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I initially had the same thoughts as you when I got on my first Clojure project. Previously, I used strongly typed languages with "approved" frameworks. Developed in Java for over 20 years before getting put on a Clojure project.

It because apparent over time that the lack of types and the other features provided by Clojure resulted in much smaller and simpler codebases compared to those previous languages and frameworks that I toiled in for so many years.

It has really highlighted to me the value of simplicity for better productivity and maintainability. I wouldn't even want a framework to build web apps using something like HTMX for example. Clojure handles HTMX in almost magical ways with a simple library or two such as hiccup.

Recently, I was doing some work on a Java / Spring project and was dismayed with the proliferation of classes and packages; really the complexity of it all. And remember, I am solid with Java experience, so it is a result of those types of languages and architectures IMO.
>> Did... did CNBC just invent a new word for "manchild"?

>No, “kidult” is gender-neutral, while “manchild” is gendered.

Dear "dragonwriter" (if that is your real name):

My comment goes on to state "with a less gendered portmanteau to double the reach of the ad masquerading as news."

Please don't listen to the first half of a sentence then reply as if the rest never happened... this is hacker news, not a K Street board room.

That was a common microagression I encountered before I left civil society -- ignore a large chunk of what someone said, rephrase the idea as your own, then have others boost you. It's an insufferable tool of third tier JDs, and has no place in hacker communities.

Thanks for reading my post on the internet, and sorry if I wasn't... specific... enough.

- Greg.
The page in question: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/meta-counterfeit-...
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Jumping in here.

I suspect that the number of people who could benefit from quality therapy, greatly outnumbers the amount of quality therapists that exist in the world.

To the point where, I surmise, a vast majority of the world's population simply would not have meaningful access to it, due to location, finances, availability, introversion, etc.

So for me, it's not that "get therapy" is bad advice. Good thing is good. Therapy has proven techniques and results. But that doesn't help the majority of the world's population, who do not have access to the luxury of visits to high end trained professionals that only exist in suitably affluent settlements of certain countries.
https://archive.ph/60zHr
I still don't understand why this is better on a blockchain than a database.

Transactions are harder to do, they take longer, they're massively more inefficient, etc. And what do we gain from this? Blockchains are not immutable (as we've seen), they're usually controlled by a single entity or group of entities (as we've seen), they're public but in a bad way - as soon as the connection between a person and a key is revealed, that person's entire transaction history is revealed. And so on.

I know that "all these problems are being solved" but you could solve them all in an instant by just using a database and having sufficient oversight over who gets to manage it. I don't understand the enthusiasm to use a blockchain here (or anywhere)
Darknet diaries for sure. Xbox episodes top my all time favourites list.
Yeah, I’m not sure I buy their explanation about special development roombas since they offered zero proof. I have an ancient Roomba that’s still going and dread having to replace it one day.
sounds a bit like a pilaf, but with less water for the final step.
What is the final product like? normal rice or something else?
No, this has nothing to do with contracts or property. A federal law enacted with the intention of protecting post-experimental chimps requires labs (regardless of their other contractual obligations) to relocate chimps to a government sanctuary upon retirement.
Lack of types -- yeah, I forgot to mention it.

Another is -- lack of good IDE support (which is connected to lack of strong typing). In something like Java you can always understand what is the thing under your cursor.

But an experienced developer knows how to deal with these problems. Lack of strong types means you have to be building clean, well specified interfaces. Lack of strong typing in language does not mean you don't have types in your program -- it just means that it is now on you to make sure it is easy to figure out what is the exact specification of piece of data at any point in the program.

I also found that spec rarely helps. One of the major points of something like Clojure is to be able to create general purpose functions that can do useful operations on very wide range of data and then use those functions to compose your program. Spec really hinders your possibilities here.

> It's a shame, really, since the language is vastly more flexible and powerful than most, but it goes to show that there are some things that have, in the wild, outsized influence on productivity for the 80%.

It is the curse of Lisp. It is the most powerful language that can exist and yet it will never be mainstream because it requires a whole other level of development mastery to really get the productivity benefits.

I personally use Clojure for my rapid prototyping which is to say -- "as long as I am sure nobody else will ever need to work on it with me".

I did a very efficient algorithmic trading framework proof of concept in Common Lisp and it was a joy to work with. But then when it came to actually productionising it I was forced to rewrite it in Java at the cost to performance and heaps of boilerplate code.
"Atkinson dithering is a variant of Floyd-Steinberg dithering designed by Bill Atkinson at Apple Computer, and used in the original Macintosh computer."

All recent edits :) Truth forming as we type?

There are also much older claims like this, [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_dithering

[2] https://tannerhelland.com/2012/12/28/dithering-eleven-algori...
Well it certainly isn't so I don't have to understand what an ADO exception is.
Curry’s three pointer shooting
Honestly -- just why?

We now have a few years of experience with music streaming. And what we've learned is that -- sure, it's convenient -- but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians. It's a new exploitative system that's perhaps slightly better than the old exploitative system.

We can do better. Literally, locally, and for friends. I used to do MPD, but now I'm glad for things like mstream that make this sort of thing even easier. I hope funkwhale and other federated things do better as well.
Here in NZ, when the Christchurch Mosque shootings happened, the Police just rammed the offender off the road and cuffed him... without firing a single shot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings

Wee video here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/11195...

Honestly I think our Police do a lot of good. There's some bad apples, there's complaints - but that is normal. Overall, they tend to make good judgement calls (most of the time).

To the defence of the US, sometimes their system does work: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/11/24/us-jury-charge-police-off... honestly though, shooting a guy in a car that wasn't in immediate danger to anyone else around him (he rung the police originally because he was having a mental health crisis - in NZ you do call the cops if you can) so they shoot him with beanbag rounds, tase him then shoot him six times fatally. A bit over the top...
Hello from 3rd world country. It feels weird to read this and just download bank statement digitally signed as .pdf.asice format. Well, I can also use my id card to login to bank. Many people here don't realize how things are very well right here, at some very small country.
I read the article and I don’t think your interpretation of the “suggested” narrative is there. The title is “ A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?”. That’s not really implying a “they’re watching you narrative” - who’s “they” and if it’s global syndicate why did they do something as innocuous as putting it on Facebook?

But yes, the real story is that training data (and “real” data) does leak all the time and that most companies don’t take insider risk as seriously as they should.
Thanks! I remember hearing it existed long ago but I’ve never heard of it being used. Great explanation.
A 4 plex in the neighborhood will raise property values. If you can 5x the land's income earning potential it is more valuable. This is the whole idea behind a land value tax.

Think of it this way - Single (wealthy) families are competing for the land because it is illegal for more than 1 family to live on the land. Multiple (not wealthy) families could be pooling their money and competing for the land. Which drives the property value up? I would love to have 10 median income families who pooled their money (500k/yr) bidding up my land value versus single (top 5%) households (250k/yr).
Do you have any familiarity with those countries and where people live?

Do you really think that metrics on quality of life in Krasnoyarsk Krai or Northwest Territories are drastically better than Wyoming?

I wont even get started on what life is like in Xinjiang.

EDIT: Also, you're saying that Australia, Canada, Russia and Brazil have good train infrastructure? And getting even more pedantic, you're a fan of the trains west of Chengdu?
if your test can't tell a smart student apart from a dumb algorithm, the broken part is your test.
I can understand why you find that offensive. But there are a lot of offensive things, or things that someone finds offensive, floating around—for this reason, we're all responsible for metabolizing those reactions in ourselves rather than venting them into the commons. It's the only way to prevent discussion quality from further declining.

Of course, you would have been welcome to post a thoughtful, neutral reply questioning whether medication is needed for that, and explaining why. In such a comment, it might be natural to mention that where you live, attitudes toward this are very different, etc. Although these topics are divisive and intense, there's no intrinsic reason why they need to become flamewars.

Re your second question, I don't think it's a problem for people to share their experiences and viewpoints, especially on issues that touch nearly everyone, and I don't think doing that really counts as "medical advice". There's no implicit claim to authority in an internet forum comment; on the contrary, readers all know to add an implicit "This is just an internet comment" disclaimer.

HN is basically an internet watercooler, a place for conversation, finding common ground, and so on. We trust readers to be smart enough to make up their own minds.
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> I will abide by the results of this poll.
Of an entirely different profession.
Without making any moral argument one way or the other: If people who can't pay and would otherwise die are given "free" treatment then we have socialized medicine. The costs are spread over everyone else.

Uninsured and under-insured people are cited as one reason why treatment costs are so high. Whether these cases actually contribute to costs in a substantive way doesn't stop the mandate to provide free emergency care being used as a political football.
Final season of Battlestar Galactica was a flop because of Hollywood screenwriters strike which lasted 3 months
It goes both ways.

I know a father who had a traumatic brain injury where his mind is full of holes and he is not even aware of the holes so he comes across as shifty, he was long ordered to pay child support at a level he just could not afford and was accused of malingering about his disability. From his viewpoint and the viewpoint of the women he spent the next ten years with he was a victim of a system that put women first.

The most important consequence of the mid 1990’s welfare reform in the US was that it cracked down on ‘deadbeat dads’, prior to that you could cross state lines to avoid paying child support and there was nothing they could do to stop you, now not paying child support is a federal crime.

For a while I worked at a mediation center where we did of parenting plans for separated, divorced and otherwise apart couples and it was a common theme that the man was ‘working off the books’ with the woman’s knowledge and consent because both members of the couple seemed to think that the child support system was unjust —- particularly for men working in the lower tier of blue collar and service jobs.
He is probably trying to stop the inevitable derailment once someone mentions(or believes is referring to) vaccines in any way that is not unequivocal and blind support.
Texas is building six times as much housing as Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma combined (all of the other states in their Census Bureau region). So what's the answer?
Clickbait. There is no news here. No privacy was infringed. This was a private dev version.
Honest question: how valuable is the current mode of testing (based rote memorization) if much of that can be done by AI anyway? Maybe it’s time for new testing methodologies?
> but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians

As a consumer of music, why is this my problem?
The funny thing is they're using the UK which is literally going nuts over the state of the NHS. The UK is extremely unhappy with the backlogs. And almost certainly they'll be getting reduced once a new goverment is voted in during the next general election. The really funny part, I bet a lower percentage of the captia die from cancer in the UK than the US. Because they can get some sort of treatment. And of course a system that treats everyone is going to have longer wait times than one that treats only a percentage of the population. And the ability to pay to avoid wait times is still there. Turns out having public and private hospitals pays off.
> you're either in the religious freedoms camp or the bodily autonomy camp

An abortion kills a baby by directly attacking his or her body (dismemberment, lethal injection, etc.). You can firmly be in the bodily autonomy camp and in the religious freedoms camp at the same time.
This is totally valid! And that's why we decided that Infisical should be open-source. As you said, you can inspect everything yourself, and even self-host it, for even greater level of certainty. Infisical is by default end-to-end encrypted with exceptions for a couple integrations (Vercel/Heroku). This is because it is impossible to preserve end-to-end encryption there at the moment - this will be possible with custom integrations in future. We try to be very open about this with users (we mention it both in the app and in the docs multiple times).

Certifications are definitely important, and we're actively thinking of that.
I also do not understand why people complain about having the choice to not pay for things they do not want to watch.

I can turn on the TV, press the microphone button, say the name of the media I want to watch, and usually a screen pops up letting me know if I have already paid for it, and if not, how much it will cost. And a couple buttons later, I can be watching it, or doing something else with my time.

Much more convenient than watching media in the 1990s and 2000s.
No not really. You’re not being logical if you reject someone’s preferred identity on the pedantic assertion that it’s an approximation of their collective beliefs rather than a rigid classification; and conflate that pedantic assertion with some additional implication that their person beliefs about themselves are less valid.

You’re not a bigot for doing this. You are being an asshole nonetheless. And you don’t come off as more intelligent, just more clueless; even if you are in fact more intelligent.
Either Odd Lots, the The History of Rome, or the history of Byzantium
I'm not working in solar cells but do research in optics and have a general understanding of this (also from discussions with people who understand this better).

The main limiter for solar cells from silicon is the overlap of the bandgap with the spectrum of the sunlight and also the loss in efficiency when cells get hot. So what people do is they use multiple materials (often in different layers) that cover different parts of the spectrum to absorp most of the sunlight. Researchers tend to have a good idea which these are (although there is research in creating new organic ones), but the challenge is to combine this in fabrication with the silicon and in a cheap easy to fabricate way and with materials that don't degrade over time.
So short answer researchers have a general idea what needs to be done, but as usual the devil is in the details.

Again not an expert in the exact area, so anyone who is please correct if something isn't right.
I think the purpose of exams is deeply misunderstood. They are supposed to be a feedback system for the teacher and the student so the student can improve. They’re not a competition or an intelligence measuring stick. ChatGPT is kind of the perfect tool for that; if a student doesn’t understand maybe AI can help then get to the right answer and give them personalized attention. Something that IMO teachers fail at due to the nature of large class sizes where teachers can’t help tutor each student.
Google and Microsoft are burning so much $$$ right now competing and buying share, I don't think Facebook wants to get into that business.
the idea boils down to: If the government can see what's your bank account in details, and can seize it, and the government can see what's in your Bitcoin wallet but not with full transparency and cannot seize it, which is better?
Scale AI contractors likely leaked these. Regardless of how they came to be posted onto Facebook, it still seems like iRobot's responsibility to keep this data under wraps.

We see similar stories all the time, whether it's about companies leaking data that was collected via consent, data collected without consent, or data collected without anyone knowing about it gets leaked.

Even Apple has been caught recording via Homepods without consent.
Sure - the tool itself may not be particularly effective. No argument here.

It's essentially a signaling mechanism - how strong that signal is received can vary a lot.

In the case of Russia at least - it's dampened quite a bit because both India and China are not participating. While they're not outright supporting Russia - they don't find the current government so unpalatable that they're willing to break off economic activities (and again - this is not a value judgement either way... simply a statement of efficacy).

In my opinion - I don't really think sanctions are going to be terribly effective (I also think the price cap on oil purchases will not be effective), but people don't seem to grasp that a very real possible alternative is outright war. Which, at least personally, I'd like to avoid. So I'm willing to let sanctions ride for a bit and see. But I'm also in favor of providing more arms and weapons systems to Ukraine in the meantime.

that said... I also have a bunch of duct-tape, plastic sheeting, water, and some iodine pills in my basement - because while I tend to hope that all the nuclear powers involved here will act with some restraint, those items will be very difficult to acquire in the 15 minutes when I might really need them, and they're relatively cheap to buy right now. So picking between that and sanctions... again - I vote for sanctions right now.
What's the secret to this? I always end up a mix of popped, un-popped and burnt amaranth. I've tried a variety of different techniques and none of them seem to work well for me.
> that last season was GoT season 8-tier terrible

Uh, were we watching the same show? I thought it was an amazing finish to 11 seasons of Albuquerque and meth-based fun, and so did critics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul_(season_6)#Re...

> before the masses recognize that the show is dead.

I mean, that was the final season, so I think most people are aware that the show won't be continuing...
The evidence is taken out of context. On Jan 6th he did post to his Twitter account to be peaceful and remember that they are the law and order party. His account was banned after that. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump

@realDonaldTrump
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Jan 6, 2021
I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!

@realDonaldTrump
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Jan 6, 2021
Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!

Evidence that he wanted a peaceful protest with no violence.
How the f did James Dolan become CEO of AMC? You're vastly underselling his shittiness as a person and businessperson. He also bought a chain of electronics stores right before the industry all but vanished, then bought a chain of movie theaters right before the industry all but vanished, and is possibly the worst sports franchise owner in North American pro sports, destroying a hugely storied team in the basketball capital of the world, banning fans and former players from the arena for criticizing him, and also firing one of the most legendary play-by-play guys of all-time for criticism.

Then there's bullshit like this: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/inside-jim-dolans-fe...

Apparently after tanking New York City's bid for the Olympics because he didn't want Madison Square Garden to have to compete with the new venues that would be built, he tried to do something similar in Inglewood, but had his lunch eaten by Ballmer because he let some underlings whose names he can't remember handle the details and didn't get the deal he thought he was getting.

Dude could give Meg Whitman a lesson on how to fail upward better. She might be President by now.
I see 2 core parts to cryptocoins: The Merkle tree for honesty and the Proof of work for value.

I'd agree the Merkle tree is good as the ledger. AFAIK it is also used in certificate transparancy logs: Every block of log entries contains a cryptographic hash to a previous block, so you can't rewrite log entries, only append them. This is what guarantees honesty in the certificate world, and is I assume the only aspect you need for your proposal.

But the Proof of work is basically a race to do as much computation as possible. This is the part that wastes so much energy and resources, the part that slows things down, but also the part that provides value to cryptocoins by proving that someone wanted to waste/spend the resources.

Do you see value in a system that has both aspects?