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Learning Clojure and Emacs from the free online book Clojure for the Brave and True!

I can’t imagine second order effects learning a lisp will have on my life!

I think about coding completely differently even though I have barely written anything sizable in Clojure.
> and it seems Amazon is not winning it in Russia either, nor in Ukraine

Russia is a very protected hyper nationalistic market, in exactly the same way China is. Their culture is segregated off from much of Europe in terms of being 'westernized.' Instead of westernized, it's a quasi separate, rather differentiated Russian culture (all the way down to the music). It's why Russia has Mail.ru, VK and Yandex, instead of eg Google dominating on search.

Ukraine is a partial extension of what is dominate in Russia, so for example VK and Yandex are very popular in Ukraine as well. Most of Ukraine fluently speaks Russian, and they've been culturally and politically dominated by Russia for a long time. This is why there has been a push by some prominent nationalist politicians in Ukraine recently ("Army, language, faith") to emphasize their own culture and language, and de-emphasize Russian culture and language. If you go to Kharkiv - Ukraine's second largest city, near the border with Russia - the people there often can't speak their native Ukrainian (they can usually read it), everything is in Russian.
That's a great idea! We can definitely implement that.
Why Do We Get Columbine So Wrong?
I've seen this said before (I forget from who), but I honestly think that over the next few decades meat is going to go through a similar transition to tobacco.

I don't think it's ever going to disappear completely, but I think it's going to become something most people only enjoy once in a while if at all. I also think that meat consumption is going to be viewed in a significantly more negative light over time.
But we don't know that, do we? They only showed some auth code. The OP does _not_ show that Otonomo has duplicated any business APIs, and Otonomo took their docs down. Unless someone has proof Otonomo copied more than just the examples documented in the OP, this is just pure PR fluff.
This website is “the out liar dot com.”

Seems fishy.
I think they're afraid that one brand will be so much more successful that the other goes away. Each brand has different flavor, texture, and nutritional profiles so if any of those are particularly important to you then it's hard to make do with one of the other options.

For example, both Beyond Meat and Quorn sell meatless "beef" crumbles. Each has a noticeably different flavor and fairly different nutrition (The Quorn has significantly fewer calories, but less protein for example). I would be sad if either one went out of business because I use them differently.
With proper versioning, I don't see why even major features like that would be a problem.

Null removal is completely compile-time anyway so it's complicated to compile but relatively simple to implement as a language upgrade at a certain version, and in this case it's also opt-in.
I have lived in smaller as well. But the point is that somewhere around 25 square meters you start taking away functional space. There is a big difference between a 120 cm wide bed and a 70 cm wide bed, or a 90 cm cook top and a 45 cm cook top, or 140 cm wide desk and a 70 cm wide desk. But the same isn't necessarily true as you go up. It is nice to have a bigger kitchen, but the utility diminishes. Or at least per unit of space. While just having a hot plate is likely to decrease ones likelihood of e.g. eating healthy.
> That's high for a car company but pretty low for tech.

Yes! Totally agree.

> Self-driving is not necessary to maintain that valuation, only continued growth of the electric car market in general.

Disagree. The key properties of the car business are high capital costs and high variable costs and not huge margins. The key property of the tech business is low variable cost and often low capital costs (but not always) and high margins.

There's nothing "tech" about building electric cars vs. normal cars and 10 years from now the margins and capital expenses of electric car business will be like the existing ICE car business.

So this is Tesla saying: "Yeah, our financials are starting to look like a normal car company, but we've got this thing that you should keep value us even more like a tech company than you do today."
> it should be noted that the Earth has been here before and come back from it

There weren't 7 billion humans back then. My big concern is that we're well above the pre-green-revolution carrying capacity of Earth and it wouldn't take all that much to put us in a position where we can't feed 3 billion people. It's possible that a greenhouse earth will give us more arable land to work with, and we'll be just fine. It's likely that things will become ugly during the transition, as formerly arable land becomes desert, the oceans stop providing food, and mass migration causes global unrest. A lot of people are going to starve.
As lmkg mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19721225 - the burden of proof in civil cases is "preponderance of the evidence". This kind of information can easily clear the bar.
The built-in translation works on Chromium and might work on some of the privacy oriented Chromium based browsers as well. I normally use Firefox and use Chromium when I want this feature.
I see your point, I think from a different angel— it depends on your use cases and how much time you want to save.
>On one hand there are hyper-bulls who claim Tesla is a $4000 stock and the future of transportation. On the other, hyper-bears claim the equity should trade around $0-$10. There seems to be no middle ground.

Well the middle ground is the actual stock market where Tesla is trading around $265.
What kind of thing were they ordering and what was the distance traveled by the package, if you don't mind my asking ?
I certainly don't order that disgusting hotdog.

I will also be avoiding any "burger" that is sugar loaded with maltodextrin.
That’s not going to work. There just aren’t that many people making >$10M per year and there are way too many collecting pensions.
Perhaps the presence of a comment like this, which itself seems primarily crafted to annoy and alienate, indicates that something like CWD has already jumped into the human population via some firearm-related vector.
> During the turn the pilot suffered a sudden cardiac death. Half way through the turn the airplane began a gradual descent until it impacted the ground. The airplane broke up and burst into flames. Investigation revealed that the pilot had violated federal policy and directives, wilfully deceived flight medical examiners, suppressed significant medical information and ingested inappropriate medications for a deteriorating and dangerous health condition. The pilot had high blood pressure and failed to report it, and denied taking medications to his Federal Aviation Administration flight physical examiners.

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20040316-...
I thought it was only 1 or 2 people out of 8 who were problematic; How is that "colonizing"? It also stills feels disingenuous to judge all 8 people's intent and position without them meeting a single time or making any deliberation.
This article starts with a false premise: "Vegans are against the suffering of animals."

But really the point, at least for myself as a vegan is that "Vegans are against the suffering of animals at the hands of humans."

Often vegans are also environmentalists in that human effort has put additional major stressors on wildlife - deforestation, oil spills, human-accellerated climate change, plastic pollution, etc. Factory farming by humans happens in addition to wildlife suffering.

Wildlife suffering happens with or without humans, but humans active choose to breed and kill animals when we don't necessarily need to. We could just not do that.
Just because they copied your idea doesn't mean they've won. Executing on that idea better than your competitors is how you ultimately win. It seems like you have a bit of a head start, so find a way to take advantage of that. Just don't forget that many companies with even deeper pockets have tried to knock off ideas before and have failed. Go execute better than them.
Samsung Officially Delays the Galaxy Fold
Whittaker organized a walkout to protest the way that allegations of sexual assault were mishandled. Is there evidence that she also organized the petition related to the external AI ethics group in Google?
Serious question: Is it actually illegal to knock off documentation? Is documentation protected by copyright?
It is, but the scientific method is the best we have to eliminate bias. If the study design is sound and the results reproduce it is a fact. Now it may well be the study design is biased, but since it is documented anyone who sees a new bias is welcome to design a new study that eliminates that (I write this as if doing a scientific study is easy, in the real world it isn't but I'll ignore that real objection). There are also interesting meta-studies that eliminate some bias.
> Roberts saw an opportunity not just to re-create those bygone red sauce joints, but to present the most exaggerated, over-the-top version of them, to create an environment where people could feel totally comfortable—as he describes it, "... I wanted a restaurant people could look down on.”

>

> He wanted the decor to be tacky, the portions to be enormous, the atmosphere to be boisterous. He figured it didn’t matter that he wasn’t Italian in the slightest. There were also almost no red sauce joints in Minneapolis at the time, so diners wouldn’t have anything to compare it to. This was a restaurant, he says, “that was intentionally in bad taste, but good-natured bad taste.” The kind of place where the average diner could feel superior, and not feel bad about being puzzled over a wine list, or not knowing what kind of fork is used for a salad.

The concept of a restaurant that people "look down on" seems both bold and mean-spirited. It also vaguely reminds me of an article I read about the Old Spaghetti Factory.

What are some other examples of American restaurants that followed this playbook?
You could've simply typed it fully at first.
If they didn't catch bugs, maybe they also wouldn't catch booby-traps. Are there examples where developers have done that?
it snowed a few weekends ago in Chicago, my autopilot turned off because snow covered up the cameras. So I am not buying all this "self driving with no lidar" brouhaha
Why did you do that? You should be funding an emergency savings account before funding your 401k.

Why? To avoid the situation you’re in - no easy access to savings.
You're completely forgetting about non-native English speakers who use the long scale in their native language. They make mistakes or might even not be aware of the difference.
So... We have a cli-frontend for git? Like... git, but only somehow for github?
There's also a certain kind of gluttony to it. She's presumably making what, 200k+, if not way more? Their solution is just have her take medical leave so they don't have to deal with the "awkwardness" of working with her, where she will presumably continue making that money while doing zero work. It's just like, damn, what a nice company you got there.
I think their first startup was an eBay clone called alando.de which was later sold to eBay when they entered the German market (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samwer-Brüder#Alando in German)
"Given the current ruling in Oracle v. Google, though, I'd imagine Smartcar would have grounds for a legal case."

Which might be the best news Otonomo gets all day. In addition to outfunding them, now their competitor is going to focus their time and cycles not on the competition for this market space, but in expensive legal actions with a dubious chance of success.

If I were smartcar I would ignore Otonomo (or at least their shameless ripoffs of your public facing code bits) and double down on the business of beating them with your product.
Tesla: "We have a global network of cameras that can be queried to find anything on or near roads and send back photos of it."

Every law enforcement entity on the planet: drool
Ask HN: Email provider allows sender spoofing, is that okay?
I have been a long time customer of a local, long running and well respected internet service provider.

I recently found that they allow email sender spoofing. I am in discussion with them to determine the details but so far the facts are my address was spoofed and they said everything is working as intended. I did not expect this, especially given this provider's reputation. I'm surprised, shocked, and upset.

My question: is it unreasonable of me to expect my email provider does not allow email sender fraud?

Edit: I appreciate the attention and I'm sorry I was not specific.

The provider accepted and delivered a message that originated outside of their domain where the sender and recipient is in their domain.

In other words, provider is Example.com, my address is tim@example.com, they delivered a message from outside of their network that had tim@example.com as sender and recipient.
Yes, your interpretation is likely the correct one. In terms of societal impact, I don't think it's the important one.
There's certainly precedent of US intelligence missing a potential device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
> Well no it isn't..

> MM would be 2 thousands - as in the representation of the year 2019 as MMXIX (2x1000 + 10 + (10-1))

> Anyway, MM is clearly man-month or 2 digit month of the year when you stringify a date... we don't need more.

Tell that to the entire practice of accountancy.
One thing of note. The cited review by Cahill says this:

"Rippon does not mention Udry’s work, or its essential replication by Udry’s harshest critic, a leading sociologist who has described herself as a “feminist” who now “wrestles” with testosterone."

But the person in question had this to say:

"This totally misrepresents my re-analysis of Udry data. (I’m the feminist who wrestles with testosterone). Might misrepresent much else as well?"

(https://twitter.com/bjrisman/status/1112534702362165251)
Though the idea has been bounced around a few times in the Svelte forums for compiling to web assembly
One situation where I would have wanted a real debugger and couldn't use one was in crash reporting on remote systems (like, machine learning code running in some container somewhere, or on a headless box far from the network).

Since Python's built-in tracebacks are pretty minimal, the default crash logs don't offer much help other than a line number. I ended up writing a tool that prints tracebacks along with code context and local variables [i], sort of a souped up version of the built-in crash message. It's surprising how much that already helped in a few situations, makes me wonder why it isn't the default.

So, yes, more debuggers, but also abundant logging everywhere!

[i] https://github.com/cknd/stackprinter
Firing would have been even more provably retaliation; presumably they were hoping to reduce legal liability. Why they thought this would work is beyond me, since this kind of activity is also recognized by labor law as Totally Illegal.

One possibility - the people with power to fire her actually talked to their lawyers, while the people with the power to initiate this kind of harassment did not.
Hooks have some intriguing properties, but they also involve some unnatural code and create unnecessary work for the garbage collector.

Thank you for pointing this out. To me hooks were always a way to solve problems in React that wouldn't be there if it weren't for React. They help, but come at a cost which barely anybody seems to talk about.

We really want to add first-class TypeScript support.

Yes, please!
How many requests does your page make on initial load (that can't be handled by a CDN)? If you're making more than six XHRs to your application servers concurrently, this sounds like a problem that would have existed anyway had it not been for the browser's (rather arbitrary) connection limit.

It's also curious to me that the load balancer doesn't smooth this out. If you have ten application servers and a client makes ten requests over a single HTTP/2 connection, I'd expect each server to respond to one request each. The details are a little fuzzy, but it sounds like the load balancer is only distributing connections, not requests. That seems wrong.

High CPU load should be fine, really, if your application servers are processing requests. If the load is unbalanced, then by definition you need a load balancer to balance the load. If you have one and the load is unbalanced, something is misconfigured.
> It would seem easier to just use the first letter of million, billion, etc., words which are known by most everyone.

English is in the minority that uses short-scale, the majority of "everyone" uses long-scale, and would therefore assume a "billion" is 10^12, not 10^9 like you would.

(Which is why you got shot down by the grandparent, the metric prefixes are globally unambiguous, your suggestion is completely English-centric)
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> I'm not nobodies expert on feminism but most of what I've heard [people who've though a lot more about this than I have] say/write on the subject acknowledges this as one (of many) aspects in which our society treats people unequally in gendered ways.

I recognize that you are in some sense just the messenger here, but I will just point out that this response appears to use a form of equivocation. Saying that society merely treats people (of both sexes) unequally in gendered ways is not the same as saying that society favors men over women.

This kind of equivocation is what is called a Motte and Bailey[0].

> Perhaps unsatisfying, but they also tend to view it as not their principal priority to fix; which I guess is fair.

Aside from the logical error, I don't mind that they their priority isn't helping disenfranchised men. Indeed, an important requirement to effectively helping people is to keep your scope narrow.

> For completeness, I would add the "welfare trap" to SkyBelows list, which then pulls in a lot of women.

Totally fair.

> The "bottom" here is not a very comfortable place to look, and involves a sad stories from many different directions.

True.

[0]https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
Dutch attitudes to debt are different from the US, Canada, Australia and UK.

Dutch mortgages have historically been very high: mortgage interest was tax deductible, and at one stage Dutch banks would lend you 120%, capitalising the purchase costs and often extra to update the kitchen and bathroom.

On the other hand, Dutch personal unsecured debt was very low. Anecdotally, Dutch people don't like purchasing on credit. Partly that's a cultural aversion to debt for consumption. And partly a reflection of the Dutch banking system, which historically charged very high interchange fees for credit cards, hence credit cards had low acceptance by merchants (the biggest Dutch supermarket chain still doesn't accept credit cards, much to the surprise of tourists). Also, when I worked in the Dutch credit card industry (running operations and credit risk for one of the big banks), 80% of the credit cards were actually charge cards, contractually obliged to pay off 100% at the end of each month. Only 20% were able to carry a revolving credit from month to month.
Hello, everyone!

I recently started this journey of learning robotics. For now it is only motivated by fulfilling a childhood dream, but I hope it will evolve into something bigger. Now, I decided to document it so I will force myself into commitment. I know it will be hard and long and I will want to quit, but the idea of other people following my progress, helping with their experiences, providing much appreciated critics and feedbacks will help me go further and push myself even more.

PS1: I'm also looking for learning materials, maybe good courses, books or articles.

PS2: please forgive my modest english, it is not my native or second language.
More on the India built version of SHAKTI: https://link.medium.com/L25lUFUo6V

Runs at 70 MHz
Why is LinkedIn producing original journalism?
In my experience, this is the bread and butter for a lot of law firms. Especially for simpler things like rental contracts and property conveyancing etc. It's got to be disrupted soon enough!
> What do we do when there are no more companies to which to flee, and the effects of that which we are fleeing is harming society?

Start your own company...or destroy those that are trying to destroy you
That's not a bad idea. I wonder why apartment buildings don't routinely offer storage space in their basements to begin with? It doesn't seem like they typically do that much with them, not even parking garages.
> Though in economic theory cost should approach marginal cost

...in a perfectly competitive market. In a situation where monopoly rents can be charged (which is what having a moat is about), prices should hit the point where unit price × sales - cost is maximized.
What I understand is that their setup/app was broken but mitigated by HTTP/1 which is not that efficient?
Interesting pieces:

- First principles hardware design of focused self driving computer (many times better than any competing existing hardware). Already shipping in all newly produced cars. Currently working on next gen that will be 3x better to ship in a couple years.

- Lidar is an unnecessary mistake that competitors are making that won't succeed (too expensive, need too many, unnecessary).

- Real world fleet testing is critical to success, simulations are not good enough since there are too many unknown unknowns in the real world. Tesla uses simulations too, but nobody else comes close on real world fleet testing.
I was trying to think of an idea to submit to !!con West: http://bangbangcon.com/west/

My original idea was to write a compiler from a programming language to SQL. I was trying to think of what would be cool examples of programs that you can write. One of the first ideas that came to mind was to write some programs that would produce fractals. After I thought about it some more, I realized it would be easier to write SQL queries that generate fractals than it would be to write the compiler. I wound up giving a talk on that instead.

I actually am giving a talk next month on making a programming language interpreter with SQL. Sometime after I give that talk, I'll turn that one into a blog post too.
> once cracked be an instant commodity

Can't they patent their breakthroughs? How is this different than pharma breakthroughs?
You would like the way they did science in ancient Greece. All abstract, reasoning everything from first principles, lofty concepts uncontaminated by earthly experience
> Binaries can shrink dramatically once run through a linker and trimmed down to only used APIs.

It's worth pointing out that .NET Core has an assembly/executable generator that can package only the .NET libraries that are actually used.
I sell filk CDs and craft items at SF&F conventions. It feeds my need to create and share enjoyment with others. My spouse does all the computer stuff for it.
That was exactly the point, the fact that such a thing could happen, be fixed and then happens again in something mission critical is very scary.
I hope to god they are sending back short video clips randomly sampling all driving conditions, not just the disengagement events.
Or they figured it would get noticed and were going to try to upcharge. "Well, 4 figure invoices get 4 figure quality contracts" or something like that.
That was my first instinct to that question as well, but I think he was just asking if ReLU was required by the hardware design - or if it was possible to use other activation functions as well. If the the ReLU was part of the hardware itself somehow, then it wouldn't be possible to use tanh or sigmoid (which may be better in certain situations); so I think he was just asking if ReLU was required, or if there was flexibility allowed in the activation function.