skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The magnitue drop is reasonably simple to understand in terms of fields. The oscillating optical field might be less effective at exciting material oscillations in the middle filter due to a mismatch in polarization, but it still does so at the same frequency. You can think of it as multiple photons (incoming field) collectively exciting the same electron on the same frequency but with reduced efficiency. The electron then re-emits fewer photons (outgoing field) of the same wavelength, leading to a lower light intensity detected after the filter.
How is identity at the crux of “defund the FBI”?

“Identity politics” are generally considered to be issues related to things like race, gender, social class, etc
Why would they give up on it if it is selling well? I think it’s a cool idea and pretty much the only reason I would ever install their app.
What the actual fuck… I only got two pages down and already found several red flags that I would never accept in any code review. Not the least of which is that when querying an edgeless graph for the shortest path from node A to node Z, “the empty path of length 0” is the exact opposite of a correct answer.

So thanks for the link, I guess. I’ll keep this as ammunition for the next time someone quotes Uncle Bob.
> Finding people that know Perl or want a job writing it.

Indeed. Although writing Perl is not so bad, reading not so much.
Noise really is just pressure, with a high frequency time component.
> 17. lmk when it's ergo (cries in carpal tunnel)

I haven't received it yet but a while ago I backed a split mechanical keyboard on kickstarter that I hope will be good for this. If you want to check it out its the keyboardio model 100.
for how many hours a day, with what kind of PTO/benefits?
Def Con banned a social engineering star – now he’s suing
Yes, because curving a bolt with the appropriate radius is such an easy thing to do. /s
Surprised this has not come up already on here - what this guy did is absolutely INSANE. I am reading his book right now.

The naysayers will say that he did it with oxygen and talk smack but the reality is that using O2 is a perfectly valid way to do it - just as is doing it without O2. Of course you cannot compare speed with the two methods (meaning obviously doing it with O2 should help you do it faster) but at the top elite level there is nobody actually looking down on those who use bottled oxygen. This guy basically assembled a superhuman team of climbers and perfectly executed a style of climbing I might describe as semi-Alpine style and achieved in 7 months what used to take people 10 years.

The other awesome thing about this is that the Sherpas have essentially been doing this for years and years and never really getting the kind of credit and attention they deserve - all the big ascents we remember the western explorers who are paying for their help - but in fact pretty much every ascent relies on their skills. They are superstars in their hometowns but Nims has really brought them more into the spotlight and that is just awesome. I don't do much social media or follow really any famous people but if you checkout the Instagram accounts for example of some of the more active Sherpas it is actually super interesting.

In terms of Nims himself a very interesting part of the book / various documentaries is the sheer amount of funding work he was able to accomplish and also the just ridiculous amount of red tape and permitting and logistics that he pulled off. To top all off this is during Covid lockdowns which of course throws a whole wrench in planning. And they filmed the entire thing!
"Something like 80%+ of tax payers could have their 1040s automatically generated by the government[.] The proposal was just to have the government send these taxpayers a summary that they can accept or amend, the default being they wouldn't have to do anything at all to file their taxes."

Sure, that sounds good on paper. But here's a list of people who would be hurt by this system unless they were sophisticated enough to realize that they should revise their return:

- Most people with a kid
- Most people supporting a relative
- Most people supporting someone who has no income and lives with them
- Most people who made charitable contributions in 2021
- Many people with a home energy deduction
- Most people who participated in post-secondary education
- Anyone in the gig economy

That's a big list, and it's far from complete. So it's not clear that your proposed "do people's taxes, leave it up to them whether to acquiesce or not" plan is good for consumers overall.
> One thing that supports this view is that there are several Julia packages that are wrappers around existing C/Fortran/C++ libraries, and basically no examples (that I know) of people porting existing libraries to Julia.

This is totally off-base :-)
There’s even discussion of implementing a lot of linear algebra stuff in Julia, instead of just falling back to BLAS (for very good reasons), see eg https://youtu.be/KQ8nvlURX4M

Those wrappers are just to bootstrap the ecosystem for immediate usefulness.

So, over time, I expect Julia to become better and better for everything from exploratory development to workhorse numerical computing infrastructure. Once compiled binaries are feasible, I wouldn’t be surprised if other languages start wrapping algorithms implemented in Julia.
I hate to break it to you, but if you want to feed 8B people, industrial agriculture is the only way.
If there's something important in that link, can you write it out? I cannot view "premium" statistics.

>You need to see nominal viewers to understand just how absolutely crushing Fox News' dominance has been

Nominal viewers does seem really important to determine dominance. I'm not sure it's as important in the context of the project here, though. The numbers I quoted only seem to matter with respect to how the news sources were initially selected, not the actual analysis being done. I guess that stat does suggest they should compare Fox to MSNBC rather than CNN.
Urls / DNS names could be replaced with 12 decimal numbers allowing a format like: https://petname#123456789012 or https://123456789012>petname

A quick Google found "The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of 174.7 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the first quarter of 2022" Twelve digits covers 40bits or 5bytes and should have more than enough space for all DNS entries.
Since when are the PLO considered an Islamist movement?
I’m quietly excited about the MNT Pocket Reform [0]. There’s some real progress being made by the looks of it [1].

[0] https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt...

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/minut_e/status/155805356090603110...
ideological nonsense. money has to have scarcity. implementing scarce money with free open source software is not an affront to anything about it. FOSS only takes away the advantage of intellectual property. FOSS is not a magical weapon against the menace of capitalism or anything like that. it doesn't tarnish when you use it to make fancy accounting software or other things people may not like. your notion that FOSS has pure and impure uses is an affront to the purpose of FOSS. you don't get to decide what people should do with it.
I would not consider myself a member of the JavaScript or TypeScript communities. I just build the infrastructure and platforms to support these kinds of things. :)
Testing is very important. Ok.

The problem I have with TDD is the concept of writing tests first. Tests are not specifications (in TDD world the line is blurred.) Tests are confirmation.

I develop my code (I write back end plumbing code for iOS currently) from a test frame work.

My flow:

* Specify. A weak and short specification. putting too much work into the specification is a waste. "The Gizmo record must be imported and decoded from the WHIZZBAZ encoding into a Gizmo object" is plenty of specification.

* Write code for the basic function.

* Write a test for validity of the code (the validity of the record once loaded in the Gizmo/WHIZBAZ case)

But the most important tests are small micro tests (usually asserts) before and after every major section (a tight loop, a network operation, system calls etcetera). More than half my code is that sort of test.
IPCC still use both terms, at least, they were last year: https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/09/ar6-wg1-20210809-pr/#single-c...

I wrote "global heating" first but it still feels weird to me.
The font chosen for the numbers destroys my soul. It feels like someone from Jitterbug was hired to lead
So you will lose messages.

"Phoenix uses an at-most-once strategy when sending messages to clients. If the client is offline and misses the message, Phoenix won't resend it. Phoenix doesn't persist messages on the server. If the server restarts, unsent messages will be gone. If our application needs stronger guarantees around message delivery, we'll need to write that code ourselves. Common approaches involve persisting messages on the server and having clients request missing messages. For an example, see Chris McCord's Phoenix training: client code and server code."

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

It will be impossible to build a reliable mobile experience on top of such shaky foundations.
To me, something that is "better" is a value statement, while something that is "different" inherently poses a utility consideration for the consumer. But i see how this - beyond a face-value consideration - could be applicable to both, but i guess getting to that granular level requires this political element to not be at play. Interesting to think about haha
Now we have a world where there is no baseline to even start a discussion. Depending on your perspective, either crime is worse than ever before and the criminal are running crazy. Or the only criminals are the system and those in power. You can literally find non-trivial populations in the US who believe that we need to build more prisons and others who think we need to free all prisoners. There's no place to even stand to begin to have a conversation.
I seriously thought that was a meme, but I looked it up after seeing your comment and it's real.
Glad to read there's others like me. My friends and family like to poke fun at me for carrying ear plugs, but I find most audio too damn loud at events and it's nice to be able to shave 30dB off and know I'm not damaging my hearing.
Hawaii is also pretty isolated geographically but has good infrastructure. If aircraft over the Pacific have issues, it's reasonable to expect them to go there.
Pretty funny to see this video at the top of HN! My kids still think I'm an idiot for not having somehow parlayed the enduring popularity of this video into being a YouTuber -- despite my protestations that I was merely the videographer here. If anyone is curious about the video's origins, I had a fun conversation about it with Ben Sigelman a few years ago.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IYzD_NR0W4
I don't know how special those decoders could be, obviously not Spotify-specific. Unofficial clients that want to stick around tend to require a premium account, libspotify/spotifyd on Linux for example.
Given that Phoenix.Tracker is eventually consistent, how does it guarantee that there's only one Postgres connection?
Sun is MUCH more intense actually so protection is paramount - at these elevations you are getting absolutely blasted in much higher amounts of UV - and on top of that snow also reflects tons of UV and light which makes it even worse. They do these climbs of course in summer when the weather windows open so this is a seriously intense problem. Quality glacier glasses / lenses really opened up this whole world immensely - up until this point people had to fashion weird things like putting little slits in clothing and covering the face and still tons of people go snowblind. Based on my (limited) experience with mountaineering I would guess that while sunscreen is most likely a factor they are covering up their faces with high UPF clothing.
4. the logo is great!
13. website is just fine! nice renders
What a wonderful read. The concept of defensive pessimism resonates with me a lot - i think I've been one most of my life without having a name for my constitution. "respecting limits and living well within them"; "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will". Brilliant
An exception is C++, which HN loves to hate, but has managed to remain mostly backwards-compatible while evolving into a modern language and maintaining a large community.
Code is both speech and action, like libel or threats. While the content of the speech might be protected under the First Amendment, the act embodied in the speech might be criminal or tortious.

In this case, while the content of the code might be protected, the activity it embodied violated the rules of multiple Western countries, not just the laws of the U.S.
I practice TDD for the most part, I agree that it's not easy. E.g. there are a lot of unanswered questions: What if you write the test first, red, write the code but it's still red. Could be your code wrong, could be your test wrong. If your test is wrong, do you go back and see the red? (I do). Do you test your tests? (I don't). Treating TDD like a formal system doesn't make any sense since it's meant to be a tool engineer can use as a heuristic to make judgements about the stage of the development.
What about the team-matching portion of the Google interview? I had several post-"onsite" (it was all remote) interviews with interested teams and your performance in these can sink your chances.
E.g. the Apple Watch is more powerful than all the computers that sent Apollo 11 to the moon.
> How do you use a keyboard barely larger than a credit card?

If you can use a phone's virtual keyboard, which is even smaller and has no physical separation between the keys, you should be able to use a keyboard like that one. It feels strange at first, but you adjust quickly. (I don't have any experience with that GPD, but I have experience with an old EeePC, which is similar-sized but probably has smaller keys because it doesn't have any keys to the left and right of its trackpad.)
My floor is concrete so it doesn’t vibrate. But I’d say this should work with wood just fine! I do use wood for the backing so you’d have to be mindful not to cut through that.
It's not unconstitutional for GitHub to remove the code, it's unconstitutional for the government to force GitHub to remove the code via a sanction.
Oh this is incredible! As someone who absolutely hates the cutting part of sewing I'll be adding this to the top of my to do list!!
This seems to be the case with a lot of "methodologies" like TDD, Agile, XP, etc. as well as "XXX considered harmful"-style proscriptions.

A simple idea ("hey, I was facing a tricky problem and this new way of approaching it worked for me. Maybe it will help you too?") mutates into a blanket law ("this is the only way to solve all the problems") and then pointy-haired folks notice the trend and enshrine it into corporate policy.

But Fred Brooks was right: there are no silver bullets. Do what works best for you/your team.
Man, is there anything transformers can't do? :D
video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU
True. When the normal case is 1-3 months, and the high-percentile is "up to a year", it seems a little misleading to use the plural "years."
Yeah, the fan noise is that loud. You should use hearing protection in there, even when staying for a short amount of time.
Though I have heard about some special DCs that use water cooling and as such can defer the noise away from the racks.
These satellites really are something. Radar means seeing in the dark and through clouds. The resolution is quite good.
> displacing these ideas is difficult because the teachers' unions in the USA are powerful

I can pinpoint over 10 dumb decisions taken by my corporate, as a result of office politics and jockeying for various positions.

There are many myths corporate britain believes, from forcing develipers back in the office to improve productivity despite having concrete evidence that it doesn't, to hiring 'agile practitioners', etc.

No union required for dumb decisions
The general idea is that for something to have monetary value, it has to be scarce. Why would you ever trade a loaf of bread for something that you have an infinite supply of in the first place?

Cryptocurrencies are fundamentally a means of creating a decentralised digital scarce resource, and the Bitcoin blockchain is a rough proof of concept that it is theoretically achievable, albeit using a spectacularly inefficient method.

Artificial digital scarcity is the whole point.
Yes, view identity as the group of people you identify with. It's a cross section of race/gender/social class/political party/geography/etc... "Defund the FBI" is just a reaction of a specific identity group -- largely the same group that hated people saying Defund the Police, fought for Blue Lives Matter, etc...
I am rooting for her of course but the political and logistical hurdle of getting those final permits may screw her over. I hope this article is outdated and she already has them
Sure -- especially in the hot aisles it can be hard to have conversations. I doubt it's much worse than a nightclub though.
Humanity has to find a way to make individuals with psychopathic traits ineligible for positions of authority. Otherwise, cases like this will keep happening, and potentially end the civilisation some time soon.
> Tornado Cash was /never/ okay, but the government waited patiently for the evidence and acted when it had it.

The government didn't even sanction all the smart contracts. BSC chain had more activity than the Ethereum contract, but they didn't seem to know about it. Furthermore, Tornado had compliance tools built in that allows users to prove where their funds came from to make themselves compliant with KYC rules.

The whole thing seems really hamfisted and poorly thought out. The US Secretary of State even tweeted incorrectly that North Korea built Tornado, then had to delete the tweet! https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/08/us-secretary-of-s...

I don't think the government really thought it through, and future lawsuits will hopefully result in Tornado being un-sanctioned and privacy affirmed as a constitutional right, as it did in the 90s when source code was declared free speech after a long battle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
Its a Solaris machine...not surprised
I still remember a project (I was the eng director and one of my team leads did this) where my team lead for a new dev project was given a group of near-shore SWEs + offshore SQA who were new to both the language & RDBMS of choice, and also didn't have any business domain experience. He decided that was exactly the time to implement TDD, and he took it upon himself to write 100% test coverage based on the approved specs, and literally just instructed the team to write code to pass the tests. They used daily stand-ups to answer questions, and weekly reviews to assess themes & progress. It was slow going, but it was a luxurious experience for the developers, many of whom were using pair programming at the time and now found themselves on a project where they had a committed & dedicated senior staffer to actively review their work and coach them through the project (and new tools learnings). I had never allowed a project to be run like that before, but it was one where we had a fairly flexible timeline as long as periodic deliverables were achieved, so I used it as a kind of science project to see how something that extreme would fare.

The result was that 1) the devs were exceptionally happy, 2) the TL was mostly happy, except with some of the extra forced work he created for himself as the bottleneck, 3) the project took longer than expected, and 4) the code was SOOOOO readable but also very inefficient. We realized during the project that forcing unit tests for literally everything was also forcing a breaking up of methods & functions into much smaller discrete pieces than would have been optimal from both performance & extensibility perspectives.

It wasn't the last TDD project we ran, but we were far more flexible after that.

I had one other "science project" while managing that team, too. It was one where we decided to create an architect role (it was the hotness at that time), and let them design everything from the beginning, after which the dev team would run with it using their typical agile/sprint methodology. We ended up with the most spaghetti code of abstraction upon abstraction, factories for all sorts of things, and a codebase that became almost unsupportable from the time it was launched, necessitating v2.0 be a near complete rewrite of the business logic and a lot of the data interfaces.

The lessons I learned from those projects was that it's important to have experienced folks on every dev team, and that creating a general standard that allows for flexibility in specific architectural/technical decisions will result in higher quality software, faster, than if one is too prescriptive (either in process or in architecture/design patterns). I also learned that there's no such thing as too much SQA, but that's for a different story.
Yeah I was only commenting on what was being discussed in this particular subthread about whether this was good code/design.
Anonymously transferring money is key to exercising a bunch of fundamental freedoms (like freedom of speech), and the failure of the population as a whole to protect this right was a huge mistake. In this way it is similar to the right to private communications. (All my opinions of course)
> it's illegal for the government to force GitHub to remove the code via their sanction

Yes. This isn't what happened. The code isn't sanctioned, the organization is. And these people were affiliated with the organization.
I'll vote for the politician that proposes this lol
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First - your assessment of 'omitted by CNN' isn't quite right.

"yet there was nothing that CNN covered that Fox ignored. " - this is wrong. There is at any given time, thousands of 'stories' to cover. Almost by definition CNN will have covered something else that Fox didn't. All of the stories they covered are not on that chart.

...

There's one level scarier and that's when neither/none of them cover something.

In particular, the issue of possible lab leak and US institutional involvement in research over in China.

It's kind of the biggest story of a generation, but it's complicated and almost all that will come out of it is insane populist hysteria and misrepresentations, to it's kind of ignored.

It's so hot that nobody seems to want to give it really good airtime; also, it might also be because of relationship with National Security apparatus who probably have maybe told them not to talk about it, but it's hard to know. It's like one of those 'wartime' issues where most of the press closes rank a bit. The implications are just gigantic.

If nobody talks about it, then it didn't happen ... kind of thing. It remains an issue for bureaucrats and academics to meander on.
Eh? Certainly back when all the disks spun. That and the server fans and the A/C make quite the racket.
Did you implement all of these suggestions for Xiaomi devices? https://dontkillmyapp.com/xiaomi

I'm not using a stock OS, so keeping background processes active is not a problem on my device.
Off the top of my head: Multi-threaded C++ is one. Odin lang has poor support for many debugger features.

The Chromium Project can be way too slow to run in a debugger. Even just debugging the Content Shell can be very slow.
Yep, imagine replacing a guitar's whammy bar with a rotary jog dial; not the same
You certainly do not need to build out an entire SPA or use React to reload part of a page just to swap in some HTML or load something asynchronously in the background.
These people are very old though, and probably lived a great life with all the money they made.

28 year sentence at age 70+ is not really a huge amount of justice.