skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that makes Clojure hard for beginners is the tooling.

For example, consider how a beginner can write Ruby and Python in notepad.exe while a lisp would be insufferable (and a common, awful first experience for that reason). Also, some of its best features, like cider/nrepl and Paredit, are hidden behind yet more tooling and keyboard shortcuts.

It's certainly a filter.
Because python can't do anything else at this point.

It can't be faster. It can't consume less memory. It can't stay still.

So they add auxiliary features. No matter how much they downvote you, you're right.

For a new project it doesn't make sense to not use Go, or something similar, if you're going down that road.
Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
The Unreasoning Mask, Philip José Farmer
But it's a good way to track who accidentially leaked your contact details.
If I had to guess, because corporate admins want to have separate inboxes for people with similar names... 1 with a "." and one without.
I just went and tried to find a bright (1000-1500 lumens) Philips LED bulb with a cool temperature (3500-4500)... but it seems every Philips LED bulb is "warm white"* :/ That's fine for a living room, but not what I want in my home office, kitchen or bathroom.

* at least in the UK
I think you'd end up with a lot of

"+1 funny"
"-1 Reeee"

stuff, and that'd just add noise to the thread, but not add to the discussion.
Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
How common are scenarios where there are multiple ships within visual distance? From reading the account of the collision, it seems like everybody relied primarily on one radar to make navigation decisions, and that radar was either broken, or its operators didn't know how to use it. It's hard for me to understand how they didn't realize they weren't getting useful data from that radar and switch their primary navigation driver to the other radars, lookouts, the commercial position broadcasting system, or the infrared camera, all of which seemingly worked. Unless of course actually navigating around other ships is pretty uncommon.
I can speak from experience here, I have had both Backbeat Fit 1 and 2 (I'm using the 2 right this moment) and they are very good. The range is decent, not huge, but you certainly _don't_ have to have the phone on a particular side of your body.

I can walk out of the room and still have audio, but also to be fair that's not really their use case.
Who in the UK actually has a .eu domain? It can't be that high.

Now wanting a legal presence in the EU despite a bunch of old uneducated people ripping it away from you? Sure, that makes sense, and Estonia may be part of the solution, but I don't see it for a .eu domain?
“Do We Want to Be in Business?”: The Strange, Never-Ending Saga of MoviePass
I just realized the other day that winter weather will most likely mean that self-driving cars will more dangerous than conventional cars in much of the world for the foreseeable future, until they can be made fully autonomous in even the most difficult weather conditions.

Winter driving can be some of the most difficult and dangerous conditions to drive in for a human. It's already bad enough after the first big snow when experienced fair-weather drivers have to re-acquaint themselves with winter conditions, but if they're driving skills atrophy in good weather due to self-driving car use, it will be even worse.
Interesting point. Can you explain the 3x return using a concrete example ?
> I think that much simpler solutions would be sufficient and should be purpose built. I also wish it would die soon.

100% agree. If you look at all of the current blockchain "use-cases" you will find that many of them (e.g. Ripple and Corda) are simply centralized/semi-centralized solutions that have been around for years (in the distributed-systems literature) masquerading a blockchain solutions.

In a sense the blockchain craze is good as it's getting institutions such as banks to modernize their systems and make it so that a regional bank doesn't need to wait 5-7 days to transfer money, but examples like this are few and far between and for the most part people are using the idea to drain money from undereducated/uncritical people.
Do you know of any resources that assist in deepening interpersonal connections? I, and many others, would benefit greatly from them, if so!
Or: ask the user to use the same browser and check that cookies match / "sanitize" gmail adresses
Wow. Thanks for the link
So, what did Facebook have before the like button?

What would your ideal version of a social network be? From comments here, it seems so far:

->no selling users out

->no likes/dislikes (but then how do you filter out bad content?)

->no sharing 3rd party content?

Edited: formatting
Ask HN: What are the best-designed software in the last 10 years?
Some would say Apache Kafka, Docker or even React. What's your opinion on this?
Seattle uses WiFi MAC addresses to track traffic movements. While the data is currently hashed and anonymized, it wouldn't surprise me if this data is eventually processed and combined with CV technology (specifically license plate readers and facial recognition tech) to provide detailed information on the movements of individuals. From one of their documents:

Acyclica technology collects encrypted media access control (MAC) address information and sends the data to the cloud using their RoadTrend Sensor. This sensor is a proprietary Linux-based device that is discreetly installed inside of traffic control cabinets for SDOT. The devices are Ethernet connected and have a Wi-Fi adapter capturing the MAC addresses of all devices within its range. Using the detection of MAC addresses, Acyclica identifies and differentiates vehicle movement as it approaches, stops and leaves an intersection. When Wi-Fi enabled device comes within range, the sensor generates a one-way hash code from the detected device’s MAC address (using a SHA-256 algorithm). Only the hash codes are transmitted to
their cloud server, and there is no way to reverse this process and access addresses of the original devices. From the aggregated data, Acyclica can extract and provide actionable traffic related information to SDOT.
> 'service@paypal.co.uk' via redacted <redacted>

It looks to me that Paypal is not sending the emails in a secure and verifiable method. Emails that are sent from a domain that's different than the from address are legitimately suspicious, especially when they contain financial keywords.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=en
تحميل قاموس انجليزي عربي بدون انترنت English Arabic Dictionary اندرويد
"blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy."

That says it all. Really, that's how YC works - fail fast and cheap, profit from the survivors. Great for VCs, not so much for the cannon fodder.

"We have reserves."
Does AOC alleviate the effect on load times?
I was under the impression that the whole point of a meme was to be copied and distributed.

Aren’t those who are offended kinda missing the point?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

[..]A meme (/miːm/ MEEM[1][2][3]) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture—often with the aim of conveying a particular phenomenon, theme, or meaning represented by the meme.[4] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.[5]

Proponents theorize that memes are a viral phenomenon that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance, each of which influences a meme's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behavior that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.[6][..]
I agree it's similar in the abstract, but the mechanisms involved are a bit different, at least at the phonetic level. The Mandarin cases will involve rising tone, falling tone, etc. - and English does do some of that, but not at the lexical level (e.g. yes/no questions in English involve a rising tone at the end).
> This seems spiteful.

Not at all. The statement is in fact explicit on the subject: "Subject to any transitional arrangement that may be contained in a possible withdrawal agreement..."

Norway has such an agreement with the EU. The UK is welcome to put such an agreement in place as well, but appears to be opting not to. Lacking any other agreement, after the exit date the UK will have, at its own request, no legal ties to any EU institutions so why should this one be considered any different?
My personal biggest problem with LED bulbs is that my entire (100 year old) home is wired with neutral free light wiring and a lot of 3-way switches. This makes using dimmers very hard and most do not support 3-way and many will not work with LEDs and no neutral wire. Some do - Lutron Caseta makes a nice neutral free dimmer that works on many of my bulbs - but others don’t and I then just use high efficiency incandescents. Shame. Maybe there is a good “neutral free dimmable LED” that allows reasonable leakage current so the dimmer can work.
Good god this story is a gripping read, even at ~18,000 words. I had the pleasure of being colleagues with one of its authors, T., years ago, and was always amazed at how throughly nerdy in detail he was in investigating the document trail, while still being able to so elqouently describe impact and drama at the individual human level. It's not that the two skills are diametrically opposite, it's just that T may have been the best at both, especially when reporting on complex bureaucratic tragedies.

This American Life had a good segment in late 2017 about the Navy accidents here: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile...
I would be careful with projecting that experience, everything is not about signaling; sooner or later mostly everyone will come to the conclusion that pretending isn't leading anywhere. Because it isn't.

Not depending on Instagram's algorithms and the opinions of its marketing department and your followers is _better_, for everyone. Dependency in general is rarely a good thing.

Judging is a different issue. But not giving a shit about what other people think usually goes hand in hand with not giving a shit about what they do either.
Not sure this always holds.

The worst bulbs I've personally seen for flicker were dimmable ones.

The non-dimmable variant from the same range had no noticable flicker.

Price paid also seems to be no indicator of quality – I've had premium LED bulbs from major makes, bought from a reputable wholesaler, that have died after 6 months within days of each other.

I've had cheap no-name imports that have lasted years and had no flicker.
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> ... when I read the crazy whiteboard interviewing, the pains people go through to get money here on HN, I would say it is pretty important.

Networking won't help you get hired at a top tech company if you cannot perform well on "whiteboard interviews". It generally doesn't matter that you have an internal referral. If you don't do well on the whiteboard, it's a no-hire regardless of network. Even famous people get turned away for failing on the whiteboard. e.g. the creator of Homebrew[0] when he interviewed @ Google[1].

[0] https://brew.sh/

[1] https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Then you're a selfish person. Your fellow citizens deserve better.
And they've treated employees worse than this.
Instacart isn't a person.
> 4) The game I picked was important. I picked "The Resistance". It's similar to Mafia/Werewolf where you're basically all trying to figure out who's lying to you. So the game isn't what most folks think about when they think a game with cards or board games. It's really just talking and learning how people express themselves.

Sounds a little bit too close to Diplomacy. A game that has famously ruined friendships. The stated goal of Diplomacy is not to figure out who's lying, but that is the actual goal.
Can you not still buy halogens? I like the light they give out and while they are nowhere near the efficiency of an LED bulb, they last pretty long by incandescent standards and they are somewhat more efficient than the old argon bulbs.
Why did the gig economy pick up tipping culture? Why did Instacart need to?

I've read about why tipping exists in the restaurant industry and what happens to businesses that try to avoid it. But for these new businesses without established mores, I have to do moral calculus to decide whether to use them and how to tip. I wish they had avoided this. I tend to avoid them instead.

Did customers ask for this? The people providing the services?

Was it for the price discrimination? price discovery? Or to deflate the sticker price?
There are a number of options, and not all of them are splitting the company into a bunch of fully co-equal units, which is a process that works better when things cover an area.

In telecom, it was typical, due to regulation, that you'd have different parts of the business that couldn't interact at all. I wasn't permitted to talk to people with certain badges because of their business unit. You could easily do this with the advertising business for each of these large companies, or split it off entirely, and force that ad exchange to work with their competitors, for instance. You could regulate the news feed so that the pipe was a lot dumber and configurable, so that the company would no longer be allowed to experiment on human psyches.

There are tons of options that don't result in breaking facebook into 12 facebooks. Pulling the advertising out, and regulating advertising in general, is the best solution I've been able to spitball though.
Scientists Are Racing to Make Weed as Easy to Drink as Beer
> It's difficult to say from the outside whether that should go up the chain

Based on one single incident, that's a fair comment. But it wasn't one single incident. There was one other collision, plus, as the article notes, a number of near misses that should have been critically analyzed but weren't. That's a pattern for which leaders up the chain are responsible.
Logical fallacies are not a finite set. Those you find listed on places like wikipedia are merely the most popular.
5x(probably more) reduction on server costs because of less memory/cpu requirements, if you choose Go for example.
Since linkcurious is for the enterprise, What would be your recommendations for a personal knowledge database for individual users ?
These are the types of challenges I've been thinking about for the last year -- nice to be able to read the approach taken by others.
Which is the cart and which is the horse?
Is it a feature that can be read E-bate(s) ?
A: There is no such thing.

In pursuit of cost savings, we made a simple product 100x more complex.
Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
What is your specialty/tech stack? How have you gotten around age discrimination? How do you suss out whether a company is right for you?

(I'm in my late twenties but I'm very curious to hear all your experiences.)
How to Protect Your Shopify Store with a Federal Trademark
I have had good but not perfect luck with the TCP bulbs. I've had two or three die (out of perhaps 40 or so). They also have mediocre color compared to a newer design.
I'm sure it depends. If you have some broadly in-demand skill and it's obvious from your resume that you're competent at it (and, in fact, are), you may flow through the various filters pretty easily. You check the various boxes at a lot of companies and, in some ways, have a much bigger hunting ground.

OTOH, post long-term job #1 I was relatively senior and didn't have a background that was particularly appealing to a lot of the cool young companies of the era. But I did have former co-workers at one place that gave me a quick offer. And, since then, it's been pretty specialized roles that came pretty much 100% through ongoing professional relationships.
This breach happened in September 2018.
More info
https://www.recordedfuture.com/apt10-cyberespionage-campaign...

official visma statement:
https://www.visma.com/press-releases/intelligence-report-vis...
Double taxation is generally a bad idea. What you think is double taxation is not.

Double taxation is the concept where a dollar could, in theory, be taxed at over 100% from the aggregation of taxes owed on it. There are to my knowledge only two real examples of double taxation in America. The first happens due to the new cap on SALT deductions. The second is with regards to FICA taxes.
All three of the books your parent mentions were explicit influences on TRPL. So yes, it lives on :)
A significant chunk of the cost of modular building is in transportation, and there's only just so much you can do for the overall cost when most of it is in materials anyway (gas and wood are very variable costs).

Back when I was looking at building, the total price outcome really wasn't substantially different for very similar plans.

Part of the problem is that it's labor and materials intensive. Even if modular homes became more popular, the transportation cost alone means that you're not going to be buying from out of state in most cases. Also, keep in mind that houses are around for decades if not centuries. If a house cost $50k and I could swap it out every 10 years for a newer model on the same property, that might be worth it. Sadly, that is not and will likely not ever be the case.
> it's quite beautiful, though steeped in Java-isms

Trying to understand what you mean here. I write a lot of ClojureScript as well as Clojure and I'm not seeing Java influences in there at all.

Could you expand upon your comment a little more?
The 'education' of today is starting to look more and more like job training.

However, education is meant to expand your mind and to teach you how to think critically.

Education is supposed to round you out, teach you about the history of your culture.

Adam Gopnik once wrote a piece for the New Yorker. The gist of it is that he was living in Paris, and his wife was pregnant with a girl, after having already had a boy. When French people found out about this the would always say to him: "Mais c'est le choix du roi!"[1]

Finally after a taxi driver said the same thing to him for the 10th time, he asked a bit exasperatedly, what it meant.

The point of the anecdote is that the taxi driver then proceeded to explain how under the Salic law governing the succession of French royalty, having a son followed by a girl had certain advantages.

That is education populace.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/01/31/like-a-king (Paywalled)
> Capability and goodness are generally orthogonal.

They are not generally orthogonal. They generally correlate well.

See Gwern's "The IQ Halo effect": https://www.gwern.net/iq
I really wonder what will happen if Google/Facebook becomes unprofitable in EU due to regulations? It's clear that these companies work on user data and will not gain enough data/users/money if it is paid, specially social networking sites. Will they block it like China for exactly the opposite reason?
Even then he's wrong. It's perfectly economically feasible to write a python2 interpreter in python3-the-language. Take an rpython based py2 interpreter and make sure the rpython code is py3 compatible.

What he suggests is that since the python3 interpreter cannot run python2 code, that somehow this implies that python3 the language is not turing complete. This makes about as much sense as saying that since gcc won't compile my Java code, C++ isn't turing complete. In fact it's the same statement.

And there are, in fact, valid reasons why the python3 interpreter cannot run both 2 and 3 code intertwined (mostly because things are ambiguous in such a situation. Does `{}.keys()` return a list or an iterator? How do you decide? Well you need to know if the code you're running is py2 or py3 in advance and you don't.

I include his original statement here: [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyprogramming/comments/5ejbr9/p...
> Sorry, but this article is junk science, at best.

Au contraire it exposes the junk sciences (including epidemiology to establish causation) used by EAT-Lancet to further their agenda.

> Who is this curious voice [...] From the author's biography. Sounds solid.

Instead of fervently trying to discredit the author, and then proceed to name-drop to buttress your borrowed beliefs, try to focus on what she actually says.

> epidemiological science [...] virtually the entire scientific field [... name-dropping snipped ...]

Nutrition epidemiology studies are not scientific experiments; they are wildly inaccurate, questionnaire-based guesses (hypotheses) about the possible connections between foods and diseases. This approach has been widely criticized as scientifically invalid [see here(1) and here(2)], yet continues to be used by influential researchers at prestigious institutions.

Even if you think epidemiological methods are sound, at best they can only generate hypotheses that then need to be tested in clinical trials. Instead, these hypotheses are often prematurely trumpeted to the public as implicit fact in the form of media headlines, dietary guidelines, and well-placed commission reports like this one.

Tragically, more than 80%(3) of these guesses are later proved wrong in clinical trials. With a failure rate this high, nutrition epidemiologists would be better off flipping a coin to decide which foods cause human disease.

(1) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2018.00105...
(2) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698337
(3) https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...
I actually love the upvote/downvote mechanism here. An upvote takes the place of a low-content positive affirmation like "good explanation" or "I agree," which helpfully increases the content:filler ratio for other comment readers.

A downvote takes the place of tiresome rebuttals to tedious arguments. If somebody posts "vaccines do cause autism" in a discussion about health care costs, I can just downvote and move on. Without downvotes, people are tempted to make the diversion worse by posting retorts ranging from "go away, troll" to several paragraphs of carefully cited rebuttal. Or if everyone manages to refrain from Feeding the Troll, then the bad comment appears to be just as worthy as every other comment that wasn't rebutted.

From what I've seen of relatives who get sucked into lengthy arguments on Facebook, they can't break away because there is no downvote, and letting bad arguments sit otherwise-unchallenged looks like a (weak) endorsement from other participants.
Your suggestion is an option, it's just not the path of least resistance. You can get your GED early (or graduate traditional high school early) and then go to college.
Or Home Depot. Give them your email address and attach your cards to it and then you will always have the receipt.