skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything this 'experiment' just shows that bored teenagers are easily convinced to bandwagon on an innocuous group. They just had to hold their hand a certain way and address him as "Mr. Jones"? Come on, they probably were treating it as a meme.
This has to be energetically uphill, of course. How many units of energy do you have to put into get one unit of energy in ethanol form? Need numbers on this. Would it be a win to use wind energy during low price periods to make ethanol this way?
I bought a new but cheap car and have driven it for slightly more than 100k kilometers. I really like the car and even if I had more money I'd just buy the same car again.

I don't see how cars can be status symbols if you can just buy a 3 year old car at a steep discount. Nobody is going to know the difference between a new car owner that kept his car for more than 3 years and someone who bought a 3 year old used car.
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Method references and lambdas in lazy properties
What about:

sudo netstat -tnlp
PRC will take a big bite out of the Apple and America will have no pie
The above is an admirable exchange. Thank you, dang, and thank you, DoofusOfDeath. You both showed why HN is worth reading.
I don't think multiple dispatch fixes this problem in any way.

The idea here is that you can have an opaque interface. Then, adding new implementations of that interface is very easy. But, if you want to extend the interface, you need to modify all of the existing implementations. Multiple dispatch suffers of this problem just as much as single dispatch.

In the other case, you have a transparent interface - anyone can build code based on your data type. But, if you add more cases to your data type, anyone who had functionality built on it needs to take into account the new cases.

I think that this is in inherently an unavoidable problem. You can of course expose both kinds of constructs in your language, but you can't make interface implementation easily modifiable, and you can't make sum types easily extensible. The programmer ultimately has to choose the one that they believe will best capture the domain and its probable evolution.

What multiple dispatch can do is take some cases where sum types are obviously preferable to single dispatch (operations on related objects) and apply the interface abstraction to those cases as well (without reaching for horrible solutions like the visitor pattern).

Edit: thinking a bit more about the article, what they are showing is that you can essentially use the visitor pattern (and multiple dispatch) to implement GADTs instead of using them for regular multiple dispatch with inheritance. Basically, you can use them bring completely disparate types under the same umbrella, just like a GADT. I'm not sure that this still allows subtyping of that GADT as if it were a regular class.
I have always been a (Net)PBM(Plus) guy, mostly because pbmplus was the first such software I used, and because I found it easier to keep track of what gets done in which order when it's an explicit pipeline. However, I haven't really updated my opinions in the last 20 years or so. Does Netpbm even still exist?
Not to argue with science but why didn't you clean the fish out about day 7? Was it hurricane made getting rid of fish problematic?
thank you. exactly that.
> instantaneously from any bank account to another

I am already able to do that with eTransfer. That's how I pay my rent and haven't had any problems.
One less known fact is that one of the advisors to US army back in WWII is Dr Liang Sicheng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Sicheng. He is the father of modern Chinese architecture. He recommended that the Americans military authorities spare the ancient Japanese cities of Kyoto and Nara.

He married with another legend Lin Huiyin, whose niece Maya Lin later designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin
Not-quite-answering-the-question (not a specific product, but a service to create pre-launch and business card landing pages)...

https://carrd.co/
Billy Boy will be indicted (hopefully) soon, he's guilty of crimes against humanity...
Because there’s no chance they are just people with an opinion, right?
FWIW, here are my thoughts.

1) What is a "race riot"?

Definitions are important. Should we call it the Tulsa Massacre or the Tulsa Race Riot? And does the choice of term reflect your view?

2) Are there any race riots going on now? Which events are race riots and which are not?

My reading of the history of the topic is that "race riot" was the term used by whites to describe resistance by minorities to white oppression, as in the Tulsa example above.

3) Why did Shor decide to characterize the linked-to paper http://www.omarwasow.com/Protests_on_Voting.pdf as providing information on "race riot"s?

The referenced paper uses the term "race riot" twice, both when referencing the works of other people.

Instead, it uses the description "black-led protests" and proposes that "nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, Congressional speech and public opinion on civil rights." which it juxtaposes with "Protester-initiated violence".

If we accept the narrative that the violence of many of the current protests are the results of state-initiated repression, then do those protests fall in the first category or the second? Or neither, in which case the study isn't relevant.

Note that if we use the definition of "Protester-initiated violence" then if we call it the Tulsa Race Riot then it's clearly a race riot initiated by white protestors. (One of many, I'll add.)

Is the implication that all black-lead protests with protester-initiated violence should be characterized as a "race riot"?

4) You write "rioting alienates voters".

Is that really true?

I assume that white-lead protests with protester-initiated violence against non-whites are also race riots. Do you agree?

Did the Tulsa Massacre/"Race Riot" alienate voters against the protesting whites? Did the Zoot Suit Riots alienate voters against Navy sailors?

I .. don't think they did. In fact, I think it was quite the opposite.

So I don't think your "obviously" is all that correct a summary.

5) How is the term "killing free speech" at all relevant?

Over and over I see "cancel culture" applied to famous or influential people who have a loss of prestige based on what they wrote or said, but who are NOT CANCELED in any meaningful sense. Eg, at https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-cu... I read that "Shor is still consulting in Democratic politics, but he is no longer working for a firm that restricts his freedom to publicly opine."

ECA_stax pointed out the hyperbole in using the term "kill". How do you get from "still consulting in Democratic politics" to "killed", or from "must conform to an employer's policies" to "killing free speech"?
As an expat living in Hong Kong, I've noticed a clear change of mood since the ramming-through of the National Security Law last month. Protests have all but died, and people are genuinely aware of having lost their relative freedoms of speech and assembly. Businesses on the "yellow" (pro-protest) side are distancing themselves from their support of the movement. Politicians are quitting opposition parties because they're afraid of being disappeared. Individuals are afraid to go out and protest. A friend recently asked me to keep a hard hat for her because she was afraid that if she was caught with it at her house it'd be evidence she participate in the protests.

China has basically given up any semblance of autonomy for Hong Kong. It's clear who runs the show here. Carrie Lam is universally despised (her approval ratings make Trump look like Mother Theresa). Nobody respects authority anymore. It's clear in daily life.
The male equivalent of those styles can be found in the realm of gay fashion.
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Every empire fails.
I’ve always wondered if, hypothetically, someone as huge in China as Apple takes a stance and publicly criticizes the CCP, and the CCP do completely block access to the market, how does CCP explain to their people they suddenly won’t be able to get Apple products anymore? Would that actually happen? What are China’s options? Can they seize factories, take over, and keep shipping like nothing’s wrong? Do they let Apple stay but make it hurt financially?
Unprecedented? The firebombing of Tokyo (and before that Dresden) witnessed similar levels of destruction and casualties.
SEPA instant started November 2017. I have 3 banks in 2 SEPA countries, none of them is participating. Not that I would need it, because SEPA transfers which are "free", mandatorily offered by every bank and take only 1 banking day. But there could be use cases for instantaneously.

https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta...
Yeah I stopped wearing my sweat shorts and went back to chinos because it makes me feel more alert and focused. I've never been one to pay much attention to my appearance, but in quarantine I need all the help I can get to stay on task. I'm even thinking of getting some indoor, lace-up shoes and wearing them during the week.
He's pretty much the single most scary philanthropist and possibly influence on our future, judging from these past 6 months.

Based on his talks of:
Worldwide chip tracking of disease.
Destroying encryption worldwide.
You will have quite some intellectual effects before you start coughing. In fact, where we are going with adding co2 to the atmosphere, people will be measurably dumber in 50 years.

Yes, really. Indoors we can easily get as high co2 levels as 1000ppm (starting from 400 something which we have outside now). That has in various studies been connected to upwards of 30% in cognitive decline in some tests like decision making. Simpler tests are also affected, but not as much. Here's an article about a Harvard study: https://archive.thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-lev...

Dry ice in the car without the windows down seems like a bad idea.
I've read it, and just went and read it again. I agree with GP.
Agreed. Let's look at it from a simple emperical standpoint: where does the problem mostly arise, and who has the power to fix it?

Organizations that went through true iterative process to reduce failure rate like NASA figured out that they needed to allow true authority to specific domain experts to blow the whistle and not face reprisal or suffer for it. Oaths fix nothing, you need organizational change, and if someone is going to do that, its the management in charge.
From office to space in 60 seconds
Yes, you didn't, but you weren't really looking, were you?
The community edition of GraalVM is licensed under GPLv2
Angular security best practices: blog and cheatsheet PDF to download
I think shock, depression, anger, disbelief, the mechanics of where to put the rotting fish... like there was a tree down in our front yard, every store was closed in a 40 mile radius, power was out to most of Houston... but yea hindsight being 20/20 i would have relocated the fish to a house with a generator. it was a really dark time man.
It was not a hard thing to infer. There is a very particular kind of deep ignorance one needs to write a comment like OP's.
> Whatever happened to practical, well-wearing clothes for gold miners?

They went the same way as the gold miners.
If the power infrastructure hasn't been restored yet, what are the odds of trash being collected?

The freezer at least contains the smell a bit. That fish outdoors in the heat could start smelling even worse.
Keep in mind that everything with some amount of sugar or salt has a thaw point below 0 degrees. Practically all of your food will have thawed by the point the ice melts - so you’re dumping a lot of energy into freezing water that will be mostly useless at the point disaster strikes.

Adding salt to your water will substantially lower the thawing point and it’s still cheap and widely available.

If you want to prep for cases when you need water you’d be better off keeping your freezer cold with a suitable medium and have a few 30liter buckets of water with some sort of additive that prevents spoilage (silver ions for example) or have some packs of bottled water around.
You are interpreting what he said to fit your understanding, he "literally" did not say what you describe as conclusion.

Also, sad to see the actual meaningful content of the article gotten less attention.
I’m going to get downvoted for saying this but I will.

The wealthiest people on the planet who actually influence what governments do prioritize wealth accumulation above nationalism presently. If they didn’t every nation wouldn’t be so in bed with each other at this point.

The aggression is a display of power and generate a ‘feeling’ of superiority to keep a population content.

There won’t be a war. We’ll only see large scale wars again when our environment collapses and wealth extraction is no longer the number one priority. Having food, water, and other natural resources that were once plenty go scarce will cause war.

Perhaps this will never happen but I’m assuming it will. The wealth extraction phase will continue to abuse our planet at peak efficiency until Earth can no longer handle it. Then you will have war.
Why is that a good freedom?
Good data point !

Maybe next time try it with a top loaded freezer instead and see what happens.

Sorry about the freezer, but it was in the interest of science.
Depends how much people like to (or need to) reach out. I don't think it's mainly technical. I started late in my profession (land planning / ecology) while most started during uni so grew up with their network so they don't need to develop one - that's part of what I think is going on.

Also I don't see many traditional professionals as wanting to reach out and I find it enjoyable, and remunerative.

I have a wordpress blog (found via bt w3 site) and two twitters so not too walled that helps me reach out and be more findable. Self-hosting would take me too long to read up on as seem to be many options but I suspect most are unfit.
Approximating Randomness
The more important question is, why you seems to be supporting putting 120,000 people to camps based on the fact, that 3 people helped the pilot.
Maybe you got the logic wrong?

This arrest is actually an opportunity to test if the new security law has some merits. Jimmy Lai has the resource to defend himself in court. Let's wait for it to unfold.
The pangram one needs to have "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow."
I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India
> Nature changes over time. Our laws and regulations however do not get updated to reflect the times. That is the reason why human progress is slow. It's because humans don't change. That is the root cause of all evil. Humans like the comfort of not having to change.

That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard today. It took a billion plus years for nature to come up with humans and about ten thousand years for us to go from written language to causing a mass extinction. To call such a comparison "hyperbolic" would be an understatement.
There is even some restored tram cars from that time still in use:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33148281
When did I make that argument?
GLab v1.8.0
A new version of GLab release with support for new commands and bug fixes.
GLab is a Gitlab Cli tool bringing GitLab to your command line.

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This website is gold
Think of how many people were as smart and hard working as he started out? How many of them are sucessful as he is?
I'd seriously rather support them, than people like you: individuals, who have basically nothing to support their claims that "everything will be ok", but sincerely believe that everybody around must be a "conspiracy nutjob" and must be wrong by default. Just because I like to err on the safe side, and people like you are more dangerous for society than these nutjobs (simply by virtue of being paranoid).
Yeah, many ways. Besides what the article describes there are at least 5-10 known attacks at the moment.
Thatcher did not “hand over” anything - the lease of HK would expire in 1997, so the UK government had no legal basis to stick around unless the Chinese allowed them to. Unsurprisingly, a “restored” China, now nuclear, said no. Thatcher failed to persuade them otherwise, despite years of negotiations, and was effectively forced to swallow the handover.
Well hello? it's not like Apple setup their manufacturing in Hongkong or something. Apple and Taiwan businessman purposely setup factories in mainland China for its exploitable cheap work force and government subsidies of the supply chain.

For the mainland Chinese' perspective, it's just HK people's "privilege" being stripped, HK's special status are gone and just like another average Chinese city so what's the outcry?
Go outside look at the non-sunset sun, it's white.

Look at photo's on the internet, it's clearly white.

Being clever about scattering blue is wrong. If it did change the color of the sun to yellow during the day, the clouds would be yellow around it like sunset clouds.

The only 'clever' answer why it's not white might be, that small part of the day when people see it without pain, it is yellow.

If you had never seen a sunset or sunrise or a NASA false color sun image or a crayon drawing as a kid, you'd be adamant it is white.

This is what the article is about, people here while trying to be smart still don't seem to get it is actually white most of they day. There is no trick, no optical illusion, it's just a simple question about a thing we are told not to look at.

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.htm...
There's no switching hardware in these photos. It's an IBM System/360 installation, and everything is IBM System/360 Blue [1], not AT&T/WE. The same branding is still used today.

https://www.ibm.com/design/language/color/

DEC used similar colours in their mainframes

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/PDP-10_1...

But varied the colours for minis

http://www.pdp-11.nl/museum-center-group.jpg

Interestingly, it has become traditional to use blue (and teal) to indicated advanced technology:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/expanse/images/c/c6/Prot...

[1] Also available in rust/red, not shown here.
US WeChat Ban Could Make iPhones in China Useless
> Why did it take us so long to recognise this?

It didn't take us long. Schemers did multiple dispatch at least 40 years ago. SICP explains how to do it.

(Arguably, both R and Julia are Lisp dialects under the hood, just disguised behind a more arcane syntax. Which goes to show that 'practioners' take Lisp seriously exactly as long as they don't know it's Lisp.)
That's why Smith also talks about a new DIGITAL GENEVA CONVENTION - not just a code for devs - so there is a defined framework for everyone in the chain.

Pls excuse the caps, but too many people seem to ignore this very important part of his argument here.
I'm happy with language interoperability as a concept but how can i mix java and js in the same codebase with graalvm? And would it make sense? What are the advantages of this approach?
Just check out cases of VW software devs who added code for emission test cheating. Check out the case of dev who was copy-pasting code at Toyota.

Illegal stuff is illegal because not knowing the law is no excuse. For your own safety and good, you better have some grasp on legal stuff in your domain. Don't have to be an expert.
How I'd love to see something like classic ThinkPads again: completely self-serviceable and upgradeable with plenty of parts and lots of support available. So sick of glue and crazy proprietary chips and boards.
More like an oath for company directors. No single engineer will make the world destroying AI on their own it will be made by companies getting more and more desperate for people to click their ads.
Startup Emrod says it can transfer electricity wirelessly
Here in The Netherlands, instant electronic payments with your debit card (pinnen) has been widely available since 1990. People sometimes used cheques before that, but even then it was rare. Most large payments happened by "Acceptgiro". It's a form that the sender would mail to the bank to authorize a payment to another bank account. Not sure if there's a proper English name for it.
You also have a much easier route to fixing issues, since there will be far less politics involved. Probably you will also have a deeper understanding of the code since you wrote it.
Running a design systems drop-in clinic
If you're looking for an IDE for polyglot programming, GraalVM provides an extension for VSCode:

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/tools/vscode

and supports the LSP:

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/tools/lsp
> if Apple PR ever says the /wrong/ then then Foxconn would immediately find their factories closed and Apple wouldn't have their latest iPhone available come October - and Christmas.

Is that something China could realistically do without irreparably harming themselves in the process though? It’s not just Apple’s supply chain that goes through China, it’s everybody’s. And once China demonstrates they are willing to do that, everybody is going to see a China-based supply chain as a gigantic business risk and look elsewhere. Apple can weather that kind of setback, but it would be an existential threat for most businesses and they would need to be proactive. Apple would go elsewhere and lay down the infrastructure, then everybody else would follow in their footsteps.

As far as I can see, China can throw their weight around to a certain extent but their hands are tied when it comes to stronger action because "Apple’s PR saying the wrong thing" is nowhere near as harmful to them as companies diversifying their supply chains en masse.
Please would someone remind me about how and why the Hippocratic oath began
I admit that I read the code and completely overlooked the single equals sign. Makes me wonder why it would be so easy to change the userid. Shouldn’t there be some safeguards in place to stop the userid from being updated from unsafe places.
Isn't the freezing temp of vodka too low? I've kept vodka in the freezer, and it never actually freezes. In order to get the benefit described during a power outage, you need something that will be frozen at normal freezer temps, but will melt before the food starts thawing.
your comment and its parent reminded me of this:

https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
I think the one strap shoulder bag also is more comfortable when it is extremely hot and humid: a backpack would make your entire back soaked in sweat.
Here's an anecdote echoing many of the other comments:

I attended an event about AI ethics a couple of years ago, many of the panelists were getting very excited about the upcoming AI eithics guidlines from the IEEE and how it would set a gold standard for state level AI development. They were completely unaware that the IEEE already has a general code of ethics[0], which many governments implicitly require engineers in certain roles to ignore.

[0] https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html
Men's fashion currently has no mainstream style that shows off athleticism. Sleeveless crop-tops, with abs and shoulders on display! Shorts with flare for muscular thighs, allowing them to be shorter! Semi-sheer panels, allowing for pecs to bulge! Mesh sections in pants! What's wrong with men showing a little skin for once?