skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
he had the temerity to suggest that maybe, just maybe, human beings operate with the same mix of genes that other creatures do, the book was met by a disgraceful, below-the-belt, ideological response

This is wild to me. Isn't the whole point of philosophy, or even of the concept of introspection, that our instincts are no longer suited to the existence in which we find ourselves? Isn't all of moral learning directed solely at the struggle against the ways in which our instincts fail to correctly guide us in the modern world? Correct instincts don't need commentary. We don't have to teach someone to run when a predator chases them, or not to walk off of cliffs. Human beings can't not have counterproductive instincts and still need the concept of law.
I think there is a simple reason for not using unsigned integers. If you use an unsigned integer and get an overflow it's not immediately obvious or even possible to see from the value alone. If you use a signed integer, any negative number means there was a mistake somewhere. That is easier to check for. But that said, they should store it as something like Unix time, even for a calendar. Otherwise sending appointments between timezones need conversions which is notoriously hard to get right. Ideally it'll be stored as local timestamp with timezone offset at the end. That way all information is stored, and in parallel it can have a unix time for reasons of efficiency.
This blog post seems like an intel play designed to whip up anger and passion among the populace on all sides.

It reminds me very much of "The Stanford Review", founded by Peter Thiel, in tonality and content. That is to say, well written, but with a certain level of anger that doesn't seem necessary.
VC money can be incredibly damaging to a startup because it increases your options. In finance, optionality is good, in entrepreneurship it is a distraction. To achieve focus and speed, you want fewer options, not more. Even simply parking your money in treasury bills and focusing on your mission is not easy, because the option exists. Necessity is the mother of invention. As Steve Jobs said, you want to "stay hungry, stay foolish" [1], because nothing drives human beings like sheer pain and neediness.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44538/what-does-...
Hi, I'm pretty much in the same situation. I have bursts of high productivity and then periods where I cant get out of bed.

It's not bipolar because it's not random, there are things that trigger the change.

I also had offers from FAANG but I purposely did not take it because I know myself and I know that these companies are not forgiving.

I did something much more risky and moved to an ecommerce firm in Europe. I thought this company would be forgiving and the competition would be less. Boy was I wrong, people are competent here and I was already given a warning.

I had one of my triggers and now I'm extremely tired all the time and cannot get out of bed. My mind is working at 30 percent and all the work I have done in last 4 months have been because of short 1-2 hours of productivity bursts.

It gets sooo stressful to work, but I try really hard just to avoid an embarassing pip and avoid losing my visa. My family back at home depends on my money.

I keep contemplating going back home but I cannot make up my mind.

Any advice will be appreciated.
Macros give you control over evaluation order. Fns don't.

(or a b)

If a is truthy, b will never evaluate
Yep, I did it a couple of times and I didn't get any credit, just got harder questions that the interviewer did not practice in a long time. You should only disclose this if you're getting the same question in the same interview round from the same company, or maybe if you're back for another round a couple of years after failing.

As an interviewer though, there were a few instances where I just told people "let's do this problem anyway, don't worry" and the candidates didn't always do a good job.
He says himself he didn't see major improvements before 1500 commits.
pretty hot if you've ever been the target of actual racism, which includes getting beaten up for wearing a headscarf, not getting an apartment rented out because your last name sounds weird or being rejected by your parents in law, or fucked over by the police.

I know HN doesn't like heated language and so on but if you think a bunch of intellectuals getting their book tours cancelled and online commentators getting their twitter blocked compares to the lived racism of minorities you have to have your head up your own ass.
It doesn't have to succeed to cause problems.
I got a paratroopers' "Gravity Knife" when 5 years old. It was considered safe, because not much fussing to get the blade out. I think you can get 2 years in New York for having it.

But it did not start well, because I trimmed down some valuable tree saplings. My father started crying, not because of trees, but because he realized his only son is an imbecile.
Half of that military is sympathetic to those right wingers, you'd be surprised.

Wars usually have well defined lines but civil wars don't need such clear distinctions.
> Do I need to spend more time on a project?

It depends on your interest. For me in particular Lisp was a "profound enlightenment experience" because:

1. I have been programming for a long time and had so many problems I could not(in practice) solve in any language but Lisp.

2. Lisp gives you two things no other language gives you: very basic Metaprograming(it can read itself) and the ability to design your own DSL(domain specific language).

3. It also gives you REPL(Read eval print loop) immediate feedback other languages tried to copy(but have not been able to replicate entirely).

Having said that, Lisp design is also obsolete today because it was mainly designed in the 1970s. I hate it (specially parentheses and interface) and love it at the same time.

>Do I need to spend more time on a project?

You don't need to do anything, nobody needs to learn a new language for living.

The fastest way to understand what Lisp is all about is to be near a very proficient Lisp programmer, because he will be able to run circles around you solving problems.

That combination of someone proving to you what is possible at the masters level and natural human competition is probably much more powerful than anything else you could do on your own.

We are humans after all, we see a great hunter hunt and only then we desire to be as good as he is and learn from him. We do it subconsciously and that is the reason elite tennis players sell razors so well, people copy naturally those who they admire without being conscious about it.
South Africa with only 23% double vaccinated, reported the same. R0 overtaken by hospitalization probability. Leading to an overall reduction in 80% of hospitalizations

Omicron Has 80% Lower Risk of Hospitalization in South Africa
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/omicron-h...

Omicron has passed peak in South Africa, causing relatively few deaths and hospitalizations, authorities say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/omicron-passed-peak-south-africa-...
I don't think "just listening" is even an acknowledged treatment of depression. So they say nothing works, you can't tell them to do anything because their brain is just broken, but supposedly "just listening" works? I'd say the article is simply unfounded bullshit.
I can understand their dismay at the hit piece on EO Wilson, and other editorial stances that they disagree with.

But the editorial section is about 3% of the magazine. It seems hysterical to say that SciAm is "utterly destroyed" because of their resentment of "woke" editorials. Really, the 100 or so in depth pieces written every year, the "things in the news" sections are now just part of a "zombie clickbait rag"?
What kind of community clinic would see this? The "whistleblower" in this article is a member of the health authority. You expect a generalist seeing rich people for their arthritis to be diving into this?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source can be far more helpful than grep for this sort of thing
What do you think the military is made of?
Or you can have the browser cache the CORS header for up to 2 hours (cross-browser), for the same performance effect - but it will also work for third party website consumers of your API that you can't just put on your domain.
But that possibility (as well as animal origin possibility) is there, regardless of the actual origin of the current pandemic.
Am I crazy or is the first answer terrible? I sat down and wrote out and answer for the problem and I initialized one integer and one timestamp. It should be O(1) time and O(1) memory easily, right? I'm seeing comments saying they'd use an array or a hash table -- why are you using any data structure? You don't need to remember how many times it was called 61 seconds ago; just keep a timestamp and the last time you reset the timestamp. If you need it to be clock-minutes instead of rolling (it doesn't; whose clock, anyway?), then just round the timestamp. The obvious follow-up question is "ok, what if it needs to be limited to 10,000 calls per minute?" You're going to keep 10,000+ elements in some collection for no reason? I wouldn't immediately reject a candidate for coming up with this answer but I would seriously question their thought process on this one.

In fact it's kind of ironic that his first example exposes how bad this advice is: by trying to meta-game, starting from a few example data structures, he shows he completely misses the solution that is both simpler and much more performant.
Not all forms of discrimination fall along lines of race. You have no idea the kind of discrimination I have had to claw my life back from.

Edit: During my schooling I developed a rare form of progressive vision loss. It also makes me extremely light sensitive, and thus it's difficult to conceal. After 1500 job applications I wound up as a construction worker doing hard labor. Since then I have managed to work my way back up to a fairly successful ML engineer, although that never would have happened if I hadn't gone to extreme lengths to conceal the state of my eyesight from my employers.

Don't ever imply I don't know what discrimination is like.
If state space is your concern, I would try proofs. Here’s a live demo from Martin Kleppmann about proving something about a stateful distributed system: https://youtu.be/7w4KC6i9Yac.

The tools have come a very long way, Isabelle is quite usable after learning a few concepts.

I believe this is the order-of-magnitude better approach you’re thinking of. We can apply finite effort to a proof about an infinite state space, with no runtime cost.

And, Isabelle has great automation. As seen in the video I shared, proofs can often be found with a little nudging in the right direction. You don’t have to write the whole thing out.
Similar to Lambda@Edge, Cloudflare also offers Workers (https://workers.cloudflare.com/) which is the same thing, but only with a JavaScript runtime (no nodejs, they use V8), so I believe that it's significantly faster.
GHC rewrite directives sound less powerful than this, but they have been available for years, and "ordinary" people use them. Although, Haskell tends to attract compiler nerds the way Julia attracts numerics nerds.
I don't think we must lay too much emphasis on writing the majority opinion. After all, the majority opinion is something that needs concurrence from everyone who is voting with it. Given that the Justices could have their majority without John Roberts, his influence in shaping the final outcome is limited.

Perhaps the other Justices will ache for the credibility gained with John Roberts being on their side and will thus agree to a narrowly worded opinion written by him -- it is a tantalizing possibility that you suggest.

But I think John Roberts being the leader of the institution might be keen to be on the "right side of history" on any highly controversial social issue and might just vote on the merits of the matter (as he sees it) -- even if that means he would be in the minority.

The phrase "right side of history" is difficult to explain but America should see what the rest of the world has decided regarding Women's reproductive rights. The trend seems to indicate that the direction of travel in America is against the rest of the world (developed and developing). This fact might be on Robert's mind as he decides what is the "right side of history."

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P.S.

> you say, he will keep the opinion narrow

BTW I don't think I implied that anywhere in my response. I didn't express my opinion on what Robert's opinion might be _if_ he wrote the majority. Rather, I was generally saying that he would vote to preserve the status quo. The possibility to be able to write the majority opinion (and thus vote with the conservatives) option is definitely intriguing and was mentioned by you...
Fastmail for 12 years and counting.
I keep a Gmail account for all my spam and newsletters, and I hate every single time I have to use it. Fastmail is so much better. It's fast, pure IMAP (technically they use JMAP but whatever), I set up all my custom domain names with it, unlimited aliases–and now it also supports creating aliases straight from 1Password.
I recently built a habit contract (a concept mentioned in Atomic Habits) website (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726228). It's helped me achieve a 116 day streak on Duolingo.
There is only one political affiliation in this country that has the numbers to move part of its population for a few years to every underpopulated and swing county in the country for 1 or 2 years just to solidify the political tilt of every state.

Really surprising to me that a SuperPAC hasn’t funded this yet.
If the town is "online reference managers," you are probably right, but I would argue that reference managers are one of those areas where you really want something offline:

- Offline ensures that you do not suffer an externally caused downtime just before a deadline

- Offline ensures that you have a path for keeping your database throughout your research career, and to do system updates when _you_ want to.

- Offline ensures that if you leave academia, you will always have access to local copies of the academic papers you have referenced.

My favorite offline/local reference manager is `jabRef` [0] which stores all metadata directly in a bibtex-file. The GUI has an excellent pdf-integration, and everything is local and super fast.

Case in point: after a decade in industry, I am looking to get back into my academic fief. All the papers I ever read are in my Dropbox, and all I had to do to pick up where I left was download a current version jabRef and point it to my database which it read without any issues.

[0]: https://www.jabref.org/
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I actually read the Scientific American article because I have previously read Scott Aaronson's blog and he doesn't looks to me like someone who would write anything before thinking about it.

The SA article is a complete piece of crap. I just hope this doesn't goes the same way it did when RMS asked to give Marvin Minsky the benefit of doubt.
Even then, most often your backend API service runs off one domain, so it needs only one OPTION request ever two hours for the user session.

If your users make only one request per two hours, that still doubles the requests, so in that case caching'll hardly help. But in more typical cases, where one session does 20+ requests, it's a meagre 5% of the requests. In which case 'resolving that n+1 request' or 'speeding up that 1200ms response' is far better low hanging fruit than removing the single OPTIONS request.

It depends on your case, though.
Point coordinates, not the point itself.
Hey,

Posting this idea in a niche space. Not too hopeful, but inspired by other posts and trying my luck to see if anyone wants to collaborate. My email is my profile.

The niche here is Indian Classical Music. I would want to use the modern technology to uplift the domain and solve some common problems starting with sharing and distributing of music. Lyrics are usually shared in textual form in one of the languages with no accompanying swaras. As the music and inherently ragas are very structural, there is an opportunity to separate the syntax, representation, rendering, ragas, language, talas etc. and allow to distribute in a consistent way.

I already have the high level design ready. I am looking for some web developer with preferably react experience and more importantly an understanding and interesting in this domain to appreciate what is being done.

Shout out through an email and we shall collaborate!
At this point google is a shortcut to documentation. I look for the first link that looks like a readthedocs page. You could even short-circuit this and bookmark the documentation for the tool you want. It's going "backwards" in a sense but learning to read a manual well can be quicker than letting google think for you.
Ah, no - I meant why “pause in trading” is a news item.
What helped me with regard to that was reading the first three pages of "The myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus. I never even read the book further than that.
I don't think many in HN would deny these racist events, but is the answer the current "anti racism wokeness"? Arguably not... It seems to be causing more problems than its solving.
Canada had the benefit of the War Measure Act, suspending Charter rights during the PLQ crisis of the 1970's.

But otherwise, I do agree that to say the US is in some sort of crisis seem pretty laughable compared to the 1960's.
Thank you for this comment that is beyond parody.

For your information, this kind of planned massive change in the environment always ends in disaster, and is a hallmark of totalitarian thinking, e.g. Mao's Four Pests campaign.
Scott Aaronson is featured quite frequently on Hackernews. I feel like many will trust him even if he speaks in an emotionally charged way. But that being said, the article contains one concrete example in the foreword by Scott and another Post by someone who was fired from SA.
"The force said he died at the scene and appealed for information."

In the UK, are appeals from dead men valid?
That’ll be gone soon: https://web.dev/cors-rfc1918-feedback/
Yes very eloquently put thanks for sharing!
Rather than one political party failed, I would say -all- political parties failed. None of them did what had to be done. We could make a blame list for both parties and it would be quite long. The idea is to find novel ideas (say ventilation for example) and strategies to cope with this, I don’t give a hoot what party you belong to.
I don't want to argue that the feature should be built in (and most importantly free, because that's something you forgot to mention, those lamdba functions are paid for each run) but

> doesn't executing code for every single request sound insane

How would you strip some url path without executing code for every single request? It could be code you did not write, but some code is always needed to do something. If latency of lamdba@edge is an issue, you can try CloudFront functions, which should be better for small tasks like this (though I don't have any experience with them as we switched to a similar competitor)
Well, both seem to work on the principle of “cancellation” (one being purely abstract social, the other firmly physically social.) But the mechanism remains very very similar.
The folks at framasoft maintain a list of alternative services:

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
I've had a few of the things you listed happen, including getting beat up for my race, not getting an apartment rented out because of my weird name, and rejected by my mother in law. (I'm an arab by the way, and my wife is chinese).

I've also not gotten a job because I was considered "white". The hiring manager was a friend, so he let me in on the "social justice" that was going on behind the scenes.

These are both "actual racism" to use your terms, and I revile them equally.
You have to regularly take tests if you aren't vaccinated, so that mechanism works in the opposite direction. We should have been seeing a higher representation in the unvaccinated even if the virus simply ignored the vaccine.
Identifying a reasonable target runtime can be part of the problem. The longer they’ve been writing software, the more ambiguity I expect them to handle.

If the candidate wants to discuss performance, I’m obviously interested, but if they want me to serve a hint to them on a silver platter I’m just confused.
I like to imagine that Musk might announce that his Mars colony will be a socialist society at some point - low-income workers like teachers, nurses, and garbage collectors are going to be needed there but they won't be able to pay to get there. The obvious solution will be a "tax"-based single-payer system where some extra people tag along with the wealthy ones who are funding everything. The reactions of his fan base would be genuinely hilarious.
I notice over the years SA has become more and more influenced by fashion. The pressures to appeal to the popular crowd have only intensified over the years.

Why would you subscribe to SA when the internet has more good material than you can possibly digest? That is their problem in a nutshell.

Another once mightly magazine The Economist, whose founder was praised by Nietzsche as "an objective journalist", has also gone downhill IMHO.

I cancelled my subscriptions to both a while back.
> level of anger that doesn't seem necessary

SA attacked a respected scientist who passed away and so couldn't defend himself. Seems like a reasonable thing to get angry at?

What would you suggest should be a reasonable response?
Or maybe the author is just genuinely angry?
It seems you have understood. The web is a specific thing, in the same way a printing press is a specific thing. The folks who named the web didn’t call it “electronic printing press” in the same way they named email, because it is a unique and separate idea. The people who named Web 2.0 recognised it was not all that different from before, just a few less page reloads. All your suggestions are unique and separate ideas from the web, and that is great. It’s not that difficult to understand. Give them a different name.
I don’t know, I would personally consider an outlet publishing such rubbish as not deserving of my attention and money. Just because it’s an editorial does not absolve the magazine of its mistakes.
Having only tried out Scheme and Common Lisp (I loved them both, what little I experienced) in my CS classes back in the day, I have always wondered how complex programs in these languages actually look like.

I feel most examples just are the same list-manipulations / Fibonacci- / prime number calculation ad nauseam.

Are there any active projects out there that Lisp family programmers would recommend as a good example of what the language can do and be used for (preferably with common elements such as networking, db connections etc)?
Here's the Dilbert strip: https://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-16
I used to enjoy the NOVA TV show, but it has steadily gotten dumbed down over the years. An example:

"Somewhere there was a first planet that formed in the entire universe. We'll never know about it. We'll never know when it formed or what its fate was. But it formed somewhere!"

-- NOVA Universe Revealed: Big Bang
CR has biases, and they leak out in various ways. When I was doing detailed car-shopping in the 1990s, I noticed that drivetrains in American-badged cars would show significant problems while Japanese-badged cars with the same drivetrains from the same supplier would be ranked consistently higher (e.g. Isuzu vs Chevy light trucks, Mazda vs Ford sedans).
heh, a Cat5 error

has anyone built a sidemarket for radomes for these?

surely an accessories business would be a boom, especially since they suffer from overheating and snow issues
CloudFront is a CDN, it should cache static resources, not so much manipulate incoming requests - that's more a job for a load balancer / proxy like Elastic Load Balancer.