to know which version I am on,

Double blind testing, in the "now unable to see in both eyes" sense?
Except that libc you are using, most likely was implemented in C++ with extern "C", unless using a pre-historic C compiler.
It would be an interesting problem to see / solve where in this map would a drop travel the most. By just clicking, I got one that travels from Cavour, South Dakota to Gulf of Mexico over a 3523 Kms journey. I am sure there must be something that is longer!

Edit - some of the routes stop at border of Canada - is this due to lack of dataset?
There was a time that keyboard had their arrows keys on the left side. I forgot the source.
Cancel Mob Cancels Freenode
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> No way would homeowners lose money long term if San Francisco turns into Hong Kong

In the short term they would. And in the long term, they would gain wealth but lose their iron grip on the city. Never underestimate the seductiveness of power. As long as San Francisco’s renters believe density is impossible or will price them out, homeowners (specifically, about half a dozen families) will retain their lock on the city.
Sure. Even free speech extremists seem OK with cordoning off immediate plans to commit violence. But try to find a place where a waitress or bartender will interrupt your conversation to insist on the correct view on the flatness of the earth, whether the moon landing occurred, etc.

Facebook and Twitter consider themselves to be official arbiters of truth, and they are increasingly putting their hands over the mouths of people who espouse "wrong" views.
...that instance is a single person acting in support of freenode, after having not committed anything for years, with a rather lot of folks disagreeing. If anything, it looks like a badly-executed conspiracy in freenode's favor against the wishes of the community.
I'm looking for a privacy focused smart scale. Idealy one where my data don't leave my phone. Any idea whether that exist?
I don’t think many people even use Facebook any more.
Not the parent, but my take on it is that you have only unsigned types in all of those signatures, but C goes and promotes the u8 to a signed quantity before doing the shift.

What I believe most people would expect is that 0xff would get shifted up, and that's it, but instead you end up with that plus a sign extension to fill out the "new" 32 bits at the top of the 64-bit value.
Interesting, isn't it?

Prior to Leenode, freenode was one bedrock thing, like email, some archives, other basic pieces.

I used it a lot, and on occasion still hop on to have a chat, get pointers to info.

Sad to see this happen, but the interesting bit to me is just hoe much depends on humans being good, or at the least mutually considerate and respectful to one another.

The closed platforms damp down on this some. Notable and thought provoking dynamics in play here.

Open protocols matter, but so do the people. Matter more than some, many of us might expect?
Latency should be around 110ms "glass to glass" based on my experience with "WifiBroadcast", which was an earlier (first?) thing to use Wifi in this way. (1) and a few related projects (2).

It's a pretty clever hack, using Wifi without associating, but still using FEC (Forward Error Correction) and mirroring that to allow bi-directional communications for control/telemetry. Also allows RF diversity reception with multiple wifi adapters.

I was experimenting with it for semi-local telepresence robotics for art/experiences.
These projects are amazing in how much cheaper/more approachable/hackable they make all this vs. analog or proprietary digital video transmission.

I'm not sure if OpenHD is directly related to WifiBroadcast/ I haven't had a chance to play with it yet (been meaning to for 6 months+), but it's at least using similar approaches with wifi (mis)use.

There have also been some attempts to use the same approach with esp32 (etc) in a compatible way, though the link eludes me currently.

(1)https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/wifibroadcast-analog-like-tr...

(2) https://github.com/rodizio1/EZ-WifiBroadcast
Your reply does not meaningfully address any of the points of the post it is replying to.

Namely, a link to a HN post about a single commit to a single project does nothing to provide specifics underlying the below claim:

> "While group contacts from the channels did not contact freenode staff directly, we were rather surprised when we received reports of unpleasant elements operating in the background and influencing these projects, namespaces and channels with false information in order to harm freenode’s administration and staff members’ images and paint a false narrative altogether."

It's also missing an accounting of the actual decision made to takeover the communication channels of open source communities without their consent.
Since most developers don't like to write documentation, it is important to make the hurdle to write as low as possible. For me AsciiDoctor is the sweetspot because it is easy to setup, has good tool support (for example VS Code and IntelliJ), supports many text features and is relatively easy to learn (if you would only use the features known from markdown, it is as easy to learn as markdown).
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True but there was safety in numbers. And freedom that you could experience in mass gathering.

In a street protest, on a strike, in a church, discussion club, samizdat. That is why the movement in Poland called itself Solidarity. The police could have easily break a strike in a single factory but were helpless when all factories in a city went on solidarity strike.

Just look at Hong-Kong today..
It can probably create more than cartoons, and even with cartoons there are plenty of very offensive and dangerous terms you could use to create dangerous and offensive cartoons. I mean, I would love to be able to type in anything I want into DALL-E, but the time from release to it sparking some kind of geopolitical incident could probably be measured in hours.