skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This illustrates why working with Clojure feels so relaxing and elegant.

Most languages operate on code as text. When commenting out code with //, it's easy to mistakenly leave out a line containing a closing bracket for example. When using /* , you have to manually insert the closing * / at the exact right spot.

On the other hand, #_ simply operates on the logical form that follows it, instead of operating blindly on characters. You know it's going to do the right thing whether you want to comment a long multiline form, or a single function call in the middle of a line.

Using structural editing (Paredit) to navigate and reorganize code is an incredible experience for the same reasons.

I'm one of these people that doesn't feel "flow" or get in the "zone" when working (leading me to sometimes wonder what I'm missing out on, or if I'm lacking something, although my career is fine so far). But writing Clojure is probably as close as I can get. :)
Transpiling PHP code from 8.0 to 7.1
It’s not relevant to the study in TFA, but I believe handwriting notes is more effective because you can’t just transcribe - you have to instead understand the concept and restate it briefly enough to keep up.
EO 12333 says the FBI can conduct foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities; then it states if those activities take place regardless of authorities it must be done by the FBI; FISA then lays out statutory requirements in order to carry out the authorities specifically as they relate to US persons. So no, the author is not correct. Or maybe a more generous way to put it is their point was incomplete in a substantive way. I’m not sure where the miscommunication is taking place.
IANAL, but I recommend that you keep track of how many days you were in the US each month, and how many of those days were for work. It's likely that an accountant or tax professional will ask you for that information to support your claim of tax residency in Canada.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)(http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/structurelessness.htm)
203 points|pron|7 years ago|120 comments

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1973)(https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm?)
115 points|sillysaurus3|2 years ago|20 comments

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1972)(http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)
98 points|hargup|4 years ago|54 comments

The Tyranny of Structurelessness(http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)
32 points|orph|6 years ago|15 comments

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%09The+Tyranny+of+Structurelessnes...
It seems like completing the Mafia trilogy games is a prerequisite for being a CxO...
A lot of democratic countries have restrictions on plotting against the government; America, for example (18 US Code 2385). I should add, I don't know the details of this story, and I'm not a lawyer.
> Oldsmobile Aurora. Beautiful car

I knew these types of cars must appeal to some people but i've never "met" anyone who likes\loves the design
Previous work experience also counts towards H1-B education requirements under the degree equivalence provision. The catch is the three-for-one rule, i.e. you need 6 years of relevant work experience to match a 2 year diploma, 12 years of relevant
work experience to match a 4 year degree, and so on.
And user experience. There are native parts of the OS for which there are no PWA hooks (and it would basically be reimplementing the entire OS in the browser to add them all). They want the experience on their devices to be the full experience, not the limited web experience you get with PWAs.
I doubt it, but it seems like a reasonable hypothesis to investigate.
It's no longer popular to bring up writers like The Philosopher, but Aristotle made the same essential observation over 2000 years ago that it is the nature of humans, no different than bees, to form a political order.

Spinoza pushes this naturalism even further when he asserted that there was no way to prove that human civilization is somehow distinct from termites building giant dirt mounds; "we don't know what a body can do" - being a human body and producing artifacts are the same thing, just like being a human body and auto-organizing politically (a slightly different product) is indistinct. These are things our bodies do.
Stories like this remind me that maybe my low-six-figure salary in the bay area isn't that bad after all. I may be dramatically underpaid by FANNG standards, but I'm never asked to work overtime and I'm free to take PTO whenever I want.
This is a popular sentiment on HN, but it oversimplifies the situation. Engagement, in the aggregate, does not pay the bills. Advertisers paying us to sponsor tweets does. Advertisers will only do that if paying to sponsor tweets results in either improving brand image or converting sales.

Advertisers won't pay for ads that don't get clicked on. Political pissing matches and disinformation campaigns don't bring the kind of engagement that results in clicking on ads and buying things, or of making positive brand associations.

Engagement costs us money. It increases system load and the resources required to actually run the platform. Raising engagement for the sake of raising engagement is a net negative in the long run, because it results in too much engagement that doesn't sell products (and thus ads).

I suspect there are some here who won't believe this; a few may be tempted to throw out a certain pithy Upton Sinclair quote. I'd like to know from this camp why you think that way.
Nevertheless, there seems to be a disturbing trend in these conversations of implying that the first amendment means something it doesn't.

If people want to advocate for nationalizing social media and forcing platforms to publish speech against their will, and making it illegal for them to moderate content, then they shouldn't pretend they're doing so in the spirit of the first amendment or what the founding fathers envisioned free speech to be.
This sounds like the God Of The Gaps line of fallacious reasoning. Once we figure out where radium came from then God will be inserted just before that new discovery, ad infinitum, turtles all the way down
Another issue I could think of with ubicomp is that not only do you have to make sure if the device is off another issue would be someone introducing a ubicomp device in your home to spy on you.
I’ve never bought anything because of an advertisement.
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30% is not an amount I would consider a "small" premium.
> Pay for ad time slots, not user impressions. Instead of selling by CPM, publishers should say "independent analyst X says we have traffic Y on an average Sunday. You can buy placement for next Sunday for $Z."

On top of the other objections, surely this would just move the fraud to another place, by incentivising people to create fraudulent traffic so as to drive up the perceived value of the time slot?
Looks nice, will try it out! Local variables in particular is probably the main feature I miss in rc.
Proponents of other religions experience that same energy.

Alongside those that have used psychedelics.

Given that, it seems more likely that we have a vestigial sense or an additional state our mind can be in that is either tricking us (our other senses patch and filter erroneous information, tricking us in a fairly uniform way to create our shared reality), or allowing us to perceive an always-there presence or energy. Perhaps other life forces exist in this state alongside us - just like the Bible and other belief systems say - and we are unable to perceive them, or perhaps not. Perhaps a combination of shared reality filtering and an energy/entity(s) operating at a different frequency than we can normally perceive. Or not at all.

Although I’m not religious don’t subscribe to exalting the renditions of this energy, I am open to all outcomes about what the expanded reality really is, what is there, what is our symbiotic relationship with it and knowing what it can be.
New to me and I've been programming web for quite a while. I've only ever seen that final "." in DNS records, it never occured to me that it would affect logic within the site.
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My CI system arguably shouldn't have access to production secrets any more than my developers' macbooks.
hijacking this discussion to raise the banner of seamless interoperability between numba (quick numerical code) and pypy (quick algorithmic code + business logic).

My dream python is pypy+mypy+numba. Alas, pypy doesn't play nice with the others "(
But do productivity gains occur on the assembly line in the first place? I would guess that people today are about as good at working on an assembly line as they were 50 years ago, and we're more productive only because of capital improvements in machinery and infrastructure.

That's not to say we shouldn't work to improve the average worker's wealth and quality of life, of course! I'm all in favor. But it's not a matter of gains getting "sucked up" from where they naturally would have gone; recent gains in manufacturing productivity just aren't at the individual level in the first place.
could you out forward a hypothetical example of say a flat earther and a mainstream earth is round camp finding common ground in the middle?
There are luckily some options for high-end now like ASUS ProArt and similar.
>the entire selling point of online ads, which is giving a chance to smaller players a chance at the game.

Aunt Mae's cookie shop will never be able to compete with Pepsi for airtime
Does "Lot System" refer to sortition?
A web app added to your home screen affects privacy much less than a native app, since it is even more sandboxed and restricted, and it even affects battery life less in some areas due to these restrictions.

Native apps can schedule background tasks, among other things that would impact your battery life and privacy.

So... disagree entirely. Please provide concrete examples of how a native app is less capable of invading your privacy than a web app that has been added to your home screen.

(Please keep in mind that home screen PWAs don't even have the same level of access to your Safari sessions that random websites have, which is why you have to log into PWAs a second time, even if you are already logged in using Safari.)
No you're misunderstanding, what I think they're saying is that things like evolution, big bang, etc are the mechanisms of god, i.e. god set all this in motion. It's an easy way to integrate science and religion so long as you're not a biblical (or whatever the equivalent in your religion is) literalist. Maybe god did setup this universe like a giant clockwork toy and all we're discovering are the gears and springs of the universe. Discoveries and inventions are still the work of people but the cause of all the natural forces just ultimately trace back to god.

It leaves a little crack open for divinity and it's a lot around a question of why; why'd the big bang happen? why are the physical constants of the universe right in a series of bands such that stars, planets and everything else eventually formed? etc. It's a question parallel to science that has a lot of answers for what happens where this is more of a philosophical question of why.
What does "save point" mean in this context? The concept is mentioned several times in the article, but I didn't see any references to saving anything.
It's very specific, keep looking !
Low wage jobs are often damn hard work. However, they're damn hard work that most able-bodied people could do.

That will mean they get paid less than an entry level but skilled tech job.
I can do one better. I misspelled my own middle name - Donovan instead of Donavan as it appears on my birth certificate. Delayed my application by a month or two. Could have been way worse if the process wasn’t fairly quick back in 2004. (My wife was born here and I’m from South Africa)
In Latin the word “elementa” means both atoms and letters, and likely comes from the alphabet’s “L,M,N” sequence.

Huh. The etymology seems unlikely, and Wiktionary[1] casts doubt on it, but it's an intriguing idea. Either way it's cool that the notion (of "element" as applying to fundamentals of both words and objects) goes so far back.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/elementum#Latin
Yes, used to feel like that. Now I have become numb. To everyones frustration except myself.
Thats like making payments on a luxury car and not using it
We need to get it to 99.99%, and then maybe they will all switch to some honest business model!
Not just Facebook. As an ex-Hubspot employee this was a feature people cared about (email list uploading/processing). HS would generally try to scan the list and make sure it wasn't a huge pile of spam recipients but I'm not sure how many others in the CRM space take that extra step.
Thought of this, too. The Durants' "History of Civilization" is incredible, as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization
I would find it hard to argue that any of the current POTUS work has been competent.
It was actually news to me recently that you could exploit massive parallelism for deep learning. Doesn't that require fancy networks? Or are you actually able to do a meaningful amount of work independently and synchronize less often?
Not positive, but since they don't say for free users only I'm assuming it's everybody. Mainly for their own exclusive "podcasts" but available for other networks to use also. I get the impression these take the place of the traditional "host reads a sponsor message" time slot.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056336/spotify-streaming...

> Spotify Podcast Ads offer the intimacy and quality of traditional podcast ads with the precision and transparency of modern-day digital marketing

Yeah, that's what I like about online targeted advertising. The transparency.
This extension hides ads, but doesn’t block them in order to click them. Which means you don’t get any of the privacy benefit uBO offers.
I had to pay my way through college, like a few of my friends, but I was struggling to juggle the two and trying to grow up at the same time.

The on-campus tech job paid about 10% more, day 1, than any of my friends were making. So I used the higher pay and all the tricks my roommates taught be for frugal living and cut back my hours about 25%.

I tried not to brag about it. I even felt a little guilty about how hard they were busting their asses, while I had a job where I could automate the tedious bits myself, and once I was not low man on the totempole I could delegate other parts.

PSA: Be nice to your food service staff. And your janitors. Instead of thanking god it's them instead of you, be grateful someone else took that shit job so you don't have to cook and clean up after yourself.
That is most certainly not the way engineering at Twitter works.
Some compile times for those interested:

Hardware 2016 12" MacBook (1.1GHz Core m3)
Ubuntu 20.04 running in Docker
Clang 9 -O0 optimisation (more optimisation increases the compile times a lot!)

0.53m LOC 41MB 34s

0.99m LOC 76MB 91s

1.44m LOC 110MB 167s

I suspect the code is relatively straightforward to compile - few function calls etc.
You seem to be right about the idea of "ring species". Papers from the past several decades all introduce the concept the same way.
Qui es veritas?
Whether it is or not, it’s fundamentally useful to use accurate language or people will dismiss your underlying point because of the dishonest premise.
Hey Peter, thanks for doing the AMA.

I have an I-485 portability rule question. I know the official minimum for an I-485 pending application to be portable is 180 days, but I was wondering, if there is a way for people losing their jobs before the 180 days are up, to keep the application, employment authorization (EAD), and Advance Parole pending and and port over to the next employer past the 180 days (not all of them spent with the petitioning employer)?
Phone service in the US prior to 1983 certainly wasn't adored by users in the way that Apple products are. It wasn't universally reviled, but consumers didn't love it. This SNL skit was not unpopular:

https://vimeo.com/355556831

If you want your arguments to be effective, it may be best to stick to analogies that you have personal experience with unless you've read deeply enough to understand the cultural context.
Why Facebook users might want to show their true colours
> Stories can be anything only limited to your imagination

That’s completely true. And yet, so many of our stories end up in the same rut of tired, unrealistic tropes. Maybe a look at the reality behind such depictions will encourage authors to exercise some of that vaunted imagination and break out into new directions. After all, an appeal to imagination doesn’t make much sense when you’re just using it to defend doing the same things that everybody else does.
Huawei subsidizes/finances buildouts (ie. dumping), making alternate choices not worthwhile in the US, and presumably elsewhere.

The UK is in a special situation where the CCP can tie Huawei purchases with financial listings, yuan bonds, etc. in London.
Of course -- you gotta use your body.

The biggest complaint of all I have against Silicon Valley is exactly this attempt to make us 'bodyless'. The truth is, if you're everywhere, you're nowhere. And if you're not grounded in your physicality, you're a "candle in the wind".
Once you get away from point of service, I think two things kick in that make it really unlikely that any stage before it would substantially increase the % that goes to labour costs:

1) economies of scale, factory farming employs very few people per pound of meat produced, having been subject to a lot of automation. Likewise, supply chain areas like storage and shipping move a lot of product per employee.

2) 'butchers' and similar jobs are relatively high skill and likely pay above minimum wage anyways. They also have better economies of scale. But at any rate, it's unlikely professional butchers are particularly involved in producing meat for fast food burgers and likely 1 or 2 low wage employees in a factory are doing all the manual labour involved in producing meat for hundreds of burgers.

At any rate, I don't think the null hypothesis can really be that every level of the supply chain has the same level of labour costs.
Memory bandwidth is generally kind of needed to take advantage of more cores.

Last time I checked, Z had 500gb/sec; more than 10x Apple's. Kind of wish IBM had won processor wars. Generally speaking whenever I look at their mainframe doodads, then look at the hot garbage being slung over at Amazon or whatever FAANG shit hole, it makes me sad. The company with the best engineers is an also-ran that mostly sells consultant hours. Maybe they'll sell off the mainframe business independent of the rest of the horse shit and it will undergo a renaissance. Doubt it though.
Wages are a function of the scarcity of labor. Advances that increase the productivity of workers often also makes it easier to do those jobs, hence a larger labor supply that pushes the price of labor downwards.
That was... believable, haha.

WFH hasn't lessened the amount of bullshit, but it's become more tolerable. I mute my mic and put on a playlist with elevator music.

Now all I need is an AI standin and this summarizer and we've basically achieved universal basic income.
It was rather confusing and I consider myself well-informed about the expression problem.

But to give you some constructive feedback, your understanding, or your writing, of the expression problem lacks two fundamental concepts:

First of all, in functional languages it is as simple as in object-oriented languages to add new data types. It hard to add a variant of an existing datatype. In object-oriented languages it is also trivial to add new functions, but it is hard to add a new function for all derivates of a class. So it would be more like having a table for perfectly cooking all variants of fish.

And secondly, the solution offered by Julia is also incomplete. Both functional and object-oriented languages give you completeness guarantees. So the compiler will warn you when you miss a variant of fish (functional) for a method or a method for a particular fish (object-oriented) At least to my understanding the completeness of methods (that's the right term, no?) in Julia is unchecked. You can extend, but you can easily miss a case.

The same (unchecked extensions) can be done in functional languages with open algebraic datatypes and in object-oriented languages with default methods that throw exceptions.
Our brains are (to use a crude analogy) muscle movement computers/orchestra conductors. I reckon there are just more parts of your brain involved creating specific fine motor movements for holding a pen/pencil than just tapping keys that never really move relative to your hands.
Recurrency (YC S20) is hiring engineers
Wouldn't it be more correct to refer to Al-Jahiz as an Arab scholar? It's not like we call Darwin a Christian scholar.
> You want a system where either you pay five figures to reserve a time block, or you don't get to play.

This is not what I observed from Project Wonderful when they were still around. Ok I guess it wasn’t precisely timeslots, so much as “amount of time” (though one could choose to only bid during the time you want), but the prices I saw were fairly often low enough that people would briefly get the slot just for a gag.

Pretty sure there were even bidding wars between groups who were both doing jokes?
The EB1A (extraordinary ability) category has become incredibly tough (and much tougher than the O-1). Before doing anything, I would recommend that the individual get his or her background evaluated because it's a lot more and lot more nuanced than having patents or published papers or judging events. Just to avoid spending time on things that won't really lead to an approval.
Yeah, and it still doesn't matter. Because if you run that command you are already trusting that site with RCE on your machine, so if the premise of the attack is "the site is bad" you were owned anyways.
We just had an I-485 interview recently for a pre-COVID application. Our first interview was cancelled after they scheduled it as COVID started.

I believe throughput depends on location.
True. But we were all thinking Pirates! :P
Timezones are funny because you still get a wide variance of working hours within them. I worked on a project a while back with an early bird (~6am-2pm) and a night owl (~noon-8pm) who had to coordinate a lot of changes. I (half-)joked that they probably would have coordinated better if one of them was in Reykjavik and the other in LA rather than try to do everything in that narrow window when both were in the office.

I know some remote companies have timezone-based policies (e.g., you must be within 4 timezones of NYC). I wonder if we'll see less focus on where the employee is and more on when they are willing to work ("I don't care that you're in Kyev or Mumbai or Jakarta, as long as you'll work our hours").
Once you go looking, you'll find libcurl everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if your grandma interacts with libcurl multiple times per day without knowing.
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In my case this is definitely true. It is much better for me to remember handwritten notes than typed ones. In college, one of my study methods was to transcribe my typed notes into handwritten ones. I took typed notes in the first place for the simple reason that I type _much_ faster than I write.

Professionally, I am still the same way. When flipping back from pen-and-paper to something like Evernote I definitely remember written ones better.

Long-term I'm looking for a solution where I can take notes handwritten and OCR scan it into a digital platform to have the best of both worlds (my memory plus full text search, sorting, and tagging)
The History of iOS
It's not that baffling. Good investigative journalism costs money and now everyone wants news free.

Also it doesn't matter what the NYtimes puts on its site - Sean hannity calls it librul and they all just fall in line anyway, why even bother catering to that crowd?