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How does this article contain no mention of the Hastert Rule? From my vantage point, that is what killed Congress. The Republicans were in the minority and vowed to never vote, not even a single vote, on any proposal supported by a Democrat no matter its contents. This is why Republicans will vote against measures that are identical to measures they voted for only weeks or months prior. Expect this to return in full force after they get booted next week. Their policy is total and complete obstinate refusal to vote for anything which is not solely originated by the Republican Party.

This makes sense from the view of politics that the primary distinction between conservative and liberal boils down to conservatives being willing to cheat and break any rule so long as it is in service of their in-group, while liberals are willing to have their in-group lose if it means keeping the 'game' fair.
Not really, just the definition of "pro-business" is changing. It used to be that all you needed to do was slash a few taxes and you were a pro-business state. These days businesses are looking to be located in areas where their employees will feel safe and welcomed, which excludes states that fight against gay marriage, for example.

I don't really see the argument that businesses choosing location based on taxes is fine but choosing based on employee life satisfaction is a crisis.
SSDs with usable built-in hardware-based full disk encryption (2012)
Sorry if OT, but I'm kinda surprised Kavanaugh is already doing SC things; I thought there was some delay after swearing in or that the SC schedule was limited to fixed times of year.
I'd like to point out that government used to run by agreements that were like that, and look what has happened in that domain. I say this as a warning what the internet could become.
This was broken when I had content blocking on, turning it off did the trick...
Sounds a bit like how ad-block plus handles the blocking based on lists to which you subscribe, just with certificate white/blacklists?
I also like longform.org
You didn't but I've heard plenty of people do.

If you take for granted that brain physiology in healthy brains impacts brain capacity then you're a couple of stray neurons away from justifying Jim Crow V 2.0, now with more science.

Hormones aren't any better, back in the 60s and 70s 'negroes' were said to be in heat constantly which is why they needed to be paternalistically protected by the nice Alabama state troopers.
Many of these statements are also true of the NYC metro area where there also happen to be 2 cities being considered (NYC and Newark). The key difference is that Amazon currently employs thousands of people in both NYC/Newark and in NoVa, where the number of people in Dallas is substantially smaller.

Both NYC and DC have far better public transit and airports than Dallas. The only thing Dallas has beat over these two places is cost of living, where in both it's not too difficult to find affordable housing outside the city (something that isn't as much the case in other tech hubs).

The business environment aspect tends to matter more to smaller companies, or those building things like factories, than it does for Amazon, as they already have the resources to push through complicated government processes, and will receive substantial tax breaks to make up for the rest.
I think GP was referencing the perceptions of a politically-significant share of the population with that description, not endorsing them as accurate.

I hope so, at least.
If you can't be happy with a life of mediocrity, you are simply not going to be happy. The extreme majority of people are mediocre, and that is exactly what defines mediocre. It's a simple statistical guarantee that most are not going to win the lottery of life and be more.

I find the concept of anomie useful:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie

We aren't making the world or ourselves better by striving towards intense and unrealistically optimistic goals all the time. Our unbound desire to maximize growth is psychotic, and after all we're very much on track to destroy the biosphere if we keep behaving the way we are. Probably past the point of turning back, in fact.

What's the point of all our progress if we end up making ourselves miserable and eventually eradicating ourselves?
You're right that you need some measure to judge improvement, but you can have a vision of perfection without making it a goal in itself.

Optimiziation may be a subset of problem solving, but surely you'd agree that a problem can be solved even without the situation being brought to optimality?
All these kneejerk comments about this being phase 3 in Bezos' grand plan to defraud America's wealthiest cities- I do not understand. No cities have committed anything to Amazon and can volunteer to walk away or attempt to renegotiate if they so wish. Not much of an grand master plan.
This is an internal Amazon decision that is not regulated in any way. They are not obliged to any notion of "fairness".

Amazon just put some cities on a list and negotiated with them.

Any city not on the list is not there because Amazon didn't want it there.

I also doubt that existing talent pool size was such a major consideration. Crystal City VA doesn't strike me as an obvious tech hub, nor does Newark. Amazon is definitely counting on talent to relocate to its new offices, especially if they put them in such locations.
All a partial oracle has to do is be able to correctly answer an undecidable set of problems and then it can no longer be replicated by a Turing machine. It can be wrong on an infinite number of problems and still fit this requirement.
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Don’t forget seed oils!
This is a great idea. I'm working on this sort of thing using active learning.
Asana?
Learning IS brain transformation. Essentially by definition. Also, lack of exposure to novel intense experience actively prevents brain development because it prevents learning. This will be a growing problem as adolescents in particular lead lives which are designed to eliminate all novel stimulus and thwart every natural inclination to seek novelty. It's certainly encouraging news to see that the dropoff in neuroplasticity that comes later might be caused by the dead boring lives of industrialized adults rather than any insurmountable biological hurdle. At least, that's what I get out of this.
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The two aren't at odds. Packet routing was designed to survive sudden and severe loss of network paths, but it still assumes that participants on the network are cooperative players.
You may want to check out the proof for further information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18377525
Here's the key sentence from the article:

>...I no longer believe it's important whether the condition is called an addiction or not - because all of them clearly need help to solve a problem that is wrecking their lives.

Clearly, there are people out there who have problems with craving sex all the time, and some of those people are willing to go to such lengths to get it that it interferes with their lives. Those are the key symptoms of any addiction, no matter what you want to call it.
StackOverflow has extremely high standards, yes, but it is an extremely professional atmosphere. I have never seen someone 'doxxed' on the platform and if someone did it would get shutdown quick. I suspect you don't know what that word means.
Primarily, from my understanding, it's related to diminished permitting and (most importantly) very lax zoning laws.
No, a partial oracle by definition gives correct results for some subset of questions in the domain of interest, and no answer for other questions in the domain. It never gives wrong answers. (Now, if you can define the scope of questions for which a procedure gives wrong answers such that you can identify them in advance, you can convert it to a partial or full oracle by applying a process around the base procedure that flips the answer for those question (for a binary domain, like halting) or converts them to “don't know” (for non-binary domains.)
A lot of the economic development policies passed in the name of HQ2 offered incentives in the form of stating, if you bring x number of jobs to y location, you get z tax break (where it wouldn't just apply to amazon).
While I don't disagree in theory... practically there a number of services that have one "owner account" that represents an organization and a business needs to make sure they have control of that account regardless of personnel changes. PyPi and Rubygems are examples from an old job.

Even when a service, like Twitter, does have multi-user/multi-owner identities in some business plan this might not make sense for small teams.
In seriousness, isn't this where Microsoft should have a competitive advantage? If Excel integrates with Azure easily, doesn't it incentive Azure adoption? I guess I'm picturing a bank analyst running a derivatives model that in the background, spins up 10 Azure server-less functions in parallel that hit a database hosted on Azure? The banker is now happy Excel "works quickly" but it really is just connects a front-end people are comfortable with alongside cloud resources?
I would love a C-note or the Overnight Sensations. Unfortunately UK shipping is a bit pricey! $90...
> It's also worth pointing out that C++ really achieved OO (initially) by using macros on top of C.

And this is extremely relevant to the point. If the primary complaint against function programming in Java is "comfort" and "boilerplate"... Macros address both those problems very well. If Java had macros, it would be very simple to isolate and minimize that boilerplate.
> Do you mean like startups? Or general tech companies? Or large companies with significant tech presence?

Yes to all of the above if you consider the full Boulder/Denver metro.
elifesciences does it now

https://elifesciences.org/articles/36545
Big companies are funny animals in that they appear on the surface to make short-term decisions to appease the market, but behind the scenes tend to plan out a decade or more. A good fifteen or more years before Boeing moved their HQ out of the Seattle area and moved significant production elsewhere, they were putting out messages to suburban governments where they had smaller plants to not count on them being around. I would bet Amazon or any other company thinking of a move of this magnitude has a plan that stretches well beyond 2020.
In other words that they were confident there wouldn't be a russian evil maid anywhere on a US wide network.
Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18300187
> Every single time humanity visibly progresses, it is because one person (or many) found a problem with themselves or the state they were living in and attempted to remove the problem in hopes of having themselves or their environment become more 'perfect'

I'd venture to say more human progress is attributed to warfare than anything else.
The US spends more than $850B every single year on the military. If a tiny fraction of that was spent in gaining complete energy independence, it would pay for itself in that we wouldn't need as big of a military.
By reducing the totality of the human experience of suffering to a single quantity, you give your ethical framework the patina of objectivity. However, without an instrument that could actually measure this quantity, any governance structure based on your framework would be at the mercy of sophists, pity mongers, and empathy traps.
> Go ahead, monkey around with BGP, since I have the public key of the recipient of my packets I can detect this and block any type of misdirection.

And how did you get that public key?

An attacker could pretty easily obtain a valid Let's Encrypt certificate using a BGP hijack.

Also, the CA system is in bad shape - CAs have been hacked and certificates were leaked. Not to mention that some of the CAs your browser trusts are not entirely trustworthy or are located in untrustworthy countries. Oh, and from time to time there are attacks against TLS itself (e.g. https://drownattack.com/)
Whenever this issue comes up I just link to this: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/23/the-laws...

"The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood"

Worth reading.
an app for every website would not scale icon-wise. and it would destroy the hypertext
That's the first thing I wondered as well since I'm currently trying (and mostly failing) to learn how to play my guitar.

I also wonder what the limits to learning are. At some point, if I learn something new, does pushing that knowledge into my long-term store replace or weaken an existing memory?
Unimaginable that Amazon doesn't already do everything it absolutely can to reduce its engineering payroll, which is probably its biggest expense.

Without knowing anything about them, one would assume they're already tapping global talent pools with maximum aggression.

If anything, recession in the US may increase the supply and lower the cost (salaries) of American developers, thus making them more competitive against other countries.
I can't be so sure of that, is the HQ of Berkshire Hathway really omaha, or is it the HQs of the various business subunits.

If you have a conglomerate, the existence of an HQ is totally meaningless.
There won't be for decades either. When they sold off 36, there's a clause that they can't build anything that would cause a loss of revenue for that toll road without reimbursing Plenary.

On the plus side, the buses do leave every ten minutes, with plans to increase that to every five minutes within the next few years.
> It can be wrong on an infinite number of problems and still fit this requirement.

Nope. If it's allowed to be wrong, then a TM can do it. In fact, any one-bit hash function is a partial oracle on that definition (which is the reason that definition is not used).
James Damore has found work
Very cool. Just this morning I was looking for a FIS-B decoder.
Carl Hewitt has been making a similar argument for decades: https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/231495-what-turing-and-...
We have a definitive enough sense of how things work at the molecular level to know there isn't anything too crazy going on, just molecular transformations, which aren't hard to emulate. It's the more macroscopic patterns of how the brain works that we don't understand.
This seems to be less about Scheme and more about the author wanting to tell a cool story.
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CoCalc collaborative persistent graphical Linux apps in your browser, with HiDPI
Neurological basis for processing social information
That's a great question. It's hard to visualise and the number of arguments becomes super important when you start moving on to applicative functors.

I'll write in JS just so it's a bit more accessible for people who aren't already doing FP every day.

As you say, the function passed to map, takes only a single parameter, which is the value in the container. So I might have the following code:

myArray.map(x => x + 1)

This adds 1 to everything in the array. However, instead of just adding 1 (which may or may not be useful), I can close over a different value. Consider the following function.

let arrayAdd = (array, y) =>
array.map(x => x + y);

Or to be a bit more idiomatic with most FP languages, let's curry the params to arrayAdd:

let arrayAdd = a => y =>
a.map(x => x + y);

So now we have a functor, a, and an operation, arrayAdd, and a is a monoid over the operation arrayAdd. We can use it like:

let addToArray = arrayAdd(myArray);
let newArray = addToArray(42);

And obviously if we pass 0 to addToArray it will return us the same array as myArray, showing that 0 is the identity element.

Hope that makes sense!
The subreddit NoFap[0] shows that internet porn is already a significant problem for tens of thousands of young people, mostly men.

Porn addictions described on NoFap show that porn can cause men to have erectile dysfunction (due to "death grip" and desensitization), failure of arousal for real women, extreme shame, and even suicidal thoughts.

Reading through that forum, you'll see thousands of people who have tried to quit porn over and over, but continue to relapse. I suspect NoFap is likely a microcosm of the broader society; porn addiction is real, and it's likely widespread.

[0]: https://reddit.com/r/nofap
Does anyone have any info on whether this affects Macs as well? I recently bought an external Samsung T5 SSD. I'm using APFS with encryption. Does that mean it is using the broken hw encryption that Samsung provides or is OSX actually doing this properly?
so much this!

in my job i've dealt with dozens of Google engineers across a few teams... 95%+ of the time I don't get useful answers, and sometimes no answer at all. We have found many bugs in their systems, as well as broken API endpoints that did not work as advertised. Dealing with one issue right now that no one at google has been able to assist with in over 12 months. Of course with all the turn around on some teams, the issues just keep getting passed to the next guy.

they are by far the worst of the FAANG-level engineering teams we deal with, competency is severely lacking.
Does this matter in practice? We have binocular vision--when I read, I focus on a word with both eyes. The occasions where I'm reading with just one eye or another are fairly rare.
Experts wonder why Jaguar I-Pace's battery doesn't have more range
Reflections on Apocalyptic Science Fiction
There’s very little “talent” native to Miami. As far as S.A engineers that’s also probably a tough one...I mean staffing a HQ with foreigners is a tough sell, don’t you think?

If anything Miami is still alluring to those across the US for warm weather, no income tax, and tanned guys/gals (or both?!). The Miami economy still is dominated by tourism and real estate unfortunately!
My money's on DC area and NYC area. DC for the gov contracts, NYC for the talent pool (Columbia, Cornell Tech, and NYU) and transit network.
Isn’t that just a subset of what ProAm described?
'Master key' gene has links to both Autism and schizophrenia
It is secondary to slack/jira here, but I also dont check email more than twice a day. If something is important, someone will find me. People also know I will click tentative to meeting invites unless I have good reason to be there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA says "then reported typical retail prices in the range of €3 to €9 per tablet, typically containing 25–65 mg of MDMA" and "The majority of tablets contain 70–85 mg of MDMA" and "The average content of MDMA in a preparation is 70 to 120 mg with the purity having increased since the 1990s" and "100 mg is sometimes considered a typical dose". Those numbers are for different countries.
It is quite narrow and temporary. We are still at risk of the Republican Judiciary deciding that the FCC declining to regulate ISPs on the basis that they don't have the authority means the ISPs are immune to all state laws regulating them.
This makes the most sense by far.

It gives them more negotiating power, and a lot more flexibility.
Note that much of the background on this issue appears to be provided by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). They are an organization which frequently promotes their agenda through scaremongering scientific claims which are frequently flat-out wrong or misrepresented.

The valid stuff in the article is the stuff where the Minnesota department of health altered their allowable limits based on published scientific concerns, and the town was over the limit. The other stuff... I can't tell the wheat from the chaff.
"Personally, this calls into question things like evolutionary theory, or creation theories that don't match what I can extract from the Bible."

It's not clear the Bible has much to say about these at all.

Fundamentalists insist that it does, but there are many other strands of Christian thought that disagree.
Always glad when HN discovers the existence of a learned scholar, atop their field, who's spent decades studying a truly hard thing and an HNer decides that, in fact, the True Thing They Needed to Understand was there all along, and it is in fact the kind of thing that most reassures the sayer.
Well, yeah, sure, but who would possibly expect something like this to be implemented properly?
> TCO only adds zero-cost for recursions based on tail calls

TCO isn't about recursion; it applies to any function call in tail position. Some toolchains only manage to avoid over-allocating stack frames for self-recursive tail calls, but that isn't full TCO, and it doesn't help for other interesting case like mutual recursion, state machines, or continuation-passing style. Compilers which compromise on full support for TCO emit programs with built-in memory leaks; they fail to free data which is no longer needed, and thus unnecessarily exhaust their stack allocation.

Programs which use built-in iterative constructs are still recursive; all that "recursion" means is that the control flow folds back on itself. A traditional "while" loop looks like: (1) stop if a condition is false; (2) otherwise do something; (3) do it again. The "it" in (3) is a recursive reference to the loop.

Now, unstructured explicit recursion is barely better than unstructured "goto", so I'm not advocating that everyone start using tail calls in place of loops. However, bare loops are in much the same position with respect to higher-order primitives such as non-strict folds—and those higher-order primitives are much easier to implement in environments which properly support TCO. Languages where TCO is not customary tend to suffer from a proliferation of built-in constructs—iteration, generators, list comprehensions, coroutines, and the like are all implemented as language features requiring custom code generation, where another language where TCO is customary might relegate such primitives to a library.
A bit of a bodge I find works is to make my passwords of the form word+site+number, say Mangohn4234 for HN. Then they are all different, pass the has it been pawned thing and its quite easy to remember Mango 4234 or similar if you use that for them all.
I don't think there's any "first principles" or philosophical/logical explanation for this... it's just an empirically determined fact, I think...
Maintaining your level of aggression and resentment can’t be healthy.
Steady? We have seen 20-years rise after a colder period. Nothing out of order.
I also have AS and started with NSAIDs, and would advise you be very careful with your stomach. I was taking indomethacin that made the stiffness slightly manageable but acid reflux symptoms became a serious issue. After switching to Humira I have no more active pain or stiffness, with only some minor uveitis (in an eye that has many other issues). I wish someone would warned me earlier because my stomach has never been the same. Unable to even drink tea at the moment because of my reflux issues. Also to note, I have had zero issues with my immune system and I have been using it for about 5 years and through 3 eye surgeries.
The title instantly identifies it as belonging to the genre of vacuous contrarian hot-takes. Without having read it in its entirety either, I would guess that if does make a good point, it relies on confusing the dangers of bad info, excessive application, or selective focus on areas for improvement, for detriments of the enterprise of self-improvement itself.
Given the separation between chrome and ad words, I think the abusive ad could even be from google..

> How does that make sense?

Lack of regulation has led to Google erecting its own rules and Chinese walls that may or may not hold up to eventual challenges?

> What stops them blocking all ads except Google ads?

Google specifically wants to prevent its own ads on a web site marked abusive or otherwise imperfect. In general, Google is willing to forgo space to try to guarantee what brand marketers want. If some large brands stop bidding on a class of ads over any concern, Google looses a lot more value in its real estate than if it has less real estate.