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NASA's InSight lander is located on the surface of Mars. There are no synthetic objects on Phobos (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Nokia takes a hit as Samsung secures Verizon 5G deal
20 minutes from alarm clock to getting on the bus is unrealistic by an extremely wide margin. High school students typically shower, eat breakfast and get dressed at the very least.
Minor note:
The puzzlement around gene-selection isn't, "Why so fast?" but "Why so fast and LATE (between 3000 and 1500 years ago)?"
I'm not sure that 'news' has ever been anything other than what we see today.

The only exception is the breadth of journalism and news.

Look at the roots of yellow journalism [0]. The issues about headlines over substance are the exact same issues that we have toady with Twitter and the like. Only now, there isn't a fold to worry about.

Look at the Jefferson v Adams 1800 election [1]. It was nasty. The mudslinging, theft, and accusations feel right at home with today's political press. Such 'news' isn't much different than today, maybe with the exceptions of Benjamin Franklin running the presses.

Look at Cicero after the Social War [2]. He took on explicitly political cases and his life was on the line for doing so. Roman politics is cut-throat, for sure, but this just shows how humans do or do not change. The rumors, oration, and 'news' of those pre-printing press times sure sounds a lot like any talking-head cable news show. Though I imagine that the Latin is somewhat lost in translation.

The point is: News and journalism has always been like this. The technology is sure a lot different. You can get endless front-pages from every hamlet on the globe. But the underlying mechanism, that of yellow-journalism, rage, emotion, etc. That is an underlying part of us and is likely to remain so.

One book I love about the deep-down mechanics is John Quincy Adam's Rhetoric and Oratory [3]. It's a great dive into the nuts and bolts of getting an audience to listen to you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_presidentia...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero#Public_career

[3] https://archive.org/details/lecturesonrheto02adamgoog/page/n...
It sounds like he can sue for lost and potential lost salary for sure. This is not a legitimate reason to fire him if he was doing it innocently. Students could have said something and he could have avoided it I suppose. However whenever I hear the term "microaggressions" I know I'm talking with an idiot who values being emotional over being logical and just stop the conversation.
Yeah I don't actually like ReasonML and don't think it should exist. OCaml's syntax is great and easy to use.

Ocaml is a seriously underrated language and would be my goto choice for developing a native or webapp.

I would still use Scala for backend development, though. The JVM is kind of a drag, though.
Gross Domestic Misery Is Rising
This really makes me want to see someone recreate the Sony Mavica digital camera using a Pi and a USB floppy drive. Those things were awesome back around 1999. Would be pretty straight forward.
Scientists predict unprecedented magnitude of mammal extinctions in near future
> customize the UI of IDEs and hide menus and such

That's not even half of it. TUI programs are designed to be keyboard driven from the start, not as an afterthought. All the IDEs I'm aware of are hopelessly outclassed here. There's also things like registers, column editing, and the buffer abstraction which make common tasks less cumbersome. The list continues.

It's not that one tool can be used for a task that the other can't; rather it's just better at it from my perspective (given my particular workflow and toolchain). For me, there's a significant ergonomic difference which makes for a more pleasant process overall.

Is keeping a clean and orderly workspace "just a game"? What about using the best (from your perspective) tool for the job? I imagine different people will care about these things to different degrees.

As you point out, perhaps for some there's primarily another motive (exercise control, irritate a coworker, maintain an appearance, ...). That's not mutually exclusive though and it's hardly unique to programming.
Better than drawing red-lines that won't be enforced like previous administrations often do.
I have a friend that is a model. Proper model (photoshoots, catalogues, shoes, hair)(she is a perfect10). She is also a fierce muai-thai fighter. To the point that I saw her training and I was scared (I don't get scared easily). She sometimes shows up to gigs like that. When others drink alcohol, she drinks one RedBull. When guys get frisky, she gets punchy. People use her for her beauty and to post photos on Instagram, and she is cashflowing a nice pension fund.
That’s a very interesting idea.

Any suggestions on what kinds of assignments that would work better or worse in such a setting?

Many of the consultants I’ve seen in IT are more like regular employees except that they are employed buy the consultants. (I.e. they sit in the client’s office 40 h/week.) But I guess there are other ways to do it.
HAMT are efficient for persistent data structures, compared to more usual trees.

They’re slower and less efficient than a mutable hashmap, but way more so if you need to keep the “old revisions” around.
Not everything has to be linked with the US politics. US has strong democratic institutions. Regardless of your opinion on Trump, he is not a dictator like Lukashenko.
Wishful thinking. About the surplus, I mean.
I am not sure "afford" is the right word. If someone needs a guarantor, it means they can't qualify for the loan.
That is not even close to the same thing. Or relevant, except as a distraction.
Wait why not just write a clock program yourself? Was the point that you would also use Chromium once out of kiosk mode?
Interesting. Do you mean solution architect kind of assignments?
The comment at the end is spot on:

Please know that there are many people that support you and are sick of this hyper-sensitive, McCarthyism-like environment that is being fostered across the country."

My view on this is it's the culmination of years of anti free speech trends on campus. It's a sad day when universities which should be bastions of tolerance, exploration and ideas have their culture consistently chipped away at by people who get "triggered" so easily.
even though it's canadian $ it seems highly overpriced. A raspberry pi of the last generation for almost double the price of the current gen (36$)?

And 3d printing 340$.. did the author mean buying the 3D printer too? Because I'm sure if you have a friend who has a printer they can print it for 10$ and they make a 8$ profit with that.
Author here!
I'm fantastically pleased to see our small nixers community get this much attention. If you're interested in similar discussions, be sure to join us on the forums and IRC (freenode #nixers_net).
I think that microaggressions are real, that language really has import, and I've been noticing those kinds of things more and more on a daily basis. But this is entirely unwarranted and a gross overreaction.

Having said that, I also understand the terror that this kind of issue generates in organisations. Imagine you're the dean of an institution in an environment where people only read the headlines in their Facebook news feeds. I can easily imagine the headline "Marshall School of Business refuses to discipline lecturer who repeatedly said the n-word in class" followed by a dissembling write-up of angry students and vague mentions of the fact it wasn't intentional. This kind of thing can turn into a reputational firestorm and do real long-term damage to student recruitment.

Deans of educational institutions are between a rock and a hard place. If they were in charge of the narrative, it would be possible to be reasonable and say "This wasn't something to be upset about, and here's why". But they rarely are in charge of the narrative and want to shut these issues down as quickly as possible.

I can imagine a reasonable way forward might be to get the students and lecturer together to talk over the issues, and have a nuanced discussion about differing languages, much like what's happening in some of the comments here. But by the time you've organised that the firestorm is well underway and the damage is already done.
Why would you kill your compile times like that.
ISIS was not a significant player at the beginning of the events in Syria. And Assad helped ISIS by freeing men [1], then not really targeting it during the first part of the war. ISIS (and other extremist) were fighting against other Assad's enemies, and it help portraying all opposition as dangerous extremists

edit : [1] https://www.newsweek.com/how-syrias-assad-helped-forge-isis-...
It's a common mistake comparing Ukraine situation with Belarus. In Belarus we don't fight between pro-EU or pro-Russia. We have deep connections with Russia. Everyone speaks russian language.

Our fight is about basic human rights. It's about nation-wide abuse. Everyone in Belarus feel like they being raped and tortured and now the rapist is saying to us - "hey it's your fault that you was raped". A 16-years old boy who was tortured by the police(and it's not a figure of speech https://www.voiceofbelarus.com/how-to-save-timur/) and who was in coma — arrested again.

If your question about the violence from the people - i don't believe it will happen, because this is exactly what Lukashenko wants. He sold us to Russia. We have so-called Union state with Russia where Putin have legal right to move here his troops if people will turn peaceful protests to the so-called Maidan.

Without Russia, Belarus would be free already.
Why is this on hacker news? Is not this website supposed to be about technology and all things related? Or is related = anything goes?
Actually, I don't think I missed anything.

I'm aware that their argument is very rooted in the status quo, and I agree that current infrastructure is a big roadblock to adoption of new technologies (in fact, you may have missed that part of my comment), but if they wanted to allow for eventual adoption of new technologies then they should have said so. Instead, their comment dismissed this new technology as impractical today without addressing the future at all, which I think is an incomplete analysis and potentially harmful if it were to be applied by the people actually making decisions about which developing technologies to invest in. That's why I replied.
I tried this the other day since amazon.de kept bugging me about it. But what's the point. Like is it cheaper for Amazon than Mastercard?

If I pay with my mastercard I get a notification instantly and the money disappears. With SEPA-Lastschrift it takes ages and makes budgeting difficult.
Satire is at its best when it doesn't obviously look like one.
Cool! Had you been working there for long before suggesting that?
If Belarus didn't sign or ratify it then what's the relevence? Not saying the situation isn't dire anyway but it seems like when the EU gets mad at the US for not acknowledging their toy court.
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They mean a backup way to take phone calls, not backup 911 centers.
when they said "oh my god" (dildo in French)

They were probably confused because you were mixing English 'oh my' with the well known Québecois word for a small penguin (un gode).
Then try saying out loud that it's not "covid" but the wuhan virus and see how censorship is not working anymore.
I agree. I got a similar call that my dad was killed at work when I was in my early 20s. Due to the circumstances I'm not convinced it wasn't intentional on his part, and in some odd ways I get a bit of relief from that. It was devastating to me, but watching my wife and the mother of my children go through a tortuous 26 months of treatments, unrelenting pain, cycles of hope and despair, various indignities and ultimately passing in a confused state was orders of magnitude worse.
I (don't) look forward to the future where the translation for "I have a black car" in Spanish would be "tengo un auto n-asterisco-asterisco-asterisco-asterisco"...
I think: lose enough ego and entitlement, and you can not only find peace with death but even see it as a truly "happy ending" given the wondrous experiences of the uncountable people that will come after you (and what a petty, selfish distinction whose experiences those are is).

But that's not easy. It seems to take years of thinking about death almost daily and thinking about space and time[0] and history and stuff. And maybe psychedelics, although I never tried those yet.

0: https://youtu.be/5TbUxGZtwGI
Interesting that it's "don't guarantee loans" and not "only guarantee loans if you are comfortable never seeing the money again."
This is why I love remote work. Studies [0] show that most office workers work only 2.5 hours a day on average, with the rest being socializing, procrastinating, surfing the web, and so on. If I can get my work done in 4 hours a day, I'll have done more work and have more free time, since managers in an office expect you to be there for 8 hours a day, but not so for remote.

[0] https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...
I think that's a great point and I'm absolutely not going to do that - I can't bring myself to imagine my children will die before me.
A beginner’s guide to SSH for remote connection on Linux
Work a remote job, and finish your work quickly every day.
The Coddling of the American Mind is good deep dive on this and helps explain the phenomenon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NVFT5P/
“If you account for the batteries needed” - eeeek, this is anti-renewable propaganda. These systems are proliferating all over the world without batteries today.

The scenarios people posit that lead to that kind of propaganda don’t really exist at scale.
Interesting. Seems like it also could backfire…? If what is expected to get done needs 40 h.
The girls are not idiots, so they will attempt to take advantage of their proximity to money. But usually, that's not working too well.

Right. If you've had the opportunity to talk frankly with women from the actress/model/waitress set, of which there are far too many in LA, you hear how it's not working. It's fun when young, but not a career path. The number of models worldwide who make more than an entry-level Google employee is less than 100.

A typical model job is catalog photography: "OK, the next outfit is #4527, the tan blouse on the second rack, and hurry it up, we have 50 more to do before lunch." The high point of a friend's career was being in a McDonalds commercial that ran nationally.
Partition.js
I think it's best to just think about processes instead of specifically saying "GenServer". GenServer is just one way to interact with processes. For example, if you wanted to run something in the background that doesn't hold any state you could use a task like: `Task.start_link(fn -> some_long_running_function() end)` (though technically I do believe Tasks use the GenServer API behind the scenes). You can also create and manage processes yourself with `spawn` though it's not recommended unless you REALLY know what you're doing though I think even then there are many use-cases for this (but again, not very experienced here).

Also yes, LiveView does indeed have one process for each one! The GenServer API is available in your LiveView modules.
Something strange happens on Mars during a solar eclipse
I tried this and struggled. After taking a break from full-time developer work, I reached out to multiple tech companies via personal referrals. Everyone said that they’d love me full time, but couldn’t have a part-time hire. I got a lot of soft brush-offs to “reach out when you have more availability.”

Out of the blue, however, a former employer reached out to me and offered to hire me for as many (or as few) hours as I could handle, which has worked out to 10-25 a week. It’s been a really nice arrangement that I’ve enjoyed. The catch is that this company is in a completely different industry, with a completely different pay scale than tech. So I’m happy with my job, but wouldn’t be able to support myself on it with part-time hours if I was the only household earner.
It’s really just anything hackers would find interesting. Generally it spans tech and startups but also occasionally branches out to other sciences, art, politics and other subjects.
How to succeed at high intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts on your own
I work remote at a startup. I don't think that's a repeatable strategy but it does allow me to work very little hours throughout the week and spend most of my time relaxing with my family. It also helps being decent enough at my job that I can finish a week's worth of work in a couple hours at home. I imagine as the company becomes more mature I'll be working even less than I am now.
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https://archive.vn/CJ9TW
Yes, it's almost perfect, it's just a little small (I'd prefer at least 6"x2" like the Alphasmart) and sold out.
What Whiplash Teaches Us About the “Sink or Swim” Method in Engineering
Do you work remotely now? If so may I ask how many hours of work you put down on average? (If you rather not share that I totally understand.)
“The Abandonment of Clean Algos Is the Suicide of Mainstream Social Media”
What makes you consider them “rogue”?
The U.S. didn’t respond with military force but you may recall the sanctions which were apparently motivational in Putin’s decision to become more involved in steering the next U.S. election to Trump.

The main advantage now is that nobody is kidding themselves about the level of possible outcomes but this time it’s largely the EU having to take the lead with an unusually passive US government.
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Russia took Crimea in response of having "lost" Ukraine following a pro-west colored revolution, that had probably helped by foreign interests (USA is probably part of the equation)... Crimea was quite already Russian anyways... Following what happened, USA and the west put economic sanctions against Russia
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Damn, the process there is more time intensive than anything else. I'd just skip it, trash the stale bread and do a 10 minute grocery trip. How much is a loaf anyway? $10?
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For many people, myself included, this is a primary source for my news. Having the biggest bits of what is happening in the world is helpful. If people find it interesting enough to vote this up... I'm okay with that.
If Putin makes it clear that doing anything except imposing mild sanctions against Belarus equals to attacking Russia, then nobody will raise a finger. China doesn't care, the EU has too much economic interest in maintaining good relationships with Russia, and Trump won't do anything either, because if he does, then Putin begins to talk.
It's the first word you hear repeated in China, like kurwa (that one is vulgar) in Polish.
So do rivers and animal migrations.

http://www.geologypage.com/2019/11/studying-the-snowmelt-epi...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25618038/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251437544_Seismic_w...

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/elephants-predict-...
A stark reminder that democracy is neither inevitable nor guaranteed. A truth which desperately needs thoughtful consideration by US voters heading into November.
It's certainly possible. Some people do it in my company. Either working part-time, or contracting. A lot of things are possible, but it depends on how hard you're willing to try, and how valuable you are for your employer.
No but i've heard good things. May give that a try. Thank you.
Weren't there news of people getting snatched by unmarked vans in the US too just a few weeks ago?
As someone who is also quite a bit left, the actions of the university admins is just aggravatingly dumb. I'd ask you to have nuance and don't classify all the "left" as this idotic, hopefully you're not as reductionist as the people who got "offended"..
Interesting to find this in HN. Of course I hope for the best outcome, but I don't think it's achievable.

The way I see it there is no real opposition leaders, because they are in jail. This women triumvirate, whom were not leaders themselves was probably surprised themselves amount of support they got.

There seemingly is no plan by the opposition, other than hope that the regime turns on the Lukashenko. When that happens and there is no organized opposition, the regime just grows a new head. Which I guess would be a some sort of success.

Democracy (and the values it embodies like freedom of speech and assembly) is an agreement among the elite. If there is no agreement among the elite then democratic values has little chance surviving.
even money it was done on behalf of (though not necessarily at the direction of) a foreign power.

Why on earth would you assume that? What are the relatively likelihoods of it being Satanists, alien mind-worms or Marxist-Feminists versus an agent of a foreign power?
Amazon's Vector power smart meter deal harvests data of 'how you live your life'
not that simple when you have people pinging you and asking questions or meetings, etc etc. i mean you can just slack off maybe after doing several hours of deep work, but theres no way you can just log off and go do your own thing without anybody noticing
> what would anyone external power do?

"The EU is Belarus' second main trade partner, representing 18.1% of the country's overall trade in goods, reaching almost €11 billion in 2019...increasing by 45% over the last 10 years" [1].

In addition, the U.S. and EU have massive trade relations with Russia. There are many non-military mechanisms for deterring Putin. What's unclear is whether the Belarusians are worth the cost.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/coun...
I would rather try a diplomatic solution than openly extend a hand of friendship to a dictator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%27s_disclosures_o...) or even turn a blind eye.

He seems to think he is the one who can "solve" Russia, but he is being played like a fiddle.

I'm getting a little sick in the mouth of the "I'm alright jack" political commentary often seen on hackernews, are you saying it's better to do nothing or should Obama have invaded the Middle East again?
I haven't seen a single American kid who could get ready for school (eat breakfast, get dressed, etc) in 20 minutes. I believe you that it's different in the UK, but in the US you need to budget at least an hour for this.

Then, when I was a child I'd spend about 45 minutes to an hour on the bus, which would normally arrive at the school about 30 minutes before start time as a buffer in case things were slow. This was decades ago, but my understanding is it hasn't changed that much.

School actually started at around 8:00, but we still had to wake up before 6:00 in order to get there on time.
You could also try training from other palettes but it does look really good! Adding a grays would be key.
I work 4 days on, 3 off. Not quite what you’re looking for, but along the same lines.

Has been no issue at all. Never has been.

What I do see with my 3on/4off colleagues (usually students) is that they lack any sort of continuity in their work. Not enough time to tackle larger problems in one go and always missing out on how the smaller pieces fit together. On top of that a lot off friction when handing things off, etc.

Surely it can be done better, etc etc.
I agree that the lack of polymorphism is annoying. A solution to this would be modular implicits. This would allow the built-in currying to work as well.
China to Launch Initiative to Set Global Data-Security Rules
True question: why is it on the second page of HN despite score? Is it because political? It's some kind of "flagged but not quite" system?