skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They would have gone on as before no matter what, so this objection doesn't carry any charge. The old always continues alongside the new, individual practitioners almost never change their minds, and institutions have inertia. (I'm not saying that "serious science" is the "old" while postmodernism is the "new"—I'm just saying that if it were, someone would still be making this objection.) Reductionist putdowns don't add anything; they're just a way of saying that you think X is good and Y is bad. If you wanted to look for interesting examples of the postmodernists' influence, the social sciences would be a better place. One can hear echoes of their critiques in, for example, the reproducibility crisis.

If your point is that postmodernism was dominated by fashion and cant, sure. That was clear decades ago. But it doesn't follow that there was nothing there, and one ought not to throw the baby out with the bullshit. People often dislike something not because of what it got wrong, but because of what it got right.
Does this assume policy makers and those voting on said policy are "good actors" acting in the interest of the many?

I'm not sure that is the situation we are dealing with at the moment.
Even if you are willing to talk to a contact tracer, what good will it do? The vast majority of a protester's contacts would be from the protest. Under the best of circumstances, that is a black hole for contact tracing.
Things are changing and more and more countries around the world are requiring fingerprints at least at airports. For example, Peru and Senegal both required me to give my fingerprints when flying into their main airports.
In the very first edition that was the case only with the 40kWh version.

The 60kWh one was fairly popular and battery prices were much greater back then, so a physically different battery was justified.

Only later did the 60kWh version shrink enough in sales for Tesla to apply this trick to it.
Which part? The sanctions part or the hegemon part? Here is a list of US sanctions:

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

I love this part specifically: "Reasons cited for sanctions includes Venezuela's poor human rights record", pretty much for all of them.

And then let's look at US's involvements in Latin America:

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

Funnily enough, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, only to sanction them when they are not willing to be US's pawns anymore.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...
Rayground: Ray Tracing Playground on the Web
Ah yes that's true, I always seem to group .io in with the new crowd of TLDs in the sense that it became trendy "recently"; and I only mentioned .io domains since GitBook uses one, "gitbook.io".
There's a big difference between making 95k and making 350k total comp as a senior dev at FAANG.
I completely disagree with this premise.

The internet helped to consolidate print and broadcast media into the very single channel you discuss here. Furthermore, the internet, and more specifically the internet’s advertising model, created perverse incentives to encourage media companies to engage with content that users were more likely to click on. Prior to this model existing, media outlets didn’t have fine-grained metrics on what kinds of content sold and what didn’t, and not having to worry about this allowed them to more freely cover broader aspects of the news.

Now, everything is driven by the click and the online ad model. This is further compounded, yet again by the internet, that subscription revenue fell off a cliff and never recovered as people relied more and more on the internet for free news. A major pillar of media income evaporated a people stopped paying for news, which further drove media outlets to rely even more on the perverse advertising model I described above.

The flaws of the mass media and the internet cannot be separated because their function and purpose overlap in fundamental ways.
None.

I have been out of work for two months after my new employer decided to delay my start date indefinitely due to the pandemic. I've been searching for other jobs in the mean time. I wouldn't bother looking if I could swing it financially long term.

I work to live. Not the other way around. I'm capable of finding useful activities to fill my time. The time off has been great and I don't look forward to returning to the grind.

I have worked for nine different companies in four different industries since I started working at 17. In every case work has robbed me of my time and mental health. If I had the option I would not choose to work.
What is notable about Hickey besides being the creator of Clojure? Not to say that this alone doesn't make him notable, but I also don't really see the gain in an entry that is just a glorified redirect.
Graduate school isn't too far from #3.
I'd rather look at such issues by data, rather than emotional responses to singular incidents. I'm not even saying that the police has no issues. But it certainly can't be inferred from that one incident, or even from, say, a dozen incidents over a couple of years. That's nothing compared to the millions of police interactions with the public every year.

I think incidents like this murder or what it was, should be treated like a bug in the system, and protocols should be adjusted to prevent such accidents. If it was a murder, I would still call it an accident in terms of the system, but the accident then was hiring a murderer, which surely isn't deliberate by the system.

I've read (but can't confirm) that kneeling on suspects to constrain them is outlawed in many places in the US already, but wasn't yet in Minnesota. So maybe some places have learned that it is a risky approach, and others haven't.

From afar US police looks scary and brutal. On the other hand, the criminals they encounter may also be more brutal and dangerous than in other countries. So I'd first like to hear some of their side before making a judgement.

Other problems are not so easy to solve, like lack of consequences. It sounds easy, but I would guess you can not make the job too risky for police officers. I don't know enough details about policing in the US, but one example that may illustrate what I mean: here in Germany, midwives now have the problem that they can not get insurance anymore, because of huge liabilities should anything go wrong during birth. Unfortunately, nobody can guarantee a safe birth, so many midwives can not continue their jobs.
Not saying police officers shouldn't be liable for anything, just that I can imagine it is not easy to find a good balance.

As for "PoC are at greater risk", I'd like to see the data supporting that thesis. Especially since many police officers are PoC themselves, and apparently they kill more PoC than white police officers. For whatever reason (I imagine they are more often on duty in predominantly black neighborhoods), but it at least challenges the hypothesis that the police is inherently racist.
I remember being at the first Clojure/conj - I had just spent some time learning a bit of Common Lisp and stumbled onto the conference announcement somehow.

This was very fortunate for me - after attending the conj, I was able to use Clojure at work to sneak in some FP on the readily-available JVM platforms. I later used it to do some internal REST-API work. The code for that project has run for years without modification or error.

For whatever reason, I also discovered that thinking functionally with Clojure worked so much better and naturally for me than object-oriented design methods. While I have drifted away from Clojure over the last couple of years, I find that my problem solving mind is much better in other languages because of the time spent thinking functionally with Clojure.
I have an old Canon Powershot ELPH 300 HS, with newer models on that support list. I'll have to try this anyway.
This seems like a good system. You have organised by importance, tagged by the main context of friends/family etc and also added notes to them.

I was looking more closely at the Google's Contacts app I never realised there are labels (tags) and also ability to add custom fields and notes too. Did you ever think of storing all this data (notes) in the contact itself so that if you ever exported all contacts all that data is available right there with you?
I never understood the rationale behind the deletion. Being the primary designer of a popular programming language is relevant enough for me.
llvm has a very thorough test suite and it's main test suite is exactly for this purpose. The error witnessed here by sqlite will be turned into a test case that takes the C code and compiles it and hand checks whether the output was miscompiled or not.

Here's a test from 2007 that tests a similar error in the instruction selector:

https://github.com/llvm-project/llvm/blob/master/test/CodeGe...

Evidently the error that caused this test to be rewritten reordered the `ret` instruction before the `mov $1, $eax` instruction that sets the return value. This tests assures that the bug will never happen again.
hi @amangrw077, this role looks interesting.

This is an MS-Paint app I wrote in pure javascript.
http://adamkulidjian.com/pixel-paint.html
There is also the option of re-opening the economy now with lots of precautions and lose more lives than remaining closed to coronavirus (but fewer to things that are not coronavirus), but also lose fewer lives than opening now without precautions.

Not everything is binary.
There has been a lot of discussion about light pollution from the 1500+ planned Starlink satellites. However much of the discussion is based on the assumption that the world will collectively let Starlink operate as monopoly.

How much will light pollution increase when the next competitor launches 1500+ satellites?

How much will light pollution increase when a Chinese competitor launches yet another 1500+ satellites?
how do we know atoms exist?
Good suggestion! One of the students took a first stab with this PR to build a contributors page to featur students who have contributed features and are looking for a job: https://github.com/garageScript/c0d3-app/pull/227

If anyone has better ideas, please share!
But how does this help black people?
Showcase of the first 64-bit minecraft computer [Command Block]
Resource extraction is extremely productive these days. What required thousands of laborers a century ago can now be done with mere dozens of laborers. Replacing coal/LNG with solar and batteries would be a net job creator (and, in the case of solar, distribute the jobs more evenly across the country).

Robotic farming is an interesting case. First, successful robotic farming for labor-intensive crops would be a huge deal. Think John Deere v2. Tons of great paying jobs. Try telling Moline, IL that tractors kill jobs. Second, most of the jobs offset by a successful product in this space are migrant jobs; farm workers enter the US for the growing season and then go back to (usually) Mexico once the growing season ends. Without those jobs, the migrant farm workers simply wouldn't migrate into the US. So, you'd eliminate jobs globally, and Mexico in particular would suffer, but the overall employment effect would probably shake out net positive in the USA (because most of the displaced laborers aren't permanent residents).

Also, not automating work for the sake of keeping people busy seems... immoral.
In any urban area, they'd be super oversubscribed. I haven't been following Starlink super closely lately, but IIRC each satellite is really only capable of supporting 20 users at the full advertised speed. Even though there's a handful of satellites visible from a given location at a given time, it's not enough to support urban (or perhaps even suburban) areas.
A new factor in an uneasy moment: Unidentified law enforcement officers
The problem is touch feedback happens after the interaction and doesn't really help you find/recognize a control by touch.
0.5 * 1850 kg * ((60 mph)^2) = 665 483.056 joules

Supercaps are 28800 Joules per liter, so you'd be needing nearly 700 liters of them to store the energy of the car decelerating from 60 mph once.

700 liters is a lot of volume in a car where you already use a lot of the available volume for batteries - it's more than the trunk and frunk combined on a Model3.
> Different countries with different experiences and difference cultures will make different decisions. That's ok, that's how it should work. Can't have it any other way in a democracy, right?

Sure, but both South Korea and Taiwan are wealthy liberal democracies. I know this isn’t your intention, but a lot of commentators seem to appeal to some kind of Western exceptionalism, completely refusing the examples of SE Asia democracies as a valid measure of comparison. To me, that seems like insanity, because again, they’re also wealthy liberal democracies and have had the best-in-class responses thus far.
DMV lines were at least as bad, probably worse before the days of digital photography....
The Civil Rights Act was passed after 6 days of protests
That is the ultimate test of trust.
Rayground: An Online Educational Tool for Ray Tracing (Eurographics 2020 educational papers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isLY6yUIMMA
I don't know how Loon [0] (graduated Google X project) can look at this and justify their continued existence.

Low earth orbit satellites with global coverage seem like such a better approach than balloons that you have to handle in the air assuming the following is true:

- Latency difference between the two is negligible

- Satellites are not uniquely affected by weather

- Balloons are not better in some other unknown way?

I wonder if they're seeing this as the existential threat that it is.

What am I missing?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiEZfRh-h-s
https://loon.com/
> epidemiologists

Epidemiologists are not the only experts that have a calculus to perform here as to how many lives will be lost since infectious disease is not the only way by which someone dies. You need a far more holistic picture here.
I have been using it for almost a year now as I use it at work. I like it a lot and am glad I made the switch (I spent the previous 8 years doing C# work). We use both Clojure and ClojureScript
Also, having many different browser windows spread out over 10+ desktops makes it even harder to find the right tab among those 100+

Can make my blood start boiling
Even more interesting would be the news coverage it received.
He's indeed interested in seeing your implementation - how can he reach you without disclosing his private address here?
Are you aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X? It is well on its way to produce sustained plasma discharges of multiple minutes. The stellarator design has some decisive advantages over Tokamaks.
> Regen braking isn't yet good enough for most "stop-start" applications.

Is this something you have numbers on or just seat of the pants math? Most mileage numbers for electric cars are much better in city driving with start/ stop conditions so I'm a bit skeptical about your methods.
Could someone confirm what we’re looking at in that picture please? In that spider web of blue points joined by blue line segments: Those tiny blue points are atoms? The blue line segments are covalent bonds? And what’s the difference between the blue and purple areas?

If those line segments are probability distributions of shared electrons, that means our high school mental model of a covalent bond (drawing a line between two atoms) is not too bad.
Hm. Personally I wonder who those people are, who allegedly insist on relying solely on wind and solar.

TBH, this sounds like a classical straw man to me. Who'd want to actively dismantle existing hydro power, geothermal-, waste-to-energy, biomass power stations, etc.?
Hedge funds braced for second stock market plunge
Dr Fauci needs get on TV like before and compel the protesters to only 10 looters at a time.
They have a strict charter and are not free to go into whatever business they want though. They don't even control the price of stamps.
It's not perfect though as you get ridiculous situations like social housing in modern apartment blocks in the middle of London that no average worker could afford.

Or separate entrances for the social housing flats and regular flats in the same building (regular as in how it was intended to be built, not with extra walls to create extra rooms or with no living rooms at all).

Or with social housing residents being asked to pay separately for communal areas maintenance (because the government doesn't pay for that but you can't really stop people from walking on the grass) that they didn't ask for.
Here's a clip from a generation older than mine:

https://youtu.be/KAIzAlgHF2E?t=57s

It measures regenerated Wh. In my case it was in increments of 30Wh.

How thick is the cable taking the 30KW and putting it in the batter, when the on-board charger on that thing only puts out 3.3KW?

As thick as the one putting 100kW into the motor I guess, so at 300V - not very thick.
Feds Find a Chicken Conspiracy
He also created the Datomic database https://www.datomic.com/
> People in the "everyone" categories you mention can be heard if they want to, the world and Internet are big enough for everyone.

Which was exactly my point. "Facebook" is not "the world and Internet", is it? The question is about whether moderated forums have value to people (they do, you're reading one right now). Demanding that your moderated forum not be moderated affects whether or not people see it as valuable. Facebook wouldn't be Facebook without moderation to make it so. HN wouldn't be HN, Reddit wouldn't be Reddit, etc...

> you think you are the owner of the truth [...] For you free speech is a bad idea

Go. Away. This junk doesn't belong on HN. And I'm gonna bet you get flagged for that by the very moderation we're discussing.
Ha, no way google will give any information/explanation
This is for free?
How did the USSR do it? Was the deal that whoever took on the debt would keep the nukes?
I’m not sure if you refer to temporal or spatial resolution. Increases in temporal resolution have been problematic, as motion previously averaged out (cardiac and breathing) has become more problematic as the TRs have dropped.
Unfortunately IMAP is basically entire ephemeral.

The message IDs are mostly permanent, but the rfc says they can change so clients have to test them as per connection.

This means every time you check your mail with an IMAP client it's syncing some of the headers for every message.
I've used it quite a bit for side projects, but never professionally. I definitely think it's a great general purpose language. However, I don't use it as much anymore because I feel like my primary coding tasks (webapps) are better served by Elixir. As a language I vastly prefer Clojure. But it's hard for me to pass on BEAM and the concurrency model therein.
I'd like to make a fan request: what do you think of this?

https://riskfirst.org/

I read this a few weeks ago and some things there made a lot of sense, but I still can't envision the whole development process with Risk First being a protagonist.
Mask wearing, yes. I’m not sure about the other parts. Unmarried people live with their parents well into adulthood. There are less children, so maybe that’s a factor. But most stores, restaurants, and other venues in Japan would seem cramped and overcapacity by Western standards.
> their history of design flaws and bad software practices

Do you have references to what you're referring to?
I don't believe that Beethoven couldn't imagine harmonies perfectly in his head. Perhaps not orchestral texture and balance though, but probably no one could while completely deaf.

Are you talking about the famous "boogie-woogie" variation in Op. 111? I don't see what could possibly be "glitchy" about that, rather than utterly visionary!
This is like how some people wanted to remove some protections afforded by TLS 1.3 with PFS, so they went to ETSI who ratified eTLS. The ITU has nothing to do with the internet so this is just another publicity stunt. The internet works because everybody agrees on a common set of RFC's. It is nigh on impossible for a single entity to force a change.
The results are also astounding, because what he came back with produced extreme commercial viability, and is excellent in the opinions of others.

Having used Clojure professionally for a couple years now, I feel so blessed. It is really well cut out for a whole host of problems that are common but extremely labour-intensive in conventional languages.

Maybe one of these days I'll get time for my own sabbatical, and solve the two major tasks I see with Clojure: taking the performance from good to excellent; and hosting it in a robust systems language suitable for implementing well-trodden functions.
Having worked in X-ray crystallography on synchrotrons and XFELs, I can't take the single-particle XFEL concept seriously any more. Ten years ago it seemed impressive, but the EM technology has advanced so much faster - and it's a fraction of the cost. There are some neat applications of nanocrystallography, but that too seems like a niche application now, not a magic bullet for accelerating protein structure determination.
What troubles me more is the idea that you think there needs or has to be some sort of hegemony in the first place. I personally know of scenarios that is already far worse in the world today because of this idea of someone having to uphold some sort of hegemony.
Wow who's the racists downvoting me? I'm a minority software developer and you need to check your privilege!
The point isn't that they can be bribed, it's that the photographer has to attach their name to the photo and certify that it hasn't been altered or tampered with. It adds the ability to go after the photographer if they gov't ever discovers tampering has been done.
Meanwhile his employees don't even have adequate healthcare, and can't send afford to educate their children. Seems like a great system we've got here, but I'm glad you're worried about private jets.
We lived for a year in some mountains in Mexico in an off-the-grid cabin. We became accustomed to everything (energy starvation, driving 30 mins to the nearest village, 2 hours to the nearest city, etc) except the lack of connectivity.

I bought one of those huge Wifi antenna to connect to an open Wifi of a rural school a couple of kilometers away. It was empty after 2pm so we had 4Mbps just for ourselves all afternoon and night (if we had a sunny day and our batteries were full). That lasted about 8 months until someone built a barn or something and installed some electricity poles. We weren't able to connect anymore.

After that we drove almost daily to the village and spent a couple of hours in a café with a flaky 2Mbps connection but it became unpractical. We went back to civilization 2 months later or so.

If Starlink would have been available back then maybe we'd still be living in the mountains!
Wouldn't surprise me if Feynman was at least sympathetic to communism, at least to anarchism for sure, on some of the lectures when he talks about his father teaching him about equality and the disdain for prizes and titles.
Cloudflare Registrar had some issues at one point but they had more to do with a broken system that assumed the domain was purchased elsewhere than anything else, if I remember correctly. Their support apparently handled that case very well.
fetchmail is the tool of the trade, and it does not need python.
Decoding Radio Telemetry Heard on News Helicopter Video Footage with GNU Radio
Hacker News Vue – Make Hacker News Easy on the Eyes
That's why we're all watching EVDs right now.
The analogy of maps and boats is just an instance of the exploration-exploitation idea. I have seen instances of this pop up every time we discuss problem solving in some form. It falls in the perennial variety of ideas that can't be revisited enough.
Any public knowledge out there for who builds and supplies the components for Starlink satellites?