skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no protection, whatsoever, from any private individual or corporation being required to aid you in broadcasting, distributing or otherwise conveying your speech.

False. This is another of the false narratives promulgated by authoritarians on the left, hoping people will just give up and go away. Free Speech is a fundamental human right, and it doesn't stop at the borders of government vs. private property.

A Jehova's witness was trying to distribute pamphlets in a mining town, where basically all of the houses, all of the roads, and all of the sidewalks were constructed and owned by the company. The company said, "my town, my property, I don't want you to distribute your media." However, in the earlier history of the United States, it was jurisprudence that Free Speech holds priority over private property rights. The company was forced to allow it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBozijndSLc

(Re: Silencing and hoping people will just give up and go away. Again, the obnoxious religious conservatives used to do this sort of thing to homosexuals. All sorts of bigots who held position and power used these sorts of cheesy tactics against racial minorities, alternative lifestyles, basically all kinds of non-mainstream people, because they had no logical, principled, meritocratic arguments. In the end, it was all about feels and people shunning others based on tribalism. That's not what a free society looks like. You need real discourse, not treating ideas like they're armbands.)
The curriculum is too artificial and disjoint from the rest of their CS degree.

That was my takeaway from CS61A at Berkeley. I thought that Scheme was incredibly elegant and I was disappointed that we never used it again. The profs sure were pleased with themselves at the end of CS61A and I imagined later that they thought their preferred outcome would have been that we pursued a PhD using Jikes. SICP was the text which everyone bought and no one (that I knew) read and I tried. We had no assigned readings; it simply meant to be worshiped. It comes up on HN but never in conversation. No one quotes SICP.

I'll look at HTDP.
> if someone doesn't know what a cartesian product is (high school level math), perhaps they shouldn't be allowed near a database

Knowing what is meant when a term or symbol is used is not math, it's language.

You can know the meanings of all kinds of terms and symbols, and you will still not know anything about math, you'll only know something about mathematicians and how they like to communicate.

Conversely, someone may understand the math perfectly well but not know the correct terms or symbols (perhaps they learned under a different system, in a different country, etc.)
Paradux: a scheme to recover from maximum personal data disaster
Presumably the owner of the domain would notice if their site was diverted for ten days.
> doing the bare minimum to keep the site up during the shutdown.

Hatch Act makes it illegal to work during shutdown, you're only supposed to come in, check your voice messages and perform your shutdown procedures (if you have any)
Long-term (3+ years) supplementation of vitamin D significantly decreases all-cause mortality [1]. So yeah, take the supps if you don't get enough sunlight. But personally I am convinced that sunlight exposure, and additional near-infrared "supplementation" are preferable. Nitric oxide release is a double whammy because it reduces stress within cells, and promotes endothelial health (as mentioned in the article).

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24349197
Crochet relays
A very profound subject.. didn't realize that people 200 years ago already faced the struggle.
i found that one on github on raspberry Pi, but thats not it.
here is a link to my horde , its is http only for now so your browser may pop up a warning, ignore it , and please i am NOT as in no way trying to screw anybody with this link

http://erebor.ftp.sh:8008/public/

i think im rate limited right now so i cant get into any long back n forths right now :-)
BTW the link leads to an instance of pichat.
Physical access is not needed.
It is useful to consider the audience the book was written for: first-year students at MIT in the 1980s. That was a formidably bright and meticulously prepared group. Many of them already had some programming experience from high school.

It's not too surprising that a book tailored to such a crowd's particular needs is not particularly suited to other students, whether less bright, less prepared, or simply true beginners to programming.
Ditto.

The Art of Unix Programming is a great read.

Just make sure you don't read his blog.
That is refuted by this:

http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM...
The hardest part of joins is remembering which is which. Venn diagrams are used specifically because they solve that problem with the inner/outer/left/right terminology.

His visualizations ultimately help nothing. You have to stare at them for a while to see what the pattern is, but there's absolutely no mnemonic hook to remember what's what, so in the end all you learn from his visualizations are that there exist different ways to slice and dice the products of sets, which is already a given if you're trying to figure out what the differences are.
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I think anyone reading the book with a determination to drop their intuitions in favor of the book's concepts will find it much easier going, and tremendously worthwhile.

I get why readers don't do that. There is very little written so well that it deserves that trust. Generally we have to step back from something and ask "what does that mean? how do I reframe that into something I can understand?" Because the material's models are too poorly thought out to be useful or too poorly communicated to be discovered. Trying to adopt such models is futile.

But for me, SICP is one of those rare books where I am better off trying to absorb its frameworks, rather than constantly trying to reframe the material into something I understand.

When I step back and _think_ the way the book suggests, the problems solve very quickly. When I try to get a solution from some combination of my intuitions and known tricks, I thrash about endlessly.

It is a very carefully written presentation of profound and important ideas, and deserves to be approached differently than the vast majority of books.
Just don't joke about people's names OK? Best case scenario people are going to think you are unfunny. Average case scenario, people will think you're racist. She could have been white married to an Asian man and what you said would still have come off as quite racist.
Amazfit Verge vs. Ticwatch Express vs. Sport – Which Is Better?
It might be worth looking at the Reagent framework for Clojurescript.
If saving money is the game, it's cheaper still to turn off the servers.
I construct a conceptual and spatial view of what I read, but never visual. Not even my memories are visual for the most part. I can force fuzzy, dark outlines of things, and "construct" imagery of sorts, but even staring at something, closing my eyes and trying to visualise it will at most give vague outlines.

If I were to do that and draw the object instead of visualising it on the other hand, I'd generally do it with ease and quite precisely.

Similarly my memory of books and movies tends to be very strongly focused on the underlying concept and logic rather than visual impressions.

> Try different things. You want this to happen for you. When it does, books becomr amazing!

Books are amazing without it. I've read hundreds of books, through 35 years of reading, and I've never understood why people care so much about wanting to visualise something; it's not needed to enjoy a book. Maybe that's why I care so much about language, and it may well explain the type of books I prefer (I will often skip overly descriptive language by skimming over it unless the language in itself is beautiful to me).

Seeing the other references here to Aphantasia, I'm curious to what the distribution of visualisation is in the population as a whole, and to what extent there is a correlation - if any - to whether or not people enjoy reading. I could see some would find reading boring if they can't visualise them, maybe, but while it's a possibility, I don't think it's at all a given that it's a major factor - I often prefer to read to watch movies, even though one gives me that visual experience and the other doesn't, and that extends to often preferring the book relative to a movie version of a book.
https://picoctf.com/ has a good variety of challenges that are a bit more accessible than others.
Maybe they need some stuff approved...surely they could take advantage of the shutdown if the contract allows it but usually government contracts, (especially the construction projects)need all kind of permissions/approvals.
Does it? from wikipedia:

> The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials,[1] from engaging in some forms of political activity. It went into law on August 2, 1939. The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico. It was most recently amended in 2012.[2]

Where do you see anything about shutdowns? Are you sure you have the right act? Do I have the wrong act?
It's definitely the Golden Age for university administrators, whose viewpoint the Chronicle represents.

Is it a golden age for teachers or students? That's another question.
There are two models for CS education. One model is for students who want to learn the theories of computer science and be computer scientists, and the other is for students who want to be programmers.

SICP is the foundation for people who want to be computer scientists. That’s not everyone.

But from what I’ve found, all the top CS schools create computer scientists, and the other CS schools create programmers. While it’s easy for a computer scientist to make the jump to programmer with just a little guidance, it’s much harder to go the other way.

The world mostly needs programmers though, with just a reletively few computer scientists to come up with the new innovations. So it seems like everything is working out ok.

Although I’m really glad I got to learn the fundamentals of computer science with a SICP based intro class.
best thing for GTD.
Despite the article's attempt to establish a connection, Millenials' purchasing habits (online vs showroom) have little to do with this beyond their being the generation currently creating growth in demand.

Large items such as washing machines, ranges, sofas, were always delivered by last-mile delivery companies, regardless of how they were purchased.

The real story here is about consolidation and standardization of the last-mile delivery industry. That's a pattern that has occurred in other industries for a long time. The consolidation reduces cost by reducing redundancies (== laying off duplicative employees), and standardization of process and marketing creates a recognizable brand, which reduces purchase friction with customers.

This will probably continue until there are a few major nationwide white-glove delivery companies left. And I doubt there will be consumer opposition to preserve the local delivery company the way there is with the local restaurant, boutique, or coffee shop. Appliance/furniture delivery isn't a lifestyle service.

Another recent example I discovered: Automobile body repair shops. They used to be mostly independent businesses, but sometime recently, a nationwide corporation called Abra has bought up many independent body shops and turned them into a network.
Or most likely it needed government supervision which didnt have funding.
Yes, e.g. for UK:

"Most people can make enough vitamin D from being out in the sun daily for short periods with their forearms, hands or lower legs uncovered and without sunscreen

...

you should be careful not to burn in the sun, so take care to cover up or protect your skin with sunscreen before your skin starts to turn red or burn.

People with dark skin ... will need to spend longer in the sun to produce the same amount of vitamin D as someone with lighter skin."[0]

[0] https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/how-to-get-vitamin...
I agree with everything you say. Just want to add that SICP had a context: it was designed to be an introductory computer science course designed for university engineering students (including CS), almost all of whom take calulus in their first year, if not earlier. This was probably a valid assumption back in the day, but clearly there is a more diverse audience now.

Anyway, I absolutely agree SICP was never about Scheme per se, or even functional programming. Scheme is nice as a teaching tool because, as Sussman likes to say, you can teach everything you need students to know about the language in one lecture. (Not even all of Scheme, mind you, just what you'd use in a 1-semester course, which back when I took 6.001 meant R4RS minus macros and continuations.) There's certainly always been pressure to use more "practical" languages. But back in those days, there weren't the options there are now. Any derivative of C, especially C++, would end up being as much about the language as about programming concepts, if not more.

I think the thing about SICP is that while it makes some minimum demands about mathematical background, it makes a lot of demands about intellectual maturity. It took me years to appreciate many of the points it makes -- as I got more experience, different parts of the book start to resonate. On the other hand it's stayed relevant all these years, at least for me personally.
> I think it’s more accurate to say the Democrats (and many of their supporters) don’t want a Trump success. Most or all of the current players that were in office in 2006 voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, and the same applies to the 2013 Senate immigration overhaul.

The Democrats offered +$1.3 Billion to boarder security. Its literally passed the House already. Proof is in the pudding, Democrats ALREADY passed such a bill weeks ago. The Democrats are have already accepted +Fences at the boarder.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-joint-res...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/21/t...

If Trump dials back his rhetoric and asks for a fence, I bet you this shutdown will end. Heck, if the Senate takes up the Democrats's +$1.3 Billion offer, this whole thing could be over on Monday.

Senate hasn't passed a bill yet in any case. As I said earlier: the Senate is where bills typically die. Nothing new there. But Republicans don't want a fence, they want a wall. Otherwise, they would have passed H.J Res.1 / HR 21 already.

Trump's base wants a wall. That's where the debate is stuck right now. They aren't accepting a fence.
How do you know the servers aren't paid for monthly and would have been switched off in an uncontrolled way without this?
For examples of the risk of unmaintained government websites, just see https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certif...

Also note that Data.gov was participating in a Bug Bounty program through HackerOne which means it was actively encouraging people to find vulnerabilities but is no longer able to respond to them - https://hackerone.com/tts

Here's the official statement:

“As data.gov is not a static site, it requires staff monitoring and maintenance to be online,” a GSA spokesperson told FedScoop in a statement. “Because personnel that monitor and maintain the site are currently furloughed, data.gov redirects to usa.gov. The decision to take data.gov offline is consistent with previous funding lapse practices.”

Via https://www.fedscoop.com/data-gov-open-data-offline-shutdown...
Bingo! See https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certif...
This comment got me to look at Fira Code... I think this one might stick.
Delegating ActiveRecord scopes
Apparently the executive branch has some authority to decide what's essential or not, so clearly websites are not thought to be as essential as authorizing drilling permits:

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-01-1...
Superbug involved in Tijuana surgery infections shows concerning mutation
I absolutely do imagine aspects of what I read, but not visually.

Ironically I absolutely did not "do fine" looking for patterns and devices in poetry. Technically, maybe, I guess - I could do it. But I absolutely detested it. I found it destroyed all enjoyment of a poem to me. When I read, and when I wrote (I haven't written much for years, but I have a pile of a couple of thousand poems I wrote in my youth), it was about trying to capture emotions and imagining things. Just more abstractly rather than visually. Even so, I would often evoke visual cues when writing.
When I was involved in establishing a campus food pantry, I read that ~40% of students experienced “food insecurity”, whatever that means. This adds interesting concrete ness
Was that true in the early '80s, when SICP was presumably developed (it was first published in 1985).

I know that at Caltech in the early '80s, a majority of incoming students had not had calculus in high school. I would expect MIT to be similar.
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It's just subjective, but many people are genuinely sensitive to it, some aren't. I find Input visually hard to read, and prefer something like Fantasque Sans Mono (https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono). Different strokes.
This is seriously amazing man! Interesting to see how different subject-areas network themselves differently.

For example, comparing "r/permaculture" to "r/linux".

Also, looking at r/girlgamers makes me realize my privilege for being able to navigate my interest areas without such a clusterfuck of bullshit going on:
https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=girlgamers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBG3dHuzlbM

I've it running continuously on an Ipad Pro 12.9 in my living room.
This (no pun intended) is just a a rehash of the Functional vs Object Oriented Programming debate. And certainly Javascript's ability to do FP is one of Javascript's strengths. But personally, I find OOP to be an excellent metaphors in the web programming world that matches the environment quite well. FP has its place but it's not a magic bullet and even if it is amazing that doesn't mean that other paradigms are never appropriate.
You may be able to get this soon, too:

https://www.pkvitality.com/ktrack-glucose/

It works the same way. It's 2x more expensive but it's a watch.
Files survive Lambda timeouts, but your handler doesn’t
Recent long study results (5.3 years follow up) show no benefit on vitamin D supplement: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1811403
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Not really. It just allows for some behavior that in the end makes the code worse.
There are instances where font matters, and I go back to TurboC on my 8086 and Fortran 'scards' on a VMS mainframe + terminal, so I'm not a whiny mod-crazy hipster.

> Fonts Creating Bugs:

Some fonts are more prone to errors. Lower case L vs number one, zero vs. capital O, braces vs parens, lowercase g vs 9. Go look at old Unix fixed fonts, and even courier and you can see how hard it is to distinguish. (Unix '10x7' was my favorite until horz resolutions crossed the 1600px.)

> Readabilty vs. Coding Style causing (literal) Headaches:

Staring at code 10+ hours a day, eyes fatigue. Some fonts are noisier than others, some fonts read faster than others, some fonts have more space than others.

And, if the coding style of the person you are reading does not use spaces between '=' or '()', or ample newlines, Courier can be a very taxing font due to all the serifs.

Lucida Mono provides a nice way out of this, but not all systems have it. Consolas solved the problem for a very long time.

> Ligature Bling

The addition of ligatures is mostly bling. I tried Firas cuz the => glyphs were nifty, but ultimately a big fat triple equals looks worse than '===' and I'd rather not waste time tweaking my goddamn font!

> Proportional

What kind of savage codes with a proportional font?

> Portability

I switched to Consolas because I can use it on Vi on macOS, Win, and *nix, and it saves my eyes from dense programming style.
I loved that one.

BBC Home was also great— though it’s less of a tour of the station and more a dramatic spacewalk experience.

It made me dizzy the first time through. I found a beer helped level me out for the Canadarm scene.
SICP is not about scheme, has never been about scheme, will never be about scheme.

It strikes me that when someone says that, and my GSI said something very similar to that in section, it means that the book+course has failed to say what it is about, clearly, in a way the student will understand rather than misunderstand.

It's f'ing ineffable is not a good thing.
This is why I always tell people when they are young with no responsibilities...milk as much money from your employer as you can. If you don’t have a significant amount of equity (5%>), you are not in it “together”.

Your employer went into to startups to make money, not to “make the world a better place”.
> it is embarrassing to see certificate renewal is not automated

It's also pretty irresponsible to let certs get this close to expiration. Why weren't they renewed 60 days ago?
I'll give my view: I can mentally count, but to the extent there's anything visual about it, it's more as if I'm reconstructing from a spatial memory rather than seeing anything. I can "force" a very vague outline, which is more constructed than remembered (I know where the bed is, so I can "force" myself to sort-of see an outline of a bed, but it will be a generic bed, not my bed until/unless I focus on explicitly go through the details of how my bed looks).

Same for faces. I'm badly out of practice when it comes to drawing, but I can draw objects and faces with a lot more detail than I can visualise them.

EDIT: Reading post, to him it certainly goes far further than for me. I absolutely do imagine things, just not visually. I can describe things verbally without having to remind myself of the words the way he describes, but I don't see them. Consider how a blind person might remember what you look like and be able to recall and describe it based on memories of having touched your face. A bit like that maybe, except without the touching your face part.

I certainly do dream with some degree of visualisation, though I can't remember any of that visually once I'm properly awake.
If anyone is interested in a seeing a high-level real world CTF in action, I would recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozqOlUVKL1s. As someone who has experience with programming but not as much experience in reverse engineering / security, the entire channel has been quite amazing.
$0.02

I'd never heard of this Sargon guy before and only now feel oriented after reading this thread. It's an ideological subject. Shrug.
I'm still waiting for Ikea to take the friction out of home delivery. If they could do that, their market would double.
This link provides a better overview of the font:

http://input.fontbureau.com/info/
High traffic, high risk, high SLA websites typically don't run without support teams and 24/7 pager service.

Just because it can run, for any sort of dynamic site, it'd be stupid and dangerous to keep it exposed to the internet without active monitoring.

Can != Should