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> contributed to free speech.

What does it mean to "contribute to" free speech?
Good quality debates are becoming much rarer among websites and social media with larger pools of users.

Here’s a very old debate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Oxford_evolution_debate

There’s a good quote inside:

”Let us ever apply ourselves to the task, feeling assured that the more we thus exercise, and by exercising improve our intellectual faculties, the more worthy shall we be, the better shall we be fitted to come nearer to our God.”

The gist I get from it (not saying it’s 100% right) is that we enrich ourselves by exercising our mental state, which means challenging ourselves, exploring new intellectual points, and having the fortitude to go through with it (and hopefully find meaning).

Instead, the easy way is to forgo such “intellectual exercise” and simply regurgitate the same sentiments back to ‘the group’ and drown out the ‘other side’ with self-serving, dribbling retorts.

With respect to “What can’t be said”, this reinforces conditioned thinking that is black or white with no gray area in between to formally discuss. Instead, the ethos is “You’re either with us or against us”, and challenging that classification is violating Rule #1.
Scientific Reports is open-access.
I feel like you should’ve been my signals and systems teacher.
APT's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csye_Jkp4eI
Linear Algebra and Applications: An Inquiry-Based Approach
I sure hope it will be faster because in my own tests it's slower than Tcl. And I've tested at least two releases a year since october 2016 when the stable Rakudo came out.

Ruby 2.5 has a jit which uses the C compiler to generate dynamically linked objects. It looks more like a workaround but it produces fast code. Then there's Jruby, Rubinius, Truffle, mruby. Crystal too, which is a different language but yet similar. No need to learn Go. Just take your Ruby background and pretty much start using it for writing Crystal.
Google AI Research Division to Issue PhD Degrees
>I see it as inevitable and, for the reasons you point out, not too difficult, as the incumbents are sclerotic and unable to grasp the importance of software.

It's not inevitable at all. This is because (retail) banks operate more or less in the same way in their back office. The change is the front office - retail branches are being replaced with apps. But they have seen this before - with telephone and online banking. And the current generation of apps from the big banks is catching up (mainly UX). The only thing that really stands-out for the startups is the onboarding process.

This is going to end in a completely different way than the retail wars, because there, it was a revolution in both the front (storefront) and back (logistics of getting the product to the customers) office.
Bel is a spec for a new dialect of Lisp
That's bullshit.
Show HN: Online SVG XML Editor
I dont buy the idea that Paypal added critical legitimacy to the project. SV companies are a pretty homogeneous interest group, and FB is already one of the largest players. For me libra is trustworthy because it's backed by real money from many governments. It's highly unlikely that facebook would commit real fraud with it, since they both have the cash to pull it through and committing fraud would be devastating to their brand (HN may not like FB , but it is obviously one of the better trusted tech companies).

This also opens the way for other more obscure partners to enter the association. That will probably determine its future course
Tim Cook doesn’t seem to know how the Hong Kong app Apple removed works
Japan’s Free Disaster WiFi Service – "00000Japan"
See Paul's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231208
IMO Apple usually makes good software. That’s why the Catalina release is a big deal.

If Apple made shit software this story would be background noise, but it is surprising to see a company that usually delivers relatively polished experiences do this.
You probably mean: `@{ $hash->{array_ref} }` or `@{ $hash(array_ref) }`.

Either way shows exactly what is the structure of `hash`.
Then choose "the better product" among the myriad of banking accounts from the myriad of competing banks out there. Your problems are all problems related to bank accounts, not to the currency that gets stored in those accounts, so there is no reason at all to cry for competition on the currency level.
And to g, that statistical construct that's most commonly associated with IQ but also correlates heavily with general health and economic outcomes.
This assumes the amount of funding would remain the same. Would it? Hell, if they found life on Mars I'd consider switching jobs to work on that. I'd be surprised if tax-paying people wouldn't be open to funneling more tax-money towards space travel. Human- or robot missions, regardless.
libra is backed by eur/usd/gbp etc.
I adhere to "dogfooding": use what you make, and use it seriously. Then you'll understand what design documents so often fail to communicate. Programmers and certainly architects should get onto the work floor, and actually participate in the job, preferably before starting their "real" work, but certainly afterwards.
"Rez", with or without the trance vibrator. With or without the ps4 vr kit.

"Fear is the mind killer" liberally riffed the deep house, electronic, call it whatever, is awesome...

No popular culture penetration..?

Edit link:

https://youtu.be/ucuhA-GSGEg
Going from the 'swapping spit' hypothesis. We can just say it suffices for there to be cells that divide and grow and contain DNA or RNA
You can't expect a two-man company to win on every point against Acer. I don't think 900 euro is bad for a laptop, especially not one with an upgrade path.

Making your own Raspberry Pi laptop/portable is a fun project, but it's not really the same as making one that people can just buy, neither for the maker nor the owner. A community of hacks and mods can spring up around the standards set by such a project.

I really look forward to getting one.
IMHO, the works endure in part from the depth and timelessness; the depths with which is explores human fundamentals, and the relative lack of science fiction technologies mean it cannot be dated the same way that, say, Asimov's computers or Star Trek's communicators look odd in light of what is everyday today.

I've always loved the fourth book the most, and I've always felt it was most simply described as "Nietzsche's Gay Science, but to a plot." and I will totally talk about this with anyone who wants to.
My layman’s interpretation of this is that using this new transform instead of DCT will make edges less blocky in JPG images. Is that right?
> 1. That line would still be hard to draw

Perhaps I'm unusually gifted, but I find the line between violence and non violence quite easy to raw. One of the easiest of all lines, really.
This is my favourite film so I'm pretty tuned in to these phrases, and I've never heard anyone use any of them. I'm also pretty sure there's no "wheels within wheels" in it.
Blaming "the company" for bugs in complex human-machine systems doesn't really say anything insightful, actionable or useful.

Android, Linux, Windows, macOS and iOS are all broken, just in different ways. This is the quality that can be reached for mass-market consumer products with the standard development processes.
I think that the vast majority of the public would be much more likely to switch to a currency with Visa and Mastercard's involvement than a currency which doesn't have them on board.

I am honestly wondering which audience you think was losing confidence in this project because of Visa et al.
This shit will not replicate. Classic p-value hacking, if not total fiction, dreamt up to pad chum buckets. It is junk science to the core. I'd bet one thousand dollars that another researcher could wrangle contradictory data with a diametrically opposed result.

This trash infotainment has been selected because it is inconsequential to the point of being astrology. No individual can take this "discovery" and apply it to their daily life, but most importantly, it's been selected such that should any moron try it out on their own, they won't be able cause harm. Perfect fodder for the BBC nanny state media.

So... what's your sign?
As I argued elsewhere in this thread this is completely untrue. Amazon ships an Elastic provided OSS build of Elasticsearch unmodified and as is. There is no fork repo in the opendistro account. There is no ambiguity in the upstream repo (it's a nicely documented code base).
I wonder if Type 3 civilizations might engulf their star in a Dyson Sphere to block out light and make it harder to find. A dark forest where the life-bearing trees aren’t even visible.
Earth will become inhabitable faster than that. The timeline at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

is thought provoking.
It might be too mainstream. As in, anyone who believes in extra terrestrial life is probably an enthusiast. "Real scientists" are sceptical.

Thus many scientists try hard to dismiss evidence of alien life, because that is fashionable. Or at least, the alternative is very kitschy.
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I know people who work at large banks, they work nothing like a tech company.

Tech/IT is seen as a cost centre, often outsourced, and if not outsourced performed by disillusioned teams with neither influence nor autonomy. The back end of big banks is a huge mess of legacy systems, they had to be forced to adopt open banking, and the leadership don’t recognise that everything will be software soon. They are the antithesis of tech companies.
Evolution and natural selection do work on those timescales. Take a look at rapid evolution for examples.

I'm not sure how fast exactly human birth ratios swing but I would hazard a guess a few dozen generations would be enough to self select at least partially back towards the norm. How long did it take the worlds population to recover after WW1/2?

I'm happy to see evidence contrary but please don't just dismiss things as if evolution is working on geological timescales it's just not.
What kind of project can you build around a layoff? Is your company planning to have layoffs and you are trying to see how to make it least painful (for company or victim)?
Open to sharing a bit about the name? No mention of it in the guide.
What can you say about the state of American engineering and the risks associated with it when you think of Space Shuttles?
I might be missing some details there to be honest; I'm more familiar with the application side of things than the infrastructure :)
Dune is a book. The movie is just a horrible adaptation of that book.
I wish people would stop reusing and reusing that irritating title.
Is there a version of Bel written in some other language? If not, how do you get started without a bootstrap?
Honestly, IMO, people weren't as good at this kind of movie back then, and audiences were less informed as to genre elements.

The weirding way, the Voice, even the psychedelic sequences - these had to be explained, or shown, and how? How do you film these things in a way that audiences can understand?

Not saying there's clear answers now, but there's been another thirty years of exploration in how you show weird, hard-to-film genre elements. There's also another entire set of explorations on exactly these things (the Scifi Channel's miniseries) from which to see what works and doesn't.
The biological plausible explanation is that there simply has not been enough time for other civilizations to form up. It took us 4 billion years to reach civilization from primordial goo. Apparently not many planets remain habitable that long. It does not matter if you have a trillion planets if they don't remain stable long enough.
It makes sense now because they said bug is a feature. No surprise.
"Characters that aren't letters may have longer names. For example the bell character, after which Bel is named, is

\bel"
Monetary Failure is becoming inevitable
Just when I was curious on learning some Lisp. I was also saddened how much it's dropping on https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Metformin damages the liver as a side effect.
Ask HN: Any benchmark and load testing tool for Kubernetes?
I am looking for benchmark and load testing tool for kubernetes which tests control plane and data plane. Not just conformance testing tools.
Its been a long time!
There it is! Thanks.
That may be the case then. My desktops don't have that problem. A tablet-specific "feature."
Sounds god awful. What industry do you work in?
If a for-profit company is running the currency, the users of the currency are in a loosing position

True, but exactly the same applies to a state running the currency, with even more evidence of malfeasance and manipulation. State currency loses significant value every year by design, and the management of it is really opaque.

I’d rather a cooperative mutually owned currency to either corporate or state control.
We have already forgotten that Sun spent a lot of time on M:N threading and abandoned it.

Linux seems to have gone the other direction, supporting thousands to tens of thousands of threads.
Apple Content Cache Reverse Engineered
> especially ones that try to do too much magic like TLS behind the scenes just to save me the trouble of supplying an instance/context pointer to every call.

I really hate that this is the solution that Rust ended up pursuing. There are claims that you can work around TLS by just no using TLS if it is not available, but I have yet to see someone removing TLS and still be able to use a multi-threaded executor.
Progressives used to be pro blind hiring and objective criteria like tests. But after it turned out that blind hiring and objective criteria gets even less diversity than our current methods it flipped, and now conservatives wants blind hiring and objective criteria while progressives wants to pick people by gender and race.
You have one job listed. You should take the plural out of your words.
Money. Kevin J Anderson actually did most of the writing of the Dune Prequels and post-Frank sequels, and is quite possibly the worst SF writer that has ever lived.

(KJA is and was married to the editor-in-chief of Banta mSpectra, the imprint with the book licensing rights to Star Wars and Dune. This is the only reason he was allowed anywhere near these series.)
Bit Edgy Language? Nice work!
Welcome back pg. You should check out Jetbrains MPS, they are doing cool stuff with projectional editing. Which could mean no more brackets. I read via Twitter that they recently announced MPS for Web in Amsterdam yesterday, unfortunately I missed the conference because of my home situation :). Luckily they filmed the presentations so I will be waiting for them on YouTube.
Given the amount of subtle bugs that this has caused and continues to cause in Go, I don’t really consider this a benefit.
And when the app is updated every week, it opens up with the same tutorial again.
I can't say I'm familiar with Lisp (or its dialects).

How does one get started learning a Lisp variant (in terms of learning resources/guides), and why use Lisp over other languages?
Hello HN,

I recently found myself tinkering with SVGs and wanting to see what the individual paths/text did. SVGO did a great job of both cleaning up my SVG code and showing me the source, but, to my frustration, it didn't allow me to edit the XML associated with the file.

To that end, I've made this web app to allow direct editing of the XML source for an SVG, and then re-render it immediately. (For some reason, all of the other sites I saw online required a full refresh to reload, which was a very poor experience.)

If anyone else finds themselves in this niche sort of problem, I hope this tool can be of some use.
I've finally listened to it when I did a 4K mile road trip last year. I highly recommend the Audible rendition of it. It's amazing, and adds the experience you would not get from the book. There are several well-cast voice actors in it, so it's not just a dude reading the book. I especially recommend listening to it as you drive alone through Wyoming in the dead of the night. Experience I will savor when I'm on my deathbed.
Return to the "natural" state might take much longer than you anticipate - my favourite example is that the lands that the Aztecs and the Mayans used for farming still haven't returned to the same state as the surrounding jungle, despite being left alone and undisturbed for literally several centuries.
Wow yes that really is odd, thanks for pointing it out. Not proud to say it, but their statement fooled me (made me skim right past it thinking what they wanted me to think) the first time.
thanks this is helpful , i am really at early stages of my freelancing with nearly double digit experience still struggling to get initial break in freelancing.Would like to know more from employers perspective on what they look for in a freelancer.
Is it actually 50 services? Or a few that come with a much better experience? The trade-off seems clearly worth it when not exaggerated.
it's not a huge investment, and does not cost any money; market share really doesn't matter here when you can get in easily. you also can download the app on their website without installing their store app.

also keep in mind that telegram definitely can distribute their app on their website, like they do with desktop apps.
> there is another type that comes from a belief that your perceived "genetic" [...] inheritance make you in some way implicitly superior...

On the other hand, I am pretty convinced that my genetic inheritance makes me "superior" (in some vague, but obvious way) to a cat- and yet I've never harmed or desired harm for cats- I actually like them. Or, to make a different example, while we consider it unacceptable to think of race X to be "superior" to race Y, we have no particular issues in admitting that the individual Albert Einstein was "superior" (again, in some vague way) to many other individuals (us included)- and yet from that doesn't follow we mean those individuals any harm or disrespect.
I agree. It’s just hard sometimes if you don’t experience the problem you’re trying to solve in your daily life. How can I dogfood construction software if I’ve never worked construction? Get a construction job?
Thank you for your attention again. First I want to let you know that I have just tested iterm2, kitty and Alacritty under MacOS as you wish. If you have interesting, you may have a look at the new test results. One more thing, "emulator" has been removed too, thank you for your point out.

I have been developing windterm for many many years. Based on my data analytics, terminal only spend 2% of the time to show text if you use threads to separate the socket read and text display. So it doesn't matter if you use GPU or not. Of course, use GPU is a very good thing, especially it can display more smoothly and draw emoji characters correctly. But as you can see, windterm still has very high performance without GPU acceleration. GPU also has its disadvantage, most virtual machines on cloud have no GPU emulated, so you can not use Alacritty on them.

The last thing, coloring, This is why I have spent so much time creating windterm in the past many years. The emulator traditionally displays the colors from server, but you know only a few poor text has its color. So for a long time, terminals should depends ZSH or auto-color-ls plugin and etc. to provide additional colors to make text more readable.

But why do we have to endure this? Text editors have already know how to styling a code file or script and done it well for more than 40 years!

So it took me some time to implement a text editor, and then I use its styling engine to coloring the text in terminal. That's why you can see a gorgeous colorful terminal. Prompt, numbers, strings and so on all have its color while maintaining the color from server if they have.

We deserve to have a colorful world, even in terminals, is it not?
> For everything else, it's great, and it's almost always a good default to choose speed of development and engineer productivity over runtime performance.

Doesn't Elixir on Phoenix[1] provide the elegance of Ruby on Rails without its drawbacks?

[1] https://phoenixframework.org/
How did the 2fa codes stop it from working for you? I didn’t follow that piece.
Correction: Brian and KJA had access to detailed notes from Frank Herbert, and used none of them in favor of KJA's "improvements" to the Dune mythos.

The same way KJA "improved" Star Wars.

His wife, incidentally the editor-in-chief of the publishing imprint that then owned the publishing rights to the Star Wars and Dune literary universes, is to blame for unleashing his word vomit on mankind.
Oh wow, I didn't know that, but I know that there is/was a band called "Raakku ja helmet". I always thought "Raakku" was a humorous nickname of the singer, because "raakkua" means "to cry like a crow", i.e. not so well. But "raakku" meaning "a mussel" brings a whole new level of meaning: "Mussel and the Pearls".
That’s on YouTube.
I am curious - what motivates you and drives you to contribute so much to this?

I have been having a hard time motivating myself to do anything really
Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger issue is manufacturing: if they piss China off they won’t have anything to sell, anywhere! I’m sure Apple execs know this and I hope they’re quickly planning to reduce, if not remove this dependency.
All apps will have to support multitasking soon.
Absolutely, world-class universities (not just one), highly educated workforce, top rankings everywhere, largest companies in the world, high-tech companies etc. It's just that other countries narrowed the gap. 30 years ago, many countries in the world were poor and backward. They narrowed the gap to Switzerland. It's natural that Switzerland doesn't have the same wide lead anymore. But that's a good thing (for Switzerland and the rest of the world).
There’s no link styling, at least on mobile Safari, they’re kind of essential to understand the article.

...sorry to be that guy.
Scheme is the teaching version of Lisp that gets used in a lot of first year university CS classes, you can probably work through an online syllabus pretty quickly if you have experience in another language.
As mentioned in the user guide, just like Lisp, Bel is still in its formal phase, and not usable as a programming language yet. The idea is to extend the formal phase for a longer time, before diving into the implementation.
It's arguably not the first novel.[0]

> Using a very lose definition of a novel as a long prose narrative describing fictional characters and events, it’s hard to understand why some older works don’t qualify. The Golden Ass, which involves the journey of a man whose insatiable curiosity gets him turned into an ass and who ends up joining a cult of the goddes Isis, arguably meets these criteria. Still, the distinctive writing style, often including verse, interwoven tales (including, in the case of The Golden Ass, the myth of “Cupid and Psyche”), and distinctive mix of seriousness with satire, humor, and downright vulgarity does support differentiating early works of extended prose from the “modern novel”—although the boundaries of this differentiation vary from one scholar to the next and are being broken regularly by today’s fiction writers.

Indeed, some of my favorite novels feature some or all of those "non-novel" features. But whatever ...

0) https://latelastnightbooks.com/2016/02/04/first-novel-and-th...