skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Vietnam war had such an impact because the US military went on such an insane spree of war crimes

I agree with this. But, while this is before my time (my parents' generation), my understanding is US attitudes against the war were partly self interested in the short term: many boomer teenagers and 20somethings didn't want to get sent off to participate in such massacres, and much more they didn't want to die for it. Their parents didn't want them killed either. A lot of people knew somebody who had been killed.

If there had been no conscription there would have been less antiwar sentiment.

A similar scenario played out in the 2000s in Iraq, but without conscription.
This has generally been the approach in the Clojure community. Of course, lacking standard frameworks, every library gets abandoned every few years so you have to learn a new even cleverer one. And wherever you might benefit from a group of very cohesive abstractions (e.g. in data science) you’re instead left with a bunch of random incompatible things (that again, will be abandoned in due course).
De-obfuscation, I can get behind.

Obfuscation, however, not really.
The emission levels of an electric vehicle curently are 70% of a normal vehicle so yes. Electric cars are only as clean as their energy input which is still overwhelmingly carbon-based and will be for the foreseeable future.

Also the resources needed for the battery creation and lots of the parts effectively wreak havoc on the environment in the third world. There's a rush on minerals including practises such as strip mining which is hugely ecologically damaging.

Also cars will always be a colossal space waste: https://imgur.com/gallery/sCvRIEd

Having every individual carry two tons of steel around whenever they go grocery shopping will probably make our ancestors look at the us the same way we look at people in caves to be honest
How to Use Pkgsrc on Linux
+1 for KeePass. Native apps have been great on all platforms (I recommend Strongbox on iOS).
Thanks for the questions!

Their feedback wasn’t terribly direct, but what they did say I addressed. They mostly seemed disinterested in a solution while very much agreeing about the problem. From what I gathered they don’t buy because they can only buy if their housemates more or less unanimously agree to buy too, and their housemates weren’t present. They also have the normal sign up skepticism I assume any product might face.

I’m not sure what features I could add to more easily attract customers, given I have a hard time just getting people to sign up and add housemates. They aren’t trying and churning yet unfortunately. Sign up friction is low: your email address and your housemates’ email addresses and you’re ready to go. It makes more sense to me it’d be a positioning issue at this stage.

I haven’t really tried any online marketing channels yet which might allow me to discover better positioning.

That was helpful, thanks!
Not sure why you're being downvoted :/

That's a big problem in the bay area as well, there is no reliable and fast public transport if you want to commute.
Why not?

No one needs to work so that concern is out. We stay at home, receive government handouts and use apps to order stuff from Amazon.
I used to have Glipper installed in Gnome, but it looks like that's been a dead project for the better part of a decade now. Does anyone know a modern equivalent? I did enjoy having a clipboard manager

I guess one potential downside is that I use `pass` to manage passwords and I don't terribly want my passwords all stuck in my clipboard history...
Very agree. Four floors and corner stores wherever residential can be built and not just on arterials. We neatly avoid a huge swath of the gentrification and massive upswings in property cost if we don't artificially restrict where walkable, moderately-dense neighborhoods can be built.
The original memo is poorly written, poorly reasoned, and thinly veiled:

> Discriminating just to increase the representation of women in tech is as misguided and biased as mandating increases for women’s representation in the homeless, work-related and violent deaths, prisons, and school dropouts
That's because chip makers have been focusing on energy efficiency far more than chip speed.
actually emacs is rarely there, vim is though.
If you like rust you may love ReasonML
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No, the summary is that men and women have different interests (in average across billions) which creates a tendency to choose different professions. This division is even more pronounced in the most egalitarian and free societies.

Lack of interest in a subject does not mean a lack of capability.
There's a certain richness to demanding regular people carefully evaluate scientific evidence and the subtleties of different policy choices and be willing to risk their lives for the sake of the common good, while the person who is driving all these decisions is on stage suggesting everyone drink bleach.
As it is true for any number of conversations in the workplace? Try telling your boss they're not as smart or talented as they think they are and see how that goes.

I'm not sure how "making broad generalizations about your coworkers based on their gender" differs from all the other stuff most people have to keep quiet about as they go about their work.
Consent was given implicitly by browsing chatroulette. Or so is the mainstream rhetoric used for third party cookies "consent".
And the lady engineers should put out some great work in reply and refute him.
Not deaths. Healthcare system & infrastructure capacity vs demand. The whole point of "flattening the curve."

Predictions were being made before the first confirmed cases in the US, but we were still in containment mode vs suppression.

The China travel ban, for example, was implemented by Feb 1st, from quick glance. (Edit: made Jan 31 & took effect Feb 2)

We were worried about overwhelming the healthcare system. But it's dying from lack of patients.
If an electron is always a point, how does it have a wave function? Field is the proper term for "cloud", and Quantum Field Theory is an alternative description of the universe, where fields are fundamental, and particles are excitations in the fields.
One of my favorite bash tricks is that I have this alias in my bashrc file:

function goto {
cd -P ~/.links/"$1";
}

And then in the `.links` folder I have symbolic links to directories I need to go to often.

Then getting to a frequently used directory is just a `goto X` away.
The form requires you to certify that you maintain the state's safety standards. Workers should exquisitely document their working conditions, and take pictures if possible.
GDP in the US is about $17 trillion per year. That's the total amount of income we create each year. The top 1% have $25 trillion in wealth.

So if we took all the wealth of the 1% (income > $421,926/year), we would be out of their money in less than 2 years.

Btw, the total wealth of the US is about $123.8 trillion. We would consume that in about 7 years.

On board with redistribution, monthly $1500 checks, higher wages, unemployment checks, paid sick leave, PPP, and all that. But people gotta work. A main goal of policy makers right should be quickly figuring out how to get people back to work safely.

The idea that work is a pointless volcano feeding plot is way off, work is creating all the goods and services around you. There's no vault of gold somewhere we can raid to live off of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Unit...
And I'll go back to my other point, which you again condescendingly dismissed (see a theme here?) as "pointless": the general public needs to be convinced of the safeguards--safeguards which you are suggesting thwart any attempts at indirection-based potential fraud-- in order for them to be effective.

Voting isn't about simply voting, it's about faith in the system itself. You could have a perfect voting system, but if nobody trusts it, it is as bad as a corrupted system because nobody will agree on the outcome. And currently, whatever safeguards you claim are "good enough" clearly are not good enough to convince the general public to trust them, so they aren't good enough.
I mean, your values are different, so you come to a different conclusion. I'm sure you can understand why, to other people, your position seems to be "0% voter fraud at all costs", when people have gerrymandering and other such things to deal with. So hopefully now you can see that the reason others come to different conclusions from you isn't that you're rational and they're irrational.
This whole idea of empty space within atoms is just nonsense using English grammar as a substitute for physics. It's a meaningless statement either way until you define the terms specifically enough. And by doing that, you can choose whatever answer you want. "occupied to the point where nothing more can be added" isn't specific enough because you can still add a lot of photons to a "filled" glass of water, so that means it's not filled by that definition even though it is by common sense. It just shows the irrelevance of everyday words and concepts at the subatomic scale.

Even a neutron star is practically invisible to neutrinos which can easily pass through it despite it's being "filled" with neutrons.
Does this mean a black hole is "full"?
> people are being asked to choose between their life and their livelihood

This is practically the swan song of human history. Society was built on a lose-lose situation for most peasants to either participate and be exploited to death or don't and either starve or just get outright killed.

From the subsistence farmers having 95% of their crop taken by their lords so their families can subsist on a potato each day, to the factory line workers whose fingers would fall off from chemical exposure, to the miners who choked on their own bile, to the soldiers who died for the conquests of robber barons beset by greater greeds. Almost all peoples in all times were given this same "choice".
The world is frequently black and white. It isn't immature to say so.

In this situation, I think there are no complex tradeoffs. If you disagree, tell us what the tradeoffs are rather than making a high-minded appeal to moderation.
...And we quietly read and comment on HN
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming
> Same way reading random crap on HN is entertainment :)

At least the random crap on HN is intellectually stimulating.
> I worked for a company where the founder thought everybody should use the same tools (meaning the tools he used: OpenSuse, KDE, VSCode, etc...) so that we can help each other and, like you propose, we wouldn't have to fiddle with anything since he would provide configuration for everything.

I will ask this question in my next job interview. This is a red flag for me. I wouldn't want to work in a company that forces the developers onto a specific editor/IDE.
You might as well say “i don’t believe sledgehammers make good hammers”.
> The catch is that this sparse subset of NN edge weights has no structure, so it doesn't get efficient execution on a GPU

Could you elaborate a little on this aspect?
That doesn't work if the consistent behaviour is completely useless. If double click selected English tokens grouped by which half of the alphabet they came from, nobody would ever double click anything, they'd just click-drag highlight.
This feels like an apples vs oranges comparison. Libraries tend to be more focused and single purpose (e.g., provide an interface for technology X).

When you begin composing libraries together to do a multitude of things you tend to end up with a defacto framework whether you call it that or not.

Frankly, I'd rather use a framework that has been battle tasted and hardened through open source and is well documented instead of one that is incomplete and lacks conventions built in-house.
Sorry if I was abrasive in my response. Let me address two of the points here:

>> The "globals().update(vars(module))" line actually increased my blood pressure.

> Being a little dramatic here, aren't we? Please elaborate on what is wrong here.

and

>> Please show some consideration to your teammates that help you keep your applications running.

The reason I don't like this is that it first dynamically imports the right module and then implicitly sets global variables using the variables from that module using vars. This means that someone couldn't use simple greps or such searches to trace the logic through which a parameter was set (a go-to tool when debugging code someone else put into a docker container).

- - -

> Clearly I have some work to do on my writing.

Your writing is good. I disagree with your approach to solving the problem. Willing to accept that my position is wrong, but am reluctant to do so since it's built on bitter experience.
Giving you my email address and then someone else’s email address, one that I probably have to look up, and one I should definitely go get permission from before sharing isn’t low friction.
Geneticists use machine learning to solve medicine’s greatest mysteries
Well, you're making statements but not backing them up with sources (if we learn one thing from the pandemic it let it be that provenance of information matters more than the information itself.)

You're also, apparently, trying to influence people's opinions of government.

So... propaganda.

But really: Dude, I'm sorry. I was just really cranky this morning and I was being snarky. I apologize. You are obviously not propagandizing there. I was being an idiot. I'm sorry.
I keep two diaries, both MS Word documents. In one, I write summaries of what I read about -- papers, blog posts, books, and articles that interest me, along with the google search term, authors, URL, quotable quotes etc. In the other, I put together a free-form running log of projects I am working on, along with feature ideas, benchmark results (and the parameters used to get it),etc.

Why MS Word, you ask?

I am ordinarily an avowed plaintext person, and I have tried everything from various wiki formats, org-mode, markdown of every shape and stripe (even bought a few markdown editors), but they haven't worked for me. The reason is lack of WYSIWIG

WYSIWIG is a huge efficiency booster. Inline images, doodles of my own, colors, fonts, tables, inline math, greek and other symbols, all of it is right there in the original (not in a separate render), and is searchable.

Having all of it in one file is not really a problem performance-wise; I have had one file for the last 8 years. It is easy to back up and the chronology is clear, and it is easy to generate a table of contents.

Finally, having it on a google drive means that it is available/convertible to google doc if I need to access it from elsewhere. I do not rely on google docs to be the primary copy, because i don't want to rely on a working internet connection all the time. Offline works better for me.
Google has always had a very open culture with lots of political discussion and encouraged these kinds of internal debates. This was a memo written specifically for a private internal forum that was focused on that specific discussion. The widely shared version was leaked and edited, but never meant for a public audience.

Saying that men and women tend to have different preferences doesn't make a statement about their capabilities, nor is it really that controversial. The pursuit of a 50/50 ratio is counter-productive to free and open choice. Encouragement and opportunity should be the goal, not a forced ratio outcome.
I think the same thing every time reading this otherwise-excellent post. I don't think we should attempt to erase history, but it is super jarring, at least for me. Was it ever actually funny?
I'm... going to have to use this. A lot.
> Have you tried React? It feels fairly library-esque to me.

Because it is, in fact, just a library.
If you care about her having a certain opinion it's good you bite your tongue.

Very few can handle the truth when they feel something different inside. You don't win over people with facts, fact support internal believes or they get ignored, blocked or morphed.
> Do individuals retain any agency and responsibility for balancing risk on their own?

When their means to provide survival for themselves is not in their own hands, no. They have no agency. If you are getting evicted this month for non-payment because you got furloughed, or cannot afford food, or are at risk of losing essential utilities because you are bankrupt, you are not making "personal decisions". You are either going to be homeless & hungry or bow.
Just wait until you come across my safe, protecting my extremely rare and valuable collection of packing peanuts...
Physics does say fields like gravity and EM fill all of space. That's not arbitrary, it's part of QM and Relativity.

And wave particle duality could mean that a particle is a wave when it's not being detected.
I'd love to see this as well. Web apps seem really tricky when it comes to not using frameworks though. You can use JQuery - it's tried and true - but it also seems to be on the way out. Great if you know it, but is it worth learning if you don't?

I had the unfortunate experience of building a static site using Nuxt recently which included Jupyter Notebook exports as html files. I ran into so many problems that the complexities of the framework quickly overshadowed the conveniences. Makes me wish I tried doing everything in vanilla JS instead - I might at least have learned something transferable to other projects that way.
There is a difference I think between typing speed when you are transcribing vs writing your own text.

I find that I get pretty slow speeds when doing typing tests, but most of the time it's because I need to stop every word to figure out what the heck it is wanting me to type.

When typing out my own stuff, I don't have that break because I already know what I want to say.
From time to time, those pesky peasants tend to revolt.
Both YIMBYs (who argue for affordable housing) and PHIMBYs (who argue for public housing) make an excellent case for high-density housing. This is a prerequisite for modern cities.

Also: cars ruin cities.
My progression in editors was something like Sublime -> GVim -> Spacemacs -> VSCode -> Jetbrains.

After all those years, there are 2 main takeaways for me.

1. I love modal editing, not necessarily Vim

2. My time is better spent doing actual work or enjoying my hobbies than fiddling around with configurations.
Wrong, the Netherlands.
Which is why we locked down major cities to slow down the spread. We don't know how many would have died otherwise but it would have been a lot more. Saying that the experts who urged us to lock down to avoid millions of deaths were wrong because we locked down and there weren't millions of deaths is a bit odd.
Have you considered the fact that, perhaps, watching someone else playing instead of playing ourself is boring? Or that if someone has skill to understand programming, he is way more likely to make his own program instead of watching someone else code on a project he doesn’t care about? Because besides discoverability and red ocean, that’s the most likely causes.
Yeah, they're probability distributions, not fields. So electrons, protons and neutrons are still tiny, even though their positions are uncertain. And so atoms are still mostly empty space.
They don't walk the lines at their factories or monitor the staff on the floor. They have penthouse offices with private access elevators at worst, but more likely are just staying home until this all blows over.

The article actually touched on this somewhat, but really, those with the resources will truly isolate themselves to avoid infection. The hospitals could be flooded with the dying and those with the means can hole up in their apocalypse bunkers in New Zealand.
https://archive.md/PCQUT
> The investment you have to make to really grok static typing is quite large. It took about 2 years for me to be really comfortable in TS.

That sounds a bit exaggerated from my experience. If anyone interested in TS got discouraged reading your comment, it took between like 2 days and 2 weeks for my team to be really comfortable in TS. If you already know JavaScript and if you already have some experience with statically-typed languages, TS is literally JS with static types.
After X11 and Spring, the Maximum Abstraction Task Force shifted to focus on infrastructure, which is why your Java Virtual Machine processes are now running as a uniquely allocated user ID in a container scheduled by a control plane on a pool of OS instances separated by the hypervisor service of a dynamically sized cloud placement group.
USA, CA, Fremont.
Ask HN: How to make friends online during a pandemic
I also like Ecobee. That’s just from a functionality standpoint. I don’t know much about their privacy.
I was thinking about this some months ago and I came across the idea of source code reading. It helps to provide new insights in ways we can express ourselves (our logic in this case) in code. Learning how other world-class programmers expressing themselves is definitely a way to understand what makes them top tier programmers. I've written a post about source code writing to expound on this approach. Hope you all will find it useful! Cheers (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-02-11-source-code-rea...
I don't think popularity is the relevant metric here.

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

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." —Carl Sagan
That’s not going to happen without a huge cutback in our standard of living. The other side knows this, that’s why they fight so hard.
I wonder what will happen with all their e-bikes? I wonder if they will resell them?
> If you notice all my tips helps you to reuse the code you write.

> Don't ever write global css.

Global CSS is a form of code reuse.
> The thing is that your average city council voting LA resident doesn't want to use trains. They were sold on a "vision" of lifestyle where they have a personal plot, personal vehicle for themselves, and use that everywhere.

Yeah, hence the mention of the car centric culture of US. I personally can’t understand why one would like to use a car if the subway is faster, more predictive, cheaper, and less tiring, but looks like a cultural difference.

> Residents of most cities don't want to live in a proper 21st century city - they want it all, a personal separated residence, the ability to go anywhere they want whenever they want via personal car, but also immediate and local access to arts, entertainment, and workplaces while not actually living near any of those because they don't want the people around them.

Well, isn’t this the problem that subways are designed to mitigate? Like... if you want to go to a art center, go to the subway station, ride the subways to the desired station, and see the arts!
DBs, IMO, are neither library or frameworks. They have their own DSL after all, which is close to programming languages.

Programming languages are hard to categorize as either library or framework. They are libraries with full set of control flow primitives or framework that doesn't assume a particular flow at all.
Well, that space is filled, but only because of quantum interactions, and not because it's empty.
For starters, if you don't live there, why do you want to decide for them? So that you personally could travel there and check it out without nomads?

P.S. not a nomad.
React is a great example of a library that provides enough structure that you typically don’t need a framework. I don’t think you always need a framework for this reason. And it’s definitely battle tested as are all the extras like router etc.