skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not related. I'm trying to get notified when my noodle water has started boiling, but even with an humidity sensor in the kitchen it's pretty hard to tell when it's about to boil, so that the heat can be lowered before it splashes around. And the FFT in the kitchen is somewhat broken so I can't use it, there may be a lot of noise in the mains or something like that. In any case I've planned to replace the setup in the kitchen months ago, but never moved on to doing it.
Font Awesome Icon (Free Icons) to PNG generator : https://fa2png.app

One page of HTML and some glue code for SVG library.
async/await is just a syntax sugar, most languages didn't have it until very recently when it became a trend or something. In OCAML it's just like any other monad you use the bind operator instead. No need for special keywords.
On every post dedicated to this topic, I feel obligated to mention these 3 links:

https://htmx.org/

https://unpoly.com/

https://hotwired.dev/

These are the tools that promote the idea of keeping app state on server and client/server talking HTML, not JSON. If you're not yet familiar with the concept, you'll love reading Essays here: https://htmx.org/talk/ (scroll down and look to the right side).
An interesting tidbit.

The image of Wuhan on the map in the article shows WIV down the road across the river from the wet market.

Something that gets zero screen time is the Chinese CDC is literary across the road from the wet market. They have since moved / unlisted that address.

This does not mean a lab leak, but its a weird thing to be left out of the conversion.
What about temperatures up to 49 degrees Celsius, like the heatwave in India back in 2019? If the air is moist, it can become literally impossible for even healthy humans to survive without some external way of cooling off.
I think you are being a tad too generous here. That wasn't the explicit messaging. Public health officials and experts did in fact lie and palter in that case. Part of the messaging was explicitly "masks are not effective in preventing general public from catching COIVD" [1] You could reasonably see it as a "noble lie", however.

The whole thing is also complicated by the fact that science on surgical masks etc. wasn't (and isn't) that clear. During the 2009 H1N1 flu, CDC also recommended against face masks for ordinary people. See this SSC article for more on that. [2]

[1] e.g. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-don...

[2]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t... (Scott, like you, is also sometimes a bit too generous :-))
Hello Guys, is a privilege to be here. kindly contribute to my School Management System I setup on Django framework. I will appreciate. Thanks.
https://github.com/BasilNzewure/schoolmanager
Well yes and no. I can see this working in theory, but in reality semantic means standardised as much as it means accessible.

In a world where my blogpost objet has the same information as your blogpost object, this works without a problem.

In a world where I actually want to up my database to you, we could agree on a format.

Both of these cases, from where i stand, seem very unlikely and we have not even talked about the pople that would clone your data 1 to 1 just to host an ad filled alternative of your site in real time.
> There's just no good answer to perfect trust-no-one private internet access.

What about Tor?
Don't worry, it's only UDP forwarding! /s
200% behind you! My point was not to shoot at bootcamps. (Though currently in Europe my friends working in bootcamps have never seen such a fast hire rate).

Bootcamps follow what the market requires. My main point was more about the market we have created for ourselves :).
Of course. But the fact that the norm is that one doesn't have to worry about these things still is a huge improvement.
You don't have to hunt for rare examples like this, most multiplayer FPS games use client-side hit detection nowadays.
> Other learning paradigms are about minimization; reinforcement learning is about maximization.

I don't see why this is important.
> people create their threat models and verify they can trust those they have to trust

What kind of people?

How do you verify you can trust some company?
What to Eat and When to Eat for Longevity – Lifespan, David Sinclair EP2
which is true until one or more of their owners decide to sell their shares.
No, their code adjusts the GOGC value. The code fragment, as I understand, just shows how to essentially get a notification every time the GC runs.
> It's not just for spying on your cat.

Can we stop downplaying privacy issues please?
> Can we agree that JSX is not a valid JS?

Neither is rescript - so why not make jsx a first class citizen?
>I don't care how the window looks, it's a tool

But don't you? Your entire post is complaining about how it "looks" :^)
> I disagree... All the infrastructure scales with the population supported. It doesn't matter if it's 2000 people living in a huge 500-flat skyscraper or 2000 people living in 10 streets 50 houses long.

It does. Because a Skyscraper needs infrastructure which flat houses do not (Special water pumps, specially trained firefighters, support for rapid evacuation). Having a lot of people in one tall building creates challenges that a small town is not ready for.
With the game you're building, are the character portraits generated once and that's it, or do you plan on making them dynamic or frequently updated?

I've seen a number of mobile games that just get flooded with characters; this tool looks like it could be used to automate that process. It could be combined with AI-generated character profiles as well, creating an 'infinite' character roster in video games.
My wife is doing a CS master's, after having done another master's during the lockdown. I'm looking over her shoulder, as I did with my brother a few years ago. It's been interesting to see how she thinks about algorithms and coding from a fresh start.

As a longtime coder I've found it interesting to dive back into some basic algorithms. Something about how it is taught to students makes it harder than just learning it as an already experienced dev. I find I can gloss over a lot of the stuff, but there are still details that I don't understand.

One thing that helps a lot is modern learning resources, basically websites and videos about the same topics, done by someone else. It's quite different from when I was in uni and you were stuck with the people you had around you and the same old books. Now if I don't quite understand insertion sort, there's a variety of explanations.

For those interested there's a number of UK universities that offer a remote master's. Takes a year full time and two part time, and you can often pay by the module. You might also be able to use the virus situation to get a "non-remote" master's remotely, which my wife managed to do last year.
Literally their website.
> TypeScript's type system is over-complex since it tries to be a superset of JS.

This is exactly why it got so popular, and TypeScript support in the JS ecosystem is so good. It's easy to just strip the TS metadata and you're left with working JS. This is why projects like esbuild managed to ship TS support so quickly (without type-checking).
Good luck doing that with a new language.

I for one am "all in" on TypeScript, with all its shortcomings it's just the best of both worlds, and so easy to get on board.
Out of context, you won't necessarily be able to glean meaning from either an arbitrary SQLite database or arbitrary RDF tuples. Both are equally meaningful or meaningless depending on the observer...at the end of the day, they are just structured data with labels that (hopefully) the observer understands. One doesn't have inherently more semantic meaning than the other.
The Political Polarization of U.S. Firms
For people wondering how the hell a user can audit the server is diskless or whatever, the goal appears to be using TPM to provide remote attestation for all code in the boot path. See https://www.system-transparency.org/.
If you want to compare languages on features, lack of complexity is also a feature.
Well yes the information was there, I remember clearly that back then, we had the "perfect" measurement (for such an early study that is): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_Diamond_P...

14 people out of 2666 died, hence 0.5% death rate (because I don't agree with the estimate that only 700 individuals got it, I saw no good reason not to consider everyone got it, but even without that, it'd give low 2%)

A retrospective on who said what on the matter of death rates would be extremely interesting to pick the ""good"" medias and the ""bad"" ones
Sure, have look at my reply above and as a general note perhaps here:

https://www.zfh.de/

https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/mi/studium/index.shtml

Sorry, both websites apparently just in German.
IOS15: WebRTC MediaStreamTack audio volume too low
I have a few wallets with alleged RFID blocking. For those its mainly to stop arse grabbing attacks where card info (or security badge info) could be cloned with a little badge reader held in someone's palm.
This may be unpopular, but I'm actually fine with polititians manipulating the truth in that scenario (_if_ we accept as a starting point that the shortage of masks was already unavoidable, and the best option for public health was to convince the public to minimise purchases). Part of the job of politicians is to act as a rudder for the general public, and if tragedy of the commons applies to a scenario, a politician doing what they can to counteract that effect, even by deceipt, isn't fundamentally wrong (if it's for a genuinely good cause and the situation didn't have a less distasteful solution). If polititians need to tell us that there is no fuel shortage to avoid a rush that worsens the fuel shortage, so be it. It is (and _should_ be) assumed that polititians are manipulating the truth, the only question is whether they're doing it at a level and for a cause that are acceptable.

I am _much_ less comfortable by similar behaviour in scientists. Science is built on trust and a pursuit of truth, lying is anathema. This is true both within scientific debate, and from the outside, when scientists share their perspective it should be a counter balance to the more flexible interpretation of truth provided elsewhere.

Tldr: Polititians can and should play politics (politics _is_ mostly white lies, or just lies, depending on your cynicism level). Scientists should not, it hurts the reputation of science as a whole.
I hear what you're saying, but at the same time, there's a ton of mass-produced, low-creativity art out there, where the objective is not to express oneself but to churn out products with the intent to make money. This is not just in artwork, but in other design based things like e.g. website designs as well.
Wouldn't the ownership of the server be easy to trace back to you?

PIA has been promising a fully audited and verifiable infrastructure in the future:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/dont-trust-verify...
> it still is a templating language at the very core, yet it is apparently not good enough.

Standalone PHP templating is torture.
Take a look at Linked Data Fragments https://linkeddatafragments.org/
Both the US and the Chinese governments downplayed and lied about the severity of the virus. For months.
As an Asian American, this baffles me a little bit. We knew the virus was airborne since January 2020. It was all over Chinese/Taiwanese/SEA news outlets. I live in New England, Asians here started wearing masks months before others. I remember purposely choosing to go to Asian Supermarkets instead of Stop & Shop for safety back then.
Not because Wuhan is a large, central city?
I would be absolutely fine if it just stayed the same. I can deal with a crappy UI, what I don't want is to have to constantly search for things in that UI.
Ha! this is precisely the thing that I love about Julia! Only thing missing is to have the empty string as the product operator. I want to write "y = ax + b" and that it computes the product of "a" with "x".
Simple solution:

It should be made illegal in all developed countries to export garbage. A country that produces 10,000,000 t/year needs to deal with 10,000,000 t/year, instead of (literally) dumping some of it on some less fortunate country and make it their problem.
Yeah I also noticed Purescript was missing from your comparisons list. It's the only one of these that I've looked at much, and it seemed like the best of them, though I wasn't aware of the issue with ES6 modules. I don't use JS at all for now, so I haven't been up to date about anything in it.
.... the original SQLite-over-HTTP-ranges was a clever hack to host database-like data on github.

But I don't think it should be actually used for anything serious.

And I don't really get the connection with "semantic web", which was essentially idealistic vaporware of the 2000s.
I guess so, hence qualifying my point as a personal anecdote.

In this case since they rely on apps, content search would be possible. You just store everything on the user's device.
my grocer down the road is a nice fella and has tasty vegetables from sustainable sources, but he might get bought up by a big supermarket chain, so I'm not going to buy from him
I think because Maneesh Agrawala, who created LineDrive, was at Microsoft after completing his PhD thesis (which was basically LineDrive). He's done huge amounts of really interesting work -- one of my absolute favourite CS researchers. He's worked on cropping videos using gaze tracking, making architectural models from photographs, usability analysis and design systems for isometric assembly instructions, text editing of talking head videos, and more. Most things he does have an element of magic to them.

Current homepage: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh/
The Legacy of NFTs
Hm, the way I read the article was – there are much more "simple" web apps on the Web than "complex". But, the "simple" web apps are made using the same complex technologies that are only needed by a few complex web apps.
I don’t think you can seriously argue in good faith that Trump ‘gave people the truth’, he said whatever came to his mind. Sometimes it was pure fantasy, mostly it was deflection.

Perhaps sometimes it was truth, but only in the same way a broken clock is correct twice a day.
"Luca App: CCC calls for an immediate moratorium
2021-04-13 21:04:42, linus"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26832525
This is incorrect. Conflict was over multiprocess architecture, where Google added it as a WebKit port and Apple did a proper redesign and produced WebKit2. WebKit is still extremely portable and non-Apple platforms are first class.
> no human is creating new Chess theory, discovering new openings, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongcloud_Attack
There is some previous work dating back at least to 2015. They were detecting people and gestures using current WiFi technologies.

http://rfcapture.csail.mit.edu/
I'm pretty much a leftist but not supportive of either party.... but as I see the divides between liberals and conservatives (of which I'm neither) ... are (according to some news outlets) already starting a 'cold' civil war.

If there really is a cold civil war, seems this might be to me a way for someone to at least gain the upperhand and put the military force behind one side or another...

as fractured as D.C. is...and w/ elections coming up, and 2024 up in the air... I can't even tell which side would be in charge of the nation + military.

I can see civil wars though coming from many angles:

The current divide/conquer tactics creating polarization (check), and then it's just us vs them...(lib/cons)...

Or it could be the labor class vs the elites. Because times are going to get rougher. We've got depression/stress rampant. Homelessness is rising. Wages are stagnant or were, maybe rising now because of actual labor rising up a bit... but still rent/housing is skyrocketing to the point they need to rise up in the first place...

Unfortunately most people don't have any class consciousness, so it'll probably be the first one... I wish it were the second one...or the fabled "poor eating the rich scenario" ... but might be 20 more years till we get there..

3rd option is governors and congress maybe decide to do a do-over and hold a constitutional congress and maybe re-organize more loosely like the EU as smaller city states. This would be a dream to me but hopefully we could organize into smaller states maybe where there's like 100 or even 500 autonomous cities that self-govern and maybe have some 10 year meeting of all governors to re-ratify the constitution, and add any changes, etc.

A small fed govt would still exist for foreign affairs, and interstate agency management. Military would be a coalition force from all the city-states. People who live in really rural places might even live completely outside of a 'country' so to speak, if it's unincorporated, but would still have the rights as if they were in one.. like access to fire department and emergency services etc...

to get the best scenarios...requires level heads and cooperation from decent politicians who have our best interests at heart.... so, we're f*ked.
Thanks for clarifying. That is exactly what I meant.
>> If you need to hide all of your traffic from other users in your local network, you can accomplish that in a trust-no-one fashion by running your own VPN endpoint on a server you control which provides better privacy guarantees compared to a centralised commercial VPN whose business model will eventually involve selling your data (once user growth stops but shareholders demand continued revenue growth).

the privacy protection for most people using VPNs is required against their ISP and other actors looking to analyse their traffic, not users on the local network. a commercial VPN will be better for privacy due to the crowding effects, ie. large number of users sharing the same IP and protects against correlation attacks - it's much easier to trace the activities on your own VPN endpoint back to you. of course you need to trust the operators, which is as different question.
That's a laughably generous take.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Dona...
I have seen this "exception to the exception" before.

> When "u" makes the same sound as the "y" in "you," or "o" makes the same sound as "w" in "won," then a is used. The word-initial "y" sound ("unicorn") is a glide [j] phonetically, which has consonantal properties; consequently, it is treated as a consonant, requiring "a."

- a union
- a united front
- a unicorn

Source: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/articles_...
TorrentNet – Peer-to-peer sites using BitTorrent and SQLite
Yes, it didn't take long before Smarty came along. This is pretty dating considering PHP was envisaged as a template language.
What happens when you have "a", "x" and "ax" as variables in scope?
> A breathtaking amount of storage: 64K of 32 bit words!

So here total memory is 64K and each Kilo byte is a 32 bit word?
I've been using ReScript for a few months now. So far I mostly like it, but it takes some time to get used to it. The error messages can be confusing though so I try not to depend too much on type inference. The other downside is that some bindings for some of the web apis seem to be missing (like for the types in the Dom module).

Btw, for Material UI there are already bindings [1]

[1] https://github.com/cca-io/rescript-material-ui
Let's not forget the media's role in selectively amplifying and smearing scientists.

Or government's role setting the agenda (and bungling the response horrifically while putting all the blame on political opposition and the unvaccinated).

Or FB and Twitter's role in deleting millions of posts re the mere possibility of a lab leak.

Or various health organization's roles watching all this and saying nothing.

... Looking at all this - is it time to reexamine some other major incidents in the last 20.75 years?
Indeed, and since you already called it the norm, we need to ensure that everybody gets to live that way.
The problem with lying isn't that your lie won't work, it will work to some extent. Heck it can even do good! I'm sure in this case it did turn down the temperature momentarily, which may or may not have been good, depending on who you ask.

But no, the real problem is that lying spends trust very quickly, trust that you need later, for instance when there is a vaccine on the horizon. Most humans have a baked in BS detector, that stops taking repeat liars seriously. This is a good thing.
>Wouldn't the ownership of the server be easy to trace back to you?

yes. Which is why I said that this helps to shield your traffic from other people in your current local network (think: coffee-shop) which is one use-case of a VPN.

If you need to protect your traffic from anybody but your peer (another potential use-case of a VPN if this were possible) and you even want to hide the fact that you were talking to that peer, then you're out of luck. Period.
> I'm guessing your referring to the "one of a kind" part of NFTs, which made me wonder, how would they validate that the created Waifu hasn't been created before?

Oh, not even that, since while some data ends up on the blockchain, i find the whole ownership concept a bit nebulous at best, much like how people mock the whole "oh, just right click the image to save it" thing.

What i was actually referring to was more along the lines of the collector economy idea itself - people willing to exchange their monetary resources for something that they enjoy. Having it be out of a sense of endearment and aesthetic enjoyment (waifus and husbandos) rather than the desire to flip those things (possibly a number of other NFTs or collectibles) seems to be less morally questionable to me!

While i'm not really familiar with the whole NFT space, to me it seems that projects like CryptoKitties are more agreeable and thus viable in this space, as would AI generated images of cute characters! Actually, that seems like a really good fit to me, regardless of how the actual "uniqueness" or "ownership" aspect would play out.
This reminds me of programming through the decades: going from binary/punch cards to assembly to high level languages to even higher level languages (and libraries and frameworks): at each jump, programmers can do the same thing as before with less effort and time. Did this mean less demand for programmers?

Nope! Actually the opposite: per-programmer productivity rising meant more demand for programmers, because programmers became more useful, and it turns out “manipulate information” is a skill with nearly endless uses.
I'm jealous, lol
Is ReScript the same as ReasonML, and is it gaining real traction this time?

A couple of years ago I looked into Reason and really liked it, but the toolchain wasn't going anywhere and it didn't see a lot of adaption back then.
I would suggest using parallel builds and dropping your Pentium 4 for a modern multi core system.
Because you asked I got around to publishing it on Github: https://github.com/HASMAC-AS/LightStore
Reducing your website to something that can essentially be served straight out of s3 buckets + lambda functions for the few interactive elements your site has (e.g. newsletter subscription, contact form) will reduce your hosting bill and attack surface, but increase operational complexity.

The key thing behind the "headless CMS" fashion is that most people severely overestimate the amount of cost reduction and underestimate the impact of something breaking down in the backend side as well as the engineering cost.
But lack of proper abstractibility, expressivity is not a “feature”.