skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one sin is to, as far as I can tell (not a Mormon here), refuse God's light once you have seen it.

It would take a crazy man, the kind that would say "the sun does not shine when he sees it", to deny a revelation.

Arguably... Anyone who doesn't believe because they have not seen anything has not sinned. The sin would be, for example, to realize "the Mormons were right!" as you face the gates too paradise and say "I don't believe this. I am an Atheist." As you are staring down the pearly gates.

Basically, knowing you do the wrong things, since you ignore the truth in front of you, and doing it anyway. But you have to see it to really unforgivably sin.

It seems pretty well-specified. It's about internal peace, not external vision.
I felt like those questions mostly weren't that bad and had a clear "best" answer.
So after how many minutes do you give up chasing a bug?

How big of a barrier is writing tests or documentation?

Or setting up the whole environment to actually build something pulled from Github?

You know that some Github projects have nasty things in them like Makefiles, and all that code and configuration requries tedious text editing.
It is difficult to come up with concrete examples of category theory because it is too high up the abstraction hierarchy. It normally requires stepping through several layers of abstraction to reach something concrete.

Monads are one specific application of category theory.

Of course monads in and of themselves are still very abstract, so we need to drill down to another level of concreteness by taking a look at the "Maybe", "Either", or "IO" monads.

This is still very abstract so we can drill down to another level to "does the data exist", "is there an error", and "how do I handle IO"?

Category theory is a toolbox of mental representations useful for reasoning about a particular problem set (designing formal systems that let you design formal systems). In other words, category theory is an abstract concept for solving a slightly less abstract set of problems.

Asking for concrete examples doesn't really make sense because it is too far up the abstraction hierarchy.

To make the case for the importance of category theory, it is necessary to present the entire abstraction hierarchy across a number of different real world domains. This is not something academia is good at because it tends to isolate and subdivide work into increasingly specialized fields.
I really couldn’t fathom why you’re being downvoted.
You can easily be off by meters or even 10s of meters in terms of the position of the phone.

You have no way to know the position of the car in relation.

You would need car sensors and per car interior data and even then it would likely confuse a driver holding a phone in their right hand and a passenger holding it in their left.

You talk about the phone keeping track of where the phone not only is but was historically in order to guess if you are driving and texting and I hear you want to design a broken system that is not even deterministically broken.

It also fails to account for people passing a phone around to someone else in the car.

I wouldn't be able to give my phone to a passenger because it would already have decided it is a a driver's phone.

Your users will only be able to use your phone if they can reverse engineer what their phone thinks they are doing.

Anyone who does not charge their phone will see car travel destroy their battery life.

One can trivially avoid such a feature by disabling GPS but most people won't have to worry about it because they just won't pay hundreds of dollars more for a phone that randomly doesn't work even in the passenger seat because it's incorrectly second guessing you.
The major shifts in Google products, with numerous high-profile cancellations, have made me suspect weakening of fundamentals, or other threats, possibly regulatory or legal.

This news supports (though doesn't clearly prove) the former.
> Is that accounting for recent developments in hollow core fibers?

No, it doesn't.

You're citing a story from 2013. Has this seen deployment in the field? I haven't found any evidence of this. That makes me wonder what is missing in this story.
Emphasis on “during your entire life”. Yes in the wild, cattle would be naturally inclined to bear offspring annually, but may not always. Also, would eventually stop and live on to help care for the calves of younger individuals in the flock.

Wild cattle were likely also older when they first calves as domesticated cattle are both bred to calve earlier and also forced too. Basically inseminated as early as physiologically possible.

Keep in mind also that dairy cattle are bred for optimal milk production which carry a lot of problems like mastitis, birth complications etc. and yes most dairy cattle are artificially inseminated.
The shift from desktop to mobile also likely plays a role.
> My takeaway from the last 30 years in computer science is that errors are not exceptional. They occur often and should be accounted for near the code that generates the errors... We should make it possible for functions to declare everything that goes wrong so that recovery can be more easily tested.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/why-accide...

> Accidents happen. What he meant is that they must happen. Worse, according to Perrow, a humbling cautionary tale lurks in complicated systems: Our very attempts to stave off disaster by introducing safety systems ultimately increase the overall complexity of the systems, ensuring that some unpredictable outcome will rear its ugly head no matter what.
Let me tell you, as a little data point, I use BSD licenses and I'm ideological enough not to want to host anything on a walled-garden now run by Microsoft.
I also have been doing this $a_long_time and "act like a junior until I get the lay of the land" is the best advice I've heard. I could've done to hear it four or five years ago tbh.
Don't worry, your diatribe isn't that massive. Actually, I thought Melville's point was to digress. Wasn't the point to digress into all these side details out of the joy of describing the whaling world? (So I have read in commentaries.)
Interestingly, they now seem to have ~US$3k/month via Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/homebrew

Wonder if they'll use it for paying maintainers or something? It's a useful amount for planning things out with. :)
I'm not Mormon, but I was married to one. I got that I was safe as long as I never believed. But that once you believe and then renounce, you're at least at risk. Or maybe that was belief as documented by baptism.
You would still have to find an exploit for the kernel or other system components in order to break out of the game's sandbox.
Building distributed message driven apps with Node
I think a lot of companies has been pushed out of business because of Amazon. It's a repeat situation of Wal-Mart. This is what happens when there's a monopoly. Payless wasn't very good in the first place so I'm sure that attributed a large amount to their dissolution.
> at least $6000

SpaceX is working on making a low-cost phased-array antenna the size of a pizza box, targeting $100-300.

Direct source is a presentation Elon Musk made in 2015, video linked in this faq:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/ayec7p/starlink_f...
Work remotely - from anywhere
You can use an app like Offline Maps & Navigation that doesn't require the internet (after downloading the required maps)... and I think that Google Maps allows you to bring navigation instructions offline.
No consumer will worry about latency or any other component of the physical feat of delivering internet via Starlink.

Gamers and nerds of various kinds will worry.
That's not difficult considering what happened in December.
If your cable service offers 10, 25, 50, and 100Mbps plans, how is an average speed at all meaningful? It's just representative of how many people sign up per plan.
Can you quote a source for that? I did a bit of searching and can't find one. I don't see why a pizza sized antenna is much of a problem for a car.
This is something that I wanted—a rich language for scraping that can help me avoid writing a lot of boilerplate. However, I am not too sure about the P2P/decentralized nature. For my projects, that would be a little too complicated. Would I be able to use just the WSL part?
Whatever it takes has to require less fuel and precision engineering than hovering a 2500lb hunk of metal in the sky though, right?
I’m totally open to the premise but this article is conspicuously absent of anything even remotely resembling facts or studies.

There is an appeal to authority with the public health official.

And the idea the for profit marijuana industry might push towards addiction seems like a very plausible premise although the article states there hasn’t been much of an increase in younger smokers.

It’s important we consider the risks that marijuana use presents for adolescents and heavy users.

It did mention withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety and the reduction of earnings over time. It’s possible these were based on studies, seems like the latter must be.
Whenever I read about ancient technology like this, I wonder if any of the equipment and infrastructure survives today.
Former US poet laureate Billy Collins wrote a poem about this sort of thing:

The Effort

Would anyone care to join me
in flicking a few pebbles in the direction
of teachers who are fond of asking the question:
"What is the poet trying to say?"

as if Thomas Hardy and Emily Dickinson
had struggled but ultimately failed in their efforts—
inarticulate wretches that they were,
biting their pens and staring out the window for a clue.

Yes, it seems that Whitman, Amy Lowell
and the rest could only try and fail
but we in Mrs. Parker's third-period English class
here at Springfield High will succeed

with the help of these study questions
in saying what the poor poet could not,
and we will get all this done before
that orgy of egg salad and tuna fish known as lunch.

It continues on for a few more stanzas; consider purchasing a copy of Ballistics for the full poem. The rest of the book is filled with memorable insights as well.
Sure, but then why take one person's subjective experience and turn it into an entire discipline with questions on standardized tests?
Mexico and south America is more or less that
Yeah, you should work to get onto whatever team you want to be on. People aren't interchangeable pieces, and the system is generally not capable of figuring out where you should actually go. That's in practicality your job.

Maybe we could theorize of a magical system which deeply understands you and itself well enough to find an optimum mapping, but the reality is it doesn't exist, so you need to do that yourself.

In doing so you're making the system function better too, by voting with your feet and putting yourself where you'll give a shit and consequently get stuff done.

If you want to accrue resources, align your competencies and values with the surrounding system so that you create value. If you're an employer and want people to be happy and create value, give people freedom to rearrange themselves to fix the problems you create by not knowing the actual people well enough to figure out where they align and will be happy and create value.

Ignore that reality at your peril, whether as an employer, an employee or a policy-maker.
leases are really messy. In the US you have leases with lockin, and in places like Japan where you can't force someone to stay in a lease, they instead force you to put up something like half a year's rent(!) as a security deposit.
You can prefer whatever you want but you can’t argue with the video that captured the entire accident. It showed that my light was yellow and that pedestrians started crossing as much as 13.9 seconds before the WALK indicator illuminated.
I think a solution is to create a gradient of radioactivity, so it gets more and more dangerous as you dig deeper.
I doubt it. To quote RMS:

> As for microwave ovens and other appliances, if updating software is not a normal part of use of the device, then it is not a computer. In that case, I think the user need not take cognizance of whether the device contains a processor and software, or is built some other way. However, if it has an "update firmware" button, that means installing different software is a normal part of use, so it is a computer.

The Switch does have an "update firmware" function, in addition to being able to install software (games) from the internet or from physical media, so it definitely counts as a computer under this definition.
Non paywall link:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/google...

Another one for those downvoting:

https://pastebin.com/gYP39xTa
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1020479995028754432

Random twitter user (Anner J. Bonilla🇵🇷 <more emoji's, for some reason only 1 renders on HN>)

> can Starlink be used to back haul LTE/regular cell in rural areas or emergency situations/disasters? Seems like a great thing for disasters where back haul is damaged but not sure how useful it be due to bandwidth/latency?

> Would have been super useful in Puerto Rico.

Elon Musk

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> Yes, that will probably be its first use
A fun tip, if you're using PostGIS you can actually generate the Geojson directly in the SQL query with http://www.postgis.org/docs/ST_AsGeoJSON.html

and if you're running a version of PostGIS with protobuffers enabled (Not AWS RDS) you can generate vector tiles on the fly with https://postgis.net/docs/ST_AsMVT.html
which are great for displaying large datasets.
Companies like boeing should be managed by engineers not salespeople.

Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO, is an engineer.[0] And he apparently doesn't even have an MBA. It's hard to know exactly how and when he became seduced by the dark side.

Here's a summary (which I've posted before) of his egregiously bad behavior:

Oct 29, 2018 Lion Air crash, 189 dead

Nov 10, 2018 pilots already talking about Boeing
emergency airworthiness directive related to MCAS[1]

Mar 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash kills 157

Mar 11, 2019 Boeing CEO "confident in 737 MAX safety"[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg

[1] https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircra...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-boeing-ceo...
> fiber isn't latency free. It isn't even speed of light. It's about 70% SOL.

There's use cases (high-frequency trading) where maintaining faster-than-fiver microwave links makes a lot of sense.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...
Isn't a lot of demand good for the economincs of this service?
Sony removed the ability to run Linux many years ago, after it was determined that it was impossible to prevent a jailbreak as long as the second OS feature existed. I’m not aware of Xbox ever supporting this.
Nope. Any other way around ?
There are still millions of native Americans today, some full blood. Go visit the rez. Their culture is beautiful.
Hacker News is a gang affiliation. FANG employment is a gang affiliation.
I would have to solve Google's ReCaptcha to be able to read this article...

> We've detected unusual activity from your computer network, To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot.
The very simple thermodynamics of green technology are this:

You set a PV panel out in the sun, you get free electricity as long as the sun shines. For ever.

You set up an otto cycle engine to burn something and generate power: you get nice power. As long as you keep digging up and procuring fuel, and dealing with (or forcing someone else to deal with) the waste products. Good luck with that.

This has been the physics of renewables since I first learned about them, since I was a child, about 45-ish years ago. The politics of it have also been: "we can't switch to renewables now, we've got too much invested in burnables now - so lets transition gradually."

And, in fact - we haven't transitioned gradually.

It's not that it's not ready.

It's that the people who don't want change - aren't ready. And frankly - I'm tired of them already. And their enablers and apologists.
Do they have editors at the NYT anymore? How do you write an article like this and not answer the question “why did these companies not pay taxes in 2018”?
Thomas Brox’s lab had a ton of these around 2008-2012 as well, such as [0]. I believe Brox had some freely available early CUDA program to calculate optical flow that was sort of SOTA for many years.

[0]: https://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/Publications/2010/Bro...
I'm not surprised that staffers were treated in such ways. That's very good to hear that they have been able to stand up for themselves.
> As a matter of practicality using this data adversely against customers is unlikely.

People are not perfectly spherical insurance customers operating in a vacuum.

In light of that, what non-adversely uses does this data have with respect to the people whom are the target of this data collection?
Chauffeur Knowledge: If you are not Max Planck, probably you are his chauffeur
I know our team commonly uses it to edit canonical issues over time. It’s much easier to follow a long issue if you keep the latest information in the original text.

Also github has a lot of use outside of public repositories. If I’m not the admin of my own issue tracker, I’d switch to one where I am.
On desktop Chrome: switch to mobile view (ctrl-shift-j then ctrl-shift-m) AND browse to https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/google... This works for me.

WSJ implements a "soft paywall" that looks at various signals to determine whether it should let you see the content. These signatures include among other things: IP address, User-Agent, cookies, etc. So if you switch one of these things it gives you one more chance to bypass the paywall (eg. mobile view changes the User-Agent). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19703810 In my particular case switching to firefox, or trying icognito mode doesn't work. I really have to switch to mobile view.
they say they own $450k worth of google stock?
From my completely noob understanding, the implementation of this particular operation of squaring has managed to outrun the law.
There are people who create art, and those who study/analyze art. I've often suspected the latter were just seeing pictures in clouds.
Off tangent but once I worked for a Pearson software contractor and they talked of their client with their nose turned up, as if they were the king's favourite in the middle ages. Cringe.
Doesn’t work for me either. Different paywall.
Something has always rubbed me the wrong way about homebrew. I feel like there is something about it that doesn't quite jive with Unix philosophy. It doesn't feel like a Unix tool, vague as that sounds. Assuming ownership of /usr/local as this author complains is along those lines.

It just always seems like between "just get it kinda working" and "work how I expect" it often picks the former.
Nope, the biggest AWS region is in Virginia (as well as a bunch of others, energy is cheap there). There are also lots of datacenters in Dallas, TX and San Jose, CA. NYC has a lot of connectivity (throughout the northeast, and transatlantic) but the cost of real estate is so high that it is uneconomical to operate lots of large datacenters there.

The majority of the population in the US is in the eastern half (1/3 in states on the East coast), so you don't actually decrease median latency by putting datacenters in the geographic center: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_popula...
The vector file seems really useful. I ran a query that resulted in a 1.5 GB geojson file... much too big for Leaflet. Maybe the Vector tile would be compact enough? Thanks!
A practical consideration. If you spend human life time on efforts to prevent loss of human life, you risk a net loss if you don't trade the cost against the benefit.
That story was the first ever measurement of light speed in a new fiber technology, so it was obviously still in the lab at that stage.

It is still really an emerging research field, here's something more up to date -

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/volume-54/iss...

But you can purchase it these days -

https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=91...

Also, I would think that the first transatlantic cable of this stuff might be kept pretty exclusive, given the economic opportunity presented by pissing around on the stock exchange.

edit - here's some more recent press from the Southampton lot - https://www.ses.ac.uk/2019/04/03/fibre-optics/
I think that's exactly the mindset that the Sandia National Labs panel adopted: how would we react to any conceivable attempt to warn us away from such a site? What wouldn't work on us, why, and how could we improve that? The article summarizes their conclusions.
I'm 90% confident that if SpaceX ignored international (and Chinese) law and started broadcasting into China without permission the PRC would be delighted at the excuse to test anti satellite weapons instead of trying to jam them.
Is the tooling decommissioned because you’re using alternatives or because you’re no longer mirroring repos?
> tests are one of the hardest ways of doing so

I've never understood how someone could master a subject and yet be unable to answer any questions about it.

In my experience, people who did well on tests tended to understand the topic, and the people who didn't do well made excuses.
Seems they don’t have season 8 yet. The last episode probably offsets entire series in terms of death count.
Why not use Nix package manager if you're looking for an alternative to homebrew?
There is something deeply ironic about a standardized test asking students to analyze a Pinkwater story. It's the sort of thing he would have written a story about, really. :)
Can you work on campuses without being a student?
I'm just here waiting for them to finish writing the supermicro chip story.
Ask HN: What questions would you ask someone to assess their maturity?
Like for an interview of someone new to your industry.
George R. R. Martin doesn't strike me as a trustworthy author, so I've never had any desire to get into the GoT books (or the show). If I'm going to get emotionally involved in a story, it matters to me what the author will do with my emotions through it.

I had a co-worker who was into GoT. He told me that Martin made a game out of killing characters. Apparently when fans would tell him "I just love so-and-so", he would go home and kill that character. I think he probably just has a cynical view of peoples' connection to the story; perhaps he enjoys abusing his power as the author.
Thanks for your feedback! I have 0 experience with mapping so it was fun to see all the tools out there. There's much more out there than I expected. I did notice they had the API, but figured I would learn something a little more universally applicable by learning PostGIS. I should try that out though for a more lightweight and cheaper option next time
Until some major legislative changes or another recession occur, housing prices are likely to continue getting worse until people collectively agree it would be more desirable to live somewhere else for a lower price.
> Even without do-notation the Haskell is considerably shorter

This is a great example, not to your point, but to the methodology of Go. You give a verbose Go example, that I expect the vast majority of readers here could understand, even if they've never written a single line of Go, followed by a terse but syntax-heavy Haskell example that I expect relatively few could.
What's wrong with creating a new political philosophy? Plenty of old named ones have proven themselves not to work - Confucianism impedes technological growth, Marxism is Marxism, and liberalism doesn't have a long history of steady state to prove itself. Authoritarianism does seem to last, as long as the chain of leaders keep on maintaining it unbroken. Considering China's leaders are selected competitively, not by hereditary, it might have a better chance than old kingdoms.