skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You struck your child because he was licking his hands.

Sometimes things are so hard and so overwhelming that you become a slave to your overwhelming misery and do things that you would never do with a sound mind. That does not mean that those actions are exempt from criticism. Most of the people on death row were likely of unsound mind when they did whatever landed them in that pointless punitive boondoggle.

If you can stomach abusing a child physically with intent then you and your spouse will likely continue to abuse him in one way or another when things get a little too stressful. As a former abused child I can assure you that he will forget. Then, when he is able to see children from an adult’s perspective, he will remember. He may bury his contempt and convince himself that you were right and that he should hit his own kids. Or he may lose respect for you. The latter would be the healthier response.
That's a red herring. Most modern engines are designed to burn cleanly enough that their direct pollution won't overwhelm the atmosphere.

When you burn fossil fuels, CO2 production is unavoidable, and reversing the process necessarily requires more energy than the fuel released. The atmosphere and fuels form a giant battery that takes millions of years to recharge, where the discharged state produces a hotter climate.
You can stop ringing it.
I developed an aversion to medium well before the paywall went up. Most articles involved a novice doing preliminary research about something they had limited prior experience with, coming up with a toy solution and then lambasting the experts for having not seen said solution. (Granted, my route to Medium was mostly through HN.)
To be fair, I think extremely ignorant people who don't follow any updates about scientific and technological progress probably still think that China is a science backwater. But their opinions don't really matter because they don't really get involved in the conversation anyway, and at the odd times they do, they have large misconceptions like how coal usage is clean, beautiful, and good for the planet.
Interesting idea, hadn't heard of this project before. The update on their site has more details https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/wilson-to-return-to-...
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Overuse of white space, really weird comment/reply system and more.

It's nice on the eyes purely from an aesthetic perspective, but I agree it lacks on the X in UX. It's a few shades form over function.

Side note: Apple's new Swift documentation feels like this to me. It was designed to look and read like a novel. Full of prose, lack of use of colour, wrong fonts, way too big. The 'parent class' is down at the bottom of the document! So many things like that. It looks great a first glance but it really lacks in X.
> Both my sons are Twice Exceptional

I've never heard of this before -- what does it mean?
I compare everything with emacs editing text files with git for synching. (Encryption is through a VM with encrypted Ubuntu which I use for note taking and everything else.)

But this does work with mobile which is key...
Space Station Soma for the win.
I appreciate that CL doesn’t have reader macros for those characters too: it allows me to do things like repurpose [] for objective-c method calls.

https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/objc-lisp-bridge
> I think it will be an uptake barrier.

If someone is silly enough to let this be a factor when adopting a new technology, then I'd say that person has more important things to worry about than some encrypted messenger. Fortunately for Tox, the amount of people like this seems very small.
Sort of related. Does anyone know of any note apps that will let you select and area of web page, and drag it into the note. I just want easily make a scrap book of relevant info from web pages I visit. The solution I know of, Screen shot, saving, loading, and so on has too many steps. I just want something that will let me select and drag into the note. And that will look exactly like I see on the webpage.
Bonus, if it lets me drag not only rectangular boxes, but actually adjust the box so its not cutting off lines, or other content. Sort of like pinterest, but not for just images, but text also. Hyperlinked to the actual source page would be nice too.
It was so dramatic that France refused to use the word Banque to describe financial institutions until Napoleon re-established a central bank almost 100 years later.
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Gifted plus special needs. Often described as "gifted and learning disabled," but it's really a gifted child with any disability.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional
A nice way of saying two disabilities.
You'd do that in roughly the same way as in any other language that allows you to heap-allocate stuff and pass references to it.
Why would someone be doing this while trying to fit within the boundaries of the MISRA standard? Also what do you mean by module?
Medium is a place that pretends to be slightly better than average but is really slightly worse than average.

Who needs to click on clickbait headlines like "Should I buy a Chrysler Pacifica or a Wagon Queen Family Truckster?" or "Does it hurt more to be hit with a .457 Automag or a Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDut-saDvV8
> The trick was going very slow... in the steepest parts, as slow as a fraction of walking speed.

Yup, that's how electric motors work: they deliver full power even at very low speeds, so you can increase torque simply by going slower - no need to "shift to a lower gear" in order to keep the engine in its high-power range!
Makechecks comment reads like an psa for just use electron. Which sucks cause electron is a pig but damn. Code shouldn't bitrot this fast.

Also, re Adobe: idiots at the genius bar basically said it's fine and good that using Photoshop cores a brand new mbp on the latest os, and that's not apple's problem because Adobe hasn't certified the new os. We're getting close to buying this employee a windos laptop that is both cheaper and actually runs Photoshop
the link below points to the source code for alexa based personal assistants in a can. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=.... you can also access alexa by browser, but you need to sign in

https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin?showRmrMe=1&openid.return_t....

there is also a way of saddling an SDcard into the echodot debug port and booting whatever you have put on the SD thus you may run custom boot up on the dot and hax around.

https://medium.com/@micaksica/exploring-the-amazon-echo-dot-....

https://medium.com/@micaksica/exploring-the-amazon-echo-dot-....

One of the most interesting things to get into is the MP3files that make up the dots responses to you, writing your own skills is cool too.

and here are a bunch of fidjitty tricks to do to your dot.

https://hackaday.com/?s=echo+dot
One of the best pieces of advice I've received as a sysadmin was "Don't just do something, stand there!" :)
I've been using Ulysses but considering trying something else ever since they changed to a subscription-based model.
Exactly right, just the pure fact that it's at your disposal makes you think about problems in a whole new way. For example, I recently just abstracted my solutions away from Redis. I have nothing against redis however removing a dependency makes things more simple, which is important for my setup.

For caching you have SO many options which are already built in, ets, agent, ets + gen_server, or even reaching out for a library like nebulex.

Another example is recurring jobs, you can create a gen_server that will run a job every x hours in roughly 50-100 lines of code depending on how complex your problem is.

I rarely feel the need to reach out for external dependencies. Not that there is anything wrong with that, it's just that you now have a wider array of tools to work with and some problems are just solvable with a couple of lines of code instead of having to reach out for external tooling.

I recently built a distributed work queue, generally in Ruby I would use something like sidekiq, however elixir made me feel like "hey you can write your own" which generally is not recommended since you don't want to re-invent the wheel, but if you are doing something that breaks away from the existing solution, having the ability to craft a custom solution that works for your specific set of problems is extremely powerful, you can get much more creative, and the important thing is it got done fast (I wrote a distributed job scheduler in 2 weeks + 1 week to clean it up and work out the kinks, it's already running stably in production)
Thank you! It says that it came around in the mid 90s, which would have been when I was in elementary school, but I've never heard of the term despite fitting in the group. I wonder if it was related to a certain set of schools/philosophies.
Is there a quantitative analysis somewhere of who is effected by government shutdown and by how much?
I don't see any specific points where bjourne points out why the UPenn Doctors are wrong. He just points out that they are not infallible and says they may have been primed.

As you said, and I very much agree with "The authority of a source is not absolute proof of a claim. It is evidence, and it is evidence that should probably be given extra weight commensurate with the authority of the source"

I believe what bjourne is saying is that he believed the crickets story because he places more weight with the authority pushing that story.

will_brown is saying he things UPenn doctors have more authority.

quick edit: What I am trying to say is that bjourne should not just blow off the UPenn authority, but instead justify his own authority is better.
This was been around for well over a decade. Interestingly though, denial of service is the less interesting issue that external entity parsing comes with. It can lead all the way to data exfiltration and remote code execution.
Oh yeah, totally. Maybe I'm looking at it with rose-colored glasses because I was younger, but the way I remember it personal computing used to be about enabling users. At some point there was this huge attitude shift towards being condescending toward users and treating them like cattle. So now, instead of trying to bridge the gap between computer "user" and computer "programmer", we forcibly drive a giant wedge between them.
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"Today, however, as associate’s degrees have replaced high-school diplomas as the indispensable ticket into the middle class..."
The features set seems very interesting, I'll definitely take a closer look at the code, good job!
May be Azure services kicking in.
Medium is a Ghetto. Who wants to be seen along with thinly sliced salami articles that almost have something to say, desperate content marketers who are writing articles like "Does your API Need a Content Marketing Strategy?" and who are amazed that they got 35 people to view their steaming Turd Emoji?

Not me.
js-cl is a (still-partial) Common Lisp implementation in JavaScript. https://github.com/jscl-project/jscl/blob/master/README.md

Parenscript is a bit more than just a glorified s-expression wrapper for JavaScript: it also implements a lot of the core CL macros (defun, let, lambda, etc.) in ways that are close to the CL semantics. It’s limited by the fact that it doesn’t want to have its own runtime: so, while there is some degree of source-level compatibility, it doesn’t have things like restarts and CLOS that would require runtime support (although, there is a library called the Parenscript object system that provides some degree of source compatibility with CLOS.
Sceptic in me says this video was trivial to fake.
> The reason to preserve and re-publish something that was once known, is so that no single party gets to use it, or use it's absense, against everyone else.

I don't understand this argument. If, say, my credit card information is published, it can only be used to harm me. Removing it causes no harm to anyone else, so leaving it published _only_ causes more harm.
I learned the term because I was homeschooling and active in the oldest online gifted community. I kind of was rubbing elbows with some of the luminaries in gifted education circles. So I was kind of in on the ground floor.

I believe public schools were much slower to adopt such concepts.
if we can make these devices and they can store 360 tb then a high priority for something like nasa should be to put all the digitized books we have currently available in outer space on maybe 100 or 1000 such devices.
> Port affine types and/or a separation logic (esp with a solver) to CakeML to eliminate need for garbage collector. If not CakeML, then do it on low-level languages with ability to integrate them as trusted code into CakeML programs.

I imagine you're aware of the mlkit compiler for sml. Do you know what would need to be done to glue mlkit code into cakeml in the way you're describing?
>compared to the modern form of the equations

Are the Geometric Algebra...

∇F = μ₀cJ

..and Differential Form...

dF = 0
d⋆F = J

...equivalents post-modern?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_descriptions_of_t...
Besides the UK stuff that Netflix rebrands as Netflix Originals in the US, I can’t remember the last time I watched a Netflix original that I was able to make it past a few episodes. Even some of the more renowned stuff is clearly trying really hard to be “different”. And the rest of it appears algorithmically generated to please certain viewer types.
I think that’s where the confusion is. A virtue signaler doesn’t necessarily have to be a hypocrite, they can just be someone who is motivated to make overt displays of virtue for personal gain.
I think the answer is simply Google the search engine. Google has a huge corpus of semantic data that it gathered from both structured and unstructured data from around the web. Think about how many times you search Google and get a One Box result.

However, I have to disagree to a certain extent. Having both Google (on my phone) and Alexa in my house, overall I have been extremely happy with Alexa. I think it being "so much worse" is very subjective.
Yeah, we are using the current crypto algorithms as if they would continue to be strong in 20,30,40 years. So many secrets encrypted "only" with current-industry-grade crypto.

This is better than not encrypting at all but overall it's foolish to assume that cracking capabilities won't improve. "Perfect forward secrecy" only helps against compromised long-term keys, but it doesn't help against entities who store vast amounts of encrypted internet traffic in facilities in, say Bluffdale. And then once these algorithms can be cracked they will have a gigantic valuable trove of data.

The 2010s have seen major players adopting encryption that is proof against current attackers, with one event being the launch of encrypted.google.com in 2010 [0]. Hopefully in the 2020s we'll see major players adopting algorithms that are proof against future attackers.

It isn't guaranteed that we can ever build quantum computers that can crack current industry grade encryption nor is it guaranteed that computing capabilities as well as theoretical advances will improve enough, but we are betting too much onto that we can't ever. E.g. there are proposals in Germany to upload health data to the cloud and even if it is end-to-end encrypted, the data, once decrypted, stays highly valuable throughout the life of the patient, see the recent 35c3 talk on this if you know German [2].

Thankfully, there is an open NIST competition on post-quantum crypto [3] [4] (added a second link because the first is currently dead), but this isn't enough, as there may be theoretical attacks on them as well.

Quantum based encryption is quite valuable here because it gives a physical guarantee but it's also really tough to roll out and probably won't be deployed in consumer devices for a while.

[0]: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely...
[2]: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9992-all_your_gesundheitsakten_a...
[3]: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography
[4]: http://web.archive.org/web/20181225214652/https://csrc.nist....
So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?
Finally since the iPhone cash cow is drying up Apple starts looking beyond current product lines.
SEO optimized?

From what I see there are a few accounts that spam every article posted on Tedium to HN.
While I use Signal and am a proponent of secure messaging in general, it would be valuable to discuss the threat models for different messengers and privacy techs.

Threema looks smart, and I what I think is missing from the material is what threats it addresses and how.

Does it:

- protect the content of your messages from mass interception? (appears to, barring crypto errors)

- protect the anonymity of you and your correspondents from network operators and their staff and admins?

- protect your contacts and messages from reading and exfiltration by other apps on your phone?

- protect content of your messages from corporate mobile device management tools?

- protect anonymity of correspondents and contents of messages from targeted malware that has rooted or jailbroken the device? (probably not, but wickr's aliases can mitigate it somewhat)

- protect anonymity of you and your correspondents from captive portals? (+ message secrecy/integrity)

- protect message content and correspondent anonymity from theives/attackers/co-workers with phone imaging forensic tools?

- protect group membership from infiltration using unauthorized, stolen, or cloned app memory images?

This isn't a complete threat model (I generate these for a living), but having short answers to these would go a long way to making a case for a secure messaging product.
They wouldn't be amused trying using that. Glacial speeds - so no multimedia; no search, no resources which became so traditional one takes them for granted, like maps, social media...
Mozilla was doing some work with speech recognition. Don't know if that project is still active.

But yeah, these things needs lots of data to work well. That would be a massive project.
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> which is that they are so simple that the level of effort to port Clojure to other platforms (ClojureScript, Clojure CLR, etc)

I don't see why that would be at all relevant to porting to other platforms? Most languages with richer syntax would parse to a backend-independent AST first, and so porting to a new platform would not require touching the parsing code at all - you'd be working on the same level as S-exprs, effectively.
That makes a lot of sense! Thank you. Do you know if it is (yet/still?) in use in public school systems in the US?
HEVC hardware encoding is not supported by "amdgpu" VAAPI libs (tested about 6 month ago with an RX560, did you get it working ?).
> I don't have any illusions that it's more secure than tox.

That conclusion doesn't follow. How does the client loosing your key cause you to consider matrix itself as less secure?
Better yet, a new syntax for this language, like Reason is to OCaml.

(or the original M-expressions for Lisp)
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The UK is the archetypal constitutional monarchy though! The UK may have no Constitution as such but it arguably has strong institutions and laws...
I have made something like that [1] for my note-taking app. It doesn't currently include Trillium though, and it may be skewed towards the features I'm personally interested in, but if somebody would like to help make it better I'm all ears.

[1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable#comparison
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I went to see what the big changes were to justify a new major version number and saw:

“The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0”

I laughed out loud.
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Yes, Trump is. Climate deniers are. Lots of people are on today's internet.
No clue. My youngest is 29 and I have no grandchildren, so I have no current involvement with the school system.
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"We didn't work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack. That is what makes a problem important. When I say that most scientists don't work on important problems, I mean it in that sense. The average scientist, so far as I can make out, spends almost all his time working on problems which he believes will not be important and he also doesn't believe that they will lead to important problems." http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
The 5s was the first 64-bit ARM CPU in a phone, I've got my fingers crossed it might recieve iOS 13.
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The mlkit compiler [1] for Standard ML pioneered region based manual memory management, and was a primary design inspiration for Rust's memory system [2]. This research project (CakeML) has a different, and perfectly valid set of goals.

[1] http://elsman.com/mlkit/

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html
Several YC-affiliated people (Sam Altman, Jessica Livingston, etc.) use Posthaven.
tldr: needed new phone
Well put. Also when Jobs returned he drastically simplified the model offerings, one reason being that Apple is supposed to represent high-quality simplicity. Having a ton of model options for the iPhone is not in line with that.
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"Chain of induction" or something?
Blogspot.
> Arguing from tradition on a tech forum?

I've not yet argued a position here; only pointed out that spanking is the norm on planet earth.

For what it's worth, I was spanked (IMO responsibly, not abusively) as a child but I do not spank my own child.

Parenting is hard. People try their best. I'm grateful to my parents for raising me the best way they knew how.
Evernote has a browser plugin that does exactly this.