skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language-oriented programming sounds like metaprogramming with DSL’s just with a new toolkit. Language-oriented programming might be a more approachable term for that, though. If I heard it, the first things I’d think of were tools such as Rascal and Ometa that let one arbitrarily define, operate on, or use languages. That covers language part. Far as integration, a number of techs supporting DSL’s… probably a lot of LISP’s and REBOL… had a powerful language underneath one could drop into.

So, this seems like a new instance of old ideas they’re giving a new name. I do like how they’ve integrated the concept into a general-purpose, GUI-based, programming environment instead of it being it’s own thing like the others. You get best of both worlds.

An old idea I had was researchers should do more experiments in building things like Rascal or Ometa alternatives in Racket leveraging what they already have to see how far one can stretch and improve it.

http://www.rascal-mpl.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta
Anti-hate speech laws can lead to similar effect: first you ban most obvious things, like death threats or racism. Then someone comes up with the idea of banning any criticism of abortion, because it might hurt feelings of women who had it. Then you ban Christmas trees in public schools, because it might hurt feelings of Muslims - the anti-hate laws become more and more prohibitive. Basically, it's a variation of the same problem that I would call: "the most intolerant lawmaker wins".
Sadly this often happens with genocide :(

Myanmar is particularly embarrasing because the west spent decades trying to end the military dictatorship and transfer power to the elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but it's turned to genocide almost immediately.
If you are earning good money then you arent paying zero for healthcare. Perhaps your employer is covering it, but canadas health system isnt totally free. In BC i paid a monthly fee, not much but something. Prescriptions and such also arent totally free.
The government also studied remote viewing, and the Air Force had its own UFO project called Operation Blue Book, and of course there was MKULTRA looking into mind control, but just because something is studied doesn't mean it exists, or gives practical results.
That's a horrible and dishonest plan
I don't see anything wrong in creating something new even if it is not working right now at at best, at least people progressing, you would never have any crypto if somebody would not create something new like "Bitcoin"
those who just follow blockchain tech they are just followers (easy life just add something extra and scream MY COIN IS THE BEST)
Iota is something totally new and only idiots can demand from iota to be perfect from the very begining!
Its not perfect but everyday it gets stronger and stronger,
if you think iota is terrible why you even care about it, it will die soon maybe tomorow?, after tomorew? next week? why you even bother ? You care about everything what is terrible from your point of view? okay just go outside find some "dog shit" on the street sit down and talk about it for hours, should be same satisfaction ?! I don't think that is the case...
Most probably you don't think that iota so terrible and you see some very good percentage that it could possibly succeed in the future in that case i understand why suporters of other altcoins puts so much effort to scam about it...
The site looks beautiful and loads insanely fast. Can we easily reuse the whole theme?
Crypto Exchanges Real-Time Monitoring Tool
I’m not claiming that they can’t recognize that their relative velocity is much greater than their surroundings. You can even calculate the degree of time dilation you’re experiencing relative to another observer, but I’m not talking about that either.

The biggest issue, aside from the model, is that time dilation is something which only matters when two observers “compare clocks.” Neither observer alone ever experiences a difference. The crew of a 99.9% lightspeed ship doesn’t experience time dilation... until they return home. It makes no sense to talk about the effects of time dilation from the point of view of a one-way trip to the event horizon.

That has to do with the experience of their frame of reference. Time does appear to “slow down” for them, rather everything else will seem to “speed up.” You can infer the difference, but you can’t sctually communicate that or compare with anyone else until you decelerate. In the extreme case of a gravitational event horizon, there will be no ability to ever communicate again. The fact that external observers will see you infinitely redshifted doesn’t imply anything about your experience of subjectively falling past the horizon. Both are valid frames of reference, but ultimately will develop spacelike separation which prohibits further communication.

As it relates to the issue st hand, you can’t make accurate statements about mass never passing through the EH based on observations from a distant from of reference.
That does not work.

If you can substitute foreign labor then there is no shortage. If you can't substitute foreign labor then it's irrelevant.

You can't have a shortage of workers and falling wages. You can have uncompetitive US companies, but they are very profitable so the only thing left is irrational behavior.
REDACTED: No.. not oops. He's wrong, you're right.

Ah why did you reply to your own comment instead of pressing edit. I thought you were the grandparent poster replying to the correction. God damnit.
Besides having the word tolerance in both, I don’t see how this comment relates to the article.

In Taleb’s article, he describes how the market accommodates the minority intolerance to the extent that is most economical — that is, where the “majority” doesn’t care either way. In this way, the ability of the tolerant to be tolerant is not being seized or destroyed, because the tolerant are not actually “tolerating” anything, since that word implies a level of discomfort that the customers are not experiencing.
> Why don't they seem to target music/TV shows/films

The article touches on this too. So yes, they do.
I'm OK with the H1B scheme, if it's used the way it's intended — to bring in the smartest people who can fill niche jobs that are hard or impossible to fill with Americans.

But my experience in Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond taught me that most H1B's aren't any smarter than the average American high school graduate. The only difference is they'll work for a fraction of the money and be thankful for the exploitation. (And in the case of Russians, rack up a ton of speeding tickets and apartment damage fees and leave the country.)

India, China, Pakistan, and wherever else — send us your best and brightest. We'll welcome them, make them better, and sent them back (if they choose to go) with knowledge they can spread at home. But don't send us a bunch of warm bodies for no other reason than to supplement your economy with Western Union Moneygrams.
I'm no educator, but this material caught my eye a while ago: http://csfieldguide.org.nz/
Help me understand that - leaving your car plugged in while shopping is no different than leaving your gas car not-plugged-in while shopping, in terms of leaving your property around.

The cord is part of the fixed charged, and not my problem ... just like the hose on a gas pump.
> This is where human rights law and anti-hate speech law comes from.

How many genocides did the latter ever prevent? If anything, they'll make genocides much more sudden. You can bully the majority into submission but it's going to backfire.

Regarding human rights, I just don't see them working in the century of XXI.
> This is a good thing. […] I was essentially never going to get a green card, despite my application being approved 4 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand the greencard path for H1B workers seems unrelated to the number of H1Bs issued but more to which nationality H1Bs go to. Since Indians are more likely to apply in the first place the wait time will stay ridiculously high unless the actual quota for greencards is increased.
Kaspersky Lab V. DHS: The Government's Response and Kaspersky's Reply
I've been using this for years - it's great!

An interesting memory anecdote: within two weeks of switching I had forgotten the method I'd used for the previous 20 years.
>> current market rate

Many of the new positions being created in startups have no defined market rate, which causes more malinvestment (overpaying workers who don't produce well enough) or shortage of labor due to insufficient perceived compensation.

Businesses will almost always err on the side of shortage of labor and keeping costs down when they can (though you could argue otherwise in the current ridiculous VC-backed industry), so this will always be a "problem" in the market.
> Then someone comes up with the idea of banning any criticism of abortion, because it might hurt feelings of women who had it. Then you ban Christmas trees in public schools, because it might hurt feelings of Muslims

None of those has actually happened, nor is likely to actually make it through any functioning legal system.

(If you're going hunting for examples of the Christmas tree ban, check your news sources very carefully)
Quite a few of my friends are now applying for Canadian PR. Having suffered under H1B, its amazing how employee friendly the Canadian system is. I can be in India, apply for PR, get a decision in 3 months or less. Then I can go there, find a job. Never have to depend on an employer, never at the mercy of customer or some random visa officer or a CBP agent or lottery. I get to be in control of my life.

If Americans don't want H1Bs, its all fine. Kick all Indians out. But why a nation that claims itself to be the land of freedom, who routinely criticizes other nations including India for human rights violations, allow such a visa system to exist all these years, I don't know.
> They also don't have millions of illegal immigrants with no federal labor protection driving wages down internally.

Oh, bs. There's plenty plenty access to cheap labor (intra EU migration, external immigration, asylees with work permits). The minimum wage is low enough to not matter much in most cases.
“back then”
How is it nonsense that an American manufacturer fails to compete with a foreign manufacturer?

This is fundamental economics, and why tariffs exist.
This is how I lace my shoes, with a slightly different way to place my fingers, but with the same result.

I feel it's a bit faster to do than my previous knot, however the real benefits are (for me) this knot stays tight all day long, and the tension is symmetrical (the knot doesn't slide on the side during the day, you never end up with one end longer than the other, etc)
Well, if you want to pedantic, sure. I know I pay taxes, and the taxes fund healthcare. Obviously it's not "free".

However, my out of pocket costs are zero. My employer pays for prescription drug coverage and dental care, but that isn't deducted from my pay check. It's over and above my salary.

In the US, I was paying nearly $600 a month from _my_ paycheck for equivalent healthcare.
The Y combinator may be pictured as

────┬────
┬─┬ ┼─┬─┬
└─┤ │ ├─┘
│ ├─┘
└─┘

according to the graphical notation for lambda terms at http://tromp.github.io/cl/diagrams.html
8,000-year-old heads on spikes found in Swedish lake
Are you sure that's what he's saying? It's a Taleb piece so I can't blame anyone for not knowing just what the fuck it is he's on about this time, but he concludes a section with the sentence "The West is currently in the process of committing suicide."

I think Taleb wants it both ways, or every possible way, in this discursive essay. If you find yourself nodding along to the idea that we can get along just fine with people who have restrictive preferences so long as those preferences are compatible with our own, Taleb is happy to have you land there. But if you go into a piece that discussed Islam hoping to find the bit about how our tolerance of religion is destroying Western Civ, he's got you covered too.

I want to say that I find it ironic that he zeroes in on Halal food when, as a sort of general rule, Kosher food tends to be Halal and not the other way around. But I don't know if it's ironic, because Taleb is so adept at armoring his essays against any kind of critical analysis or, for that matter, basic comprehension. Maybe the fact that Muslims are more "tolerant" of different butchering practices than Jewish people but still it's the Muslims that threaten democracy is part of his whole point. 23 skidoo!
It's like they're just trolling the entire world...
For 40 years, the GSS has documented Americans' personal attitudes and opinions
Ken and Roberta (2011)
Discovery of the First Genome-Wide Significant Risk Loci for ADHD
I'm not sure. I think you're right, from this timeline: http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3854

Freon was invented in 1928, and started mass production a few years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freon

By 1935, 8 million refrigerators had been sold using Freon as their refrigerant: https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-freon-4072212

His refrigerator comment was some time before 1953: https://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic
though another source places it around Einstein's death in 1955:[1]

... ahhh, the wiki hole is deep today. :)

[Edited to fix: date of refrigerator comment upper bounded by 1953, not in 1953]. So it's possible he formed the opinion pre-freon, but it seems more likely that it was during the Freon era.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=iWy1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA332&lpg=...
> But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

He is meaning that there should be intolerance to violent intolerance, not to any intolerance.

That is my interpretation at least, and I find it very disingenuous to omit that part.
Even though it's unknowable, science prefers simplicity. As scientist we should prefer the model of the world with the fewest number of assumptions. The existence of something is more complex than non-existence (which is the default). If we could explain the world without a god just as well as with one then there is no reason to go for the more complex theory. That is especially true in e.g. the Christian sense of god, which comes with a ton more assumptions.
My investment account balance is low compared to my lifetime future earnings - even at 100% stocks, I'm arguably under-exposed to equity bull markets.
Python lambdas cannot contain statements, only expressions. Typical python contains a lot of statements, so that's a bit annoying.

You can define inner functions and so on, and most of the times that I want to use lambdas it's just because I've been stuck in a language without *-comprehensions for too long.

+ works fine on complex numbers.

I'm not super familiar with the loop macro, but it lets you do both things similar to a python comprehension and to a python for loop. I don't think it does anything you can't do in python.
Jupiter trojan
I think this is right. In ten years of use, the handful of times the plain Ian Knot has come undone on me were from stepping on and end or similar - it's never come undone without some external force, and even then it's usually fine. I just checked and I'm not doing the Granny Knot version.
https://yacy.net/
Warmer temperatures will mean we may need to change where we farm our food and move some cities but it's much better than things getting colder. It may even be better than the current climate, given it may actually increase the amount of land where food is arable.
In what world? I'm too young to remember earlier times, but in the past 25 years the US has only ever been pushing for borderline if not outright protectionist pro-US policies.

Exhibit A: copyright law. Exhibit B: patent law. Exhibit C: privacy/data protection law.

Anywhere they have an edge, the US aggressively arm-wrestles third parties into submitting themselves to trade deals that makes them keep subservient to whatever, and present their accomplishments to voters as "free trade" deals. It's not.

It's a bit like "peace process". It's code word for whatever American interests align to. Try to find any reference of the US being against a peace process. You won't.
Yes! SICP is, without a doubt, one of the very best books on programming I have ever read and I’ve read quite many. I too program a lot in JavaScript and Python (in addition to Rust and C and C++), so some might think SICP would not be relevant just because it’s using Scheme but in fact SICP has had a very significant impact on how I write software.

SICP is a book that I took my time to read. I read the whole thing front to cover. Some days I would read many pages some days fewer pages. I read a lot of it on a vacation. Don’t remember if I got through the whole thing then or if it took even more time.

SICP was so good that I plan on reading it again.

I recommend looking at the exercises and thinking about them a bit but like the other guy said don’t get bogged down by them.
They don't have to be. The automation that came in as part of the industrial revolution had no smarts but it changed everything. Add just the ability to make a simple yes/no decision and things will change again by being able to make decisions at lightning speed. Don't kid yourself, whatever "AI" we have now will make a large difference 20,50,100 yrs from now.
I find these to be the best "single post summaries". His books are very challenging to read, but I've always found them rewarding once I've finished/absorbed the material. No pain, no gain I suppose!

Antifragile: https://medium.com/thinking-is-hard/live-like-a-hydra-c02337...

Fooled by Randomness: https://www.fs.blog/2015/02/fooled-by-randomness/

The Bed of Procrustes: https://twitter.com/nntaleb

(I've not read Black Swan so cannot offer any recommendations)
As a rider "loud pipes save lives" is just justification of people who want to make noise but won't own the responsibility of admitting it. My motorcycle has a horn that faces forward for a reason. I use it respectfully all the time for my own safety.

Riding a motorcycle without a horn is as irresponsible and dangerous as riding one with bald tires or poorly maintained brakes.

Take responsibility for your own safety. Ride defensively. Don't be a jerk.
You took the words from my mouth. While there is a valid and logical point here, his own asides and proselytising style provide avenues to undermine his argument.

For instance, in many Muslim majority or even major minority countries, you do not have a universally halal food industry - most supermarkets are divided into "stuff (probably halal)" halal, and haram.

If he halved the time and volume he puts into making himself/his readers feel clever, he'd be far more convincing.

I know this because it's something I feel into for years, and still do on my first draft of much that I write.
Agree. Working out with machines is similar to sitting on a chair :-). For newbies, machines are great to improve their form
I'm not a BRK investor and try not to engage in this kind of Kremlinology but I wonder if we're getting to a point where succession risk (as a market perception, not an operational issue) is really starting to concern Berkshire, and he's going to wind down his public profile.
This raises the question of why this would not be an optimal strategy for other mammals, or if it would be, why it has not arisen independently in many other lineages.

The headline states that hosting viruses is a cost of flying, but it does not really say what the downside of doing so is, given that the viruses do not seem to be harming the bats. Perhaps it leaves them more vulnerable when dangerous pathogens come along, such as the fungus causing White-nose Syndrome in North American bats. The article says that bats are relatively long-lived, suggesting that this adaptation is not a compromise, though it may be that the advantages of being a bat (presumably coming mostly from flying) compensate for any compromise that this trait requires.

The article mentions a consequence of flight, stress-induced DNA leakage into cells that could trigger an auto-immune response, that might have increased the selective pressure for this adaptation in bats alone (among mammals). I imagine someone will be looking into whether birds have a similar adaptation.
Good advice, albeit hard to accomplish. Identity is a core part of political party formation, at least in Europe (together with self-interest and ideology). No doubt it has an important role in marketing as well. I don't see these forces giving up on pulling the identity lever any time soon, it seems to gain importance if anything.

However, perceived identity coupled with a sense of oppression, exceptionalism and/or fear of extinction is what always gets us in trouble (i.e. war), so there are a number of good reasons to keep tight reins on identity.
The argument might be junk, but if you reject it solely because it points toward a conclusion that contradicts your pre-existing biases... I think you've left the path of wisdom.
I had one of those too, or something similar at least. Had a few games on it - all variations of Pong
Awesome, thanks for the heads up :) Just for curiosity what manufacturers make the very best monitors in your eyes for colour work?
That's a bit dismissive. Goedel was correct about making the US a dictatorship. The fact that the amending clause allows unlimited amendment (particularly of the amending clause itself) means a series of malicious amendments could irrevocably change the constitution to that of a dictatorship and forbid returning to a democracy. Now maybe people would just give up on the constitution at that point, but in terms of the overall legal system he's dead right.

[edit: for more information please see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010183 ]
You can take a look at the book How To Design Programs (HTDP) [1]. It's similar. The 2nd edition printed book is going to be released soon [2]. There is a paper from the authors of HTDP comparing it to SICP [3]. By the way, there is an couple of online courses at EDX that covers content of HTDP [4][5].

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/How-Design-Programs-Introduction-Prog...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_and_Interpretati...

[4] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x

[5] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-complex-data-ubcx-htc2x
So this is about DaVinci Resolve since it has the most flexibility for setup, many other systems are borderline turnkey.

The recommended setup is a super micro chassis with dual xeons (12 core cpus min rec, 20 core preferred), min 32GB ram (usually at least 64,128+ common on high end systems), SSD for OS, thunderbolt (min)/pciE/10GbE/fibre (preferred) attached storage usually 8 bay raid6 or similar min, almost always NVIDIA GPUs with 8x 1080ti's or the latest Titans being the most common set up I see.

This runs on CentOS or RHEL 6.8 or 7.3.

Video signal is output over SDI from a PCIe to a LUT box (for color transforms) then to a color critical display (FSi, Sony, or Dolby typically with the best suites using cinema projectors). A second SDI runs out to a box showing video scopes. Everything is usually calibrated by light Illusions software and using a Minolta colorimeter probe (typically a 3rd party service does this every few months).

The GUI monitor(s) are usually just regular consumer whatever.

The software is controlled by a large, $30K control panel that looks similar to an airplane cockpit.

That's most of the important stuff, but I can fill in details where you're curious.