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Liberal by definition is anti-racist. A major tenet of liberalism is egalitarianism and it's what allows free market capitalism.

Maybe you should go educate yourself about what Liberalism is before appointing yourself the racism police on Hackernews.

I'm a liberal and I've said I prefer not having more racists in California with illiberal sentiment. That is the opposite of racist.

There is a long history of America enforcing white racial integrity which you seem to be naive to. As a native Californian I think it's fair to be weary.

I stand by not wanting more transplants in my state and it's not just me.
Reality does not care what makes sense to you. Let's find out what's true and adopt that.
Why isn't this occurring now?
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microservices are a technical tool for solving business problem , business problem => people and organizational problem
"A conservative estimate tells us there are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today. That's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade."

That's boggling and so sad. I really wish more activist types helped around the world today vs shouting about the past.
I’d say that’s a sign that either it’s the wrong abstraction, there’s implicit coupling (a distinct variant of the wrong abstraction), or both sides of the abstraction are in so much flux that the context switching is inevitable until one or both layers settle down.
EV solve only a small fraction of the problems.
> After they have gather all the insights they can from Clojure and its ecosystem (which is a worthy endeavor IMO)

Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? I've never used Clojure, but have done a fair bit of hacking in other Lisp dialects. Do you (or anyone with an opinion) think there's some insight benefit to Clojure specifically vis-a-vis Racket/Scheme/etc?
It's easy to say ugh, but we juniors are more than willing to learn "the right way". This is the hardest part for me. I get anxiety about it and it slows me down.

How do I apply this to taking over someone else's 4 year old Magento project? We're out here doing our best, and sometimes our learning environments are in that context.
It'd be nice to see a list of the few places in the world where it's generally safe to walk alone at night, with your iPhone out and everything. I can only think of Singapore and Japan, along with maybe some parts of Europe.
I think you may find it difficult to test an 80 liner... There is way too much happening.
> Journalists not understanding

Journalists don't understand anything about the topics on which they write, but they regard themselves as paragons of virtue and arbiters of Truth with a capital T.

Trump is a garbage president but the one thing he got right was identifying the fourth estate as the enemy of the people. They were Enemies in March when they told everyone it was just the Flu, and NOT to wear masks, and they are are Enemies now when they whip the public into hysterics.

Nor is this anything new with Fox News, or CNN, or even with William Randolph Hearst, as some may claim. They have been the Enemy since time immemorial and they always will be.

Rosebud, indeed.
> It would better be described as a phenomenology

Not really, no, because current cosmological models are not derived solely by looking at cosmological phenomena and coming up with phenomenological equations that describe them. (That is not to say that past cosmological models didn't do that; only that our current ones, roughly since the early to mid-20th century, don't.) They are derived by starting from laws of physics that already work in other domains, and seeing what those laws say about the universe as a whole.

> to be absolutely clear what the assumptions of the model are, even the most trusted ones

Cosmologists are clear about that.

> maybe this is just an issue in the popular press?

I think it is, since what I see in actual textbooks [1] and peer-reviewed papers is not at all like what you are describing.

[1] A good reasonably current textbook is Liddle's Introduction to Modern Cosmology.
Manhattan has all day free on-street parking in some places. More opens up after 6PM. Then everything is free on Sundays.
Not a physicist, but why isn't the simple explanation that light loses energy over cosmological distances not also a valid explanation of redshift? We already know that energy isn't conserved at those scales.
I think OP's point is that pop science reporting is more than "sometimes." Keeping up with controversial theories is fine, often ideas that turn out to be revolutionary are controversial, but it's important not to get a warped perspective about what the broader scientific consensus is.

I know more than one person who has taken it to the extreme, to the point that they latch onto any and every controversial idea seemingly only because it's controversial. That's what you want to avoid.
> how can you possibly formulate a consistent and sensible architecture?

Similar arguments could be made about actual architecture: "If you can't have well-designed and consistent houses, how can you possibly have a well-designed city?"

The best architectures I've seen, by far, had the worst code. Code is not a systemic level issue. The way the pieces fit together is.

A sad fact of good architectures is they actually enable bad code to exist without severe consequences, because that badness is localized.
>This has been an incredibly large issue for almost a year now and it's ridiculous. Journalists not understanding the way scientists speak was vaguely understandable ten months ago, but after a year straight of science being the number one news maker in the world it's obvious that the media is just use it as an excuse to scare-monger and increase their clicks.

Not understanding or not wanting to understand? It's become fully mainstream to interpret the most scary or salacious or intriguing angle. I used to love the BBC and NYT but they are right up there with some of the worst, when it comes to the narratives and forced angles.
>Your claims of a left-wing bias on reddit are also anecdotal.

Feel free to provide evidence to the contrary. As of right now all the posts on /r/all not right leaning.
"reasonable".

Calling someone "anti-something" makes them sound one-sided and hostile.
It was pretty clearly flamebait—your own comments in response to it began with "Oh please" and "Christ, why?" respectively.

I get that the topic is relevant to you and you want to argue the point, but that's a different question.
Can someone explain why the universe is expanding at all? I've heard it said "it's the momentum from the Big Bang". That sounds reasonable, but then we're told that it's not that the galaxies are flying apart, it's that the "basic metric of space itself is expanding".

I can understand momentum from an explosion, but why would "space itself" expand because of an explosion?
Dude, the labor movement has been around for over a hundred years. We've made mind blowing progress on workers' rights. There hasn't been anything close to this for sex workers.
Sometimes the architecture/algorithm matters, and sometimes the architecture/algorithm needs to align with the language. Absent seeing the broader code base [1], I'm inclined to think that the author's larger design led to these expensive functions existing as they did [2].

Pure speculation on my part, but if one has a lot of experience with imperative, mutable languages, one might design a system that ends up being not so great when written in a functional, immutable language. If so, then seeing improvements when directly porting to an imperative, mutable language might be not so surprising.

Tangent: Regarding the power and importance of code structure, I highly recommend watching "Solving Problems the Clojure Way" by Rafal Dittwald at Clojure North 2019 [3].

[1] I didn't see a link, but if it's available, I'd love to take a look.

[2] The `rule-field-diff` function for example seems to be burdened with some odd choices, e.g., taking in two "rules" as arguments, (which seem to be collections of rules keyed by field), then using two hard-coded "operations" (also keyed by field), and yielding a map whose values are sequences by field (I think). Off the top of my head I don't see why this fn needs to work across multiple fields in the first place (i.e., any field-specific "loop" should be in a surrounding context. Ditto for `diff-rules-by-keys`.

[3] https://youtu.be/vK1DazRK_a0?t=461
If you're finding this interesting, I recently discovered this YouTube channel on How Far Away Is It [1]. There's a few different playlists of what he calls digital books, that are all worth watching for a novice: How Far Away is It? [2]; How Small is It [3]; How Fast is It [4]

As a side benefit, it can be soothing and nap inducing, but in the best ways. It's taken a couple attempts to get through some of the episodes, but in the end I find the explanations pretty amazing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/howfarawayisit
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpH1IDQEoE8QWWTnWG5cK...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKbZeUvPnWI&list=PLpH1IDQEoE...
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE4SpkTOY1A&list=PLpH1IDQEoE...
I gather a lot of “local” press is owned by the same conglomerate
99/100 times I won't play the video. I'll only play a video if i already know what product is & does, and I want to learn more.

Off topic, but your both Andy.
I am pleased at his positive attitude. There are many events that could have embittered him, but he writes them off as life lessons.
> But also doesn't require fire insurance for someone to try pulling you out of a burning building.

Right, so your city should operate an emergency room funded mostly by taxpayers, and then just charge a fixed deductible (e.g. $1000) for emergency care, which isn't enough to induce bankruptcy in general but is enough to deter people from using it in place of primary care.

> The "free market" has failed to provide affordable dental care outside large insurance policies, which are inaccessible to almost a quarter of americans, for example.

Your link is to the promotional material of a dental insurance company.

Dental isn't generally a market that requires insurance. You need health insurance because heart surgery or chemotherapy is a six figure expense that would bankrupt nearly everyone. Paying $1500 for dental work doesn't require insurance, it requires a payment plan. It isn't an expense large enough to require insuring against.
> a skill that is more and more transferable - especially for electric cars.

What does that matter?

There are Car manufacturers that have basically had infinite capitalization and funding for a decade and the legal system + technology barriers just didn't move. Supply chain was never an issue.

Apple's not going to see any different results, so I am puzzled by this optimism.
Great! Nothing like a pandemic to push tech forward.

This would work well with a physical controllable positionable telepresence device as well:

http://teleportconnect.com

Move around in a shared real space together.
It's "literally all" of the profit because Tesla controls the timing and amount of credits sold each quarter, and adjusted the sales of credits so that it could make the "4 consecutive quarters" profitability threshold for making the S&P500 rather than selling them all in one quarter as they did in the past.

Profits are not fungible. Companies can, and do, determine profit and loss separately for each line of business, because it matters both for financial reporting purposes and for tax purposes. Even Tesla acknowledges that it is not profitably making and selling cars under GAAP (i.e., under industry-standard accounting); their unit margin deliberately excludes items that would normally be ratably allocated to each unit. Hell, Tesla even fired most of its marketing department and cut its marketing budget so that it could goose the financial metrics it needed to make the S&P.

In that sense, it worked. Tesla is on the S&P. The downside to being on the S&P though is greater scrutiny and more price friction. Tesla can no longer count on retail investors to goose stock prices with marketing stunts.
i use old.reddit.com on my phone, since ironically the mobile version is too bloated to ever finish loading before I give up on my cheap mobile internet.
Any brainstorming thoughts on the following? Years back I though of taking something like the OP app, and using it as input to an... ambient interactive implicit curriculum of science and engineering.

So imagine you type "cat". Then maybe you get a picture of a cat. Maybe from ancient Egypt. Or maybe tiles of labeled behavior videos, sleep, walk, eat, etc. Or a yowl. Maybe with a scrubbable intensity plot. Or maybe that intensity is shown as a fast spreading sound ripple, overlaid on a top view of your own neighborhood. Maybe with a draggable microphone, to play with volume, and delay, and doppler. Or back to cat, maybe you get video with a 200 bpm cat's fast heart rate. And maybe an order of magnitude animal mass slider. Slide up to human, to whale, and get the word "whale", video of swimming whale, and a whale's 20 bpm heart swishing. And similarly down to mouse 600 bpm. Or back to cat, ... it's a high-dimensional densely-woven tapestry of possibilities.

When the most popular introductory astronomy textbooks can't even manage to get the color of the Sun right, there seems a need to explore new ways to deliver an understanding of the physical world. Pity child automatic speech recognition is still so poor.

Back down towards MVP, might "type a word, get a picture" be interesting? Not so much? Way too distracting? Other thoughts? Thanks for input.
Don't worry it will be a problem for the future politicians and universe expand protections groups. "We have to stop the universe expansion, the universe is expanding faster than expected" they say.
Indeed. I know CF has fallen out of vogue, and I understand many of the reasons. However, there's a number of features there that I feel were not only innovative, but have yet to be implemented in other platforms some 20 years later.
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I actually started working on a CLI calculator a few days ago that sounds exactly like what you're looking for: https://github.com/Kevinpgalligan/ka

So far it just has variables and basic arithmetic. Other features on my roadmap: rational numbers, a type hierarchy, units, and lazy/smart combinatorics.

What do you imagine the timezone DB would look like? I'd love to hear your ideas!
Google favourably ranks "giant, ad laden slow websites with giant mess of analytics trackers" because they make money from the ads and they are the ones tracking you. They are giving you the disease and then trying to sell you "treatment" - which happens to be another disease.
Testing the fundamental laws of the Universe using a precise ruler
Some Japanese cities seem to be pretty good for that too. Apparently even very young children can safely take the bus, train or bike to school by themselves.
> idiomatic Python (especially where math libs are concerned) seems to vastly favor brevity/one-liners over all else

I can’t speak to math libs, but in my experience with server-side development, Python devs tend to (often even religiously) cite PEP style guides favoring explicitness and verbosity. I think there may have been a shift as Python got a lot of uptake in scientific and ML communities, and I hope that hasn’t seriously impacted the rest of the Python community because, while I don’t especially love the language/environment, I deeply appreciated the consistency of valuing clear and readable code.
Reddit stopped caring about political manipulation by organised bots and paid shills since before the 2016 election. In fact, PACs openly admitted to the practices during the election.

Reddit absolutely doesn't care, they'd rather bombard you with ads and tracking garbage and pretend they're a viable platform through half-assed initiatives.
> the most distant astronomical object we've observed has a redshift of 11

And even though that seems like a large distance, it is a very small redshift compared to the total time the universe has existed. The cosmic microwave radiation background, for comparison, was emitted at a redshift of about 1100. So a redshift of 11 only covers 1 percent of the expansion of the universe since the CMBR was emitted.

> we've seen 97% of the universe's history

No, we haven't. See above.

> Including the microwave background in that pushes the number to 99.997%.

No, it doesn't, because even though we can see the CMBR, we can't see anything useful in between its redshift and the redshift of 11--not because there's nothing there, but because what's there is too distorted and faint to see. (The only reason we can see the CMBR is that it's black body radiation at a temperature we can independently predict from our knowledge of the physics of recombination, so we can tailor extremely sensitive instruments to looking for its precise signature.) So there is a lot of universe that we haven't seen.
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Yes, but the play this article talks about is rather different from leisure. Videogames, sports, board games—none of that.
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Voat never works for me. Seems like they banned all Indian IPs using Cloudflare.

https://i.imgur.com/gUQQgdI.png
Mutation testing is a way to test your tests.
They're the franchise with the cheapest entry fee other than Chick-fil-a.
You can look up amount of naturally occurring and do some maths! but over the time I've developed some rule of thumb..
Chicken - tiny amounts
seafood - no
soup - 1/3 of salt
half formed food - half of what you'd add in soup

the result is naturally tasting food that got a little umami edge.

My grandma goes nuclear on it, usually in equal amounts of salt. That's usually too much in my opinion.
Another interesting one I've heard is getting into space, period. It's possible that there are other technological civilizations out there, but all stuck under a few hundred km of ice or on a 2-earth-mass monster where it's impractical to reach orbit.

Earth may only be special in being in a sweet spot between Mars (too small to hold an atmosphere or protect from cosmic radiation, hence no life) and Gliese 832c (with its low-orbit velocity of something like 15km/s, hence much less practical to put stuff in space).
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Fantastic list; this resonates with my own (undocumented) set of axioms or principles. Bookmarked. Thank you for sharing!
To the point about socialism, this book has blown my mind: https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Republic-Walmart-Corporations...
Or you could have spent the time you did with amp improving their main site.
If you're mainly cooking basmati rice, you might have a look at a Persian rice cooker, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/pars-khazar-rice-cooker/s?k=pars+khaz... . I don't believe it's fuzzy logic based, but it's designed to have butter or oil added and has a setting for a crispy bottom.
> why isn't the simple explanation that light loses energy over cosmological distances not also a valid explanation of redshift?

It depends on what you mean by "light loses energy over cosmological distances". See below.

> We already know that energy isn't conserved at those scales.

This suggests that what you mean by "light loses energy over cosmological distances" is that the universe is expanding while the light travels, and in an expanding universe, total energy is not conserved. That is true, and that is the redshift due to the universe expanding--it's not something different.

If, however, you are working from the hypothesis that the universe is not expanding, then energy is conserved even over cosmological distances, so I don't understand what you mean by invoking "energy isn't conserved" as an explanation for the redshift.

If you're referring to the "tired light" hypothesis, that's been known to be unviable for decades.
Here in Raleigh, NC, Wade Ave was paved through Oberlin Village:

https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article237167884.html

Many other examples:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of...

https://www.dispatch.com/in-depth/lifestyle/2020/12/03/black...

https://catalyst.independent.org/2020/04/02/how-the-u-s-gove...

https://www.facingsouth.org/2020/06/bitter-history-behind-hi...

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/top-infrastructure-officia...

https://marketurbanismreport.com/blog/urban-renewals-shamefu...

etc
Voat is irrelevant compared to thedonald.win, which is #2,743 on the global internet according to Alexa.
Then the question is whether it's better to allow people with unsavory views a minority platform on mainstream sites where they'll try to convert others, or force them to their own niche echo chambers that will inevitably be extremely toxic.

It's basically a tradeoff between visibility to the public and density of toxic content.
There are special services by Coinbase and other brokers alike for this.
Congratulations and thankyou to PuttItOut and Atko.

Voat has been the bastion of free speech for me for many years. It should come as a great compliment and testament to their efforts that many Australian ISPs took the unprecedented action of blocking access to Voat some time ago - a line in the sand was crossed that day, and it made me ever more aware of the need for free speech platforms, my appreciation of Voat, and the hostility of power to curiosity.

Any platform that does not aggressively censor disallowed facts and opinions will tend right. Voat was a home for us who refused to switch off and participate in the degrading, mind-numbing, false and deceptive consensus of modern progressive propaganda that proliferates on all mainstream services - all heavily censored.

Time for a new home.
Funny, I didn't realize that Reuters.com had become a rumor site. Times must be tough.
Suggestions for a more memory-efficient JSON processor for resource constrained computers? All the ones I have tried were no better than using standard line-oriented UNIX utilities.

Example:

189MB JSON

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zemirco/sf-city-lots-json/master/citylots.json |jq

while that is running watch the system memory using vmstat, top, etc.
> only employees actually get wiped out

Presumably they were paid a salary while they were working there.

Having to find a new job now sucks, of course, but I find it hard to say they got wiped out.
I used Clojure (and ClojureScript) in production for several years, and more or less share your sentiments on this. The only strong objection I have is that the lack of types made even simple data structures an occasional nightmare. Especially when most of the composite types can easily be substituted for many functions, it’s trivial to accidentally recurse a string or a keyword where a data structure should be. And the runtime errors (especially in cljs) can be utterly baffling.

I’ve taken what I learned in clojure (and I can just say the article, even just its title, adequately sum it up) and use the same approach in TypeScript. And it’s a breath of fresh air.
> Table 1 provides details of the B.1.1.7 lineage-specific non-synonymous mutations and deletions. We note that many occur in the virus spike protein.

https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisati...
Some Universities in the UK for a number of years have been making students download certificates that allow SSL decryption as part of counter radicalisation efforts.......
Definitely want to know more about the monthly cost breakdown, view stats, etc., plus information about the technical details of the software it was running.

I heard a story once about a "1000 year civ2 game save" where the OP thought it was unwinnable but civ2 veterans got a copy of the game save then had no trouble winning. Would love another story like that.