skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be conflating criticism of your actions with criticism of you personally. That’s not a game worth playing. As you said I’m questioning your motives in the context I already laid out, of existing solutions which are superior for the consumer. I’ll leave it to others who have already commented extensively to question the technical means.

It’s also worth pointing out that I’ve explained the core issue I have with your plan have nothing to do with your motives or ethics. I’m not sure how many times I need to repeat the idea that something like uBlock Origin is a superior performer, and “but the ad-supported content!” argument is unmoving for reasons I’ve already stated. It’s not that I’ve failed offered a broader perspective, it’s just that you’ve focused a lot on what you perceive as a personal attack, despite it being nothing of the sort.
Monitor individual queue in sidekiq
I got the Clojure bug at some point not long ago. Decided I’d write a crawler and some data munging stuff directly in Clojure since it’s all about data processing.

Crawlers naturally want to be stacks with pipelines and expressing them as tail recursions over URLs curried into transducers, etc was easy enough conceptually, by difficult in reality because you want crawlers to be stateful. I think in clojure you end up hacking state by just attaching stuff to the outputs of your functions and building of more complicated objects down the line.

I discovered that stuff which is cake in SQL or a language with data frame support is often typically hard in Clojure. Eg eg joining data , aggregation, etc. The few clojure libraries for this sort of thing are complicated to use because they have a mechanical sympathy with how clojure executes. Eg https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter/

So I wrote some of my own libraries to get over this hurdle. I then realised that there isn’t a single decent statistics library that still maintained, and that the java bindings were far from simple to us.

At that point I gave up on clojure for my use case. That’s not to say that there isn’t something for which it’s awesone. But in my opinion it isn’t data processing.
And then you have a confirmation on almost every page, and then you run into dialog box fatigue where users will blindly click through them, and you've gained nothing.
Wow when trying to leave that page I was hit with some of the worst adware attacks I have seen. It completely locked my android browser, filled history with dozens of entries of itself so that I cannot go back, and left me with some flashy ads that I could only get rid of by closing the tab.
I recall reading that it's not that those 12 bits are explicitly asserted, but rather that the CS descriptor after reset is in an "unreal mode". After all, x86 segment descriptors consist not just of their numeric value, but also of a base address, segment size, and privilege information.

So at reset, CS is set to a descriptor whose numeric value is 0xf000 and whose base address is 0xffff0000, or something to that effect. All the rest follows naturally -- there's no special case logic that asserts lines of the address bus until the first long jump, it's simply that the reset value of the CS descriptor is rather magical, and that long jumps by their nature load a new CS segment descriptor which isn't magical.
Indeed: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QQCJ1HOdePU
السد القطري يسقط أمام بیرسبولیس في ذهاب نصف نهائي أبطال أسيا
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1654/
Stored hydro & nuclear solve entirely different demands. Nuclear's core strength is providing a strong, reliable, but relatively constant base-line.

Wind/Solar can supplement (or even replace it) depending on costs and geographies, but their generation can be very spiky, and you don't get to pick the spikes (or troughs).

Stored-hydro rounds off the trifecta by providing spikes on-demand, but also by absorbing over-production from other sources.

Nuclear looks wonderful in a "spherical cow" calculation, but the reality is that nuclear strongly prefers a constant production, but demand is never constant. Under-production is obviously undesirable, but over-production is no easier to deal with.

So it's not really about which is better - it's balancing the weak points in each system against the strengths of the others.
Very well put, so thank you.

Just want to add that money has always been in politics. This trope that it was only a prob after the CU decision is (apparently effective) misdirection, IMO.
The game of politics is about securing interests/power, period.
Assuming he meant stuff like this, Kanye Kardashian was absolutely right about the 13th Amendment, which is what permits involuntary servitude as punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

As an aside, I will be happily posting away here then suddenly I will get a message "you're posting too fast, please slow down". I immediately know that one of my comments has been downvoted, because that's what triggers that.
>Also your own sources contradict the claim "Autistic people were never thought to lack emotions".

Where?
I challenge everyone who disagrees to look at Breitbart's front page right now and find an article you would consider objectively false or more biased than the average CNN or HuffPo article.

Whataboutism isn't a good argument.
Oh, my mistake, it's been a while since I wrote the code. I use it to style the linked comment. So, the browser automatically scrolls to the appropriate location, and then jQuery adds a style to that comment so the user can easily locate it, or refind it if they scroll up and down the page.
The Romantic Backlash to Boring Robot Investing
Thanks for the link - it's a good resource for those who would like to read and hear Latin being used in a modern setting. I only wish the voice were less mechanical-sounding, but the effort in trying to keep a dead language alive can only go so far... Also, the Finnish accent is not too bad - especially compared with the way Latin can be heard from the English or the French (or even the Italians).
On Lisp? http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Then why are beef, gas, water, and cars affordable?
Show HN: Simple sharing
thank god you know more about my education than I do.
Did Apple have to kill the card slot to support iCloud ?

No. Why then?
Lock-in, that's why.

Like someone else on this thread rightly said, Impracticality is the feature here and clearly intentional.

Apple may have gained customers like yourself. They sure have lost customers like me.
> If they know polygraph doesn't work, why do they still do it?

The airport is not the only security theater the Americans operate :)
As a side note, since the article also mentions that:

Since 1/10 Austria and Germany are not in the same energy zone anymore, the pricing zone was split up. This was done because too much renewable power feeding in at near zero cost in Germany was flooding the markets and pushing too much strain on the grid. Heavily needed power lines weren't built because people were protesting.

So the first week has passed were the zones are actually split up and we can see that energy prices are way higher in Austria than in Germany, see [1]. Sure, a more definite answer would need to look at a longer time span. The highest difference actually was on 3/10, where baseload in Germany was 18.29 €/MWh compared to 60.40€/MWh. And peakload on 3/10 was 17.13 €/MWh in Germany compared to 65.83 €/Mwh in Austria. Solar generation on 3/10 in Germany was 12.5 GW!

So far good for Germany, since they anyway subsidize solar and wind heavily and now have the low prices more or less for them self (not totally because cross border capacities, [4])

I haven't looked so far in the costs of the auxiliary energy, really curious how they develop. Germany has in total probably around 385 MW in battery storage already [3] and lots of battery storage projected for 2019.

[1] https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data/dayaheadauction
[2] https://www.eex-transparency.com/homepage/power/germany/prod...
[3] https://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2018/03/battery...
[4] https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/
Lower memory usage of your Rails app with jemalloc
> Unless you believe she is lying about doing much better after quitting her meds

This is an unscientific and inaccurate. The placebo and nocebo affects are real with actual health effects. Sometimes drugs don't make it to market because they have positive effects less effective than placebo.
I messed around with Clojure for a couple of days to see what a Lisp is like but never got into any of the advanced features. What could I build that would illustrate the capability you are talking about?
No amount of cruelty will slake the barbaric craving of many Americans to see "criminals" harmed. When privately run prisons shirk the constraints that public institutions operate under, they are responding to a public demand for savagery.
most of the job will be technical support and finding the right server providers. marketing will be the limiting factor.
it's pretty quiet legally, usually it doesn't go further than DMCA cease & desists, but you need to mind countries and what logs each requires you to store.
see packetimpact.net maybe i can help you
I remember finding it pretty revelatory the first time I saw LET defined as a macro like

(defmacro let (bindings &body body)
`((lambda ,(mapcar #'first bindings) ,@body)
,@(mapcar #'second bindings)))

Seeing it use MAPCAR like that just made something click for me for whatever reason.
PiCluster 2.4 has been released
I don't think it's appropriate for you to bring beef from another thread into an unrelated one, nor do I think your characterization of my behavior in that thread is accurate.
In my company they have started to refer to people as "resources". It feels really dehumanizing.
Great to see that things seem to have turned around for the better for you.

No one deserves to ever feel deppressed, I say this confidently, having been swallowed by depression once and succesfully coming out to tell its woefull tales, it's great to see another person escape from its cold, lonely, and sad clutch.
Stuart Sierra has an interesting talk on homoiconicity and its history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zyGMcav3c
Unable to change title ;)
I guess it takes an average HN reader 1 hour to setup a VPN. If the purpose is have a secured gateway for using public wifi, it serves the purpose. However, if you want to gain anonymity, it does not work since the node has a unique IP and only you are using this IP. You still need different users to use this VPN to gain anonymity.

Therefore, we could only choose one of the following: security or anonymity, but not both, unless you becomes your own VPN provider and serves some customers for anonymity.

An alternative is Tor, but a compromised exit node still leaks HTTP site.

So, if someone could solve this problem, it would be a big selling point. I am not sure if it is possible to share an IP between different VPN nodes without an untrusted gateway in front.
So is this a question on why don't Apple keyboards have a DEL key?
Before even getting into politics, we need to agree about what's going on in the world. I would consider it a great improvement if political discussions could move beyond naive realism: assuming we understand what's happening just because of what we read in the news. (Or worse, on Twitter.)

Journalism is only the "first draft of history" and often gets it wrong. We should therefore be more uncertain about most things we read, particularly breaking news.
> I challenge everyone who disagrees to look at Breitbart's front page right now and find an article you would consider objectively false or more biased than the average CNN or HuffPo article.

Sure.

> EU Cracks: Juncker Says Brexit Deal Close

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/10/06/eu-blinks-juncke...

It's certainly not the EU who are cracking under Brexit, Theresa May's government is.

> Danish Minister Rejects EU Migrant Quotas Claiming ‘Too Few Contribute’

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/10/07/danish-minister-...

The actual source (https://jyllands-posten.dk/politik/ECE10915137/stoejberg-dan...) says it is the UN quotas it is stopping, not the EU ones as suggested in the title. The title is also misleading, "too few women contribute" is the quote.

They only took in 500 refugees a year before that, something the writing definitely does not reflect, and will continue "throw open their borders" to refugees with disabilities.

And hey, lets throw in a nice bit about rape statistics and putting asylum seekers on deserted islands.

The less said about the comments, the better.
Think of a sine wave, with the y-axis representing the positivity/negitivity. A representation of life's ups and downs.

I think what she was saying when she said "no emotion left" is that the amplitude of that wave was nearly zero. The wave didn't go up or down much. When she said, "I want to be dead", she's saying that the the average value is down in the negatives.
I've been looking for something like this, thank you. Do you mind sharing what type of hosting you use, and what kind of VPN traffic it supports?
Not the place to continue this discussion but chasing up just one reference I find an opinion piece by Milo Yannopolis evidently upset (I wonder why?) by the poll revealing that at that time 52% of British Muslims would like his sexual preferences to be illegal.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-musl...
Title: "Half of all British Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal, poll finds"
Sony Television(Sony TV) Launches First Game for the Movie “Namaste England”
I don't want a removable battery, and I do want a thinner and lighter phone. The market seems to show that making iPhones thinner and using embedded batteries doesn't hurt sales.
I went through the above journey as well and for me it was not worth it. Psychotherapy combined with meditation was a far better treatment and thus why I am hostile to any suggestions of medication from my psych. I simply don't trust the drugs, at all, anymore.
Legal Medical Cannabis mixed with mindfulness anxiety techniques from my therapist has worked wonders for my panic disorder. I am completely free of Benzos and Antidepressants and have been for 2 years now.
Sometimes, due to your in-page navigation or some other fixed position element, you need to actually scroll to a point before the actual element, so that it doesn’t get covered. The native behavior would not give it the lead space and you’d see some of the element’s content covered by a static element.

In scenarios where you can’t redesign the html structure or css to give the element more padding, you pretty much have to use javascript to get the window-x position of the element.
I checked just three people from the list that they are all promoting pseudoscience.

* Electromagnetic hypersensitivity theory has no scientific basis and double blind studies show that the symptoms are not dependent on electromagnetic field.

* Dowsing aka divining is medieval practice with no scientific basis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing

> mountain of research and evidence on the effects of electromagnetic fields on biology.

This is trivially true and too generic statement to be used as an argument. For example in vitro studies don't transfer into in vivo. Especially in high frequencies.https://www.emf-portal.org/en is good source f and as you can conclude from the wast volume of research, it is well researched subject. No significant negative effects has been established from cell phone or wi-fi radiation unless the energy is well above the safe levels.
I don't have the tools to repair the fuel injectors on my car, should they become clogged with carbon. I take my car to a repair shop, where the cost of the tools (and the skills) are amortized across a number of customers.
Qt 5.12 LTS Beta Released
As you can notice parent introduced precariat, which in turn is new type of proletariat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
They have been able to do so because there is no agreed definition on what 'Web 3.0' means. When the blockchain believers call their work 'Web 3.0' it is like evangelists that claim their cult-church already has the the 'third testament'. There is implication that they already own the future.

There currently is no need for 'Web 3.0' as a phrase. The Internet of Things is a thing that could arguably be called 'Web 3.0' but that internet connected refrigerator is not needing the 'Web 3.0' moniker to convince people to buy it.
It is funny, I usually know what I am getting in this function in my Clojure code. OCaml (or Haskell) gives entirely different comfort to me, it tells me what makes sense as input and output type for my function. The downside is that I need to define different functions for different types.

utop # let avg a b = (a +. b) /. 2.0;;

val avg : float -> float -> float = <fun>

utop # avg 2 4;;

Error: This expression has type int but an expression was expected of type float

utop # avg 2.0 4.0;;

- : float = 3.

user=> (defn avg [a b] (/ (+ a b) 2))

#'user/avg

user=> (avg 2 4)
3

user=> (avg 2.0 4.0)
3.0

I think it is a matter of taste which one you prefer. With property based testing and specs you can go very far in term of pre-runtime checks and there was some data about the number of bugs per line published by Github where it turned out that Clojure did not do too bad in comparison to statically typed languages.
Why Big Companies Squander Brilliant Ideas
Ember 3.4 Released
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138116
Let's rewrite this: there is a point to hiding defects... if you are a contractor or looking for a promotion.
I think there's a very good chance that this is being driven by the flap around data science, and the big push toward teaching programming in schools.

Assuming, for the sake of argument, that that's true, it means that we've got to think about how you define "programmer". Does it mean anyone who uses a programming language, or does it mean something more like "software developer"?

TIOBE, for example, effectively measures popularity among the former group, not the latter. Which means that, in the case of Python popularity, it's going to be picking up on all sorts of things: analysts and BI people ditching Excel in favor of Pandas, ops people ditching piles of shell scripts in favor of Ansible, graduate students choosing Scipy over R or Matlab, 7th graders with Pi-tops, ...
> spoiler: not remotely possible to scale large enough for total world needs.

Yeah, not with those assumptions.

Storing enough energy for 7-days worth of zero-sun and zero-wind is going to be basically impossible across all known energy storage technologies. We'll likely have to run peaker plants during such an extended outage.

But we're not even trying to solve the 7-days worth of energy problem. We're starting with: lets save 3-hours worth of energy, so that the 6pm sun can be used for air-conditioning until 9pm or so.

Which we're not at yet (see the "Duck Curve" or "Nessie curve").

Besides, being able to store energy for 1 or 2 hours is still SUPER useful. Wind is strongest at night, while Solar is strongest during noon. Having energy at dawn (sun isn't strong yet) or twilight (sun is setting, but the wind hasn't picked up yet) is going to be a huge portion of our future energy strategy.

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A huge part of the problem can be solved behaviorally and economically. We can change the price of electricity based on how easy it is to produce. 12:00 noon (highest sun power) can be cheaper, and 3am power (max wind energy) can also be cheaper.

Night-time energy can be used to power electric cars. 12:00 noon power can be used for factory work and other high-energy tasks (Air Conditioning, Washing Machines).

We all can change our behavior to reduce our energy demand between 5pm and 8pm, to reduce the Nessie curve / duck curve. And we can use economics to set the price higher to encourage others to follow our lead.

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Throw down a bit of nuclear, and keep a few natural gas peaker plants active for emergencies, and I think we've got a strong future for energy.

At the end of the day: Pumped Hydro is the ONLY GW-hr solution to this energy storage question. CAES is hundreds-of-MW-hrs, while Lithium Ion is also only hundreds-of MW-hrs.

That's just how the cookie crumbles: we don't have any other technology to store GW-hrs of energy.
> Most of the time people do comments: a = 4 //assign value 4 to a

When I see people arguing against comments, I see this strawman again and again and again.

In my multiple decades of programming I have never seen anybody write a blatantly redundant comment like that. It's not "most of the time" that people comment like that, in my experience it's never.

Programmers have a job to do, and in my experience generally do not waste their time using comments to "restate obvious things and think it's a good comment". Rather, they comment when necessary to explain the why, or to provide a concise 2-sentence description that would be too long for a function name but lets you skip reading the next 30 lines of code which would take much longer.

I really wish people would stop using this strawman of "most comments are redundant/obvious anyways, therefore don't comment". I mean, maybe you personally did have the terrible luck to work with a codebase that was actually like that... but I personally have never seen it.
At 9:30 a.m., another bloodletting of 18 ounces was performed followed by a similar withdrawal at 11 a.m. At noon, an enema was administered.

or

Dr. Craik ordered another bleeding. This time, 32 ounces were removed

i wonder how much lifespan this measures did take off of him, in this particular instance maybe hours, days, or even some weeks (of course it could have also been the primary cause of death). but all this bollocks throughout a lifespan could well be measured in whole lost years.

of course, i have no idea if this is true or not, it may also be that this kind of measures, if a body is just healthy enough, have no impact at all in the long run.
Why is this a surprise? They treat their staff at all levels notoriously poorly. If your workers have no emotional investment in your company you shouldn't be shocked when they start doing subversive things.
I took a course in Racket in first year (required for all first year math/CS students at my school) and I've spent some time in the Clojure community as well. "Code as data" is an oft-repeated selling point of Lisp and Lisp-like languages.

When you actually start using these languages, you find yourself tempted to leverage this property and try writing lots of macros. But then you go back to the community and everyone tells you "the first rule of macros is you don't write macros." It turns out that if you use macros all over the place then your code becomes impenetrable. The problem is that macros allow you to circumvent the expected order of evaluation and produce your own novel syntactic structures. This puts lie to the old claim "Lisp has no syntax." In reality, Lisp has tons of syntax, it's just informal and buried within the definitions of macros.

It parallels the problem put forth in Jo Freeman's famous piece, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" [1]. Any group that purports to adopt a structureless organization ends up having a hidden, informal structure. This is the way of Lisps as well.

[1] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
I think you're stepping into a fallacy here. Of course every thought process is bound to biological processes in the brain. So we can see this as some sort of biochemical mapping of our understanding and perception of the world, and our social status in it. Why should the solution to a negative outlook be to mess with the chemistry alone, through drugs?

You can just as well ask the other way around, what kind of world and experience is leading to such a detrimental biochemical mapping. The woman in the article describes this herself, she was called fat and ugly by her father throughout childhood. This has to do with social status, not brain chemistry. I find it quite frankly disturbing that the solution to such a learned insecurity should be just drugs.