skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posts on the Front Page got there by being voted on when on the "newest" page, there is (almost) no other way of getting there. So everything you see on the Front Page was once taking its chances on getting noted on the "newest" page, and succeeded.

And to answer your question, I always visit "newest", and if there's something there I like, or that I think is informative, useful, or relevant, then I upvote it.

There must be others who do the same, otherwise nothing would reach the Front Page. They may be a minority, though.
Maybe creativity. Perl world has always been proud to be able to solve the same thing in twenty different, often arcane, ways. Sometimes this is a good trait, other not so.

And Perl programs do not spontaneously decompose when copypasted also.

And CPAN is still a very profitable gold mine to explore.
This whole situation is depressing.

Here's a list of companies that have bent over for Chinese censorship requests:

https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina

You can add any others that you know of.

This is what it must have felt like for a sane person watching the Nazis coming into power.
Yes, I believe lisps virtually always do that in practice, as does Haskell if you use certain string types (fp languages have their roots to lisp even though they have different syntax).

But lisps are dynamically typed, so to make them run fast you'd need to use a speculating jit compiler like GraalVM. They're more like python, performance wise without it.
Wish he would elaborate. I don't really know what he means. What did Bitcoin do to reduce the pressure?
All I see is the picture of the speaker and the title of the talk "Lightning Talk: Why I No longer Use Haskell". I can't find a link to the actual talk itself. Is there a direct link to the talk?
No.

Hacker News has become a forum for uber nationalistic right-winged libertarians. Be them Israeli, Catalanian, Amurrikkkan, or other, HN lays somewhere in-between 4chan and the daily stormer.

Imma keep posting what I want, Adolf.
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Webassembly.sh – online WebAssembly Terminal to run WASI modules on the browser
>Even though there are kinks in their regime, for the most part they’ve lifted hundreds or millions out of poverty.

It's disgusting how easily you hand wave away the cultural genocide of millions of people as a "kink", as if it were some little oopsie.
Eliud Kipchoge breaks two-hour marathon mark by 20 seconds – BBC Sport
Huh, weird that this is making such big headlines. A fast (O(n log n)) inverse chirp z-transform was described 16 years ago in Alin Bostan's PhD thesis https://specfun.inria.fr/bostan/these/These.pdf

Also in this more compact paper by Bostan and Schost: https://specfun.inria.fr/bostan/publications/BoSc05.pdf

The new algorithm may be a different way to do it (I haven't studied the paper), but the authors ought to have cited previous work. Where does Nature find their referees?
TFA doesn't say. But yes, likely so.
As one person? I'd go with art and/or memes. Winnie the Pooh is verboten in China because one person made a comparison of Xi to Winnie and it took off. I know some people are doing this with Overwatch (creating art and memes of Mei supporting the Hong Kong protests) with the idea of getting Overwatch banned in China as well.
I just thought I'd join the masses:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231529 (theguardian.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231503 (dw.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231479 (nytimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231450 (wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231449 (sportingnews.com)
Why is this such a big deal? If companies can buy product placements in TV shows, I don't see why China can't buy censorship.

Apple, the NBA, Google, and Blizzard are all trying to make money. Somehow shilling for Pepsi is widely accepted, but shilling for China is too far?
and another one

My dad also liked the movie and I’ve tried to be relatable to people his age, only to notice that I missed 1980s newsgroups and conventions where people dissed the movie adaptation.

maybe I’ll read the book.
The company and its engineering teams are absolutely subjected to delivering too much.

I think the prior perceived quality of Apple software was propped up by a lot of people internally grinding very hard on a far smaller set of products than the company ships today. That might work when you are at 10k people, not 120k.

It’s really time for Apple to make a good faith effort to improve its software development process. Honestly it seems more like an executive leadership issue, incessant and hasty product changes come at the cost of stability.
Question for Win32 experts: does anybody know how a DLL receives thread notifications? Is there any way to make an EXE get the same thing directly (even if it's undocumented)? It's a little weird for me because DLLs are loaded in user-mode -- why can't an EXE request the same notifications?
I don't mind what apple or blizzard or the NBA are doing to appease china in order to make money, it is their prerogative. But I will ask them to shut up with their preaching about Trump or diversity or inclusiveness or BLM or all this bullshit they try to preach to us, you are not above us, at least we are not hypocrites
This is spot on. I really enjoyed the point you made how this is karma for robbing App Store developers. I am not sure I understand the cultural threat though. Militarily from a cyber perspective they are certainly a threat.
Here's a great talk from PerlCon.EU 2019 about Raku Performance given by Jonathan Worthington: https://perlcon.eu/talk/80
Spoof UK Government’s Brexit Propaganda
Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy – with a Facebook ad
My first reaction to your comment was to write a vitriolic answer about how easy it is to dismiss someone's answer as propaganda when it is uncomfortable. But then I've read his comments and damn! You're right, he's clearly pushing an agenda.

Which makes me wonder: when I first read his post I found it quite interesting and, in fact, it confirmed my experience as a non-American that occasionally watches contemporary American action movies: they're sickeningly propagandistic and paint the military in a way that is, to say the least, unrealistic. It always bothers me, but I'm used to the idea that many people in America buy the idea that soldiers are their heroes, fighting for them and saving the country. It's an idea that in my European country is much less effective and widespread (even if recently the right is trying to make it a thing).

In any case, now I'm wondering what is true and what is not about his statement. I guess I'll have to research it, as I'm curious to know more about this. I have to say that this shows that the trick with propaganda is not to lie but to use some specific facts as a weapon.
"I liked that they followed patients on it long enough to demonstrate reductions in all-cause mortality"

Isnt that a very low bar? If I'm understanding you correctly that's only ruling out things like saying smoking reduces prostate cancer.
Not sure if this is the place to ask, but I have questions about how closely tied New Vector will be to Matrix development. Where's the best place to reach out?
Stunning Huawei Confirmation–1M Cyberattacks Every Day
I think it depends who you are and what you like. There's more euphoric stimulant stuff out there, and mind blowing psychedelics, but nothing else feels as overall good as xanax. I'd take benzos over opiates any day.

But I haven't been able to find quaaludes anywhere, so maybe I am missing something ;)
Heh. Tried this as I wasn’t aware of it. Crashed Springboard.
It's the whole selling of a sugary drink vs selling the oppression of a billion people.
That is a seriously ridiculous proposition in my opinion. If you find yourself involved in a project that requires you to hold a "million" lines of code in your head, refer to above point I made regarding "team". Something has gone seriously wrong somewhere if that is the situation.

This should not be news to this audience on HN: proper software architecture, design, and development processes trump "language" any day, any time, any planet. Conversely, even the most 'profoundly correct' language in the hands of unprepared development teams can result in software disasters.

The human factor is still paramount in software development. That is my experience after decades in this profession and is not mere conjecture.
Thid said, Python 2 vs 3 did not matter for a beginner. Beside print they would not see a difference.

I started to use Python when 3 was taking off. Did some code on 2 for a few months, then just swapped the interpreter without any modification of the code (beside print).

For advanced devs the story may be different.
If you turn the screen off, the audio gets cut off pretty quickly, though.

If someone made something that'd let me play YouTube in the background, I'd jump on it! Was thinking of using Pythonista and youtube-dl, but that got sidetracked.
A couple of times a day I scroll down looking for the interesting things that might be lost, upvoting generously.

Perhaps you could double down and do a HN Poll post to find out?
Scams and circumventing capital controls are two uses cases.

People want to use ICOs like they use Kickstarter: to fund a consumptive purchase. Digital assets have the capability of being consumptive. There isnt an obvious way to tell them apart, especially when there is a limited supply and exchange of money. People want there to be an easy way to distinguish business models and assets. So thats where experimenting with different legal theories helps.
This is a spurious comparison- at the end of the day if you wanted to make a movie or Documentary denouncing the army- you can in america.

You can’t in China.

The act of NOT giving resources and bases to film makers is not censorship.
Given that "[i]t will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers," Mr. Kipchoge's attitude represents the best of sport:

"Now I've done it, I am expecting more people to do it after me... This shows the positivity of sport. I want to make it a clean and interesting sport. Together when we run, we can make it a beautiful world."

An amazing boundary to breach.
I can share my experience, because I was asking myself the same question 6 years ago...

My approach was to try and build a Lisp -> Brainfuck compiler. My reasoning was: Brainfuck is pretty close to a Turing machine, so if I can see how code that I understand gets translated to movement on a tape, I'll understand the fundamentals of computation.

It became an obsession of mine for 2 years, and I managed to develop a stack based virtual machine, which executed the stack instructions on a Brainfuck interpreter. It was implemented in Python. You could do basic calculations with positive numbers, define variables, arrays, work with pointers...

On one hand, it was very satisfying to see familiar code get translated to a large string of pluses and minuses; on the other, even though I built that contraption, I still didn't feel like I "got" computation in the fundamental sense. But it was a very fun project, a deep dive in computing!

My conclusion was that even though you can understand each individual layer (eventually), for a sufficiently large program, it's impossible to intuitively understand everything about it, even if you built the machine that executes that program. Your mind gets stuck in the abstractions. :)

So... good luck! I'm very interested to hear more about your past and future experiences of exploring this topic.
To answer the question, I occasionally browse new and upvote posts. Probably around 30%-40% of my upvotes are from new.

However, my understanding was that newer posts got mixed in to the front page, so posts worthy of upvotes have a chance to receive them. Example: this very post, as of time of me writing this, has only 10 upvotes and was on the front page for me, in between two posts with hundreds of upvotes.
10 is:

“ Finish workouts at least 2 to 3 hours before sleep. (Exercise generally will improve sleep. Good sleep will powerfully improve exercise)”

How is this “wrong” ?

My source is “Why We Sleep” by Dr Matt Walker. I’m happy to read other sources.
I suspect they were mixing units and someone got it wrong. As noted elsewhere, the article is now edited, but it's worth noting that 2 m/s (the value now quoted) is a little over 4 mph.
Yes, American Sniper, White House Down, 24 (TV Series), just to name a few. The 3 you list are barely even patriotic.
> Why should a broken commercial currency with surveillance integration be used globally just because the US payment situation is broken?

I suspect it won't be. Possibly could also catch on in developed countries, although places like Kenya and India already have home-grown non-bank phone-based payment systems. One market I can see would be remittances for international migrant workers - think the Indian workers in the UAE, or Filipinos (well, mostly Filipinas) across the Middle East.
> No way around the fact that it very slow though.

You can run Sinatra on TruffleRuby today and it's very competitive with e.g. Go web frameworks. It's not quite production ready but has commercial support from Shopify (Chris Seaton) and Oracle Labs. It will get there soon.

There's also no reason I know of that you couldn't build a simple optimizing JIT for CRuby like LuaJIT. I'm trying a proof of concept at the moment.
Marco Arment: “I hope Apple wise enough to start removing themselves from China”
Blockchain Will Solve Some of IoT's Biggest Security Problems
Yeah except they are not digital currencies(i.e you cant store them on a cold wallet, you can't send or accept them without several 3rd parties involved(i.e paypal, visa, banks)
I usually read HN every day over breakfast. I only look at the new tab about once a month.
> you also need to be able to hold on a Dock item if you want to drag it up and make a floating window.

Jesus yes. That one frequently enrages me.

Also some apps that previously supported multitasking (like Mail) don’t seem to support it anymore.

As for the rest, I throughly enjoy the new multitasking. It was the reason I ran the beta since the start.
I'm puzzled by HN's attitude towards Libra. I can understand being wary of having Facebook run the world's money and how a metacurrency such as Libra could break world economics as we know it, but I can't help be excited about the prospect of widespread digital money usage and FB is one of the few companies that can drive that. Perhaps HN draws its animosity towards Libra from all the cryptocurrency shenanigans of the last few years, but given this community is comfortable with innovation and risk, I would expect HN to be imagining usecases and scenarios for digital money rather than dismiss the whole concept based on emotion related to Facebook and/or cryptocurrencies.

If the world does move ahead with central bank issued digital currencies - and it seems there's a lot of chatter in that area - then a metacurrency will no doubt pop up at some point anyway. Because that's what I expect hackers will find fascinating and because it will suddenly become possible. So we'll get Libra one way or another, but it may not be Facebook's.

A full fledged digital currency ecosystem will be incompatible with the status quo to a large degree, but that's no reason for dismissal. Doesn't all innovation challenge the status quo? Ultimately, the cat it out of the bag and the question is not if, but how digital scarcity, whether trustful or trustless (or a mix of the two), will impact our definition and use of money.

We'll have to ensure AML rules evolve to fit the new paradigm and that's fine. But we shouldn't look at existing AML frameworks and refuse innovation because our solutions for the past don't fit our possibilities for the future.

And regardless of the outcome of Libra, Facebook is making huge inroads in prompting conversations and ultimately regulating digital money, which in itself is a huge win. Given the negative govt and public reactions and their standing ground on the matter, they're doing it at their own expense and I'll give them kudos for that. I don't see any of the existing forces in the finance ecosystem do anything close to this.

Money and payments have stood still amidst the digital revolution. Imagine micropayments for consuming online content and how they could address some of the biggest issues prompted by the attention economy. The likes of visa and mastercard could've made this a real at any moment in the last 20 years or so.

I welcome anyone trying to do something bold. It's progress, regardless of the outcome of any specific project.
An Unexplored Area of Artificial Intelligence: Smart Mirrors – Analytics Insight
No. If someone submits a link that’s been submitted recently their submission upvotes the original. I’d wager that that’s how most links hit the front page.
Sure there's lots of fear around sleep deprivation but where's the evidence that it causes death? By evidence I mean studies that don't involve pumping mice full of stimulants for days.
It's not so difficult to walk at those paces. The difficult part comes in with the length and abiding by the rules and regulations.
Depends how much acid you do
I just don't think there is any of the original Blizzard left, except maybe the artists. WoW has tanked in gameplay, the Diablo franchise has been starved, and then forced into something it's not... Heroes of the Storm has been killed off, Starcraft has been starved. Classic WoW (old IP), Hearthstone (lets be fair it's a casual mobile game) and Overwatch (just another shooter) are pretty much it sadly.
I may have stretched that, but proper mems INS can have less than 1 degree per hour drift easily. That is solidly in the MRBM level accuracy.

And what is in the lab now, can go below 0.1

It was long believed that gyroscope precision is limited by its size, but as what latest gyros show, it's not.
Genuine questions that probably most here want to put but seem to be afraid of:

Why Bel? What are the problems that Bel wants to solve? Is this an hobby project or something more serious?
Tech companies bowing before China
Can you tell me how to create an HN Poll?

Or if someone is familiar with creating an HN poll, would you please create it and share the link here?
What looks bad about the ClojureScript example? I'm obviously a bit slow, but I can't see any practical difference between the two.

I do prefer the ClojureScript because I don't know how to type "λ" and that seems like a usability handicap. Minor complaint I know.
Science becomes corrupted when the research focuses on finding proof of and ideal instead disproving it.

There are no aliens. With the money wasted on looking for aliens we could have saved millions of lives with clean water, shelter, food and education.

Scientists need to stop deluding themselves and tricking congress into funding pet projects that are so far fetched they border on fraud.
There's a typecheck function in the standard library, but with no documentation in the Bel source anywhere it's hard to know what it does.

For people like me who want static typing and a powerful type system to catch errors, does lisp have anything to offer? My understanding is that it predates decent type systems and lisps will always be genealogically much closer to Python than, say, a Haskell or even a Kotlin.
Please, let enable a RSS or Atom feed!
Amazon is shipping and forking the elastic suite of tools, you are describing Elasticsearch itself.
When licensing is at a source file level that is ambiguous for sysadmins. I understand you are approaching this as a developer, where it might be very clear.
Do people still take Ellen Pao seriously? On free speech, no less?

She lead the charge in censoring and banning Reddit communities that offended her.
>Somehow shilling for Pepsi is widely accepted, but shilling for China is too far?

Uhh yes? That's a completely valid line of acceptance for people to have. One of those things harvests organs out of people in concentration camps. How is this confusing?
Thanks a lot for coming back so long after to say that!

You actually put a smile on my face :-)
I've heard it's a weekly schedule above 32 hours a week
Will the WeWork IPO fiasco cause the technology bubble on Wall Street to burst?
What?

This isn’t the us army making the argument or the American state. Normal people are.

How is this different from saying “only people who have never sinned can speak out against evil.” With the added dollop of whataboutism?
Factor of 4 difference between Eliud and the average human male. Factor of 4!
Have you considered moving to Europe?

I'm being slightly facetious, but there are banks here that are better at all of these.
> regardless of how wealthy he becomes

It may be the reverse that happens here: he is wealthy enough to have time to play with Lisp.
Both seem bad.

Isn't the thing to be offended about that you're consuming media that you think is an artistic work, but it's got some propaganda mixed in with it?

If you're doing business with Pepsi and your workers are publicly trashing Pepsi, it makes sense that you'd put a stop to it. That's what Apple (and the rest) are doing with China.
Enough is enough. If you continue to break the site guidelines we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20538835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330767

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20290159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20171389

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989223

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19831107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18801821
The kind of questions that don't make sense in a forum where 'Hacker' is in the title.
That was only the horrible TV cut, his name is still attached to the theatrical version.
How does this relate to the chirplet transform? Are we still lacking an inverse chirplet transform?
Not sure if you realize the irony of such extreme violence as a tool to counter violence.

Perhaps you don't consider it violence if it is within the law?

If so, is it violence to execute people for homosexual acts? What about ideologues that seek to introduce the the death penalty for gay sex?

Or is such legal actions only non-violence if it is used to enforce the values that you happen to hold yourself?
What is your evidence that there are no aliens, then?

Proving a negative in a virtually infinite universe looks like an uphill struggle, don't you think?
Everyone seems to forget that whilst a 51% attack could easily be financed by a nation state, actually getting the hardware to perform it is the bottleneck.
Seems you've never used shell scripting.
So you are saying there are even more benefits?
The search for meaning, for answering fundamental questions and for furthering scientific progress has a value, to blame the search for aliens for the state of the world is misguided. Perhaps there are other cuts we could make that would have a bigger impact... "Total world military expenditure rose to $1822 billion in 2018" https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2019/world-militar...
Here's the fantastic documentary on his previous try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLSRitGNAjY

It shows how big this achievement is and how precisely it was organized.