jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Two tendencies combine to make "parentheses" the Lisp topic that in sheer quantity dwarfs all other Lisp topics added together

Parentheses (and along with them s-expressions and macros) are one of the few characteristics still unique to Lisp. Most of the other features - including GC, dynamic typing, first-class functions and lexical scoping - are now shared with other programming languages as well.
So can I use 1 number to create 2 users?
It's funny, all the advice I had from upperclassmen when I started college was "do your homework and go to class", and I did neither, and I don't regret it at all. Yes, it hurt my grades. However, I've found that my grades haven't mattered at all.
Never mind, it’s called Goals. It’s not a good replacement for Simple since it doesn’t have the Safe-to-spend feature.
The processor stagnation was the least of Apple's issues in 2015. The MBP redesign sacrificed durability, expandability, and repairability for a slightly thinner envelope. The newly reintroduced MacBook line hinted at a future where Apple computers would be more like iPads with glued-together hardware and only 1 port. The Mac "Pro" had not seen a real update in two years since abandoning a tried-and-true form factor for a beautiful mess.

I had already figured out that I was no longer in Apple's target audience at the introduction of the Retina MBP and soldered-down RAM modules, so I'll just be content as long as I can keep my 2011 iMac and my 2012 MBP running. After having used those fine machines, there are very few options on the PC side that I find anything near satisfactory.
That's because you're adding and not unioning. There are many intersections.
Thanks for taking time on such detailed explanation! So, the benefit of rebase is in a graph view of the repo, not in a conflict resolving workflow (which is consistent with the manual). But why

merge-based ... rapidly turns into spaghetti with even just a few people working in the repo

Isn’t it just a detail of how graph/report tools work? Can’t they track these merge points and “rebase in their ram”? I don’t get how a graphical representation of merge points may change the workflow.

One more thing that is unclear is why some people think that rebase is somehow superior in terms if conflict and reintegration. Like they “had issues with svn and now that rebase is a thing, issues gone”. Maybe they didn’t understand that you have to sync-merge your branches (effectively rebasing) periodically to not diverge from trunk (or parent branch) too much?

Added: I know rebase is not congruent with what I’m asking, but my questions are more about how git folks think, not about how git works. Cause I often see its comparison to other VCSs and claims that are vaguely or simply untrue about git competitors. As if before git there was some stoneage.
>most of what I do is just shortening sentences

"Less is more" they say :)

I'd really like to use Fly for a project that is supposed to go serverless, but may never evolve out of the "Docker on EC2" phase of life. Have you had any third-party security audits done? It'd check a lot of boxes for me.
> Ah and don't expect Code Generators to ever support F#.

What sort of Code Generators are we talking?

I ask because I have a very early alpha project that does F# code generation using Fantomas. Apart from an (uninvestigated) slightly higher startup time than I hoped for, it seems fine.
Does this count as a technological regression?
I can see someone going in here, modifying one design about a 100 times, exporting them all, and then just keeping those archived.

You may want to allow the ability to create unlimited designs for free, but you only get to hit the export button 3 times :)
I agree 100%. Also would add these new "play by play" videos are great especially if you are a freelancer or not working with other awesome folks. They really give you some insight on not just how to do something, but what their thinking while they do it. I've picked up several Vim tricks and just general workflow tips. Looking forward to more of these.
You're making very unfair judgement about the types of people that might land on his site and not have the barrier of a form overcome by their perceived utility of his service.

> You know the service you are providing.

But someone landing on his site might not. Letting them in without any barrier but a click will let them see for themselves. At that point, a sign up form is no barrier because they have seen the utility.

This should not take weeks or days. If built this way from the start, it should add almost no extra time. You gain nothing by asking for this info upfront but gain plenty by not.
My sole, true goal in life has been to attain deepest levels of consciousness, connectedness with the being, and crystal clear clarity and to do so without external dependencies like drugs.

I have struggled a lot with the odds and gotten only a few moments of what I am after. But I realized one thing in the process that it requires quite a bit of unlearning, forgiving, accepting, non-reacting and seeing it as it is.
I still haven't lost any amount of belief in the feasibility of my experiment as I have gone closer to it - the fact that the degree and duration of my experience can be controlled by me alone is a powerful realization.

Baba Ram Dass' book referenced in one of the comments on the wired site might be worth trying out - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00486UF8Y/ref=s9_simh_gw_p...
No, it doesn't mean that. It's a possibility, but it's not what the comment above says. From this date X is enforced doesn't mean that X didn't happen before.

It could also mean a change in policy which makes official what was already happening.
They (the people inciting it) were literally dancing and having a party and watching the start of the chaos on livestream while it went down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZQDgBSSYjI
All of the alleged "fraud" is easy to debunk with a bit of google searching. You refuse to do so, so I question your agenda.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/04/facebook-p...
Immigration has been happening for the entire history of the United States
What is a “barely do-not-distribute?”
Iraq WMDs, Russiagate, just to name a couple big ones. MSM is complete and utter trash, any one pretending they're actually informative where it matters has already been deceived. I really don't know where to get good news, the best I've found so far are random Youtube channels who parse all the news and try to cut through the constant flood of BS.
>In this case conservatives are bundled into a group of ‘fascists’, ‘racists’, ‘nazis’, literally and without sarcasm,

That's what they are though. One side of my family are full-on conservative Trump supporters and I know for a fact that's exactly who they are.
It was also pretty standard for the Black Lives Matter protests in DC earlier this year.
Realistically, it was a chaotic situation. I can only imagine it would be easy to slip into the crowd during the pandemonium.
Culturally, we aren't taught to think critically enough about how businesses operate. In an environment that espouses entrepreneurship to the max, we don't spend enough time talking about if companies lie to us or not, how do they plan to monetize, etc.

There's just no way that Facebook wasn't planning to monetize this platform when they wrote this article. Frankly, situations like this should be treated like deceptive advertising practices.

Just like in the political arena, there are very few consequences to just flat out lie to people, and that's unacceptable.
Despite your hypothesis, the evidence is that the Democrats vote for it, and the GOP against it.
I've gone to just running Teams on Chromium on Linux. Much faster than the Desktop app, and audio works on it reliably. Unfortunately on the app my audio input would cut out every few minutes and require the app to be restarted. Never figured out why, and found a lot of others with similar issues.
You just need to "explore the space".

I have to admit, I probably can't hear that song now and not notice the beat of the cowbell in the background.
I counted four technically incorrect usages in this comment of yours. Nothing worse than an inconsistent pedant.
Won't happen because the CSA is policy to create make-work jobs for law enforcement and the justice system. It also ensures that there's a steady stream of the incarcerated to keep prisons occupied and prison labor programs populated.
It can't be too outdated if the stated date is to be trusted ("02-06-2022") as the industry doesn't move that rapidly.
I have to admit my own goals are absurdly ambitious, but those are the ones that excite me so I'm sticking with it.

Right now I'm reading Bold, the new book by Peter Diamandis, who has pretty much the opposite opinion of this article. One thing he points out is that if you start with an absurdly ambitious goal, then even if you only accomplish a small portion of it, you're still really successful.
If it syncs, that means that all my passwords are out in "the cloud" somewhere, which means I would be vulnerable everywhere all at once should that one master list ever be compromised.

If it doesn't sync, that means I can only get in from one computer, which is occasionally inconvenient.

So I keep my passwords in my brain, which is always with me, or at least with me at all the times when I might need to use a password.
Now I'm curious if extra batteries will be possible to plug into the modules
So if your life is in the hands of most people, you're as good as dead.

That's incredibly depressing.
Try F-Droid app store instead.
The problem is that non-repairability has an economic logic. Essentially, you make a machine with a rather predictable lifetime. It is the equivalent of renting the machine out. You're can then offer support for that time period. If the time period is long enough, customers will want to upgrade the whole caboodle at the end. Everyone's happy. And with the focus on a single product, you have the scale to pour resources into product design.

This approach will attract demanding customers - like the hn crowd - who will put demands on support as they customize and tinker. Then, if they extend it a lot, they'll likely buy from other suppliers who free-ride off your development work. So you lose repeat custom.

Tl;dr: there's a reason why modern cars don't have easily accessible engines, and do come with fixed-term support packages. Bundling works. It may even be best for the consumer.
> “don't roll your own crypto”

All the fault information there is in software people would have gone and downloaded instead of "rolling their own".

It's not like cryptography software is magical gift from the gods, someone wrote it.

And often the people writing SSS software do not do a good job, partially because the properties that SSS by itself provides are not very useful and if they were thinking carefully they wouldn't write it at all.
I think the authors problem isn't so much his ethnicity (who really cares?) it's his attitudes to women, 'fag hags'.

He comes across as an extremely unpleasant individual, it's always easier to blame external factors instead of looking inside and thinking "maybe I can improve myself and not openly demean women among other things"
I agree. But it turns out that the absence of unions doesn't work out in practice, either...
I believe the USD transaction tax is 35% not 65% (not that I think it makes sense in any way).
> Nobel Prize in Economics

No such thing exists.
Depends on your market.
I don't think making the windows as tough as the stainless steel truck body is a design goal. I suspect they'll probably improve them so they survive the "hurl a steel sphere at the window as hard as you can" test from the on-stage demo, but I doubt the stock windows will ever be literally bulletproof like the truck body is.
_The Handmaid's Tale_, which seems to be her best-known work. See above as to why I didn't read it. I didn't specify an antecedent as I meant to reply to Freak_NL's comment; mea culpa.
Oh yes, verrry clever - especially when potential recruits will start factoring in your use of Slack as a negative mark for your company ! /s
From what I can tell, that book does NOT deny climate change, it denies the efficacy of proposed interventions.

From the Wikipedia page you linked:

> He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001), in which he argues that many of the costly measures and actions adopted by scientists and policy makers to meet the challenges of global warming will ultimately have minimal impact on the world's rising temperature.

Misrepresenting climate science to dispute the efficacy of specific interventions is not the same as misrepresenting science to deny that climate change has human causes.

It does however mean that you should take his opinion on these matters with a grain of salt.
Now that is very cool! I've always wanted to try something like that.

What was it written in?
I totally misread the graphs. Sorry Danielle!
No, people did, and also pointed out the possibility of contagious disease. Calhoun just ignored them, doing nothing to prevent or check, and ignored the results when people did similar experiments with less-inbred populations while not getting the same results.

I looked into Mouse Utopia in part because this article gets shared a lot ( https://www.gwern.net/Questions#mouse-utopia ), and Wiles did not do his homework, and makes a lot of false statements. For example:

> He had been building utopian environments for rats and mice since the 1940s, with thoroughly consistent results. Heaven always turned into hell.

Completely false. Calhoun's 1940s experiments were not utopia experiments as Wiles implies, and his utopia experiments were not consistent and he reported only cursorily on a handful of them (hence Wiles's heavy dependence on the SciAm popularization) before the NIMH effectively fired him for reasons which remain unclear.
Elon also predicted that there will be close to zero new cases in the US by the end of April.
> Divided by distance^2 - looks inverted exponential to me.

As stated in the Wikipedia article you linked to, that's an inverse-square law. That's a far cry from inverse-exponential.
Improvised masks commonly provide little protection, but obstruct breathing so people suck in more air with more force, increasing their risk of exposure.
> I personally hate being told something that is patently false, but I totally understand that, collectively, we need to be lied to for our own protection, because collectively we become a bunch of idiots.

Yep, I understand this. I've also noticed recent emphasis on the danger of the virus to young people (like this somewhat misleading NYT article [1], although I just noticed that they recently updated it), I suspect because they want young people to stay home.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-...
> the government does not just take property

lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...
Generally agree with this article. Vim bindings for non-Vim editors is a nice idea, but I find that they're not ever quite complete. This leads to some kind of uncanny valley feeling when editing. Now I've gotten used to how to open/find files in Vim (:e and :find), and taken the time to understand how buffers work, I think I would also miss these outside of Vim.
Glad to hear that the LTS version did not have an issue.

I hope you did file an issue with the Plots package. The reason is that we generally like to make sure that regressions like these are not language level regressions. Sometimes package use undocumented internals - but we generally chase each and every single one of these.

For those who haven't seen it yet, we have described our release process in great detail in this blog post:
https://julialang.org/blog/2019/08/release-process/
> From the casual observer point of view, it appears only some Asian governments have been able to competently handle this crisis.

Anything I’ve read indicates China screwed up at almost every step only to have to do what the rest of the world is being forced to do now. Axios did a good timeline that leads me to believe the Chinese aren’t that special and if anything their government acted in such a way that doomed the rest of the world.

https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coro...
Hey Deadgrey,

You're totally right. I'm not sure API is the best word for it, but haven't found a better one. Would love your thoughts!

I've heard a bunch of crazy usecases from HN over the past day but my original one was to simply take some of the python and R scripts I had, and without much work (a few clicks actually) be able to execute them from my frontnd js, or from rails workers. It worked really well so we decided to see if others might find it useful too.

It's badass to see what others are coming up with in the API Library, hoping that can be a valuable page for everyone. And I imagine when we figure out fair pricing, we can actually make this significantly cheaper than a dedicated server for these processes.

Please, continue to send feedback like this. You're awesome.

-Paul@blockspring.com
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I think not. Kids want social interaction.
Afaict magnetico is a selfish implementation. It takes resources from the network but doesn't provide any back. If everyone ran that at home instead of a proper DHT node then the network wouldn't work.
That said, it used to be far worse (actively polluting others' routing tables) and it's nice seeing BEP51 validated as a proof of concept.
Technology powers your business, but conventional IDEs and hosting systems always separate the two. You end up with massive code projects that only have text files. These do not make any sense and are difficult to manage, debug and monitor.

So we created a whole visual ecosystem where all your backend needs co-exist with the business. Together, in sync, forever.

Code development? Architecture? DevOps? Deployments? All embedded in the same place, right in the browser

So join the backend revolution!
Media biases are a different issue. The WHO’s problem is that it’s supposed to be a politically neutral internationally governing body, and It’s conduct during the pandemic has lead many people to believe that it is operating according to a political agenda. The damage The WHO (and other public health institutions) have done to their trustworthiness has already had will continue to have serious consequences going forward. Anti-vaxx has never been so popular.
There's a pretty big difference between having a few days off school and having months away from it.

I loved the long summer breaks, but I also loved going back to meet all my classmates afterwards.
So, the advice is bad, as most people (including myself, no doubt), will write mediocre code, just by the shape of the distribution (assuming it's normally distributed, which is a strong assumption, but without data it's probably reasonable).

Advice that relies on people caring about their craft/having the skills to do the work well doesn't scale, so it's bad advice where those things aren't true.
> It's ok to be politically biased, but still factually accurate for things that fit their political bias?

Everybody is biased. You, me, and every journalist on earth. Of course, that's okay. The NYT also does not go out of their way to "...pretend they have no political bias."

What is important is to be able to understand the difference between news and editorials (including editorial decisions), but sadly more and more people seem to lose grasp of this basic distinction. This may be a sign of the negative consequences of the politization of many points.
The writer was being sarcastic
This would be interesting.

After directly comparing my coworkers' 6 and 6+ this week, I remarked that I might opt for the 6+, since one-handed use is effectively out for me even with the 6.

Relatively small hands be damned...
Precisely. I do Android programming, which leads to a lot of exposure to different screen sizes. Spend a week on a Galaxy Note, which is initially shocking, and going back to something smaller has the same shock value that the Note did in the first instance.

I must admit I can't see how or why people bother with less than 5 inch devices now, but each to their own.

The other side effect of this is bigger phones make the idea of tablets seem ridiculous. Were I Apple I'd reintroduce the 4 inch iPhone and kill the iPad mini.
Urban legend is that drugs are mind expanding.
This sounds suspiciously like a certain episode of the HBO show Six Feet Under:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701990/
You could just use both your hands. A very small problem compared to all the benefits of a bigger screen.
You're absolutely right. My apologies.

I was only trying to say that in the context of gamedev, when choosing between list vs vector, list is almost always the worse option due to caching.

But after re-reading, that's completely unrelated, as you say. Worse, ZeroMQ was going to be using list structures either way, so my point about ZeroMQ was both mistaken and irrelevant.

I guess I should take a break for awhile.
The diversity initiative makes up 10% of the class? That's laughably low, compared to say UC Berkeley, or even the ivies in the US.
No, I'm advocating for politicians to make decisions that are better for society, but will cause them to not be re-elected (similar to what happened in Australia when they outlawed firearms).
> Finally, Metallica have chosen to do all live shows using only Axe FX's. So obviously you know better than this small band who barely tour.

Actually, Metallica uses Mesa Boogie amps...[1]

[1] http://www.metallica.com/band/band-bio-gear.asp
> Agreed. That is surprising, and also increases the security risks, because I can produce images on my in-house network and then take them out into the world to fool other networks without even having access to the outputs of those networks.

Good point. You could also do this with the gradient version too (fool in-house using gradients -> hopefully fool someone else's network), but the transferability of fooling examples might differ depending on how they are found.
I'm not sure I that I agree with this. I've worked on plenty of projects utilizing ASP.NET during my days as a freelancer where I was the only developer. However, it might be that this is primarily a perception problem, where the types of companies using .NET simply prefer to have their team on-site, as opposed to companies utilizing RoR which may be younger and more forward-thinking, resulting in them being more open to remote workers.