skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no reason to assume oxygen would be their favored oxidant

That goes back to astronomy no other option is going to be nearly as plentiful.

> You don’t get to constrain alien life with your preconceptions.

It’s not a preconception it’s the solubility of silicon and silicon compounds. Yes, CO2 and SiO2 aren’t the only option for respiration, but CO2 was and is a near endless supply of carbon and oxygen. Without that growth simply slows down dramatically. Even with a photosynthetic equivalent you simply don’t get the great oxygen event from silicon lifeforms in even 10 billion years.

PS: To be clear I am not saying silicon life would be impossible just that it’s at a huge disadvantage head to head and would have a vastly slower progression to large scale multicellular life.
IMO it is good that the React team was open into investigating different paradigms. It's a good thing and you rarely see this with other big projects.
You are misunderstanding the system. You can organize the logic into whatever containers you want, but the essence of the system cannot be changed.

You are already handling a `Maybe` type because it's possible for your input to not exist. Because the first implementation of `head` also returns a `Maybe`, it is possible to "bind" them together (I'm leaving out `IO` because I am both unsure of the syntax[0] and it is immaterial to the example):

head :: [a] -> Maybe a
head (x:_) = Just x
head [] = Nothing

getConfDirs :: Maybe [FilePath]

initializeCache :: FilePath -> Cache

useCache:: Cache -> Value

main :: ()
main = do

// you don't need concrete values here
maybeCache <- (getCofDirs >>= head >> initializeCache) // Maybe Cache

// one option
case maybeCache of
Just c -> useCache c
Nothing -> error "CONFIG_DIRS cannot be empty"

// another option
maybeValue <- (maybeCache >> useCache) // Maybe Value

[0] I have never written Haskell, so the above is my best-guess at the syntax given the snippets available (and no extra research)

The two functions `head` and `getConfDirs` are "parsers" because they both return `Maybe`. Contrary to

> Returning Maybe is undoubtably convenient when we’re implementing head. However, it becomes significantly less convenient when we want to actually use it!

It is trivial to use a reference to `Maybe` because it is a monad that it is specifically designed to be used more conveniently than the alternative approaches in the case when a value may (or may not) exist.
I deleted by FB account and created a new dummy account for Oculus. No issues.
What about my posts has given you the impression that I care about the people who could get vaccinated but haven't? I've repeatedly expressed my annoyance there. However, we should do our part to minimize spread at least until kids can get the vaccine. In particular, it seems to be the case that the Delta variant can spread from a vaccinated person to an unvaccinated one, so if there's widespread infection people could get it, then give it to their kids.

Anyway, all I'm doing is sticking to restaurants that have outdoor seating, wearing my mask in stores, and keeping distant from strangers on the sidewalk, so it is pretty relaxed compared to the height of the non-vaccinated pandemic.
Last I checked, it wasn't a TOS violation to have multiple Microsoft accounts like it is with FB. Microsoft even has some official support for for work vs personal accounts
Sounds similar to seacrete.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorock
So how'd your dates go?
Love Vue.

Polymer 2.0 with its HTML imports still offered a better DX in my opinion.

Svelte offers a better DX than both of those frameworks.

I don't even bother with FE anymore, more focused on BE/infra - but Svelte is always a pleasure to work in.
Can you elaborate what this system does? Escalates customer support tickets for employees?
>> Enjoy the ride & don’t poop on the party.

Legitimate criticism of SpaceX fanboys is not "Pooping on the party". People who pretend that this is a ground-up space program, an icon of how private enterprise is always better at everything, need to be educated in the history of spaceflight. I myself could build a car in my garage that is better/faster/cheaper than everything available in decades past. That doesn't mean that I am one iota smarter, better organized or more innovative than the engineers who built those classic cars.
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It's not obvious that Mexico has a better claim to California than e.g. the Ohlone or Tongva.
>Physicians are ethically forbidden from recommending a medical treatment that’s a harm to the patient, even if it’s in the interest of society.

Vaccines work at the population level, physicians don't check if you're going to benefit, society benefits. That is still ethical, depending on the ethical framework. I don't think doctors truly hold the Hippocratic Oath as ground truth, most probably don't believe in Apollo, for example.
No. Separate public US companies. You can buy their stock $DG and $DLTR
> This is also why I disagree with market purists about anti-trust. If a private company gets so huge that it is able to occupy an entire market niche for a prolonged period of time, it's important to do something to either break it up or incentivize other entrants. A private company allowed to remain super-dominant in one sector for too long starts to look and behave like a Soviet bureau.

I would say that if a private company gets so huge and can control an entire market niche for a prolonged period of time, they will inevitably stagnate which leaves them open to competition. The biggest problem issue for such private companies is not that they can control entire market segments but that they can lobby the government for regulations that permanently entrench themselves by making competition illegal in some way. The regulations are almost always done in the name of safety (if we don't regulate this then new unsafe entrants who don't follow all our internal practices could enter the industry and kill people). So they get government regulations created that exactly follow the company's own internal regulations. That both accelerates the company toward stagnation (they can no longer update the regulations) and also puts up walls for new competition as the new entrants can't innovate if they have to follow all the legacy processes.

That further gets trade unions/teamsters involved who learned to follow those regulations in trades schools and further act to restrict any improvement as it would kill their jobs.

Them being a monopoly in and of itself is not a problem, as long as we can prevent them from putting up barriers that would protect themselves from competition once they stagnate.
"Centrist" in relation to the current US Overton fits squarely into the right-wing compared to "centrist" in relation current and past societies in the world.
Indeed. If there were civilizations that communicate on geological time scales, how would we even know they are alive? If whales and dogs and bats are too alien to communicate with, what hope do we have with aliens?
Genuine question that I hope isn't interpreted as criticism.

I'm curious how this ultimately scales. I'd bite on believing that these videos can convert better than a boring templated email, but I'd also assume most of that lift is because they're different and enough users haven't caught on to the fact that these are generated.

When people talk about personalized email working better than automated outreach, they usually mean actually personalized emails, which contain at least one sentence that is not just placeholder substitution. Templated emails with substituted variables are usually easy to spot, as evidenced by the number of "I'm really interested in what you're doing at Stealth Startup" messages in my email/LinkedIn.

So, to my question: do you think the lift in conversion you've seen in early tests is sustainable? As people start to understand that this is the new marketing tactic, do you think the average person becomes more aware of it and starts to believe that most videos in their inbox are probably just auto-generated also? Ditto for other use cases. If people like their video-generated product walkthrough because it feels personal, what happens when they start to realize it's almost certainly not?
I could see how one might come away with this opinion but if you reflect on the nature of video games the fact of the matter is they're inherently proprietary software. Given that video games are more art than function, I think I'm okay with that too.

If we accept that video games are proprietary, whether or not they target a native Linux runtime (which no standard exists) or a Valve blessed windows emulation runtime hardly matters. We as users have no power to build these applications for a desired runtime and it's unreasonable to expect publishers to work against an undefined moving target. History has already proven that this tends to be a worse experience in the long term for Linux users and even more recently native builds can be worse than Proton builds.
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I've never heard a Googler or FB'er think Amazonians are smart or talented, ever. They look down on people like me.
Also "strike", "class action", "legislation", and "regulation".
German equivalent is "Dummensteuer"(tax for being stupid) regarding lottery.
Metabolism influences external attributes (I think behavior isn't the right word you're looking for). A larger creature requires higher caloric intake than a smaller creature (and this process isn't linear). A larger creature has different thermal regulations than smaller creatures because surface doesn't scale with volume linearly. The bigger the creature the more it calories it has to expend on the body vs the mind. There are equilibriums here that are physics based.

And then consider the selective pressures from plants vs fungi. A fungi gets its environment. Plants do some, but also need to perform photosynthesis. These have very different selective pressures for these lifeforms.
No one said that it's OK to dehumanize people because they refuse to follow the rules.
Meanwhile here in Oakland, this is what Mathematics teaching looks like in schools [PDF]: https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

These people are actively undermining the American spirit - I am saying this as an immigrant to USA and a person of color. I am fine with understanding racism in USA, it is completely unacceptable to inject this into STEM education. The next generation is going to grow up learning more about race at the expense of learning mathematics.

This isn't just my opinion - professors from UC Berkeley/Stanford and many major universities have written an open letter to the California Governor: https://www.independent.org/news/news_detail.asp?newsid=2287

Apparently, the message was clear and the California government is pausing this initiative: https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr21/agenda202107.asp
Fresh food isn’t just more expensive, but it’s also harder to handle and stock. Processed food comes in neat packaging that can be unit priced, and kept frozen or shelf-stable for long period of time.
...YIKES.
Ah yes, ocaml. The only course in my computer science degree that I disliked and failed.
From the article:

>Myers has recommended the election be run again, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the recommendation isn’t yet public. The recommendation will be considered by a labor board regional director and Amazon has the right to appeal the ruling to an NLRB panel in Washington. If a new election is called, it could happen later this year.

"Should" is being used because it is the recommendation of a single official and not yet a final decision.
We decided to have leap seconds to match UTC which otherwise needn't care and could be based on TAI, against UT, which depends on the gentle spinning of the large rock we all live on.

The IERS https://www.iers.org/ is in charge of monitoring the spinning of the Earth. On the basis of their assessment a decision is made every six months whether to inject (or indeed remove) a leap second.

If we decided not to match UTC to UT and thus we did not care precisely how quickly or slowly the Earth is spinning, we could abolish leap seconds.

If you meant, "Why can't we precisely predict the motions of a vast rock floating in space years into the future" then I don't know what to tell you. We're not God?
> > The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket.

> The single most important job for humanity right now is to save this one planet we have from destruction.

Aren't these two sides of the same coin? If we colonise Mars, but leave Earth a smoking ruin, then we've made things worse by trading a planet with a function biosphere for one without. If we wait till Earth is in perfect state before colonising another planet, we'll never leave, and be subject to many of the same risks.
Is DryCycle the Electrically Assisted Car-Bike Thing the World Needs?
I've heard this referred to as "Amish electricity"
But is that dehumanization inaccurate? Does it give the wrong impression? The answer to both questions seems to be "no", so he does not need an excuse - his defense is truth.
Fake it til you make it. The game is all about perception/value. If you have a higher perceived value than actual value it plays to your benefit.

You really need to turn around the interview on the interviewer. Best means of accomplishing this is to run through the technical evaluation as quick as possible, then turn the question around in terms of whether it would solve their current problems with what they're working on. It likely won't, so try to identify current problems within the organization/team/project. Dig into those problems and help identify solutions. Question the tradeoffs with the existing system and their current approach.

Just offer solutions.
Those sound a lot better. I especially like "jobsworth" as it's immediately obvious what its intended meaning is (beyond it being derogatory, which you can gather from context).

Using the term blankface would at most get you some blanks stares in return. Unless people mishear you pronounce the "n".
I completely fail to see what's the issue with what OP said, care to explain?

It is completely accurate, algorithms are built by people whom live inmersed on their own temporary and geographically atomized cultures, just look at modern supposed ""unbiased"" algorithms used to ""prevent crime"", it is just racial biases baked in
With all due respect to Guido, why do people write technical posts (or for that matter, posts of any kind) on Medium? Medium has so much bloat and it is near impossible to read articles on Medium with JavaScript disabled. Even basic scrolling requires JavaScript. uBlock Origin counts a total of 37 scripts on that page and its total size is 2.70 MB. Are 37 scripts really required to describe the ideas in the article, which as far as I can understand only requires just text and images? These days I think twice before clicking on any link that starts with medium.com, and I clicked on this only because it was by Guido.
The 'Year of the Linux Desktop' is bullshit for the same reason that the 'Year of the Mercedes Highway' is bullshit. Not everybody drives a Mercedes, and not everybody wants to 'drive' a Linux Desktop.

The only people who scream about the 'Year of the Linux Desktop' are the proselytising fanbois. I stopped being one of those years ago. Who cares if Joe Sixpack wants Windows on his desktop. As long as I have Linux on my desktop, I don't give a rats about Joe.

Those of us that use Linux had our own 'Year of the Linux Desktop' at some time time in the past. My own 'Year of the Linux Desktop' was 2001, and which followed on from my 'Year of the UNIX Desktop' which was 1991.

Interestingly, I personally never had a 'Year of the Windows Desktop'. (I went directly from a MSDOS CLI to a UNIX CLI to a UNIX Desktop several years before Windows 3.0 even came out. When I finally bothered to have a look at Windows 3.1, I couldn't believe how ugly and primitive it was.)

And yes, I use lots and lots of xterms on my six virtual desktops. In fact, if the output of the program I am using does not depend on an image, I will be invoking it from an xterm. I eschew those new-fangled IDEs. They get in the way of my curses-based text-editor, make, and CLI to run that compiled program.
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Just for clarity, that's "70% of American adults".

18% of Americans are 15 or younger [1], below the youngest approved vaccine age (the Pfizer vaccine is approved for teenagers as young as 16), so that's (0.18 + (1-0.18) * (1-0.7) = ) ~42% of Americans who haven't even received 1 shot, and 58% who have.

(There may be some error in that, if far more or far less than 70% of non-adult vaccine-eligible people (teenagers aged 16 or 17) have gotten at least one shot, but it probably doesn't change the overall percentage that much.)

[1] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/age-structure
What happened to emberjs? It was poised to become the next big thing after react and angular and suddenly nobody talks about it anymore.
Do you have some other country in mind that could support a nascent space company?
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I don’t know if you can make that bet - evolution of the virus needs to conserve the current mode of cellular entry and attachment and fitness of spike appears to be the main driver at present - and then spike mutation has driven drift from the original vaccine target leading to a degree of immunity ‘escape’.

So the question is, is the virus now in a local minima where it is highly adapted for spread (ie big increase in R0 from ‘original’ virus) and are those selective pressures in a situation where the virus can’t jump into a full immunity escape mode without climbing down off mount improbable and taking another face?

My bet would be that the selective pressures may continue to drive fitness for reproduction, but won’t lead to immunity escape because spike is too conserved
I think we can appreciate how this is a difficult problem though. Google support would get a torrent of actual hackers contacting them to gain access to someones account. Not restoring access to a few real cases is probably better than giving access over to a hacker.

GitLab recently said that customer support will not help restore access to your account if you lock yourself out unless you have an active subscription to your account and can use your billing details as verification.

How should google support handle this? Perhaps banks should offer an identify verification service?
The destruction of Helike in 373 BCE
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I'm not making any claim we can do this right now. I'm just making a claim that working towards this as a goal is important to many people for what I think are understandable reasons.

Also, the sooner you can get to Mars more reliable and more cheaply with larger payloads, the sooner that becomes a reality. Even if it never happens in my lifetime, that doesn't mean I think it's not worth working towards making all those things more real so it can be a reality at some point in time.

> i'd strongly disagree with the notion that Mars is even a top priority for a diversification of baskets.

Without even knowing specifically what you think would be a better choice, my guess is that cheaper, more reliable launch capabilities with bigger payloads will help that too.
US government space funding, as a percent of GDP, is the second highest in the world. The only country which beats the US at %GDP government space funding is Russia; but in absolute terms government space funding in the US is 7 times that of Russia, due to how much bigger US GDP than Russia's is. SpaceX has received a lot of business from the US government (both NASA and military) and is hoping to receive a lot more in the future.

US arguably has the world's easiest access to venture capital. Compared to the US, venture capitalists in other countries tend to be more cautious, demanding much more equity for the same investment, and often much more interfering as well.

A low regulation, low corruption business environment. Trying to start something like SpaceX in many other countries, the government will force you into various inefficiencies – using politically favoured suppliers, etc. The US has comparably little of these problems.
Yep. Even developers with apps which might have gotten wrongly flagged by the artificial unintelligence only get to talk to automated emails unless they can create a big enough shit storm on social media to get a few tech blogs to write about it.

A very recent example was Droid script app on Android:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26956077
Maybe "interview" is a euphemism in this context?
Odd. None of those details were included in the Enemy at the Gates movie, and it specifically focused on snipers.