skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preciseness is extremely important. How many people are on social media right now calling the people who entered the Capitol terrorists because they assumed they carried bombs into the building?!
What’s described above isn’t quite the same as delay line memory.

Delay line memory relies on the speed of sound through a medium. You put a signal in at one end, and it propagates “slowly” to the other, where you receive the signal, and immediately replay it at the start. Creating a kind of never ending echo.

What’s described above relies on a standing wave in a tube, with sensors along the length of the tube to detect nodes and anti-nodes. Then encoding data into that by changing the signal input to change the locations of the nodes and anti-nodes.

I don’t think such a system would actually work, because your stuck using only the harmonics of your tube as possible states, and there’s gonna be a pretty limited number that you could realistically produce.
I don’t think you can be in support of free speech and at the same time mix in your personal feelings. If you support free speech, then you have to accept trump supporters, people who disagree with gay marriage, abortion and so on as long as they chose their words wise enough to not offend anyone.

And yes, personally I also feel it’s a good decision by Twitter, but it’s also concerning what kind of power our platforms have.
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> But Haskell's explanations of Monads is in my experience really no adequate. Category Theory is the underlying since theory, but do you need to know about mechanics and gears to drive a car?

Monads are part of the underlying category theory. So asking for a full explanation of Monads you are asking to explain part of the "mechanics and gears" in your car analogy.

> E.g. by now the concept of map, flat_map is fairly wide spread in most programming languages and you can teach about Monads in terms of that fairly easy. And then add the additional abstraction layer used in context of Monads like abstracting over the "external world state" (IO) and "combining computation descriptions".

I think I agree with your main point here that teaching the internal details first is often not the optimal method. You do not need to know how Monads work to use them to great effect in Haskell and other languages.
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If one is following current events, it isn't possible to avoid Twitter, Facebook and even Reddit. Mainstream news outlets often report on content from those social media sites, so even if I'm not a user, social media still effects me.
The Supreme Court rightly ruled that the traitor's case from Texas did not have legal standing.

I'm a Pennsylvanian. Texas should have no right to tell our legislature and government how to run its elections. The Supreme Court rightfully agreed:

> "Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections," the court wrote in an unsigned ruling Friday evening.

But again, you aren't arguing in good faith. I can't wait til Jan 20.
This is a net number. Meaning some number of men lost jobs but there were a greater number of men who gained jobs. Similarly some number of women gained jobs but there were a greater number who lost jobs.

The headline seems to imply that only women lost jobs in December which is more dramatic than the truth!
You have an extremely obnoxious, narrow view of the world then, like some child whose yet to develop a Theory of Mind and forgivably fails a false-belief exercise.[0] I suspect you're offended the opinions you're emotionally invested in have apparently been trivialised.

My 90-year-old frail Bangladeshi grandmother cared as much about Trump as she did about Bolsonaro—i.e. not at all. She cared very much about politics domestic to her country though, her husband was a politician.

What is your opinion on the Nigerian Special Anti-Robbery Squad—an important political topic in a country of 200 million people? Or the debate on traditional vs simplified Chinese characters? Or Article 9 of the Japanese constitution? These are things people are very emotionally invested in, are these topics also impossible to not have an opinion on?

Some people have other things to think about.

0. https://s3.amazonaws.com/spectrumnews-web-assets/uploads/ima...
I hate that this is downvoted, because it's so clearly true. There is a heavily armed, deeply mistrustful subculture in this country that has been TRAINED by its leaders (including most of the now-minority party) that it is going to need to overthrow the government someday.

And they tried. Last Wednesday. What happens when they succeed?

Now, to be fair: I don't think guns (as machines) are the core problem here. Removing the guns doesn't remove the domestic terrorists. But nonetheless gun culture is part and parcel of the right wing terror we just saw, and that needs to be fixed.
I don't know enough about the history of Turkey and the Armenian genocide to be properly outraged every time the country of Turkey makes it in a headline, so I'm sorry if I'm being insensitive here but I have a question open to everybody.

Is there any road to redemption for historical atrocities? I'm not defending Turkey because I genuinely don't know, but is there something they could do to alleviate the issue or are they cancelled for all eternity? Is there something they're doing now that's related to the Armenian genocide that's perpetuating the issue? Should we still be mad at Mongolia for Genghis Khan's infamous imperial violence?
The most surprising thing to me is that despite guns on both sides there were only 4 deaths.

I guess that either both the police did very well their jobs (after the fact) and/or the 'insurgents' (almost) only had their guns as symbols and/or there was a lot of luck involved.
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No this is wrong. The poster frames Moxie as the threat to our society, forgetting that the real threat in this instance is mass sureveilance and Moxie (even though he has given a very bad impression with his attitude) has only given us tools to defend ourselves against the real threat. You don't like his ways? Take his open source software and run your own. This post makes no sense at all but it was interesting only in the sense that it gave me some insight in the development of signal and it's direction that I don't really like. However, associating that with authoritarianism? Outrageous
To me this is more of a NASA thing. If a program ends up going over budget too much it gets cancelled. But the need is still there, so new program is often started up with a similar set of requirements. This problem is endemic across government aerospace programs.
That's not what strawman means.

Harassment is not illegal in the criminal sense. It is a cause you can sue people for. That also means it requires evidence and convincing a judge and possibly a jury. Again, there is a due process. It's not at the whim of a corporation. It also requires real damages such as a negative impact to someone's career, not just hurt feelings.

That's the case with all of the exceptions to free speech: there is a tangible, real world impact such as loss of income or risk of physical harm. "Feeling demeaned" is none of those things and is something that anyone can claim about anything. How you feel about something is also a choice. You can choose whether or not to let speech affect you like that.
You're just saying things but they aren't always true. Your argument relies on this bending of the truth.

Here's an example of protestors still being prosecuted:
https://triblive.com/local/allegheny-co-das-office-refiles-c...

“Recently, at the direction of Mayor [Bill] Peduto, the Pittsburgh Police presented to my office tangible evidence for the refiling of these failure-to-disperse charges in the form of body camera footage, as well as surveillance video and more comprehensive investigations,” Zappala said in a statement on Friday. “The demonstrative evidence shows that the individuals being charged were repetitively directed by the police and given ample opportunity to disperse, often over an extended period, and failed to heed these notices.”

Again, I disagree. There is no tacit acceptance. That is just false.
I went to a company where everyone identified as a developer, senior developer or even principal developer. It seemed to make a massive deal to them not just in terms of pay but what they were willing to do and what they thought of each other.

Previously I'd always been either a developer or consultant, from entry level up to people who were architecting large systems costing millions of pounds with little outside support. I still think it's a bit weird as I don't really care what my job title is as long as I get well paid and get to do enjoyable work occasionally.
So if 230 were repealed, and you posted about wanting to invade congress or how you want to send black people back to africa and moderators removed it, what legal recourse is now open to you, with 230 gone?
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Haskell has it’s fair share of problems, the major one being pointed out in this article, that in spite of all of SPJ’s noble efforts it’s still primarily stuck in the “ivory tower”, bogged down by tons of libs and docs that are full of academic or theoretical jargon, and unfortunately plagued in some sub communities, by people that have intellectual superiority complexes, which makes it alienating to a large number of potential users and leads to bitter posts like this.

But in terms of the language itself, I really don’t see the issues raised here and the author of the article comes off as having not understood the language very well. Libraries like Euterpea show that the language is insanely expressive and that they’ve, IMO, created a language that is very solid from a language design perspective. Sure there are wrinkles like records, but otherwise it’s generally pretty great from an expressive power standpoint.

Communication only works when people are speaking the same language. Of course you are going to struggle when that language is different than what you are used to (lazy, functional, pure) but if you spend time in language classes and eventually learn it, you’ll find that you can probably communicate your ideas just as well in this language too. If you decide you don’t like the sound of the language then don’t communicate in it, but that’s your choice, it’s not a knock on the language itself. This article feels like it was written by someone that struggled to learn Haskell and gave up and ranted about it rather than persevering or simply deciding it wasn’t for them and moving on. If you are comparing functors to objects in OOP I don’t think you actually groked it.
For the vast majority, the BLM protests (which I assume you are referring to?) set out to be-and were-peaceful. Leadership made a big deal about remaining peaceful. Things escalated most of the time when the _police_ instigated attacks. Given the racial tensions, and generally charged atmosphere I am absolutely not surprised rioting broke out. Lets remember that low-impact/low-disruption protests had been done prior, and were not met with attention or change they were ignored and sidelined. Cripple peoples ability to be heard and they will use increasingly forceful methods to be heard. This is _not_ a case of protestors rocking up to a street and beating on random pedestrians - which didn't happen and is the kind of "violence in the streets" I'm talking about. In my opinion some broken windows and torched stores are less important than peoples human rights - if in the course of a legitimate protest some shopfronts are destroyed, I don't have an issue with this. I do have an issue with people using a protest (which went to lengths to remain peaceful) as a cover/excuse to destroy things "just because" or to loot - this I absolutely condemn, as it does nobody any favours and takes away from the issue at hand.
It is practical actually, it's like downloading an exe or dmg with maybe an extra security hurdle (settings -> enable installing apps from $X). Plus you could make your own play store clone like F-droid and I think amazon made their own, too.
Came here to say this. The rands slack has a number of virtues:

* large, with over 10k members. This lets you see a lot of different perspectives.

* because he used to work at slack, it doesn't suffer from the 'memory hole' or other limits of the typical community slack. There's a ton of knowledge you can gain just by reading old messages.

* curated. No one can just join, everyone has to send an email to him. I don't know what kind of vetting happens, but there's at least some.

* active. Almost too active, it can be overwhelming. But this means that when you post a q, you tend to get some kind of feedback (unlike some other communities I've been in).

* clear code of conduct https://github.com/randsleadershipslack/documents-and-resour... I know they have active moderators, not sure I've seen anyone get kicked off, but definitely folks have been scolded (personal experience).

* clear purpose: promote tech leadership. Not just for VPs, CTOs, but any kind of tech leadership.

That said, haven't joined the channel that parent mentioned, but have definitely had some great high level discussions in some of the other channels.

Fun fact, anyone can start a channel there. When I was a startup CTO a few years back, I started #startup-cto and now there are 1000+ folks in the channel.
They would and they do https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfluidics
Not sure if you are the right person to talk to but there's a small mistake on the front page. Missing "language" in functional programming language (at least on my phone)
Why would subsequent children get different gene mutations? I don't think it's a thing, it would be like saying that every new child tends to have thicker eyebrows or something.

Of course it is possible that statistically each new child in a family has higher probability to be homosexual for environmental reasons, but for genetic reasons? I don't see it (could be wrong, not an expert at all)
It's a failsafe to have a chance to fight in case the government and enough of its military and commanders become tyrannical.

Different systems (democratic vs. tyrannical) have a different spread of when and how violence occurs. Gun violence, which can be lessened in America once adequate policy is in place to prevent dis-progression and heal mind-body-soul vs. genocide by CCP of specific population who didn't want to fall in line with CCP rule.
What is your definition of sensible gun regulation in your opinion? Chances are this man bought them legally. He broke the law by bringing guns into DC which I believe are more heavily regulated/restricted.
>A large part of software engineering consists in finding the right abstractions to think about a problem, and when one leaks that badly, it's generally and indication that one is thinking about the problem wrong.

Any law about content moderation is ripe for being gamed, so I don't think a hard definition can ever suffice. Think of libel: very hard to prove because it requires clear falsehoods, intent, and expression. So plenty of people, especially politicians, have learned to walk the line. They can legally convince people that their opponents are space aliens who stomp on apple pies and interrupt baseball games.

A better example for this "adaptive" kind of law is online gaming. If a player uses an exploit to gain an advantage, the developer will often correct that exploit. When developers stop pushing bugfixes, the game often ends up being dominated by whatever exploits were left. For law, legal precedent is like a bugfix.
I can't comprehend why an average civilian would need a gun. None of the arguments seem to stack up, at least, from my perspective.

Not trying to mock you, just seems like we have the same argument for our opposing views :)
> "So, looking from that perspective any tweet of any person could be taken down because some conspiracy theorist interpreted it in a particular way."

And yet only Trump attracts this sort of lunatic following. Let's be honest, he does speak in a particular way and avoids statements with clear interpretations. And arguably he actively plays with the occult crowd's obsession with hidden meanings and symbolism.

Fact is, his communications do have severe, real consequences and he fails to recognize that. It is therefore completely irrelevant how something could possibly interpreted otherwise. Human communication doesn't work like that. There is context, state and prediction, which cannot be ignored.
Bad example. At least this guy brought a truck with explosive and illegal guns. Doesn't seem like another stupid person that decided to bring their gun on an impulse.
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There is a common typo in the tweet thread, it's *vicious circle*, not viscus circle.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuous_circle_and_vicious_ci...
>>Whatever the problem in the US is, it can be fixed without photo ID.

This is true, Photo ID is not the only way to improve Election Security, but many US states do not have assigned Polling Stations anymore, these open polling stations methods need something more than just poling card, plus there is early voting as well.

Also the UK has other methods of verification done at the time of registration that do not occur in the States, US Voter rolls are infamously insecure, outdated and have all kinds of issues, UK seems to secure their election on registration side instead of the voting site

US does not do either, and any attempt to add security either during registration or on voting day is attributed to racism or classism or some other bigotry
25+ yo airframe, Island hopping, budget airline, Indonesia

All points to fuselage maintenance
I see your point, but that's not what I mean by 'no profit' in that specific case. I mean in comparison with traditional oil drilling, which is (was) a filthy rich industry.
The edge-on plot shows this dwarf galaxy coming in at a grazing incidence to the disk of the Milky Way. I would be curious to know how close the sun came to it as it did so, and in those times when it passed through the disk.
The right age. Having strong industry experience the chanches for doing something "more real" and not too academic are higher.
How to monetize a blog about ALS with little audience?
Ask HN: Dear HNers,

I have a little blog [0] since several years. It's about research in neurodegenerative diseases, specially ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). It is my way to raise awareness about these diseases.

My two attempts at monetizing have failed. I got zero revenues either from ads or from a "Donate" link.

* At least I would like to gain enough to pay the server fee and a new computer every few years.

* Ideally I would like to earn enough to enable me to attend a few conferences each year.

* In a dream world I would make experiences on TDP-43 aggregates on Ciona intestinalis [1], an aquarium invertebrate chordate which has motor neurons and which can even regenerate its whole nervous system in one month!

If I don't boost artificially the audience by submitting links to HN, I have roughly 5000 visitors per month. Nobody ever tried to contact me. Indeed I do not want to change the goal of this blog.

Please do you have any suggestions?

Thanks and regards from France,

Jean-Pierre

[0] https://padiracinnovation.org/News/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciona_intestinalis
You're right. I also just found out about research (mentioned somewhere downthread) on differences between antibody expression in different tissue types (some IgA subtypes predominantly found in mucosa while other IgG types being dominantly systemic and/or in the lower respiratory system). The discussion there is on a whole other level of precision and points toward a mechanism which might indeed make it possible for vaccinated people to transmit the disease with some degree so it's not quite as clear cut as I presented it.

Though, intuitively, I'd still bet that vaccination will reduce viral shedding and the total load shedded, thus also reducing transmission.
Please stop downvoting and flagging just because you disagree with what someone is saying!
This trend is likely to diminish in the future. Fracking was never profitable and was completely reliant on capital inflows that were drying up even before COVID. Since COVID the industry is essentially collapsing.
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>Requires intent to cause harm

Does encouraging people not to wear a mask (or just not wearing a mask) in the face of clear evidence and recommendations to the contrary count as intent to cause harm? That is, if I know doing something will cause harm but do it anyway am I engaging in negligent homicide?
They delayed and tried to overturn a constitutionally necessary process of democracy with their violent intimidation. What is that of you have a better word for it than terrorism and insurrection.
And Armenians were busy with killing Turkic civillians while Ottoman army fighting with their enemies in the west
How else would you know if the carrier is an "average civilian" without some sort of documentation?
Probably because there was only really one side...
BLM did not use Molotov cocktails. BLM is largely-non-violent. BLM was not the only faction involved in this summer's protests, and even in the cases of major property damage that did occur, were not the perpetrators.
Michael Apted directed two episodes of my favorite TV show, the wonderful sci-fi drama "My Life and Times." As someone else used the term, it was also 'temporally ambitious,' and I'm not surprised Apted was drawn to it, since it dealt with the same person in multiple time periods.

In the show, which only ran for 6 episodes in 1991 before getting cancelled, an old man in 2036 reflected on various events in his life (we saw events from the 1970s to the then-future turn of the millennium).

Apted directed the episode "Jessie," which I consider one of the finest half-hours of drama ever on television. You can see it on YouTube at:

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN4oe_JH4rw
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eFczFwWAFE

The other episodes are worth a look, too.
Yes you are. At least admit something if you believe it.
I think a contributing factor is that the police knew that these protesters would be heavily armed and dangerous and so were reluctant to escalate the situation. Unlike with BLM where they could happily curbstomp them with no consequences.
Arrgh, you are repeating almost verbatim like half the nonsense that is debunked in the linked article!

If, say, Twitter doesn't want republicans to talk on the Internet (to pick one ridiculous example), repealing section 320 would do nothing to stop them, nothing. No modification of section 320 would do anything, because nothing in section 320 deals with content moderation at all. It's only about liability.

I mean, just to be blunt: if 320 was repealed right now Parler would be sued into jelly given all the violent right wing garbage on that site, but Twitter (which is trying to remove it) would still be around, and still (as per my ridiculous example) censoring republicans.

Now, maybe you want some kind of new fairness doctrine law or something. And that would be interesting to discuss. But it's got nothing to do with liability protections for internet companies, nothing at all.