skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure, I never really thought about it much until my grandma. Her whole life she vehemently hated cats, literally believed they stole souls of babies. Black cats were just unthinkable to her. She'd never lived in a house with cats pretty much her entire life.

She ended up moving in with my aunt when she couldn't look after herself any more. My aunt had a small black cat. At first my grandma hated it. She was terrified of it, would shoo it away, kick him outside and stuff. But after a few months of living there, out of nowhere like a switch had been flipped, she suddenly loved that cat. She'd spend hours watching TV with him on her lap, would go looking for him to give him treats, would get concerned if he was outside too long, that cat became one of her favourite things.

I mean maybe she just had a change of heart after a lifetime of ingrained hatred and fear, but her attitude towards pretty much everything else never really changed.
How are dems more likely to vote by mail? And what are the percentages for each party?
Does the technology exist? Can we put the genie back in the bottle? So then what?

This article and a lot of the literature assumes the same tools are not also turned upon the managers of society (i.e. that they get to use the times in secret). Many fear that knowledge of our lives will support interference in our lives. Perhaps any such interference must be just as observable and prohibited by law in a free society.

Who watches the watchers? We all could. When there is a conflict or question we have records to review and public opinion to adjudicate.

Of course we would have to rethink a number of assumable cultural expectations.
I actually think this is more of a problem with technical people overvaluing the importance of the technology and not caring enough about what their customer actually needs. They think that the technology is what matters. But technology is just a tool. It really doesn't matter how ugly, janky or suboptimal the technology is if it is a useful enough tool.

People want a cheap device that doesn't ruin the reading experience and has access to all the books they want.
This is a vast assumption, and one that often produces inequalities more than it reduces it. In reality, people's preferences often do vary between groups even without discrimination or inequalities of opportunity. E.g. over 90% of pediatricians are women, and there's no evidence that this is due to discrimination against men. The representation of women in technology is actually highest in countries with less opportunities for women, and lowest in countries with the greatest equality between men and women. Efforts to force an equal outcome in the context of unequal preferences does not reduce inequalities of opportunity, it produces inequalities.
Yeah I really wonder about the possibilities, like are there a bunch more infected ants that never make it to the underside of the leaf or branch?

Or is this fungi and symbiotic relationship really that .... intelligent ... in some capacity?
For number 4, who should make the judgement whether a speech falls into that category though.

Should it be Facebook or our justice system?

I'd rather not have Facebook do that.
> The capsule is not that dangerous

It’s SUPER dangerous. Crew Dragon’s SuperDraco engines burn hydrazine [1]. Hydrazine is “is toxic and carcinogenic in small amounts“ [2].

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/23/spacex-releases-prelim...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomethylhydrazine
Functors are indeed a poor substitute for typeclasses if I want ad-hoc polymorphism. If I want ad-hoc polymorphism, I want typeclasses. I find Scala's implicits to be a poor substitute (though not as poor as functors), and I'm sceptical that modular implicits are going to compare to typeclasses.

But that's not why I care about functors. I use functors to package a bunch of types and values in a way that depends on a package of other types and values, which was their purpose from the beginning. In Haskell, I often want to do just this, but I find typeclasses (and associated types etc) to be a poor substitute for functors.

For this reason, I keep an eye on backpack.
Because:

a) Often the intended recipient isn't online when the message is sent, and it may happen that there is never a time when both sender and recipient are online simultaneously (e.g. sender's device only turns on to send the occasional message, receiver's device is usually off but turns on occasionally to check if there are messages)

b) Often one or both devices can only connect to, but can't be connected to (because behind a NAT, a mobile device, firewall, etc.)

c) Communication is often desired between accounts rather than devices -- I may want to send/receive on my work computer, home computer, phone, and watch
I also think that this can motivate new sales. If I know I’m locking in my price with a company, I’m more motivated to buy now.
SSD Life Expectancy
The alternative is a private security force having arrest power or otherwise using force over this public area. That’s not necessarily a win.
How does your characterization - that Democrats want more take downs and Republicans less - support or even comport with your contention that both sides claim interest in free speech
if you're serious, then it's because of Pavel Durov's personal wealth.

if you're unfamiliar Pavel Durov created VK, which is a 'facebook-like' for Russia, although it's a bit more advanced than facebook, promoting piracy and some other stuff that wouldn't fly in the USA.

The Putin administration demanded Durov give access to personal data on the platform, Durov declined, went into self-imposed exile and the state confiscated his company. No VK is owned by the russian government, but Durov still had an enourmous personal wealth, something in the amount of 3 billion USD.

He started Telegram in exile from Russia in hopes of eventually making himself famous for being a free speech advocate, then using that fame to make money in other areas.

You can see his attempts with the TON blockchain thing and the new gaming platform. Adoption of telegram is failing, and his attempts at using telegram as a platform to gain wealth is also failing.
I've been looking for secure messengers during the last few weeks. I use WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. Telegram isn't very secure, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and even Signal - while very secure - requires a cell phone number... Briar seems great in this regard but isn't available on iPhone and has no support for images, calls, voice messages, etc. Apparently they're going to support images and a desktop client, though.

In short, I just don't know what to use.

Edit: Session looks great but is not fully released yet: https://getsession.org/ This might be what I'm looking for in the future.
Second this recommendation of the works of William Bernstein, all of his books are excellent and highly pragmatic for individual investors.
My mother has always cooked rice directly in pressure cooker without any issue. To ensure security, the water level should be no more than half the height of the cooker (same with every food, the pressure cooker must not be filled too much).
> shooting the boaters

Straw man [1]. The Coast Guard would be expected to deter, ticket and, in the most extreme circumstances, disable craft.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
The racist notion of Obama being a foreign “other” was intrinsic to Birtherism. There is nothing inherent about that, no. It was an explicit piece of context.

It is known and not under any debate that John McCain was not born on US soil (he was born on an army base in Panama), and yet Obama’s legitimacy was the one in question. It’s very obvious why one candidate was considered a foreign other and one was not.
This comes for free from Haskell's automatic partial application (that arises from Haskell's pervasive use of function currying). So several different Haskell variants of Clojure's `compose` correspond to different versions of Clojure's threading macros.

Clojure's threading macros arise because it's a little bit more awkward in Clojure to partially apply functions (either anonymous functions with # or use `partial`) and it reads more fluently to just use threading macros there.

However, Clojure can do fancier things with variants of the common threading macros (https://github.com/rplevy/swiss-arrows)
I remember noticing the same in Marseille about 10 years ago, but Paris for example was already quite different back then.
Now I live in Madrid and not picking up after your dog is very much frowned upon, and you see very little pet waste in the streets.
The difference is roughly as between contemporary cars. Compare Chevy Impala of early 1960-s with today's Priuses.

Of course this is just an analogy. We can study functional differences - while both Vostok and Crew Dragon can deliver a human to orbit and back, they differ a lot regarding how well they do that and what they can also do, in addition to the main functionality.
>If you bought an Apple device knowing the restriction why did you make the choice anyway?

for a non-trivial amount of people because they or their peers use ios exclusive software already. There are only two major smartphone operating systems, and countless of walled gardens and exclusive features. So depending on circumstance, it's very easy to basically be forced to pick into an ecosystem.

Choice is a reasonable argument on the laptop market nowadays, the smartphone market fundamentally lacks choice and competition, at least at the ecosystem level.
(filter (complement p)) is just (remove p), right?
Wait a min, hate speech isn't illegal?
I'm not convinced it would exist in any meaningful way. We already have such a "console", it's called a PC. You could buy one today but for whatever reasons people still buy the locked down consoles.
Nitpick: the dollar symbol comes BEFORE the number. $49 and not 49$

Are there currencies that write it at the end instead?
> There's two different arguments being conflated:

> - Vinyl is higher fidelity (yourself, and the article).

> - Vinyl sounds better.

> Vinyl colors sound, in the same way that some Vacuum Tubes color sound, which is a roundabout way of saying: They objectively make it less similar to the reference material than straight digital. But even though Vinyl is objectively worse at reproduction, some people prefer it (i.e. it subjectively sounds better to them).

It's a little more complicated that that. The technical superiority of digital audio enables mastering techniques that can make the music sound worse: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war:

> Modern recordings that use extreme dynamic range compression and other measures to increase loudness therefore can sacrifice sound quality to loudness. The competitive escalation of loudness has led music fans and members of the musical press to refer to the affected albums as "victims of the loudness war."

Vinyl recording technology has technical limitations that make it far less suited to dynamic range compression (IIRC, something with groove spacing). I've read there have been some recent dual vinyl/digital releases where the vinyl version sounds objectively better because it was mastered for its medium and the digital version sounds shitty because it was mastered for loudness.
I think there's some nuance here -- my take is that SpaceX has a very good balance of knowing when going slowly and carefully is critical (launching important customer vehicles, launching crewed missions), and when it's critical to move fast and iterate (eg, every other time).

SpaceX has blown up a LOT of vehicles via mistakes, by iterating fast and learning from them. They use these as learning experiences, and if they can get a few satellites up in the interim, that's great (see: the starlink launches on re-used rockets). But when it comes to launching actual astronauts, they checked every one of NASA's million boxes.

NASA and Boeing are unfortunately incapable of operating in fast-and-loose mode, even when it would be better to iterate and break a few rockets. The two-mode operation is why SpaceX dominates, and likely will continue to crush.
This.

I am about that age (that I guess the OP is) where, luckily for me, I have created a curriculum and experience that will be wasted solving brain teasers.

Haven't interviewed in a good while (at least not from the interviewed side), but if the interview consists of 'how much orange juice is consumed in the US per day' kind of questions, I'd probably excuse myself, thank everyone for their time and look for greener pastures elsewhere.
Who invented the wheel and how did they do it
On Windows you can select text in hyperlinks if you hold down the alt key before you click and drag to select the text.
I think if you look closely you’ll see that it’s something entirely different.
> Instead of changing course they made an emergency five exercise.

It’s gotta be fun to have three dimensions of freedom available when making course changes.

But man, I’d freak out if I were on the sailboat watching that happen!
Have you looked at 'threema'? I recently installed it and I'm actually pleasantly surprised.

However, all of these bloody messengers mean that my contacts list is spread across a multitude of programs: we need the iOS/Android equivalent of pidgin.
Chuck Norris and Hacking Twitter
This comment would be more informative if you briefly explained why you abhor it and hate almost everything about it.
indeed they do, and many many times over the years, if growing up with one

And they're fluffy and cute and a nice friend :-)
Georgia (Caucasus)
This area is beyond fascinating.

- attested human presence : 1.8 M years old [1]
- language family : total isolate [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Georgia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartvelian_languages
It would have to be a dwarf who looks like a child in features not merely stature.
I'd hazard to say that the abstract algebra is more foundational, more of a bedrock on which the sophisticated cathedrals like complex analysis can be built.
Your question is a straw man. You can think of scrolling as something being further away if you want, and I don't disagree. That doesn't mean Fitts' law applies.

Fitts' law is referring to a single interaction ("movement") with visible targets, not a general abstract concept of "futher away" that you can extend in any way and to any topic you want across multiple interactions. It is precisely because you have to use two different movements, as you pointed out, to both scroll to see the target and then move your mouse or hand to reach the target, that Fitts' law does not apply here.

Speaking more generally, there is a big problem with your assumption here that you can take interaction studies (or any scientific results) out of context just because you can think of it as analogous. When researchers have studied human perception and motions under specific conditions, you cannot assume the findings apply to conditions that weren't tested.
They must continue playing. There is no termination condition for the game. They always continue playing an infinite number of steps.

Alice picks s2. Then Bob picks some number less than s3, so the sequence does not converge to s3. Then Alice picks some number larger than s2, so the sequence does not converge to s2. Any number that is picked after a finite number of steps, cannot be the value that the sequence converges to.
You realize the polling places WILL BE OPEN. No one is taking away anyone's constitutional right, you're just playing the victim card.

The left only cares about this bc they want the votes of the bottom-feeders of society, who are too lazy to vote. It's also why the left wants criminals in jails to be able to vote. Chasing those votes shows you right there the misguided mindset of the democratic party.
Presumably there are some sort of "rules of the road" that govern how and where vessels can maneuver? I can't just drop anchor at the mouth of Boston Harbor and prevent everyone else from accessing it. Or maybe I can? I have no idea.
> [0, 1] is not not uncountable. By the law of the excluded middle, [0, 1] is therefore uncountable.

Nitpick: that's not excluded middle, that's double negation elimination. They're both non-constructive and (IIRC) equivalent in most formalizations, but they're not the same thing.
I think this may have devolved into nitpicking semantics.

While a "second wave" I don't think is a widespread phenomenon in the sense of cases dying down and then coming back in a given place, some places could be considered to have a "second wave" in the sense that their wave has or will peak later than the wave in other places.

For instance, Florida isn't having a second wave relative to itself, but it could be construed as a second wave relative to NY or NJ. It seems to me to boil down to a different arbitrary definition.
Interestingly, this is a language phenomenon where applying a restrictive adjective in front of a noun is generally perceived as ascribing importance to it. That's just how English is read by most people. I suspect that it applies even if you use a variable to denote absence of importance.

Just trying it out for myself: "My $k-wheeled car in San Francisco is much better than public transit", I automatically read that the number of wheels as having some importance and also assume that the number of wheels is not 4.

Of course, this may seem unusual in that k is a free variable and I may be implying that it doesn't matter what its value is, but it doesn't read that way.

I think this comes from a natural form of information compression. Very cool.

Another fun example of implicit information is: "They met on the streets of San Francisco. She was homeless and he was homeless and dirty." Does this imply that she wasn't dirty? Yes. But that's actually unknown.
What did Riot, the Matrix client, get renamed to?
"Element". had to look it up, forgotten it already. :/
I really enjoy programming (a lot!) in both Common Lisp and Haskell, and I agree with his comments on both languages.

Chris and I probably differ in that I love the kitchen sink built in functions. Also, it is also common to write lots of very short Common Lisp functions.
Earth is a confined space. Total surveillance could mean there are few places in the world outside maybe deep wilderness where surveillance can be escaped.
> Now the industry is starting to move to "Neumorphism"

Really? Neumorphism is cool to look at occasionally, but I would hate it if everything started looking like that.
There isn't anything to be argued. You said that the scrolling violates Rule #3, which is about Fitts's law specifically. Scrolling has nothing to do with Fitts's law.
The idea that we would be voting in 2020 by mail is crazy.

I cannot believe that no one foresaw an election in a pandemic and said, “let’s build an app for this”
> On the other hand, there is one ecosystem which i wonder is comparable : the playstation one. Can you release a game on that console without explicit whiteflagging by sony ?

Nope. And the same goes for virtually all of the major video game consoles -- Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo's various consoles are all closed systems, with significantly more stringent rules than anything in the mobile market. In many cases, even starting to develop an application for the console requires the prior approval of the manufacturer.
Joel Spolsky

“Camels and Ducks” (2004)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
Face masks, face screens, and breathing
Jim Crow laws were after Reconstruction.
iMessage? Natively on your phone/macOS and peer to peer encrypted. Never really saw a need for yet another messaging service. I think I'd trust Apple to do the right thing over any of these.
Because he had less votes and won, so im not sure what this alleged widespread voter suppression is supposed to accomplish.
Haskell's list comprehensions actually started off as more general monad comprehensions, were later restricted to lists, and are back behind a GHC language pragma.
It is either wholly fraudulent or a vigilante.

The law does not discriminate between someone pursuing images for their own usage or to report them. If it did, every criminal would be able to use reporting them as a defense in court and look at them for decades.

Possession / viewing / downloading is illegal because it is very difficult to get probable cause for distribution. Some of them encourage distributors as-well. If viewing was legal and it led to more reports and content being taken down, that would be positive but it could go the other way with it being harder to pursue.
You say "committing specific crimes" like popular support for the war on drugs wasn't fueled by racist propaganda. You say "sometimes innocents are imprisoned" as if overburdened public defenders don't recommend a guilty plea because it's "safer" than attempting to establish innocence in a racist judicial system, biased again certain races in arrests, extrajudicial killing, in prosecution, in sentencing, in the jury supposedly of peers. Indigenous women are still being sterilized against their will, a continuation of centuries of genocide.

No, it's not a perfect comparison, in large part because responsibility doesn't rest on a single central entity. But it's awfully similar. The US has more prisoners per capita than any country in the world. The "scale" of it is atrocious (as is the Chinese treatment of Uyghurs, just to be clear) and America's lack of moral standing on this issue is a big deal because until recently, we've been both a military superpower and the vanguard for human rights.
That integrity of the West during and before the cold war included some nasty moves as well (Vietnam to name one). In fact, I find your thesis jingoism at its best.
Reminds me of the time I was helping move a boat and we were in the Gulf Stream when we saw an air craft carrier off in the distance. They launched a helicopter and buzzed us was pretty cool day
There's actually resellers that are made for rural areas with unlimited data. They are quite expensive, but not several hundreds of dollars expensive. I'm pretty sure I have seen some less expansive but here's one: https://unlimitedville.com/plans
That's not true. Journalist Allan dos Santos reports the risk of a coup d'état against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The coup is allegedly being plotted by members of Brazilian Supreme Court. That's why he's silenced.
Reddit BPT community allows only people of particular race to participate
It's not the most glamorous fact, but astronauts have diapers
I cannot hear brainstorm, no matter how hard I focus
> All it takes is one or a few bad actors to skew the results.

Most elections aren't close enough for the outcome to be swung by the kind of paper ballot fraud that a single person is capable of committing. Unlike electronic hacks, paper ballot fraud doesn't scale.
A small note: composition is not better than monolithism. The article makes it feel like it is but it is not. They are two perfectly valid approaches when it comes to solving problems. Often a mix of both is used.

Monoliths tend to be better at solving common real life problems efficiently while composition is better suited for unexpected abstract problems. We need both.

For example GNU binutils are not very "unixy", with plenty of "monolithic" options but they still work well with pipelines.
I think I’d be fine with a reduce role.

Also, you can make the same argument w.r.t to Facebook, google, ad networks, etc. you just pay for the ability to send email from gmail for free ️
Historically there was an emulator mode, where you could build your CUDA code to run on CPU. However, it was removed a few years ago. I never used it, so can't really give you more details beyond that.
OCaml's compile speed is very very fast. I think it's actually quite a bit faster than Go's compile speed.
Show HN: Stay on top of your VS Code windows
Mercedes doesn't stop you from replacing the leather, does it? Why do you need a flawed analogy to make a flawed argument? You can make a flawed argument as is.