skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>UAP sightings are rarely taken seriously, which is no surprise considering that 99% don't hold up against any kind of scrutiny.

Until what a year ago and then even bigger half a year ago? The news/journalists basically didnt cover the US government admitting to the existence. Why? They were clearly ordered in secret history to not cover it. Then some random politician(does white checkmark me its a real account?) said it only scratches the surface? https://twitter.com/senatorreid/status/1254836730546384897?l...

UFO claims must now all be investigated as much as we can.
In my opinion, these two quoted sentences are doing pretty much all the work in this article. I'm kind of surprised this article is on the front page, given the lack of detail.
There are a number of standard functions that can achieve this, namely in string.h. Performance is a question of course.
I won’t comment on whether the action is justified or not in this instance, but:

Never hang up on a colleague. Ever. As far as social phone etiquette goes that’s probably one of the most egregious things you can do.

Instead, humble yourself, politely disagree and document over email, copying another colleague who witnessed, or if unavailable the manager (in this case the skip).
Amazon is actually really hard to get fired from. I knew this one guy who used to binge drink during while working all day. He only got fired after he brought production down for the third time in six months. I left because I had higher pay offers. I'm an idiot to say the least, but a person who can acknowledge their faults is likely to be someone who gets hired persistently because they know to address it.
Seeding Postgres with Docker
> you can always try asking the runtime

90% of the time, I'm trying to read code in a very local context and understand it, which involves being able to trace an identifier to its source. I don't want to run it. Maybe I can't run it (it's a rarely executed path, the runtime env is complex, someone emailed me a copy of a source file, etc.).

Language developers, be like Python. Be like Java. Be boring and explicit.
To be happy, joyful, content, and at peace. (This isn't just wishful thinking - I am actually trying to learn this.)
Good article.

But discussed with 800+ comments five months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27276706
> I assume I'm missing something.

You are indeed, Rackets REPL is very barebones. Use Common Lisp with either SLime or Sly and Emacs.
Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics raises $125M
SEC rejects VanEck’s spot Bitcoin ETF as BTC price falls below $63K
Honestly, how bad would git be for handling that? I've worked on regulations for a governing body before using git, and it was fantastic for tracking proposed changes. You just submitted a PR.
I'm a DIY guy too, my home lab looks like a hardware startup, yet:

> Why would I pay someone $200 if I can do the job in 10 minutes

Because the supply chain for aftermarket Apple parts is absolutely bonkers.

The part is "$90" because it's practically impossible to know its history (ie for the same $90 you'll find everything from actual OEM to "hybrids" to knockoffs)

And if Apple sold it, I'm not convinced it'd be that much cheaper than $200

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Like I agree with the sentiment repairs are getting harder, but Apple is generally one case where I don't agree they're doing too poorly for self repair and sustainability, yet they're always getting called out.

I'd wager even with the current repair situation, the average Apple device ends up providing value to a person way longer than any comparable device because of their stance on updates. The resale value even reflect that.
Do you have source for that?
I think you make a good point. But I don’t think it completely defeats the bias. Especially given that the star system that existed before the Web had 0 and half stars.

It seems like it’s purely a result of widget design deficiency: how do you turn a null into a 0 with a star widget? (You could add an extra button but naturally designers will poo poo that)
I have gotten designs first-time right multiple times in my career, and in fact more often first-time right than not. And so for both hardware and software.

For the last few years however I have gradually been loosing that and have started going easier on myself when I discover a mistake.

The requirement to get it right in the first time is more stringent for integrated circuit designers (which I have been too) as cycle times are in months. It is true that several tools are set up around this to help find issues before designs are sent out for fabrication. However, the tools are not perfect, and considerable insights, eye for detail and perfectionism and are still required to make a design work in the first shot.
Ah OK yeah I had the app name mixed up. I was thinking of the ANOM app that was developed by the FBI.
what is a racial advancement?
Scheme is remarkably less interactive than Common Lisp, though specifics depend on dialect of Scheme.

Common Lisp is remarkably more geared towards interactive use, but while it does make it easy most of the time to be used with just minimal REPL - as in literal (loop (print (eval (read)))) - it's best to use integrated, enhanced environments like SLIME/SLY/SLIMV/etc or one of the IDEs (LispWorks, AllegroCL, Clozure CL IDE)
I've been fired from a few positions for various reasons, though never explicitly for saying anything in particular. At least one for probably raising many obvious issues with my useless manager over a longer period. I think in retrospect, what I'd take away is that it can be a very difficult position to be in — especially if you have dependants — to try and stick with a job you know will try and ruin you. In my experience, every single time it was fruitless to try and do my best, or convince myself it would get better, and always a sign that I should quit, as risky as it might be. But I didn't, and I burnt out and got fired, when I could have just quit and had an easier time moving on. Don't bother trying, find a better place to try at.
FOSS comm app for selfhosting: HTTPS://github.com/rolandosborne/IndiView [video]
No e-biker should be on a sidewalk.

There are informal norms. Cyclists who cycle on sidewalks should be relatively new and should make sure to behave explicitly with all of the rules of the road (ie. don't run a red from the sidewalk as a cyclist, very dangerous. if you must, dismount and walk across or wait for the pedestrian light). Cyclists on the street are generally more experienced and do not have to explicitly follow all rules IMO.
Signal Wallet now available in most countries
Everyone is an American on the Internet (unless stated otherwise).
I wouldn't say they are a sham. They are the services that students and their families expect. If you don't have them students go somewhere that does have them. Too many students go elsewhere your enrollment drops. Your enrollment drops, you lose revenue. If you lose too much revenue you have to offer even less services and and are unable to pay top faculty. Even less students consider the College/University. And on and on the viscous cycle goes until the College or University folds due to a lack of sustainable revenue.
I also would think that Libre Office just wouldn’t cut it with all the track changes. It’s a bit of a shame that the industry is so cemented to Word, git is 1000 times superior than track changes IMO. But I understand that git has a bit of a technical hurdle that a lot of lawyers might struggle with.
I've been thinking a lot about literate programming, and I'm positive that Knuth-style LP's worst enemy is TeX. Realistically, an LP system is going to need to prioritize the reading experience of the input format itself, not just the output format after running it through a typesetting system (no matter how powerful the typesetting system might be). Consider Gruber on Markdown, and this 2014 blog post about (what became) CommonMark:

> A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions (Gruber)[...] forks of Markdown, such as GitHub Flavored Markdown and MultiMarkdown extend standard Markdown in various ways, and are targeted for their particular use cases. GitHub’s implementation for code blocks, for example, looks like something a group of programmers would want to have; it looks more like code than text <http://shindoisshin.net/blog/2014/9/6/standard-markdown-cont...>

Consider this file. Those who are expected to interact with it in this form includes Knuth and his collaborators—the few who have sent in corrections—and nobody else. You aren't expected to read a literate program like this. In an ideal world, where we had computing better figured out, Knuth wouldn't interact with it like this, either.

The second thing to address would be the use of "static" target languages like C and Pascal. A literate programming work should aim to be more like the experience of programming by configuring program entities (I hesitate to say "objects")—like Self, except powered by the written word. Among the negative ways to react to the last remark would be to say, "'Self, except powered by the written word'? So pretty much the opposite of Self, then. Basically, what we already have." But this is too superficial. Consider Jef Raskin on "the woes of IDEs": <https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=864034>
Even with a low population, a society's practices can still be devastating to the environment. There are multiple cases of early Native American cities being abandoned because they got too big relative to their previous size and used up all the resources in the area. This is with populations of 5 and rarely 6 digits.
My experience is pretty much with you.
It's still much easier to create a cross-platform PDF that works on any device, than writing a document in LibreOffice and expect it to be 100% interoperable with Word, and viceversa.

In fact, I haven't created a broken PDF on any operating system in 15 years. Font embedding in PDFs is a solved problem.
I'm describing the Japanese layout.
I'm going to say it's used in the "derogatory shorthand for everyone who isn't like me" sense.
Any hope of the Lisp community pulling a Swift and replacing the language with a drop-in-compatible new one built ground-up with lessons and sensibilities learned over decades?
> He says it has worked for him so far--with only minor issues.

I'd say the same about Word. Mostly fine, but some minor issues, usually linked with auto-numbering getting in a fluster, or deciding to turn all the numbering into black blocks.

But I definitely prefer Word's flexibility for displaying tracked changes.
Sounds like the biggest mistake he made was lashing out at a likely in-over-their-head manager. We are only getting one side, but sounds like he was trying to do the right things to either overcome the challenges and/or create boundaries, but he may have been hired to be a sacrificial lamb. In my consulting times, I was brought into something a lot like this for the purpose of being fired so that the CTO could save their job. It can be very challenging to get a read on an employer / client who is intent on misleading you. It can also sometimes be a manager who needs to save their own job who may not be deliberately lying so much as simply in a fight / flight situation themselves.
I run a small Linux compute cluster for a research institute with a ~8 kW budget. If it ran m1s, I’d have 5x more cores to work with (and the cores would be faster). How niche is this?
“In some safety-critical scenarios, such as concerning the integrity of reactor containments, and metal vaults and bulkheads in maritime structures, it can be important to minimise the number of penetrations made through such metal structures for communications cabling. The use of neutrons for information transmission through such structures could negate the need for such penetrations and is perhaps also relevant to scenarios where limited transmissions are desirable in difficult circumstances, such as for emergency rescue operations.”
Power required increases with the square of the speed being primarily a function of wind resistance at higher speeds. Your motor shutting off cause you hit 20mph on a slight decline might give you the wrong impression.

Maintaining 25mph requires in excess of 300 watts. Some 90% of the population won't be able to produce that for a mere minute.
> We also have to delineate between a daydreaming cyclist who's top speed is slow, and a hard-core cyclist with a $3000+ bike that can hit 40 mph in the right conditions.

Surely even skilled cyclists should be permitted to use bike paths as long as they don’t tear by everyone at 40 mph. And I’m genuinely a bit unclear as to why no-pedaling-needed bikes shouldn’t be able to mingle with bikes as long as they follow the rules.
The right way to do it is to not install work slack on any of your non-work devices. Barring emergencies, which should be directed to dedicated on-call staff, or extenuating circumstances like prearranged projects with tight deadlines, there should be no reason to have to reply to your boss until the next work day.
Is this real? Can I read research somewhere about this?

Edit: Here’s the apparent source of the quote: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thisworldofo...
Sometimes you can get fired/hired over competitive hiring process. Like SWE who have worked there that fail to gain a level almost every other year tend to slant toward the let go phase so Amazon can pick up a shiney new employee in place. This was something Microsoft used to do long ago. I don't agree with this model unless there are traits to the employee that are making work life for everyone harder.
People steal cars and motorcycles that are heavier. If you leave it out and think it’s too heavy to be stolen you’re living in a much friendlier place than me, electronic transport isn’t even always sought after for personal gain.
Scooters are routinely thrown in the water around the world.

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/s...

https://www.electrive.com/2021/06/17/hundreds-of-scooters-la...

https://www.kcrg.com/2021/06/03/teen-arrested-for-throwing-e...
Both f(x) and g(x) could be calc'ed to proper machine precision (say, GSL double prec ~ 1E-15). Would this imply, that beyond the machine precision the values are effectively fixed to resp. zero or infinity, instead of carrying around the extreme orders of magnitude?
Are you sure you're looking at the main list, for all respondents?

After counting a bit, Clojure seems to be in 31st place and Common Lisp isn't even on the list.

Clojure is lower than even languages which are not considered popular, for example Powershell or Dart.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...

Maybe your browser didn't jump to the correct section of the survey?
neutrino messaging was mentioned in The Hummingbird Project... Good movie
Advanced machine learning model understanding
We should take the evolution of facial recognition as a model. The technology improved and capabilities were demonstrated and put in practice. But thanks to sufficient pushback from the society at large, many places are passing laws against facial recognition.
> It is not a coincidence that they arose in 16th century Italy in the context of "completing the square" and related 2D methods/intuitions for solving equations.

That's... not how it happened
Sure!

I'd design it the same way I designed the text editor I'm making ( https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1455511983512436737 )

Hit the minimums. Be irreverent, elevate the ordinary.

Manifest intrigue. If you can't do that, at least make your users feel weird.
Disable JS by default.
How to pick up girls.
They're simply called mopeds in my book. We don't call electric cars, e-cars.
1. Can you approve and make these 5 comments visible to Peter and the community:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203081

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203269

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203387

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203454

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203998

1. My account lets me see comments made by new accounts, green, and those comments have 0 minutes ago as the time. Does it mean that those comments were approved in the same minute as the submit and then appeared for everyone?
Me too..

More specifically to be happy and content when life throws you a curve ball. Perspective matters
Thanks for the reply! Yes, my spouse has no prior immigration status (except being a former green card recipient). That's about how it was two decades ago as well.
What do the green names mean? Never understood
> This works well if you're isolated away from the rest of society

It's counter intuitive, but due to their religious practices they are all frequently in contact with each other.

Covid reportedly "ripped through" the Amish communities early on because they never locked down and continued going to church.

Being rural didn't prevent them from getting exposed to Covid, it's just their traditions resulted in early development of natural immunity.
If you live in NYC like me enforcing the current laws would be a good start. The rules aren't followed because there is zero enforcement.
The "rumor" referred to an array of scintillators dragged behid the submarine, with the ocean water as a detecting medium. In theory, with clear enough water and large enough detector volume, that idea might work. I vaguely recall data rate of less than one bit per second.
crashing into the other* at 80 mph.
Why not grab the other brand or the off brand? Because they aren't equivalent. I like Pepsi. I don't like Coke. I just don't. I don't want to learn to like it in case it's the one that's on sale this week, either.
Like any business that I'd start, I'd find a niche where general-purpose search is not very helpful. For example, code search, or drug information. Fine-tune the querying, synonym detection, stop-words, stemming, etc., for that particular niche.
Where in my comment are you getting that I think it’s a good law? Bluntly, with my very limited context (no, I didn’t read the article), it sounds like a dumb law. I take to heart original commenter’s complaint that their country’s politicians produce a large volume of dumb laws, I hope disgust with the median politician is something we can all agree on.
I used to bike Outer Richmond to Mission daily. It's okay, but not ideal. SF isn't very well known for being bike-friendly outside of the major bikeways (worried about getting doored heading down Mission or Valencia). Some stretches were great (GGP, Page). Weather is nice for it, although a bit chilly at night.

I used to take Muni daily as well, but just doesn't run active enough for me, and was not competitive with UberPool pricewise.

Experience with docks wasn't often good, sometimes it wouldn't register my bike was docked, or the dock is full, or the dock is empty, or the bike is out of battery or smeared with poop. Plus was worried about sharing bikes with COVID. Just personal experience.
That was an interesting read, Thanks!
No one knows what's coming next
All those can be limited, because thankfully JS is not multithreaded (otherwise you could do busy-loop timing).
I hope that Rust joins the pantheon of eternal languages. I feel like it has a lot of the advantages of a language like C, but is just more modern and well thought through.

Also, you did not mention Java. I have very old Java code that still works fine.
Well it really depends on how far you push the definition. There are inherent properties that can be discovered, but the way they're calculated and described is purely arbitrary. You need to get the same result of an area of a circle in the end, but how you get there is invented. Far more feasible and evident for complex stuff than the basics of course.

As shown in the video, the depressed quadratic was basically solved by 3 people in 3 different ways, with today's description and definition being different from that too.
Probably military applications too if it evades conventional detection.
The point of these exercises isn't to determine exactly what you would do in those precise circumstances. Think of them like conversation starters - what could we do today in case something like that happened tomorrow?

What are your favourite "unexpected events"?
You don't need Bitcoin if you can have anything on
In mathematics in addition to real and complex numbers there are higher dimensional numbers namely hypercomplex numbers i.e quaternion and octanion numbers, and no other valid numbering systems beyond that. The latter hypercomplex numbers are better at accurately model reality compared to the former real and complex numbers inherent limitations. As an example, electromagnetic waves unlike sound waves has polarization component that can be easily modeled using quaternion numbers compared to just using imaginary numbers. Yet for centuries until now scholars have been reluctant to use quaternion numbers and insisted on conventional imaginary numbers technique for Maxwell's Equations electromagnetic solutions popularized by Heaviside rather than the quaternion techniques being used by Maxwell himself! History is repeating itself as our current scholars are very much reluctant to use hypercomplex numbers, not unlike our predecessors who were reluctant in using imaginary numbers although the advantages of the higher dimensional numbers are plain obvious.
Americans are generally clueless about bike laws.

There, fixed that for you.

But they also end up keeping their car driver mentality of me-first and objectifying everything else on the road around them.

This is a great point, and I've observed the same behavior among analog cyclists as well (I've been a regular bike commuter for over 20 years in a city without much cycling infrastructure). Many cycling advocates don't realize that simply getting people on bikes isn't the end goal. It really needs to be about changing the way people move through space among their fellow citizens.
I think they're newly created accounts; IE, likely throwaways.
There can be many innovative use cases in industry or military applications where wires cannot penetrate the surface of an object and other signals are too weak to penetrate the object to transmit data about something mission critical.

This warrants future investigation at the very least, however impractical it may be. Quantum computers may also benefit from this technology, etc.
This appears to be incorrect. In NYC e-bikes with a throttle are permitted, and subject to the same limitations as pedal-assist bikes, as long as they don't exceed 20 mph (~32 km/h). [0].

[0] https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/ebikes-more-engl...
Sarcastically, "I'm a googler, opinions my own" reads a lot like "I'm a googler, just so you know".

I didn't want to emphasize on that on the first comment yet to be honest, I find it pedantic because it's pointless, legally speaking.
That seems an ideal solution long term.

Short term I think we have to find a way to allow more sustainable small multi-polar village life happen so we don’t all crowd into the same dozen or so mega-cities on the planet
My favorite mental model for imaginary numbers is that they are placeholders or stepping stones. A speed of (30 + i*10) miles per hour is nonsense, but sometimes in the course of calculating a nice real 40 mph, you might take a detour through some steps including complex numbers. Having them handy sure will make the derivation easier.

Same as negative numbers. I can’t be negative six feet tall, but negative feet (as a magnitude) make the calculations way easier.

You can always reformulate these derivations into derivations that don’t use e.g. imaginary numbers, but there’s no need to. If I were apointed Senior Exectutive Math Concept Namer For Humanity, I’d call them something like “algebraic placeholders” or “algebraic closure stepping stones” or something in that vein instead of “imaginary numbers.”
Not really, unless you go to a very small subset of top notch universities, in some geographies.
as far as I understand, recent accounts, therefore they are most probably "burner" accounts.