skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time for a quicky is always good to have. When I don't however, I usually take that "annoying" task and see, whether I can divide into sub tasks. Divide and conquer often helps. If that does not work, I make a list of steps, which I need to take to accomplish whatever the task is about.
For full-time work, there's the specialist-generalist tradeoff. Specialists tend to make more money, but it's harder to find a job, and the skills might have a shorter shelf life.
Thank you for those corrections. My limited Lisp experience before Clojure was with Scheme a very long time ago. I shouldn’t have made these false, blanket statements. Those can be harmful for discussion.

In fact I know from reading about CL that it is extremely malleable and that you would be hard pressed to find features that are not present or possible there.
> Wouldn't MS also have to prove that the code is not a derivative of some other PC desktop solution of that era?

That would be pretty trivial. If you had the Windows 3.0 source code, you could compile it, and the binaries you'd get would be the same as the shipped binaries. (Your version of the source code might not be exactly the same version as the shipped binaries, but even if not 100% identical, a binary diff or disassembly would should great similarity.) Even if someone has modified the code a bit, there would still be immense similarities there, which would be difficult to explain as anything other than copying.

Also, GeoWorks and Windows 3.0 have quite different APIs. If you find code exposing an API which is bug-for-bug-compatible with Windows 3.0, then it almost surely is a derivative of the real Windows 3.0 source code. It could be a derivative of some compatible implementation of the Windows API, such as Wine or Sun Wabi, but neither of those would be bug-for-bug compatible; and, as jerf pointed out, a defendant which claimed that they (or someone else other than Microsoft) wrote the code from scratch would have to provide some evidence that they (or someone else) actually carried out the Herculean task of creating a bug-for-bug compatible clean room clone of the Windows API. And not just the application-level API – Windows 3.x has heaps of internal APIs, which largely weren't used by applications and which newer Windows versions don't support (for example, the legacy Windows 3.x device driver models) – any modified copy of the Windows 3.x source is going to support all that, a clean room reimplementation is unlikely to do so. Courts decide civil cases on the basis of the balance of the probabilities, and such a claim must be viewed as improbable, unless some concrete positive evidence is put forward to demonstrate it is true.

(IANAL, but you don't need to be a lawyer to know that Microsoft would win this one.)
Why This Started in Minneapolis
Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries
My point, be very cautious of attending anything that might destroy your future. Do not think a mask or blurring protects your identity, that is extremely naive.

If you're afraid to be seen in public you have no future to destroy. It has always been possible to identify people with diligence if one is sufficiently patient. Given that you're 'working on a surveillance system' your post reads as little more than an attempt to intimidate people from participating in political activism.
>sizable chunk of the officers imported to D.C. //

Imported under whose behest? Is it the local police head who decides to call in others, do they decide the composition of the force called in?
Personally, no, but you are in the best company:
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-John-von-Neumann-work-best-in-...
The distribution is a result of VC being a lotto that pays out well enough that not only is it not a bad idea to play it in terms of return on investment. Unfortunately it takes a lot of money to "buy every ticket". Which means to "win" for a VC they need to win big enough to outweigh their massive pile of failures.

Except instead of a lotto board paying out it is growth of a successful company.

The second desire? Prepare for disappointment as it isn't a goal. A goal implies a workable path even if it is far fetched like "try to research a way to become immortal". Providing an economic floor is not only not a strategy for advancement (let alone a workable one) it would fail even if you had a magical no knowledge or possession prerequisite requirement provider of infinite "basics" to be unscarce like air or file bit combinations. Economics deal with the scarce - while rendering things irrelevant would be good a floor implies an actual use to build upon into the scarce.
> Up here in Scandinavia, we often laugh at how much Germans interact with humans, send letters and faxes, and make phonecalls in their business lives. They are woefully far behind. From what I understand the same is true for the south.

I wouldn't necessarily call it "being ahead" to embrace increased isolation from other human beings.
It's my full time job, and I agree. However keeping Jira in line with reality helps me catch inconsistencies in requirements and plans.
Having been there I can honestly tell you it isn’t the same. The conditions are very different. No matter how bad things get in the US there is still a very large gap between US conditions and those that would drive people to self-immolation.
Kolmogorov Complexity
http://jsonlines.org
Should be this one https://archive.is/iCVq0
Did you understand mine?
This is an interesting conversation and one I think about a lot myself. I currently work for a large-ish company with "quite good" practices, and I often wonder what sorts of policies other companies implement. As you grow in your career and continue to join teams that were better than the last, it's sometimes hard to know if your standards are a product of your career trajectory, or simply a product of the times.

However, I do think there is some mid-ground between what you are used to and what the company currently does. In my opinion, these are the minimum requirements of what a mid-sized company should be doing:

- Version control. No excuses here.

- Code Review. This needs to be done.

- Test frameworks are setup and make it easy for a developer to write and run tests. I wouldn't necessarily get hung up on coverage, but large features should have tests in the PRs, and there should be a good culture of testing within the company.

- A CI pipeline that fails the build if tests or linting fails.

- I wouldn't be too concerned about automated deployment from the CI. This also depends a lot on the type of product. It's much easier to automatically deploy a b2p application than a b2b one that might require proper release correspondence with clients beforehand. I think the minimum here should be a system to handle provisioning and deploying to boxes (whether that be something like ansible or in-house scripts).

I'd be interested to know what others think the benchmark should be for mid-sized companies. One last point: You are in an excellent position to make changes within your company. If the truth of the matter is that your colleagues "just can't imagine another way", then you can work with them to try to get some of these policies implemented. If you can convince them that there are actual benefits to doing their job a different way, then I think they should be receptive. You can come out of this job knowing that you helped level-up the developers and left the company in a better place than when you started.
> They can maintain hashes of potentially offensive passwords

Assuming they want to check against all casing combinations, the list of hashes would be 3 orders of magnitude bigger for a list of 7 letter words. If they want to check for substrings or spelling variations, list would combinatorially explode.
Wouldn't a parser library that returns a data structure that is the one passed to the equivalent of EVAL and also the one acted on by macros fit this definition? And then also the ability to easily serialize it back into textual syntax? If so, this doesn't seem to require S-Expressions or lisp, but rather, like the parent comment said, just a good macro and parser library design. (It is true that languages haven't generally seemed to prioritize this feature, I'm just saying that I don't see any reason it must be fundamentally unique to lisps.)
This is what you should say.

"I am happy to help and will do so as soon as my lawyer gets here."
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To be fair, CPUs are Turing machines. That makes them much more comparable to anything that mainly does information processing than to anything else.
Related:

Federal authorities file charges against 3 alleged Boogaloo followers in Nevada

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23428123

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/04/boogalo...

https://archive.st/archive/2020/6/www.washingtonpost.com/lrz...
Because of an unfortunate house-sharing issue I ended up without any electricity at home for almost 2 months.

I still had a phone that I was charging at the office, and still used the computer at work, but all my time at home was spent mostly laying in the cold dark (it was winter time) letting my mind wander and reflecting about life.

After a few weeks my co-workers asked me why I was not moving, and were very surprised when I told them that the situation was actually pretty nice. You get to think about so many things that you would never usually, just because you suddenly have the time to do so.

I also believe I had my best nights of sleep during those 2 months as I was not going to bed right after spending 12 hours in front of a screen.
Someone please draw a penis and share the results.
Sadly USA seized to be a democracy quite some time ago
Prosecutors search Wirecard premises in market manipulation probe
crop(resize(first(images), 100, 100), 25, 25, 75, 75)

this will likely get better when julia implements proper pipes, IIRC coming soon in the plans (like elixir does):

images
|> first
|> resize(100,100)
|> crop(25, 25, 75, 75)

If the language bothers to implement an inspect method (again, like elixir) this is vastly superior to . chaining because you can do this:

images |> inspect
|> first |> inspect
|> resize(100,100) |> inspect
|> crop(25, 25, 75, 75) |> inspect

trivially with multiline cursor (and also trivially ninja'd out with multiline cursor) and have full introspection on the evolution of your data through the pipeline. This is impossible in oo languages (well maybe you could do it in a prototyped language) because dispatch of the .inspect method would have to be implemented on each object.
Hey, I'm the author, good point! Fixed to language to make it clearer. Thanks for pointing it out
Yeah it's kind of interesting it's a focusing mechanism for me but seems bad that can't handle silence. Even when not working YouTube is on or something.

That's cool though I recognize game theory though don't really understand/read into it much.
I was curious and did some research about the "Everlywell" food allergy test this article recommends, and the evidence behind it seems INCREDIBLY weak. From what I'm reading the product seems to be some Shark Tunk funded non-FDA reviewed no-oversight pseudoscience. Apparently many "at home testing kits" are not FDA regulated at all.

Worse, it seems that many doctors and organizations think they can actually do harm given the misinformation they provide:

......

"Patients who ask Dr. Robert Wood, an allergist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, whether they have a food sensitivity would never undergo an immunoglobulin G test. Immunoglobulin G tests “are completely useless and do dramatic harm” because they may compel patients to unnecessarily avoid broad swaths of a healthy diet, Wood said.

“In all my years of practice, I have never sent an immunoglobulin G test because they have no ability to predict food sensitivity,” he said.

That’s because immunoglobulin G stems from the body’s normal immune response to exposure to many substances, including food. High levels don’t indicate a problem; they simply point to foods a person recently has eaten.

For these reasons, a 2008 European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology task force recommended against testing for a type of immunoglobulin G to evaluate for food intolerance. In the report, the group wrote that the test was “irrelevant for the laboratory work-up of food allergy or intolerance and should not be performed in case of food-related complaints.”" [0]

......

"Dr. Neha Shah, a rheumatologist and immunologist at Stanford University, is one doctor who is skeptical.

"What we don't have is proof that having a high IgG level against a particular food item means that that food is causing your symptoms," says Shah.

"A lot of this kind of huxterist testing is keying off of the placebo effect," says Dr. Norman Paradis, a clinical lab expert who teaches at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, referring to the industry in general and not to a particular product. "[1]

......

"The presence of IgG is likely a normal response of the immune system to exposure to food. In fact, higher levels of IgG4 to foods may simply be associated with tolerance to those foods.

Due to the lack of evidence to support its use, many organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology have recommended against using IgG testing to diagnose food allergies or food intolerances / sensitivities" [2]

......

The author should seriously consider removing this from their article.

[0]: https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/23/everlywell-food-sensitiv...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/28/6141252...

[2]: https://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/library/alle...
> I am envious of the environment where you never saw somebody trying to bug feature request as a bug.

Really, I have never seen that in 20 years.

Of course that is different from another team or the test team raising a bug because they expected something that was not in the spec. Then you tell them that it's not because it does not behave the way they want that it is a bug.
But, yes, a defect (more general term than bug) is any deviation from requirements.

Direct input from customers is different as well. Unless there is a contractual impact, if a customer is adamant something is a bug when it technically isn't then there is no point arguing. You can treat the request however you want internally.
I don’t get it. Are we now advocating that police is overall more of a force of evil than good? Legitimate question.
And Google Analytics right? The 'free' product.
There's also almost definitely an evolutionary advantage.

Groups are stronger than individuals. Selfish people are undesirable for a group.
How competitive is the manufacturing/design market for TBMs? Given the tight connection to government buyers and cost-plus incentives, is the industry plausibly as sclerotic as the rocket industry was pre-SpaceX? Or are there good physics reasons why TBMs can't be much more efficient than they already are?
If China wants tech sovereignty, I don't see why Europe shouldn't. I don't understand the negative comments here.

The core problem isn't really the innovation, the economics, or europe's ability to compete with american giants, it's rather geopolitics, privacy, GDPR, surveillance, industrial espionage, tax havens.
Camunda and .NET Core – friends or foes?
> Local control and national funding is a completely possible policy choice. There are tons of examples.

I can think of a few examples of national control and national funding, or local control and local funding, but not national funding without national control. What are you thinking of?
Dopamine-Driven Development
Nurses too. But it's a bit more of a nuanced problem. The nursing exam in the U.S. is called the NCLEX. American nursing school grads pass this test at a rate of 90%. International candidates pass at a rate of 36%. Are the international nurses that bad? No, they are not acclimated to the cultural milieu that is unwritten in every question (including English vocabulary of course).
> People fail to understand that nothing is static. One minute you’re in, the other minute you’re out.

This is why Free Speech is so important. Regardless of how inappropriate someone's speech is, or may seem in the present context, they should be allowed to express it as long as they are not directly inciting violence/hate. Not all countries have this Right so let's take a second to appreciate that.
I think a native British English speaker would use maybe in both senses though you'd have to work it out from context. As in. A:'Do you want to go out with me' B:'Maybe...'.
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> framing a face of elfin intensity

Oof. Now there's a phrase that belongs in a Lyttle Lytton entry.
Post in question: https://archive.is/iCVq0

(Sorry to post twice but think this is relevant as a root level comment)
Heart disease kills ~650,000 people per year in the US, and is largely preventable with proper diet and exercise.
The panic shifting thing is real, and for me way too many companies operate in permanent panic. I'm fine with responding to actual crises. But so much "urgent" work is really just managerial failure. Fake deadlines used to "motivate" people. Broken processes that people work around. Executives urgently need to look like they're doing something. Easily solvable problems festering until they become crises. Managers rushing to score points, or to cover up for earlier neglect.

If everything is urgent, nothing is urgent. Even in an early-state startup, where urgency abounds, it's possible to work with a measured pace and clear focus. I've done it! https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/

The fact that larger, more stable companies fail to create order is not because it's impossible. It's because the people with power either don't care or have interests that actually work against getting things done quickly and reliably.
Never saw the poster's user name. I used luddite in general sense. No pun intended
@noddly, what stack are you comfortable working with? Do you have an upwork account?
The Bookshop Around the Corner
This isn't showing off their craft, this is like John Hancock's flourish. You can write well and short.
Blockchain conference held in 3D virtual world brings in 1k paying customers
I remember when I was a kid, before the internet became ubiquitous, sometimes I would decide to re-read a book I already read from scratch.

Nowadays I can't even finish a book.

I'm not sure how relate-able that experience is because I was an only child and I was alone a lot. I'm sure most people (aka people with siblings) never get bored enough to re-read a book from scratch.

I guess I would say the good thing about the internet is that there's now a never ending stream of things to learn. The bad thing is that now I have lack of focus.
Propaganda: Communication that is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented. [2] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies, religious organizations, the media, and individuals can also produce propaganda.

Facebook would look quite interesting if they uniformly censored all governments, activist groups, companies, religious organizations, the media, and individuals attempting to influence an audience and further an agenda.

The only place on the internet that I know has a policy like that is Wikipedia itself, and far from everyone agree that they are effective in enforcing that policy.
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I learned so much in these courses that cover OOD, design patterns, and architecture in a real world and practical way. I found it one of the best taught courses I've taken.
A few years ago I would've thought thought that was an overreaction (assuming police were just using it as customers, and not something like surveillance). This week, I no longer feel that way.
No.

Today's world is vastly more complex than it was in our ancestral environment, and that makes assessing truth very hard. It's not possible for anyone to directly access all primary sources, so we have no choice but to set up some kind of division of labor in the assessment of truth. Scientific peer review is one example of such a division of labor. We trust peer reviewed publications not because peer review is flawless, but because we have to do something to triage the myriad firehoses of information that exist in today's world, and peer review is the best we've been able to come up with so far.

Handing over the arbitration of truth to unaccountable private corporations is, like peer review, far from optimal. But we have to do something or those who are out to deliberately deceive to advance their political agendas will win. It is always easier to destroy than to create, and it is easier to promulgate a well-crafted lie than the truth. Those are the facts on the ground that we as a society have to grapple with. It's a hard problem and none of the solutions that have been proposed are optimal. But that's no excuse not to try to do something. If we don't, society will descend into chaos and authoritarianism. Fact checking by social media platforms is far from optimal, but it's a hell of a lot more likely to advance democracy than survival of the fittest con man.