skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, unlike you (I'm pretty sure) back in the day I used to actually _read_ various scientific studies on a regular basis; these were often in top journals, too. And after some years of this I got to where I routinely threw aside those studies, asking myself "How does this kind of crap get published, anyway?" The situation has only gotten worse since then, as far as I can tell.

As far as common sense and such goes, I'm getting pretty tired right now of people complaining about plastic pollution in the oceans which "lasts forever", but then in the next breath complaining about the breakdown products of that very plastic being a danger to wildlife. So which is it - "lasts forever" or "breaks down"? It can't be both. Much of this wildlife would probably be far better off if that plastic did indeed last forever; it would be unsightly, of course, but not all that dangerous.

Here's something else that stuck in my craw the other day. The author of this article (a "climate scientist") says at one point that "Science isn’t a popularity contest", but earlier had talked about "the consensus" among scientists. But what is such a consensus if not a popularity contest among those scientists? Also, the tone of the article is such that the author might ver well rain down scorn and disdain upon anyone who weighed in here who wasn't a bonafide climate scientist. But they themselves were actually trained in theoretical physics, not climate science. This situation is quite common among climate scientists, BTW - they weren't actually trained in climatology!

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/why-i-wont-d...

So apparently there's not really that much "common sense" out there at all, from what I gather. At least not on the part of scientists, anyway.
I am genuinely curious. Clean energy systems exist, but they are either expensive, restricted and dangerous to proliferate or expensive, inefficient and inconvenient.

What institutions exist that can make clean energy palatable to all the human societies that require it for their survival—at-scale, that they are all ignoring?

Leaving energy aside, what other powerful means of doing good to ecosystems as a whole, are they simply ignoring? Is there any quantification of the damage?

I am most certainly not trying to attack your position. I pretty much believe the same things you said. But we should have these answers documented. Is there a single source for these things on the web?
First there are a lot of shitty scientists out there, period. Second, there is a reproducibility crisis in science.

Human-caused climate change has been in the public mindset for > 10 years. I don’t think there is much doubt that the earth is warming, and that CO2 among others cause increased global temp. However, here is where myself and others become disconnected with the movement. The adverse effects of climate change are fairly benign out to 50 years and at worse predict 10 ft increase in sea level in 100 years. So either humanity has already decreased output enough (unlikely) or the estimates have updated and long story short, probably doesn’t seem so bad. Definitely not worth the effort of completely revamping global economies.
People often take postmodern theory to be prescriptive and agitate against it -- when it is actually descriptive and sorely needed.

Where existent theory is flawed, it needs improvement. But the world is going to keep going where it's going...
It's ok to want an answer. You may have to accept though (and it seems you're on your way to this) that the answer isn't simple, can't be broken down to a simple paragraph and can't be digested in a sitting. If you're not content taking the short explanation (e.g. "CO2 contributes to the greenhouse effect so our CO2 actually caused the observed global warming.") then you need to accept that you will have to study the models in depth and try to understand what assumptions/approximations were made, why the scientists consider those valid, what data are used and what biases or errors exist and needed to be corrected for and why those are valid, etc.

And that's all ok. As long as a person doesn't reject the science outright because they can't understand the work or don't want to put in the effort. But those who reject the science or insist that nothing be done about it until they personally understand it need to either put in the effort to understand it or lend faith to the scientific consensus which has been developed through great effort.
Thanks for the response.. Wish you nothing but the best...

My comment about complexity in the transpiler is more about debugging and what do you do when you can't figure out where your bug is, because it's in the transpiler. ;)

And I think your last sentence regarding composer makes it clearer whom this is aimed at.

Again, best of luck..
I think they need to go through this: http://www.samosapedia.com/by_language/english

Great way to timepass btw.
I too use MWB and worry about it being old and not updated. Anyone aware of problems we should know about?
Recently found my old teenager Casio "sport" watch. Out of curiosity (and because I have the tools). I opened it. It felt like an iPhone (sort of) inside:

- Extremely minute electronics (especially considering the price and 90s)
- Even the PCB was pretty.

That said, it features a removable battery :cough:

Still operates super fine even after the beatings of being on a young boy for years.
More specifically, thoughts comparing Akka, Erlang and Cloud Haskell, which are 3 different implementations of the actor model.
Nice, I have never seen that model. I wear the DB-36[1]. I've tried many other watches, but I always come back to this model. Love it.

1. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41B4p2bhQVL...
> Although I'm unfamiliar with using pipes to provide parallel processing, could you elaborate? If you can pass to another thread I will be kicking myself for missing that.

You didn't miss it, each stage in the pipeline runs in it's own process so you're already using it. With say "grep -r foo ./ | do-something | do-omething-else" the second and third stages will be operating on the data from grep while grep is still running.

In addition to that you can get more parallelism pretty simply with xargs (http://offbytwo.com/2011/06/26/things-you-didnt-know-about-x...). If that's not enough then check out gnu parallel (https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/).

While we're talking about unix as an IDE I want to put in a plug for inotifywait (https://linux.die.net/man/1/inotifywait). Combining this with a makefile you can get some very fast builds with near instant feedback everytime you save a file. I have one that executes units tests and valgrind every time for instant memory leak detection. Another great use case is getting WYSIWYG like features with latex files.
The "artificial cell" is a drop of water. Surface tension mimics a cell wall.

The "metabolic function" is a reaction that can happen in water between components that are injected into the water.

At the very least, this is an impressive application of microfluidics and could be used to model some cellular processes.
I thought google had removed the 20% project program.
Sublime Text does too.
It's funny the HN post and comments on Monday were critical of Elon, saying he's overacting, being "anti-ceo" and fear mongering.

It certainly seems like he was rightfully critical and agressive on Monday now that all the facts have come out.
Yes, and it lets you be better at whatever you want to be better at. It also lets you figure out what you really want to be better at, rather than arbitrarily pegging that down to be one's job. And isn’t one’s work really part of one’s life?

All it does, really, is put people in a more focussed, balanced state of mind, and shut down much of the incessant internal monologue. Someone focussed is generally better at their job than someone distracted.

So as one of the comments mentioned about monks not producing works of art or science - if an artist/scientist really did get into meditation, and if they were innately passionate about their art/science, they would get better at it. But it is presumptous to assume that the average monk wants be do art/science.
Others have mentioned several subreddits; I would like to recommend r/NeutralPolitics. I occasionally browse it and I'm blown away by the quality of the discussion compared to the discussions at other popular political subreddits, e.g. r/politics. Neutralpolitics's success is probably due to its rules and moderation, which help promote constructive discussion, and its lesser traffic compared to other political subreddits, meaning that it doesn't suffer from the unconstructive comments that result from the popular audience.
This reminds me of systems theory; anyone else? It makes intuitive sense if I think of traits as one outcome of a system. Rather than converging to a single particle-like "cause," such as a gene, it seems that the wider system is the basis for the trait--the objective appearance of the trait is an expression of the system. It seems it should follow that you can continue tracing the trait from the individual level up though additional systems, like social group, atmosphere/environment, etc.
Twenty years of network science
The more TypeScript I write, the less I like Python. In a recent project that involved pulling some data from Hive via Pandas dataframes and merging it with data from a JSON REST API, then doing some calculations and stuffing that data into a different JSON REST API (with a totally different shape to the data), I kept running into little edge cases that Python forces you to handle explicitly vs Javascript just doing what you want. It also annoys me to an irrational degree that Python has "dicts" and not objects, "lists" and not arrays, KeyError everywhere, error looking up dict keys as ints (you can only look them up by str with no implicit type conversion), can't say "dict.keyname", have to do dict['keyname'] or usually dict.get('keyname') and handle things like dicts within dicts where you're not sure if keys exist even more verbosely, etc

example of something annoying that came up:

foo = [1,2,3]
bar = {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3}
for i in foo:
print(bar.get(i))

What does it output? None x3. In order to get it to do the thing, I did something like this:

foo = [1,2,3]
bar = {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3}
for i in foo:
str_i = str(i) # even more fun when this throws
print(bar.get(str_i))

I use python because most of my coworkers understand it and it has wide library + runtime support where I work, but it's definitely not my favorite thing to work with. Dynamic typing where types still matter and where the language is picky about implicit type conversions kind of sucks.

I also couldn't do:

foo = [1,2,3]
bar = {'1': 1, '2': 2, '3': 3}
for str(i) in foo:
print(bar.get(i))

Which was also eyeroll. Like, I get it, but...c'mon. Working with Pandas is also more or less learning another language, with the insanity that is df.T.whatever and df.loc[]:

df.loc[df['shield'] > 6, ['max_speed']]

I'm sure that someone will comment about how I'm an idiot and there's a much better way to do it, but given PEP20:

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to
do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless
you're Dutch.

I guess I'm not Dutch enough.
Don't forget the plants! They're dying as well through the effects of agriculture, draining swamps for new subdivisions, and such. And from the few invasive species that thrive to the detriment of many native species.

Although I suppose the animals are getting the worst of it since we actively go after many of them.
Synergy 2 has so many issues that force me to restart it several times a day. I also need to keep the window open because my Ubuntu machine keeps stealing input priority. It breaks copy paste randomly. But I absolutely need it for quick cross platform testing and there seems to be no other solution besides a KVM switch. I hope this turns the business around.
1. Insurance: you buy it either via Obamacare exchange (e.g. https://www.coveredca.com/ in California) or buy it directly from health insurer operating in your state. Use Google to find one. If you can, buy Oscar Health.

2. You don't need LLC or S Corp. You can form one if you like spending money and filling out paperwork. Freelancers can operate as individuals.

3. You don't need a lawyer. You can get one. Yelp.

4. You don't need an accountant. You can get one. Yelp.

5. Read the contracts. If you don't understand them, hire a lawyer to explain them to you.

6. 6 months of expenses, the more the better.

7. By negotiating with your clients and balancing your needs with their needs.

Want to know more?

* https://www.amazon.com/Working-Yourself-Independent-Contract...

* https://www.google.com/search?q=freelancing+guide+for+progra...
Consensus is not a popularity contest. It's a debate, and just because you reach say 51% does not mean something is a consensus.

Second, the opinions of the ill-informed don't count but they sure love to talk.

PS: Individual papers are about as important as tweets. On their own they say almost nothing.
I use Numpy NDArray and pandas DataFrames a lot, and often times you want to validate the shape / columns / dtype of theses objects. I have yet to find a clean and meaningful way to type hint these, and ended up just put assertions at the beginning of code.
Some of us never left.
Eh I used CoreOS because I wanted a minimal distro that just provided docker. I'm sure they'll try and tailor Fedora Core to do the same thing.

It's just that it's Fedora; it's my allergic reaction to running redhat software I guess.
>Furthermore, the article claims that postmodern is characterized by an ironic self awareness, and never has this idea been more prominent in culture. In recent years I have noticed that TV commercials have become more and more self-aware. Take for example a recent commercial by what I believe was Verizon. It says something like "More coverage, more data." and then another actor comes into screen saying "and more people saying more." If this isn't ironic self awareness, I'm not sure what is.

I think that perfectly proves the author's point, though. The "self awareness" of postmodernism has filtered to even the most banal of sources and been left in the dust by the avant garde of today. Irony and sarcasm as critical devices are dead for anyone but the hacks.

From the article:

>"people who produce the cultural material which academics and non-academics read, watch and listen to, have simply given up on postmodernism. The occasional metafictional or self-conscious text will appear, to widespread indifference – like Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park – but then modernist novels, now long forgotten, were still being written into the 1950s and 60s. The only place where the postmodern is extant is in children’s cartoons like Shrek and The Incredibles, as a sop to parents obliged to sit through them with their toddlers. This is the level to which postmodernism has sunk; a source of marginal gags in pop culture aimed at the under-eights."
Did they have enough tech by that point to even begin to figure out mass manufacturing of solar cells to focus enough energy into water to make steam? Burning something that burns well is a much more intuitive and scalable process...

Also, mining the easy stocks (at that point) is a low tech affair too. Which was powered by... combustion of fuel and human labor.

We still can’t make solar panels with 100% efficiency, what hope did they have?
Haskell has a sweet strongly typed compiler that infers types so you don’t have to get bogged down with boilerplate.

I think F# does as well if I remember correctly and it uses the .Net compiler (idk the name)
Highly recommend the inotify tools. It makes things like auto reloading very easy to setup.
I own pretty much everything Murakami has ever written, including his non-fiction, and while I enjoy them all, Dance Dance Dance might be my favorite. I also never see anyone recommend it, which seems odd to me. An old hotel elevator that opens to a void where the Sheep Man waits for you. It's utterly bizarre. I love it.

Norwegian Wood is also very good, but it doesn't have my favorite trait of Murakami's other writing: the easy surreality of it. An unseen world pushes into the world of his characters, and they underreact. In terms of overall concerns, the Sheep Man is as pressing as a date with an attractive woman.

In a similar vein, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders is both lightly funny and surreal. Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami reminded me a bit of the meloncholy of Norwegian Wood. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster is also very reminiscent of Murakami.
I linked to some proposals in this issue https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/4164
Failing to understand...?
SFTP?
You are probably right in that I most likely lost a big part of my soul while adopting this philosophy. But every since I've started treating non-personal interactions in the same way I would treat compiler errors, I've stopped having a strong urge to drink after work, and overall can focus on what is important to me outside of the 9-5.

The only thing that really can get under my skin at work anymore is if a situation starts to threaten my job (i.e., backstabbing, gaslighting, setting up for failure, etc). But with this newer approach, I'm able to recognize this a lot sooner and do something about it.

Another way to approach this if you don't like the cold impersonal "API" approach, is to convince yourself that you are playing the part of a character in an improv style play. That the people being "mean" to you aren't really mean, they are just acting. Of course the danger with this mindset is that you could end up inflicting emotional harm on someone else without intending or realizing it.
Quote:
Male mice grow ovaries instead of testes if they are missing a small region of DNA that doesn't contain any genes, finds a new paper published in Science.

Source: https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/science-news/2018/06/14/non-cod...

EDIT: I think the finding is significant enough to warrant a separate discussion. Submitted a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361545
Hà Nội nên học Cao đẳng Dược nào tốt nhất năm 2018?
GitHub now appears to require logins to access Gists
I just noticed this change today, when I was looking for Armbian USB screen framebuffer driver, and was lead to https://gist.github.com/colindean/3d206b6ca1fe4349bc86

Upon hitting the link, Github demanded a login to the site. Previously, this would immediately display the contents of said gist - only if you wanted to make write changes did it ask for credentials.

Is this one of the new Microsoft-ownership based changes? What other changes can we expect?
I've been mourning postmodernism and wondering at the cause of death and at what has or will replace it. I think postmodernism has the answers to much of what plagues society today, and in fact I wonder if the plague may be due to its loss.

In a world of overwhelming information and especially fake information, a strong belief in the "elusiveness of meaning and knowledge" and of doubt in anyone possessing an ultimate truth, and the high degree of skepticism that results, would seem essential - a pre-Internet philosophy that seems tailor-made for the Internet era. Instead, people seem to be embracing ideology (ultimate truths), self-importance (another ultimate truth, rather than 'ironic self-awareness') and whatever claims can be insisted upon rather than supported through reason and fact; they are abandoning skepticism and reason, and the project of the Enlightenment entirely. I would ask what they see as the solution to this flood of lies and deception, but I'm afraid their answer will be that they don't care.[0]

I was at a lunch with someone I hadn't spoken to in years, an English lit academic whose PhD was about a post-modern author; one of their co-workers sat between us. I mentioned reading something related to their dissertation; to my surprise, my friend was clearly embarrassed; they said 'I don't read those things any more'. Other PhDs I know have abandoned intellectualism as fervently as the 'psuedo-modernists'; they buy into the ideology and fake news du jour too. If not them, then who? (When I mentioned this to a sympathetic academic, they said 'they aren't intellectuals; they're just a medieval guild'.)

I want to ask: Why did academics and intellectuals abandon post-modernism? Why has everyone else? How can they knowingly lie to themselves and accept the misinformation as truth? What do they think will replace it? How do they intend to solve these problems without it?

[0] To avoid redundancy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361122
1965 (mentioned in the article as being the start of a period in which pictures show smaller fish) is 50+ years ago however
Drugs trade, military industrial complex, money laundering, just off the top of my head.
TLBleed: When Protecting Your CPU Caches Is Not Enough
Yeah, in my mind it kind of boils down to this. The simpleton's answer to pretty much whatever ails you these days is "climate change". And the simpleton's answer to pretty much anything related to climate change is "CO2". Both of those positions are extraordinarily stupid, IMO, but far too common.
Well...I didn't this one coming. As a person working in professional TV production, there was a lot of eye-rolling, WTF looks and "I'm done" statements today.
sorry, you're absolutely right. I thought he went back after studying in Britain, but he was raised there.
For me, I mentioned object databases a bit, and I think there's still a gap here not yet filled by RDBMSes or NoSQL.

The old object databases (now mostly-forgotten products like POET, ObjectStore, Matisse and Objectivity) were too tightly tied to a serialization format. Many of them wanted location transparency, where your app just worked with "objects", and they happened to be remote and persisted to disk — the same awful design mistake that doomed CORBA and, to an extent, DCOM. Turns out this data model requires a tight coupling between a language's OO classes and the persistence model, and it's also means that code that looks like it's working on RAM objects can't optimize for data paths in the way that SQL can.

Then there were systems like GemStone and Caché, which were tightly coupled to a single language/runtime (Smalltalk and M respectively). Probably very productive, but ultimately a dead evolutionary end.

At this point I think it's possible to have a hybrid database that's good at both relational-type and object-graph-type queries, i.e. to collect a huge amount of structured data with joins etc., but without the tabular requirement.
Modern SOAP doesn't sound too bad to me! But then again, I never found SOAP to be all that bad.

I might have been lucky, though. Every time I had to use SOAP, it was just a matter of auto generating a client interface in whatever language I happened to be working in and then proceeding from there. I suppose not everyone was so fortunate.
I can access that Gist without being logged in to a GitHub account.
It seems that US admin, at least temporarily resolved this. children will stay together with parents.

Trying to put myself into shoes of those parents or children , the feeling must be horrifying.

I guess the horribleness of the situation, is the same regardless of the nature of the crime.

I wonder if criminal offenders will demand similar treatment, and argue in court, that their offense justifies similar treatment.

Is there a country/policy that allows children and parents to stay together in temporary incarceration or detention?
This is one of those things, I hope none of us would have to experience.

Also, as I am reading more: it seems that there are 2 separate initial positions:

A) one that every illegal immigrant must be treated as asylum seeker, unless proven otherwise.

B) An illegal immigrant committed a crime, and is not an asylum seeker. That is: asylum seeker must report him/herself as such, at the legal border entry -- and let the border agent determine next steps.