skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no invention on the horizon that will counterweight gravity, as opposed to genetic engineering.I think it's fair to say that procreation will not determine our genetic future, but the choices of genes that the people of the next few generations will make. And people's vanity may compel them to perpetuate their own genes, but given the opportunity people always choose the best possible genes for their kids (i.e. choose healthy sperm donors with generally considered "higher genes" - i.e. Danes).

The OP describes a system where darwinism is used to determine how to punish people. i.e. darwinism is the source of law. That's not happening.
Researchers speak about life in troubled ancient-DNA lab
Apple products are pretty much the opposite of good products, at least in the meaning of "good" implied in the context. Leaving aside the failure rate of these, most of their products are sealed with propriety battery. This gives them a pretty short service life which guarantees returning costumers.
It's only 3.6cm in height, the detail is incredible.
It's almost as if these specific details are wrong but the greater trend is happening, so why fixate on it?
Not according to NASA... https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...
> I never said that all solutions can be derived from category theory

But I think what you're saying is that they should. I don't understand how this is possible or desirable.

However formally described the internals of a system are, it must interact with the world, and designing those boundaries depends entirely on what you want your system to do, which is an art. Just like you can't get an ought from an is, you can't derive a solution to "will this satisfy the user" or "will this be done in time for market" from correctness proofs of code.

You might be referring purely to the computational soundness of a system, but that is to system design as the structural soundness of concrete is to the architecture of a bridge.
Your comment illustrates the point even more in my opinion. You understand more about physics than politics, sports, and business, and so you're able to see how journalists can get it wrong. However, if you actually dived into the world of sports and similar fields about "human actors" there's a lot of interpersonal relations and complexity that can't be described in a 500 word article. If journalists were just reporting about the "what" then physics would be just like reporting sports scores if you just copy the result. When you try to explain the "how" and "why" then all the complexity that you described about physics applies to sports.
There's a response from Linode copied to the issue now saying "This ad was not paid for or solicited by Linode"

https://github.com/standard/standard/issues/1381#issuecommen...

> I just recieved this response.

> Hello,

> We definitely understand your objection to an advertisement of this nature. This ad was not paid for or solicited by Linode. There is an open issue/thread regarding this advertisement on the package's Github repository.

> We appreciate you voicing your concerns about this ad, and I've passed along your feedback to our team who will be investigating this matter. If you have any other questions or concerns please let us know.

> Best Regards,

> ### #.

> Linode Senior Support
Work on phrasing in a non-combative way, ask questions, and define terms.

Communication is a combination of content and delivery. You can have great content but if it is delivered poorly then it is much less likely others will appreciate it. And if you deliver a message with poor content then people might be dazzled by your bullshit but in the long run they will see through it.

So work on how you deliver your content. Being someone who likes to argue is fine if you actually mean argue and not insult. If you truly want to learn, ask questions. I have found that is a great way to get good answers online. Say someone writes, "Politician X is horrible." but I think politician x is great. I will resist my urge to insult or just say "No, you are wrong!" or even "What does that mean?" which can be read as having a nasty tone and instead write, "What are some examples of things you think politican x has done that is horrible?" Then I can decide if this person is worth engaging with. If they give an answer that I think indicates that we are entirely too far apart then I stop engaging and move on.

This is also part of what my dissertation advisor beat into my head: define your terms. For example, if someone writes, "Most people believe X" well what does "most" mean? 50.1% is a lot different from 99.9%. If they mean 50.1% then maybe we aren't that for apart and we are only disagreeing over whether it is 49.9% or 50.1%.
If you couldn't gather from my name on the sidebar and the overall site theme, I'm not a guy :p

And yes, you're right about Tor IPs being flagged at greater frequency. That's fine, but I've had a clean account for over a year and have had no prior incidents. And a lot of abuse comes from IP addresses not related in any way to Tor, as well.
Google bans political discussion on internal mailing lists
Well, what is your level of proficiency in Clojure? If it was your main language, do you think you would still struggle reading what the code does?

I've inherited code bases in different languages in the past, and generally, it's the unfamiliarity to the language that makes it harder. Especially Clojure, being so different, the unfamiliarity is even stronger.

For example, if you read the Clojure source code (https://github.com/clojure/clojure) are you similarly lost? Or when reading any random Clojure github project?

Also, is this the first time you inherit software like that? Like have you ever inherited other similarly complex piece of code in your main language? Because I have as well, and it is never easy, no matter the language and familiarity.

Not trying to attack you by the way, it may be true, but I'm trying to isolate the variable of it being written in Clojure against the rest to really get a feel of the effect Clojure has over what you are experiencing.
Yeah, I'm going through the same process right now with a similar product and DoD customer. What happens these days is that they send out an RFQ to half a dozen different "approved suppliers," which is government-speak for "People who have jumped through the necessary hoops to drop-ship stuff to the Federal government from the basement in their house."

Whichever "supplier" marks up the product the least -- a product they will never see, much less stock -- will presumably be the one who wins the right to pass along the order to me. This is the government's idea of competitive bidding.

It's just nuts. The waste, overhead, red tape, and opportunities for corruption are just totally batshit nuts. But what can you do...
Head closer to the rocks of chaos rather than suffocating control. But being on that side of the channel still means we have to avoid the rocks, and a way to maximize local decision making in a way that minimizes the real costs involved. - Martin Fowler

... added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Is it? Many people like low prices, and might not be interested in keeping stuff for more than a few years before getting a better widget. (Depending on what it is.)
https://jobsprod.is.berkeley.edu/psp/jobsprod/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/...

>> Failure of Web Server bridge:
No backend server available for connection: timed out after 10 seconds or idempotent set to OFF or method not idempotent.

>> https://jobs.berkeley.edu/job-listings

nothing comes up for #27476
Because the 10-year-old me was teased with pictures and mysteries I want answers to. Because it’s so far. Because it can’t see more than a pale dot in my telescope. Because it’s so alien. And because we have been there, done that on everything you mentioned.

Perhaps if I’m ever granted the opportunity to present my case before NASA and Congress, I might offer a more well-thought-out explanation. But right now, “because it would be awesome” should suffice.
Somewhere on Galactic Youtube there's a video entitled "A Billion Years Ago I Put Single-Celled Organisms on a Water Planet in the Outer Spiral Arm. Look What Happened."
> "But at some point telecommunications technology is going to be so cheap that drawing a wire to connect a button to a light is going to be the expensive option."

It already is. I've got wireless light buttons in some rooms because it's too expensive to put new wires in the walls.

It doesn't require a lot of bandwidth, though.
Healthcare costs in the US are laughably high. Costs could be reduced easily by 50% and life expectancy could still go up, as many other countries show. There is no reason to spend more than 8-10% of GDP on healthcare rather than the US‘ 15.
To put this as civily as I can, if you don't find any value in this tool, then don't use it. If you think it's trivial enough to not deserve funding, don't fund it.

If you really think it's just a config file and nothing more, then just ignore it and move on. It doesn't hurt you with it's existence.

There are no network effects here, this is about as far from a zero sum game as you can get.

Some of us do get value out of this "config file", quite a lot. This project handles edge cases, enforces backwards compatable changes and improvements, fixes bugs and config issues, and works on documentation to help it work with other tools and systems.

That has value, and it makes my blood boil that many people are completely disregarding the work that goes into making this project run smoothly for as many people as possible in an area that is saturated with an insane number of choices and a cost to switching which is about as close to zero as possible.

Please just go look at the repo, look at the changelog, look at the insane number of downloads, issues, PRs, look at the care taken with breaking changes, and look at how much time and effort it looks like feross puts into this.

Please look at it, because I can't possibly imagine someone seeing all the effort, time, and care that goes into this project and concluding that it's just rent seeking...
This is why I like python and C, almost impossible to layer in multiple layers of opaqueness with them. You can almost always deconstruct what the original person was trying to do, whether they were successful or not.
I appreciate your answer.

programming in terms of "do A, then do B, then do C" doesn't scale to intellectual complexity very well

I think that's the bit I'm struggling to understand. You gave an example of shell pipe, but that's easy to implement with simple procedural programming:

f = ls(.)
g = grep(f, "pig")
h = wc(g, mode="lines")
print(h)

This code is easy to understand, and the advantage of doing it in Haskell is not clear. I guess it's not "intellectually complex" enough to demonstrate the power of FP. Is there some example where I'd study it for a bit, then realize "Yes. This is nifty way to do X", where X is some task that is cumbersome (or dangerous, or ...) if done in procedural or OOP style of programming. Because I definitely had a moment like that when I was looking at OOP examples.
Digital technology changes some of the economics, and perhaps some of the need for advertising revenue. For example, you could sell mostly journalism "content", without the expense of printing and distribution operation.
A codebase is a mechanical approximation of a set of human intentions. It's a model of an organic phenomenon.
So what’s the alternative? Suppose we banish all private land ownership in San Francisco. What then? It seems like demand for space is so high people would fight each other to carve out their space. And if you build a house what would stop someone else from tearing it down and building their own while you are on vacation?

Alternatively the government turns into the only landlord, deciding who can build what where.
But isn't that precisely the problem? A lot of people are unsatisfied with the current solution which doesn't lend itself to a particular goal?

Aren't we now locked into a format (plain text) which is now becoming more and more of a pain (what type is this? is this text related to this other text?) and we're now having to go back to old utilities and add --json?
I've always noticed "free" in general has all kinds of strange side-effects.

Sometimes charging a nominal amount (like $1) filters most aberrant behavior.
Why does he work for Google?
Sure, but customers being pissed off when their accounts are terminated is fairly predictable. The customer being always right is a long established business dogma, the reason is simple: the customer is the person that ultimately powers the business, without the customer there is no business so if you want to stay afloat you'd better make it so that the customer has their expectations met.
starting with killing competitors, all egotistical traits are darwinian. If anything, laws exist to stop us from that
Knowledge of SQL databases, specifically, was advertised and required by the recruiters, yes.
Show HN: An On-Demand Scooter Alternative with Showers and Lockers
Hi HN,

I'm Gilbert and co-founder of Commuto.

Urban mobility is such an interesting problem to work on now especially,when the
amount of cars owners is growing at expense of infrastructure we currently have.
We are still decades away before from better algorithms that have a strong
accuracy of optimizing routes. What if we could optimize travel through embracing
natural means like walking or jogging to our final destinations?

That's what our team came up with an app we calll Commuto.

Commuto is an app that lets people use alternative
means like walking and jogging while connecting them to
spots where they can quickly take a shower or keep stuff
that they can use before reaching their final destinations.

Traffic congestion costs the world economy billions of dollars annually. Existing solutions have not attracted drivers to leave their cars and walk or cycle to work. This is because people lack adequate facilities close to work for changing and refreshing.

With Commuto, simply book a commutel near your destination to shower and change and step into your workplace well refreshed.

For any questions or feedback please reach out.

PS- some footnotes of things we haven't figured out;

* Your feedback if this would be helpful
* Legal issues regarding State Laws on properties(if you know anything ,please reachout in
the comment section or whaterver)

Thanks
False. The 2019 fires are way outside of the average: http://www.globalfiredata.org/forecast.html

Also, what you call average is only the average over the past few years, which means: illegal loggers and ranchers burning the forest on purpose.

The true long-term average is a healthy forest with very few fires.
eurocentric art critics who classify everything in eurocentric categories based on european modern history realize they have an eurocentric art critic bias. Color me surprised!

Usually the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris is extremely provocative, but i guess you have to lower standards to collaborate with Stanford?
This experience pre-dates the publication and my knowledge of the existence of this article. #timeTravelImpared
“Not if it's turned into a ranch!”

That’s not obvious to me. Most plants are C2 plants, but grass is a C4 so it captures sunlight more efficiently.

Not to say burning the Amazon isn’t a terrible idea.
But surely this software must be considered adware? And the language specifically notes that they consider adware malicious not that adware is only bad if also containing rookeries or spyware.
How long have you been programming professionally?

Did you have prior experience with dynamic languages? If so, how much?

Did you have prior experience with statically typed languages? If so, how much?

I'm trying to see if Clojure requires more fundamental programming intuition and experience to sustain in large projects. I work with tens of thousands of Clojure LOC, I don't feel these issues and can't relate, and love Clojure, so I'm curious to understand what context it best applies too. I wouldn't want to force it on a team that wouldn't benefit from it, so I'm interested about learning these aspects, so I'm able to recognize in what context it would make sense for me to influence a team to adopt it or not.

Thanks.
I do agree that you should prefer functions over macros. The rule of thumb I’ve heard is only use macros if they are absolutely necessary.

But having that option is better than not having the option at all IMHO.
That seems to be the real issue, then. Using this as an argument isn't valid when this option also exists.
Didn't DJB famously use very small variable names when writing qmail in C? This is (obviously) not unique to C or Clojure. But it is something that is occasionally influenced the language best practices or culture, as you see in the giant names everywhere in Objective-C and the opposite in the push for minimalism in Ruby.

The names of complex functions, even with documentation, tends to be a bigger problem with scale than local variables and functions or utility functions.

Language design stuff like namespacing/modules helps provide a balance between short/descriptive and so does documentation of key/complex parts as well as how you architect the larger pieces and organize code in directories.

Additionally there's type systems, IDEs with docs/function + type signature integration, standards like JSDoc, etc that help. So it's a mix of a lot of things besides the human.
@JaimeThompson, is there anything in your 'good chance' assessment that has material evidence?

I went to the article
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nasa-astronaut-identity-theft-ban...

But it seems that the comment section is not even open for this story.

Where are you getting your evidence from?
This is the same person that was listening to a clip from a news helicopter on YouTube and heard some "weird interference" in the audio. She went on from there to do some audio processing and eventually realized it was the chopper transmitting some information. That information was its Latitude & Longitude, after which she plotted its flight path on a map.

http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopt...

Windytan has hearing that puts a bat's to shame.
>Now, ofcourse apple have positioned them selves as a privacy first company, so this is a big no no.

I don't think this is a "no no" based on Apple's privacy stance. The terms do say that they can send the recording in order to perform additional analysis and there's no user data, user ID info, or anything else that would give up a user's privacy included in what's sent over. Unless someone managed to recognize a specific voice in a recording, there's literally no way to tie a specific user to that recording because Apple anonymizes all of it on-device before it gets sent out.
> [...] many people are completely disregarding the work that goes into making this project run smoothly for as many people as possible in an area that is saturated with an insane number of choices and a cost to switching which is about as close to zero as possible.

It seems like you're simultaneously arguing that this project is important and valuable and a lot of work, but also there are a million other options for what it does and it's trivial to create new ones.

And even if I don't personally use this linter configuration file, it can hurt me in two ways:

1. If it's a transitive dependency of some other project I use

2. By normalizing rent-seeking behaviors like putting advertisements in a package's installation output
FYI, Clojure can run on the beam: https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl
I can understand why “faster internet” is good or even great thing. We’re seeing all kinds of new streaming tech that can take advantage of more bandwidth.

Something that does confuse me though, is the way 5G is being touted as the solution to better home internet in the US. It only going to fast in cities, which are the perfect place for fibre or even wireless ISP using normal WiFi running point-to-point between buildings.

US poor home internet seems to be driven by lack of competition, 5G is one way of increasing competition. But surely trying to legislate local-loop unbundling (which is what happens in most of the world) would be a cheaper quicker way to drive competition?

Coming from the privileged position of living in a place with a cheap unlimited 1Gpbs home internet connection, it’s hard to see what 5G brings to the table, except perhaps a better mobile connection in train stations and concert arenas.
Yes, it is the word 'illegal'. There isn't a federal or state statute requiring paper currency (or coins) to be used to pay off a debt.

Debt doesn't disappear because an organization refuses to accept cash. They can accept cash. They can also accept chickens. While not a form of legal tender, a business can barter for goods and services. Organizations can also restrict certain forms of cash from being used. They refuse to accept anything higher than $20 bills or refuse to accept the entire payment in pennies.

Legal tender means that the note is honored and backed by the United States. The paper currency we know and love is actually called a Federal Reserve Note and should not to be confused with a United States Note, which is no longer in active circulation but it is still considered legal tender. In fact, the United States Note was called Legal Tender Note and a successor to Demand Notes which were printed during the Civil War. The Demand Note had a green back which is how the term greenback came into existence. Other forms of currencies have been issued and used as money includes Treasury Notes and National Bank Notes. Many state chartered banks also printed their own notes. You have to remember the Bureau of Engraving and Printing didn't exist until 1862 and the Federal Reserve until 1913.
> For free services, I'm the product, not the customer.

That's been beaten to death by now. Let's start with that I don't agree with it. If the service is free the price is $0, that does not suddenly transform the person who the product is being delivered to into the product itself. It merely changes the revenue stream into another one that is invisible to the customer. The company then has many options in order to get paid, none of which involve selling the customer. They might sell data about the customer (illegal in many places if that data has been collected for different purposes), or they might attempt to upsell the customer on a different service.

But in no way does the actual customer get sold.

The whole thing smacks of defeatism: we don't pay so therefore we have no rights as customers so don't whine. But that simply isn't true, users are not cattle to be sold at auction and companies should not treat them as such. And users should not tell each other that they only got what they deserved.
Interesting read, I wasn't aware of that! I love that website.
Personally found the post interesting. I don't use Discord but I also refuse to give my number out for verification purposes - as you noted there are other ways to verify a users identity.

Hopefully you don't get too much grief for being a female on the internet with an opinion :-/
> but back then there really was no substitute for a Tek scope so the Pentagon caved.

Well, they still got their own SKUs with (minor) modifications.
Well that scenario is almost literally a TNG episode (A Matter of Honor [0]), just Klingons instead of Ferengi.

Though it is interesting that the Federation almost universally treats the Ferengi with derision, while going out of their way to respect Klingon culture. Over-the-top capitalist/misogynist versus over-the-top barbarous/murderous. Take your pick I guess.

DS9 does address this a few times, especially Quark's speeches in The Siege of AR-558. And Ezri does a damn good take down of Klingon honor culture right to Worf's face in Tacking into the Wind, exposing the hypocrisy of it in an empire riddled with corruption.

Dunno what thread I'm in anymore, but I do like Star Trek.

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