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Despite how it sounds, I ask this with zero judgment and pure curiosity.

Why do you care?
I'm interested in fractional calculus.

It all started with an argument I had with my high school math teacher about whether something like a half derivative is a thing. Turns out fractional calculus is a real thing and shows up in many applied areas of math. The Fractional Calculus by Oldham and Spanier I have lying around treats its applications to diffusion problems, for example. As an EE student fractional PID controller design and fractional signal processing are interesting as well.

For a quick peek into that subject I would recommend watching Dr Peyam's videos on half derivatives[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB3OUl5TVSY
Ask HN: Go vs. Ruby/Rails for first time indie dev?
I'd like to start making a social media web project and I'm wondering if I should use Golang or Ruby/Rails on the back-end? I don't have any prior coding experience. I've been reading a lot online about how Object Oriented Programming makes maintaining code difficult in the long term, which makes me think Golang might be a better choice than Ruby. Also, Golang's speed sounds like it would help to keep my server costs low if my site were to get some traffic.

Since I'd be a solo dev on my projects, ecosystem and speed of development are important to me. How does Golang's ecosystem for web dev compare to Ruby on Rails currently? I know that Ruby has lots of gems (devise, etc) to make web dev faster. Does Golang's ecosystem have similar tools at this point?

A few other notes: On the front-end, I think I'd be most interested in using Vue.js from what I've read. I'm not really considering Elixir/Pheonix at the moment, as I don't like the idea of needing to learn both Elixir and Erlang. Thanks!
Is there an accepted threshold for tropospheric NO2 concentrations above which it is considered harmful?
Oh please, Defund the Police drive will only result in hundreds of millions being funneled to politically connected groups whose end purpose will be to support politicians who continue its own funding. Nothing will be fixed.

The Democratic Party sponsored and suggested legislation throws even more money to police forces and does nothing to suggest curtailing the undue influence public employee unions have with the cities and localities they are supposed to serve. If anything the large unions have already walked back any talk that collective bargaining agreements are shielding the police and they have exerted their pressure on politicians at all levels. The reason being is because these public employee unions know if police unions fall then teachers will be next and the party cannot allow that.

So expect nothing more than a few hundred million dollars splashed around and virtue signaling bills offered up, this is a bill which is not expected to pass but if it does in the end does nothing to actually fix the problem.

To fix the police requires locking up their guns to where gaining access to them is under very set rules that cannot be watered down with exceptions. It requires requiring at all times, subject to termination, the full use of cameras any time they work either as police or contracted work in uniform; like directing traffic or protection for private individuals. It requires an outside board govern disciplinary proceedings and not leaving it up to the police force to prosecute their own when they do wrong. It requires keeping records for the lifetime of every officer that follows them where they go.

There is a lot that can be done but just watching the news shows how much is being done to insure not much actually changes but that politicians get their face time needs satisfied.
Yeah. I've always wondered why MS puts the window previews there when the Timeline view and multi-desktop view shows the window contents.
macOS imo does a much better job: Mission Control is for all graphical work. For power users, Alt+tab is apps only, no previews, and then once you're in an app, you can Cmd+` to cycle through each window. Or, set a gesture to 3-finger-swipe down and see all the windows that belong to a specific app.
Agreed on the democratization front!

We saw this OpenAI demo:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/427943452

and were just blown away. Very cool!!

I guess a spreadsheet is never too old [1] to learn new tricks :)

[1] Founder of https://mintdata.com here, so a bit biased (& opinionated about) spreadsheets, take the above with a pound or 10 of salt.

[2] I've sent them this example how we'd invoke their APIs, hopefully they'll let us into the beta, fingers crossed :)
https://mintdata.com/docs/learn/core-mechanics/work-with-dat...
CS degree here, I don't think you're in a bad place at all with Industrial Engineering. There have been quite a few times that I've wished I would have done a dual degree route there to have a better understanding of stochastics and other IE stuff. I know several friends who did IE in school that are doing software development now, didn't seem to hamper them at all.

I think you may do better positioning yourself around data/analytics/etc parts of software engineering to get your foot in the door for a "SWE" job.
> Shouldn't their family left behind be able to enjoy some of the profits for a period of time?

It doesn't take copyright to make a profit off of a work. the Criterion Collection includes Charade, which is out of copyright: https://www.criterion.com/films/603-charade

I'm sure the children of the author can come up with inventive ways of selling the work.
yes, I have. You can paste these into the website of the Allen Institute for AI, yourself here. (https://demo.allennlp.org/reading-comprehension/MjE1MzE1Mg==)

In the example above it guesses wrongly, but again this is not surprising because it can't possibly get the right answer (other than by chance). The solution here cannot be found by correlating syntax, you can only answer the question if you understand the meaning of the sentence. That's what these schemas are constructed for.
Kind of an odd request for an open source wordpress blog theme imo
Does anybody really like those touchpads with separate buttons? I still only really like Apple touchpads.
That sentence alone does not establish that read speech differs from conversational speech, thanks for the information / pointing this out, though.
No, "defund the police" is a slogan proposed by woke, white upper middle class intelligentsia who live in low-crime neighborhoods, and are under a false impression that crime is low everywhere and police is "not needed". They do still expect that when they call 911, someone will show up in a few minutes. You can see it play out comically on the street too: anti-defunders attack the defunders and defunders say "call the police", which just seconds ago they wanted to "defund".

The moment Seattle organizes an "autonomous zone", they appoint a violent warlord with a Kalashnikov and proceed to shake down local businesses for funding. If you don't need the police, why the warlord? If you don't need capitalism, why the shakedowns and requests for, I quote, "soy products"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CapHillAutonomousZone/comments/h0lo...
They look similar at a glance (border-top + Calluna font), so he might have taken inspiration from yours, but doesn't seem to have used any of your assets - the styles are clearly different and based on the WP 'BlankSlate' theme.

(my personal blog had a top border like that a decade ago, when styles on the body were a novelty :))
> Am I just getting too suspicious?

Yes, I think so. What's the conspiracy supposed to be here?
"Celebrate", "worth", etc, I'm probably not conveying the right meaning. English is not my first language, but even if it was, it's hard to put this into written words.

I think considering Fountain snobbish is my right. I don't think something that fosters discussion is valuable for that alone. Not in all cases anyway. I don't consider all art valuable (not in the sense of money, in case I'm unclear). I rebel against the notion I must acknowledge all forms of art as valuable. I don't and I won't. I've no wish to impose my will on others, of course.

I understand art doesn't mean beauty and beauty doesn't mean art. I'm not artistically naive; in fact I consider myself artistic in the sense I can both create and appreciate art.

After all these words, I still consider Fountain "something that happened and that people acknowledge and discuss", but not good art (good in the sense "it has artistic merit", not in the sense of pretty). That's not good enough for me.
FB has 2a00::/12 (and probably other blocks?) and can make something that looks like its company name from [0-9a-f]. Why wouldn't it do something harmless and fun like this? It's not as if it requires special dispensation or is breaking any rules.
Cash is great yes. But it's not always possible to pay in person, and it can be less private to make transactions in person too.
It leverages PureScript's CoreFn IR.
Not just “file a bug report” but also compile a time series graph (lol) and then pray that Facebook triages it correctly, which they have no incentive to do.
When your language has to include a built-in swapper to manage the memory you know you are suffering from the second system effect.

I disagree.

Today, this functionality is so widely needed that it is built into every operating system. Therefore applications that rebuild it either have a specialized need or are over-engineered.

But back then, operating systems did not have that functionality. And it was pretty easy to hit the limits of RAM. So it then becomes reasonable to build the feature.
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At the risk of tooting my own horn, I've got one more for ya: https://otpcl.github.io
> writing exercise causes "obedience" in any way

100% agree with you. But you are contradicting a point I never made. So... good job taking down your own strawman argument. It ironically really drives home the rest of your post.
The judge issued a warrant that was requested by the police. Likely by the officers involved (though I don't know if that's been reported). I mean yes: you're right, our judiciary should be serving as a better backstop on public safety concerns than they are. And that's a problem.

But the court signed off on the warrant that law enforcement wanted. As I see it it's still the police holding the bag here.
Actually, to be pedantic, citizens of the United States are indeed citizens of the state in which they reside, according to the 14th Amendment:

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
I don't think you're the kind of user I had in mind; I was thinking more of non-technical people who know their way around their phone and enough Windows to use Excel and Word on Windows on their work PC that IT admins and locks down completely. Like, people who take those training sessions for switching the new Microsoft Office version and profit from them, or maybe they don't need those, but have zero experience at admin tasks. I guess those would make up a very large part of Apple customers.

On a new Catalina install, you'd have a hard time to not find crucial apps easily, like Safari, Mail, Calendar, something to write a letter in ... because they are in the Dock already, or prominently in LaunchPad, which works just like the home screen on a phone, and is in the Dock in the leftmost position – and the OS has an onboarding flow that pops up right away and that'll take care of explaining those things. So, if you, as someone with little expertise in IT, open that new Macbook Air, chances are you'll find your way around quite well with the tools you have. The weird @ placement will keep being an annoyance though. Chances are you know how to use the Preferences app on your phone, and you'll probably be able to figure out the System Preferences app in LaunchPad with that knowledge, and it can do everything important. Pretty big deal!

If you need a terminal, you're way way way ahead those people in terms of computer literacy and certainly wouldn't have any serious problems navigating any sensible operating system there is, just some annoyance if it doesn't work like (I assume) the Linux setup you've spent a lot of time dialing in perfectly. Most people wouldn't know that their animations aren't ideal for them the same way I couldn't tell if a certain dentist's drill had somewhat less than ideal ergonomics for a cavity in a specific place. And besides (n=1) I've been using Macs all day for way over a decade and I never found any issues with the animations; maybe I'm part of the majority and that's why people aren't very vocal about the OS animations.

If I extrapolate from my experiences (which are numerous pieces of anecdata, but of course still anecdata), there is a significant number of people who use Macs because they want something stylish and pretty that is easy to use for "casual" computing needs and is fairly frustration-free. If something is wrong, you dig through preferences some and there'll be a radio button to change that. If that projector is at native 4K, you open System Preferences, Displays, click on the icon that has the largest font – that'll do it. And it's built with the knowledge that most users will not be able to do much more than that – so having to resort to a shell and fixing up config files based on a forum post from 2012 isn't going to happen – they'll turn up at the Genius Bar and will be disgruntled customers if the people there can't help.

So, if Linux is to be the new Mac, it'll need to offer that kind of experience as well. Currently, in my experience, it doesn't offer this at all.
> Killing people is really no different anywhere in the world.

Legally speaking it most certainly is, otherwise cops, soldiers, or criminals killing would be treated the same way. Morally... perhaps it's a grey area but one thing I'm sure you agree with is that there is a massive difference between a military conflict between armed parties, and a conflict between police and anything from unarmed bystanders to criminals. There's a common sense principle of proportionality that hasn't been observed in too long.

Jack the Ripper wasn't a surgeon because "cutting is really no different anywhere in the world".
And that's not necessarily a bad thing
Sorry, I was mostly joking. I definitely do believe Facebook could be responsible for this.
Thanks, removed. Probably a few broken links on there by now.
I was interested in working in the tidal space at the time and this was the best book to start with.

I was also reading an amazing set of papers on horizontal axis marine current turbines by Batten and Bahaj [1]. That was in 2009 so not sure what progress the field has made, but they kinda blew my mind at the time.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Hydrodynamics-of-marin...
A policy that police do so when it is reasonably foreseeable that they could be reasonably mistaken for violent trespassers would have very limited opportunity for deliberate exploitation by criminals, and would also provide a strong incentive for even bad police to avoid the occurrence of such situations on the first place, whereas the status quo encourages violence-minded cops to engineer such situations when they can also engineer a lopsided force advantage over anyone likely to be present.
Also buy a (half) decent mic! They're much cheaper than you might expect.
Steal as Much as You Can: was this book a satire?
Well I respect the question of GP if nothing then for principle. People should get their shit together and start respecting the license. The state today is horrendous and the culture is evolving into less and less respect of the license. If people don't follow them personally they wont care to follow them professionally either
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Please read https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm.... My understanding is that if you do not enforce your copyright (or copyleft in this case) you can lose the copyright.
Sure man no problem. The code for my theme is here BTW with credits To your original blog

https://github.com/napolux/coding.napolux.com/
Most of my junk mail does not have stamps because the spammers drop it off in pallets at the post office and just have it delivered to everyone.

The USPS is like a reverse garbage service.
It appears to be a serif font and a border top. That's all it is? Am I missing something.
Cause it’s his special.
Who said anything about a lack of prior testing? I hadn't used it with such a business-critical client before, but that's not the same as saying I hadn't used it before.

It's also not the same thing as saying I am, or then was, a fool. But your own uncharitable and erroneous assumptions are your concern, not mine, for all that they and others like them have long since ceased to surprise me in the context of criticizing a beloved FSF flagship product.
It's worth a mention that there is a next level of challenge for backfilling and correcting historical data - that's when a bitemporal data model is a good idea. In other words, keeping track of the "valid time" (or "application time") of when a fact became true, separately from the "transaction time" (or "system time") of when the fact was ingested into the database.

> you don’t need any special tools

Absolutely agreed. I happen to work on https://opencrux.com which is designed from the ground up for handling bitemporal data, but I was chatting to someone a couple of days ago who built a really neat approximation of Crux purely on Postgres, using JSON columns and 3 simple tables: Transaction_Log table + All_Documents table + Current_Documents table. A small handful of triggers were used to automate the timestamping and the population of the Current Documents table, but it was super simple stuff.

Naturally there is a big difference in scale and performance compared to something like Crux (where you can join within historical timeslices _efficiently_), but I was impressed by how flexible JSON indexing in Postgres made the approach viable with such little upfront effort.

It's probably fair to say that the majority of queries in typical applications won't ever care about prior history, but I think always having history available for native querying without having to import anything from archives or logs is fundamentally liberating.
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I dont think the parent comment's bullshit jobs are the same as your definition of nice-to-have jobs, at least assuming parent is talking about David Graeber's use of the term.

Bullshit jobs are ones that could disappear and the impact would unnoticeable or minimal for an organisation's output. Nice-to-have (for society?) professions still have value, otherwise they wouldn't be nice - if all the musicians disappeared people would definitely notice.

I'd also contest the idea that cultural labour is unnecessary. Lots of people in lockdown have depended on all kinds of music, TV, film, etc to maintain their mental health. This seems to go beyond preference, even if not everyone needs the same or as much cultural produce to survive healthily.
Even if it is... who enforces it? Who checks it? What does that guarantee worth? Who cares really about papers getting numbers changed...

90% of them are absolute crap and only max. 10% of the remaining 10% replicates just based on the text of the paper alone.
Discussion when he left: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393018
I took inspiration but I didn’t know he was sharing the code for is blog

https://github.com/napolux/coding.napolux.com/
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This is very confusing. I believe you've entirely misread the bit of my post you quoted here and taken it to be about your mentioning Chomsky. Particularly at issue is to whom "their" refers.

I took your accusing me of caricaturing you (where?) based on your quoting Chomsky to mean you thought I thought you were a leftist (phew). I'm still not sure what else that accusation could be taken to mean.

As for the matter at hand, you seem to think (wrote that) the position the students were asked to defend qualifies as indefensible and defending it represents "iron manning" (I know it as steel-manning but that probably just means we read different things) and that the value it has is (roughly) comparable to any other exercise in iron-manning.

It's not at all clear to me that this is the case and I'm pretty sure the value of the exercise is, in a sense, well past that issue. I think its use in an evaluation is precisely in the layers it presents—a student who gets hung up on steel-manning the position, especially if they've mis-read the prompt as stating things about the prime minister, government, and situation which it does not and so has read them as harder to defend per se than they actually are, hasn't even noticed the difficult part of the prompt, nor what actually might be indefensible about it, which is the political position the prime minister is in—and defending that well would be very unlike steel-manning an argument one disagrees with.

It is a good exercise, but it is not a steel-manning exercise.

> But please, again, don't let facts and reality get in the way of the narrative you are creating with your powers of assumption and strawmanning. I'm probably just unable to grasp your position since according to you I'm ignorant.

But... well, heh. Ignorance is one of those words that's very risky to use narrowly or precisely, that's for sure. I almost avoided it for that reason. Assumptions can lead to mistakes, it's true.
What happened to that DIY Mini-ITX laptop project?
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In the past economic and political leaders were drawn from the nation as a whole? What period of time are you talking about?
My desk phone at an old job used to get dialed by a fax machine. Not fun picking that up. I redirected it to a virtual fax line and it turns out it was a local clinic faxing medical records. I faxed them back with some message about you have the wrong number but they never stopped.
This is great and I'd be happy to add it to my list of High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds[1], where I catalog sites like these, but where are the images coming from? There seems to be no information.

For example for the American artist Charles Courtney Curran, Artvee has three: https://artvee.com/artist/charles-courtney-curran/

This is more than NY Public Library with only one:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C...

And the Art institute of Chicago, with also only one: https://www.artic.edu/artists/5703/charles-courtney-curran

(note there are no duplicates among these galleries!)

And the National Gallery, with zero: https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=Cha...

And the Smithsonian, which has none of the above but does have his photomechanical prints: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=charles%2Bcourtney%2Bcurran...

Wikipedia, by the way, has several not seen in any of the above. So I'd like to know where you are sourcing these.

[1] https://simonsarris.com/art-collections
I appreciate your reply, but Django never “removed tracebacks” and I would love to see a declarative form that didn’t use metaclasses in some way.

Here’s the ~20 lines of cowboy code you’re referring to[1] - collecting the declared fields and setting an attribute containing them.

Not exactly the kind of thing that should make you mad, and rather than overkill it’s exactly the use case for metaclasses.

And to top it off, that metaclass is completely optional, if you want to create a list of fields and pass it into BaseForm then go for it. Most don’t.

1. https://github.com/django/django/blob/5776a1660e54a951591644...
A well made crawler that would support 429 codes isn't likely to have this problem in the first place.