skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the general feeling is that there are some code patterns that are safe and easy to do with dynamic typing, but impossible with simple type systems or more complex with more advanced type system.

An example would be Common Lisp's `map` function [0] (it takes a number of sequences and a function that has as many parameters as there are sequences). It would be hard to come up with a type for this in Java, and it would be a pretty complicated type in Haskell.

Another example of many people's experience with static typing is the Go style of language, where you can't write any code that works for both a list of strings and a list of numbers. This is no longer common, but it used to be very common ~10-15 years ago and many may have not looked back.

[0] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_map....
i also like crashing into a mountain:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terra...

and in space flight: "off nominal"
I haven't used Clojure before but I have worked mostly with Elixir another niche functional language. In my experience because of the limited talent pool, most companies tend to prefer experienced candidates and if they are to take you on as a junior, you probably have to be significantly experienced in another mainstream language. It's very hard for someone to take a punt on a junior Elixir or Clojure developer who has little or no experience in any other language. Generally, niche languages are not a great bet if you are just starting out. You can of-course build the experience by working on side projects, blogging or speaking at conferences. In short its a labour of love. If you learn Clojure or in my case Elixir for the explicit reason of getting a job you might become very frustrated and disappointed. This is my experience.
Did I understand this correctly - if you are homeless in US you are automatically ineligible for disability benefits from state?
In comparison with what?
Every international corruptuon survey pegs most EU natuons as some of the least corrupt in the world.
I get the impression that my comment came across as an insult. If so, that was not my intent.
According to former deputy managing director of IMF.
If you didn't understand that a degree from NC State came with less cachet than one from Duke when you signed up, I feel that's largely on you.

If you're worried the rankings which place Duke above your school are incorrect and you believe your CS program was as rigorous and useful as what the Duke students have, I can understand being frustrated by that. File under "life isn't fair."

I don't think anyone is going to defend the company in the story, for all the obvious reasons.
It would be a shame if the Galileo or the Susan B. Anthony of today were silenced due to downvotes
I keep reading that people are being “arrested”, held for a couple hours, then released without charges. Where is any kind of justice in that?
Visa are advancing their approach to digital currency
No fucking shit

99% of mainstream ARE GLOBAL LEFT POLITICAL ACTIVISTS/POLITICAL ARM for the state, remaining 1% is controlled zio "right wing"
At the bottom of the page it credits the MaxMind GeoLite database. The GeoLite2 database is licensed as CC BY-SA 4.0. It's the GeoIP2 database that has stricter licensing.

https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
Anecdata: I had a roommate/good friend with a substance abuse problem, specifically escapism via MDMA and alcohol and sometimes LSD. MDMA use at least once a week, sometimes up to 2-3 times a week, depending on how long their party lasted. Blackout level alcohol use ~5 times a week. LSD use biweekly or monthly. They knew their lifestyle was hurting our relationship and could only come to terms with that while rolling, but when sober was unable to come to terms with their problems. It was impossible to take their gushing of emotions and how much they loved and how much they missed their relationship with me and asking if what they were doing was OK with me etc while under the influence. It felt fake, because their sober experience didn't reflect their gushing of emotions. I'm sure the extreme use had something to do with this, but I really have a hard time finding MDMA valuable, for fear that I'll get vulnerable say something that I can't back up in my sober living.

It's so hurtful to hear strong emotions that don't last.
Last time I worked on TPUs, a lot of very pervasive LA operations (e.g. Cholesky decomposition) were unoptimized and slow compared to the NN-style operations. I’m sure that can be fixed, but for the time being, it seems inappropriate for anything beyond the obvious NN operations.
As I understand it (and maybe I'm wrong) his objection was that the law would compel his speech (in particular to call a transwoman a woman). Is that claim false? Is there any existing similar compelled speech under the existing legislation? If not then that seems to explain why he hadn't previously criticized the legislation.
I'll admit it does sound like a very abstract statement.

When I think of technology it's not a singular device/product/creation. It's wider in scope, kinda like a whole field. This is probably because like you pointed out you can find one thing that is just good, like a shovel. But a shovel is a mechanical tool and in the broader scheme of things.

An example I can think of is ABS, anti-lock break system. It prevents car wheels from locking under breaking and skidding, giving the driver more control while breaking. How could this be bad? ABS is a fix to a problem that was created by another technology, the car. The car dictated a lot of society as we know it today. Roads had to be built, rules of travel put in place, you could now live far from work. These might sound good to us now, but in reality they are trade-offs.
I mean I think there's an argument to be made that discourse has become more rigid (although I do think it's overblown), but like I don't understand how you can write this:

> Also from an ex soviet state. Also feel alarm bells going off. I'm legitimately scared. I've seen this before, I know where it goes.

And not be talking about a massive police crackdown on protest and the army being brought in to police civilians. Like your alarm bells are dead silent for all of that, but some celebrity has to apologise for not saying "latinx" or whatever and suddenly you're all "ah yes, just like in the Soviet Union"?!
Check out https://enviro.work! I'm the founder and created the site because I felt similarly to you. Aligning personal values and your career is a great feeling
Name one platform that has Global left activists that doesnt turn out

Anti Truth
Anti Facts
Anti White
Anti freedom
Fear of something great showing up and then falling off the front page before you get a chance to see it
Nature and animal conservation is a political issue. The best use of your skills would be to aid in the lobbying efforts for tighter regulations and more money for developing countries.

You might save a tiger, but in the year it took you to save him, Brazil cut down 8 million hectares of the rain forest for palm oil.
Greta Thunberg wins 1M euro prize; she will donate it to environmental groups
I don't think I've seen a reasonably modern building around here (Vancouver, Canada) over 2 floors without an elevator. I expect we have accessibility rules that require them for anything other than individual private residences.
Thank you! Examples are definitely coming soon-ish. Some other people have brought that up as well.
Honestly, it's all too easy to read PG's "social" and "individual" as code words for "socially-planned markets" and "unregulated free markets", making his left-right axis actually the left-right axis of the political compass. And from there, it's easy enough to start unmasking the entire essay as a thinly-veiled apology for why neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and other upper-right ideologies on the standard political compass are, in fact, the Good Ideologies that are Better than everybody else's.

Edit: Let's complete the analogy. In my framing, PG is calling lower-lefties "sheep", upper-lefties "tattletales", and lower-righties "dreamers". This clearly places PG in the upper right with bootlickers. From this framing, PG looks at the left as weak and enslaved to a state, with the "sheep" being unable to consider anything beyond what the state tells them and the "tattletales" enforcing the rules of the state. If only the "dreamers" could stop being so namby-pamby and be more "aggressive", then we could have a more "individual" state.

PG gives zero examples when he says:

> In the last few years, many of us have noticed that the customs protecting free inquiry have been weakened.

Oh? Which free inquiries, PG? Please, show us; what has poor PG been unable to talk about because of the mean old Twitter mob? To hear millionaires whine of not being able to simply get their way, you'd think that they're in danger of being shipped to the gulag. In fact, though, PG is hilariously wealthy and can publish his words through a variety of platforms; in addition, he's never had those platforms taken away from him because of a line of inquiry that he's pursued. Can he show otherwise, or is he just being a whiner?
I honestly don't think any country in the world actually cares about monopolies or the abuses by these companies. Apple no longer has to pay a fine the EU gave them. The same will likely happen to the 2 billion+ fines they gave Google.

So far, no amount of fines, or laws, has actually changed anything as far as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google or Microsoft are concerned. They're still in dominant positions, where AI or computer made decisions can devastate the "little guys" like being wiped off Google (or the play store removing your app), or the horror stories of businesses on Amazon.

Truth is, they're too big, and at this point, can't be stopped. Laws won't work, fines won't work. They haven't so far, and I doubt they will in the future.
It would be interesting if he developed a theory of "unsayable" things based on examples. One really good one is Freud's theory of infantile sexuality:

https://www.bartleby.com/278/2.html

It's completely true that four year old boys get erections and play with themselves (I did), don't think about it all when they are ten, and then tend to think about it a lot when they hit puberty.

It is the basis for understanding how sexual abuse hurts children, but say it and people will report you to the FBI as a pedo.

If Graham were serious he could make a list of 20 diverse examples like this.
Right. The big error in this one is that it's completely blind to where rules come from, only personal psychological relationship to them.

By the limited model in the essay, you can imagine an "Aggressive Nonconformist" put in a place where they are highly influential on rule creation. The model doesn't really give wiggle room for anything but simply creating rules that bind others and ignoring them oneself.
>That seems clear enough to me that there's some place (not necessarily a physical place)

Did God create this place?
Funding != control. Newspapers are floundering all over the world. It's great that the state ensures the continued existence of a healthy and diverse press through independent grants. The potential for abuse is low if the rules for awarding those grants are transparent and the comitee that oversees it is plural.

Because the choice isn't "government money" or "no money", it's state (democratic) money or corporate (undemocratic) money! Looking at things like the murdoch empire we can see which we prefer.
Shh! --British and US history only begins when "they" retaliate against us.
> An economic union with independent economies

Fair point.

> A political union with independent politics.

Yep, pretty sticky.

> A human rights union with ghettos of language.

Wait, what? What does language have to do with whether or not a nation- and culture-spanning political entity has a unifying notion of human rights?

Lots of states and superstates have problems with human rights standards being inconsistently applied among their constituencies. But I don't see what that has to do with language.
Yes, infections are a danger for patients....................
One of the inspection checklist items:

Measure the clearance between the flapper bushings at both locations on each engine bleed air 5th stage check valve. If the clearance between the flapper bushings is a minimum of 0.004 inch (0.102 mm) at both locations, the engine bleed air 5th stage check valve at that location has passed this inspection.

I knew that aviation engineering dealt with tight tolerances, but boy, it must be difficult to make a call like that when you're dealing with thousandths of an inch. Do field technicians have dependable tools and methods of measuring with such high degrees of precision?
Which could definitely have been built using other languages had clojure never existed.
The problems with Python are performance and tooling, especially dependency management and deployment. Figuring out the happy path is highly dependent on your particular circumstances. Someone might tell you that Pipenv worked well for them, but when you try it, every single pipenv operation takes 30 minutes. Others tell you that vanilla pip works for them, but you care about reproducibility and they usually respond with some variation of “reproducibility is unnecessary”. Similarly, if you want to deploy statically linked artifacts, you pretty much have to use Docker or one of the zip file solutions (the latter are nice, but they don’t bundle the runtime or .so files—at least in some cases) and these always end up being 10-100 times bigger than an equivalent Go binary (for non-toy programs, anyway) which is a big problem for things like AWS Lambda which has a 250MB limit on binaries. Python the language is easy enough, but all of the things surrounding the language are brutal and for whatever reason we handwave away those concerns as though they aren’t important.
Cultural Revolution 2.0: Political repression sweeps Hong Kong workplaces
That is a pathological way of thinking about it. You could also think of it as a collective pact.
A parameter where? Obviously not in the code of the function itself; polluting your application code with flags such as log=true|false is obviously a no-go. Especially since logging is only one such "cross cutting concern", one of many, and you simply cannot go polluting your code with all of them because it leads to a mess.

Many Java logging systems allow you to enable/disable logging per package, but this is still not enough for a per function decision.

Logging is a hard problem.
If you’re in the UK look at SMRU. http://www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/

active group, good work, and they’re a semi-commercial autonomous wing of st. andrews.
For better or worse, that has been mostly overridden by:

> Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Through the community (made up of at least in great part, hackers) deciding that politics is interesting.
The premise is wrong. It’s less about news than your phone.

Before, news was timeboxed. You might have a daily paper habit, or listened to the radio in the car on a commute, or a nightly broadcast, and a handful of longer term magazines, but that was it. It may capture your attention for a bit but there wasn’t any more of it to obsess compulsively.

24/7 cable broke this contract, but let’s be honest, that’s really not something normal people stare at all day.

What’s really new is the constantly updating infinite feed, be it HN or Facebook. (Refreshing the front page of NYT or the BBC doesn’t have enough churn to creative this effect.) Oh, and we took that and we put it in your pocket.

So that’s not great, and it definitely doesn’t need to be in your pocket.

I’m still experimenting with this, but the best change has been to unfollow every news site on social media (the algorithm is a terrible editor) and sign up for a few email newsletters instead. They’re finite, and the good ones are curated by real people.
Depending on the observer.. here are the two main points I considered:
- No info stored in any server, that makes it cheap to maintain.
- The document is portable, you can recover the information even if the site is down.
Yes, but do you know of any good examples?

In open-source this seems to work (i.e many free contributions make up a good whole), but in journalism I'm not sure.
I'd call it the opposite. There is statistically no such thing as 99 heads in row. So when someone says "assume the coin toss is fair, 99 heads in row happen, what are the odds the next will be heads". Your answer should not be "50%". Your answer should be "You just asked me a bullshit question because there is basically no such thing as 99 heads in a row in the real word. In a hypothetical world maybe but in the real world nope"

Or maybe to be nicer about it the proper response is "So are we talking about the real world because in the real world the odds of 99 heads in a row are 1 in 2^100 which is effectively zero so I just want to verify you understand that your hypothetical situation and conclusion will have no basis in reality. If you actually saw 99 heads in a row then the odds are infinitely higher the coin is broken and is not fair"
It's cheaper to just accept returns instead of checking every product for complete function.

And I think it's acceptable considering how easy returns are with Amazon.
>Historical discrimination has left black families much poorer than they would otherwise be. Poverty discriminates in myriad ways:

>Lastly, I suspect the beef some poorer whites have is that they too have been discriminated against due to poverty and they feel that another group now has a leg up on them and that discrimination against them isn't acknowledged.

What is needed is to break down issues caused by racism from issues caused by poverty and fix each on their own. Fixing an issue caused by poverty (which itself may be a result of racism) as instead having been caused by racism means the solution is not correctly targeted.

If we target the problems caused by poverty based on poverty instead, you would have a solution that will help minorities more as they need more help, but at the same time help non-minorities who are in poverty and prevent resentment from building that ends up harming the attempts to fix those inequalities.

For issues directly caused by racism, solutions would be based on race (but race should likely be replaced by race and ethnicity, as I've personally seen racial equality initiatives forget that Hispanic whites face injustice very similar to racial minorities, despite the technicality of being racially white.

Last, fixing issues of race, class, and gender (which I haven't mentioned but which should work the same) discrimination should be seen as the starting point, not the goal. These are the big three that cause people the most discrimination, but are not the only three. As they are big three, they should have priority, but others shouldn't be forgotten. For example, discrimination based on LGBT+, on disability, on looks, on height, on neurotypicalness, and other factors still exist in our society: in private life, school life, and professional life. The goal should be that once the inequality from discrimination on the big three are reduced to the size of the level of discrimination these other factors cause, they too become a focus (and to be more pedantic, it wouldn't occur all at once as these other issues are by no means equal, such as LGBT+ discrimination being one of the largest forms of discrimination once you take race/gender/class out of the comparison).
I don't know if it's possible.

But people who do think it's possible probably think it would happen something like this: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12139194805748121...
That being said no individual state has veto power in the US. I don’t know anything about the EU but I suspect Germany and France or some other members will have to say at some point that this veto nonsense has to go. I doubt it can happen in our lifetimes as long as individual members are sovereign.
I'm referring to the name calling. I'm not looking to change any dates or calendars. I found this approach of 'old man screaming at cloud' while name calling offensive.

You don't need to be condescending to make a point - and that is my point. This person shared this rant and I gave feedback about the rant, not the subject of the rant.
Everyone I know who identifies as a stoic is an emotionally stunted software engineer who realistically isn't tasked with stoically shouldering very much of anything.
All 50k Students aren't engineers...
> Going forward, the largest, independent news outlet accessible to Hungarians will like be the Guardian and the New York Times.

Not true, they will likely start an other site and ask for donations, so it's up to the people to support them.

In Hungary like elsewhere people don't like to pay for news sites and in Hungary the government works hard, so that every freely available media pushes the government propaganda.

People have to realize they must pay if they want independent news sites to exist. Relying only on ad revenue is not a solid foundation.
Design Sprint 101
He could have used the CF cache API in the worker, which would drop the cost quite a lot.
> The only thing I simply won't discuss with anyone, either online or not, is theology. It will never lead to anything good. I think everyone has to find their own way there.

Ultimately, yes, each person must arrive at their own personal set of beliefs and conclusions, if that's what you mean. But surely silent introspection without ever engaging with anyone else can only take one so far? Everyone is exposed to the ideas of others, and discussions often lead to epiphanies or meaningful progress in someone's own personal journey (conversations with counselors and therapists come to mind). Maybe experience will also teach me that theology/spirituality/some other prickly topic is just never worth discussing with anyone, but I also believe that it's possible to have productive discussions about a topic that is this close to what makes us human.

...Sorry, I just realized this post counts as discussing theology with you!
> I'm not sure what your point is.

You denied a claim that "every new technology benefits some and harms others" by doubting that invention of a cart could cause harm. I'm suggesting a way that it could.

> the morality of a use case doesn't have much to do with the efficacy of a technology

I agree, but I believe it was morality that was under discussion, not efficacy.
If you're claiming that people from Portland are being sent to Guantanamo Bay, you're going to have to offer some evidence.
As a European, I feel eternally ashamed that the entire continent [and several other parts of the globe. I'm looking at you, Australia] never actually stands up against tyrants like the USA.

Just once it would be nice to hear "No!" as a response from Europe, instead of "How high?"
Both days: running, reading, helping to make dinner.

Saturday: mowing the lawn, if weather permits hosting outdoor meeting of the neighborhood book club.

Sunday: going to a farmers market, watching Mass on YouTube, phone conversations with out-of-town family.

One or the other day, maybe writing a reporting procedure for a website used by a group my wife belongs to.
The version shown on the linked page seems to support an assembler for the processor its running on - either ARM or x86 - rather than an emulated 6502.
Hah, that is indeed the narrative but is it really true? Poland is one of the major recipients of EU aid, it also benefits immensely from the single market. Yet politicians always use it as a scapegoat blaming it for its problems!
That is surprising. Pandemic or no pandemic, you have NGs and classics going and coming out of storage with a certain frequency.

Funny this wasn't found before.