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> it is the clojure language that compiles to JavaScript, usually for running on the front end.

Being super pedantic (probably unnecessarily), it's the Clojure syntax for a subset of the Clojure language, plus some additional syntax and functionality specific to JavaScript interop.
It’s beyond obnoxious. It’s your computer and there’s no way to disable it from mutating without file system hacks?
would you loan money into this kind of uncertainty?
i think this is a very rational decision for a bank to take.

(hate for the banks aside, i would do the same thing..)
Weigh the importance of the research against the risk of the research process itself causing tens of thousands of deaths, and the confidence that the researchers have sufficiently protected against that risk.

Anyone who has that kind of confidence in the Wuhan laboratory researchers is operating from a different set of facts than I am.
Unless the search results themselves are hidden without a login, I don't see how this is censorship. The point of the archive is to preserve information for the foreseeable future. Isn't that the opposite of censorship?

It seems more like a way to limit the Internet Archive being used to spread bad and harmful information. The Archive didn't delete the content. To imply that the IA is going to start being politically motivated in removing the content misses the entire purpose of what the IA stands for.

Propaganda and other forms of misinformation is worth preserving and studying. Requiring a login stops no one from access to the videos, it's a free sign up.
My teammate has described Notion as a B+ solution for everything. It's impressive how many things it can handle, but it's all in a merely decent manner.
I'm not Catholic, but I think they stopped requiring the reading of scripture in Latin around 1960 and The Second Council of Vatican, AKA Vatican II.

I think Latin is still used as part of the traditional service, but it's mostly ritualistic. What I remember from attending Catholic services years ago is a lot of standing up and sitting down while chanting in Latin, followed by a sermon delivered in English.
I wonder how much bank needs to be hurting to call in a loan / call in your mortgage to try to sell it for a fraction of a price in some unknown distant future.
From the "in use" page? I'm assuming it's somewhere inside the book, rather than on the cover.
> in my experience the private sector, at scale, is often just as inefficient and bullshitty and mind-numbing and depressing as a government entity, just with less job protection, higher pressure, and perhaps often less of a meaningful societal value

This is a great point. Having worked at several large companies in addition to both state and federal government agencies, I mostly agree. I hated not being efficient in government work, but at least there was less B.S. pressure and some sense of 'greater good' decoupled from profit incentives (although there were definitely still budget constraints).
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> I don't want Google's (or anyone else's) code running in the background doing whatever it wants.

Is it really "doing whatever it wants" or just updating itself? Doing whatever it wants seems like a much broader range of activities.

Crashing or freezing is a problem, but isn't all software susceptible to those bugs? What if Chrome was crashing or freezing on other people's computers and the latest update fixed it for them?

The problem with your preferred methodology of opting in to updates is that 90% of users won't do it, which leads to security and compatibility nightmares.

I get that an update can cause problems. But to say that all auto-updating is terrible and it just breaks things and software is doing "whatever it wants" in the background seems like an exaggeration and misses the larger benefits.
It depends how much of that $6T lands in the hands of people buying land (in the near future).
Can anyone point to some state of the art reference on Venusian planetary science? I have some books from the 70s on the topic, but I assume more is known now.
I run on disk space issues almost monthly, and I have a fair amount of terabytes
It was a straw man. Designed to make you think less of a certain group of people.
I'm unsure why making everyone poorer is something to be celebrated.
Step 1: Get tons of VC money.

Step 2: Hire a big sales team.

Step 3: Be really good at marketing.
It is worth noting you can basically get all of the benefit of using ubuntu(a good gnome experience, ppa's, etc) but without any of the snap stuff by installing pop os. It's a bit unfortunate that pop os is branded as something basically for scrubs and new linux users, because it is still fully featured and a great overall experience even for a more adept linux user.
Sounds like a solid decision from Canonical tbh. Certificate substitution is terrible.
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Why are you so enthusiastic about Chinese propaganda?
The simulation doesn’t take into account new strains. Coronavirus mutates at least once a year. It’s likely there will be strains that are similarly contagious, but with higher or lower case fatality rates.

Prior pandemic case fatality rates were 10x what we’re seeing with COVID-19.

Also, in 1918, shelter in place contributed to a W shaped pandemic, where the second wave was much more deadly, and also killed lots of kids and young adults.

If more people in those age groups had been infected in the first wave, many fewer people would have died in total.
If you zoom in enough at the start, it looks like a straight line.
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It's certainly possible it came from a lab. The problem here is political interest. Some on the left are downplaying the lab aspect in favor of a natural origin because some on the right are using the Chinese origin as a basis for racism.

If it came from a lab in China, that doesn't make it a "Chinese" virus. Don't we have labs studying dangerous diseases in the US? People make mistakes. It's better to find the true cause and learn from it, human or not.
I despise firms like carmax, where they promote their "No Haggling" as a feature, whereas I see it as a bug.

They're baking in a fixed profit on used inventory and the customer has no option to impact their profitability and reduce acquisition cost. Now that I think about it, I am going to buy long terms puts on their stock,as this event should completely destroy their business.
Interestingly, Morris also made a similar documentary on Rumsfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Known

It's (IMHO) not as good as The Fog of War, but it's still very much worth a watch.
MITM should be completely illegal.

Why does this even need to be stated?
Ubuntu 20.04 forced me to switch to Fedora Server on my home server. Pretty happy so far. I have significantly fresher package versions and most of the software tools I use offer a RPM package. I think I will wait for snap to mature, before giving it another go.
OK, so there was an image orientation bug in that specific release of Chrome.

But it's estimated there are 1 billion users of Chrome. One billion! How wide of an attack surface does that present? Or how much of a nightmare would it be if they were all on wildly different versions?

I get that this specific bug may have caused problems for you. But if I had to choose between security and compatibility for 1 billion software users vs an occasional image orientation bug, I'll choose the former, personally.
The calculus is, what percentage of Americans can afford $15-$20 per sandwich on a regular basis? And how does that revenue compare to current revenues?

edit: Though, this throwing around of prices is perhaps not very effective. Reasonable prices for sandwiches in SFC, NYC, or Seattle will be much higher than a midwest capital, which will still be higher than some rural diner. The point stands, however, that there's a breaking point which has nothing to do with principles or indignation and everything to do with household economics.
Really? I constantly run into disk space issues. Apple still ships their flagship 13" macbook pro 128gb storage and they charge $200 for another 128gb. While other manufacturer's laptops charge a lot less for storage these days, most still only come with 256 which is not enough these days for development IMO.

Even on my desktop, I managed to fill 750GB with various VMs and android development tools (the SDKs, etc). While I am not sure how much compression could have saved me, it could still be worth it (especially since I only use certain VMs or SDK version once a month).
Protecting the shareholders from unnecessary risk. It's win-spin-win.
Well, it could be a game written in the IBM RPG language, if that's possible at all…
This is getting OT, but could you elaborate on your issues with systemd? I’m genuinely curious. I often see people complain but haven’t seen or experienced specifics apart from it being complex and having higher learning curve than initd.

(I don’t know if you’ve tried MX Linux BTW; Debian derivative without systemd by default)

I will never defend pulseaudio though, that’s a horrible mess.
Snap has an issue on certain Linux distributions (including Fedora and Arch) in which many applications render tofu characters (□□□□□) instead of text.

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapped-app-not-loading-fonts-o...

Canonical needs to invest in compatibility if it wants Snap to be adopted in distributions other than Ubuntu. Flatpak doesn't have this issue, and unlike Snap, its server implementation is decentralized, free, and open source.
While I think the idea is good, this is really just a local business directory, of which there have been many. There's not much I could find that specifically addresses problems of lockdown.

Regardless, it's always good to see alternatives to Facebook groups.

The nature of the business should perhaps be more prominent than the name - it's what they sell that's important when browsing a directory.

I also note that while Edinburgh is the target, businesses from Fife and East Lothian are not easily distinguishable from more relevant local businesses.

Some kind of map integration would be useful to see location and, where relevant, delivery radius (which seems to be an issue at the moment). This would help me work out what I could reasonably collect in a single trip.

Good effort, particularly the information to others to reproduce their own versions. I think there's work to do to make it live up to its name.
I don’t understand this overbearing obsession for computing companies to direct their users into certain corners. Why?
Land prices are tied to wages. Wages and employment goes down, value of land goes down. Unless the Fed starts buying up land directly, or using REITs.
How do you manage design and implement such a basic website (thanks, I like that) and still screw up something like zooming? Seems there is a JS library or something that adds `font-size: 51.39%;` automatically to the HTML tag in the markup, effectively killing zooming...
Variants of STAR voting can do Proportion Representation. There's no need to stick to Ranked Choice just for that.

The best research out there indicates STAR as the best, and it works best by that simulation you describe as well.

Here's some references:

The exact same approach as your first link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FXLQoLDBA

https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/

https://paretoman.github.io/ballot/newer.html

The only Ranked Choice approach anyone is promoting is Instant Runoff which discards preference votes relatively arbitrarily. Your second choice vote never counts if they happen to get eliminated in an earlier round than your first choice.

If you have trouble following how IRV unfairly counts votes and even leads to bad outcomes, this simple demonstration may help make it clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q10TsLw_3YI

Now, there are some options like Ranked Pairs that are at least arguably okay, but that's far more complex to understand and to tabulate and nobody is actually promoting it in real use.
Thank you! But honestly its the gitcoin team/community that is doing it, I'm just helping the team/community coordinate at this point :)

Hopefully this (https://gitcoin.co/results) is just a start and we can build information age native institutions that support all sorts of public goods (Open Source Software being the focal point right now) at 100x this scale one day.
Perhaps especially in the pressure of an interview
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I don't understand. You stopped using Ubuntu server because of snap?

Can you clarify?
The saying in our industry is, "clinical trials are the most complicated thing in the world".

EDIT: adding details:

You have to mobilize large interdisciplinary teams to come up with products that are inherently very hard to invent, and which, after all that, can easily fail a trail and never see light of day, or can then still harm or kill people even after approved, all while operating in an understandbly extremely regulated and complicated environment.

One example:

One of the many piles of documents that you need to submit to a national health authority _just so they consider your product_ (before you can release to a single "user"!), is thorough documentation of how you _plan_ to manufacture the product, if it were approved.

Just these text files can weigh _gigabytes_. Think how much effort it would take just to write something coherent that is so long! And of course, you have to get other teams to run a bunch of experiments to inform what to write.

And this is even before you are actually producing the product for release.

Oh, and maybe your product won't actually be approved, so all that goes to waste.

And that's just the beginning.

Because all of that excludes _any_ mention of the real deal, which is whether the product actually works or is safe. All of that requires its own experiments and documentation.

And all that assumes that decades of prior research actually led to some useful prototype where you can start.

And all that excludes any mention of ethical considerations like who pays for the research, what is a just price for a cancer drug - heck, whether you should even be trying to make a profit off of lifesaving drugs.

If getting to a point like selling your app called Whats App for $18 billion (or whatever it was) would require a walk down the street, then getting a drug to market is like leaving the earth, flying past the furthest planets, and then trying to reach another galaxy.
I'm sure that this is just hyperbole, but I can't imagine this not being a perfectly reasonable context in which to deploy a go application.

In my mind "real time" as a term of art applies to things like hardware control systems with very strict tolerances.

Although, as a hacking challenge I'd love to see the most catastrophic delay one could plausibly accidentally code into a go application.
“What Trump can Teach Us About Con Law” is a great appetizer sized podcast. The hosts are obviously not trump supports, but this isn’t screaming in the wind or just complaining. A constitutional law professor takes tweets the president has sent and examines precedent and previous Supreme Court cases on similar topics. Each episode deals with a particular topic and is only about 20-30 minutes long, but they manage to pack a lot of really fascinating details into that time and I have certainly learned a lot.

https://trumpconlaw.com/

I can also recommend the host’s other podcast “99 percent invisible” which is about all sorts of things that are vital to everyday life that you don’t think about much.
When bad UX is good
So capital costs range something in the neighbourhood of 55% to 30% depending on region, and (again regional) total costs looks something like ~$52 a barrel (highest cost regions - like north sea) to < $10 (middle east).

But once you've paid all that capital (and something like shale oil in the west has some of the highest relative capital costs) you're better to keep producing at anything north of opex, so maybe as low as $15-20 for a shale producer, or $5 for S.A.

This is all very estimated, but you start to see why they keep pumping.

Next add in things like transport and storage constraints, refinery capacity , etc and volumes range from zero to infinite regardless of prices.

source: we build modeling software for evaluation of these scenarios.
> Updating everything has always been one click in Ubuntu (and I'm sure there's an option to have it go automatically).

And what percentage of users do that? From your experience in software in general how much of the general population manually updates their software? It's almost always a low number and that creates problems. A different set of problems than new updates that cause bugs, but IMHO worse ones.

> Maybe the benefits justify it, but what are those benefits supposed to be?

Security, compatibility, uniformity. Not having to support 18 different versions.

> I hate systemd because it breaks a bunch of stuff but I'm still forced to use it.

Exactly what stuff does it break? And are those things more important than the benefits of systemd?
It's not your computer when Canonical is chummy with Microsoft.
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I wish HDTracks hadn't gone entirely over to their "music downloader application." Bandcamp is far preferable to me in that they spit out a FLAC link at the conclusion of the transaction.
Apple has silently compressed files (including executables) since Snow Leopard [1] -- to increase speed. Did Ubuntu pick the wrong compression algorithm?

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/3/
Peter Thiel has a great talk at YCombinator on how "Competition is for Losers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k
Super cool, I've been thinking a little about this for CV rather than NLP. One thing that gave me the idea is I (the company I worked for, at the direction of me) engaged an outside expert on a particular ML domain. It wasn't a freelancer, but just someone at a major company who did some cool stuff. I approached them, told them about what issue we were having, and engaged them for a 50 hour contract @ $500/hr. Completely worth it, but looking at your rates maybe we super overpaid. Not that it matters, but just an interesting data point and got me thinking about freelancing purposely if those are the rates. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I've been a very faithful Ubuntu user for 12 years now but if there's no easy way to disable this abomination then my current one (18.04) will be the last.
Whose idea was it to replicate one of the worst features of Windows?
Yeah, then stop burying yourself with Apple devices.

Anyways, it makes sense to maintain something like an LRU cache, and compress only the least used things.
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I have full requirements with wireframes. The idea is this is a prototype we just throw away when done, and then build a real beta the right way.

Doing this fast and scrappy.

Open to hiring freelancer fulltime as well and join the founding team!
I think article could have more mentions of previous developments of rotation detonation engines.

Navy experimented with it (for efficiency, not rockets) since 2012.

E.g here's overview with images: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S100093611...
US government background checks explicitly ask about foreign financial holdings, and those investigators check.
Lessons Learned from Building a Tax Calculator
It's fun to see how linux community always tries to make over engineered solution of any problem, instead of repeating Mac OS approach.

Idea of ONE SINGLE DEPENDENCY TREE is just not for desktop.
Day two of Byteconf React, a free remote React.js conference, is streaming on YouTube now!

The full schedule is available here; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052564

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There was a thread on HN about disabling Snaps last week. I found the process pretty straight-forward.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972661
Due to person experience, this strikes me as pretty ironic. My company had a very bad experience with Segment, so much so that we changed product roadmaps to move away from them. In my mind they're an example of how not to sell a product. Very much not a company I would want to partner with again.
Would a good middle ground would be add some salt to each unique IP, hash the addresses, and hand hashed data over?
I've recently switched from Notion to Roam, and feel good about adding to that hype. I can't judge between them as enterprise tools, but as personal note stash I far prefer Roam. Roam doesn't have Notion's awesome flexibility that the author of this piece describes. But for me it does the important parts better.

It's great to see the deep competition in this area. Even as a current Roam fanboi, I'll switch again with little regret when something better comes along.
Some of the reasons put forth by Pinker:

* a poor country prioritizes growth while a richer one can afford to consider the environment

* a richer country has access to more efficient technology

* on the level of individuals, moral (or future) concerns are not in the forefront of your mind until you have your immediate needs for shelter, food etc. covered.
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There are two use-cases I’ve run into where awk really shines, and is hard to replace:

1. Writing scripts for environments that only have Busybox. Technically you can write scripts in ash, but I don’t recommend it for anything beyond a couple lines. It’s missing a lot of the features from Bash that make scripting easier, and it’s easy to get mixed up if you’re used to Bash and write things that don’t work. Awk is the best scripting language available, even if you’re doing things that don’t exactly match what it was designed to do.

2. Snippets that are meant to be copy+pasted from documentation or how-to articles. In that case, it’s often not easy to distribute a separate script file, so a CLI “one-liner” is preferred. You also can’t count on Perl, Python, etc. being available on the user’s system, but awk is pretty universal.

For most other cases, I tend to create a new .py file and write a quick Python script. Even if it’s a little more overhead, it helps keep my Python skills sharp, and often it turns out that what I actually want is a little more complicated than my initial idea anyway.
Ask HN: Application with on Cloud but with On-Prem Requirement
Hi HN! I am currently working to design an enterprise application. While we are relying on a lot of the cloud (AWS for now) technologies for the usual benefits including things like SQS, SNS, serverless, and more, we are also looking at a requirement of on-prem deployment since a lot of data is sensitive and customers in the initial discussions itself are talking about security data sensitivity.

What are some good options today to be able to make an application on a modern stack, while also managing enterprise customers' expectations on data security- whether on prem or private cloud?
So because one conspiracy turned out to be true, all of them must be true?