skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to differentiate 2 things.

The expansion of the universe, which is known since Hubble observations.Although interesting, it can be explained assuming the big bang (a big assumption of course, but with plenty of experimental evidence).

The second thing,, and the truly mind-blowing one, it is that not only the universe is expanding, but that the expansion is accelerating!! The usual date for this discovery is 1998. This is like throwing a baseball upwards and instead of it keeping its speed or de-accelarating (because of gravity and friction) the ball instead starts to move faster and faster. You would suspect the existence of an unknown energy that is powering this acceleration. That is what is called dark energy , which for all intents and purposes it is a giant black box with a question mark right now.
How much of that is driven by his own success vs. inertia from the success of his predecessor? I've heard many people say that they don't want to leave the ecosystem because they're already so invested into it.
i don't subscribe to one side or the other, they all seem like idiots
That seems like a very different requirement. The University I worked for just had hundreds of wired and wireless access points and limited staff to manage them so devices had to be registered to protect everyone. It was self-service IIRC. If you connected with an unrecognized device it just took you to a login page and then the device was registered to you. I don't think there was any tracking of what students were actually doing once they were connected. Certainly not at the kind of detail that could suggest anything about radicalization.
DJI Blacklisted by U.S. Department of Commerce – Dronelife
I have literally never felt unsafe at night in south Australia.
Especially hilarious given I left the "lights" bullet (with zero explanation as the last item) as fool's bait. It was gloriously taken.
Good Stuff: https://simdjson.org/
A Pandemic of ‘Russian Hacking’
Well, that puts some perspective on 2020.

I mean, it's bleak perspective, but surely if we all write to our congressperson we can act now to prevent the heat death of the universe, right?
I agree with all of this except for the assertion that it is somehow a new phenomena
They figured all this "mixed traffic safety" stuff out during the industrial revolution (the first time people frequently shared the workplace with big fast rolling things that could kill them).

The only reason we're still arguing about the details is because everyone wants their pet favorite type of traffic to be favored by law.
They can create goodwill by creating a browser that can i run on a VM for my smoke tests.
mmm, I don't remember doing that. But was uploading to BBS's at the time so may have done so. Also may have been trying to dissuade cracking :)
> Astronomy is a phenomenology

OK, again this would come as a surprise to most astronomers. Are you aware that we have sent spacecraft to other planets, and that humans have walked on the moon?
So much for the so called bastion of free speech.
Nix isn’t any of these? It installs each replicable version of a package once, but it’s not visible outside of the project that uses it.
MVP Like this? I made it for my son: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/word-magic-toddler-reading-and...
Ask HN: What are your best purchases in 2020?
It can be either hardware or software. For me,

1) Apple Watch. I have been moving a lot more since I got my watch. I also check my phone less often now.
2) Vari standing desk. Replacing my old IKEA desk with a sturdy standing-desk has been great.
I love my kansas city sprawl. It's not for everyone, but it certainty isn't sad in my eyes, or that of my friends.
I agree with you. Readability is definitely worse when using this method. It doesn't mean it can't be circumvented with good naming.

Overall though this method basically solves the problem with technical debt I described above.

The root of all dependencies come from free variables. So if you get rid of free variables and turn your functions into combinators, then all your logic is modular.

If you get rid of all variables then all your code has to be combinators.

Perhaps the point free style goes to far in terms of readability. Maybe just switching to combinators is a good middle ground. In layman's terms for the readers who don't understand this means don't even use pure functions in classes. Just use functions.
I think setting hard limits on design is a good thing. Creativity needs limits. If your limits can imply something about your desired design goals then that’s a good synergy. It also forces the engineers to think more about design rather than fall back on their goto pattern that may or may not fit the problem.
Especially junior and mid level engineers might not have good heuristics on is their design any good or is it just following whatever cargo cult they were brought up in.

Like one engineer on my team implemented this crazy overkill logger and I asked a few questions why do it like this and the answer was that they had implemented it in another language at another company. After that I told them to not have more abstraction layers than concrete implementations when adding a new feature.
I’m Australian and have never even heard of someone I know being robbed in person ever, let alone with a weapon.

Is this actually a common occurrence in America? How do people put up with this?
Summary: The Zetas originated as deserters from Mexican Special Forces. The Mexican Special Forces received training from the US Special Forces.
Can someone help me understand what "entropy" is? In physics, my understanding is that the entropy of a collection of dice in a cup is decreasing over time: the entropy of 5 dice in a row is high, and 5 dice in a messy pile is low. In cryptography we say that this has "generated" entropy, implying that the entropy is increasing over time. Are these actually two separate definitions of the same word, or am I misunderstanding something? Is this a "credit"/"debit" type situation?

[append] A brief internet search indicates that I'm mistaken about the physical definition of entropy and that it does increase over time, never (universally) decrease. That does clarify the confusion I have here but highlights that I clearly don't have a very good mental picture of what "entropy" is.
> I find `mulmen`'s efforts very distasteful (trying to stop piracy on networks is like trying to stop kids from doing drugs) but not crossing the line as much as forcing certs on kids personal machines.

You have badly misinterpreted my comments here. Everything we did was to protect the student's interests. We were the gateway between them and whoever was trying to sue them. The University took whatever action it needed to in order to maintain that position and keep students safe from abuse. We were often riding the line of legal action taken against us by those rights holders, frivolous or not.

I'm not aware of any student ever losing network access because of piracy. We just sent a lot of emails saying "please stop" and in general students did.

I'm not sure what you find distasteful about that but I stand by my words here and my actions at the time.
Many other pharma companies do this, it is an activity basically encouraged by the fda orphaned drug program. Also keep in mind the dynamics of how people pay for drugs in the us. For the most part the victim is insurance companies, and in a diluted fashion healthy americans forced to buy health insurance. If you're sick and financially needy, there are usually ways to obtain the drug without the 56x markup.
She didn't go into why she was fired. She hinted a bit that she was fired because she called out Google on some issues.

I'd like to learn more, but it doesn't seem possible since firing is a sensitive issue.

Compared to Timnit's situation, I'm somewhat convinced Timnit was fired due to bad relationship with her managers, especially when she implied Jeff Dean supported white supremacist. https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1278571537776271360
Energy isn’t really conserved in general relativity. See this Sean Carroll article for more (1). I don’t think this helps with your concerns, though.

(1) https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...
And, some compilers (sbcl) can do fairly sophisticated static analysis on dynamically typed code.
There is certainly plenty of bipartisan idiocy, but on the question of real COVID relief there is a distinct partisan difference rooted in (1) Republican anti-social-welfare-spending ideology, and Republican. COVID-isn’t-a-real-problem-the-problem-is-lockdowns-which-are-unjustified propaganda, which has been successful with the base on which they rely.
You won't be patching it without decompressing it. Unless you run it under something that patches it in memory for every time it is executed. But that's a ridiculous amount of work.

See if F-Prot will decompress and remove the container, and then go from there. Make sure it's an early version of f-prot. It does look like an early PKLite, so you just might pull it off.
Abusive work practices, regular crunch time and underpays for talent?
> Similarly, functional programming has a simplicity to it which works great in many applications. When complexity grows, you have to get used to various other patterns and concepts to write real-world applications.

Have you read the seminal paper "Why Functional Programming Matters"? In it, it's argued -- quite successfully -- that FP is all about modularization and managing complexity. That is, that FP (and related techniques) is the way to go precisely in order to both modularize and glue the parts together, i.e. keep the complexity tractable.
Allegedly.

Some of the original members of Los Zetas are said to have been trained by the U.S. at the notorious School of the Americas, although accounts vary about exactly who, where and when. Some say...

Spare me.
In my humble opinion, generally speaking, lay persons (and even specialists who have not done a proper evaluation) should avoid psychiatric diagnoses of individuals they casually know, as the implications of such a ``diagnosis'' can cause significant distress.
Did i say arrogance?
Double Blind Passwords a.k.a. Horcruxing
Yep they autobanned an account of mine while setting up first ad campaign before I could even attempt to run it. No human review process. Happily taking my ad dollars elsewhere.
Robinhood Pays $65M to End a Key Probe, but Others Fester
I think this is more of a matter of scale, like in your ISP and datacenter example, social media could be counted in on that too due to the sheer size of it and influence it can have on people.
I agree that not having moderation isn't something we can do, for staying on topic or getting rid of certain users. The benefit of Reddit in this is that sub-communities can be made with harsher moderation policies than the outside Reddit, which allows getting rid of users they don't want. Since this is small sub-communities, if the users who disliked that subreddit really wanted they could make their own alternative and still be accessible to the wider Reddit. This would help avoid the problems of Voat becoming full of people on the extremist end of the spectrum. It wouldn't be a perfect solution, but being shared around reddit and accessible through the same account would make it a lot easier to dilute things like that.
> So, how exactly did switching back to monolith solved the above problems?

It seems that you didn’t read the whole article, but instead rushed to express your superiority.

Switching to a monolith helped because they are a single team maintaining multiple services. Combining the services reduces their overhead. The deployment problems haven’t recurred because their team is the only one deploying the monolith (or at least, that’s what’s implied.)
Finally Zojirushi is most favorite reliable appliance brand available in Japan for me. Nowadays I always buy Zojirushi product if it exists in category. Never looked back after bought. I also suggest Zojirushi's thermos bottle.
> The continuous political vigilance widely acknowledged to be necessary to prevent liberal democracy from devolving into tyranny is incompatible with the political disengagement you seem to prefer

This is backwards. The tyranny is caused by the vigilance.
Repairing Electro-Mechanical (EM) Pinball and Coin Operated Games to 1978 Part 1
On the other hand, no abstractions is like reading a book where each and every thing is spelled out in outmost detail. Instead of telling you “I’m fuelling the car”, I’ll tell you: “I’m walking to the entrance hall. I’m picking up the car keys. I’m putting on my shoes. I’m putting on my jacket. I’m unlocking the front door ...”. You see where this is going. And here we already assumed that things like “putting on shoes” are provided by a standard library.

There seems to be two types of programmers: one that can read a line of code like or theCar.fuel() and trust that you in the current context understand enough of what the call does that you can continue reading on the current level of code. This type of programmers don’t mind abstractions even if a function is called in only one place.

The other type of programmer must immediately dig into the car.fuel code and make sure she understands that functionality before she can continue. And of course then each and every call becomes a misdirection from understanding the code, and of course for them it is better is everything is spelled out on the same level.

I’ve seen quite a bit of code written by the second type of programmers, and if you don’t mind scrolling and don’t mind reading the comment chapter headers (/* here we fuel the car */) instead of all the code itself, it can be reasonably readable. But there’s never comprehensive testing coverage for this kind of code, and there’s usually code for fuelling the car in four different places because programmers 2-4 didn’t have time to read all the old code to see if there was something they could reuse, and just assumed that no one had to fuel the car before since there wasn’t any car.fuel() method.
So, you want a vehicle that is required to protect your life and safety, interact with other people + cars on the road, filled with gasoline/electricity, can ram into things and cause harm, to be open source and modifiable by anyone who chooses to tinker with it however they want?

Come join us in reality when you're ready, man.
nope, never implemented it. you can share your camera but they are not avatar-attached. the theory being that we didn't want to implement that unless absolutely necessary, since it has a lot of tradeoffs.
Totally doable in San Francisco, Santa Monica, and Downtown Los Angeles, just to name three I know well enough in California to know that about them.
> ...when the popular platforms stop being free speech platforms.

No, this always happens, any time you get more than two people in one room together. Eventually, intolerable assholes drive either everyone else away, or they get driven away.

Meanwhile, people who aren't bothered by that particular intolerable asshole shrug their shoulders, and ask 'What's the big deal?', and 'Can't we all just be rational robots who get along?', and 'This is purely an intellectual conversation, the outcome of which has absolutely no material bearing on my life, why are people getting so worked up over this?'
> I know Shkreli. He's a great kid.

He's 37.
A huge problem, which is the cause of this far more than "free speech" ever was, roots in these platforms optimizing for engagement. And then vacuous controversy maximizes engagement so you're really optimizing for controversy, which is a dumpster fire.

But separating the combatants doesn't just stop the algorithmically-promoted unintelligible flame wars. It stops the debate entirely. You lose the ability to even encounter the other tribe or have any idea what their views or concerns are.
What almost every comment about Voat here misses though is that when you start a competitor clone to an incumbent like Voat did, there’s literally zero reason for most people to join. The only people who have an incentive are people banned from the incumbent.

You see this all the time. As a kid I posted on a forum Opa-Ages that was just weirdos banned from Gaming-Ages (NeoGAF).

This isn’t so much about free speech and moderation. You also need to answer the question of how to compete with Reddit with these facts in mind.

The only people who ever had reason to use Voat were those with unsavory opinions. Ok, you’ve banned all of your users. Now what?

So, all the times you’ve said this before, did you ever pitch a solution?
"If you're sick and financially needy, there are usually ways to obtain the drug without the 56x markup."

Which is subsidized by the customers of insurance companies that do pay the 56x markup, which are funded by the employers and individuals who pay for private insurance or tax dollars that pay for medicare. There's no free lunch.
All humans are natural predators, it's just a matter of degree and socialization.
Entropy of the universe as a whole is increasing. Localized entropy can go up or down as energy is added/removed or reorganized in the system. Water can freeze or thaw. Dice can be random or in a pattern. But eventually all the suns will go out. It is only the overall temperature of the universe, the largest system, that is always increasing. (Sorry, mixed up my increasings and decreasings. How one discusses entropy can change by context.)
Yes, you’re right. It’s often but not always the case that type checking and compilation are part of the same tool and flow. Thanks for adding that.
Oh, huh. I definitely experience all of those, though only the photophobia is really constant. I've also got a photic sneeze reflex, so I had just always chalked those two together as a sensitivity to direct sunlight, and didn't even think to consider the dots or floaters as odd or connected.
I enjoy rude online communities. Sometimes it's nice to go to places where people say what they mean rather than try to be polite and/or politically correct.

Pubs and websites are different from each other. I probably wouldn't go to a pub that refused to throw out rude patrons because there would be a relatively high chance of physical violence occurring at such a pub. Online, assuming that my use of a website would have no consequences like doxxing that could get back to the rest of my life, that wouldn't be an issue.

Also, it's hard to ignore loud people at a pub. On the other hand, it's easy to ignore annoying people on a website.
If the star is emitting massive particles, then it doesn't have constant momentum.
I'm more referring to a type of technical debt. Of course if your product manager wants you to refactor your web app into a PS5 video game nothing can save you. I wouldn't call the fact that your code wasn't prepared to be refactored into a PS5 video game "technical debt."

As most software engineers know, there's tons of examples where the main issue was mostly organizational issues preventing the programmer from simply removing/replacing/moving logic to fulfill the main objective. This is the "technical debt" I'm talking about.

In that case if all your logic was combinators (and thus dependency free) then all you need to do is move things around, pull things out and/or put things in like lego blocks.

The main reason why people can't move code around like lego blocks is because most logic contains dependencies or is tied to state. Combinators are never tied to state or anything and thus if all your code was made up of combinators you would have no issues in moving logic around. The problem of organizational technical debt is solved with combinators.

If you take it a step further and use the point free style, you are eliminating state all together further protecting your program from ever being dependent on state.

The logic is pretty sound though most people can't put the benefits of FP into purely logical terms. They only talk about why they like it qualitatively without ever pinpointing why it's truly better for design/organizational issues.
> "if you're going to even think about threads, just use Java or go" since concurrency is so nice there.

Concurrency in Java is not very great although there are some improvements in these years. The actor model (Ruby 3 / Erlang) is on par with CSP model (Go) though they have different trade-off and scenarios.
Reflekt – Reflective Testing Library for Ruby
This isn't reddit, don't just make assertions. Give it an honest try.
> An infinite Universe makes the most sense, let's adopt that

Why would human intuition about what makes sense have any impact on physical reality?
I am not the original commentor but would like to address :

> > It is an absolute disgrace how it's become normal
> Why?

I have seen where almost ALL discussions lead to judgement based on politics and that takes away from the core discussion point. What is the point of having separate subs then?

For example take this link (https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/khlnyz/ronaldinho_o...), this was the top post on the subreddit when I saw it last night, the top-most comment is not about well wishes for his mother OR about how he thought about Covid OR whether or not he denied covid but rather the fact that he is "right-wing". Now I understand how bad it is but that is not the point of the sub. And that has become the norm , at least on reddit, which if not a disgrace, at least leaves a bad taste.

I've seen people take time to go through your profile and dig out one comment and then label you, just one. That feels like a disgrace.
Depends on the language. In general I find the way many unit tests are written to be very brittle. There is a balance here. If the 80 lines are clear and easy to understand they will likely be easy to test also. It’s very situational though. An 80 line function isn’t that bad. Check out the SQLite code base, which is extremely well tested, or the linux kernel. C code tends to push out the line count. Whereas 80 in Python is probably a bit much. Some libraries, especially GUI code tend to take a lot of lines, mostly just handling events and laying things out and there you often see big functions as well.
> if they need to pay attention to GDPR blocking doesn't protect them

Could you explain why? I thought that GDPR was applicable only to residents of the EU, and blocking them was a “good enough” way used by websites who do intensive personalized data tracking to avoid having to follow it.

I don't personally approve of this way, but fail to understand why it's supposedly ineffective.
Both points true; I find it hard to imagine reserve stock suitable for all future investment though. Regardless, mostly these schemes end up in a similar place, so how you get there probably doesn’t matter. If employees were the largest voting block it would probably look different...
Antiracism is not "gentrification".
> The construction of highways through poor (read: minority) urban areas, causing mass respiratory disease and premature deaths[1].

This has nearly nothing to do with automotive culture and everything to do with the system of governance in the US. In local politics in the US, your level of representation is roughly equal in proportion to your property tax bill every year. If you're renting, or otherwise in a situation where you don't directly pay (significant) property tax, your voice doesn't matter.

The rest is pretty much true, but would be worth noting that the only options for the US are for every city to have extensive sprawling underground metros interlinked by high-speed rail, or to have most people own a car and have highways everywhere. Any middle ground or half measure is untenable in our current society without causing direct, real, dire consequences to the very people you're trying to champion.