skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Such as?

Both. Pyramids, gravity, Indian temples, stone henge, the patterns in the universe, cells etc. Like one simple example near where I used to live - the architecture of the Konark temple where it had a sort of magnet to levitate the "vigraha". The magnet was at least ~50 tonnes. http://www.thekonark.in/konarkfloatingidol.html

Another temple where the pillar does not even support the temple's roof: https://www.indiatimes.com/culture/travel/this-temple-has-a-...

Musical pillars made of stone. http://www.themysteriousindia.net/singing-pillars-hampi/

You may baulk at these, because your perspective is from probably an arrogant modern scientific outlook, but these buildings & structures predate even the pyramids. Many just too many of these have been destroyed by religious fanatics who cannot tolerate an alternative mode of thought besides Islam & Christianity, so what survives is a sorry remnant of that era, which even so is impressive I think.

> Fundamental understanding

Contingent upon a perspective of ignorance. Is that not correct?

For example, we use light as a form on energy in lasers etc, but only 70 years ago, this would have NOT been a fundamental understanding. The problem is that most of today's people, except the really great people like Einstein, Hawking, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Tesla etc, try to dismiss (& worse appropriate) any sciences that simply originated in the Indian subcontinent, and I am not sure why that is the case. Why do you think every major civilization in the last 500-600 years wanted to find a path to India. Why do you think the American native people are still called Indians? Why do you think strides in Science & Math were monopolized in the Indian subcontinent & it required the onslaught on the Islamic hordes first and then the European / British hordes to stop the progress of all such advancements? You may not be aware that the industrial revolution of Britain & Europe was funded by India & Indian wealth. Anyways, I digress. My point is that "fundamental understanding" is not limited to a set of people, it just requires time & since India is part of the longest surviving civilization (even the face of 80% destruction) there is a lot of understanding we can acquire from what the rishis had accomplished. We should not throw them all away just because we cannot make head or tail of it...
The problem is that you can have half-initialzed objects at all. I don't know Rust very well yet, but in a typical OOP language it's a constructor's job to completely initialize an object, and exception in constrctor causes object to not be created at all.
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Me: "It would be amazing to go out to the asteroid belt and return a rare-earth metal rich asteroid to solve that problem once and for all."

Other: "That's what the dinosaurs thought."
It seems determined to put visible toes on everybody, no matter that they're wearing socks.

Is this a bug or a feature?
Perhaps they're the result or remains of a previous civilisation? :)
The increasing nature of frontend complexity
And now they're back, to reclaim what was once theirs.

Invasion of the Space Dinos!
How is criticism of an authoritarian system jingoism?
"The north had little involvement until mid-1968."

That's neither the position of vietnam nor the US. Even during the separation the North left 10 000 vietcongs in the south to sow discord and guerrila activities. The different opposition organisations were soon under direct control from the north.

At least that is what the "People's Army of Vietnam" is saying which can be read here: https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Vietnam-Official-History-1954...
The English, who were ruling Ireland at the time, who gave most of that land to absentee landlords, justified perpetuating the famine by invoking the divine right of the free market:

"Laissez-faire, the reigning economic orthodoxy of the day, held that there should be as little government interference with the economy as possible. Under this doctrine, stopping the export of Irish grain was an unacceptable policy alternative, and it was therefore firmly rejected in London."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.sh...

I honestly don't see much difference between Ireland and the Holodomor except size. Both famines were caused by foreign occupiers exporting food during a period of bad harvest.

Whether you call it a genocide is another debate.
Google refuses to fix Waze so it won’t route people on 32%-grade road
Obama Campaign Harvested More Facebook Users Data Than Cambridge Analytica
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In another exchange, I pointed out to Steve that 2 year olds and 92 year olds use their fingers, but everyone else uses tools -- so it's crazy to only sell to fingers-usage just because the learning curve is lower.
Liars.
> The instant an exception can be raised from an area in code is the instant you need to make that entire area into functionally-pure side-effect-free logic

I mean, that would be lovely, but is really only feasible for exceptions raised from code that is operating exclusively on values in memory (NPEs, for example). Rather a lot of exceptions are raised from necessarily side-effectful operations, especially those dealing with I/O.

Since you can't predict the future, you can't guarantee purity/transactionality of code that raises that kind, so saying "code should be pure when it can throw" is a true-but-impossible statement. That's why most languages with an emphasis on purity tend to eschew exceptions and/or invert control flow such that effectful stuff happens externally to the functions handling its output (e.g. the Maybe or IO monads).
Subsidized shipping from AliExpress is also insane unfair.

Then again, AliExpress is used to buy shit products most of the time. Not a single brand product is sold the from non Chinese companies
Sadly, I don't fancy your chances. It seems to be a lost cause when a small group of people want a huge group of people to revert to the original meaning of a word. Like 'decimated' and 'literally'.
>> (Bringing signals into a context for multiplying is called “mixing”.)

> The parenthetical is technically correct

Not really. In common parlance (e.g. [1]), mixing means adding. If you mixed signals by multiplying, music would sound like noise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing_console
Rust does not have constructors as a language feature like that, and you must fully initialize objects, unless you use unsafe.
Saying who deserves something automatically answers who doesn't.
I've always loved this book for opening my eyes to think about the motivations for human structures rather than just enumerating and studying the common structures around us.

Theory of the firm has many applications for technologists.
In considering "disruptive" business models: why are transactions bundled together in an existing business model, and where would there be benefit in bundling them differently? In structuring dev teams: why does one mission lend itself to informal coordination within a team, while another can be trusted to collaborative processes across teams? And even in factorizing code: why does this set of concerns require informal coordination between functions (e.g. within a module or class), while this other set of concerns can be addressed at the app level through published interfaces?
it’s absolutely true, but this kind of statement is why people get so enraged at New Yorkers talking about local food. without context it sounds like you are saying putting butter on a roll is a New York innovation.
The problem is that real apprenticeships that lead to well-paid skilled jobs do require fairly good school results.

Apprenticeships where never for unskilled low archivers at school for example where I lived in the UK if you left school with poor results you didn't get an apprenticeships with the local engineering firms or the government - you worked in the brick pits for LBC
Sure, but that doesn't make it immune to the passage of time.

Take Mesoamerican gold for instance: only about a thousand years have passed since much of it was made by humans, but it's still considered a rare and valuable archaeological find. (Granted, it was produced in smaller quantities than today.)

Gold is melted by fires; gets scattered and buried by a million years of bioaccumulation; seas move, rivers appear or disappear, continents drift a little, climate changes, glaciers come and go and further destroy evidence.

Google is feeding me a lot of really dumb stuff at the moment when trying to come up with numbers, but I'd guesstimate that most traces of our civilization would be buried a hundred feet below the surface after a million years' time. That makes it pretty difficult to find small things.
Ah, thanks for the honesty. I wish some days when commenting I had actually taken a break from HN due to the lesser quality, less thoughtful replies I'll make.
"You are suffering from Propaganda if you believe the South Vietnam was much of state without US support." It was enough of
a state for 800 000 million ppl from the north to flee there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Passage_to_Freedom
Well said :)
I learned far more about writing in my experience in debate than I did in any of my classes.

Learning to research a topic and write a logical argument about it is far more rewarding, and does more to develop skill, than does being assigned a book to read and writing a summary.

Writing about a single source is too easy to game, especially the classics- there's simply too much already written about them, especially when the assignment is more a summary than a thesis.
What's interesting to me is that I don't suffer from Pollen Allergies, even though over half the people I know do.

I get bad sinus infections and problems in Fall and Winter, but nothing during the spring and summer months.

I'm sure genetics and exposure patterns play a role in that (like the article stated of being exposed during childhood for immunities in adulthood), but I thought it was fascinating how as commonplace as Pollen is, people react differently.
When I was growing up it was television that was the great satan.
Software: The Unstoppable Monster That’s Eating Us All
We can all be ignorant. I would never have thought so many people would consider this a new concern and felt the time to act was now, in April 2018.

Although I don't personally use Facebook I think most people who like it should just continue using it but just think more carefully about the information they share. Deleting now isn't going to bring back the data that has already been shared.
I kept my facebook, but deleted my social graph.
He recognized the difference between government used for domination and government used for liberty. A distinction that today is rarely understood, and hence why he appears as an "anti-statist" when he was advocating for more government power.
For this example of yours:

let y = x.let { x ->
x + 100
}.apply { x ->
println(x)
}.let { x ->
x * 2
}

I think you've just reinvented imperative control flow. Isn't your example just modeling a reusable function that represents a series of instructions on a value?

func(x) {
let y = x + 100
println(y)
let z = y * 2
return z
}
> the attitude of the founders towards a standing Army and a Navy. Just buying the original 6 frigates was an total change in attitude.

I don't think the attitude was the same regarding a standing Navy. Standing Army, yes; the founders were clearly against that. But a major reason for having a standing Navy is to keep conflicts elsewhere from getting to the point where you need an Army--for example, protecting American merchant ships sailing abroad (since the British Navy would no longer protect them), which was what buying the original 6 frigates was for.
I made a bit of a list of the big ones here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837894

The interesting (and to me frustrating) part is that often good improvements (or intentions to solve actual problems) come together with far-reaching changes in an all-or-nothing kind of way. Some examples:

* I'm still of the opinion that moving `&mut T` to `&uniq T` pre-1.0 failed because it also proposed getting rid of `mut` alltogether and be mutable by default.

* Everything that relates to errors often also tends to accumulate a push to make things look more like exceptions. That applies to `?` short-ciruiting, the current discussion about limiting the scope of that short-circuiting, and anytime auto-converting final-value result types comes up. (and it currently looks like that short-circuit construct will auto convert its final value when it arrives).

* Making paths saner and modules and visibility more intuitive first started out proposing completely removing the option of being explicit about project structure, and it took multiple rounds of RFCs to keep that control.

* The match ergonomics discussions hinted at a wish by some to get rid of `ref` and `ref mut` patterns which is what allows destructuring a mutable reference into mutable and immutable bindings.
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> In my opinion, the main difference between China and the US is nationalism. And that's also what I think that slogan is indicative of. It also, I think, explains their government actions. Supporting their companies is not about nationalizing them, which implies a motivation of state driven control, but growing and improving Chinese companies on the national scene.

I've noticed that a few times recently when comparing American and Chinese policies.

In the United States we've made a cargo cult religion around individual freedom, to the point where we often don't do what's best for the country and society as a whole.

The Chinese government seems much more concerned about making their country and society better as a whole.
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This is why common law annoys me. Possible recedent from any tiny case any time? That’s sure to help only one thing: an industry of legal workers since no one can actually know the law without doing endless research.

I absolutely love how our laws are relatively small, how precedent is from the Supreme Court only, and how most people don’t have any contact with lawyers in their entire life.
Yes I was surprised when I did Classical studies (classics in translation) that when Thucydides was one of the set texts that I was the only one in the class that read the entire thing - plus read several other related texts.

I also read several other classical plays and not just the two that where set.
Would you be concerned if less than 2% of your userbase left?
One strong argument against a civilization in the last 100 million years or so is that our separate continents have clearly been completely isolated, and gone separate evolutionary paths.

If there was a planetary civilization 20 million years ago, there are tons of "invasive species" that would have spread across all continents then rather than in the 1800s. Think rats, sparrows, cockroaches, etc x 1000.

I don't think I have an argument against one back in Pangean times though.
The movie War Machine on netflix also discusses this.
What about wicker?

I imagine there to be a whole world of archaeology out there we miss because everything bio-degraded. If you navigated by river and set up a society based on fishing from the river then you might make everything out of wood, with wicker being the material of choice for seats and other furniture.

Such a society could be very sophisticated, as per the people that lived in the Amazon before the white man diseases killed them all for the forest to return to apparently virgin rainforest by the time the white guys got there. So there is your scenario to detect, how would you look out for such a society that had no need for big stone structures?

Rivers used to be clear and full of fish, able to service a river dwelling human culture for as long as there are fish.

If farming happens the river is no longer clear or full of fish, so a recession of sorts hits rather than some big defining event.
Not at say 17 or 18 though
He's nothing of the sort: he's a hatchetman of last resort.
I agree with the first paragraph, but my experience with college professors wasn't that much different from teachers high school. School rewards playing to grading system, and grade inflation means that professors don't expect anywhere near the level writing of their peers from their students.
Brutalist architecture mainly involves raw concrete, proudly exhibiting the modern construction technology of its time instead of pretending to be something else, and more generally avoiding pointless ornament and complication.

It makes sense in architecture, but a similar style in web design doesn't: all web design proudly embraces high tech by its nature, even the simplest examples; ornament can only be simulated, without craftsmanship and actual complication (compare a CSS box border, represented by a few number and implicitly existing even when invisible, with a plaster frame around a door); structures are always simple and evident, differing only in taste.

The point the article tries to make (escaping horribly homogeneous industry trends, with the advantage of having some identity) is valid but unrelated to brutalist architecture.

Looking at http://brutalistwebsites.com/ I see an inconsistent roundup of web design that, since it departs from the mainstream style ("mobile-first", short text, rectangles, centering,...) can be automatically considered relatively cool.

In reality, there are many styles represented: actually mainstream, but accidentally good; glitchy and rough and strange, as traditional for designers showing off; revival of the "Swiss" typographic style that went hand in hand with middle-late brutalist architecture and is somewhat contrary to current trends (close spacing, balanced and regular 2D layout, non-hipster fonts); camp or spiteful imitations of antique and/or aberrant ugly web pages; not self conscious, merely simple and functional.
But the deep point of the inventions of personal computing and the Internet was not primarily to make old media more convenient, but to "augment human intellect" by making the next qualitative media after writing and the printing press. The commercialization of these went after the lowest simplest properties, and this hid from most people what the computer is really about.

Computing has augmented human intellect, but right now almost exclusively for scientists, engineers, the medical profession, and other professionals. The real computer revolution will happen when the general public are able to boost their own intellects internally and to boost their reach externally with the help of computers.

Getting fixated on a poor problem can mask the problems that need to be worked on. A big one is "real education". Another is "real governance and democracy".

An analogy is to the Kennedy moonshot, which set back space travel more than 50 years. Real space travel has to be done quite differently than just relying on chemical rocketry, and the better ways to do it were swamped by the "stunt" to this day.
You are certainly correct in audio applications. "mix" usually means "add".

However in many other signal processing applications, "mix" means "multiply". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_mixer
... and in a backwater colony with a population of 2 1/2 million or so. There are metro areas today with that kind of population, look at the kind of leadership they end up with.
The purpose of brands and high fashion is not to be functional in the utilitarian sense. They are meant purely for signalling and their utility is an afterthought at best. See for e.g. women's jeans which have fake pockets.

For people who care about such things, its more important for their outfit to be congruent to some fashion principles (color, fit etc.) rather than the actual utility that such things provide.
It was bad exactly because it was centralized. De-centralized systems like free market capitalist economy are more resilient by nature.
>it is plain wrong

>Not sure what is meant

Which is it? :-)

As I interpret it, this article is not a scientific description of a particular physical system, but a metaphor.

That said, it does make sense in the signal domain. Consider electrical and optical resonance. It gets more interesting when the components are complex-valued.
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I’ve tried many notes application but the setup that works best for me is to collect all notes under one root directory (organized by project) and point sublime text to that root director. Powerful editing and easy to search. Sync via a remote git repository.
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Yeah but climate change. That wasn't really an issue in the 80s. Now we all have to face that fact every day. And don't tell me there's always going to be something. Climate change is different. Not even remotely like anything humanity has faced before.
Maybe the Earth-based technological civilization attracted the attention of a space-faring civilization, who dropped an asteroid to wipe out the Earth civilization (successfully, as it turns out).

Which means maybe we should be a bit more careful about bleating our existence out into the universe these days...
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

Counterpoint: in the modern era debts and taxes derive from the social system, not war. The US spends 2 trillion per year on taking care of its retirees and “only” 600 billion on the military. The entire world spends less than 2 trillion on war, so less than the US social security and medicaid budget. The thing governments largely spend their money on is taking care of their people, and taxes largely get redistributed through social systems. The image of the typical government as some malignant force dominating its populace is false (although such governments do exist).
This is implausible; you're assuming that every civilizational stage from every point in this hypothetical species development would have had the same burial practices?

Though, I'll grant it's possible they could've been soft-bodied creatures that leave very little in the fossil record or might otherwise look ambiguous to us. A future civilization looking back on human fossils might think we lived no differently than any other Hominidae. Anatomically modern humans have been around for ~2.5 million years, if our civilization were to end in even another couple million years that would still be a fairly tiny window in which we developed the intelligence to create civilization and then went extinct. If some jellyfish species developed human-level intelligence 300 million years ago and then went extinct in the same window, it's entirely possible we wouldn't be able to recognize the difference between their fossils and those of their less intelligent ancestors/descendants.
The attitude was the same towards the Navy. They were seriously opposed to the Navy, and just buying those frigates was a major change. Keeping those frigates was a back and forth as they were laid up multiple times. Your rationalization was well after the fact and the protecting of the American merchant fleet from the pirates (and both the French and British navies later) was the last resort. Just a study of conscription by the British Navy and American flagged merchants would show how much dragging of feet there was until the purchase of Navy ships.
It certainly is a good visualization, but just not for "resonance". It could be good for explaining e.g.
* frequency decomposition
* phase locked loops
* dot products between functions (Hilbert space)
Just to clarify, Google doesn't actually hire candidates based strictly on their academic performance. If you've had any side projects or prior jobs before applying, I'd say that's weighed more heavily.