skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blocks in Rebol are not a mere "stuff" delineated by square brackets. Rather, it's a heterogeneous container that can hold first-class values and represent both code and data (homoiconic property), thus serving as a base for the syntactically-rich data format.

It also has a well-defined model [1] within the language, and, as such, can be freely operated upon at the run-time.

On a grand scale of language design, blocks form a concrete-syntax tree that can be derived from (or converted to) both textual [2] and serialized binary [3] forms.

Moreso, Rebol's syntax was in fact inspired by Logo. So, the relation between Arturo and Rebol seems to be very superficial; reminds me of Spry [4] that claims to be Rebol-like but is in fact an opinionated Smalltalk.

[1]: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html

[2]: https://pointillistic.com/ren/

[3]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc

[4]: http://sprylang.se/
Seems like the real bug was in his handling of JwtSecurityTokenHandler.

He claims to be an expert on dependency injection with two decades of automated testing experience. I wonder what was so hard about writing a test to cover this scenario?
Well put questions! I would be interested to see answers to each of those questions from the other person
"Laying down" refers to the act of placing soft feathers on a surface to make it more comfortable.

Perfectly reasonable.
I'd you look into the community that hand grinds and figures telescope mirrors, you can learn a lot about how which piece is on top and what motion you use influences the shape you get. Of course, they're going for a curved surface, not a flat one, but I suspect some of the same applies.

To be clear, I haven't done either :-)
May I ask why the distinction is so important? If I properly understood your article you are advocating for diligently paying off technical debt. In isolation this is desirable of course, but in practice we have to choose trade-offs with other objectives. As the grandparent wrote, the things people who call themselves "software engineers" actually _do_ are incredibly diverse, both in domain and scope (compare a 3-week POC by two people to a 2-year project by a team of 5). Different situations call for different trade-offs and the actual value you add as an experienced developer is knowing how to balance the various aspects, one of which is technical debt.
This is fine for an open-ended query like the one given, because you still receive all the relevant data. But if you're looking at a range, for the same reason you have one extra at the end, you also have one missing at the beginning. And you can't just filter away missing data.
If we assume that the restock is 3 times a month (close to the once every 2 weeks that was mentioned in passing), that leaves around 25 visits per day. If they're in close geographic proximity, that seems like it might be doable.
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Well it is a $30 billion market and still (somehow) growing at 10% a year globally..
It's a beauty. Why buy a finished product when you can quickly put something like this together ?
(I hope this isn't too off-topic, but since we're talking about computer desks that accommodate unusual sitting positions...)

Has anyone found a good solution for positioning a mouse and keyboard in front of yourself while sitting on a recumbent exercise bike?

My primary use case is exercising while gaming. I can somewhat get by when playing mostly-mouse turned-based strategies; I put a table next to my bike and use the mouse on that. But it's not good to keep my shoulder at that angle for so long, and I'd like to also play games that require active use of the mouse + keyboard.

So far I haven't found a good match on the market. I could build one myself, but TBH I'd rather not spend the time right now to iterate on the design.
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While I worked in Formula 1, one of my side projects was the Perl compiler. One other side project was phpwiki which became the official knowledge engine of the automotive company.

Interestingly one US company relied on the compiler, needed an updated stable version and could pay much more than in automotive.
So for a while my side project became my main job. But I stopped doing that a while ago, and I'm back to normal.
WebTorrent creator here :) Cool use of WebTorrent!
Debt collectors have made a fortune this year.  Now they’re coming for more
Our GDP today is largely based on intangible services. GDP could have been (and was) lower in the past and still stronger in terms of delivering tangible infrastructure projects.
This isn't true. I personally can use this now, and I now 5 or 6 people who have been trying to do stuff using the Intel USB accelerator or Google Coral who I expect will switch to this at this price point.

Only the MAIX platform has a price advantage over this now, and the software is much less mature.
How did you digest that book? I admire the heck out of his accomplishments but he seems like maybe not such a great person. Not sure he’d be an interesting dinner guest. All the anti-social stuff of a top sportsman but in a position where he simply doesn’t age out of it and have to be a normal person. Not a bad guy, per se, but not someone who’s life you want your to emulate.

Very interesting read, especially about the dynamics. Winning teams have a focus, they don’t run well by committees (look at Ferrari) the difference between a championship and average season is often in the margins and the spaces between the “rules.”
I misremembered, this was the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484

Somebody else had posted his request for help here, but the comments are as I remembered them (though the comment that was first at the time is now the second thread).
The true true way to be arranged in front of a computer is to be duct-taped to the ceiling [0].

[0] https://compete.kotaku.com/15-years-later-heres-why-a-gamer-...
Local processing and video compression for a raw video camera (especially in autonomy applications). The compression in standard IP cameras introduce not only compression artifacts but also latency and jitter. And system scales better with one low cost GPU right at the camera vs trying to process for many cameras at one server.
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USBC power is an improvement though!

Edit: But no WiFi is annoying.
Can you give an example of an algorithm?
It is going to be the theme of Chapter 3 of my DOP book. Stay tuned.
Actually, if you read more Brunner, it looks like we live more in Stand on Zanzibar...
Wouldn't it be preferable, then, to avoid squashing your commits, and then tag your releases? This gets you the best of both worlds, you can still back out to a known good version in case of issues, and you can still bisect to narrow down the exact commit that caused your problem.

Bisect is the killer feature of git, for me. Squashing releases takes that superpower away.
Why wouldn't someone just use a PC for that since it doesn't need to be portable?
The secret to anything in life is simple: Balance. Spend too much time at the extremes and negative results will follow.

This is no different. Sit too long; stand too long; lay down too long. All bad for you in the long term.

I switched from a sitting to a standing desk with a high chair. This allows me to switch between sitting and standing multiple times per day without having to fiddle with the motorized desk too much. I make it a point to go for a short walk a few times a day when I transition from sitting to standing. And exercise is key.

I've seen lots of these desks that allow you to lie down. From my perspective, this is a horrible idea unless there's a solid medical reason for it. In other words, someone with a condition that almost requires it. People in bed at extended care facilities develop all kinds of problems. This is no different. Almost every muscle in your body weakens. Not a good thing. I hate to think what happens to gamers who buy these desks and sit there for ten hours at a time playing. Horrible stuff.

Avoid the extremes at all costs.
It's all explained in the article. These obscure collective nouns started as a joke and aren't used in practice by anyone. However endless trivia lists and pub quizzes say that they are. They are wrong.
The email address standard is hilarious and should be made fun of at every opportunity.

The whole quoted-string commented multiline business (seriously, why?) is rightfully ignored by anyone who's ever made or used a mailserver, but it's still there.
Who is sponsoring in the startup space? Looks interesting otherwise.
UK government missed 16,000 coronavirus cases due to Excel limits
No, he is against people believing things that aren't true. How is that OCD?
And the monitor is suspended above you?
>I think this happens because of atomistic, object-orientated thinking.

If you think storing a list of date tuples is "OOP thinking", you have no clue what OOP really is. Educate yourself by listening to people who invented it, not Java consultants or FP zealots.

OOP is about interacting with things via interfaces and messages, rather than data. An OOP solution to inconsistencies of this sort would be an interface that either automatically corrects inconsistencies or throws errors when you try to introduce them. The whole point of OOP approach is that you're not locked into a single data representation, so, for example, you can improve how you store data without re-engineering everything in your system that relies on that data.
The perfect helicopter money.

Imagine distributing virtual currency through a wallet app and have these virtual bucks expire in a month or less if you want more velocity.
If you only have a day and month like 25th December you should represent it with a type that contains just that information. Java for example has the MonthDay class (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/MonthDay...) which can be converted into a local date when the additional information is available. If your users want to refer to that as a date then that should be handled in the UI but should not lead to ambiguity in the internal representation.
I am not sure if there is offline implementation solution for the problem currently.
Looks great and I'm glad the sales numbers have given them the ammunition nvidia execs needed to keep pushing the price down well into hobbyist range. I'm trying to preorder a couple, but...

ORG.APACHE.SLING.API.SLINGEXCEPTION: CANNOT GET DEFAULTSLINGSCRIPT: JAVA.LANG.ILLEGALSTATEEXCEPTION: RESPONSE HAS ALREADY BEEN COMMITTED

Edit: it's live now! [1][2]

[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIA-Jetson-Nano-2GB-Developer...

[2] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/17244
Completely agreed — squashing commits isn’t desirable in every circumstance, but if all the commits pertain to a single feature then it makes complete sense to me.
You have to become an expert to evaluate the expertise of "experts".

The workaround is to try to get better at using methods to pool the wisdom of "experts", to evaluate their claims based on external attributes (eg. looking at the journal that published the paper, looking at other claims of the expert, looking at the methods used to arrive at the claims, examining the used statistical methods, etc.), see also how prediction markets force "experts" to support their confidence with their money - and of course these markets are not infallible either.
Been here since 98, never ran into the issue of not being able to pay with banknotes because of returning lots of coins. In fact quite the opposite. Go into a convenience store, buy a pack of mints for $1.04 (104 yen) hand them an $100 bill (10000yen) no one blinks an eye.

Most convenience stores in the USA won't accept $100 bills AFAIK.

I can see if it was some tiny store and they couldn't make exact change then yes, they'd have an issue.

Also, liquor (and maybe beer) I think may have changed. I haven't seen a beer/liquor machine since 2016 but the one I saw then required an id card to prove you were old enough to buy. Tobacco too apparently (I don't pay attention to cigarette machines)

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taspo
It has nothing to do with "fluff our own egos".

I'm not advocating for "a billion dollar marble monstrosity". I'm advocating for the difference between a well built city hall and a Walmart store.
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Have you considered that the people you told don't really believe you are as expert as you claim, or believe that you were overdramatizing the situation?

> They just have to understand one fact: they don't actually own what they're spending their money on.

The consequences of losing access don't necessarily follow from that though. Lots of people for example understand the principle of leasing an apartment or car, and in those cases it's much harder for the true owner to arbitrarily take the property away from you.

> Actually I have a radical opinion: copyright should be abolished and it should be illegal to implement DRM in any form.

Radical opinions further tell people that you are not being pragmatic about what you are saying and therefore it can't be very practical advice. That is another reason why I expect people weren't receptive to your warnings.
not an expert, but I talked to my physical trainer about this. he said sitting all day is not necessarily that bad for you if you sit with a good upright posture that engages the core. of course, almost no one does this. most people will tend to slouch forward, which has a couple consequences.

your shoulders will shrug and round forwards, which will limit your range of motion over time. any stretch that retracts the scapula should help; also if you do any exercise like a row, make sure to focus on really pinching your scapula together.

your core muscles will weaken, leaving your spine more vulnerable to injury. "hunched forward" will become your default posture which exacerbates this further. your spine is actually really strong when it is aligned properly, but you need good core strength to do this. doing a "hollow body" pose and your basic plank are good ways to strengthen these muscles (overarching your spine in either direction is a problem).
Erm. There's no way the web is faster than Android's native widgets or Flutter's. Your complaint about the UI thread makes no sense for a start - the web only has a UI thread.
Globally sure, but it would be nice to have something more localized. Maybe we could dim an area over warm ocean in front of a hurricane or something.
Because with a test suite, git bisect, and a history that's been reasonably well cared for, I can just tell git "find me the bug" and go do something else until it's done.

I don't like having to go fiddle manually for that to work.

Ideally you have CI set up so the average test failure email points you to the small patch that broke it.

For bugs from the wild that doesn't work, obviously, but I still prefer less friction.
Not sure about the UK but in the US when there used to be cig vending machines it would be under the supervision of staff, so like in a bar.

In Japan they are out in the open in non descript corners and alleyways, although there is usually a streetlight.
Getting more CUDA buy-in?

But more seriously: robotics.
Cool!
If I build (or buy) something like this I would just keep admiring it for days rather than focusing on my work.
A great work from home setup should just disappear and should not be a distraction between you and the work!
At least they have a privacy law. When deploying solutions on cloud infrastructure GDPR is sometimes mentioned with a request or demand to adhere to it. In some cases the CCPA is also mentioned, which lets you believe that Europe and California are the only places that have anything on this topic.
I suspended a kindle over my bed on two 2-meter rails used for reinforcing wall edges. Best reading I did while recovering from leg injuries, but risky as you mentioned.
'Normal' people like my parents don't have computers. The burden shouldn't be on them when the hardware they bought was unnecessarily restricted.
In the UK there is the furlough scheme introduced by the government that was paying 80% of your salary, up to to a monthly cap of £2,500($3244.31). It is ending in October ( https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-extends-furlou...)

Not sure what you mean by "on top of an expanded social safety net" though
As others have written, there is no sure way of generating steady 4-5% in current markets. So think about what do you want to use the money for? Can you reduce your future known expenses or buy something now that you know you want?

If you have a mortgage, probably worth paying it off.

Invest in reducing energy costs -- insulation, renewables if in right place.

If you want a yacht, buy it now and rent it out until you need it.
The RPi was originally a tiny arm bolted to a decent mobile GPU :)
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There should be no shame in believing it is manufactured. I know, it is still stigmatized, but once, criticizing WHO response was also stigmatized by likes of NYT. These days, NYT has began looking differently at how this organization performed at the initial stages of the pandemic.
P&G or PG&E?
Did it ever drop? Sounds about 20 times worse then dropping your phone on your face when laying in bed.
Depends on your usecase. If you try to connect it to something like a battery or a generator, USB C is definitely a downgrade.
I think that would be the point of putting the keys in escrow.
Think of escrow as a kind of property limbo where there is no owner, just a responsible party for following a contract regarding the transfer of ownership.

The company doesn't own the keys, so it can't sell them. The user doesn't get the keys until the contract is fulfilled.

I'd expect losing access to the game or not being able to make be installs of the game (in a reasonable time frame) would be in the contract as sufficient conditions to give ownership to affected users.
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>>> Model entities with generic data structures

Which breeds data oriented "anti-patterns" when i/o performance becomes the bottleneck. Focus on hardware. It's almost like you need to work backwards to build scalable algorithms for modern data loads ;)

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http://poloclub.gatech.edu/mmap/
> And how many integers should actually be strings, unless you're dead sure this is a number.

I phrase this as: If it doesn't make sense to do math on it, it's not a number. What does adding one to a customer account number mean? Absolutely nothing -- you get a completely different account number. So it's not a number, but a numeric string.
Haha, just pointing out how the term is used in the industry. If you want to really play with semantics then I would argue that even a photo of a real cat isn’t a real cat and thus not ground truth. But while the consequences of that might have the awesome effect of clearing the shelters, it’s not practical, so we just call any labeled pixels representing a cat to a fidelity good enough for our purposes ground truth. ;)
> If anything my guess is that once they figured out the battery problem so they can go on bigger courses, they will introduce electric vehicles in the Formula 1 and start phasing out Formula E.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Formula E has an exclusive contract with the FIA to be the only series that uses fully electric vehicles until 2039. Formula 1 could only switch to electric vehicles with permission from Formula E, or through some kind of merger. If anything it seems more likely that Formula 1 is the one that gets phased out.
I feel like exercise is the standard advice from almost every medical professional for almost everything... but it is often helpful (I mean from the perspective of a type 2 bipolar), and it keeps away things like weight gain, inability to do physical activities, etc. which is usually pretty harmful. Sleep is also important.

In general, taking care of yourself physically (beyond sleep and exercise this includes things like taking showers, brushing teeth, etc., which can be difficult during a slump) makes it easier to take care of yourself mentally since you have more energy and don't need to deal with body problems.

In my experience this stuff is helpful, but not a silver bullet.
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Honestly my main gripe with the web (and also with the Internet in general, to a certain extent) is how centralized it is, but that's an economics/people problem, not a technological one. The overwhelming majority of Internet users don't actually want the internet, they want a portable television, and that's exactly what they got.
I doubt different technological choices would have eventually lead to a significantly different arrangement, except for minor implementation details only nerds like us care about.
Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal. Also taxes
> We already let landlords stop paying

From what I know in the UK and in Kazakhstan it was a very small proportion of landlords
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Thanks for your feedback - have entrepreneurship as a industry field in the database. So for example companies sponsoring BetaList or Starterstory are covered in my list.

Do you know good newsletters/websites I should cover with my report?
Power usage, fanless, size and price are the usual reasons.

If you price a silent PC with a fanless NVidia card it's quite a lot more.
This comment is rewriting the premise again.

> This is a discussion about FLOSS projects' lives and their maintainers' experiences.

It's not. It's rooted at mjw1007's comment "When I file a bug report[…]" and, before that, the linked article where antirez deals with the same matter that I'm discussing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24670700

A later comment—the one that I responded to—tries to convince us to focus on the maintainer and sell the appreciation-as-compensation, maintainers-get-nothing, and, implicitly, the bug-reports-have-negative-value perspective that is pushed in the circles I referenced above. And that's the problem. As I wrote elsewhere, filing bug reports takes more effort than not filing them. By myopically portraying the maintainer as if they're a protagonist in some Gary Stu fanfic about the world, we end up with a take that fails to consider all the relevant details, and that's the attitude that antirez admonishes. Please revisit both the article and the comment linked above.

(I'm not really interested in responding further to this conversation.)
I don't think they are 'jealous' of anything. The central banks have no incentive to create competition on money markets, their central issue is creating a stable currency that fluctuates little in value; creating another 'coin' would go against that cornerstone. I think you are trying to shoe horn in the idea of this being a crypto / blockchain backed thing, which (while it might be implemented on top of such) it is definitively not.
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Yah the this Article can be summed up by Barry Schwartz and a conversation I’ve heard on Joe Rogan from a psychologist and many others. “The richer or more renown you become, the more your opportunities increase, and the more you have to optimize the selection of opportunities to become more rich or renown.”
No WiFi kills it for me
I'd assume because of cost. This device does exactly what's required with low power draw and is easily replaced if it breaks or more processing power is required.
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For a pretty length defense of this thesis (specifically comparing SV with Route 128), see Ronald Gilson's article, The Legal Infrastructure of High Technology Industrial Districts [1].

And for a more global perspective see Anupam Chander's How Law Made Silicon Valley [2].

[1]: https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NYUL...

[2]: https://law.emory.edu/elj/content/volume-63/issue-3/articles...