jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The bridge is 168.36m long and (I guess) about 2m wide. If there was 1" deep water all the way along that'd be about 10 tons of loading. But that'd be distributed along the entire length of the bridge, not concentrated at a point in the middle...
I didn't downvote but as someone who uses Python and doesn't know Clojure, phrases like "Macros like apply, ->, ->>, partial, memoize, and even . just make it so much rarer that a developer needs to write a macro" make me glad I don't have to muck about with that stuff.(?)
I have two questions. First, what exactly is Flow-Based Programming? Emphasis on exactly. I know what dataflow is and I know who J. Paul Morrison is and I've even browsed through his book. I still can't figure it out, and the book (at least the parts I looked at) had too many diagrams and not enough code to clarify this most basic of questions. Every discussion on it seems hopelessly hand-wavey. What I want is the diffs between FBP and other computational models. Just the diffs, please! Or is it just dataflow? In that case, which version of dataflow? There have been many.

Second, we know from the history of these things that it's easy to sell managers and journalists on boxes-and-lines visual programming. The pictures look a lot easier to understand than reams of source code do, but that's always because the examples are trivial—invariably some variant of a box with 2 in it, another box with two in it, arrows leading from those to a box with + in it, and then an arrow leading to a box with 4 in it. These always turn out to be a siren song because they don't scale to application complexity. How exactly is FBP different? Emphasis on exactly.
> the Judeo-Christian religions regard sexuality (in particular, female sexuality) as inherently evil or corrupting

I'm not sure where you read this but it's terribly wrong. There's an entire book devoted to the beauty of marital relations (Song of Songs), and Paul explicitly commands married husbands and wives to give themselves to their spouse (that is, sex).

I'm aware of at least one instance where a puritan wife in the 17th century went to the congregation with a complaint that the husband was not having sex with her. The husband was rebuked for it.

Christianity regards sex as intimate and reserved solely for marriage; beautiful within that boundary and wrong outside of it.
I don't usually use Uber —we live in a place where it just doesn't exist— but I've been exposed to it a couple of times this last weekend. It's private hire but worse.

A family member booked. A driver committed. The wait got shorter. Then it got longer. And longer. And then our trip was cancelled without reason. Another was booked. Same gig. We had no opportunity to 1-star those drivers for being dicks. The third arrived but we didn't get the fabled offer of foot massages, nor were we plied with snacks or drinks. It was just a cab ride with the awkward "You've been great passengers, I'll rate you five stars!" exchange at the end. "Err, thanks mate?"

The return trip was pretty similar. It's 1am. Want to go home. One dropped. It's getting really cold now. Second arrives. Again, an entirely standard private hire experience with the added convenience of being asked to rate at the other end.

But this lack of recompense for crappy initial service isn't good. If a real private hire did that, you'd use another company and would never use that one again. You'd tell friends and family not to use it. You'd be able to complain to the council about the company. With Uber, you just huddle up and hope the next is better.

This is by far one of the more benign complaints you hear about (versus deliberately slow routes to push the top end of the range, or surge pricing) but it absolutely undermines the purported convenience factor. Being able to talk to a manned rank in actual contact with their drivers is so much better in practice.
I don't see how the C++ notion of encapsulation is better that Lisp's?

In C++:

* you can access anything anyway just by using friend declaration, that's something similar to accessing Lisp's class slots by package-private names, not real improvement

* you have to recompile everything when private part of class changes... actually a disadvantage
What happened here? Did Vint Cerf become a villain?
I wonder if this could be applied to anti vaccination crowd.
Already happened. OpenNIC had to move the users from .free over to .libre
It's easier to switch to Radeon, and ROCm instead of CUDA.
How can you tell when a closed source application is really secure? Is there a way to be 100% sure or does it always rely on a certain amount of trust in the developers/distributors? Sorry if it seems like a dumb question..
Many Miranda rights are _expressly_ granted by the Constitution. For example, the right to remain silent is clearly delineated in the Fifth Amendment [0], without the need for substantive due process.

To the point you mentioned, from the Sixth Amendement: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." You can argue over how that counsel should be appointed, but I would categorically disagree with the interpretation that it only refers to you hiring your own attorney.

[0] "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"
Here is a better URL that will let you download the paper without signing up for anything:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338397991_Orb2_Sphe...
Thank you very much for taking the time and for the encouraging words. Paid ad campaign is something I am a bit afraid of, having done none of it... maybe i should give it a shot. i tried to get in various incubator programs in the past without success.
What are your 4? favorite languages? (Among those 27 :-))
> How? If that were true, WiFi range extenders would violate TOS as well.

A WiFi extender just repeats the same network with same security, SSID and access password. It doesn't extend connection to third parties.

Similarly, if I have a large property with a large land, I can spread the network to every part of the land with the equipment of my choosing and no one would say anything unless I allow third parties unfettered permanent access to said network.
I've seen a few WebRTC server implementations pop up recently but the only clients I have seen are web browsers. Does anyone know of any WebRTC client implementations apart from the browser? Or am I misunderstanding the WebRTC architecture completely?
the sun rises from the east.
Vaccines are not equally effective in everyone, as they depend on a person's immune response. Obesity and other underlying health conditions can significantly impact immunity.
I have a two part response to this. The first is that the goal of bike infrastructure is not to eliminate the car, but instead to give people the option of riding bikes when suitable. Some tasks (transporting large objects) will always be right for cars. But even getting families to shift to 1 car instead of two or three would be a huge resource saver.

But secondly, I would suggest a paradigm shift in how you think about things. You are probably right that for you, in the environment you live in, a bike is not the right choice. But an urban/suburban environment is not a fixed constant, so the question is why is your environment reliant on cars?

To respond to a few of your examples with this framework in mind.

- If your church and your work were closer, biking might make more sense. Suburban sprawl and zoning laws push things (housing, work, and amenities) apart that could be closer together.

- Your kids sound pretty young, but for when they get older if you lived in a place where it was safe to cycle alone, and their friends were closer to you, they could cycle to friends more easily. Unfortunately, with how things are, I wouldn't blame you for keeping them off the roads, as many U.S. roads are unsafe, especially for young kids.

- Again, it's not relevant until your kids are older, but the majority of Dutch children walk or bike to school, rather than being driven. From what I've seen, even elementary school aged kids will travel to school alone.

Now it could be that you just prefer the countryside, in which case of course bike infrastructure is irrelevant to you. But many people are more motivated only by a desire to avoid big cities in which case building out the "missing middle" between sparsely populated car dependent suburbia/countryside and dense urban centers could be the solution.
Why do you think article 20 doesn't apply here?

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/
Pray tell, what would happen? Saturn famously made their door skins out of plastic. Chevrolet uses fiberglass on the Corvette. Plenty of higher end vehicles use aluminum for the frame, and of course Ford uses aluminum for its light duty truck beds.
Stainless steel is cheaper by weight. Unlike aluminum, it doesn't need paint.
You do realise you're reading hackernews, right? Where the majority of this generation likely grew into the industries using AWS / Heroku / "your other managed server as a service tm"
Yea they have done this for every release. If you put some money down you get delivery early. If you bail you get refunded. I got my model x deposit refunded without any hesitation. I bought my model 3 and was very happy with it.
one thing to note:

for (key in obj) // do

It’s better to use the first method below (when initializing):

obj = Object.create(null)
obj = {}

So you don’t inherit random keys from the chain, unless you intend to. Or use:

Object.keys(obj).forEach(k

Which doesn’t have this issue like the for-in loop version does.
So what makes you say these reports are "unbelievable" except your apparently very limited understanding of their culture?
No thanks. Destroy enterprises, never negotiate with them. If their internal processes are so easily gamed, they're easy prey.
But as long as it passes through your bank account, the tax has already been paid. I could convert all my savings to gold or bitcoin, but the government has already had their slice by the time that happens, which wouldn't be much of a protest at all.

EDIT: To clarify for non-UK residents (I'm not sure how it works in other countries), everything in the UK is fundamentally tied to your bank account. Your wages go directly to your bank. Your bills come directly out of your bank account via payment agreements that are set up with your bank and the 3rd party (see Direct Debit). There's no real way you can be paid in cash and pay your bills in cash.

The essence of fraud is finding loopholes that allow you to move cash outside of the system. Those loopholes are intrinsically not common knowledge, otherwise they'd be closed.
Here you are:

https://www.youtube.com/html5
Given they can't change the government of Turkey, I would think maximizing the speech given to Turks within those constraints _is_ standing up for freedom of speech/expression.

In theory, Facebook and others are subject to the same laws as a local company would be. In my experience (in China) though, what actually happens is the local companies will be much stricter, pre-emptively crushing speech they consider just 'risky' rather than actually illegal. Western companies, whose execs are somewhat insulated from local pressures, tend to do better. But only if they're allowed in the country in the first place, which means they have to commit to a certain minimum level of adherence.
Could be a challenge-response scheme where all cars are sending their challenge at the same time, after the initial signal from the keyfob.
Who is going to know about a default-on user-facing feature in one of the most popular mobile operating systems in the world? Did you really just ask that?
There's a thin line between taking a principled stand and forcefully exporting your values to some other culture. For example, Germany outlaws Holocaust denial. It's not a crime in the US. Should Facebook follow German laws by taking down posts denying the Holocaust? Obviously they should follow local laws, most of us would agree.

Here's the thing - there's only two principled stands here. Either tech giants always follow US law exclusively, forcing it on every country in the world OR they follow local laws as applicable, even if they don't agree with the laws.

If a person says that following Turkish law outlawing the YPG isn't ok but following the German Holocaust law is, that's inconsistent.
Why should any person, elected or otherwise, be permitted to decide what another adult human being is allowed to read?
I read the Atomic Habits book and I can say it helped me organise my work better. Keeping a habit tracker provides a fair indicator of your daily schedule.
> Freedom of speech/expression is a right of every individual on this planet

I'm not aware of any country with unlimited speech. Definitely not US or EU countries. I'm not observing huge pushback from US citizens, business and other countries when Facebook and Twitter tried to silence Trump and some other conservative leaders. There are topics that are forbidden by law to discuss in EU, for example to deny Holocaust. Those are examples of lack of freedom in so-called "free" countries. So obviously freedom of speech is not universal approach and some limitation of that freedom is an accepted norm.
Hey HN, I built this project because last year I did a terrible job of actually taking time off work and needed a way to see just how overdue I was to take a day off.

Because so much is already automatically tracked in my calendar (e.g. the HR system adds calendar events for booked holiday), I just needed a way to query it to get the metrics I wanted.

Originally I used a Go MySQL implementation to evaluate queries but it was a bit buggy and didn’t support all the SQL I wanted. Now I’m using a full SQLite database for each user so you can really do some gnarly queries (recursive CTEs, window functions, the works).

Personally, I’m using QueryCal as a Grafana datasource to power a dashboard that’s displayed on an old Kindle on my desk (using this great project: https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash).
> The other problem was that the CE UI was not adapted for mobile

I had the AT&T flip-phone pictured in the article and it is my favorite phone ever. The CE shell and bundled apps for non-touch devices were extremely well adapted to the constraints. The one thing I remember well is that I could open it up, punch in 666, and besides showing dialing that as a number it would bring up a list of matching contacts to select from. 666 == MOM. I've never held another smartphone which did that.

Microsoft lost because their successful platform was a fantastic phone with so-so data featu res and the iPhone flipped the game around.
> Exchange fees are a great way to charge consumers for spending their own money in 2021, when normal credit cards actually pay people 1-2% to use them

Credit card companies in the US are a special kind of evil. They charge huge fees, force vendors not to pass the fees on to customers, and then pretend to be the consumer's best friend by returning a bit of the fees to them.

They insert themselves between buyer and seller, drive prices up, and their customers think they are saving money.
Do you think the code will fail, the consensus model, or there are no uses cases? If you have concerns about this I would love to hear them.

But if you are only afraid that the price can fall 90%, then who cares? Let it fall, there is too much hype anyway, to the point it has created great division between coiners and no-coiners. For example, the 2001 stock market crash, it cleared out projects based on fluff and the rest continued to build. I would reckon we would see a similar dynamic now, but probably with faster market cycles.
Where is this nest egg coming from?
Great project for kids and cardboard, too.
I wonder if this is here for Android compatibility. A Linux ABI, a JVM, and some magic and you've got the entire Android ecosystem running on Fuchsia.
I concur that Intuit et al. who are participating in the free filing program should make it clearer.
There is no such thing as "business ethics".

The IRS could have made it much more specific as to how these "free" solutions can be presented. They did not. Why not?

Each time the journalist/researcher selected a links, they wereclearly marked with "ad" as advertisement. Why?
Hey Kenrose, At Hookdeck(https://hookdeck.io) We have built a system that deals with most of the questions you raised above. I am willing to chat more about Hookdeck & the problem webhook problem we are solving. At Hookdeck, we love Shopify & even have a platform guide which explores the "new" Shopify webhooks https://hookdeck.io/platforms/shopify-webhooks-features-and-...
This is surprising to hear. I only tried Budgie recently but I found it more responsive and reliable than previous window managers (xfce, mate). This includes workplace switching which I use extensively.
Half speed... so we take half a week to watch it?
If diffusion of responsibility is your criterion for burying something I'd suggest we start with big tech first and then move on to other industries.

It's quite funny how in this very thread the thin-skinned, childish attitude of tech personalities is on full display. The article is fairly balanced and even bland, yet the howling is enormous. As the article itself points out, people like Balaji Srinivasan were treatening to harass reporters involved in this story, but compared to the 'doxxing' of Scott Alexander, this didn't seem to draw a lot of attention. I'm pretty sure most journalists would be delighted if simply publishing their full name was the only thing they'd be threatened with on a daily basis, which wouldn't be much of a threat, because in general they put them right at the top of the article.
The problem is that the WHO appears to have more legitimacy and authority than they do. I have no problem with the WHO existing and doing their job but we have to accept they are bound by international politics. In developed countries we should rely on local medical bodies first.
This is a particularly generic bit of evidence, based on cynicism with a bit of directional truth about incentives. Do you have anything that draws this connection more directly?
My furnace, which is common in mid level units, is two phase. It’s off, low, high. Basically it starts by modulating off and low. Once low is on 24/7 and it needs more heat, it modules low/high. At peak heat it’s just high all the time.

Upside to being in Indiana is our furnaces are made for this. I think I can keep my house at 70 down to like -30F outside. It’s a pretty expensive furnace though, wouldn’t make sense in Texas.
OT, but I don't see how you can say his foreign policy is so robust. His Middle East policy is orders of magnitude less agressive that the Bushes militarily and Clinton's diplomatically.
Interesting! Wonder if it's a quality control issue with the code handling the graphics switching. Afaik, Apple engineers write custom video drivers for every supported hardware device. Wonder if Intel is now contributing more to the graphics driver updates and maintenance.
Re 2) I've done this a few times.

The trick is to ignore the detail of the spec, and understand what they actually want better than they do.

If you get that right, then the actual coding becomes insignificant, and everyone is happy
Interesting. I've been raised a Muslim in a predominantly Muslim country, and I agree with most of what you're saying..

>Education in general strengthens my resolve that my religion is largely ascientific (not non-scientific, but rather outside the realm of applicability for scientific investigation).

Yes. There's a distinction that I've found not many people make. The prefix "a" doesn't seem to be easily grasped, it seems. I know it's semantics, but it changes the meaning.

Immoral and amoral aren't the same. Some people also confuse atheism and agnosticism.

And what you're saying makes sense: Since you can't prove either the existence or lack thereof, it is silly to mock those who believe (what many atheists do) or those who don't (what many theists do).

I won't say I'm a religiously observant person (lifestyle), but I'm not insensible to religion.

I think Prophets lived in a time where it wasn't enough to make a sex-tape to get that kind of following: They had a product people wanted really badly.

What product can brag of being thousands of years old and still affecting billions of peoples after the founder and most original staff are gone.

Furthermore, I'm interested in religions' shared values: If you Venn diagram religions' values, you'll end up with "Being a decent human being".

To my knowledge, no religion preaches killing, stealing, cheating, etc.

Religions I know of actually elevate the value of work (and perfecting what you do), to being clean and taking care of yourself, to such a high place as to be equivalent to prayer (Islam, and also Judaism if I recall correctly).

Again, I find it amusing when supposedly "logical" people scoff at those who are religious as being "illogical": How logical can you be if you're using Hungarian notation.

How "scientific" can someone who claims to be, be, when they assert that God doesn't exist simply because there's no proof (anyone who follows even a mildly scientific method (if one can) knows that the lack of proof of the existence of something isn't a proof of its non existence.. Implication being abused, black swans, etc).

And vice-versa: You can't accuse someone of being illogical if they don't "believe" in something they can't prove. If it were proved (either exists or not), it wouln't be called "believe", but "know".

I also think that if you plot intelligence versus theism, you get a Gaussian distribution: Extremes represent hard-core atheists and hard-core religious people, who use the same stuff (mocking and ridiculing) the "others".

I stick to being good. Leaving people better than we met them. Sleeping better than we woke up.

Anyway, back to coding.. and making better code than I made yesterday.
There may well be a god, even a judeo-christian style one. He might even have a beard.

But there isn't enough rational evidence for one. Even supposedly rational arguments like Intelligent Design fall laughably short, arguing that life is too complex and sophisticated not to have been created by something even more complex and sophisticated.

My take is that anyone who does 'believe' is either doing so out of cognitive dissonance, for emotional/psychological reasons, or just plain-old fear of being stoned to death (figuratively or literally depending on where you live).

Apologies to anyone offended. Just an opinion.
Tanenbaum admitted at EuroBSDCon last year[1] that he was wrong about BSD and he should have turned Minix into a BSD, which he now has, with Minix3 borrowing NetBSD userspace, build system and so on.

[1] https://va.ludost.net/files/eurobsdcon/2014/Vitosha/03.Satur...
Not really. At least not long term.

Amphetamines help correct for a lack of dopamine and norepinephrine, by helping then stay around longer in the brain.

It often likened to wearing glasses.

There’s non-stimulant medication, and multiple versions of stimulant medication that’s used because it doesn’t affect everyone quite the same way.

In neurotypical brains, or rather brains without a deficit of dopamine and norepinephrine, stimulants result in too much hanging around.

Instead of going from (to use relative numbers) -9 to -3..0 (like I often feel), a neurotypical brain goes from 0 to 10. It also has tends to have a calming effect on those with ADHD, whereas for neurotypicals it can push you heart rate to above 150.

For a number of people I know the affect is small, for me it has been profound. Imagine going from 70% packet loss inside your brain to 0-5%.

Not wired just normal. Only for the first 3 decades of my life, I didn’t know this normal existed.
And so there’s the case to be made for a regular dose of exercise to promote optimal cognitive function and productivity :-D