skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just so people don't get the wrong idea, AFAICT STM isn't used that much in production Clojure (unlike say Haskell). This I chalk up to the lack of a couple crucial operators in Clojure's STM. Instead the usual method for dealing with concurrency is atoms. Note that once you get familiar with how to use atoms to structure concurrency, this is a lesson that is widely applicable. You can, for example, write essentially the same code in Java with an AtomicReference (how atoms are implemented anyways) as long as you take care to only put immutable data structures in the ref.

I would personally sum up Clojure's main impact on my own programming in two ways.

1. 90% of the time you just need immutable maps, sets, vectors, and primitives. Fancy custom classes and custom higher order functions usually aren't needed.

2. Wishing more things had on-the-fly editing of a running program.
I've still never had an account on many social media sites, but that's because I avoid most forms of social media period.

(Technically a couple niche discussion sites might count, this being one of them, but the closest thing I've got to an actual social media account is a Reddit account I mostly used in respect to one sub-forum on that site where content creators I liked had a sort of news aggregator for their content).
I mean all my friends contact me when they're having a party or an event... Don't most people just do group messages?

I've never really been interested in going to a random party or event I wasn't directly invited to. I mostly got spam when I was using Facebook.
Wikipedia says that this guy has been an MP since 1997. Presumably that means he has won many elections and thus his constituents do not think his no-email policy is a problem.
That whole 10-year period, really.
Speak. To. A. Lawyer

Stop. Speaking. To. The. Internet.

Do. Not. Speak. To. The. Police. Without. The. Lawyer. Present.
I shared your feelings before leaving Mormonism (I was heavily involved in setting up the billboard community found in r/latterdaysaints and community engagement via r/mormon several years ago). Over 100k former Mormons are there. You get the full spectrum. It offers a community to people who are kicked out of where their weekly community is no longer available (really, read their experiences sometime). A lot of people get mistreated, at a minimum, or downright abused.
I use Firefox with noscript + ABP for general purpose browsing and default Chrome for Google-related tasks. I find that ads serve as a reminder to think about whether I should be doing something in Firefox instead.
Actually you can use one long thrust. What you can't do is use one short one. The Hohman transfer orbit assumes short high-thrust maneuvers because those are the most efficient. But if you are using long low-thrust maneuvers, as would be the case here, then one burn can suffice if it's long enough. (This is how, for example, ion engines work.)

Source: I used to work for NASA.
A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed [pdf]
Toxicity seems to be a code word for "the plebs are saying things that I don't approve of".
Wasn’t meant as a joke.
His comment was about the theory of relativity rather than the bomb:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#1910s
How would it be compromised if you only connect to the bank?
why not? developers are a key part of a business and shape it. they should certainly be paying attention to managements initiatives and what risks or blockers these may present to the project at hand. this would encourage alignment and clarification.
I'm not saying the government is always right, but are you saying you are? Have you tested the hypothesis that the earth is round? That we landed on the moon? Where does your line between self-evident and requiring testing lay?
I think that "competent/not-competent" is a false dichotomy. The candidate could be exceptionally qualified technically and competent, but have significant ethical / integrity issues that are difficult to notice in an interview, for instance. So a technical interview may not catch that, but past references may.
The article explains it. One of the game developers reused code from the other game and left unused parts of it in Zelda.
I use the New York Times to pick up the tightly coiled reems of digested dog food my pup leaves in the grass. Its the only thing its good for.
I have personal experience with this type of situation. Twice we had excellent phone interviews for an onsite contractor position. Then, when the supposed person we interviewed showed up, they turned out not to be able to do the work (not an onsite interview, the actual work). One was so bad that they had no idea what a variable was.
I think there's room for a Webservice/app focused on events only that defaults to using sms for people that don't have accounts.

The idea being that people can optionally make accounts with just their contact information which they can then give people access to (this way contacts stay updated by everyone with access rather than local copies on everyone's device that goes out of date).

The app would handle basics like RSVP, sending out SMS reminders for people, tracking number of people coming etc. Right now handling this over SMS and tracking it is a pain so people default to FB, but I think there's an opportunity here to get a foothold.
> Thanks to Curiosity, we have a better idea of where water existed (and may still exist) on Mars, as well as where we might be able to find evidence of ancient life.

I don't understand why everyone is so excited about finding life on Mars.

Life on Mars means life may be relatively common on water-bearing planets, which means the Filter is more likely to ahead of us than behind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc
Most of the HIPAA restrictions can be waived by the patient, i.e. you can contract around it, so it's really more about contractual defaults and consent than censorship.

But that's obviously still a slippery slope. You get the same sort of scenario with classified documents which are at the same time evidence of government misconduct. Everyone with access to the documents agreed not to disclose them, which means there is no one who can reveal the misconduct to the public without violating that agreement.
High Voltage Created from Falling Snow (Mr. Carlsons Lab)
gravity sucks. thanks for the link :)
Amateurs. Real programmers blame other programmers.
China locks down 35M people as US confirms second coronavirus case
We have a working model of gravity that is very accurate in an incredibly broad array of circumstances. You acknowledge this in your comment.

This is a scientific result. What are you trying to say?
Some times, when I look at some celebrity scholars, I scratched my head wondering what did they do to deserve
their reputation. But Dr.Christensen's work is truly great.
He is a genuine scholar. Innovator's dilemma is groundbreaking research. I learned a lot from the book. Intel CEO Andy Grove is a kind of arrogant guy for a lack of good words. Andy used to tell a16z's Partner Ben Horowize that He has a full shelf of Management books gifted from management Professors. Andy threw them away only keep the first page of each book with author's signature and nice words. From this article, Dr.Christensen's work apparently gained his respect. that is not an easy feat. Considering Andy Grove himself also wrote a great business book, high output management. Just check Dr.Christense's wiki page, He was a Rhode scholar. No wonder. Clayton Christensen, Rest In Peace. You are a wonderful Professor. Thank you. Miss You
I didn't say there weren't any bots. But the article portrays Yang's followers as somehow being more full of bots than others. There is no evidence for that.
I would love to be a fly on the wall for the decisions that led to Google making the distinction between ads and search results more ambiguous with the latest redesign because whoever signed off on this needs to be fired, for Google's sake.

Google SERPs are the one form of advertising I don't mind and are most effective because:

1. Unlike pretty much every other form of online advertising, you have the benefit of user intent in that they actually want to find something and an advertised result may be what they're looking for. Most other forms of online advertising are deliberately intrusive because attention = $$$; and

2. Google ads are paid for on a CPC basis rather than CPM basis so Google is incentivized to show you something relevant to you and your search rather than just churning impressions (like those pages that split an article into a gallery of 11 pages; ad impressions is why they do this).

But a key part of this is user trust that Google clearly differentiated an ad from an organic search result. I wonder what short term metrics and thinking went into this. I'm sure there was a short term topline revenue gain but it's one of those things that you're not actually increasingly value, you're just cashing in your brand's value for cash now.

But hey I'm sure a bunch of people got promoted, so it's fine.
Read about his cause of death here: https://sportinfo.com.ng/clayton-christensen-death-obituary-...
Every item has a story attached. Like a badge from when I spent two weeks at a certain factory in Fremont or a calculator from the 1970s when my parents met in math class in university.

Dozens more.
The ESports Analysis 2019
I love Master of Magic. One of my favourite games by far. I loved taking 11 death books and starting with wraiths! Damn, once you summon your first unit of wraiths you could nearly conquer an entire plane! The free undead garrisons they left behind were just the cherry on top!

Then later on you get death knights and it’s all over. They are ridiculously powerful!

Another one I love is to pick Myrran and fill the rest with death books. Start with trolls and work your way up to war trolls. Cast death channel on elite war trolls and you have some truly formidable units!

Or go with halflings and life magic. Cast heroism on slingers and just laugh at the enemy as you pelt the heck out of them!

MoM has millions of different strategies to try and they’re all very interesting!
seems like you have to add them one at a time ?
> Shouldn't the fact that I went out of my way to mute a word be a strong signal that I am not a good match for an ad?

That's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is as a strong signal that you're not already invested in a competing service so acquisition should be much cheaper.
As far as I can tell, there are four major search providers: Google, Bing, Baidu, & Yandex. Qwant seems to do some amount of their own indexing, falling back to Bing for other things ( https://betterweb.qwant.com/web-indexation-where-does-qwants... ). Most of the 'alternative' search engines (DDG &c.) seem to rely on Bing and a few (like StartPage) on Google, and I continue to find regular Bing-based search results worse than Google-based search results. Searx is interesting (and what I largely use), and can aggregate from various providers, but it's hard to find reliable working Searx instances.
Then this entire thread is irrelevant to you. Why are you here?
Keith Henson explained a great joke about the local loopback address 127.0.0.1 under oath to the Church of Scientology lawyers in a sworn deposition once.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891
> that's easily removed by social engineering the registrar.

I decided to eliminate that one by becoming my own registrar. And that's one less man in the middle siphoning money off of me.
This just happens now, right before your eyes.

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1220758756071497728?s=...
This is ostrich behaviour.

"La la la, I can't hear you, you're not saying anything important"
Netflix has some similar content, like the recent series about Goop: https://collider.com/the-goop-lab-review-netflix-gwyneth-pal.... I'm disappointed by both companies. I can't imagine these kinds of moves drive revenue in a meaningful way, but they have a lot of (social) downside by legitimizing harmful views.
Do you disagree that the scenario I described would explain the voting pattern or that one of the two parties is corrupt?
If you want a _really_ lightweight matrix client, I'd say <300 lines of Go would be pretty light. Go is quite portable too:

https://gitlab.com/meutraa/mm/tree/master
What I learned about building culture from a career in marketing
Life on Mars could be related to life on Earth as both bodies have traded mass quite regularly over the last few billion years.
Nice - I’ll check it out, I agree with the goals.

Can you invite people to events that don't have an account via SMS and have it handled that way or do they need an account and the app?

I think being able to support people not on the app is the big thing I want (then the network may grow or not overtime, but at least it's immediately useful even without other people on it).

One other suggestion would be a default retention period or “fuse” people can set that something like 6 months, but can be set anywhere from 1 day to 1 year.

The other networks make it so hard to scrub old posts, I think there’s value in old stuff getting automatically dropped.
Interesting ... another time holography in the context of physics has come up. Youtube recommended the Wired series where some expert explains some concept at different levels and one recent one was on Gravity [1]. In the expert section they talk briefly about holography and how a two dimensional surface seems to be able to encode all of the information of a three dimensional volume. They go on to speculate how this might relate to the event horizon of black holes. I get a bit lost since it is heavily edited and they are clearly talking about things beyond my ken. My takeaway was that there is a possibility the information we thought was getting lost within blackholes is actually still present within the surface of the event horizon.

There was also a brief mention of holography in this interview with String Theorist Jim Gates on Lex Fridman's Youtube channel [2]. I can't remember the exact context of how holography is related to strings but I believe he was talking about how it could impact some of the maths behind the multiple dimensions some string theories required.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcUey-DVYjk

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGQ3q4dO_9s
I like that people downvote without providing any argument, any numbers or any source. Slow clap. Enjoy your blackouts.
A better title would be: Mars rover stops moving because it lost track of its orientation. This is uncommon, but well within the realm of "normal" contingencies. And in fact it has already been fixed.
Twitter (unintentionally, I'm sure) built an adblocker into their app
As someone growing up in the US where we think along the lines of the American Revolution, Cromwell Co. come across as very confusing.

They go so far as to execute the king (that isn't something that seemed likely had by some strange reason the American's captured the king (some good fan fiction there)) and yet as far as I can tell really don't seem to have much of a plan / do much to establish much at all after that, and sort of roll over at the end.

It always seems very muddy with all sorts of religious motivations (that admittedly I find hard to understand) from the outside.

Then again the tradition of 'Parliament' (speaking in a larger historical sense) seems to swing wildly as far as its loyalty to the king, or lack of it, power, or lack of power, and so forth.
And many read it and can't digest it, let alone put it into practice.

A couple of very capable people I know can hear the story of something that happened to someone, and they get glazed eyes and can only say "Huh?" Then I rephrase it as "Imagine you were _______ and then _____ happened and afterward you were _____" and they're like "Well why didn't you just say that?"

Or the exact opposite.

Or like me. Give me an anecdote about something and I'll "Huh, interesting." Tell me about the reason you found it interesting, and I'm way more interested and engaged. Relate it to an event in my own life and now you've got me. But don't ever try to frame it that way for my wife, she'll get bored after the first five words.

It's not the message, it's what the listener gets from it.
NYC ban cashless businesses discrimination
Twilight was actually kind of revolutionary.

Till that point urban fantasy romance really focused on adult women, and thus had enormous amounts of graphic sex, violence, and BDSM.

Twilight was a story about a teenage Virgin, and a chaste vegetarian vampire. It was so safe reading even fundamentalist religious parents would let their kids enjoy it.

So it found a huge, until then untapped market.
Ackuna disrupts the phone industry by making machine first interpreting service
Yes, I find this more bothersome than the ads blending into the search results as well. But Google has been very vocal about their desire to hide important things like URLs from users, so that wasn't a surprise.
Ah, ok. Thank you for pointing that out
My understanding of orbital mechanics is mostly because of KSP (and Scott Manley).

I HIGHLY recommend both of them.
>one would use different keys for all doors

This sounds like common sense, but when you think about it, how is this more secure? You're going to store all the keys together anyway, so if you lose them, you lose them all. And it's not like a thief can make a fake key after picking your lock, they have to pick all your locks individually anyway... So how does it help if your front/side/back/garage doors all have different keys?
We don't have any evidence of life being common.
It's not that we can't model gravity at planetary-orbit scales; that's been done. The issue is that relativity (which addresses gravity) is a good model at large scales and the quantum "Standard Model" (which addresses the other three forces) is a good model at small scales, but these two models are incompatible with each other and no falsifiable theory that works at all scales has yet been found.
PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas
https://github.com/firmai/pandapy

PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas (10x to 50x faster)
The past 80 years include not just Vietnam but also the most significant legislative period of the Civil Rights movement. I'm not even that old but my dad was born before legal segregation was ended.
I genuinely don't care how corrupt Wirecutter is because at the end of the day I still find their recommendations to be well above-average.
Realized I was reading this alongside another link on the HN front page right now, [We Wasted $50k On Google Ads So You Don't Have To](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/we-wasted-50k-on-google...)... the comparison was a little funny and a little.. scary?
Rearranging the deck chairs doesn't solve the fundamental dilemma.

Charging $10 or $100 per upload would kill this material stone dead. And ensure that everything could be traced to the person responsible if it did slip through.
Which is cross-compiling from Linux.
Oh, adding the event listener to the scroll is very clever. I was trying to do it "right" and using a MutationObserver to find when they added nodes to the document but this gets too convoluted fast.
California’s privacy law: firms are disclosing too little data – or too much
and you're assuming it was legal, based on... what? Why assume the best rather than the more realistic assumption?
And then to resume to slightly-above normal heart beats when you remember it was designed for way less time/usage than it actually survives. Guess we'll see if this is the final stone or not, apparently they are trying to get it right again (thinking about that, wonder how it feels to deploy a hotfix to another fucking planet)
Do you have any citations from the FAA for that?

Given that then ADS-B mandate was just a couple weeks ago, it seems logistically odd that secondary radar would already be turned off.

More generally, my understanding was that the FAA was keeping primary+secondary radar around to augment ADS-B via sensor fusion. I know the "reply" light on my plane's radar transponder still lights up regularly, so at least out here on the west coast the secondary radar is still active. :)

I've also heard there's a longer-term plan to consolidate ATC radar into the NOAA weather radar stations, once they upgrade weather radar to phased-arrays at some unknown point in the future. The marginal cost to keep secondary radar running in that environment is basically zero.

That said, they have certainly been turning down many of the redundant VOR stations as part of MON, and they just turned HIWAS off last week.

I don't think anyone really misses LORAN, though. ;)
The same could be said, in a domain more familiar to HNers, of bug reports.

If you don't take bug reports as tweets, or in e-mails, but insist that 1) they go into a bug tracker, and 2) that they evidence some care (such as, instead of saying, 'X is broken', include a list of steps to reproduce, and an expected outcome) then, well, you must be self serving, and feel that these bugs are not genuine or important.

But, you'll also have a greater capacity to actually deal with the requests where someone made the effort to report a bug in a useful fashion.
It seems only logical that (a) growing plants to eat them is more efficient than (b) bringing an animal into existence, feeding the animal with said plants and then eating the animal.

So (b) is more polluting and more cruel than (a). It might be time to wonder if it is worth it.
Piezo buzzers can be more efficient than that. This 95 cent buzzer sold by Adafruit is rated to 9V at 3mA: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1740
HOMM3 is still a game I'll play from time to time, it's half the reason I made a GOG account (Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games being the second).

I was actually thinking of HOMM as I was reading this thread, although I was thinking about it because of the subthread on AI. The AI in HOMM3 was surprisingly good for it's time, with very few times where I would ever see it 'stuck' or otherwise play in a way that was unfair or overly 'brain dead'.
We have https://hackage.haskell.org/package/helium at our university which is being used for teaching. It's pretty close to Haskell 98 compliant
Wait till the Wall Street Journal hears about the religious channel.
This just came up last week when marveling over the splendor of Science Diagrams that Look Like Shitposts.

https://twitter.com/scienceshitpost
Yes, let's have Netflix and Amazon decide what is a legitimate view. If you don't like it don't watch it. Unless these films are actively calling for violence (I dont know if they are) I don't see what the problem is.
I'm using WebStorm 2020.1 EAP on my LG UltraFine 5K and it works well, and I have done so for at least a year. Connected via TB3, 2016 MacBook.

One thing that could help is killing Docker, everything becomes more responsive -- on Mac that is, given that it's literally a VM running on Hyperkit. That's especially the case when you have a big project on in Jetbrains IDEs (CLion, WebStorm, IntelliJ, ...).
Viewed another way, a successful bugfix brings a $2.5B instrument back to life.
The real issue is the debt issuers. Why would you allow cash to leak out to equity holders when the business is doing poorly? Too much leverage and unrealistic growth expectations caused these issues.
Supermassive Black Hole Caught Sucking Energy from Nearby Starlight
Anyone else get a headache after looking at the main page of that site
> Calva does it's best to show some data inline, but unfortunately vs-code doesn't support displaying inline results

I've got no attachment to the Calva project whatsoever, but the below link pretty clearly contradicts what you're claiming.

https://calva.readthedocs.io/en/latest/eval-tips.html#evalua...

Not to mention I've done it.
Proposal to add options argument to JavaScript's Math.random() function (2019)
I just want to point out it's not necessarily that we want those things, it's that those who are in control push for it, and they do it because the way our society is structured rewards them for it