skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We allow speech to be free within a particular community in order to achieve some particular end.

OMG WTF is this nonsense? If "we" allow it only as long as it still allows us to reach our end, why the hell should anyone who disagree with us still bother to speak up?
Under the somewhat clickbait-y title, the post is both insightful and also encourages further thinking and exploration.
Checking: you had a few hundred event handlers in the one namespace? That worries me.
You are assuming that all apps are generic. Some apps actually are specific to a medical condition you can have or certain aspect of your life that are not known by the general public. It is of the same nature as your browsing history in some ways. So yes apps usage patterns are actually potential privacy issues. Admittedly since most apps are downloaded from the app stores Google would already know part of the story but still your usage pattern may reveal even more especially when correlated to other data.
Yup. Nuclear. It works for France.

But now they closed down Fessenheim so more coal would be burned. Thank you Greens, thank you Hollande!

https://www.sustainability-times.com/expert/a-safe-and-profi...
So does the internet in general. It's still poor form to block entire platforms without warning.
Because they cannot enforce it. This is the same reason websites don't comply with african law. Wether it is morally wrong or right is an other question.
Don't undersell yourself. You are leading the engineering team. To be clear management is not rocket science
Many career paths have gatekeepers who expect new entrants to follow same path as they had 20 years ago (and the generation or two before that), which means alumni from specific schools will get the advantages, not because of any actual different in the quality of the education, but because of bias - concious and unconcious.
Yet their foundational texts at minimum call homosexuality unclean. Then the are the laws prescribing murder for homosexuals. This is just one problematic topic among many.

Church culture evolves but not always in the progressive direction. Propping up these ancient institutions just because they are old--and sometimes do good--comes at a high cost to marginalized groups.
Based on their current product line up I doubt that Google has a single UX designer employed.
My favorite poem to pair this with is The New Colossus by Lazarus. I have to imagine Lazarus was calling back not just to the ancient Colossus of Rhodes, but also the lyrical colossus that is Ozymandias, towering over the sonnet form.

Oh, and I don't want to spoil the ending for those who may not know, but it has some significance besides its poetic beauty.

https://poets.org/poem/new-colossus
Incredibly exciting! We’re living a new Cold War like space race and China is catching up.

I wonder what are the perceived economic and military benefits of establishing a presence on Mars. Or is it just political capital? What happens if China gets there first? Will they claim it?
> Completely feasible, and completely sustainable.

Setting up the facilities to mine, process and purify uranium on another planet does seem like a major technical challenge to me.
We get it, Mencius, you still think you're the smartest person in the room.
Personally I purchased a PineTab [1]. I hope it doesn't feel as sluggish. I suspect most of the lag is the UI they are running. Apparently it purposely runs at a resolution of 720 as not to tax the GPU too much. The plan is to use the tablet mostly with an external keyboard, I suspect the keyboard I purchased with it will not be so useful outside of some odd occasions.

I plan to use it for SSH'ing into more powerful machines, vim, a small amount of compiling, LaTeX, a few tabs, etc. Just a machine to take into the office, into meetings, etc. Not a powerhouse photo/video editing, multimedia viewing, number crunching, compiler building beast.

As for dev'ing for the device, I'm working on upgrading wm2 [2] to work with touch devices and to remove some of the cruft that didn't age well, whilst trying to maintain the minimalism. I'm aiming for a < 8MB footprint for the window manager and toolbar collectively.

[1] https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/

[2] www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/
Why is this article flagged? I'm curious.
I would agree if this media team was responsible for only printed mailers. I suppose that no, they don't need to understand the basics of digital media and URL parsing to do their job, but they do to be good at their job.
Also most LCD monitors do not update all pixels at once. So the topleft pixels effectively change about a frame earlier than the ones at the borrom right. Which puts some of the numbers there also into perspective.
Why would you pick that example, rather than the 16 million fine an Italian company received?
Yep, pretty large & business critical app. BTW, while I'm not sold on re-frame personally, it is used in a sizable project that has powered a lot of business for us, so thank you for developing it!
What about Article 79, "Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor"? It reads:

> Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77, each data subject shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy where he or she considers that his or her rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of his or her personal data in non-compliance with this Regulation.

> Proceedings against a controller or a processor shall be brought before the courts of the Member State where the controller or processor has an establishment. Alternatively, such proceedings may be brought before the courts of the Member State where the data subject has his or her habitual residence, unless the controller or processor is a public authority of a Member State acting in the exercise of its public powers.
I suspect that DW has some interesting stuff.

At first blush, it looks like LiveJournal 2.0. There's probably some pretty...interesting stuff, but it's not aggregated and promoted, like FB. It looks like each account is pretty insular.
Well that is a benchmark with a set of specific mathematical problems like calculating pi digits. I would rather compare Rails with Laravel e.g. in terms of requests per second or speed of json deserialization. See https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Symfony, Lumen and Rails seems to be somewhat equal in performance, but Laravel is a bit slower in respect to the benchmarked web related criterions.
If those code examples were in an unfamiliar language (ClojureScript), would they still be useful? I've been under the impression that the concepts would have been a more helpful in that case.
Sayong they are converting water to fuel focuses on the wrong (least important) part of it. The point is that it fixes CO2 from the air into hydrocarbon fuels via generating carbon monoxide and using the Fisher troph process to assemble fuel molecules. This is really just congealing electrical energy into hydrocarbon fuel. For now in the lab, you still get that energy from fossil fuels. Presumably in the future you would use this process to congeal extra solar or wind energy into fuel rather than keep them stored in batteries
The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin
Yes, facebook is blocking the creation of new posts with links to Dreamwidth. Or at least, they did so when I attempted to create a post containing a link to the post under discussion here about 5 minutes ago. I am located in Austria if that makes any difference.
@AndrewDucker: I’m curious to know why you picked the “eye in the pyramid” as the icon of your post, which is also known as the symbol of the Illuminati.
The lack of an app is something for it. Literally every app of some website has the worse experience. Even worse the website will keep begging you to install their shitty app.
A non-SQL query language implemented in k
Still, must be nice to make that kind of money.
What Is the Metaverse? A Complete Guide
related talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ua05UAFtr4
The websites keep talking about a "method" that the Germany police agency used to track chats on Whatsapp in real-time but is too much work to implement for every suspect. The agency did not comment on it.

Why do I have a feeling that they just used the unlocked mobile device of the user, logged into the user's WhatsApp web mirror and disabled the "Whatsapp web is active" notification allowing them to track the activity in real-time? Given that the user was already a suspect becuase of close links to a prvious terrorist.
Webtile can be easily embedded in blogs and other articles like in the screenshot below

https://pasteboard.co/JjqZ8GD.jpg
Three things that would make re-frame better, if you want them:

- A supported/blessed way to switch out the entire app-db entirely for the purposes of testing

- Use of symbols rather than namespaced keywords for function dispatch

- Docs that give alternate strategies for code organization (fine to have the events.cljs convention, but would be nice to see some viewpoints like having one per child ns similar to angular's code organization model.)
If this is true, shouldn’t the title be changed to, “German police log in to WhatsApp web using targets phone”, removing the clickbait and therefore anything of note about this story?
I could not have hoped for a more perfect illustration of my point. We are in perfect agreement on the outcomes, we just disagree on whether the state being in charge of determining public morality is good or not. You, a product of a state indoctrination system, agree with its values. The same thing happens in other countries where the state has different values.
I was not aware that Facebook blocked users from posting links to specific domains. Is the list made public anywhere?
Thanks for the reply.

What do you feel would be the harm if the policy was modified to

> "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait or lacks sufficient context; don't editorialize."

It just seems like there's frequently times when the original title is completely baffling out of situ.
then maybe the goal isn't to be a serious project in the context upon which you apply that classification.
If you use FB's url debugger it gives the message:

"We can't review this website because the content doesn't meet our Community Standards. If you think this is a mistake, please let us know"

So an unhelpful; start but a start to understanding what may have happened.

Link:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2...

My guess is that FB should have blocked a sub-domain but instead blocked a whole domain because of a small set os users.
I'm afraid I can't remember the exact example, but I think about 4 years ago there was some open-source-y, privacy-focused Facebook alternative that got blacklisted in a similar way. Private messages containing the URL or name just wouldn't go through.
Time to contact your local AG.
Docs on builtin effects were added last week.

http://day8.github.io/re-frame/api/

Then click "Builtin effects" in the left Nav.

I'm actually working on the API docs at the moment and wrestling with codox and markdown interaction.
Sadiq Khan should be worried by this. TFL has been blowing money on cycle schemes and is under a mountain of debt. They have been trying to bring in money from the ULEZ, Congestion Charge, but if traffic declines...
I’m tired to read this. In the original news it is stated that they basically scan the QR code to access the messages via WhatsApp web. It’s not like it’s some kind of magical backdrop. You can see and manage the web access in your WhatsApp application in your phone and delete access.
Definitely useful. Consider code examples just a missing leg in your table.
Granted a solar array ON the moon is not going to work half the time. But how about a solar array on a satellite around the moon? It would be cheaper to deploy. Already exists. 10 kw can be generated by an array the size of a small rooftop. Getting the power to the moon is the remaining engineering challenge. And learning how to do this would have tremendous benefits for the exploration of space in general. Although current tech using masers exists, I cannot imagine why we could not use recently developed high frequency lasers to boil water on the moon to run a steam turbine. (Which we would need to get from a comet). Besides the obvious steampunk attraction of a steam engine on the moon, the presence of a large reservoir of heat energy at a stable temperature could facilitate the temperature regulation of a nearby colony. And the constant supply of energy could drive ion engines that use the dust of the moon as a reaction mass making trips to lunar orbit free.

I just don’t like the idea of concentrated points of failure that are easy to subvert into weapons like a dirty bomb. We need to be cognizant of human’s ability to turn even the best invention to evil when someone gets disgruntled. Failure modes need to be assessed for any technology going forward and must include intentionally engineered ‘successful’ attempts at causing failure. If the internet were designed to thwart the dark side of humanity, we might still have the beautiful thing that existed when the internet was first created: a channel for communication free of spam, advertising, spying, but that’s another rant. If we kept commerce OFF the net, it might still be a place where humans could enjoy the benefits of fellowship. Sorry I couldn’t help myself.
Any CLJS code has to bundle the CLJS runtime. CLJS doesn't compile to idiomatic JS, for example a vector will be a cljs.core/PersistentVector not a JS Array. So code for most CLJS basics has to be bundled with any CLJS code to run.

Let's say you write a tiny library that solves just one problem. I would imagine most people wouldn't want to have to pull in the CLJS runtime for just that.

So let me be clear - there is no problem in using JS libraries, what you linked speaks to using npm libraries which previously was tougher. CLJS is doing very well on that front.

What I'm saying is - if you write a library in CLJS, don't expect plain JavaScripters to use it.
I had a very similar experience with Apollo.io. Somehow my professional data (business email, personal phone number, name, job title and my LinkedIn network and connections) ended up on this website without my consent. I’m assuming it was collected from several sources such as LinkedIn (Even though I had my privacy settings tight) and some conferences I attended in the past year. Either way I contacted them and they sent me a document to confirm my identity and then proceeded to remove my data from their website after I sent it back. I was a bit shocked as it’s basically asking to confirm my identity and give them more information about me when I haven’t even granted them permission in the first place. Such “data brokers” need to be regulated. The most annoying thing is that they only remove data under GDPR, CCPA if I am a resident of California, UK or EEA. Well what if I’m from a country that doesn’t fall under one of those 2 regulations?
I made this using Holoviews, Panel and Bokeh in Python. It was mainly an excuse to write a blog post and learn those tools but I ended up enjoying refreshing my understanding of Genetic Algorithm.

Playing around with the dashboard is also pretty fun, I found myself setting targets for a new population and trying to guess how big to set the mutation scale / time evolving to get the population to drift towards the target.
I heard they are doing it with Bitchute now, I wonder if there’s an actual list somewhere as well.
This.

And I hate this term, but the concept is real - "Fake it until you make it".
I tried to create a new post including the dreamwidth link, I got no error but its just not getting posted.

I bet it was added to some spam list automatically because some ppl really used it for spam.
Yes. Crops themselves can also sequester carbon in soil. There is active research in this area, to tweak the genetics of common crops for deeper roots to increase carbon uptake and improve resilience to drought.
Show HN: Qxn – Open-source quantum algorithm mocking and simulation
Yes you'd want to get a journalist to pick up the story for it to have some impact.
I'd say Apollo (or Reddit is Fun on Android) is a heck of a lot better than new Reddit, and about as good as old Reddit. And Google Maps' app beats their site by a county mile on iOS.

There's no good Hacker News client for mobile though, at least one that's better than the web page. Not that I'm saying someone should make one either, the site is responsive as heck.
Ask HN: What are you using new programming languages for?
Hi HN,

It seems like a new language is being announced on HN every month or so.

I'm curious why there is a need for new programming languages, and what purposes they serve that existing languages aren't well suited for. Do you have any experience you can share?

Companies I have worked for will always use technologies that have a large ecosystem and are battle hardened. What is driving the need for new languages, and who are the early adopters?
watt-hour itself is already a somewhat silly unit, since joule already exists and is part of the definition of watt. but people can easily multiply an appliance's watt rating by the amount of time they use it to estimate its monthly energy use, which makes it a convenient unit for billing. I would guess kWh/yr is an extension of this idea. you could use J/yr, but most people don't have an intuitive sense of how much power that is.
A Short History of Romaji
the documentation seems thirsty for validity, if i am being honest about it's attempts to impart understanding with it's quip context.
Not only that, but the idea that we should have some sense of mercy, grace, forgiveness, etc that even permeates secular society. It’s an important value, and we’re seeing it break down as mobs of allegedly grown adults harass strangers for decades-old off-color remarks made as children, or for remarks made by family or acquaintances, or etc. I think Hitchens said that he didn’t like Christianity, but it may have been a bulwark against worse things. I think he was speaking about extreme Islam, but I think there are other pseudo-religious toxic philosophies (and thus toxic behaviors) that Christian ethics defend against as well.
It's not a public blacklist, but this thingy[0] from another comment seems to tell you what's up with a specific site if you give it a URL. At least, I think it does, since you have to sign in with Facebook.

0: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
In this particular case, they are planning to take energy from carrier's nuclear power plant.

More generally, either hydrogen or fuel synthesis requires energy to come from somewhere; In this regard it is no different than re-building airplanes to use hydrogen, as the original article suggests.

The point is that we might have better chances synthesising fuels usable in existing planes, versus re-building majority of aviation to use hydrogen.
Seems to make sense for capacity planning. The considerable daily and seasonal variation in use argues in favor of using the aggregate rather than expressing it as an average.
Re-frame is absolutely fantastic in my experience. Here's a beginner workshop on Reagent/re-frame that I ran for Js devs a little while back. If you're interested to try ClojureScript, this will run your through the basics from ground up

https://github.com/ClojureTO/JS-Workshop/tree/shadow-cljs
Indeed, the seed page on Aliexpress is one the most peculiar thing I've seen in a while, blue strawberries, giant tomatoes (advertised to be as big as a watermelon) and all sorts of other weird fruits.

I spent 5$ on these a while back with some friends, about 50% never arrived and the other 50% didn't sprout. Could be my bad though.
> you now have to download a couple gigabytes

You... don't?

Default installation size of the Rust toolchain is about 800mb extracted to disk, way less so of downloading.

Hardly an inordinate filesize for a development toolchain. For example, MSYS is 950mb just for the C++ toolchain. You might shave a lot on Linux thanks to package reuse, but "conceptually" it would be about the same size, just that in practice you start with some parts downloaded.
Of course you need a Facebook account to use the Sharing Debugger. As if I needed /another/ reason to hate this website. D:
> I don’t have much interest in completing my gen-Ed’s, but I genuinely would like to learn more theoretical math/compsci, and I can only get so far buying used textbooks on eBay.

Most people in academia are pretty big on publishing so it's not terribly hard to find out what everybody is working on. The notion that doing a PhD program will get you access to a lot of otherwise unavailable knowledge is for the most part false. You may just get it a little earlier for your area of specialization.

You can publish and collaborate with others without a PhD or institutional backing too.
In the past there was a news about Paypal banning Dreamwidth. Not sure if its related:

"About six months after opening, PayPal -- our payment processor at the time -- demanded that we censor some of our users' content (mostly involving people talking about sex, usually fictionally, in explicit terms) that was legal and protected speech but that they felt violated their terms for using PayPal."

HN discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15099761
Maps is a good example, it bad on mobile because they made it bad, to force you to use the app. Its still useable but it sucks.

Thats a development I often see.
Dreamwidth is a blogging site, an offshoot of Livejournal, I would expect content on it to be across the full spectrum of both opinions and quality. Banning it as a domain makes about as much sense as banning Wordpress or Blogspot.
I guess my point is that this project is interesting because it doesn't depend so strongly on the OCR being perfect, as he's allowing to prescribe a handwriting style that helps it along. I just think it's a nice compromise, and something that I hadn't thought of previously.

Obviously the tech can always be improved, but I find this to be a secondary concern. Ideas can still be cool without worrying about implementation details. For instance, if the PoC works well enough, but you want better performance, then you can train a new OCR system specifically for it. You can break the project down into pieces, where each piece is an interesting challenge. Meanwhile getting 80% performance out of an existing solution allows you to build up a dataset to be used for improving it.
This is one of the reasons why Windows drives me bonkers— all the interesting settings seem to be locked in disused basement lavatories. See also changing capslock to control.
Sure, they block most of the porn websites or mirror websites hosting copyright content from posts or private messages.
That's some really labor intensive job!
That was the whole basis for the Mars direct mode of propellant creation, and to be honest should be the only expansion of Human based Nuclear technology.

Elon is saying he's going to put football fields of Solar panel arrays on Mars according to Zubrin [1], as absurd as that sounds he probably will accomplish it given his track record how long it remains viable (dust storms on Mars can last months) is the real question, when in reality Nuclear technology should really only be used for these kind of purposes: high risk, limited option based energy creation. None of which apply to Earth, but do apply to Mars and I guess the Moon.

I won't rant about how incredibly foolish the mission to the Moon is here, not least of which putting a significant nuclear generation station on something that orbits the Earth is, but suffice it to say it makes more sense then building another on the Planet when we have so many more options.

1: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/mars-elon-musk-plan-t...
I've lost track of how many times you have posted pretty much exactly the same thing. Seems slightly fixated.