skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much messing around would there be though?

The first hit for a geohash gem (I'm a ruby guy) returns a github page where the instructions to use are pretty much an include statement and then encode/decode statements.

I don't mean to be harsh, but I have a big problem with APIs where libraries would do, and I think many consider network hops to be too cheap and available. The Sr Engineer in me would never allow a project to make calls over a network unless absolutely necessary.
How kernel prelinking works on macOS Catalina (or not)
My issue with Swype-style - after having used it for about 8 years before switching to a phone with a keyboard (Android Blackberry) - is that having to wait for each word to confirm it got the right one is where the slowdown is. Touch-typing means I can keep going without confirming, because when I do mis-type, I can feel that my finger wasn't positioned correctly without having to do any visual confirmation.

Based on reactions from co-workers though, it seems I'm much more efficient at touch-typing than most of them, even on a fullsize keyboard. And the experience does translate to a physical phone keyboard, even at the smaller size, so that may well be where some of the disconnect is.

Note also when touch-typing on my phone, I get the full speed by using both thumbs, not just one.
Methodological naturalism as applied to the scientific Certainly has no dependence on atheism.

Who categorizes science as an intrinsically atheistic endeavor other than religious apologists?
Uhhhh... plants?

> One of the greenest approaches to carbon capture is to recycle the carbon dioxide into high-value chemicals, such as cyclic carbonates which can be used in petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals

HAHA! Yeah petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. Sounds super greeen, if by green you mean $$$.
primary publication reference here

https://sci-hub.se/10.1126/science.aaw5949 [PDF]
Sure, but if that is truly the only part of the document that contains reasoning to not use goroutines, I can’t imagine how one could read the conclusion as suggesting goroutines are unsuitable for scalable software. In fact, I’ve now worked at multiple companies doing exactly this in Go. With Docker it was often preferably to explicitly disable CGo. It would be abnormal in say, C#, to dock points because of C interop.

It’s also worth noting that FFI is not the only way to have Go and C++ interop. For many use cases a lightweight RPC layer between two apps will give better throughput, something that also is done in production to great effect.
I dunno, the hearthstone subreddit still seems pretty angry...
> Great news, but I want to get rid of those face recognition border-pass less gates by airports.

I have not yet had to deal with that, but CBP tries very hard to capture your facial biometrics when you cross the US border. FYI, US citizens are not required to use those kiosks with the facial biometric scanners. You can simply present yourself directly to a CBP officer with your passport and completed Form 6059B and they must admit you.

The most recent time I entered the US, CBP insisted repeatedly that they had to use facial biometrics in order to assess the validity of my claim to US citizenship (i.e., to authenticate me against my passport) and that without submitting they would not admit me into the country. I refused, as CBP has neither the constitutional nor the statutory authority to seize my biometrics. In the end, the CBP supervisor went into his office, presumably called CBP lawyers, and then one particularly dull CBP officer did a literally minute long theatrical hexadecimal-take looking back and forth at my face and at my passport photo.

Again, CBP tries really hard to collect all the data they can, and they do everything possible, including outright lying and threatening, to make people think they just have to go along with it. If you're a US citizen, you don't, and I encourage you to join me in resisting their tyranny-building.
Let's assume for a moment that we did find something resembling simple organic life on Mars and confirmed that earth isn't the only life bearing planet. What functionally changes for our existential understanding of the universe? I'd argue little to nothing. We'd learn a bit more about organic life, but no fundamental philosophical or existential questions would be resolved. Life has been confirmed to be able to thrive in many more extreme places here on earth than anywhere observed on Mars. There wouldn't be any firm resolution on the question of whether humans are the only intelligent species in the universe.

I think that would be a different answer if we found inorganic life, as that would blow up the concept of organic life as singular in "life" bearing capability. I doubt we would recognize inorganic life as "life" in that case however, as humanity has a poor working definition of "life."

Absent a recognizably intelligent form of life found off planet, I doubt much would change (practically or existentially) for us here on earth.
I don't take it as an insult. I am angry, self-assured and righteous. You made a statement of fact.

It's not what you say, it's how you say it. It's very difficult to get across tone in written speech. It's what italics are for.

If I say something to myself in my head as I am typing it or just before and the word is emphasized when I say it to myself, then I use italics.

That's what they are for.
Oh, it gets even worse. You can't just not talk about being white. You can't talk about preserving a future for white children.
I have quite some difficulties with the mentality of first very publicly announcing that you will join the project, then very soon realizing that it might be a bad idea, and then (also quite publicly) exiting the project.

Why not evaluate this beforehand before very publicly announcing that you join the (Libra) project?!
There's a finite amount of land in say, the USA. The way the public land managed is not so wishy-washy for sure. Perhaps it's easier to understand when you live (like me) in a State where 1/3 of the land is Public - you start getting very familiar with all the different designations and what they all mean. It's a little archaic.
I wonder if there is an incentive to NOT find life there because of what that discovery might do to slow industrialization and colonization plans. Do we need to conserve that life? Do we need to set up preserves that are off limits to development? Opens a big can of worms (or bacteria) that I imagine some would rather see kept closed
BuzzFeed's (yes, I know) investigation of the WWF was very interesting for illuminating the effect of conservation initiatives on local populations: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wid...
This mentality is why many beautiful 80s home computers were tossed back in the day. They have aesthetic and cultural value that will be recognized one day.
Not a great look. This line:

> The actions that we took over the weekend are causing people to question if we are still committed to these values. We absolutely are and I will explain.

Is basically saying, "What we did actually exemplifies our values", or maybe saying, "Well actually, our values..."

Combined with the complete lack of acknowledgement of wrongdoing and not addressing their initial online response at all, I don't expect this will smooth things over at all.
If Dave brought up the system and features, from nothing to something, which is where the difficulty is, then he probably should get more praise.

I think polishing or even refactoring an existing solution that now has well defined and understood required features, corner cases, and quirks will always be vastly easier than the unknowns involved in building something from scratch.
> Isn't it kind of pointless anyway: a large corporation with vast resources creating a cryptocurrency, why don't they just make their own bank?

Because Facebook senses an opportunity that in the long-term they could make a lot more money than if they founded a bank.
My belief is that people believe whatever they want to believe. If you are liberal it is because you want to be liberal. Alternatively you might just not want to be conservative. Same for the other direction. Naturally formed beliefs are just an afterthought. It goes without saying that this might not apply to everyone or to every belief.

For the record, I recognize that perhaps I believe this belief strictly because I want to believe it. I also think many people don't want to believe it.
Scanning social media, I haven't seen a single gaming influencer say it's a sufficient statement: https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Averified%20https%3A%2F...

The contrarian viewpoint is "what were you expecting?" in which case the reply is "an actual apology."
You're welcome. I hear ya.
Elizabeth Warren Targets Facebook's Ad Policy – With a Facebook Ad
We already have a thread discussing this. If this is truly a problem, then I shall ask why C’s Go interop is so bad - if it were better, we’d have access to a much nicer TLS library!
I think by now it's pretty much obligatory that any defense of mass surveillance will at least mention one of child sex trafficking, drug dealing or terrorism.

Bonus points are available for combinations.
> My personal favorite is the input controls. They haven't freaking implemented copy and paste! It is all just beyond unusable.

What are you talking about? Qt Widgets and Qt Quick Controls (QML) have always supported copy and paste.
Intel released 32 bit Atoms in 2012.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/70105/i...
Looks decent, doesn't hog obscene amounts of memory (for me - I know others have different experiences, and this can vary based on more factors than worth explaining).

I also just use macOS/iOS Mail because FastMail can push notify to the clients, and FastMail's iOS app isn't ideal.
Gamers aren't very loyal. And Blizzard has certainly not been defended by its gamers here - it's been heavily condemned by the whole gaming community, which is why we're hearing so much about it and blizzard is issuing a PR statement. Just look at reddit's r/blizzard right now, it's a shitshow. Pages upon pages of posts protesting against blizzard's handling of the events.
It's very fast (native app), it supports practically every type of mail account ever, everything can be stored locally (great for offline batch processing of emails), and there are keyboard shortcuts for everything. It takes a bit of customization to get a layout that works nicely for my workflow (I use the classic layout).

There are a bunch of other 'efficient' mail apps, but if you just need basic features and don't go for some exotic or trendy workflow, Mail works fine.

I don't upgrade to the latest OS for at least a few weeks, though, because if something like this is systemic, it will be fixed in the .1 or .2 release.

Also, always keep at least one local backup (I have Time Machine for that), and at least one remote backup.
It's built-in, fast, and works for what I need. Which is mostly skimming newsletters and then deleting them.

When I need a more featured alternative to something I'll use one (Things instead of Reminders, OneNote instead of Notes, VLC instead of QuickTime, etc) but email hasn't been one of those things.

Is there a reason that I should be looking at Mail alternatives? What important features is it lacking?
It’s the built-in email client.

And there’s nothing particularly wrong or bad about it (until now, maybe).
> Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

> In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

- Karl Popper, Open Society and it's Enemies, 1945
2x. Look at the test suites on everything we've sent since Viking. Viking gave us odd results so we've set out to do a good job proving things one way or the other.
I mean, you're probably right. If there was life found on Mars, there would be precedence to protect it - I could see this even stopping ANY manned missions (fear of contamination).

If the planet is dead, we as a civilization get the privilege to do whatever we want with it. Also a dead planet means the idea of the Monotheistic God kind of remains.

Ignorance is bliss.
It must be time to take my Ruby skills and go and learn this. Is it really as easy as it sounds like it should be for a lazy, dynamic-typing sort of Ruby dev to pick up?
we are using it internally for a lot of management apps. we just deployed a new authorization frontend for graphite / carbon using cro that is handling several million daily requests (per small EC2 instance).

raku is a great language to work with for us. it is feature rich, has good abstractions, and developer friendly. if you like the syntax then give it a try.
It seems like one could replicate this experiment on earth and verify non-biological origins for the observed results. I'm pretty sure we're familiar with the composition of martian soil by now. Create a sample with similar composition, blast it with UV rays in an atmosphere similar to Mars, and subject the soil sample to the same test.
People always claim this, but I'm not convinced. We've had a million scientific discoveries that for all practical purposes disprove a lot of religious claims. People seem to either just adapt their beliefs, ie. things move from literal to symbolic, or people simply choose not to believe or consider the facts despite clear evidence. I don't think simple facts or evidence will ever seriously threaten religious dogma for at least some portion of the population.
Do you see any evidence of the admins wiping the flags? I'm wondering if you are just speculating.
I’ve never figured out how to force Apple Mail to download ALL attachments. How do I do this? In my experience it never downloads ALL of them and when you’re offline and click on a very old message it will not have the attachment unless you go online.
My own take throughout the whole thing is similar to Brian Kibler's [1]. To me, even though it made sense that Blizzard wanted to stay neutral, the punishment was too severe for all of the people involved (zero prize money, 1 year ban) so it's nice that at least one of them was reverted.

[1]: http://bmkgaming.com/statement-on-blitzchung/

Sidenote, Linus is reading the statement on the WAN show and he mentioned that Blizzard was "Lawful Evil." That's a pretty solid way to put it
That's a bad analogy, though. In one case, you have a group who has to examine, and a group that has to discover. They both employ high-level critical-thinking and creative-thinking skills, but their output of novel work under even normal circumstances differs due to the nature of their work.
It almost makes you want to ask “blink twice if you’re saying this against your will,”

And the hope is they’d blink twice rather than not blink.
+1. It is quite an achievement by Go as a language and/or community to have generally short lines of code where two columns fit in a regular website width. I don't like everything about Go, but it's usually pretty easy on the eyes for this reason.
The perception that all scientists are atheists comes from a small number of loud dogmatists. This is exactly like the perception that all Christians are literalist fundamentalists or hold right wing political beliefs.
In what way is this alloy different than the official/original alloy? This the official alloy now?
There is literally no mention or prior credit on your site to the original? A lot of unanswered things here.

http://alloy.lcs.mit.edu/
I've also had issues with the iOS 13 on an iPhone X. Mail notifications appear but the messages don't download for 30+ seconds, and sometimes notifications don't disappear.

Other people are also having issues with mail on iOS: https://twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/118240716828649472...
It has a simple and pleasant native (non-web) interface that works consistently across devices and comes with the OS. It doesn't have many features, but all I want is to send, receive and organize e-mail in folders. I don't need a splash/welcome screen, extensions or built-in calendar/reminders. Honestly, I wish more apps were like this.
Or even a hamfisted attempt at an apology like you get out of many PR departments. The only thing that remotely resembles an apology in the whole release is:

> In hindsight, our process wasn’t adequate, and we reacted too quickly.

No explanation of how that happened. No discussion about what they are doing to make sure it doesn't happen again. It's not even saying, "We made a snap decision and it was wrong." It seems to be saying, "We made all the right decisions, but we're going to tune the degree a little."
Not surprising. The new Podcasts app deleted years of downloaded podcasts when I updated, including a lot that are no longer hosted on the web. For some reason the "sensible default" in the new app is to delete anything beyond the most recent ten episodes. Now I need to remember to restore from backup before it gets overwritten, heh.
It's been on my list for, well, decades I suppose. But I've always understood it to be an exceedingly long novel.

I suppose I'm surprised to hear that you read the whole thing in a week?
I recently learned about SonarSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonarSource
I don't know if Apple has changed the format again, but in the past at least it seemed reasonably sane and filesystem-based:

http://mike.laiosa.org/2009/03/01/emlx.html

https://wiki.fileformat.com/email/emlx/

It doesn't seem that hard to write some more tools to manipulate them.
Libra is a cryptocurrency from Facebook, and intended as a token of exchange is also a currency. (Did that really need spelling out?) Thus the cryptocurrency Libra is no help at all shielding you from the permission of large corporations.
I am a happy customer of both a bank and a grocery store. If one day the grocery store decides to also open a bank, I won't suddenly move my accounts there just because I go to the grocery store every week. That's why the grocery stores trying to offer credit cards usually have some loyalty programs (e.g. points/discounts for in-store purchases). And BTW, they typically just partner with existing banks and not try to butt into a heavily regulated market with no previous experience.

And if I never needed to have a bank account before, just being able to open it while paying for my food won't suddenly create the need for it.
It's possible that such comments are popular here specifically because there are a lot of people who feel they can't say it at work. Catharsis behind pseudonymity.
> On a good day this is nuanced yet clear and informative, on a bad day it is James Joyce.

If Raku's "bad day" is basically like "one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century" (according to Wikipedia)… well, then, maybe I should check Raku out!
Could you elaborate? You mean realize it by how we structure the law?

The answer to that is to repeal all statutes not consistent with Common Law and moving forward, depend solely on Common Law, which has long-established principles limiting state overreach and establishing genuine consent.
what? so would we have a common ancestor with this organic life (like all life on earth shares)? id think that has philosophical and existential implications
I've done Facebook blogging very effectively for the last 5 years. Nearly all the jobs I got in that period were from people who followed my Facebook, and I even landed a management tier job.

But after some experiments, I realized that people were only reading the first 10 words and then agreeing or disagreeing based on comments. So it's not possible to do high impact things in that format.

The other downside is that it Facebook, LinkedIn, HN, etc, they force you to fit their format. You can't post a full blown 5000 word article because nobody will read it. It has to be refined in a way, which is good, but not everything can be simplified, and complex ideas just don't work.

Medium, as well as places like DEV, are full of people who write to promoting themselves as experts or marketing a service. They're focused on either making everything look like a nail or making small problems seem more complex than it is. There's very little actual interesting content or deep thoughts on complex situations, and/or the algorithm does not show them. It's also really hard to identify the bad content at a glance; you'd have to read stuff for 3 minutes to discover the author has no idea what they're talking about.

So Medium and DEV, while technically decent, are so filled with junk that anything on there is associated with junk.
realistically mars is way more interesting if its more than a boring rock
Don't confuse special syntax with the concept itself. Currying is merely an equivalence between functions of 2 parameters to functions of 1 parameters that return functions. Doing it explicitly is still currying all the same.
Sorry, who in their right mind thinks the Cloud is decentralized? It is literally the opposite.
I'd rather have the choice to handle it locally or not. If you have bad habits you have bad habits and another language isn't going to fix that. If Go adapts Rust style then I would agree, it could get to be where you can choose to handle the errors locally or up the stack, like exceptions, and you will be in a better place.
Like you I support landmarking buildings but after reading about the "Doc Webb House" in this week's WSJ[1] I absolutely agree with you that the current process lacks any sort of balance between the owners' interests and the public's interest. Even worse, it seems some people are starting to use the landmark designation as a way to manipulate the value of property they want to buy. And, much like the building occupied by the Strand, I don't really see the architectural significance[2] and I'm not sure I would consider a building historic simply because it had a notable occupant at some point.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-a-home-is-suddenly-called-...

[2] https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20190510/ARTICLE/1905...
But then you have to take into account more men dying in war and whatnot.
I might believe this, if the American team who made the exact same statement (pro-Hong Kong) in a virtually identical context (on a stream with shoutcasters) had received the same punishment.

They didn’t. They didn’t receive any punishment, they were immediately moved on to the next match.

So, Blizzard is not acting any anything resembling consistently on this matter. Some voices matter more than others; in this case Blizzard’s business with China has proven to matter more than allowing someone to “share their point of view”.

#boycottblizzard still stands.
You said cash enables fraud and money laundering
One thing that fascinates me about Raku/Perl6 is how hard it leans into object-oriented programming at a moment when so many other new languages seem to be trending in a distinctly functional direction.