skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true, Anselm refers to greater, not more powerful. And is describing God entirely in the Christian tradition. But another problem is, the conclusion does not follow from the premises.

1) Imagine/conceive of the greatest possible thing. (This premise is more than true, it's a directive.)
2) Real things are greater than imaginary things. (This premise is un-controversially true.)

So we can imagine an extraordinary being omnipotent and great. And we must imagine him existing because if we imagine he does not exist, we're imagining something less great.

The problem is, in his own premise, _any_ existing being is greater than _any_ imagined being.
So it's very true that a real God is greater than an imagined God. But, from premise 2, so is any physical real thing including the most humble being.

At the risk of wandering outside of my expertise, I would think this would not bother the faithful either way since I understand faith is central to the religion. I'm guessing that Anselm's argument is a "nice to have" but if it fails it does not disturb anyone. And incidentally, I hope I have not said anything offensive.
> This is not about solar cells.

There's wasted thermal energy when using solar cells. If you can capture some of it you'd be able to increase the efficiency of the cell.
Am I missing something or your statement sounds like livestock do not require land to grow their food?

Example from ten percent law [0]:

> Sun releases 1000 J of energy, then plants take only 100 J of energy from sunlight; thereafter, a deer would take 10 J from the plant. A wolf eating the deer would only take 1 J. A human eating the wolf would take 0.1J, etc.

We can go directly from plants to people instead of using land, energy and resources to grow plants to feed animals for human consumption with 10% efficiency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...
Where is the eval call in the hypertalk script? Is it "value of" applied to a string, i.e. "value of value of card field"? (I assume it's not simply "value of" since that doesn't seem like it would work for the operator buttons in the example - or does "/" or "+" evaluate to itself?)

This seems like a good reason to kill the language at least, in the Internet-connected era. In a language that's supposed to read like English, eval should be "dangerously execute untrustworthy text from ... as program instructions" or something, not a polymorphic call to a common operator accidentally applied to the wrong type.
I think what is meant is Lippman's book.
I wonder why the comment is called "incendiary" in the article. Flight prices are ridiculously cheap, especially in Europe. As far as I know the jet fuel isn't even taxed, while it would make sense to tax it harder than fuel for other uses.

I do take advantage of these almost-free flights, but often wish they'd be more expensive -- to make rail travel more competitive if nothing else.
If there's a specific knowledge to some of your projects, do you write it down somewhere?

One can always use readmes + comments but we struggle with the fact that readmes aren't dynamic and people don't update them, and comments are basically part of the code, so they are buried in the codebase.
It's not a coherent language because there are so many different compilers in use today.

Many more modern Languages like Java, Python, Rust and Go have practically only one compiler/reference implementation and a couple of much less popular ones.
Vietnam detains nearly 400 Chinese in online gambling bust
This non-sequitur of a reply is getting pretty tired on C++ articles.

Perhaps you could explain how this feature is a sprawling mess exactly?

In my opinion, not only is the feature easy to understand for beginners, but it also :

1) Simplifies code - less code to write means less code to have bugs

2) Prevents people making mistakes - incompatibly defined comparison operators wont happen with <=>

3) Gives a speed boost - in some algorithms it's faster to do a<=>b rather than a < b and b > a.

You could find a deep dive article just as long about the minute details of comparison for practically any language.
Because every other "study" is biased / false / not statistically significant / misleading / funded by someone with an agenda.

Not to mention that fearmongering is the basis of politics and so we're constantly being bombarded with "studies" showing a million different things to be fearful of, very often contradicting each other or at the very least not including the full story.

Are we saying people should go out on the streets in a mass hysteria? That's worse than climate change itself.

Are we saying we need to have in depth nuanced discussion about it. Sure, please do.
To set up basic App Services, Azure Functions, Web Jobs and the few other bits that I have been involved with, I have needed to do zero networking or permissions configuration.

Perhaps this is severely less secure by default, but it sure does make for a lower barrier to entry, and for reduced distraction from app development.

I also liked Heroku quite well. Felt at one point like I needed to move to Azure for some technical reason but right now, I can't recall the reason.

Originally in AWS I wanted to send emails from within a Lambda Function, and doing so required me to rework my networking configuration that I felt like I had barely gotten running AND pay ~$30/mo for some additional required networking service. IP Gateway or NAT Gateway or some other such. That was what finally ran me off from AWS.
What are good career break plans for aspiring founders?
> This tracker started in 2009 and has gone offline twice since

It has gone down a few orders of magnitude more times than that.
> it’s code already written and tested by > 1 person, edge cases already figured out.

It is tested? Edge cases figured out? Essentially for this code?:

return start + val * (end - start);

Sure, if its running in hostile environment, you might need to do those sanity checks for your parameters - but I have hard time imagining such situation. If you actually need to "Map a number in the range of 0-1 to a new value with a given range" in your own code, can't you guarantee that the variables are all numbers? Its your responsibility as a developer to know your code, and the data your code is handling.

> Saves you time.

There is something really wrong if finding a package to do this niche thing is faster and more optimal that just writing out that one line of code.
Yeah, that's why people don't mind the likes of Trump, because people hate hard truths and changing habits, and they keep being told they need to suffer for change to happen. I think radical change in how we generate energy and how we use it is possible without a painful transition, we just need to push harder. The gap between combustion engines and horses was so wide in terms of innovation, that people thought they were some sort of mystical creation. So the question is why can't we come up with something similarly far ahead of our time, to allow for even more travel, even more power, and with radically less impact over our planet?
Why don’t YOU take two steps back in your comfort of living for me?
Brunner's 'Shockwave Rider' has an interesting vision of how super-intelligent dogs might take care of security for village sized human communities.
Could you share the extension?
OP is clearly talking about Stanley B. Lippman's book C++ Primer (Fifth Edition).
Absolutely true. I was just dispelling the alternative history where the depression was due to over regulation and the post war boom was due to removing regulation.

And incidentally dispelling the idea that, where necessary, adequate oversight does not kill an economy.
> * lithium market is opaque. No open market and all contract based

Interesting, I didn't know this. Do you know why? Are other metals mostly open (like gold) or mostly like this?
I learned about these from this discussion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_oxidizer
I beg to differ; witness the fibur[0] Ruby Gem. Written by Arron Patterson (@tenderlove) to show that using threads in Ruby is very easy. The Gem consists of this single line:

Fibur = Thread

Of course, he did it as a joke, and it doesn't excuse the serious packages that NPM contains, but it does prove that other languages have single line packages.

[0] https://rubygems.org/gems/fibur
Huang is a professional mathematician at Emory.
I'm pretty sure people are already living in places that are too hot for survival without technical aids. For example African deserts. In that light, I am not convinced that this article is more than fearmongering.

It's also just one of countless doomsday scenarios out there.
Why can't we have both?

Why can't we live more sustainably and work on reducing global human population?
Are there any good but not too large codebases where someone new to Forth could get a feel of how it's done? I'm intrigued by building DSLs, but a university course a long time ago left a totally different impression.
The fact that this work is clearly out of copyright does not imply any obligation on part of these museums to provide anyone with copies. They may not be able to impose terms on the basis of copyright but they might be on the basis of providing a service.
I'd like to quote Al Bartlett:

His thesis:

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function"

An example from the rest of the talk:

"Bacteria grow by doubling. One bacterium divides to become two, the two divide to become 4, the 4 become 8, 16 and so on. Suppose we had bacteria that doubled in number this way every minute. Suppose we put one of these bacteria into an empty bottle at 11:00 in the morning, and then observe that the bottle is full at 12:00 noon. There's our case of just ordinary steady growth: it has a doubling time of one minute, it’s in the finite environment of one bottle.

I want to ask you three questions. Number one: at what time was the bottle half full? Well, would you believe 11:59, one minute before 12:00? Because they double in number every minute.

And the second question: if you were an average bacterium in that bottle, at what time would you first realize you were running of space? Well, let’s just look at the last minutes in the bottle. At 12:00 noon, it’s full; one minute before, it’s half full; 2 minutes before, it’s a quarter full; then an 1/8th; then a 1/16th. Let me ask you, at 5 minutes before 12:00, when the bottle is only 3% full and is 97% open space just yearning for development, how many of you would realize there’s a problem?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8

https://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_populati...
Code: https://github.com/CloudBoost/cloudboost
Related: statistics on consumption of 'ultra-processed' foods across 19 European Countries (from Feb 2018)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-proces...

The countries consuming the most ultra-processed foods are UK, Germany, Ireland and Belgium.
'Monokle' surveillanceware has possible links to 2016 US presidential election
If you want to encourage the smart look into clicker training, particularly free shaping[1]. The most well known books are by Karen Pryor. You can train pretty much anything, and get insanely complex including the things this collie was doing.

For a decent introduction (there's a lot of crap on Youtube) this channel gives pretty good info, introductions, and lots of short videos on how to train all sorts of things: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-qnqaajTk6bfs3UZuue6IQ

Be warned, once it starts to work both dog and owner can find it (very) addictive. :)

Most impressive thing? First time seeing my dog stop and think, puzzle it out, then try something different. This is not mindless training by repetition.

[1] Edit: Free shaping is leaving everything to the dog to work out with human just providing helpful carefully timed nudges when he edges closer to the right thing. Before long the dog will start experimenting and look to you for reactions a lot more. It's magic, fast, and you'll transform your view of how smart your mutt is.
I'm surprised almost no one is also talking about the 2010 Boeing subcontractor Ducommun 737 NG (-600/700/800/900) critical structural elements deficiencies scandal and coverup Al Jazeera exposed. Several passengers have also already died from this on runway overruns and hard landings when the fuselage breaks up whereas it didn't used to happen on previous 737's.
I misread that as Memoize.
A dependency for /^#!(.*)/;

With 8.6 mil downloads and 71 dependents...

https://www.npmjs.com/package/shebang-regex
> we obviously can't take a step back in our mobility.

We'll have to. It can either come from us, from policy, or from the laws of nature. Our choice.
Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but is Julia gen-purp enough to replace C++? Can I write a hypothetical kernel with it, or a game?
>Assuming that you execute the command man -ls

I assume this is supposed to be `man ls`.

>You move inside the help document of the ls command. Write the keyboard key that you can use to move forward to the next page inside the help document

> Your answer:
page down

> Correct answer:
f

I mean, both work? Maybe my answer is less likely to work ona remote system with TERM set wrong.
A person attempting to emit less CO2 because people somewhere are dying from heat stroke seems as sensible to me as attempting to increase ones CO2 emissions because people somewhere are freezing to death.
That's why I went from short jobs to long walks; I can pretty much do most my work (70%) while walking (in forests; not in the city; I would get literally hit by a truck). It seems it does not give me the same fatigue is setting and taking pauses in the office.
> We’ve known this for over 100 years

It looks to me like outside this we there is a significant bunch of people who do not know or accept this. Actually, at some point I was pondering whether the main distinction [1] between conservative-populist movements and "the elite" these movements are against is exactly the point that "the elite" understands and acknowledges the concept of externality and wants to address this market failure with something, while the populists refuse to understand or accept the issue.

[1] At least we can be confident that the distinction is not wealth, money or political influence, what one could naively think elite has and non-elite not.
No, that is not true. Sambolagen is for when a couple gets a new place to live in, not for when someone moves into the others home. Basically it makes a difference between assets acquired as a part of the Sambo relationship and assets acquired as a private person.

So if X owns a home, then meets Y and they both start living in X's home, if they split up X will still own all of it. However if X buys a home for X and Y to live in, then it doesn't matter that Y didn't pay anything the home is still owned 50/50 according to Sambolagen. X can avoid this by making a written statement that the home belongs to X signed by Y.
I don't think they're planning to deprecate Racket's current syntax, since they say they'll still support it and that the existing syntax has already reached about a "local maximum."[0]

Full excerpt from Matthew Flatt (as of about a month ago):

> Racket's design and implementation is on solid ground, and from this point, it can continue to evolve and improve in many ways. No matter how Racket evolves, the community is committed to preserving what we have achieved: today's `#lang racket` programs will run in the future, and today's `#lang racket` modules can be used in future Racket programs. At the same time, the current language design may be close to a local maximum, and it's not in the nature of the Racket community to be satisfied with a local maximum.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/racket-users/rack...
What would be an alternate plant that provides caffeine but consumes less water?
I'll answer your question, it's not rude. But developing communication between yourself and people outside your immediate work is helpful in getting a bigger picture about what's going on in your workplace.

Having a bigger picture can make you more effective and useful.
Stories – beautiful illustrations for any projects
Disney just made more box office money in a year than any studio ever
@traderjane, do you work at Jane Street? If yes, tell us the benefits of OCaml at work. :)
> C++ compiler needs to provide robust compile-time and run-time checks to tell programmers that things are wrong

Hard to do without breaking backward compatibility, which is among the main reasons why we still write C++.

It’s done in C#. CS0216 forces you to implement operators in sets, e.g. can’t implement `==` without also implementing `!=` it won’t build otherwise: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/cs0216

And these warnings are printed for compatibility with containers:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/cs0660
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/cs0661
Monday briefing: Siri recordings are listened to by Apple contractors
Hypercard was a very general purpose app, but it was a bit of a "jack of all trades, master of none". I loved Hypercard, but it was never really an actual good solution for any of the things you may want to do with it.

1) Lots of people tried to use it for making games, but anyone who tried quickly ran into its limitations. There were a handful of neat Hypercard games, but when I tried to see how they were made, I saw that they made heavy use of XCMDs and XFCNs -- custom extensions you had to write in a compiled language (Pascal? C?). At that point, why would you bother with Hypercard at all?

2) Another common use case were simple databases, like an address book, or a stack for all your music cassettes, or something like that. But it lacked search tools and a way to work with bulk data, so it wasn't really a good solution for databases. Filemaker was much better for databases.

3) Or you could use it for simple specialized calculators, like a currency converter. But it was a lot of work to set it all up correctly, and Excel was actually a lot more useful for these kinds of tasks.
Indeed, the idea of a free market is a myth.

Markets only function because there are rules, we just argue about what they should be.
I've seen people "date" consistently with the same person for 30 years, doing joint family events like Christmas and Easter. I think calling them proper relationships is appropriate.
Clojure is the way to go. Years ago, the JVM leaked all through Clojure, but now days, Java is mostly abstracted away from Clojure and you seldom have to make those calls directly.
Guessing someone flagged the parent comment thinking there was a racial connotation, so vouching it back from the dead.

https://treasury.gov.au/review/black-economy-taskforce/
That's a fun proof of example. The reason why URL shorteners restrict the identifier to some ASCII subset is typically that people can enter it on their keyboard. The omnipresence of unicode (where the majority of characters isnt accessible by keyboards anymore) allows a number of nice interesting applications.
The same reason people run forums, Mastodon nodes, FTP servers. It's fun and a technical challenge.
I look at this and see surprising parallels to the Wells Fargo scandal ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-23/fake-a... ).

In both cases, management appears to have applied significant pressure to the teams doing the work, pushing them to achieve extremely unrealistic targets. And in both cases, the results of that incentive ended up being extremely detrimental to basically everybody (to the general public in the form of identity fraud / unsafe aircraft, to the companies in the forms of fines / grounding / PR / etc).

I doubt anybody in Boeing’s offices woke up and thought “what a nice morning! Time to go to work and build some dangerous airplanes that will kill people, so that I can get slightly richer”. I suspect the execs involved were just amazingly (and potentially even criminally) negligent: in their minds, they were pushing their employees to make the airplane actually similar enough to qualify as a “minor” change, without any of the oversight that would have caught what was actually happening. They turned a blind eye any time somebody told them that the new plane would require larger changes, and the results are unsurprising: their teams declared all the changes “minor”, not because they’d successfully made only minor changes, but because exec pressure mandated that all changes be “minor”.
Anecdote time, but I've bought a used car that was about 100kms from the closest mobile phone reception. Hard to do bank transfers in the middle of the bush sometimes
For once i hope these x employees come forward before these incidents...Nothing new in this article, article is being posted for this “Watch BBC Panorama: Boeing's Killer Plane, on 29 July at 8.30pm on BBC One.”
And in the same link, some scientists disagree with the IPCC.
On the first question it’s been a while so haven’t really followed too closely, but once the salars come online depending on the agreements they have in place they really will have the ability to set the price to whatever they want (as they have been doing for past 3-4 decades). These hard rock mines are making serious money on the fact that the big 3/4 missed the boat (somehow) on the lithium/ev boom. I reckon they will be they will set production/prices to a point just below the number where hard rock equivalents are commercial.

With regard to opening the market I personally don’t think so. If the market didn’t have big players in it then yes it probably would have by now. That being said there were/are a lot of mid stage converters coming online that are disrupting the old guard and taking whatever is out there and not being secretive on pricing so maybe?
This is why it feels much hotter and suffocating at night than day where I live, at 10PM the temperature is 35oC with 70% humidity (thank to urban heat island effect). At least sweating cools my body down during the day, at night all it does it drenching me in sweat and I still feel hot.

I have tried to reduce my carbon footprint by consuming as little as possible, but just I myself alone is not enough. This requires a whole refactoring of how our cities should be built, how our civilization should work and I just don't see that happening any time soon.
- Productivity. Bulding stuff in Clojure is not only joyful but also can give you real (not imaginary, not theoretical, but real, measurable) boost;

- Concise syntax. Less code - less bugs;

- FP. Immutability by default is something that once you get used to it, it is hard to imagine having to write code without it;

- REPL. I mean real REPL, not some kind of crippled "interactive shell". e.g.: Jupyter is interactive shell, Clojure (just like any other Lisp) has a "real" REPL;
Don't produce more than you need to trade to cover your now lower consumption.
What’s the best cheap CRM? Five practical tips to save big on CRM
Is there anything which leeches Testosterone mimicking material?
> I am not aware of any claim that the devil is the largest evil that could be imagined.

That is completely irrelevant. The ontological proof claims to deduce the existence of an entity from a definition of that entity. It does not matter whether this definition happen to match some current religious dogma or not.
YOu can't stereotype by breed as much as people think.

I remember seeing some study about a dog IQ test (something like an oversized obstacle course in a barn -- but a legitimate study) and iirc Border Collies were the main subjects, and the IQ curve was basically a standard distribution, there were lots of dumb and average Border Collies, and only a handful of "highly intelligent" ones.
Really, rolling out the Mongo spite from '13? Isn't there a statute of limitations on this sort of pgres fanboy balderdash?

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate
Do you have any experience with it? If yes, you mind sharing some words?