skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asserted is standard term used in electronics for "having the logically active state" used when whether that means one or zero on the physical wire is irrelevant. In particular Intel's documentation uses "asserted" in this sense.
If sources which occasionally play lose with facts or spin are to be banned from Wikipedia some mainstream news outlets should probably go as well.

Not a fan of Breitbart, but this reeks of political preference. Wiki should be above this kind of thing but apparently isn't, which speaks to it's own credibility.
A poker "bluff" has always seemed poorly named to me. You aren't making any claims about your hand either way, you're just making bets. So a "bluff" is actually just the other players guessing wrong at what you're holding.
Yes, but the reasons are it damages the second hand market and reduces product lifetime -- the outcome for society/environment is worse, the profit for the company is greater.
I get your point, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a user-removable battery, like you'd have in an old dumb-phone?

I know that modifies the engineering (aka, the phone must be thicker) but it's not clear to me that there's much a of a real benefit to a phone being especially thin?
> So you've now paid for more storage than you need. Upfront.

It's like an extra $150. Stretched out over 24 monthly payments. Big whoop.

> Apple's solution is to go sync those gigs on Apple's cloud and keep paying a monthly fee for it.

This is exactly what I do. Totally worth it.

> You can't swap it and if the phone dies, you've probably lost everything or it's going to cost you dear to get that data out.

You can download and back up your cloud data onto physical drives. All of my photos and music are stored on multiple redundant drives. And because it's also on the cloud, when I get a new phone all of my data is available instantly. It's seamless.

> I know more people like me and I see a niche market emerging that I hope someone addresses.

I see commercials for Android phones with SD card slots, so it's already being addressed.
I can't say I've personally seen any evidence of "mass migrations" of this sort. However, I can personally say that after 5 years of working with Clojure and with several large Clojure projects under my belt now, I'm starting to realize that I'm losing confidence in using Clojure for large projects and the feeling of how _maintainable_ that project will be in 2-3 years or longer. I think Clojure hits a sweet spot (at least for _me_ personally) for small-to-medium sized projects though, and I don't hesitate to use it in those cases.

The thing I've _consistently_ seen with every large Clojure project I've been a part of is that as the project grows, it becomes harder to make sense of the types used across the project. On the last couple of these projects I've been on, Schema was used to annotate many types, but I've never found this to be quite enough and I still remain firmly convinced that gradual typing just doesn't work well enough generally. I think that with a _very_ highly disciplined team of experienced developers it could probably work well. But we don't all get the opportunity to work on such teams. What I've personally seen is developers are all too willing to either add a partial type spec/annotation (with probably some s/Any's lazily thrown in where there should most definitely _not_ be), or just flat out not adding any at all ("Why would I need it here? This is very simple code and it's obvious what is happening here!" ... sure, maybe it is to you now... what about in 6 months? Or what about to one of the other developers on the team?).

When discussions about static vs dynamic typing come up (which is almost always a fruitless argument in my experience), I've noticed that the dynamic typing proponents tend to get overly focused on the idea of "correctness". This has always disappointed me. Correctness is certainly an important benefit (though I think it tends to get exaggerated a bit much), however, to me the idea of documentation in the form of a type definition is _much_ more valuable over the longer term, especially so for large projects. Developers are usually quite lazy, especially when it comes to documentation, and often when looking at a piece of code in a large code base, the only documentation about the values being passed to a function is going to be the type definitions (aside from reading the code itself of course).
does typescript allow you to write less tests? does it have dependent typing abilities? or something like clojure spec? to me it looks more like a slightly better java but you still need to write lots of tests
there is no such thing so don't get your expectations too high
I'm just curious what your own scientific credentials are, to be able to label other scientists in this field as crackpots?

In case you aren't aware, and it seems you are not, there is a mountain of research and evidence on the effects of electromagnetic fields on biology.

Or are you going to dismiss 26,813 publications and all of their writers as crackpots?

https://www.emf-portal.org/en
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> All of a sudden you can stop worrying about "what am I getting in this function"

I think what you're saying is something like "this function guarantees that the thing I get here conforms to this shape" and I do like that. Something I don't see a lot of people express is just the simple "I know what the shape of this thing is by looking at the signature". Whenever I find myself reading other people's Clojure code, it feels like I end up spending more time figuring out what is being passed into a function. I have to look around to find the origin of a value. I wanted to tear my hair out the first time I tried reading Ring's source code to figure out how it worked. With F#'s Suave, I can tell what each function gets and what can be done to it--it's self documenting. In Clojure, as the original author you can play around in the repl full steam ahead because the types are in your head at the moment. Those who come after you have to assemble the puzzle with less information.
Interesting topics week 40: Kafka & KSQL, Flink, MS Ignite videos
For what it's worth: Education in Switzerland is mostly managed on communal level. Cantons have a certain administrative influence, but only really run the gymnasiums (higher secondary school, prep for uni) and interestingly enough cantons run the universities.

The only federal institutions of higher learning are the ETH / EPFL and their offshoots.

It seems to work pretty well.
How does "leverage" get you a job in Intelligence without passing a poly?
Ask HN: What has helped you maintain and/or increase your libido?
Drugs, supplements, diet, habits, diagnosis, lifestyle, ...?
You get consistent revenue from the NSA.
#vanagas
Cheers, that was a good read. I'd still attribute the argument to Marx, because Smith doesn't seem to link this effect with the inherent values of capitalism.

Turns out there's also a wikipedia page outlining the history of this line of reasoning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour#Henri-Louis...
Your notion of equal opportunity has an analog with respect to being equal under the law: the rich and poor alike are not permitted to sleep under bridges, etc.
The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders–I like to say we’re archivists”
If you are going to get specific about history like that, then we formally lost that membership with the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War, not the Declaration of Independence, which formalized why we started fighting it.
I hate the sentiment, but I think you're right. Modern technology is fashion, given that it's so widely adopted. Fashionable pants are intentionally expensive and impractical: this is an intentional feature.
Dvorak is a cranky opinion columnist. He always has been. That's his schtick, and he's never tried to hide that.
Asserted is a common term in analog electronics.

You might even say it’s something a freshman undergraduate in electronics would know. Then one might jump down your throat with eye rolling disdain because you don’t know something.

But then that would be treating you how you treat others thus uncool.

Please try and remember this next time you are an asshole to someone who doesn’t understand say parts of the Minecraft stack.
Analysis of device data collected by Airbnb
Now that I think about it, it probably is useful for initial job screening. More like a psychological test to screen out those that get too riled up over stuff. Though that really has more to do with age. The first one I had took three hours. Years later, the recent one was 1 hour.

The one thing the intel community does want to screen out are rash decision makers. So it’s probably excellent measure of one’s ability to keep cool under pressure.
Not sure where this comparison is going? One dam disaster (Banqiao Dam) caused more death and destruction that almost all other disasters combined. In fact failure of nuclear plants has had remarkably few verifiable deaths.

And compared to the energy one nuclear plant produces, dams seem to have vastly worse death-per-benefit statistics.

Damming a river can cause ecosystem collapse downstream. That's degradation, as I understand the word. And its definitely long-term.
Almost every week a new article comes out from some language index saying Python is at the top or overtaking Java or C or C++ to reach the top very soon. I think the evidence is simply not there to support that static typing is somehow preferred by the average programmer.
The leverage is the ability to make the same amount of money in a non-cleared role.
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> It was a shock for me to discover that the "literature review" of an IEEE paper I was reading was essentially useless compared to the one provided by Wikipedia on the same topic.

That says nothing about wikipedia, and only indicates that you've stumbled on a poorly written paper.
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Something that tells the truth inconsistently and nondeterministically sounds worse for our society than just asking the question under oath.
Here are the websites:

https://www.5gappeal.eu/

https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/
The fact that it is easy to set up a VPN does make this more competitive but that doesn’t mean you can’t build a business. Think about who your customers will be. Is there an underserved niche that you can reach? It might take a HN reader 10 minutes to set up a VPN but my mom wouldn’t be able to figure it out if you gave her 10 months.

My battle plan for assessing whether or not I would pursued this would be the following:

1. Who is my target market?

2. How big is that market?

3. How will you reach that market?

4. How can you test whether or not you can reach that market before getting fully invested?

5. Test out several ways to reach your market. Try changing the niche and marketing plan until you can find some positive signals.

6. Analyze the data and make an educated guess whether this is worth your time or if you would enjoy doing something else more.

As far as legal issues, I don’t have any good advice but talk to a lawyer. Look at some terms of use of existing VPNs. Find out where you are liable and try to mitigate your risks the best you can.

If you ever want to brainstorm some ideas hit me up at my email on my profile.
Horrifically bad argument that always comes from people who have never contributed to wikipedia or researched for 5 minutes how it works. Pages of high importance are moderated and restricted, so no you can't just write anything, and even in the cases where you can there needs to be a citation.
Uh oh, better raise those interest rates. Can't have inflation creeping up. Now that the middle class is starting to get a bit of the gains, the business cycle needs to be reset.
There is no such thing as self-explanatory code like some people claim (is it arrogance?).

For example, for the name of a function to list something, I have seen (standard libraries) the next name of the functions

findAll()
ToList()
showAll()
lists()
results()

and for insert, I have seen:
insert()
add()
save()
store()

And the verbs "insert" and "save" are not the same, even in the same context (unless you are using the library), it's not as trivial to determine what the function does.
I think it's overstating the case to say there's "no there there" in income stagnation - other and more recent data point to alarming trends in total individual compensation and in overall inequality. But it's important to take into account the flaws in certain metrics we use.
Sites can already send an 'X-Frame-Options: deny' header to prevent being framed.
These type of personal anecdote fuelled by a general distrust of 'big pharma' can be very misleading and discourage patients from seeking professional help.

I also want to point out that the author of that book she speaks highly of also happened to be the Presiden of the publication[1]. I think not mentioning this fact make the article even less credible.

[1] https://www.madinamerica.com/staff-page/
Britannica has been recommended to me many times, by academics, as a source of basic facts - it doesn't contain in-depth research, of course, but they considered it to be reliable.
From a technical perspective, you're probably not breaking new ground here. The main things you'll need are ease-of-use and good marketing. There are existing companies that do this and make it fairly easy to get up and running, so you'll need to do the same. Perhaps start with a niche (e.g. easy setup on Ubuntu) and build from there. Still, your biggest hurdle is going to be that no one has heard of you, so make sure that you have a well designed landing page and think about who you'll market the product to.
What about Jolla and Sailfish OS ? You can check https://jolla.com/ .
Rich Hickey said himself "If a delivery truck comes to deliver a TV to you, do you care what else is on the truck? No, you are only interested in your TV" so the messaging idea is exactly right, and they weren't looking to implement strict static typing. In Clojure, Rich Hickey and others like Stuart Holloway speak of not "complecting" your code by passing around data structures other than uniquely namespaced maps where functions can take what they need and operate on it without having to mess with anything but data.

so instead of

data Person = Person String String Int Float String String

you have :person/name ....

By using simple data structures you can work on it much easier and even interoperate with other services and languages, while still checking to see if the data you are fed conforms to what you need.
>like a rat navigating through a maze built by superiors

brilliant use of language here, you're spot on. while i agree that the public sector can foster a passive mentality, i didn't get that vibe from the author. they were just a person trying to put up with the bullshit that accompanied a job they loved.
The author is vice president of the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He's an economist, not a political appointee, and this is a presentation of findings, not an opinion piece.
Hey if we’re offering sample sizes of one, SSRIs make me sleepy and unmotivated—nearly the opposite of a helpful effect. I’ve also heard quite a few complaints from women friends about weight gain. Sexual side effects are common. For me, at least, SSRI medication was and remains to be a distraction from mental health treatment.

I also have plenty of rage at big pharma, but that’s more around enabling bad therapists to prescribe medicine without providing the appropriate support. They obviously have every incentive to make sure that anyone who sees a psychiatrist has some medicine that could apply.
It would help me screen out jobs I don't want. Would never want to work somewhere that sees employees that way.
Two important dates that clarify your accurate observations:

2005 - As part of the 'Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act' student loans from for-profit and non-governmental entities were given immunity to dismissal in bankruptcy. [1]

2012 - College enrollment flatlined. [2]

It's basic supply and demand. The widespread deregulation of university tuitions paired with lifelong debt even from private creditors removed all cost barriers to education. And so the only weighting factor in the supply:demand relationship was how many people were willing to take the poisoned fruits of ever-larger life long loans. And so universities kept ratcheting tuition up under spurious justification. Until the number of people entering university flat lined.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_an...

[2] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/183995/us-college-enroll...
I will say that I don't think it's quite fair to call it "a MIPS clone with some small differences". I'm currently trying to port a JIT backend from MIPS to RISC-V and it is rather involved. If you're just translating some assembly functions piecemeal, maybe it looks very similar, but the differences around the size of immediates can completely change your strategy for layout.
If that is true than it is no better than the US healthcare system.
That's correct - Serotonin is not the only factor. That still refutes the author's hypothesis that mental illness is some sort of personality defect.
This is a negative business model and should be subject to anti-trust. It's another ruse to hoover up more data by Google. How are software companies going to compete with a google subsidized alternative?

Tomorrow google could attack other software verticals with their vampire data collection business model with negative dystopian externalities for society, businesses and their employees.

Who is going to pay for all the software employees made redundant by these kinds of business models? This is a kind of dumping which is illegal in most economic systems.
Articles like this are so tedious. They amount to, "Why can't you be more like the corporate and government structures you were protesting?"

For example:

> As Occupy progressed, the activists’ rigid commitment to the group’s less-strategic internal norms (especially leaderlessness and consensus-based decision-making) and the elevation of the tactic of occupation to the movement’s raison d’être were ultimately their undoing. It’s not much, after all, to win a park and lose the world.

Maybe instead of creating one unified super-movement in homage to the very entities they were trying to protest, something different was possible.
Or maybe the press can just be more truthful about a company that doesn't give them advertising money?
Unless you believe she is lying about doing much better after quitting her meds and trying other treatments such as meditation and group therapy, the article is not complete bullshit.

That being said, I would not be surprised if there is truth to what you said about that book.
I'd consider myself tech savvy and I happily pay for a VPN (PIA). I don't want to manage a node, and at $40/year it's about equal to what I'd pay otherwise.
Huh. SSRIs made my life way better, but I also get sexual side effects. For me, at least, SSRI medication was and remains to be a critical link in mental health treatment.
What to expect from Google’s hardware event: Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and more
One of the problems with this metric is it's easy to manipulate. Exchanges can easily lie about their book depth and/or people can put in lowball buy orders they have no intention of ever filling. To find out if those buy orders are real you would have to purchase them and all the orders above them, which would be very expensive and move the price a lot.

On the other hand, the instantaneous price of a coin is easy to verify. Everyone who buys or sells at the exchange can verify it, so exchanges can't easily lie about it.

Here's an interesting solution for ranking exchanges by their order book depth in a way that's more difficult to manipulate. Perhaps it could be adapted to rank coins. https://bitcoinity.org/markets/rank_explanation
The parent post has a point.

Five minutes or not, it is ultimately deceptive. What really is a ~22% drop since 1970s looks like a 100% drop on first sight.
not to mention that butt-clenching is just the simplest way of nonvisibly messing with your vital signs. a guy walking in off the street can butt clench.

once you get into some of the intermediate level buddhist body awareness studies, you won't need the butt clench to cause your muscle tenor, heart rate, body temp, and respiration to respond to your will.
Function specs are not about compile time verification: they are about checking that the object you got is the thing you thought you had.

Compile time verification is nice if you know all your inputs at compile time. At some point, data from elsewhere comes in. Specs are an answer that preserve the composability goals of Clojure (who cares if I have a bit more information than I strictly need?) and allow you to validate them at runtime with useful error messages.

spec has incidentally made Clojure's compile term error messages better! But that's just because one program's compile time is the compiler's runtime, and the compiler is running spec verifications on your code (which is after all, just data!) during its runtime :-)
> people generally accept Wikipedia as a source of factual information. It's the 9th-most viewed site in the world

That assumes people are interested in factual accuracy, and I don't think that's the case. Tabloid newspapers and celebrity gossip draw many readers too. Recent events should make clear that priorities are elsewhere.

It's a matter of degree, of course. If I'm writing something professionally or if something serious depends on it, I'm not depending on Wikipedia. If I'm trying to find the name of that recording by that musician that's on the tip of my tongue - sure, why not.
An Electron wrapper around the web app will do wonders for productivity and RAM utilization.
Ok, but where is your source that they have schizophrenia?
Anecdote: You can do this really cheap on the billing side and use WHMCS for billing/member management. Better than rolling your own, and it's pretty extensible.
Exactly. There is an earlier reply talking about household income being flat the last 50 years. What that ignores is that over that time household composition has gone from two earners to closer to one earner (averaged out).

But using a household unit for measure hides that change.
Yeah that's the irony here. Vice is definitely the left-liberal version of Breitbart. Both have lots of edginess and questionable articles, but also put out some articles with very valuable original reporting.
What are you going to stream? Setting up the miners physically or a screencast of the configuration? Or something else?
I have a casual objection to USV saying that the investment opportunities they missed aren't good because it reminds me of the Wolf and the Crane fable.

The Wright brothers didn't need airports to build the first airplane, but for commercial flight to exist airports must first be created. Likewise, I find many of the Web3 apps that I use to be perfectly fine as they are, because I know what I'm doing and I find the experience of being a trailblazer exhilarating hence why I also make my living building these platforms.

For most people, including plenty of highly competent technologists, it's still too far out and uncomfortable for them to use web3 apps, so we need to build better infrastructure that can accommodate other use cases, have better UX and dX, and bring in more people.

edit: Come and build the web3 with us! https://twitter.com/sserrano44/status/1048718205127151616
Don't make any mistake, the middle class still isn't getting any gains.
And if you're willing to consider LaTeX, I'd definitely recommend LyX.
Weaning off Venlaflaxine was absolute hell until I started taking Prozac as a bridge. It still wasn’t great, but it was a fraction of its previous awfulness.

Took me about nine months to wean off venlaflaxine, started the Prozac bridge in the middle and grateful that I eventually used the bridge. Feeling better now.

Good luck to you.