skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think tweaking the ribbon of space time abstractions in a tesseract while wearing a space-suit to talk to your younger daughter, must have been a totally amazing moment to "sell" to the movie pitch guys. Selling it as Matthew McConaghy must have been doubly fun: No... we wanted Kevin Kostner <click--brrrrr as phone gets dropped>
This has been my experience. Low walled cubes allow me to drop my chair and block everything else out of my line of sight, then stand up and have the ability to see everyone around me.

It also hides everybody’s cords, which are always beyond messy and hideous in most open office settings.

I think small cube wall (that acts as a backdrop for a stationary monitor or 2) is optimal.
I'm using uMatrix, enabled an Amazon AWS url, and the content was freely available.
I just wrote the same, now reading thread.

Infringement of or on the person.
That's strange, considering that a digital subscription for a whole month is $3.99. ...or are you exaggerating in an attempt to make a point.
There is at least one prison-IT-focused startup in YC's portfolio: Pigeon.ly (Winter 2015):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257818
One of them was adjusting the seat whilst driving, it flew back and she swerved. The other one I understand was a seat which wasn't clicked in.
Python and Ruby use flat strings as input to eval. That's an entirely different thing. To do ANY useful code transformations one needs to parse it. Lisp code already comes in a hierarchical token tree.

Ruby and Python represent code as text. That's what Lisp does, too. One has a file of code. But Lisp has something which neither Python and Ruby do: the text is actually a data structure: lists, strings, numbers, vectors, symbols. Lisp provides a function READ.

You can read code:

CL-USER 73 > (with-input-from-string (stream "(1 + 2)")
(print (read stream))
(values))

(1 + 2)

It returns a list of three items.

This then makes it easy to compute valid code and execute it:

CL-USER 74 > (with-input-from-string (stream "(1 + 2)")
(let ((code (print (read stream))))
(rotatef (first code) (second code))
(print code)
(print (eval code)))
(values))

(1 + 2)
(+ 1 2)
3

Then put it into a macro:

CL-USER 75 > (defmacro infix (expression)
(setf expression (copy-tree expression))
(rotatef (first expression) (second expression))
expression)
INFIX

CL-USER 76 > (infix (1 + 3))
4

CL-USER 77 > (macroexpand '(infix (1 + 3)))
(+ 1 3)
T

Better, and complete infix macros exist.

Or use infix conversion during reading. Write your code with sections of a more conventional syntax:

CL-USER 80 > (defun hypot (a b)
"Compute the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
with sides A and B."
#I( sqrt(a^^2 + b^^2) ))
HYPOT

CL-USER 81 > (hypot 1 2)
2.236068

Just put a quote in front of the expression and enter it at the repl -> the result is the transformed code.

CL-USER 84 > '#I( sqrt(a^^2 + b^^2) )
(SQRT (+ (EXPT A 2) (EXPT B 2)))

There is nothing like this in Ruby or Python.

If you look at a Lisp interpreter, it actually executes Lisp data as code. Macros transform Lisp data as code. This is far far away from what Ruby or Python do. Python provides some access to its AST - that's also far away from what Lisp does.

Lisp macros don't define irregularities. They do code transformations. Stuff where the language designer/implementor of, say, Python refuses to provide a control structure, you can do it yourself in Lisp in a few minutes or you can spend years to implement really cool stuff. The Common Lisp object system started as a large portable library (with only very little system dependent code), which code be loaded into Lisp and which the provided a very elaborate object system. This also included some clever macro code.

I think titles like 'The problem of Lisp' may need a bit more reflection and patience. What is new for you is old news for the Lisp community. The exact same problem report can be already read in Lisp books from the 1960s. It's a bit like blogging 'The world isn't flat!.;-)
All prisons should have free libraries. This is basic stuff. Reading is a good thing and should be promoted at all times. We can talk about edge cases for censorship (extremist stuff) but there is no reason not to allow them ready access to the books available at any local library.
It's not the size of the vagina that's the issue, it's the size of the pelvis. The vagina is extremely flexible. Bones much less so.
If they hadn’t done what they did, they would be the other company that was open the entire time. Meta Vision, who recently went out of business.
Probably because the published literature doesn't come with photos, and modern journalists don't know how to perform any sort of actual investigation anymore, i.e. contacting authors.
Similar results can be achieved with C++ nano co routines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tlJAqMV7U&feature=youtu.be...
At the time it may have been a scholarship the all students received. I remember it not being the case for other programs if study.
Before I started work I was waiting for stories of cubicle farms.

When I started, reality was you didn't even get your own cubible, just a desk. Now you don't even get a desk, it's all hotdesking.

I'm so glad I work from home now (most of the time), I get my own office, my own desk, and don't have to wear headphones. If I do go into the office for some face time, or to do something physical in the equipment room, I usually end up in the pub as there's nowhere to actually sit.
> Having visited cubicle offices

Ah, so you didn't actually work in them. Yes, they don't look good, but those walls provide privacy.
The post mentioned that they want low (preferably constant) memory use to support embedded use. Unfortunately, the faster you get, the more memory you use when it comes to multiplication. For this reason, they don't even use Karatsuba or Toom-Cook multiplication.
Off the top of my head:

1. For whatever reason, a lot of Americans seem to have the mindset that once you've been convicted, you're basically less than human--you don't have any rights. You deserve to suffer, because you committed a crime. (Yes, I understand that being convicted does not actually mean you committed a crime. This fact is lost on the people I'm talking about). See also: people joking about men getting raped in prison, and saying that they deserve it.

2. Low recidivism rates are bad for for-profit prisons because then they get less money. And remember that, in America, money is speech, companies are people, and people have the right to free speech! To quote an article[0] that I just found through a quick Google search: "The two largest for-profit prison companies in the United States – GEO and Corrections Corporation of America – and their associates have funneled more than $10 million to candidates since 1989 and have spent nearly $25 million on lobbying efforts. Meanwhile, these private companies have seen their revenue and market share soar. They now rake in a combined $3.3 billion in annual revenue"

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
> “Today, our world feels divided.” Rony Abovitz, CEO of the infamous mixed reality startup Magic Leap stood awkwardly on a circular stage

first sentence. holy negativity batman.
Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
HN is slowly transforming into Reddit.
> Physics is wrong on many fundamental levels

Physics, when practiced according to the principles of the scientific method, is never wrong (or right). Physical laws try to explain the world around us using mathematical models. Those models can be tested over a certain domain of experimental parameters D. A physicist, when speaking accurately, would never say that a physical law L is correct. They would say that L correctly describes our experiments on domain D. New or more accurate measurements can expand or shrink D, and in the worst case D can become empty. This constant refining is the essence of physics and the scientific method.

Arguing that physics is wrong implies a lack of understanding of what physics actually is.
Related: did you see this horrible bug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk&feature=youtu.be...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206059
What is the excuse they are using to push this? People building paper crossbows à la MythBusters?

I can't even see a paper thin justification they could use to sell this. I'd be interested to know who owns the company and who they are connected to in Pennsylvania government. And how much of a kickback the prison system is getting from this.
>Are we saying that when the hold baggage is screened then just because of a stray battery or power pack they're going to ... do what, exactly?

Not only for stray batteries, it's screened for all kinds of things, including drugs, bombs and other non-allowed items or dangerous stuff.

To my knowledge, if they do find something, you'll have some security guards come up to you and escort you to a separate section of the airport where you will be unpacking your luggage and remove the offending item, then repackage and you can go on (or not if the offense is too great to ignore).
It’s the worst of both worlds.

Isn't that a matter of perspective? The command and control of communism, but with the incentives of capitalism, ensures maximum value is delivered from the person doing the work to the shareholders.
Wide-eyed glare scares raptors: From laboratory evidence to applied management
I think the definition of "expert" can be pretty ambiguous. We have one type of "expert", the MLB hitter who is an expert because he is more skilled than others at hitting. And we have another type of "expert" who is an expert because she knows more about something than others. These are two very different types of "experts" but what makes them experts is their skill/knowledge relative to the general populance rather than skill/knowledge relative to some absolute.
I definitely agree with your assessment, but I do think it's worthwhile to focus on smaller "paper cut" injustices. For one, the smaller injustices are usually microcosms of the overall systemic failures, and provide a digestible window into the greater problem. Two, if it's unlikely (if ever) that system-wide reform will be enacted, it's still worthwhile to relieve inmates of these day-to-day problems, which, over long sentences, can result in real harm at the individual level.
The article describes the rationale, as does the "observational evidence" section of the Wikipedia article on dark matter[0].

tl;dr no alternative models for gravity can sufficiently explain all of the data, but general relativity and "dark matter being particles" does, so that's what we're going with.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_evid...
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Why are "open offices are bad" stories so popular on HN?

I often say that programming is 8 hours high-performance mind sport a day. Every serious high-performance sportsperson would be furious if he/she were forced to perform training with, say, cheap sneakers from the next discount supermarket. So it is quite logical that programmers get furious about open offices.
Remember that the capability ratio between soldiers and civilians was much less before the rise of modern nation-states and technology. (The following is generalizing a very wide swath of places and times, and based on some things I've read; perhaps others know more:)

Before modern nation-states, there weren't national armies so much as forces 'raised' by the aristocracy of civilians pressed into service, barely equipped or trained or even fed, and led by aristocrats who often had similar training (but better equipment). IIRC, Napoleon was the innovator of the modern nation-state military that you would recognize, in the late 18th century.

In technology, the difference was civilians with heavy or sharp pointy things (maybe knives, maybe pitchforks or homemade spears) and poorly trained soldiers with spears; a mass of civilians had a chance. Today the difference is between civilians with handheld firearms and trained soldiers with tanks, missiles, artillery, attack helicopters and jet fighters. Even for the heavily armed civilian population of the U.S., your fate relies on whether the soldiers are willing to massacre you.
> Providing such evidence was literally the main claim made in the top-level comment on this now very long thread...

You provided evidence that spending has additive value in predicting outcomes? Please, cite it again.

> Also, the fact that spending correlates well with other test-based performance metrics (see: the top-level comment on this now very long thread).

You want to use, as evidence to support the view that spending provides novel information over and above performance evaluation, that it correlates with performance evaluation?
Please stop feeding the "Us vs Them" narrative. We all know the history of white-euro aggression & crimes. By all means, call out the wrongdoers, but giving credence to the binary narrative only perpetuates and obfuscates the real harms done by modern white, brown, yellow men & women.
Journalism stopped paying journalist, so the good ones left, the famous ones got paid more, and the industry changed from new information delivery to sitting on top of fabricated outrage media that tells you how to think. We have no "journalism" in the united states, only a propaganda arm delivering fractured propaganda originating from their largest advertiser block.
To me cubicles are just a variation of open office with the same set of problems. It's about dedicated offices vs. sitting in the open.
AI to be integrated to MMC platform to distribute 4D view of movies
The Turks may have simply put their own receiver nearby, especially if they were concerned for his safety beforehand. I'm sure their sigint is more than capable of that.
I assumed it was just put in there to be clever :-)
Would you feel the same way about an article lamenting "black male culture"?
I wonder if he was using "Just Press Record" to record the audio? It has an Apple Watch app and complication, and it automatically syncs to iCloud. It also works independently of the iPhone, and syncs up later. I share the same question as others in this thread: how did the audio get back to the phone?

https://www.openplanetsoftware.com/just-press-record/
People don’t like bullshit. Oculus or Hololens get none of this skepticism.
>What legitimate companies call from private/unknown numbers?

All of the European ones. The number they call out from isn't their helpdesk so they block it to stop people calling back.
Really nice writeup. I have been using Racket occasionally for many years and never thought about the UI libraries. Off topic, but I am going to retire next year and would like to settle on a single programming language for recreational and research programming: probably either Racket or Common Lisp, less likely Haskell or Pharo Smalltlalk. Racket is a great ecosystem and community but I have been using Common Lisp for 36 years.
You can't rely on longer range, but it happens to work sometimes. If the phase of the moon is right. I've mislaid my phone and had the bluetooth headset work well beyond that range.
I think these jobs exist. Mine does. We’re a small company that makes high value physical items with a large software component. We encourage remote working but not remote only. I know this is not a popular view on HN, but I think there is huge value with regular irl interaction. It doesn’t need to be every day, but it does need to be regular.
We also offer mostly single person offices (interns are currently 2 per room). We also have a culture of opensuggestions and critique regardless of official positions. I’ve always worked this way so maybe it is survivor bias. I fully admit I could make more money elsewhere but that is not my primary success metric. I already make more money that most in my area (though it is easy to believe I don’t based on some of the material things I see around my general location).

My only concern hiring older engineers is that they are stuck in a rut. But I’m my area most senior devs work for huge defense contractors. So maybe that is more an environmental factor.
Not bad faith; you just missed the joke.

(a.1) Of course there are differences in the complexity of airlines' pricing structures. To claim that all airlines' menus are equally complex is an extraordinary claim.

(a.2) The extent to which it is hard to find an airline with a very simple pricing structure testifies to the economic infeasibility of these structures unless the OP found a market inefficiency (which was overlooked by the entire industry), in which case he should exploit it to the tune of millions of dollars.

(b) Assuming the OP is in fact an airline industry visionary, when other airlines see him making money hand over fist, they'll change their ways.
Prison officials have blamed books for being a vector for contraband smuggling: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/maryland-...

> Maryland prison officials are limiting access to books for thousands of inmates in state-run facilities in the latest effort to reduce drug smuggling.

> ...Investigators uncovered 3,422 Suboxone strips during fiscal 2017 and 3,362 so far this fiscal year. However, officials could not say how many of those were concealed in books.
I’m also interested in OPs questions, and additionally would like to hear how many are using Lambda with the API Gateway, and how big of a pain point is cold start.
This one is silly and egregious enough that it might be useful to raise awareness.
We contribute to defining that, but the greater part comes from the community. If that weren't true, we'd never hear the end of it.

The most important part of the moderation job is to listen for what the community wants and, as long as it's within the mandate of the site, help to realize it. Moderation is necessary because (a) this wouldn't happen on its own, and (b) what would happen would be less interesting.
If that’s part of the test, then it’s definitely the culture.
Yes Apple regularly advertise for helpdesk employees, they get to work from home though.

The problems haven't changed, helpdesk is 75% assisting customers with reading comprehension, 25% actually solving legitimate problems.
For some reason I've found that vacpots are easier to clean up than a press-pot, but they really complement each other: some coffees go to the press-pot, some are better with the vacpot.
Yes and no. I can only speak for this one hospital, but most of the time we would only induce if there was indication for doing so (twins is one example that comes to mind) or if the mother truly wanted induction. I don't recall specifically encouraging for reducing time, though the residents would joke about wanting to do so instead of waiting.

I wonder if this is more common at teaching hospitals, so that attendings can hand off the waiting to the residents in training.
Is this written by Philip K. Dick?
I actually never seen anyone eat an ekiben, in Shinkansen or not (I covered the route from Himeji to Aomori in several trips). Most people were just eating snacks.
> I suspect that practical outcomes and technologies arising from understanding dark matter will be huge.

I doubt it. More than 50 years after discovery of neutrinos, we are yet to find any practical outcomes or technologies.
Main website: http://mhsys.org/index.html

Source code: https://github.com/mhsys/mh

"MH is free software" and there's a link to GNU, but I don't see an actual license anywhere.

"it is possible to use NetBSD drivers, filesystem and other code in userspace to driver real hardware, it has a complete libc in userspace, Newlib, and has a really useful native runtime system, libmrg" - that is promising, even though there are notes about this still being early / not useful, etc.
IDK, all you really need is the joint position vectors and then animate the avatar on the receiving side...probably don't need a realistic rendering of your plumber when a cartoon hedgehog will do since all they're doing is transmitting concepts.
Most open offices have tables that are designed with holes for cables and even trays underneath to keep it all organized and out of sight.
Creepypasta is how the internet learns our fears
I think programmers tend strongly toward introversion, which does not jive well with the intrusiveness of open working spaces.
we have no way of knowing if she indeed evaded taxes

Are there sources claiming that this was a false confession, and that she did not actually falsify her tax returns? I agree that in principle this is a possibility, but I haven't seen such claims. The New Yorker article seems typical in assuming her guilt: "In a nation of runaway economic growth, where tax evasion is rampant among the wealthy, what struck many people was not Fan’s alleged misdeed—that was predictable enough to be banal—but the startling way in which her case was handled."

Similarly, for discussion of the NYT article, I think it's generally assumed that the blatant manipulations of the appraised values happened, the only question is whether it was illegal, and if so, whether it's prosecutable. While you are right that the headlines are primarily because of the "disappearance" of a celebrity, some people (like me) are equally interested in the larger question of whether tax laws can be reasonably enforced without resorting to such measures.
What's zero page? Where can I read more about it? Wikipedia[1] suggests in modern operation systems "actually make the zero page inaccessible to trap uses of NULL pointers".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_page
Wow I didn't know. But I'd highly recommend using a lambda function and try with a local OCR library. To see if it afffects cost. No need for Google to be reading your docs. I believed I used PYOCR. Not sure how they got the 98% figure
In the world of modern medicine where complications like this would lead to an immediate c-section? No.

Roll the clock back a couple of centuries or so and both mother and child would die.
It will end up being a "better phone". The best application is telepresence: create a virtual space to work with a team, but no one is physically present, everyone is remote. Yet able to turn on/off presence in the shared space as needed to accomplish their group task at hand. Kind like Slack, but with the ability to communicate in nearly any form, from small non-obtrusive msg bubbles (like a text) to full video windows when necessary showing whatever needs to be visualized to answer questions. The "killer app" is enabling ones physical location to be irrelevant to working with others.
Yes, and it can kill the mother as well.

I don't have statistics, but my wife and/or son wouldn't have made it without a csection.
> ...a hacky app...

this probably says more about the Android marketplace and user base than anything else, but there are easily 100+ apps designed to reduce spam phone calls one way or another. and we (myself included) still feel like the solutions are not really great. maybe i'm just not looking hard enough or expect too much.

but i keep thinking: it's a phone with a computer builtin -- it should be able to do "the phone call thing" super efficiently out of the box without any extra work from the user. i don't know...

[0] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=spam%20call%20blocker...
Because that will fit the HN narrative well ?. How about commenting on the Google vision API and it's accuracy as well ?
Great stuff. I would add ‘C++’ to the HN title.

I don’t use C++ anymore, and my years with the language were before stdlib. The C++ ecosystem is looking very good, but I am glad to have moved on. I even worked as a C++ mentor and wrote C++ books for McGraw-Hill, but the language was not a good fit for me; I always preferred C for low level stuff and Common Lisp to get work done quickly.
The making of a computer game
How is the revenue.that's what matters
Is this always true? If the shared library you linked to uses symbol versions and the bug fix requires a new version of a symbol, the application has to be relinked anyway. Same as static linking, except now it is not obvious you need to relink to get the bug fix.