skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abstracting from js, rates and popularity of the only available solution are not an argument. It is like asking 'but who else?' in a dictatorship country. Pretty absurd, right. You folks are so blind that don't even understand how this straightforward non-blocking code works in decent languages:

sql = client.read()
res = remote_db.query(sql)
client.write(res),

still writing tons of boilerplates and spaghetti instead. We drown in happy ignorants, and they can't stop doing this to us, because they're happy with penetration rates, not technologies.

The fact that the big web scripting monopoly influences other scripting and embedding markets is self-explanatory.

As for 'second' language, I'm pretty sure I'm not happy to do main work with a 'second' language, because it is second only after top 3-5 that I use on daily basis.
As a french who grew up in wine-producing counties, I hardly ever saw immigrants working on the fields; it's most of the time high school students wanting to make a good buck during summer vacation; the rest of the time the winegrower handles it alone. Also, many winegrowers (in france) work in cooperativity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winemaking_cooperative
The way people handle it is to triangulate on the value based on a couple different sources. For example, you may test your TV ad in a handful of markets first and see if you experience lift in those areas. In addition, you may offer a unique coupon/promo code in that ad and measure uptake. Then you survey customers and ask them how they heard about you.

So maybe in your test regions you saw 2% promo uptake, 3% lift, and 5% survey responses saying they saw the ad. You'll pick an estimate somewhere from 2-5% depending on how conservative or aggressive you want to be. That's how you approach it at a small to medium sized company that actually cares about how their marketing budget is spent.

I've also seen an ad agency attempt to measure incremental website traffic gain in the test regions during the time slots the ad aired. If your traffic is large enough to have a clean baseline or the ad response is massive this is probably okay, but I'm skeptical of this methodology.

If you're a bigger company, there are also ways to get better viewthru conversion metrics. Shazam offers something to this effect, where they allow you to Shazam a commercial. Shazam can then tell you of people who viewed the commercial who went on to convert. Nielsen may sell this too.

With TV if you can't get the numbers to work on a pure customer acquisition basis, you'll measure brand recognition and recall in your test regions. If your ad makes an impact there you can then justify spending some of your brand budget in addition to the marketing budget to justify the overall expense.
You have two pilots, but also drugs (speed in particular): http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123778
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You guys have both made some good points here. However imo, you are kind of arguing past each other. (I hope you are not offended by my critique)

I think pier25's point is we should spend our time advocating for the most important issues. See the forest, dont focus on one tree. It is true that beef has a large impact, but maybe time would be better spent advocating renewable energy subsidies and or carbon taxes? You can only complain so much before people get sick of you right? :P However I think their point was weakened by the anecdotes about vegetarians who do other unsustainable things and calling them delusional.

I think cryodesign's point is that every little bit counts. The forest is made up of trees after all. And it easier to avoid meat than it is to invent renewable power that can provide base load.(well I love meat, but I have been reducing my beef consumption) I think they focused too much on how it feels. You can humanely kill an animal imo. As someone who grew up on a farm, I found the quote about killing them with a pipe unbelievable.
No. There are often multiple solutions to a problem. Finding one that works is easier than choosing the best among many that work.

You really didn't like the suggestion that the two words aren't synonyms. Sorry about that. I used to have a hard time understanding the difference between the terms "tactic" and "strategy" because there were so many examples where they seemed interchangeable, and perhaps you're feeling the same sort of hair-splitting is happening here.

Here's another way of looking at it. Coding is writing new code or improving existing code (maybe even improving it by removing it). Engineering might, for example, be a decision that it's more cost-effective to buy more hardware and spin up a second instance than to refactor code to enable the safe addition of a cache.

If it continues to frustrate you that different words are used to describe different responsibilities, you're free to call them both the same thing. My personal experience in the industry is that one is a superset of the other.
OTOH, Alibaba, wechat etc
Yes but bulk graphene has a lot of imperfections changing the electron flow.
I mean, I do occasionally, but I think one big difference is that nobody is forced to use python. If they want a feature a normal language doesn't have, they can easily choose another.

That's simply not true for JS.
BGP does not transfer data. It is an application layer protocol between routers. You can run routing daemons on Linux if you want.
Reason: JavaScript-flavored OCaml
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Sketches of an interactive arithmetic for programming (2014)
Write a blog post. Don't waste time doing a more exhaustive search of the literature, but also don't go too heavy on the claims that it's totally novel. Novelty might matter for an academic publication, but it's completely irrelevant for a blog post. You had a problem to solve, didn't like the solutions you could find, and came up with something better. That's what matters, not whether it was already first published 50 years ago.

One of the more popular things I ever posted was just pointing out a an implementation trick for a data structure that was known but not widely used. Why would the readers care that it wasn't novel? What they cared about was a) that they didn't already know about it, b) after reading the post they could understand why this was a useful/interesting optimization.
Exactly. Everyone is entitled to fundamental rights, not just the people we like.
Interestingly, in the modern US, I've heard (no children of my own) that they often consider a fight between two school kids both kids' fault, sometimes even when the target doesn't fight back, which I find ridiculous. "Sorry, kid, you shouldn't have been an attractive target for bullies."
To this day they still call themselves Tire Engineers, even through an acquisition last spring.
Could even have been Hacker News, when the same question was asked. Or maybe Twitter. I must admit I don't remember exactly. It is just what I said: "I heard" - no more, no less.

If I don't provide sources, and the accusers don't provide sources, who should we believe?
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This reminded me of mandelbulb[1] and on a somewhat unrelated note the original demo video of Euclideon[2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuYZg8k-Zc
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4
In Russia, when you open Pornhub, it asks to verify your age with Voktakte (popular social network) account. Your can only register there with a working mobile number. And you can only buy a sim card with your passport.

So, essentially, you can't even watch porn without an id now.
Supersonic business jets seem plausible and the consensus seems to be that it could be a viable market if they could go supersonic over land. But larger planes seem a real stretch.

Really long-haul routes might be getting into the range where people would be willing to sacrifice some seating space/amenities for a much faster plane. But then you're into needing much greater range than the Concorde. And, while there are a few of these routes that are economically viable on today's aircraft, even EWR-SIN didn't ultimately work out for Singapore Airlines.
Google runs a couple different ASNs, so you might need to allow that as transit. BGP is notoriously easy to configure too open, but prefix limits might help; OTOH, dropping sessions to Google is going to cause a lot of headaches, so extra caution is required.
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+ Charger -
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|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
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+ Sense -

What is being sensed here and why is it wrong? If voltage is being sensed and the busses are fat chunks of copper, this seems entirely proper. What am I missing?

EDIT: Wait, I think I know. You also need independent current measurement at each cell to detect internal shorts. And probably a way to automatically isolate such cells.
Earth is not created for human beings only so respect other livings
But the drug money funds them and funds them well. It's just too lucrative. That money comes from the illegality of the inelastic demand product. You don't see people cutting off heads for the cigarette or alcohol trade.

The cartels are only powerful because they have the money to be powerful. I can't imagine selling organs would be nearly as lucrative.

I mean Pablo Escobar was worth $30 billion dollars in 1993, which is around $51 billion today. For reference, Gates is worth around $86 billion, and Gates operates within the law while Escobar could buy off entire countries and was, for the longest time, immune from real prosecution. You can't buy that by selling organs.
Graphene is used in place of other carbon sources in batteries anodes [1] as well as a variety of inks [2]

[1] https://angstronmaterials.com/product-category/graphene-for-...

[2] https://vorbeck.com/pages/products-conductiveinks
> Imagine, Facebook asking you to upload your passport before you do a live stream.

When I created an account with AirBnB I had to upload government-issued ID documents and a photo of myself [1]. Their Android app even asked me to scan the chip in my UK passport via NFC.

[1] https://www.airbnb.co.uk/help/article/1237/how-does-providin...
SJWs.

And let me say good bye, because I guess this comment will get me banned.
Assuming they read the post, they're not only aware of it but also read the post's author warning their fictional subject about the performance problems of using transpilers in production, and shrugging it off for the example because it's just a learning exercise and "easy to change later".
So experienced devs are afraid of learning something that took non-programmers a week to get up to speed and develop a well-architechted app with reusable components etc?

I don't buy that, not for a second.
Facebook has free Wi-fi in Barbados? Hey what happen to the other Caribbean >:(
Find a friendly CS professor familiar with the problem domain and share your solution. They can help determine if it's correct, if it's truly novel and if it is, help you write a paper and get it peer reviewed.
What do you mean? It's barely more than half of the goal.
Yes.

https://arxiv.org/help/submit
Pretty much. Lisp programmers seem to think writing ast with parentheses is somehow superior to other syntax (except when it comes to quote and dot) - while what you really need is a good way to manipulate the ast (for good/easy macro support).

The common lisp variant is pretty broadly supported afaik - and there's a scheme variant and a #language for racket:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sweet/index.html

Still, if what you want is "sane" (IMNHO) syntax - you're probably better off using Julia. I don't know why a dylan-like subletting of common lisp/clos hasn't been more successful. Maybe people just love different corners of the common lisp spec too much?
Everybody (including Google as we find) makes mistakes and not having safeguards doesn't sound like a good trade-off to me. (What are they trading off here again?)
> this is a deeply nested thread that nobody will read

I read it.

> too technical

Too technical for the comment or too technical for HN period?

> Link to the Wikipedia article if possible

I do link to things that go into further detail in many of my comments.

However, I think the relevant (English-language) wikipedia articles for this thread are bound to be much longer and more technical. The simple English wikipedia versions, to the extent they even exist, are generally not worth linking to.

Do you think it would have been right to simply drop https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Line_element#/General_spacetime as the bulk of the content of my original disliked-by-you comment?

> I'd try to add some details

The details were already in the replied-to message that people seem to either like or dislike. :-)

> I guest that with 1 or 2 more hours I can fix it

FWIW, I only took a few minutes. Is it likely that anyone would spend an hour or two on any HN comment (especially a down-thread one) as opposed to a blog posting, article or comment elsewhere?

Indeed some of my original motivation is exactly https://xkcd.com/386/ however the point wasn't just to be right, but also to try to advance someone's (not necessarily the original writer's) understanding of a line element and that line elements are meaningful (and in particular typically nonzero) for light.
I would mention it on IRC and then probably forget it. Maybe out the code in some pastebin for others to see.
This article: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/themen/radioaktivitaet/tschern...
claims, that the Bavarian soil used for agriculture tends to not transfer radioactive particles quickly into plants. It seems the soil was also deeply plowed to distribute the particles amongst a large volume of soil. The situation in forests is different, as the trees captured more particles than the open farmland, and the soil is not plowed, leading to still high particle concentrations in the top layer.

Bavaria had been contaminated the most, other parts of Germany have less residual radiation - the weather situation (wind, rain) created very inhomogeneous distribution back then. I found this map about the distribution: http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/gz54e7a9f2.png
Have you actually used any of these? Alibaba is worse than Craigslist. Leaders they are not,
From what I've heard the Model 3 will be a bit different.

But certainly on the Model S, the battery is not that difficult to remove/replace - again, there's plenty of YouTubers who have done this.

You can even, in many cases, swap a higher capacity pack into older/lower-spec models if you're so inclined. There is no DRM or software checks that prevent this from working!
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I had 6 offers 2 years ago. I chose the third highest salary option because of the unique company culture and people. Totally correct decision in hindsight.
"position: fixed" menu on top and a non-closable div on the bottom? Why does the author hate widescreen monitors so much?
If articles like this make it to HN... maybe it's time to start selling homeopathic snake oil...
> However, that also threatens the walled gardens' revenue streams.

However? Don't you mean, "as an added benefit"?
How about a fractal of fractals?

Your circulatory system is a fractal for similar reasons that trees are fractals for similar reasons that watersheds are fractals.

Fractal structures are probably the rule rather than the exception for basic reasons of space and energy efficiency.

Here's another interesting fractal thought, where is the universe? In your head, or outside of it, or both?

So the neuronal structure representing the universe in your head is at least in some ways similar to the objective outside universe, if there is such a thing, and if there is such a thing then that neuronal structure in your head is also in(and of) that objective universe while also being similar to it.

A good term for fractals is self-similar.

Self-similarity all the way down.

I am a strange loop. - Douglas Hofstadter

It's in you, and you're in it. - Alan Watts
> It's not beyond the realms of imagination that this fake traffic could be an attempt re-bolster their main revenue stream

It basically is beyond imagination unless you think they have a new income plan that just needs one more quarter. Google's long-term value is in the conversion rates of long-term advertisers: drop conversions in half with fake traffic and next month they are going to offer you less than half the bid or nothing if they have high site costs per visitor. I.e. licensed booking listings.

Probably partners that share immediate revenue with Google but are less invested/secure in their portion of the long term value of that stream are behind it.
"even if there's no office service manual available to amateurs."

They do actually make the manuals available to anyone, just for a hefty fee if you're not Tesla-certified:

https://service.teslamotors.com
Getting a patent is an expensive business. Patentability of methods of manipulating numbers is variable around the world, but in most places its not going to work. You might have managed it in the US a few years ago, but not now. Seriously applying for a patent is not cheap. The odds are that you will spend a lot of money for no return.

Getting priority for something on your CV is another matter. As others have mentioned, write up a paper and submit to arxiv.org.

Incidentally, are you aware of this: http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath505/kmath505.htm

The last couple of paragraphs describe a geometric construction giving an approximation that is good enough for many purposes, and would also be the right starting point for any iterative algorithm.
I’d ask my employer for permission, then I’d write a blog post.

P.S. Have you seen this?
https://www.geometrictools.com/GTEngine/Include/Mathematics/...

https://www.geometrictools.com/Documentation/DistancePointEl...
Thanks! A moderator updated the link from https://futurism.com/people-are-using-old-laptop-batteries-t... a while ago.
Or it's probably that your definition of good wine has been shaped by new world style expectations of what wine should/can be.

Old world and especially French wines are generally more neutral and restrained wines, made to be consumed with food.

Also a very high percentage of low and mid-tier wines made in the 'international' style are more like a composed semi-synthetic product made to conform to a rather homogenous consumer preference, and altered with flavourings/additives[1], esthers, enzymes, etc. than the classic definition of an 'authentic' wine (even if that itself is kind of bullshit).

See:

* 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Purple
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a foundation not meant for UI's that is pretty much required to be abstracted away leakily (HTML, browsers)

This is the problem, right? It's not that the other problems are unsolved, it's that we're buiding on a lousy foundation. But even that is just an annoyance, something we know how to overcome, it's not a fundamental impossibility.
Wait, do people really get so few ideas that they feel the need to celebrate each of them?
The parent poster didn't say it was a problem with a solution, they said it was a problem.

Systems can have inexorable negatives, and it's fine to take issue with them.
1984, where the government literally rewrites books, changes the language to be incapable of expressing dissent, and murders its citizens.

Comparable to firing a guy who upset a huge portion of the company and false positives on hate detection algorithms. Sure.
Each site owner need not do it on his own . Perhaps there is an opportunity for an open source ad hosting solution which has all the features and connect to one or more central marketplaces where advertisers can place bids and also each ad can have be rated basis user responses and feedback and you can configure which marketplaces to list and restrict the quality of ads and the kind of tracking
what is the that lady using in the video?
ID for a cell number is certainly not a requirement in the US. Or anywhere in Western Europe. Or Canada. Or Mexico. Or anywhere in South America. So where are you talking about that being a requirement ?
"The World’s Longest Flight Is Coming"

I would have thought it has always been here.
Yep, I feel the same way, but then again I usually work with small startups. I had an experience with a bigger team, recently (about 20 devs) and went all the way "what you do is too complicated". I was quickly humbled when I realized that my "simple" designs were quickly growing out of control and breaking a lot after a few months so many devs were adding code in it, most of them knowing only a very small part of the app. I guess I could say no product should need 20 devs, but it feels like denial.

So I guess that, to the question "How could the 27 file commit example comment not be a clear case of overengineering though?", the answer would be : "when there are 100 modals in your codebase and various devs work on various parts of those modals". Not saying that's a place I want to work either, obviously :)
Indeed sir, glad that you concur. My downvoters dont seem to agree. Poe it is.
Would second that. I've worked in vineyards at the end of summer in the Bourgogne region, never come across any foreign illegal workers there. It would be students and temporary workers from the area.
You act as if the Chinese populace doesn't broadly suppprt their government, including these kinds of restrictions.
How can we find bitcoins any idea?
> I mean, I do occasionally, but I think one big difference is that nobody is forced to use python. If they want a feature a normal language doesn't have, they can easily choose another.

Most domains heavily constrain your language choice though...C/C++ for games, Java/Kotlin for native Android, Swift for native iOS, PHP/Node/Python/Java/Ruby for server-side. The libraries you need constrain the choice even more. I'd love to use OCaml everywhere if I could but there's just no support for it.

Anyway, my point is complaining that vanilla JavaScript is bad is a real disservice to modern JavaScript. What's so bad about it if you use TypeScript?
Tor relay of a Brazilian University was banned after #harvesting .onions
AdBlock now allows ads and trackers from companies that satisfy their proper ad criteria. One of the criteria is also a payment that depends on the size of your company.
> Let's get the Neural Network "Music" that Google is Researching to play during the sleep of 60 year olds and find out how that goes over.

I'd be interested in using a feedback loop and an MRI scan (or whatever scan is needed) to selectively stimulate areas in the brain. I.e., computer generates music, looks at MRI, changes music accordingly, looks at MRI again, etc.
Seven things I have learned about writing software
They actually thought the JavaScript-like syntax through very carefully, trying to balance several factors (like JS appeal, future-proofing, simplifying, etc.). See https://www.reddit.com/r/reasonml/comments/6v2olv/new_syntax... for a quite informative summary of the changes.
Promises was so last week. This week we're using Observables... :ha, ha:

That said, I disagree that everything you learn is getting deprecated quickly. Sure, some things change 'on the cutting edge'. But, there are tons of existing applications--and even new development--not using that stuff.

The knowledge and concepts you learn will help you keep going.
The ocean is a strange place after dark
A lot of people are telling you to check whether your idea really is novel. You should probably do that, but even if you find out that someone else has already published it, not all is lost.

If your derivation is different (hopefully simpler) and you do additional analysis (e.g. of numerical stability), you could still get a publication out of it. (Probably not in a top journal, but better than a paper mill.)

Disclaimer: I have not published any papers myself, but I have read papers that were essentially "The method presented in X et al. is useful, but we didn't get the explanation until we rediscovered it ourselves. Here is a more understandable derivation.".