skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TruffleRuby uses ropes to do exactly this. It can even optimize away the buffer string instance: https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/ropes-manlang.pdf

CRuby makes a bunch of memcpy calls but compared to everything else, they're fast enough they don't seem to matter much.

I've run perf on CRuby running a bunch of different web app type tasks (even rendering huge JSON payloads) and it's never shown up. You can see an example here: https://github.com/k0kubun/railsbench#perf

Perf output for when running Roda looks similar but vm_exec_core and gc_sweep_step are even more of a bottleneck.
I understand what you're saying, but I disagree.

Tools won't find plot holes, they won't find one-dimensional characters, they won't find pacing problems.

Having a publisher means someone cares about their reputation, that there are risks, that resources are devoted to quality.

To be clear, I'm not saying that self-publishing means you will get a terrible book.

It's just that self-publishing is inclusive, published books are exclusive, and that changes the statistics. It's hard to locate a good book in a sea of self-published books where there are no quality bars.
It doesn't seem hard to add a parameter and then make two stubs:

complex_function small_part = do
a <- complex_thing_a
b <- small_part a other_variables_in_scope
more_complex thing

original = complex_function orig_version
mine = complex_function my_version

There are some issues if you have a lot of parameters where you might want a record to pass them around, but specialization is easier to use than inheritance in all the cases I've seen.
I had serious temptation to stop reading after "cacophonous conversations" - if I already know everything the author is going to say, should I waste time continuing? But I did, and I regretted it.
Unfortunately though, whatever natural selection that occurs in a post-civilization world is might be sort of orthogonal to improving human civilization when civilization returns.

We’d surely get some beastly hunter-gatherers out of the deal though :)
CVS started as a variety store (it stood for Consumer Value Stores) and there are still a few older locations that don't have pharmacies, but pharmacy counter revenue has greatly outpaced "front store" revenue for a long time now. Today the parent company is called CVS Health and in addition to the retail chain it owns health insurer Aetna and pharmacy benefits manager Caremark. (As well as the pharmacy counters inside Target stores.)

So CVS is primarily a pharmacy, unlike Walmart and Kroger, which are stores that have pharmacies.
Amazon Prime Video confuses people with bait and switch
Article is lacking in substance. It's conclusion is basically that there are two types of inflammation - one designed to attack parasites (worms, etc.) the other to attack bacteria and viruses.

The theory it proposes is that because humans have basically eradicated parasitic infections, that part of the body becomes over active and leads to autoimmune disorders.

0 link to sources. I've never heard of this "dual inflammation system". Not saying it's false, just saying, show me the research. Further, show the research that somehow links the under-activity of one to full blown autoimmune disorders. Seems like a weak link.
In my personal opinion, which I am fully aware that IoT entrepreneur types will be threatened by, it is absolute madness to upload sensitive personal data such as is collected by IoT devices to servers that you do not personally control completely yourself and which is end to end encrypted if it is not on-site.
Just to piggyback off this, one should be very careful combining techniques with PCA. One error I see a lot in biostatistics is people running statistical significance testing to select variables before running PCA. It's a super cool exercise to do that on datasets, because something WILL show up, and it's very often misleading.
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Disney films are generic, cookie cutter formulas designed for mass appeal and ROI. They buy everything they can and then force theaters to show their films in the most desirable weekend spots. They're soaking up all the money and pushing the smaller players out.

They're now trying to eat Netflix.

Not to mention that they follow Beijing's content directives.

We should take a serious look at balancing the scales.

If we expired Star Wars' copyright after 20 years, others could use the license and develop their own take. Disney would be forced to innovate and pursue new IP creation. It would be good for competition.

This is just my own thought on the matter. Maybe it's wrong. I happen to think it would improve the status quo and actually result in market growth as you'd need new to hire more creatives. Novel content in turn results in more interest.
Exactly my point. Facebook's APIs were not designed for CA's style of scraping, but they took advantage of it anyway. You can try limiting access to data but infiltrators will find a way to abuse it anyway.
Not supporting GP's view, but this data is not the right metric for the discussion.

Someone who only had sex once leaves a very different STI footprint than someone who have different partners every week, yet they will both be classified as "have ever had sex" in the study.
Depends on your species, Steve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation
A Look at the SR-71 [video]
Hey anoncake ~ just wanted to thank you for planting this seed. You and a few other members had the same ideas, and they're manifesting into a lower-friction articulation of what this thing is all about: https://www.karma.fm/p/S09A4/dialing-down-the-socialism-and-...

Many thanks for the impact.
Yes. I support the right of private enterprise to choose what products and services they offer.
Morality is for people. Companies should just follow the laws of the country they are operating in. If we decide that isn't morally acceptable, then we can 1) stop using their services, and 2) push for change through our political representatives.

I agree that if Blizzard were to respond to the loss of customers by pulling out of the Chinese market, then that would be not entirely apolitical. Still, it is far less political than they are presently.
Anyone who doesn’t believe it should feel free to observe it: Pick any dating site and set up two accounts: one male and one female. Put in the same bio on each and choose stock photos of average looking 24 year olds. Observe and compare inboxes for a month or so.
https://news.ycombinator.com:
7 requests 61.86 KB / 20.48 KB transferred Finish: 845 ms DOMContentLoaded: 483 ms load: 823 ms

https://hn.armujahid.me/:
18 requests 374.67 KB / 104.76 KB transferred Finish: 1.47 s DOMContentLoaded: 179 ms load: 539 ms

Is there any other point to take note of?
Why did you jump to the claim that landfills are the only environmental concern for plastics? (Granting your brief aside on oceanic plastics.)

There is plastic in our biological waste: https://time.com/5431668/microplastics-human-waste-study/

There is plastic in some of the most remote places on the planet: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/713561484/microplastic-found-...

There are microplastics in our soil: https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/plastic...

And the ecological impacts of this are only beginning to be researched: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/worms-fa...

It used to be thought that the only evidence of humanity that might still be visible on Earth in a million years is a thin layer of slightly radioactive material around the globe, a result of nuclear weapons testing. Now we have written another, even more obvious and long-lasting signature into the planet: a thin layer of plastic pollution that in all likelihood will outlast anything resembling modern humans. (And I say that with an overall optimism about the lifespan of modern humanity.)
I'm not sure, to be honest. I don't remember any news regarding FreeBSD ports of those.

Having said that, if they use the same frameworks as the x86 drivers, the work on Intel and AMD ports should make porting them easier as well, since it all revolves around linuxkpi - shims that provide Linux-compatible API for kernel code.
I know two women who were both marathon runners, and tri-athletes... fit, muscular, well within a healthy BMI... Both developed hashimoto autoimmune disease.

One of the two, eventually also developed more severe autoimmune conditions.

I agree with you that we can prevent a huge amount of disease with diet and exercise. I do not agree with a broad assertion that illness is a choice. That is a cruel misunderstanding of illness, that mocks the people who - despite their best efforts - got a shit roll of the dice.
> I'm worried about plugging DIY hardware to mains

Are you saying that those of us designing and maintaining our own devices should be legally prohibited from doing so because it is a public safety hazard, and only corporate designed devices should be considered to be safe and pluggable?
>How can you have access to all content while keeping it affordable

Media companies could stop over pricing their content
Isn’t figuring this problem out what the FAA has been doing for the last five years? If we’re going to have public nuisance drones at the end of the day anyway, why they just let it happen earlier?

My understanding is that drones will operate sort of like power lines or a highway system; they will fly in straight lines on pre-approved routes and only deviate at last mile delivery. Hopefully they’ve thought of other measures as well.
Ask HN: Discounts for Data Breach Settlements?
As an example, Zappos/Amazon was found guilty of a data breach, but the settlement consists of 10% coupon on future purchases - since this is less than their profit margin, isn't Zappos directly profiting from their malfeasance? How does this motivate them to provide better data security in the future?

http://zapposdatasettlement.com/
>The driver, Jared Black, lost control of Hart's 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda while driving with Hart and Black's fiancé, Rebecca Broxterman, in the back seat. The car plowed through a wooden fence and careened down an embankment, where it came to rest in a heap.

Reminder: dont let your cool friends drive your race car. This is how Paul Walker died.
> Surely you see how this doesn't scale, right?... This is a terrible and impossible to scale way to emulate class specialization.

<Kelsey Grammar Voice> Heretic! Have not the elders of our holy church indeed canonized the ex cathedra dogmas of variable immutability and higher-order functions with closed variables? And indeed have we not been in ecumenical agreement over the incomprehensible mystery of the trinity of higher order types, dependent types, and polymorphic types? Dare ye teach heresy proudly with thy contumely? Anathema sit!
Needs far more context.

I queued up buy lunch for about 5 seconds until walking away after I'd considered the length of the line and the fact that there's another lunch place I like that's often not as busy 100m away.

I've queued for many hours to catch a delayed plane flight.

Conceivably you could get me to queue for months or a year with a big enough carrot ("for some crazy reason we're giving away pretty nice houses to anyone who queues for them")
At first glance the cljs community doesn't seem short on libs that give await/async-like abstractions and from what I recall JS interop in CLJS was smooth enough to operate directly against Promise objects.

In Rich Hickey's famous / often-referenced "Simple Made Easy" talk he lists what he considers simple vs complex toolkits. [1]

There's a clear preference for declarative constructs vs imperative constructs. Async/await is attempting to take async behavior and make it "appear" synchronous. I suspect Hickey would slot this into the complexity category. At least I tend to agree. I think channels are both explicit about what is going on and also maximally decoupled/composable.

It seems that your preference leans the other way. I just point this^ out b/c it is possibly or likely an explicit choice and not a miss by the Clojurescript team (Nolan?).

I personally find the freedom given by Clojure/script ultimately simple and powerful.

Curious for others' thoughts on this.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22simplicity+toolkit%22+hic...
It's not an accusation, since having mental issues is not a crime. But using somebody's supposed health issues as a bludgeon in political confrontation is despicable. And even if we knew for a fact (which we most definitely don't) that Stallman is affected by some health issues, how would that justify treating him unfairly and dismissing all his achievements and all his work for Free Software cause?
Good fucking grief. Courage? I don't need to regurgitate the discrepancies mentioned by many here, eg sugar snake oil, junkfood, ALCOHOL etc. I'll instead infuriate some guardian angels with a less pharisaic perspective on tobacco. Tobacco is a plant. Its use is not solely relegated to neatly packed, ugly boxes of pre-rolled toxic cardboard shavings. It can and does take the form of hand-rolled cigars and snus - which when not consumed fanatically, have low correlation with disease. Snus is not exposed to heat, neither in processing or consumption. This results in a product with negligible nitrosamines. Until a nephilim lands amongst us with enough courage to ban hotdogs and candybars, public danger thereof will probably exceed that of snus, if frequency of consumption is proportionate. The same ideology that impels such extreme measures as botanical bans, has humans suffering for decades in cages for possessing marijuana; another plant. I will be reasonable and suggest that one could easily go on a diet of hotdogs, beer and candybars and fare worse than one who enjoys a daily cigar, and they could do it shopping exclusively at CVS (not the cigar smoker though, who must shop at Walgreens and doesn't drink).

A more obscure but significant problem with some tobacco is psychology. The packaging, quantity and pre-rolling exacerbate it, making it too easy to effectively smoke a habit, rather than cigarette, ie some smoking is done less because of addiction and more due to habit. Cigarettes, and in some cases tobacco, are obviously problematic. Abandoning either rather than banning both altogether seems reasonable. However, I can no longer buy a cigar at CVS. I can get Rx for restless leg filled and wash it down with acetaminophen and beer and Skittles though. Meanwhile, cigars are legal, but CVS is at a higher level.

I know tobacco can be a problem. Is it a problem? Maybe some applications are problematic. Well, certainly some are.
I explicitly signaled what I was looking for in my bio. The weird part is, a lot of women ignored that and hoped that something (I don't know, their photos maybe? :D) will make me more willing to exploring a relationship.

Also, there was no "would you at least be open to the idea of entering into a relationship?". It was simply "casual? nope".

Another weird bit - the cherry on top - is the fact that most people are heterosexual and yet all my sexual experiences were strictly homosexual - again, the proportions are not the result of my choice.

And again the idea of "looking for love" on the Internet on Tinder sounds ridiculous to me. Think about it: you're essentially swiping photos left and right. It's what this app is focused on. And yet a lot of women seem to want to find the love of their lives there. I just can't... You want something meaningful? Grow a relationship IRL, don't swipe photos thinking "is this the one?".

You are right that I am simply discovering that men and women have different expectations. But the proportions are mind-boggling to me + the means by which so many women seem to hope to fulfill their expectations are absurd.
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plas...

"Leaked Audio Reveals How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts"

Unfortunately technical solutions don't solve the social problems. :(
"gamed Youtube" is as simple as paying Youtube money
It's not a "1", it's a "prime" and the root of that word is an ordinal (whence "first") not a cardinal. There is no zero'th ordinal. There is just "none", which implies that A to A is simply not an interval.
At my job, I work on a ~40 KLOC Clojurescript re-frame app. It has been working very well for us, and none of the things you bring up have been an issue.

In re-frame, programming with channels is pretty rare. We have it maybe 2 places in the whole app, and one of those places is an internal load-testing type screen. If core.async were gone tomorrow, I would rewrite maybe 30 lines of code, and not really care - it just isn't important at all.

I think in Clojure in general, rolling your own stuff is more common, so even if I agreed that interop was difficult, it just isn't that common. A lot of the time, integrating complicated libraries is not worth it if you can just make your own very easily.
> Facebook is a website, a pretty trivial one at that.

I mean this is so objectively false that I hardly know where to start. Facebook in its very early stages may have been “trivial”, but it isn’t know. Not even close.
Apparently (can't find a source) but it is actually better for the environment to ship stuff around in certain circumstances. E.g. apparently it is lower carbon to ship tomatoes to the UK from Spain than it is to grow them locally in the UK (due to the energy needed to grow them in the UK).

I know the inevitable kneejerk response that this will trigger: "people in the UK should not eat tomatoes". I don't think it is realistic to start insisting that people stop eating fruit and vegetables that have been a cheap and plentiful part of everyday life for the past couple of generations.

Perhaps it makes sense to do so (indeed perhaps we need to do so), but good luck trying to get people to agree to only eating what they can grow in their immediate 5-10 mile radius without artificial heating/cooling/lighting/watering/ventilation/fertiliser/etc (and only in season too!). I suspect it will just be too big an ask for huge swathes of the population to give up staple foods that our societies have been based on for several generations while container ships each generating the same amount of pollution as 50,000,000 cars (1) are still shipping in cheap rat from china

We don't need to go back to the stone age - instead I think we need to tackle the big polluters (eg. Container ships, home heating in the UK, diesel in cities, coal etc etc)

1 - https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/cargo-container-shipping...
I dove into Rails before really learning Ruby. Agree with other commenters - if you have exp with other languages, take a little time to recognize the nomenclature:

http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting
Zyklon B
My thing is that the government would want to subsidize it. Who wouldn't want to score political points as the guy who eradicated HIV? (or made a big dent)

However, based on what you're saying, I wonder if the push is being delayed so that the government can wait for the patent expiration and subsidize at a much cheaper cost.
that may explain why so many developers insist on doing things the way Google does things
Chiral Piperidines via Enantioselective, Radical-Mediated δ C–H Cyanation
You’ve given other people control over your emotional states. Not even with elaborate statements. Just with individual words.

What sort of compromising positions do you suppose that’s put you into, or will in the future?
Every commercial product is designed for maximum ROI.

They buy everything they can and then force theaters to show their films in the most desirable weekend spots.

You really think movie theaters would rather show movies that don’t fill it?

They're soaking up all the money and pushing the smaller players out.

Ever heard of Blumhouse? Their entire business model is to make low budget movies that cost under $10 million and they usually have a higher ROI than Disney movies.

If we expired Star Wars' copyright after 20 years, others could use the license and develop their own take. Disney would be forced to innovate and pursue new IP creation. It would be good for competition.

Why not force other people to innovate instead of building on top of Star Wars?
> I think Zuck "gets it" much more than the reporter does…
This assumes the reporter is honest in his writing. Then, of course, it is apparent that Zuckerberg gets something the reporter doesn't understand, in the way you describe it.

But what if, not only is Zuckerberg "evasive and dishonest", but the reporter as well? Is it not to the profit of the reporter to pretend in his writing to not get what Zuckerberg is doing?

It very well is! That way the reporter gets to criticise Zuckerberg on the grounds of his actions. That is a case much easier to defend. The reporter may very well discern a form of pretending on the side of Zuckerberg, but how do you prove this? Very hard to do so and risky. It is better writing to be 'dishonest' and call Zuckerberg out on the surface level of his actions.

OTOH, it could very well be that the reporter is naive and doesn't discern the true motivations of Zuckerberg's actions. But how can we know?
Pictures in the PDF are garbled. The Version built from https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf is much better.
Start here perhaps:

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/cussing-in-commits-which-progr...
> If you are to optimize for anything, optimize for the long term. Use the challenges of your business today to build mastery in your craft. There is no guarantee that any one venture will succeed, but that mastery will bend luck in your favor over the long course of your career.

I’ve found this has personally served me very well. Failed businesses and startups have indeed been great learning experiences. If you can keep a growth mindset and use cognitive tools to prevent rumination, it all just becomes more fuel to the fire that burns inside. Even if that simply means you are a more beneficial employee.
Model Checking Meets Probability: A Gentle Introduction [pdf]
A Simple 3-Step Framework for Better Copywriting
>Now we're going to have to pay more AND switch between nine different apps with broken UIs.

Roku, Fire, Apple all make it easy to search and browse for a show and then deep link into the correct app. It's not perfect, and I hope it will get better, but you are not currently forced to open the apps. Fire goes a step further and lets you play videos you are licensed to right out of the fire interface, without the app firing up. It's easy to subscribe to hbo, cbs ets and have the content you are licensed to see show up right with your other stuff. (The Fire interface being not so pleasant to use is another story entirely.)

>Disney needs to be broken up. They own 90% of American pop culture.

Has a company ever been broken up for its library of content?

>build services like Spotify that have everything and merely pay the rights holders.

These platforms above are the single aggregator you are looking for. Comcast and DirecTV were these, but without the option for a la cart.

>pay way less than cable.

You have the option to make it cheaper if you want to rotate your subscriptions and not hold them all at the same time. I see that as a net gain vs the previous status quo of the TV Provider bundle era.
30-41% of deep sea organisms are bioluminescent