skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weakest point of his YC application is that he’s in a vertical where there are no laws to break. Ideally he’d actually be doing something illegal to limit ethical competitors.
You don't have to be a lawyer to read legal documents and use licenses. There is no reasonable interpretation of LGPL in Lisp context which would lead to a need of additional clarifications.

Here is my stance on this: https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/posts/ECL-license.html.

TL;DR if someone wanted to have Lisp code to be licensed under GPL terms they would license it that way. I'm a professional Lisp programmer and I've spend a fair share of hours on reading licenses and analyzing them.
Note there is a JFK Memorial in Dallas but it is not near the site of Dealey Plaza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fitzgerald_Kennedy_Memori...
Using program synthesis to secure smart contracts (2018)
Cryptanalysis of Simon-32/64
> 95% of the work done can be automated and the competition is primarily marketing guys who can't code shit.

What exactly would you try to automate? (Having done some coding) I see very little room for automation. Social media marketing is all about strategy and content. Or is it not?
This looks like the biggest major release in years.
Sorry but I have a small business, active family, 2 kids (1 teen and 1 tween) and silencing my phone, or putting it away for long periods of time just doesn't work. I don't spend as much time on my phone as the article claims is "average" (thanks screen time!) but it's simply unrealistic for people that have a busy, dynamic life.

Every single day is a symphony of coordination between myself, my wife and my kids. Schedules change, buses are late, appointments are rescheduled - going "offline" would seriously effect my ability to operate on a daily basis.
The Sixth Floor Museum is a really good museum but it is not a U.S. national site.

https://www.jfk.org/
While reading this I think it's worth taking into account that not all the plastic waste originates in these countries, some of it is western trash sent there for recycling. At one point China was importing more than half of the World's plastic waste.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conserv...

And though China has now stopped accepting the West's waste it still house mountains to deal with plus the problem has just shifted to Southeast Asia instead

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/china...
Easy way to tell if there is a gross power imbalance: do both parties have leverage to negotiate and modify the contract? Personally, I dislike when contracts function as unilateral laws issued by the powerful to further exploit those st a disadvantage.
I believe lots of things based on allwinner are potentially affected here. Orangepi and bananapi for example.
BLAS inner loops are usually explicitly hand-vectorized, so Fortran’s autovectorization advantages don’t help. I’ve written many BLAS kernels in assembly over the years.
Coal plants are already covered by air pollution measurements.
Thanks really very helpful!

When you hoping to have git restore in the official git release?
Robert Wright Speaks to Glenn Greenwald about His Russiagate Skepticism
Right, so the whole "...shows why automotive grade matters" is a complete fabrication. All screens suck. The article spends a ton of words on why the particular panel Tesla picked was bad just to take it all back and pull a switcheroo to a design critique instead. In the last paragraph!

That's not honest journalism.
That seems very low for 82 wrongful court case, and crass to wait until he is 79 yo and had 2 strokes before they settle.

It also raises question about abuse of power and justice for people who are not rich.
It may be relevant for stuff like LineageOS.
> Nonetheless, I'm personally not okay with anyone exploiting that.

It goes both ways. People use apps to be entertained, share information and pictures because they want to. They download silly games to play during their commute. It's consensual. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything.
100% THIS!

To your point about "becoming a social media expert", I actually began lightly dabbling in this, and felt nauseous after some time...Allow me to describe:

You begin admirably trying to help a business (or individual) to gain legitimate views and insights from their audience...but hoping to grow to full, positive engagements, and so forth - not for merely having a social media presence, but rather, with the overarching goal of growing their business, or meeting some other business goal of theirs...and eventually, they begin to get addicted, and whether its a true value to their business goals or not, they begin chasing the dragon of growth. And, much like i can only imagine like drugs - they get hooked. Whatever ethical advice i would provide is ignored, and they only want advice on how to grow their audience like crazy (think: hockey stick growth numbers, etc.) including employing fake follow bot accounts, etc. Their "chase" for ever more audience continues on a darker route...wanting ever more clicks/likes/views/attention - even at the risk of their business' main value proposition. They begin outright ignoring your continuous protests. You begin to feel sick - as if somehow you are the gun salesperson selling a gun to a person you are only now discovering is dangerous. Your client keeps pushing you for more and more dark patterns to employ, and you continue to refuse...ultimately ending the business relationship.

Now...are all clients like what i noted above? No, i'm sure there are good clients out there that don't go dark...But for me, I kept encountering the dark ones. So, for what its worth, I would not go down the route of being a social media expert. Good luck, and cheers!
Exactly. The focus on grit and the anti-Matthew effect (i.e., “the rich get richer) framing is bizarre. Uncaptured differences between the two groups seem much more likely, at least to me, than some personality trait.

For example, suppose you have a lot of non-NIH resources (startup, foundation grants, etc). You might be more comfortable submitting an unpolished grant, knowing that while it would be great to have it funded on the first round, you can survive a while longer if you have to.

On the other hand, the lab which burns all of its startup funding to push one grant over the payline is in a weaker position, Especially if that grant doesn’t open up new directions for the renewals.
From the top of my head, there's the ones based on Allwinner SoCs, which by now have decent mainline support[0], such as the cubieboard line and the pine64.

[0] https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort
This should help a bit with the wave of new Pi-based emulation boards that are being used.
Why Washington Is the Best State in America
How to begin data science projects: What to do when you don't know what to do
Wow, congrats to the OTP contributors, this looks like a lot of work!

I’ve heard that the BEAM VM byte code is not well documented (maybe in comparison to JVM bytecode), which is one reason that Elixir transpired to Erlang first; is this true?
>However, if you get smitten by a more western lifestyle in the US or Europe, it will be very hard to return home.

Anecdotal, but I can confirm. I work for a Japanese bank in NYC that has a lot of Japanese expats. A few weeks prior a new expat came over and he was in awe of being able to start work around 8:50 and leave at 6:00, and how easy it is to approach the managers. Meanwhile, the expats that have been in NYC for a while are dreading returning to Tokyo.
> The problem nowadays is that people don't want to learn the proven stuff. People want to learn the new hip framework. Learning Kubernetes and React.js is much more fun than learning how actual routing in TCP/IP works, right?

That's an awfully short-sighted comparison.

There are far more job offers for deploying and managing systems with kubernetes and to develop front-ends with React than there are for developing TCP/IP infrastructure. It's fun to earn a living and enjoy the priviledges of having a high salary, and the odds you get that by studying solved problems that nowadays just work are not that high.
Just copped a copy of Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism last month after Zizek namedropped his book on that debate.
The kind of math musicians talk about are elementary ratios that concern the relationships between tones and between frequencies, nothing to write home about. And even the latter have little application to composition.

You can be a great musician and even original songwriter and not know any math (or even the names of chords for that matter) at all. And that's even in folk -- it's even less so in electronic music and other genres.
Ask HN: What can I do professionally to combat climate change?
I've seen a lot of recommendations for what I can do in my personal life to help with climate change, but I've also seen that lot of smart people think that my lifestyle contributions are a drop in the bucket. It seems to me (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that I could have a much larger impact by focusing my software development skills/career on combating climate change.

That being said, I'm looking for resources to help me decide what direction to take professionally in order to work on projects that a) have a larger impact on climate change than personal lifestyle changes, and b) are interesting problems technically.

Some of the good resources I've found include Bret Victor's "What can a technologist do about climate change?" [1], and Steve Easterbrook's "Climate Change: A Grand Software Challenge" paper [2], both of which are great resources. I'm interested to hear if any HN'ers know of other great resources in this domain, or specific companies/organizations with which I could work on this extremely important problem.

[1] http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
[2] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/papers/2010/Easterbrook-FSE2010-wkshp.pdf
A Note on Simon-32/64 Security [pdf]
It also significantly reduces flexibility. I can get on any NJTransit train on my line into or out if New York. I don't have to worry about making a specific train to get to or from the city. At least a few times a month that flexibility is important.
Those kids are in the current generation, or am I missing something?
Folks with just a few years experience are very much still new.
What are the implications of the new alleged key recovery attack on SIMON?
There is a serious issue with price fixing in pharma. Whether it's generics colluding, fake patent extensions, or name brand producers paying off generic; it needs to stop.

The current practice is to mark drugs up sky high and rebate the prices. Maybe someone can educate me, but it looks very similar to money laundering IMHO.
I'm not saying it won't, just that transitory UI issues are unlikely to drive a mass exodus from one source control system to another.

To reference a reply of mine to your sibling comment[1], it would have been like going through a lot of trouble to move from Mercurial to Git some years ago just because Mercurial's terminal UI didn't use coloring.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908932
The Pixels have a phone squeeze gesture (Active Edge) that can only be used to activate assistant. It can be turned off but it's otherwise pretty useless. Of course if you root you can make it do other things.

If you order it from Google, it's stock Android, so it's the most un-locked-down OEM OS you can get. This may not be the case if you buy it from a carrier.
> People have 'saved' for retirement and ill health for thousands of years

Have they, though? Unless you were part of the elite classes you probably died in poverty.

If we assume that 60% of the budget supports people because they can not support themselves, what will change that will allow them to support themselves? They're probably paying little if any income tax so how will reducing that help?
The "largely" and "probably" are the mentions to the fact that there aren't yet legal cases concerning LLGPL. I am not an expert in law, but given that the journal is peer-reviewed, I will give some credit. https://www.ifosslr.org/index.php/ifosslr/about/editorialPol...
Top Ways Technology Makes Hotels More Responsible
Yes! However if you bill yourself as a "freelance web developer" you have instantly commoditized yourself. The only problem you are solving is someone who's thinking to themselves "man I could really use a developer". This is a lot of people who on average have small budgets.

If you package yourself properly (for example, "I help founders take their startup idea from dream to reality"), you have now placed yourself in a new, more valuable, bucket. You have to hunt for the proper client fit but your offering is of greater value (in this circumstance you make dreams a reality).

Granted, entrepreneurs aren't the best market but the key is having some differentiator in your market and not offering a commodity service (which is what Wix, Squarespace, and frankly "web development" is).
Fortnite will never be NetHack or Minecraft because it's centralized. When Epic goes, Fortnite goes with it.
The Great Mental Models Project
Firmly agree -- I'm pretty sure I've said it elsewhere, this was a transformational course for me.

I got my start in product support where a lot of our problems could be solved in SQL. We were encouraged to learn it, but most people were happy with the most basic syntax for DML. I worked through the entirety of Dr. Widom's course and it gave me the fundamental data understanding to be a real value to the teams I've worked for, and I used that opportunity to transition into being a full time developer.
Clojure: The Crux of Bitemporality [talk]
People stopped building new reactors in that time but they were also doing license extensions and operating and making good money. Today they are shutting down early in deregulated markets because natural gas brought electricity revenue below O&M costs.
What does this mean? Pretty much everyone uses nvidia gpu and those are supported by Linux
I've never, ever heard anyone not wanting to go on public transport here because of homeless people shooting heroine in there. Unlike Californians among which this seems pretty popular
It certainly helps that the U.S. government can't negotiate Medicare prices, too.
Jet fuel has about double the energy density of ethanol. Running planes on ethanol would severely curtail their range.
Cursory Google searches seem to indicate that the same policy isn't applied for Chinese or Russian cyber threats. You also didn't remove the country name in other recent news, despite the production of even lousier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634570 The moderation is inconsistent.
In 2010 Apple had 1.4 stores per 100M devices. Today they have 0.36, 4x fewer
Recycling / waste management companies have a lot to ask for; they're being paid by local governments (and people) with the idea that they will handle the waste properly and safely - as opposed to dumping it in the river - and they just export it and turn it into someone else's problem?
Ok. I don't know the word simplex, but after brief googling, it looks like simplexes are a type of network.

Could you explain what you mean a little bit more?
Agreed with the parent, I tried to resolve a name in the format:

app.example-foo.com, and got a “no records found for foo.com” error.
The thing about RPN is that it worked well as a sort-of "spoken not written" language. It's a clear and usable way to give instructions one-at-a-time to a calculator with a 1-line display.

But written out on paper, it's very hard to see what's going on at a glance, which is why nobody does this on paper.

Almost anyone programming in mathematical expressions of reasonable complexity today will spend much more time reading (and triple-checking!) these expressions than typing them. That's a strong reason to like infix notation, and in general notation close to what you would use on paper.
I don’t believe the size of the payout is the right metric to be looking at. There’s more in common with UBI than you might think:

The government paid out some amount, to all residents, regardless of income, to be used unconditionally. Pretty much the defn of UBI.

To your point about standard deduction - it on the other hand does not pay out anything if you don’t make anything. The petro fund is an actual dividend, very much not a deduction.
As noted, you don't have to ignore the cert, and we're talking about state level actors.

And it's not the window. It's like saying locks don't work if the state has a master key, which they do.
HIV spreading faster than Internet access across Africa
The house equity?
This is for people who are terminally ill; the costs are coming from the estate.
This is the exact attitude that's the problem—the idea that we don't live in a society, but we should all be self-sufficient individuals. Islands unto ourselves.

The whole point of living in a society is so that we can get together and make things better. That includes things like technological progress and mutual defense, but also taking care of those who have difficulty taking care of themselves.

We may not be fully in a post-scarcity society yet, but we're producing enough today, in terms of food, necessities of life, and basic luxuries, that it would be totally realistic to provide these things to every American for free and still be fully able to turn a profit. The idea that everyone should have to earn the right to live is both ludicrous and horribly callous.

The only way for us to progress as a species is to return to an attitude of community—but expanding that community to cover the whole world. None of us are getting out of this alive, so we should be kind, take care of each other, and try to make sure everyone has the best life they can. It just so happens that that's also the way to make sure that we have the most bright, inquisitive minds able to spend time and energy working on solving the rest of our world's problems, rather than being stuck in poverty traps and unable to focus on anything but survival.
Knowing how to count beats and bars can be helpful when writing music, as can knowing how string lengths are related to notes when playing a stringed instrument.
Any real punishment after successful return would have been politically impossible.

JFK would have called: "Give them written warning and yell at them, Then you bring them to DC. I have to shake their hand and we have to plan for celebration and other stuff."
Why are they simplexes? I'm reading about simplexes, and having a hard time visualizing how they map to social networks
It’s important to note that this case is for generic drugs, not brand name drugs. The expensive drugs that make the news are generally the branded kind. Generic drugs are usually very cheap due to the level of competition.

Interestingly, the US has some of the cheapest generic drug prices in the world due to the level of competition. I had read that for some generic companies, they make almost 100% of their profit by wining patent cases. Once competition ramps up, their margin is razor thin.

So based on that, I guess it’s not that surprising companies would collide in order to improve margins.
Rebasing on rebased branches means everyone has to do the same conflict resolution again and again, and you're in trouble if one person decides to do it differently. Whereas when you merge, the first person does the conflict resolution and everyone else just picks it up.
I actually meant reading a book on the phone :)

As in: "The two hours someone spends on a phone could be reading books, is that so bad?"

Not quite sure why some would see reading on a phone as lesser, maybe because its tied to the rest of the addictive phone environment?
The pixel phones (and the nexus phones before them) tend to be a little easier on those who unlock bootloaders and load custom ROMs. I use LineageOS on my Pixel, with OsmAnd maps and no Google services. https://lineage.microg.org/

It works quite well! Having not used 'normal' Android (anything that's not Lineage/Cyanogen) for years, I attempted to start out using this phone with the stock Google Android build. I disabled all the bundled crapware (Play Music, Play Movies, Play Games, YouTube) and they all kept re-enabling themselves. If you're looking for a device that will help you avoid Google at least a little bit, look at this page first. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
>Just because they happened to make the right choice doesn't make them competent.

So let me get this right...you don’t think a jury can comprehend and understand the facts being presented to them through experts, yet without hearing any facts or experts you can confirm these juries “made the right choice”?

As I said before there will be educated people in this thread who down play a juries ability to make a accurate finding of fact and yet be all to happy to make their own findings without any knowledge of the facts of a given case or expert testimony, just as you did.
Congratulations.

I wish BEAM could be as effective as or close to the performance of JVM for Numerical Computation.
...the author also uses the buzzword 'mindfulness'.

I thought this had peak-memed about four years ago but apparently not, interest in the concept of 'mindfulness' is marching ahead:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=mindfuln...

The problem I have with the word is that there are always better words to use. Being 'aware of one's surroundings' rather than 'mindful' makes more sense to me as I am not initiated into the cult of 'mindfulness'. The word is like insisting that people do yoga instead of anything else involving physical activity. For people that have the 'mindful' meme in their head the use of the word resonates, but for those of us that are suspicious of the word it is a turn off.

There is a certain amount of grandstanding with the use of the 'mindfulness' word, it implies someone knows better when they probably don't. They are holier than thou as they can do this 'mindfulness' thing. They are in touch with some spiritual understanding that also needs kale and yoga.

In the premise of the article is that the person with the phone/toothbrush is the most important person in the known universe. What they are doing is also totally important.

But life is not like that. If you have a relative in hospital you will be desperate to answer that phone. Same if you have some romance or job situation needing a deal to be closed. How can anyone be so aloof that they are not wanting to get messages?

Well one answer is that none of us really are that important. Six billion or so people could phone any one of us up at any moment in time but it is actually only a small handful of relatives and friends that do call. "Hi Mum!" as the saying goes.

So what better than to create a false narrative for yourself where you are that popular and so famous that you need to close down your communication channels as if you were the Queen of England? Don't let people email you and suggest they reach out over a 'tweet'. Now we have these instant communication devices, heaven forbid anyone actually use them. Have no phone just because if you had one then recruiters could call it. Have no email because if you had one then someone might send you spam.
You should try Vue. I tried to use React a couple of times and never got the hang of it. With Vue however, you could say it was love at first sight (and I've heard some other people say the same)
Hopefully this gets us closer to better-than-OpenGL-ES support on the Gemini PDA which has an 8xx.
Birthplace of US immigrants, as a percentage of total 1850-2017
Deep Learning with Clojure and Python Demos
Ah, that's unfortunate indeed. In my city that data is CC-BY 4.0.
Ukulele version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YrUwqc0sF7U
the idea of Taleb mischaracterizing something doesn't strain my credulity too much ;)
I'm not sure these exact GPUs are supported yet, but this sounds like good news for mainline Linux on Samsung smartphone hardware:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?search=mali&title=Sp...