skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should clarify: I meant to say that the first line was trying to indicate the comment was not specifically focused towards arguing for or against the weapon.
Any rule is universally applicable if the rule narrowly defines the target ;P.
Well, to pick some nits, if radio waves didn't work the same way, that would be a pretty fundamental shift in physics, to the point of throwing all our assumptions out the window about our observational evidence.
>Buddhism is politically quietist traditionally,

I am not a scholar but what little I know of East Asian history strongly suggests otherwise, particularly in Japan, where even today one of the biggest and most active political parties (Komeito) is just the political wing of a Buddhist sect (Soka Gakkai.) Any religion which is adopted by the elite class becomes politically active. Buddhism is no different that Christianity, Judaism or Islam in this regard.
They were looking for eclipses - when something blocks the signal they’re observing. In this case, they noticed the X-rays they were looking at were blocked for a few hours. There’s more to it, but the article actually does a good job of explaining it all.

There’s not really any way for us to prove if it exists or not today, that information is still quite far away. The best we can do is try to understand the system and make predictions about that.
> the one true killer feature for fast development cycles: a REPL.

I've been a python dev for about a decade.

I do use the REPL a couple times a week, but I wouldn't really call it "essential".

How do people use it that makes it so valuable?

Usually I just use it when trying to figure out how to parse some text or check what methods or properties are available on an object. Really nothing that I couldn't do in a test suite or the code itself.
Thank you Google for giving this story life and thus letting me know about LBRY.
Districts are hugely internally diverse in income and funding spend.

Budgets were ballooning but not being spent on hiring more teachers to teach. Class sizes are huge.

Bottom half of households wage is stagnant over past 50 years.
The very underrated movie "Redbelt" kind of addresses it. It's not about enlightenment, but the challenges of following a warrior's ethos in a modern world. It includes job, money, friendship, legal, and marriage challenges and the main character struggles to stay true to himself and his code throughout.

The ending scene is magnificent.
That’s a different argument sure, but that’s not the argument here.
Hmm, if memory serves, there was an old paper from 2013 that viagra might help with womens' period pain. (Dilates the blood vessels, right?)

Did follow-up studies for that ever happen? Was it affirmed/refuted?
Only that Apple's track record for supporting anything long term, cross platform, "open", is non-existent.

At this point I don't even care about how good their language is. Apple has a very, very long way to go before I can trust them on anything of that magnitude. I would instead assume they WILL pull the rug from under developers for any random reason.

(And I say this as an iOS developer)
I thought Edge was now a paint job over Chrome?
What you are describing is essentially what MacOS does. E.g. on a Retina display with a 2880x1800 screen, Apple used to render “2x” assets to a 2880x1800 buffer, so that it has the same amount of space as a 1x 1440x900 screen. If you want more space (which is now the default), it renders using 2x assets to a 3400x2000 or 3840x2400 buffer (these numbers are approximate), then scales it down to 2880x1800. So it’s never scaling anything up, only down. Of course it’s still not as sharp as rendering at the native resolution. Using 3x assets wouldn’t help unless the actual resolution of the screen was higher.
Just in that there's a package already?
All of them.

Craftsmanship of most forms (think all the disciplines that intersect with you from mechanics to electrical to woodworking to concrete to have) directly impact your ability to think broadly about a project and have lots to teach.

Philosophy and political science and sociology and psychology give you insight in how to approach disagreements and nurture consensus on plans of action.

The liberal arts like art, history, or writing help relate things to others and help foster your ability to recognize beauty and elegance, which can help you identify where a solution is great or lacking.

Fashion, graphic design, animation, video editing, sound editing, etc. are easier to see the correlate, but design in everything will help you make better designs and push toward them.

Learning basically anything will help you get better insight into other topics by building up connections and scaffolding to make things more relatable and approachable to you. So learn everything, because everything you do is informed and supported by everything you know. This same advice applies to every aspect of life and every career.
IIRC, we wouldn't be able to pick up our own broadcasts from Alpha Centauri because of the loss of radio transmission power. I doubt we would know if an alien civilization was transmitting at us, even if it was trying to get our attention.
In principle it's not much different than any one time purchase. Each consumer can afford a certain amount and they prioritize which to buy that month.

The rich just subscribe to everything, others who are at their limit have to prioritize and draw the line somewhere.
Ask HN: What's your favorite language comment convention?
The two most prevalent conventions are by far C style with forward slashes, and using # to comment out single lines (python, and often in config files). Some languages have their own differing conventions, e.g. HTML with <!-- -->, % in matlab, ; in NASM and other assembly languages, etc.

Working with multiple languages frequently now I often mix them up. Do you have any comment syntax preferences?
If the tax brackets are 0% for the first $5, and 50% for the second $5, then if you pay one person $10, $7.5 goes into worker pockets. If you pay two people $5, then $10 goes into worker pockets.
We play a fun game at work. It’s called “code parkour”. You can always add more code. You can always move code into a new class or module. But nobody may ever delete anything.
But the funny thing is Emacs has neither of those. There is no real "API" or "plugin system". Just code. You can copy a function off the internet and paste it into editor and now it is part of your Emacs. And you can modify any of the existing code as much as you please. That is the lesson of Emacs.
Totally 80s.

I remember swiping the piezo lighters out of the gas heaters at highschool, and using them to glitch free games in Asteroids and PacMan machines...
> build something 50% to production and tell 50% of a compelling story

This seems like exactly what a hackathon should be, a quick hack, proof-of-concept, prototype, etc that you can use to tell the story of what it can be when done to 100%. What's the point am I missing here?
Do you have any reason to not see it in the light of your first alternative reading? I would not necessarily have put it that way myself, but on seeing you do so, it resonated.
> I do have friends without kids who program 10+ hours most days. They love it. I just need another 24 hours in each day, I guess.

I agree that once one has a family priorities change. Regarding the friends who program 10+ hours most days who don't have a family to go to, I think I was just like this a while ago. But thinking back I really think that is not a sustainable thing, especially if coupled with bad habits such as eating whatever comes your way and ignoring any physical exercise the body needs. It really does not look too healthy to me and wish I realized this a bit sooner than I did.
I agree with you, in parts, but: actual philosophy and meditation is not meant for you to be more productive at your job, or not need sleep to be able to work extra hours, or anything like that.

But it would help you worry less about things that can't be helped, and focus on this that can. It would help lessen the mental strain that we have for not being able to do more, or help us deal with the marriage problems in a way that it affects you less during your work hours.

You still have to work, still have sickness, marriage problems. But being better at separating those things, and suffering less because of the problems, is really beneficial
Isn't Eclipse basically the modern Emacs?

It's a plugin management system that happens to be shipped with a set of plug-ins targeted at serving as an IDE, written in Java instead of Lisp.
> if it's 23 million light years way from us, is it possible that the planet no longer exist at all?

Yes, in the same way that if the sun were to suddenly go out, we wouldn't find out for eight minutes (the time that it takes for light from the sun to reach the earth).
I know, “memory is cheap,” but still...
Not quite as bad at a diesel pump.
In my opinion it's just easy to do wrong. Most uses I've seen (at least in java land) are attempts at non-blocking io which ends up turning the whole application into observables from bottom up. Which in turn makes your app hard to debug and reason about.

When done right, when you actually need the observer pattern, and use it as an event queue I'm sure it's probably amazing though.
Because, as stated, the problem can easily be circumvented. Much easier in fact than getting to the DIMMs on the MB (in many other laptops which prioritize low weight and thinness, there wouldn't even be that option unless you're comfortable with a SMD rework station).

Agreed, if the memory would be deteriorating (who knows by which process), the device ought to be replaced. It hasn't however in the last three years, so that seems to have been a singular event (not sure if cosmic rays can permanently damage a RAM cell, but those things are tiny now).

It's much more cost effective to use software to work around hardware failures, then to rely on (never perfectly) dependable hardware -- compare Google FS vs IBM Mainframe.
Nice! I hear Turkey is awesome. I’ve lived in Casablanca but haven’t explored east of Algeria. Turkey is definitely on the list - thanks for the suggestion.
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> The rich just subscribe to everything

I’m pretty rich and I pirate things rather than having a million separate streaming accounts - out of moral concern as much as convenience.
this is not a boring language, it has a lot of complexity.
I prefer simple but interesting language, f# comes to mind.
Damn, that actually works
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
The TCJA did not increase spending.

We’ve just been spending more on Medicare and Social Security YoY.
Thank you! Was fuzzy on this
That is always a solid recommendation
I think I found something trying to communicate. I surmised it was intelligent from the pattern. It appeared to be sending a tone, with pauses between each note. I tried to replicate the same frequency back through my interferometer. I could continue to detect that the same pattern persisted but it never seemed to change. It would only fade in and out of my detection. I eventually was able to record the 20hz pulses on a piece of paper. There was no discernible pattern in between the notes, but the overall expression would repeat itself.
Climate change is real. Markets are not solving for that.

(Subsidies and market theory.)

Hopefully we can utilize market economics to incentivize sustainable development and head off currently accelerating environmental destruction with costs unrecoverable in a human lifetime. Markets absolutely have not solved for global warming. Take a look around: the arctic is burning; CA is burning; the severity, frequency, and costs of weather disasters are significantly increasing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20925127

It is denial or delusion to claim that markets have solved or will solve for long-term environmental and thus economic sustainability.

Some firms - despite the current EPA's denialism, suppression, and appeasements of special interests - have chosen to forego short-term profits in order to achieve (voluntary) Paris Agreement targets. Unfortunately, markets are hardly reinforcing that good decision. Long-term ROI is beyond the attention spans of retail and institutional investors.

Unregulated free markets have resulted in smog-filled cities and polluted drinking water in very many economies.

Europe has had carbon credits for quite awhile. That's a good first step, but it's clearly not sufficient.

There could be yearly tokens for carbon, greenhouse gases, and toxic waste (e.g. the wastewater from washing out coal plants that the current administration has decided to allow to be dumped in our rivers). Speculators and do-gooders could drive up the prices of said tokens.

Is the market choosing the most energy-efficient cryptoasset when there's virtually zero switching cost and plenty of substitute assets? No. That market, at least, is choosing the least energy-efficient alternative; and it appears that nothing but a pan-industry "you can only waste renewable energy on that speculative margin" could be expected to result in capital allocation with long-term environmental security as a rational primary objective.
What advice have you implemented based on the book?

I haven't read it but would love to hear what people have done based on it. I often think about this kind of thing when waiting in line or looking for a carpark. But I have never read anything formal on it outside of my current statistics training.
Miniature lightbulbs works to the same effect. Anything that emit near IR works.
Pretty sure a car battery (at least the old school 12V lead acid type) wont explode from a short. I welded a spanner onto the terminals of one once by clumsily dropping it and having it land across the terminals.

Now I have to go look on youtube, to see if anyone's filmed themselves dropping a spanner across a Tesla's battery...
US has never asked WikiLeaks rival to remove leaked cables, court told
You're on the right track. There are really 3 editors in the world: Vim, Emacs, and <bbedit/eclipse/textmate/sublime/atom/vscode/etc./etc.>

Yes, VSCode will be replaced by something newer and flashier, but the learning curve to switch to it will be minimal.
> Find me the indie developers / startups that cannot be "corrupted" (converted?) and I'll invest as soon as they IPO.

A couple years ago I would have said Bay 12 Games, but they recently sold out to Valve, despite almost (more than?) two decades as independent.

Trust no one, trust nothing.
That what they said about Go but the inclusion of a GC made it only popular among python like programmers.
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Well, that civilization need a sport too.

Flying 100s of huge dudes across the country for a football game isn't a particular efficient use of energy, neither is a Quidditch game with blackholes, all of galaxy tunes in with their gravity wave receivers for the games.
When people talk, statements are made.

I am having trouble imagining a conversation between two people that wouldn’t be considered a news program by your standards. I guess something completely made up like a DnD session?
In the case of Wealthfront, it may be a cultural matter as their CEO specifically believes that negotiating your offer is a negative indicator: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130708151000-56725-offer-co...
Attenuation of radio waves (long membrane) is way too high, that's true, but radio isn't the only way to transmit that we could theoretically pick up. Gravity waves for example would be a way to transmit across the whole universe.
Not even close to it. Anecdotally, most are between low $100k to $400k depending on level, luck and tenure. However stacking RSU appreciation and refreshers can skew those numbers a lot.

The $500k plus is L6+ or Netflix-like companies
Privilige is a lot like talent (i suppose talent is a type of privilige).

Yes it is needed to succeed, and yes it is unfairly distributed. However, people think that's all that is needed to succeed at a high level, where really that is about 5% of what is needed. The other 95% is a lot of hard work and self improvement. Which is hard. I know i personally probably don't have the self control to work hard enough to truly make it big.

For some reason humans seem to fixate on the part of the equation we cannot control, even though its the part that probably matters the least.
Boring in the sense of not being, well, Rust, or a lisp, or an ML derivative or...
> Memory that doesn't remember what was last written is simply not fit for purpose.

IMHO, this means that every memory that's vulnerable to rowhammer and related techniques is defective, and/or has been specified to run at irresponsible refresh timings.

No access pattern should ever be able to change the value of bits not being accessed, that is the definition if faulty memory. And I'm astonished that there isn't a class-action or something.

"Normalization of deviance" comes up a lot lately. It's like the frog being boiled, we just came to accept that 100% of RAM is defective by design.
> Philippines

They are an interesting case.

Masks have been mandatory since April 3. [1]

They have quarantine measures (as you mentioned).

Then on August 5 they made face mask AND face shield mandatory on public transportation. [2]

It then expanded the face mask + shield mandate on Sept 8th [3]

Was their mask mandate effective?

Is any mask mandate effective?

[1] - https://www.osac.gov/Country/Philippines/Content/Detail/Repo...

[2] - https://www.onenews.ph/dotr-face-shield-mask-now-required-fo...

[3] - https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1332539/govt-expands-mandatory...
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I'll tell you: You're wrong, so is OP.

Benching languages against eachother is like pitting birds of prey against eachother, its pointless because they will hunt what they hunt.

This language/framework dispute I though was fever back in bad PHP days has not changed. I'm not saying; 'oh you kids dont know shit' I'm saying the language is not the problem, the problem is the problem, the right tool for said problem is the answer.

You find Swift complex and speak about why, you're not wrong with its application, iOS it does very well, therefore its a tool for an iOS job.

If I grew up just learning Swift and nothin else, I would say swift is the best . Plato's cave springs to mind.

We are all Engineers, Developers, Hackers, Designers and or Code Monkeys.. Don't try to pit against, know the right tool for the job, if you cant find it, make it. With people who can.

I though thats how we roll
yup, basically if this is you:

> But a question nags at you: why can’t the world already know what you know? They’d be so much better off. So much happier.

we can't define "enlightenment" but we can probably name endless things that would not be a central feature of enlightenment. That above would be pretty high on the list.
There is one video about the Kuberentes code base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VNDjwzzKPo and it has nothing to do with Go language iteself, it's about organizing the repo and code strucutre.

Kubernetes is a complex distributed system with over 2M loc, not matter what the language you use there going to be some issues.

It's probably one of the largest open source project out there.
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> If only there were projects that repackaged Emacs together with packages which adapt the program for people who prefer other keybindings. And failing that, maybe Emacs should include some facility for remapping key bindings?

The sarcasm here isn't warranted, the request wasn't for for distros of emacs to exist, but for them to be promoted to prospective users on the emacs website over a bare install.
> I’m keying in, along with the parent, on offers being negotiated at figures like less than 5% on base salary (sometimes far less. talking 5-10k range)

Right, but remember that you're not pivoting around the initial offer number.

The hiring manager is pivoting around their budgeted range for the position. If they already offered 20% more than expected to hire someone and that person comes back requesting an additional 5-10K bump, that could put them 25% higher than expected.

Generally speaking, the people playing hardball to get an extra 5-10K are the same people aggressively negotiating the base salary number. I've given people offers for the exact salary they requested, only to have them come back and request another 5-10K just because they're intent on negotiating more at every step.

Candidly, it starts to become easy to spot the aggressive salary negotiators. Many of us current managers grew up reading things like patio11's negotiation guide back in 2012, and we're basically experts at spotting people using it against us now. When aggressive negotiators come along without an obvious BATNA, the easy method is to offer them 5-10K lower than your final offer and let them "negotiate" back up to your target number. The hiring manager wins the negotiation, but the candidate gets to feel like they succeeded in the negotiation. Happens more than you might expect.
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> Many overclockers hate it and think it's "too extreme" because it causes their otherwise "stable" overclocks to instantly fail.

I guess it's okay to game on a system that's right on the verge of failure; what's the worst that happens, your game crashes, maybe you corrupt a drive? Hopefully there's nothing important on it. But I like your regimen for more serious computing.
Tech sucks for the same reason that Exxon buried their own climate science, or the tobacco industry hid their knowledge of polonium 210 in cigarettes. Capitalist corporations by and large have nothing but amoral contempt for their customers and the general public. Tech can be good, but not within this irrational and obviously decaying economic system.
Kubernetes is exception, not the norm.
Falcon, an async Ruby webserver, is a good example of scaling Ruby with fiber scheduling https://www.codeotaku.com/journal/2018-06/improving-ruby-con...

I'm not sure if Ractor has any real benchmarks yet but it enables genuine parallel Ruby code that communicates through message passing without too much overhead.
Hmm that's an interesting idea. I personally like the idea of "cyberspace" transcending national boundries (i know, eyeroll), which is why i'm a fan of only .com, but your proposal makes a certain amount of sense.
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The people that don't like edgy PL features normally also prefer a clean and simple language with orthogonal design not the big-pile-of-features kind of language though.