skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of those people from outside SF came from neighboring counties or within California. It’s a tiny minority coming from out of state.
I was asking about books on Statistical Process/Quality Control though a book on our "lost heroes" would make a more enjoyable reading :-)

It seems Japan's resurgence after WWII owes a lot to the enlightened policies of a "few" Americans and their willingness to actually follow through with concrete actions. I wonder how many Japanese really know about their own history and what they really owe the US.
Reads like a Brave sponsored hit piece with a clickbait title. Ugh.
Callbacks have been there, but most code wasn't written with that in mind. And you still need some synchronization in async code - even if it's all scheduled on a single thread - due to re-entrancy issues.
>a top-tier philosopher and then branched out to writing

I probably can't replicate the experience for anyone else, but I was astounded by learning the year in which Infinite Jest was released only after finishing it. The only other fiction that's led me to totally misapprehend the year of publication like that is Parable of the Sower.
I'm surprised we don't just lend it the US navy. It is strategically probably the most valuable thing in the world short of nuclear assets.
On a related note, I've been a fan of Dr. Land since reading an article about him in Popular Science in the 70's.
Still hoping to find a decent SX-70 for a reasonable price some day.
I always thought he was doing it for ideological reasons.
I get “couldn’t send” when I try that URL.
The Queer Past Gets Banned on eBay
This wave began in the south (and on the west coast), but it has been creeping up the map in recent weeks. You can see it spreading into southwestern PA now. The wave simply hasn't gotten to NY yet. It is coming.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I get that GDPR permits legitimate interest but being able to request deletion should be doable. It isnt.
You should know it because you signed the terms of service which includes the statement, (in the beginning) that Messenger is subject to Facebook's community guidelines, which at the top of the page tell you:

"As people around the world confront this unprecedented public health emergency, we want to make sure that our Community Standards protect people from harmful content and new types of abuse related to COVID-19. We're working to remove content that has the potential to contribute to real-world harm, including through our policies prohibiting coordination of harm, sale of medical masks and related goods, hate speech, bullying and harassment and misinformation that contributes to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
As the situation evolves, we continue to look at content on the platform, assess speech trends, and engage with experts, and will provide additional policy guidance when appropriate to keep the members of our community safe during this crisis."

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/
This is a weird edge case.

- For most academic articles, the audience is almost entirely other academics with institutional access. If so, getting a paywalled article usually just requires signing into the VPN and reloading the page. If your university has a subscription--and it likely does to "core" journals, you're good to go. If not...

- Funders have been pushing for "open access" to research findings. Work funded by the US government needs to be freely available online within a year of publication. You should therefore either be able to access the article text somehow, either through the journal itself, a preprint server (arXiv or one of its offshoots), or a repository (PubMed Central, DTIC, etc).

- On top of that, most labs do have webpages that contain their publications. Google scholar is pretty good at finding them too.

This covers ~99.9% of cases, and they're all instant once you know how to use them. My point in the original comment was if that these fail, you should shoot the authors an email instead of paying. A few publishers do hold a fairly hard line against publicly posting an article, but even they typically allow you to provide a copy "on request".

Also, in case it's not clear, academic publishing is only partly about actually disseminating information. A huge part is getting the "imprimatur" of peer review generally, and from certain journals specifically. A brilliant self-hosted document might impress people within a very specific subfield that are motivated and able to evaluate the work. However, its value will be unclear to others who fund/hire/evaluate you. The Dean, for example, likely has neither has the background nor the time to decide if your technical blog merits tenure. He/she does know that Nature is very selective, publishing there means that your work is held in high regard by your field, and therefore you deserve tenure. This holds true for funders too. It's not a great system in many regards, but it is how things currently work.
The precedent that privately-run internet messenger services can censor content was set a very long time ago. You’re decades late to that party.

Besides, we’re not talking about political opinions here. If they ever do that (which is unlikely), then we can become justifiably upset. That’s a hill worth dying on — this one is not.
I hear about them on the surface level from the links people submit, then I get the nitty-gritty details that matter from the comments here, sometimes /. or reddit.
Staff are probably under pressure to divulge the contents of phones to LE. Remember the Geek Squad thing a few years back? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-geek-squad-customer-data-...

If that's not the case, the staff need to be retrained and be well versed in what privacy actually means.
“Old School Lifting” Is Not the One Noble Path of Exercise
I think the anonymous internet was way better. People tend to group anyway, so it's not like everyone is forced into the same room.
The vaccine risk is strictly a subset of the viral risk.

Getting the virus entails getting a lot more of the spike mRNA pumping out a lot more spike protein along with all the rest of the viral machinery and real infectious virions, infecting more cells than just in the muscle of your arm, attacking your heart, lungs, kidneys, etc.

Getting the virus is always going to be worse, for everyone, than getting the vaccine.

Which is also why people refusing to get the vaccine because they've been infected is dumb, because they already beat everything in the vaccine.
No, I actually really would. I grew up with the uncensored internet and it was, on the whole, less abusive and manipulative than today's internet culture.
Does Paul Graham know Prolog or Wolfram or SAS?

If not then... isn't it ironic?
What was your point?
Emacs is definitely not a SW to use if you're not going to read the docs. There's no good argument that Emacs should be, especially given what you say:

> I don't see why I should "master Emacs" when there are usually better tools for any given task.

I use Emacs for all kinds of things - not just programming. If I pick any one, there's definitely a better tool out there. Emacs's strength is the ability to tie it all together. If all a person wants is a good text editor, I would not recommend Emacs to them. Emacs is one of those things where you get more out of it the more you invest in it.

And it's totally reasonable to decide not to invest in it.
You may be right about that. That doesn't mean asking first shouldn't be required. I don't think most drug dealers are ignorant enough to think their dog would protect them from the police they are likely using the dogs to defend from their customer base or rivals.
How is that a problem. Microsoft would jump at the chance to run windows on M1. Make no mistake here. It's only Apple not wanting to invest in features that have existed for years.
I find that for a lot of problems reasoning about the core problem using a mental model akin to lisp makes it easier for me to come to a sufficiently clear understanding to be able to better express the solution in both code and prose.

So while I agree about writing prose, it's also true that learning lisp made me a better documenter.
Try that and let us know how battery life works out.
FWIW, his venture into math writing with Everything and More [1] was widely criticized.

The wikipedia has links to the full text of three reviews: "laced through and through with blunders of every magnitude." "Any reader keen to gain insights into the infinite would do better to go back to Aristotle." "The presentation grows increasingly frantic and disorganized. Nothing makes sense."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_and_More_(book)
In my experience, as you learn more about lambda calculus and type theory (LC, STLC, System-F, System-Fw, CiC) the peculiarities of language designs start to fade. This is because when you see a weird-looking language feature, instead of internalizing it as a unique design with its own unique character, you tend to see it as "syntactic sugar" on elemental theories.

That said, some languages are more ergonomic than others, especially when you compare them against particular domains. But IMO that's a problem that transcends language design. All tools, not just a language, should be fit to the domain. And in general you can build APIs and libraries that can reasonably fit any language to a domain.

Edit: slight simplification.
I had a childhood friend who was a "Playgirl" centerfold when he was about 20 years old, in the early 80s. I was able, about 15 years ago, to go on eBay and buy the issue he was featured in. It's disturbing to think that today this sale would be blocked by eBay.

> The ban appears to be related to the House’s Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Senate’s Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act, known together as fosta-sesta, an effort by victim’s-rights advocates and right-wing activists to crack down on sex work. One feature of the legislative package was to make Web sites liable for hosted content that might “promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person.”

Yet this is even more disturbing! These sites are being bullied into removing this material, all in the name of "fighting sex trafficking." I've seen xenophobic laws targeting Asian businesses in my area all in the name of "fighting sex trafficking." The place I go to for pedicures has to have "anti trafficking" signs up, and the staff is required to wear name tags as part of compliance with trafficking laws for any business that does massages (you can get a foot massage with a pedicure there).
End to end encryption usually refers to users being the ends and the service provider being the transport. So while it is sitting on apples servers it is kind of in transport but delayed until you make the request to get it back.
This came up via Pocket a few days ago for me.

My son has cancer, and we have been immensely glad that we cut off Facebook, etc. years ago because the amount of “advice” we have gotten has been exhausting even without it.

Another thing that the author doesn’t touch on but has been a constant issue for us is: what did we do to cause/deserve this. The secret there is: likely nothing you had control over. Could you have intercepted the factor that made the cell mutation happen? Possibly, but it was likely innocuous and nothing that you would have known.

Nevertheless, the self doubt, questioning, and guilt remain.
Nearly all valuations are difficult to grasp at this point. We're _way_ overdue for a _massive_ correction. Surprised Pikachu faces incoming.
Long ago, before he put is writing behind a paywall, I used to read Urban Survival week.... the one piece of advice I thought had huge merit was to put your own work ahead of any work you do for others.

Work on your project BEFORE the 9 to 5 job, not after. When you get home, rest and recover.
If you already have an Amex card from your country of origin, Amex will get you one based on the score of your country of origin, or at least that is what I had heard
>You reaaaaallly would not like the uncensored internet.

I remember the uncensored internet -it was vastly superior to what we have now.

Vastly.
That sounds like you made it up off the top of your head. Care to show your work? In reality, Delta has been in NY for months...

"Delta Now 97% of COVID Cases But Hospitalizations, Infection Rates Drop"
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/delta-now-97-of-...
In terms of cases-per-million they rank 34th in CA, according to my reckoning: https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid?sql=select%0D%0A++RANK...

But I always worry that factors like prison populations could distort cases-per-million numbers when you consider how small the population of a bunch of those counties are.

Not to mention that comparing those kinds of numbers for counties with just a few thousand people to LA County (population: 10,039,107) doesn't make much sense at all.
> Emacs is great out-of-the-box.

"Slackware is friendly. It's just really picky about who its friends are."

I mean, I'm sure there are like seven, maybe eight, people in the world that think Emacs is great out of the box. Where we run into trouble is that most of those seven or eight people are the ones deciding what Emacs is like out of the box.
It’s not just how many variations of a given component there are, it’s all the many components I have to become aware of to use, each written by a different author with possibly diffeeent idioms, with varying degrees of interoperability. One has to have an http package, an auth package, a json package, a structure modeling package, the list just goes on and on and on. And so many are often derivative dependencies. It’s not just elixir.

When I look for help in the Kotlin slack, the responses are just a firehouse of “you need Zanzibar, no Algolly, try Firetruck, do Conduct, you might want xWyze…”
It’s not been clear to me if having social media turns public figures into cranks, or if some other process is involved and social media merely observe their descent.
I started blocking third party cookies recently after an earlier thread. I didn't realize timeline for default was 2023.
You kidding? This is par for the course.. this is the macro playbook that we've seen time and time again over the last 20 years
> It does offer you an interactive tutorial.

:facepalm:
Yeah, my 8 years old niece will be taught "Informatics" in the school. Starting in a few days, actually. I'm sure she will enjoy Emacs over Notepad, since Notepad doesn't have any interactive tutorial.

> It does come with comprehensive offline documentation.

To avoid using precisely that, some years ago, I created myself a little extension of the engine-mode which opens up a browser and searches on the internet using a proper search engine. Here's the code:
https://github.com/Bost/dotfiles/blob/c262e4dd7c5a498ce5d75c...

Enjoy

> It does come with the best interactive querying and documentation capabilities of any software system in wide-use today.

I managed to learn how to write my own plugins, macros, spacemacs core extensions, etc. I hope one day I'll learn how to use the emacs interactive documentation, too. Eventually.
Facebook always says everything is a bug. A year later, it is standard operating procedure.
TLDR; I don’t like Glen Greenwald because he is not a republican but he still disparages left wing talking points.
That was a fantastic launch. God speed, Astra.
This is private chat. Get off your high horse.
Look at all the commie fucks in this thread.

Every last one of them sucking Mao's dick off.
That’s not what the article says.
No too silently - it didn't allow me to send JotForms to our school parents claiming those links are not safe.
We're past shock. Shock was appropriate in early 2020, when there was no meaningful defense and bodies stacked up in coolers. Today there are effective vaccines that, when applied broadly, preclude this outcome. But there are intransigent demographics that won't act in their own interest and this is exactly what one should expect.
> Emacs needs new users

Why do you think so?

I've been hearing things like this for over a decade now. And compared to 10 years ago, the Emacs "ecosystem" has shown explosive growth. I can find much more useful help on Emacs on the Internet now. I can find an order more magnitude of tips/tricks than I could 10 years ago. There are many more packages easily accessible than 10 years ago.

From within, it's clear that Emacs is doing quite well in terms of its user base. The fact that its percentage market share is dropping doesn't mean it's not growing - just that other things are growing faster.

So I never understood why people imply that Emacs is somehow stagnating.
Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 2
Muh covid!!!

REEEEEEEEE

Science!!!!!!

RRRRREEEEEEEEE

Orange man bad! Orange man Bad!
This is another reason to only use E2EE FOSS messengers, ever.
> 99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions.

A common complaint at Google was "all I do is copy one protobuf to another". And I think that sums up programming -- that really is all we think we do. For example, a triple-A game just reads a stream of keyboard events, mouse events, and network packets, and emits streams of video frames, sound samples, and network packets. The rest is just details!

That is obviously not true, of course. We find the interfacing the most tedious, annoying, and painful part and overestimate how much time we spend doing it. Interfacing with anything is painful -- I had the idea for this comment in an instant, but I'm spending 5 minutes thinking of words and sentences, figuring out what order they should be in, and commanding my fingers to press keys on my keyboard to get it to you. But it would be incorrect to say that "99.5% of human cognition is convincing your fingers to press keys", even if that's a strict blocker to disseminating your idea on the Internet.

What that means is that tools can help us eliminate the tedious parts. The fact that tedious parts haven't gone away just means that there is more work to do. When the tools start doing what we need, you'll stop seeing the complaint that all programming is is moving data from one library to another. You'll start seeing the complaint "all I do is stare at the screen figuring out what to build."
Some notes.

At the very start, almost tipped over. Very low thrust at start, rocket basically hovered and translated horizontally. But managed to climb eventually.

Some puff of smoke before max Q.

Flew to max Q anyway. Then lost control, cartwheeled rapidly.

If it has many engines, then one engine running really rough or not at all would explain it.
That's fascinating. Can you elaborate on how he accomplishes this?
Facts and science!

Facts and science!

Facts and science!
That can plug into any television made in the last fifteen years no problem as a display.
Question! Do you do this just to difficult? I mean a passport is obviously a very valid piece of ID but you seem like you are doing this just to be a pain in the ass which says a lot about you as a person.
Emacs Lisp now arguably has a better type inferencing compiler than SBCL[1].

[1] http://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html#orge596749
It’s pointed out in the YouTube comments, but if you look at the bottom right the base of the rocket at take off you’ll see a hold down clamp malfunction or something, and the part that flips up and smacks the rocket body appears to be the part that let loose at MECO.

I’m a little surprised they didn’t terminate as soon as things got sideways (literally), but glad they let it have a go. Flight control software got a workout.
Maybe some small town close to North Pole.
In these small towns I doubt mortuaries have a capacity much greater than 10 each.
Agree with the others that this is likely a Unicode bug and not a long line issue. 125 characters never causes me problems.

But yes, Emacs does have a long lines issue, sadly.
A Tesla Model 3 hit a police car in Orlando, driver said she was ‘in Autopilot’
It seems in this space actually delivering something takes out the magic and reduces valuation. Remember Magic Leap? Much better to push vaporware and cash out.
Most of the wear and tear on a GPU is going to come from temperature changes due to the workload changing, or, for the fans, the card spinning the fans at start up, ramping up and ramping down due to a change in load, or halting the fans at shutdown.

It's very possible that an undervolted, well-ventilated card, run with a steady workload 24/7/365 for three years would have _less_ wear and tear than a card used for gaming and then shut down every night for three years.
But if you send another message after that, then the indicator changes to delivered. May be a bug in adding a new feature caused by developer only caring about not sending the message part.
Check out the content in https://reddit.com/r/COVIDAteMyFace

It’s morbid, for sure, but eye opening (ignore the distasteful comments sections, focus on the post content; posted to provide some semblance of insight into the unvaccinated’s take on COVID after unsuccessful outcomes).

My ~90 year old grandmother refuses to get vaccinated due to misinformation on a major news network. She asked me if I get my flu shot, and why bother with a vaccine if it’s only good for 8 months. Local hospital ICUs are at capacity. No amount of data or critical thinking will change her mind. She is upset she can’t travel or cruise without getting a vaccine.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tell dang.
Theres a youtube video where you can see their hw & os browser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzw-_qN1zSg
> It could also be more "discoverable". There are hundreds of functions so that 100% of my needs are covered. But every now and then, when I want to find a command, I DuckDuckGo it

Have you tried the apropos command? For me, often using helm/ido and trying to guess actually leads me to the correct command. I personally haven't even tried apropos, so I don't know how good it is.
Only if you're going to take an absolutist stance that "censorship only applies to governments".

But that's not the only definition. wikipedia defines censorship thus:

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".[2][3][4] Censorship can be conducted by governments,[5] private institutions, and other controlling bodies. " (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship)

You can argue whether or not moderation is necessary or not but it most definately is censorship.

The way it is being applied by FB is most certainly censorship and highly inappropriate and destructive.
MSN Messenger was censoring some words, if I remember correctly like "Summer Jam" and "papaz". I was unable to find those words but I have found a related news article https://circleid.com/posts/07080616_msn_messenger_censor_inf...
Since Facebook was partially bought by Microsoft I believe Messenger is continuation of MSN Messsanger.

I abandon such applications without hesitation.
I am sorry, but the uncensored internet is the only type of acceptable internet. Anything else is just gov or corp interests.
> ‘Because this is how rms did it 45 years ago’ is not really a good excuse.

Not only do they use it as an excuse, they think it means Emacs is somehow enlightened. The people that want that can put (setq rms-mode t) in their .emacs and let the rest of us have sane defaults.
Role-based access control like it was meant to be
For one, you could tell idiots (whoever you decided they were) exactly how they felt, without fearing retribution IRL.

Keeping online identities separate from the real world worked both ways. It protected rational critics, trolls and shitposters alike.

The problem never was anonymity or freedom of expression. No. Social media is when life online went into freefall. Curiously, a pillar of its business model is melding real life with internet identity.
“This Is Going to Change the World” (The Failure of the Segway)
You don’t want to destroy gse... if the rocket can go up, you let it go up!