skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Utilitarianism as the moral mechanism of social policy

Is this a quotation? A phrase from a particular work? Could you share the context?

I do not accept that utilitarianism is "the" moral mechanism of social policy. Yes, many economists use utility maximization in their analyses, but there is a diversity of thought around many things, such as (but not limited to):

(a) what should utility include;

(b) the functional form of utility (the sum/average? the minimum? something else?); and

(c) to what extent reductionist theories of happiness/contentment/whatever are useful tools given that humans exist interdependently, with biological, tribal, social, and intellectual connections.

There is a whole field of thought that digs into these variations.
Sorry that the commit message wasn't clearer.

Letting "foo" denote "wuffs_base__note__i_o_redirect", it wasn't really that "foo was unused", it was that "foo was unused, after the previous (artificial) commit renamed all-but-one of the foo references to another existing string constant". That previous commit set it up so that this commit, which exhibits the performance difference, has a trivially small diff. But the two commits combined to remove a "foo" that was actually in use, so the combination was rolled back.

The previous commit is https://github.com/google/wuffs/commit/844fc9b5eeef46edab49c...
Apart from Clojure, lisps generally do not support destructuring pattern matching on an object/dict.
Not for Hongkonger though. Browser work but that is not the point. Is it just USA?
Speaking from your vast experience as a POC, I'm sure. I guess you'd be ok if I spoke for white people?
It's a spreadsheet and for when you need more (aka have to write some code), there are conditions, functions etc... https://honeycodecommunity.aws/t/honeycode-functions/90
Charter seeks FCC OK to impose data caps and charge fees to video services
> an inequality of outcome, on the basis of race or sex is the best indicator one would have of an inequality of opportunity.

It's good if you use it as an indicator, but it's currently used as "evidence" and as a justification to give certain advantages to certain groups under the (almost always unproven) assumption that there's inequality of opportunity. For example: quota laws, and affirmative action in general. Quota laws and affirmative action that are notably pushed by progressive mob that I talk about, so I don't see the mischaracterization.
Yes, it must be because "their ego is freaking out". Lol....

This is the "they're scared of us" trope.
It's the same reason we have a black history month in the US but not a white history month, or the same reason we have gay pride month but not straight pride month.

It's because every month is a white history month, and every month is a straight pride month.

A white child in the US is very unlikely to get the impression that their race might make it hard or impossible for them to become an engineer, so there is no need or benefit to specifically pointing out to your child that some great engineer is white.

Not so for a black child. There is a very real possibility that their being black will make it harder for them to become an engineer. Being show other people who faced the same hardships and overcame them can help keep them from getting discouraged.
> The NASA HQ was named after somebody to celebrate traits they didn't earn or choose

to celebrate them for their achievements made while fighting uphill and exponentially harder than their white counterparts in a society rigged against them in uncountable avenues
Right, I recognize that thermodynamic entropy can be indifferent to human-scoped definitions of order and chaos.

But if we take shoes (or number of values in a type, or number of components in a design) to be the atomic unit of measurement, then I think the concept works.
Intrapreneurship? It’s a Trap
Bobs’s

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/12/possessive.html
We're talking about this because the Apple OS privacy/permissions model shed light on this issue.

That seems like an obvious advantage to me.
American companies don't get to tell European democratic governments what privacy standards are appropriate.
the reason "politics" are so derided on this website is because these guys can't stop themselves from impulsively showing their true colors (and exposing the very endemic racism at hand in the process!) at the drop of a hat
The best feature that improved my use of Facebook is the "snooze" button.

Whenever someone posts something annoying, like a string of recycled memes or bad political arguments, I hit that snooze button and they disappear from my feed for 30 days.

In 30 days they've usually calmed down.
Do you think it would have been cheaper in the long term, e.g. 10-20 years, for them to install & run the HVAC continuously? Was the redesign terribly difficult & expensive?
"What’s your use case here? Want to make sure I’m clear on it."

There are a lot of ways I would use this, but the basic use-case is as follows ... my primary phone number lives at Twilio and I receive SMS with this simple twiml:

<Response>
<Message to='+14155551212'>{{From}}: {{Body}}</Message>
</Response>

... and I would simply like to do this:

<Response>
<Message to='+14155551212'>{{From}}: {{Body}}</Message>
<Message to='me@mydomain.com'>Subject: Incoming SMS {{Body}}</Message>
</Response>

... whatever ... you get the idea. I just want an email verb that I can plug into twiml and use in programmable messaging.

The immediate issues that comes to mind is spam and unwanted messages, etc., but that's easy to solve - just have a simple challenge/response proof that you own whatever email address you are sending to and only allow people to send to email addresses they own. I am, after all, just emailing myself.

cc'ing SMS, in programmable messaging, is currently very very difficult and time consuming. You either need to host code at some third party site[1] or you need to sign up for a sendgrid account (again, third party, additional account, etc.) and write functions to pass onto the sendgrid account ... but you can't actually fire off emails from sendgrid unless you authenticate with actual real names and physical addresses ...

I just want to cc: myself from within twiml. Christ.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44768719/can-i-forward-s...
I have the 53 stylus but it isn’t supported anymore that I know of, is Kleppmann still using it as a pointy stick or is there some way to get the old functionality back?
How did Slack grow so quickly: a thread. And how other apps can follow
> This will become just another tool for the government to create artificial difficulties and sell solutions to its closest "friends".

What are those difficulties you are expecting?

It's absurd that most of the world is hostage of a few credit card operators to do any kind of business. Nearly all the problems one has to receive payment today are caused by those.
Regardless, in the modern era, I don't see how any of the free products that FB has released have been bad for society, for the mere reason of them being free.

I hope more companies release free products. As many as possible.

Basically all internet products are free, in the modern era. This is not some crazy, extreme thing. Because it is what literally almost every internet products does.
Absurd. Just put a mask on for goodness' sake.
Why Racists (and Liberals) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’
>> "Actually no not really. Plants only absorb two wavelengths of light. It's currently more efficient to convert sun into solar power via panels and then to light LEDs supplying only the wavelengths that plants use. Despite the seeming inefficiency here, the fact is that plants are even more inefficient at absorbing light not at the right wavelengths than solar panels."

> Could one imagine a material that would absorb solar spectrum and emit the preferred frequencies? Something like a polymer one could stretch over fields to get more from the suns rays.

Would you call that a "solar transmitter"?

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

> Generators of radio waves for heating or industrial purposes, such as microwave ovens or diathermy equipment, are not usually called transmitters, even though they often have similar circuits.

Would "absorption spectroscopy" specialists have insight into whether this is possible without solar cells, energy storage, and UV LEDs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_spectroscopy

(edit) The thermal energy from sunlight (from the FREE radiation from the nuclear reaction at the center of our solar system) is also useful to and necessary for plants. There's probably a passive heat pipe / solar panel cooling solution that could harvest such heat for colder seasons and climates.

Also, UV-C is useful for sanitizing (UVGI) but not really for plant growth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irradia... :

> UVGI can be coupled with a filtration system to sanitize air and water.

Is that necessary or desirable for plants?

https://www.lumigrow.com/learning-center/blogs/the-definitiv... :

> The light that plants predominately use for photosynthesis ranges from 400–700 nm. This range is referred to as Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) and includes red, blue and green wavebands. Photomorphogenesis occurs in a wider range from approximately 260–780 nm and includes UV and far-red radiation.

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

PAR: Photosynthetically active radiation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetically_active_radi...

Grow light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_light

Are there bioluminescent e.g. algae which emit PAR and/or UV? Algae can feed off of waste industrial gases.

Bioluminescence > Light production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence#Light_producti...

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

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

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

Quantum dot display / "QLED":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot_display

Could be possible? Analyzing the inputs and outputs is useful in natural systems, as well.
They aren’t toxic or poisonous, but psilocybin does have a nauseating effect on many people. The cell walls of the mushrooms can be hard for some to digest as well, which is why many people make a tea or tinctures. You’d have to consume an absolutely insane dose of them — so much so that the current lethal dose isn’t known — for safety to be a concern at a toxicological level. Emotionally and mentally, different story.

In fact, they are typically considered the safest recreational drug, both in terms of its pharmacology but also in terms of reported ER incidents: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/23/study-halluc...
Yeah because nobody is using Asian datasets.

Asians are less than 5% of the population in the US.
It's not that I get stuck. It's just that, with Lotus Notes:

- authentication was already taken care of

- adding a field at a particular place was one step (rather than updating a model, updating a view and running a database migration)

- I could make small changes in production (ok, maybe that's not so good!!)

- adding events between different Lotus Notes apps on the same server was a snap

- the learning curve to become productive was just a few days

Of course, I'm not saying every type of app fits this model. Or even that every app that fits this model can be strung together with Lotus Notes functions and without using 'proper' code (Lotus Notes had its own variant of Visual Basic).

But for many use cases, you could do a lot in a very short time without very few lines of code.
One can do both, like we do with most diseases.
I have reached the opposite conclusion of the author. By having more exposure to more: teams, people, problems, industries, architectures, business issues, operating environments, etc I believe I am more mentally agile, decisive, confident of probabilistic outcomes than someone who has stayed at the same place for years.

I know how to navigate multiple environments - and in fact get a charge out of it. I can pattern match across a larger range, I can tell what 'good' looks like with more points of view.

I've had to get really good at something in short periods of time, because of those new situations. That creates a mindset of growth and adaptation. I have had lots of opportunity to 'read people' because I've seen those actions, faces, emotions before - and know what numerous people did shortly afterwards. (eg: leave, sulk, sabotage, lead, etc). Yes, I may not be as great a 'subject matter expert' on a single topic - but I'm a great leader because of it.
Perl was my first real language, too, but I haven't used it in years. Others complain about the sigils and referencing rules but I learned them early, when I was young, so I guess I didn't know any better.

I even had a job where we created a featureful website with just perl, DBI, and no framework except a simple module written by a programmer who left the company before I was hired. I look back to that job fondly, because everything seemed much simpler. Only bad thing about it was the paycheck. :)
Hack Her
Instagram is now worth something like 100 billion dollars.

If FB was offering them 1 billion, I am sure that there would have been many investors willing to out some money into it.
I believe the answer is yes: Excel. Even without using macros, it's basically dataflow programming and a built in user interface structure.

People solve problems and build useful tools using Excel, even those who have no realistic expectation of ever learning to write code. In fact it may be the most widespread programming tool.

Are there things it can't do, and problems with scalability and collaborative development? Sure. But BASIC had those problems and nobody says it isn't programming.

I've seen master programmers use Excel, when they wanted to do something with mixed-type tabular data and graphs, that they could share for others to use.

For a lot of people, hacking a spreadsheet together is easier than trying to communicate their needs to a programmer.
Inequality "of outcome" is the best evidence one can have of inequality "of opportunity", and again, it was the primary evidence in the Brown v. Board of Education overturn of Plessy v. Ferguson.

The distinction didn't hold water in 1954, and I don't think it holds water in 2020. Consistent inequality on the basis of sex or race is the principle evidence that there is inequality "of opportunity."
It can also be used for safety/security — i.e. I believe GMail proxies remote images through their own servers.
I am trying, https://www.gatsbyjs.org/
Should have connected the hot side of your ac to the first floor lol.
You know, Jeff Bezos is in the news nowadays for a lot of reasons, and not always ones that look very savory to the world at large. But he is also famous for a couple of conceptual and organizational frameworks at Amazon that I think are applicable to questions this blog post tries to answer:

1) Regret minimization framework - Make decisions based on what will minimize the total regret you have at the end of your life (I find this effective because it's easier for me to accumulate evidence of things I definitely don't like than things I will always like).

2) Prefer mechanisms over good intentions - Hope is not a strategy; a process where every step makes sense which is applied consistently over time will eat hope for lunch any day of the week.

With that said, I think this post is absolute trash. No treatment is given to the reader's individual goals and distastes; no concrete mechanisms and strategies are given over hope and good intentions that ultimately don't fare any better than a coin flip. The author doesn't share their own experiences and how that would inform this post; nor do they give you any context on the expected audience. And yet, for some reason, the author feels qualified to give advice about what is and is not responsible for career success across differing roles, seniorities and industries that very well may have nothing in common. I think this kind of writing is irresponsible.

As one of my mentors told me, skill acquisition can only take you so far. You may reach a certain point in your career where for the purposes of your own growth, you'll have to run your own P/L line. You have to start taking risks, you have to start doing things that can fail. Getting one of these off of the ground is error prone and often ends in complete failure. That's fine. You'll just have to try again. As many times as it takes, depending on how bad you want it. And sometimes, in between, you have to do things more safer and established to set you up for success the next time you want to try to pull something off on your own.

Why doesn't the post talk about this? My guess is because the author of it doesn't really know as much about mentoring as they think. I have worked with and for people who have the same mentality of the author of this post, and I will just say that if you asked their reports, mentors or colleagues what they thought about this person's ability to develop and mentor well, it is not as rosy as that person's self conception.
First, they are Apple and given the opportunity to have one Arm for it all, there is always an attraction to rule them all with one Arm. (Microsoft trying decades.)

It is not a matter if but when.

But I think if Intel is ok, ... still the pic of two bridges to sanfranc is not come out today.
If you went purely by merit / contributions to the space program you'd probably have to name it after a literal Nazi who employed slave labor. If that's not acceptable, then you have to admit that pure merit is not the right criteria, and that there is a political aspect to it as well.
I mean, writing code that is good enough to easily work with is actually pretty hard. I've yet to come into an organization where I am like "damn, that is some pretty good legacy code yall have there." I can't even look at my old code and say that, certainly not my earlier work. Mind you, I'm not even saying great code. Nothing about design patterns, unit tests etc... just good enough to not be complete fucking spaghetti with 3,000 line classes and 500 line long methods that take you down the rabbit hole.

TL;DR I had a tough day on legacy system because learning to write code is easy and learning to write good code is hard. I actually saw this today "SELECT %s FROM %s WHERE %s JOIN %s";
Ah, I see. There are a few banks that can decide to adopt or not a standard. Yeah, taking the choice from the government to those banks will certainly make everything better.
> Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is
still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannising are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such ex- treme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compels all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

I think this quote is equally applicable to what is happening with our new cancel culture.
I did object oriented programming in Perl from 96 to 2010. We used Perl to create scalable and maintainable enterprise applications. Perl was a pleasure to code in. It is unfortunate the whole Perl6 effort ended up killing Perl. Although I have moved on to other languages, I still haven’t found an enjoyable language as Perl.
The defining feature of lisp is that it can support whatever you want, because the AST is available at compile time and is completely regular. If your point is about dicts specifically, then you might be technically correct, but I assure you that the majority of lisp codebases do support exactly the sort of pattern matching in this PEP. And the abuses are frankly egregious. Racket is the worst offender of them all, with syntax matching.
This is a hard problem to fix. The last statistic I read was that 52% of all items sold on Amazon were 3rd party sellers. Imagine even if 1% of the items by 3rd sellers were counterfeit, that's still millions of items.

I don't envy Amazon's position right now. They should have thought about this issue before opening 3rd party sellers but now they're dealing with the consequence in a huge scale
Not the point of the article at all, but in my experience when an author says "canonical map" it can typically be made precise as a unique natural transformation between whatever functors capture the objects of discussion. I think this is part of what MacLane meant by Category Theory being invented to talk about natural transformations.
https://www.framer.com/ is a UI tool that uses React under the hood, maybe try this?
This is a great way to frame the issue. I like to think of it like this passage from Julius Caesar:

> DECIUS BRUTUS:
Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,
Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.

> CAESAR:
The cause is in my will: I will not come;
That is enough to satisfy the senate.
Powerapps I think still charges per user login, That is where I think Honeycomb wins, I expect Powerapps, and google appsheet to drop charges soon.
For the "Why don't these line up?" pieces, it looks like the new layout was designed for window width of about 1350 pixels.

When the browser window is that wide (for FF anyway), the whole layout seems to line up well.

When the layout is wider than that (eg full window width), there is unbalanced white space all around.
The US faces an interesting philosophical dissonance. We are being pushed to allow individual autonomy to the point that individuals get to define reality for others. At the same time if the others don't accept the reality pushed on them, they are called bigots and Nazis. For example, a man can wake up one day saying to himself, "Damn, I feel like a woman". If I don't accept that he is, if only for a fleeting moment, a woman, than I'm labeled a bigot. If I wake up and say, "A man can never be a woman" based on science, my reality cannot be forced on anyone, for again, doing such would make those affected by me oppressed.

This extends to social associations. Blacks are called to throw off the oppressive colonizer by burning their own neighborhoods, but if they dare step off the Democrats' plantation, they are no longer black. The Black community ostracize them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTcViL8Udo0