skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On number 2, that's not entirely true, you can be like "I'm not reading this now, I'll snooze it until x when I'll go through some emails"

For me it's all about reducing noise level and cognitive load. It's made me a lot more organised, although occasionally I keep pushing things back and won't admit that I'm not going to do them because I feel like I should do it today but I probably ultimately won't. Curse my fallible humanity!
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Postal banking could help revive the postal service. Many countries already provide these services through the postal system. Or even, believe it or not, 7-11.
It's not actively happening right now but it's on the roadmap.
There are no credit unions in American Samoa? These are fairly easy to establish and are federally insured.
It's surprisingly true. To the point I noticed that in times of stress, I would simply not look at whatever productivity tool I've been using. I found myself no longer invoke org agendas. No longer opening the paper notebook with tasks. Hell, I found my eyes glazing over the whiteboard with a list of tasks I put there the previous night.

Semi-conscious avoidance is a terrifying thing.
It looks like the Hyperspec license doesn't permit distributing documentation pages:

> Permission to make partial copies is expressly NOT granted, EXCEPT that limited permission is granted to transmit and display a partial copy the Common Lisp HyperSpec for the ordinary purpose of direct viewing by a human being in the usual manner that hypertext browsers permit the viewing of such a complete document, provided that no recopying, redistribution, redisplay, or retransmission is made of any such partial copy.

Source: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/Help....

But I guess you could distribute a script that does the processing.
Just as a point of interest, sqlite is behind the geopackage [1] specification, which is a common format for exchanging geospatial data.

[1] https://www.geopackage.org/
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GNU Make is indeed the least verbose/ boilerplate-heavy tool and I use it for a lot of things.

The problem with Make is lacking acceptance amongst younger programmers who always want to work with the latest technologies.
Yes, they are. That theory makes a lot of sense tbh
> "Net Neutrality" is nothing more than an Orwellian named, amorphous and vague idea that nobody really knows what it means.

What are you talking about? Net Neutrality isn't complicated at all, it's just saying that Internet providers need to deliver Internet connections without prioritizing or blocking certain sites/connections.

The only complication is that telcos and businesses have different ideas about how far it should go (ie should zero-rating content be included). This is like arguing that because we have disagreements about the extent of free speech that the entire concept of free speech is just poorly defined government propaganda.

This is nothing like GDPR, this not a government created oligopoly, you're thinking about this completely backwards. Net neutrality decreases government control over the Internet; it enshrines that businesses, states, and governments aren't allowed to control access or play favorites in a freely competitive online market.

There are valid reasons why someone might oppose legislated net neutrality, but "the government taking over" isn't one of them. You lose a lot of credibility when you use words like 'Orwellian' to describe a policy that explicitly makes it harder to censor things.
Jokes aside, you may be right that it's self correcting at the species level (though still bad at the individual level -- i.e., for those women who wanted to get pregnant).

The first time I heard of Fisher's principle it blew my mind: If the male to female ratio gets imbalanced, it'll return to 1:1 after about 2 generations. The reasoning can be understood by logic alone (see the "basic explanation" in Wikipedia[1]), but there's also experimental evidence[2]. I think that the same argument should hold if the genetic component that makes you avoid fast food is an inherited property.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle

[2] http://www.genetics.org/content/148/2/719
Circular data types are perfectly fine with optional types. You can have optional<*raw_pointer> for example which after compilation may even be equivalent to a simple null, since valid pointers are not-null.

This was discussed in rust some time ago: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-March/00330...
Sure, but have you tasted the milk? It really tastes off.
What exactly is meant by the line "Design patterns disappear as you adapt the language to your problem domain."

The word "disappear" is a hyperlink to a pdf, which refers to domain-specific design-patterns. I don't quite seem to grasp what is being implied on the home-page.

Is it something like Lisp is very customizable and allows you to easily overload operators? (I am primarily a Java programmer and have never used Lisp).

EDIT: I mean, e.g. this page asks "Are Design Patterns Missing Language Features" http://wiki.c2.com/?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatures

Is this what's being referred to, and if so, what makes Lisp especially good for adding language features?
Also weird: it's the name of a giant ugly guinea pig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_(mammal)
The largest factor is bandwidth. In the EU you can get bandwidth a factor 100x cheaper in most situations than with AWS.

The second factor is levels of abstraction. It's cheaper to run your own virtualization software on rented dedicated hardware than to use EC2, and it's cheaper to run your own kubernetes cluster than to use EKS or GKE.

The places where having external companies do it sabes the most is (a) in running the actual hardware and networks and (b) providing a platform for your software (e.g. Google app engine).

Taking a bunch of rented dedicated servers and configuring kubernetes is cheaper than renting the computational power through GKE or EKS.

But basically yeah, these are the same standard solutions to saving money with hosting that have been pretty much known for decades.

EDIT: Be aware, this only applies for the publicly listed prices — if your company can get a deal like Snapchat did with Google, or Netflix with Amazon, then the math may work out entirely different. But I don't know what they pay so I can't comment on that.
This is also exactly what I'm talking about. YIMBY is in such denial about this, some choose to believe that low income housing activists must be some sort of plants under the control of rich, home-owning puppetmasters. There's just this tremendous cognitive dissonance, denial and resistance to listening to minority and low income communities. That's the white privilege problem. It probably hurt the bill.
Once the government gets its hands out of the internet, ISPs can finally offer premium internet packages with higher quality bits.
Its a nice feature but not relevant enough.

My experience is, that a company who decides to use AWS (or whatever) only decided to use one specific vendor and would need to reevaluate every other vendor the same way.

If you can't trust AWS enough, i wouldn't use AWS.
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Are yurts as popular in the rest of the country as they are in the Pacific Northwest? They seem to be a mainstay of many campgrounds out here. Since they were designed according to the needs of the Mongolian climate, I'm wondering what it is about them that makes them suitable for the Pac NW climate.
Its sometimes just easier to use AWS instead of finding those people and with those people, you have more dependency on those people.

Now with AWS i can manage a whole infrastructre AND write code where you needed an admin team before.
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I cannot believe people haven't come to this realization yet. I actually feel my brain rotting away when I don't spend time actively pursuing goals outside of work.

To me hobbies are as important, if not more important, than your day job. Before you down-vote me, please understand that I'm someone who learned about 95% of my technical knowledge from fun and hobbies. Although I'm full-force into computer vision, machine learning, and robotics in the company I'm co-founding, I wouldn't know any of that stuff if I weren't building robots to chase cats and deliver toilet paper, training algorithms to classify free food e-mails, and toying with neural net ideas 10 years ago when I was an physics undergrad (no, I didn't major in CS -- that was my hobby).

And I wouldn't have been a physics undergrad if I hadn't spent hours at night back in high school studying physics and differential equations secretly while my parents thought I had gone to bed already.

Likewise, what I do 10 years from now will depend heavily on the things I learn and ponder on nights and weekends today. It would effectively be the end of my life and career if I didn't have, and insist on having, that time to myself now.

I'll also add as very much an introvert I absolutely must have sufficient disconnected / off-the-grid / "me" time to recuperate. Like food and water, that's largely non-negotiable beyond occasional stretches of a day or two. I'd probably go into clinical depression if I was forced to be in front of people all day for extended periods of time.
Thanks, I'll have to try an adapter. Does it support basic functionality like play/pause or browsing songs as well?
Tokyo presumably would not have allowed the Millennium Tower to be built without sinking pilings into bedrock.
If it's been seven days since you unlocked the phone you will need to enter the device passcode while connected to the device, the prompt coming up because you connected it.
S3 has an api and there are libraries out there how to use it. It has access policys, access tokens with different permission level. Everything you have but better.

Now what you don't have, is a client software which allows any employee to use your storage system easy.

Only a WebAPI is not enough. I would even prefer any S3 open source self hosting solution over your solution and put a backup strategy behind it.
We basically know how to do this. STEREO used lunar gravity assist (check it out, very cool move) to visit Sun-Earth L4 and L5.

On the other hand, Gaia was basically the highest priority scientific mission of ESA and it took 20 years from proposal to launch...
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Thank you. Seems like you associate objectivity with popularity. Like in if all/most people consider something good/evil then it is objectively good/evil. I wasn't aware of this view.

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

"... and that what is truly good or evil can be determined by examining what is commonly considered to be evil amongst all humans."
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The evidence was in the article:

And yet SLSs are dying in Los Angeles. Los Angeles has run
out of missing middle zoning, and they are not creating any
more of it in plan updates. The city has recently looked to
tighten rules on the development of SLSs. Recent increases
in fees (See rule #10) has hit SLSs hard. Entitlement
applications for SLS have dropped.

New developments increasingly skew toward luxury sky-rises precisely because smaller, mid-rise, middle-income projects have increasingly grown unprofitable. It's a vicious circle: the more exactions imposed on the developers the bigger and more expensive the units need to be in order for the project to be viable, which fuels resentment and political pressure for more exactions.

The problem with BMR requirements is that though they make politicians appear responsive to voters and tough on developers, the greater effect is that they permit politicians, voters, and developers alike to avoid difficult decisions. Such as, for example, expanding rent control, changing master zoning plans rather than relying on negotiated variances (a costly process), investing in transit, reducing parking requirements, etc.
There’s little that irritates me more about my local trains than the fact every one of them has ~20% of carriages dedicated to first class at a huge markup. If they had capacity I’d be fine, but what happens is that you have people standing for a 2 hour journey while there’s empty seats that they’re not allowed to go and sit on.
Indeed Lisps claim to fame is how much the language itself is extensible. Something along the lines of "you rewrite the language / expand it" for whatever project you're working on. Writing your own lisp interpreter is another popular type of project people do as well given how simple Lisps syntax is to parse and follow.

If you are interested in Lisp on the JVM check out Clojure.
Show me the DC which will provide bandwidth and collocation cheaper than AWS on a rack basis.
Also keep in mind that ever since crypto DCs have a very strict limit on power consumption so there are many more hidden fees now.
You're competing against PHD rocket scientists employed by people who buy data centres milliseconds away from exchanges.
Reading the whole thing it seems you're allowed to distribute it as is without changing anything, and not getting any commercial advantage out of the distribution.

There's this: https://github.com/LispLang/ansi-spec

Working from the TeX sources seem to be the right way to go especially if the information can get extracted into a generic representation so there could be a HTML / epub / whatever version
You make your initial guess. What's the probability you're right on your initial guess? 1/3. What's the probability you're wrong? 2/3.

So now, you're presented with your second decision. Do you stick or switch? Well, if you stick, that's going to lead to success if and only if you were right on your first guess. And if you switch, that's going to lead to success if and only if you were wrong on your first guess.

We all agree that you were more likely to be wrong on your first guess. So you should bet on the fact that you were initially wrong. I.e. switch.
There is enhanced awareness of some of these issues as there needed to be, no more calling users 'idiots' to diminish their own roles in exploitation and stalking by some self serving members of the tech community.

But it's only when there are negative consequences for people individually beyond collectives like Cambridge Analytica that people will dramatically change their usage patterns. Self preservation is one of the strongest human instincts.

Already parents are much more careful of their children's usage. Things can change suddenly and before you know it the tech stereotype of 'indifferent users' will be over and the conversation will shift to 'entitled users'.
> for the most part you only need one of each variant (e.g. an ebook optimized one, a tablet, a smartphone, etc.) instead of many.

"need" sets a very low bar for criticism. You can argue that you don't need pretty much anything.

The question is really whether there is a way for many device-instances to have a sufficiently large increase in cost-benefit ratio compared to using a single device-instance.

For example, I find it plausible that multiple tablets could be quite useful if there was a good way to coordinate the displays and interactions between them (e.g. for proof reading and arranging material). Such benefits would require changes in the OS UI, probably.
It seems to me that it's mostly dust from the road - busses are heavy, have larger tyres and wider track width.

Combined with the fact that the roads are heavily sanded and salted half of the year, and that they are swept rather than washed, for some reason often only once in the year, the roads are dirty.

I know that other cities wash the streets more or less constantly, but here they claim it won't help which seems questionable to me.

Winter tyres with studs are allowed here (in the winter) and are getting a lot of attention since they generate a lot of particles in laboratory tests - but it would be interesting to see what 3 months of grinding sand and salt in snow slush with heavy weight wheels will generate, with or without studs.

But yes : electric busses would be nice. With a soft driving filter applied...
Go is bad in that it uses pointers to make something nullable, but i dont think the uninitialised non nullable values are zero is that bad. Otherwise uninitialised is another type of null...
https://gist.github.com/WhoSayIn/4a6fc0e124297b8eaa70a521da4...
And booom you just then reinvented a new concept of "missing" exactly as he said.

PS: To disembiguate I was speaking of the null a value in a nullable type. Maybe I got you wrong.

Also I guess Null is way less a problem in strictly typed language than in JavaScript for instance.
I rarely see them in the UK, outside of festivals and the occasional hippy farmer.
Right. Take 2 10-year-olds. Give one a C=64 and a paper manual, and one an iPad and an internet connection. Which one is more likely to learn to program?
Sure, but that’s always a tradeoff.

If you just use EC2, though, you’ll find many other providers of virtual or dedicated servers for rent for much cheaper, with similar performance and reliability.

If you’re fully integrated in the AWS ecosystem, it is much more convenient, but also of course more expensive.

That said, unless you’re in silicon valley, your hiring costs will be so much lower than amazon’s that even your own admin team might end up cheaper than using Amazon’s.
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Does your model factor in the cost of human time, availability, agility and management complexity?

How quickly can you scale up your design 10x? 100x?
I don't mean to defend Null.

> Null is neither true nor false, though it can be coerced through a truthy operation, so it violates Identity and Contradiction. It also violates Excluded Middle for the same reason.

Intuitionistic logic doesn't have the law of excluded middle and is the form of logic underlying the simply-typed lambda calculus.

There is a more nuanced relationship between logic and programming languages than is being discussed here.
Can anyone explain the benefit of glom instead of pandas dataframes? For data manipulation pandas is superior in everyway to any library out there. The only thing i think glom would be useful is json parsing as was shown.
Sorry if I sound a bit too harsh. I'm looking at it from a data science pov.
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As mentioned, the release codenames are those of minor planets. It was how the Devuan people chose to synchronize with "Jessie" when they forked, since there is an asteroid (discovered in 1979) with the same name as the Toy Story character, and then branch onto a new naming system.

* https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2003568

* https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=10464

* https://devuan.org/os/releases
Many mathematical-minded people look at this problem and conclude that the maximum probability of freedom is close to (1/2)^50.

But that's absurdly wrong. They're out by a factor of 10^14 !!! So, are there any important problems in computer science / software engineering contexts that have this form? If so, they may have speed-ups of several orders of magnitude that mathematically and algorithmically-minded people might completely miss?
Methane .... having an estimated lifetime of 8.9±0.6 years. (Wiki - Atmospheric_methane)

Currently Global Warming is doing good, it starts going bad in about 5 years, then I'm unsure how long it'll be before it gets back to normal... then we finally see the bad.

So reducinging at the moment is useless and by the time it's negative I can't see how we won't have lab grown meat, which solves actual issues like massive amounts of land being used to make meat .
You forgot the line that's the biggest offender of all, "... for Humans".
The "snooze hell" is extremily unproductive if you ask me. Quite often I end up creating an avalanche of reminders just by snoozing/deferring individual tasks until "later" instead of deciding when/where to actually perform the task, so I can continue focus with whatever feels more inportant at the moment...

Oh, brain :-(
Obligatory link to the American version http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_playa
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This and the replies honestly make me think there are far deeper problems than public transit in play here. In the UK I’ve never in my life seen someone defacate in public, or encountered the result. The worst I usually encounter on public transport is someone who smells bad, or is a bit weird, and the very worst drunk passengers throwing up on late night trains.
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Random Gaurdian story puts methane :
"Methane accounted for about 16% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, according to the IPCC." (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/29/methane-...)

Wikipedia puts (with some question about the citation) methan at 4-9% of total greenhouse effect contribution, and CO2 at 9-26%. (And then water vapor way above that, at 36-72%.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Greenhouse_gase...
That style of "null" has a _lot_ of advantages over the common null found today. The perfect is the enemy of the good - Option/Maybe types aren't perfect, but they're a lot better than null references.
Preview.app doesn't allow you to start off with a canvas of a specific size, and then start doodling though. I really think they should add this feature, because the Markup functionality in Preview is really good. What surprises me is that a lot of people don't know that Preview is very powerful.
Lisp is quite popular at my current workplace. A few popular open source projects published by our organization have been written in Clojure (a dialect of Lisp that runs on JVM and CLR). A few domain specific languages used internally in our organization are also inspired by Lisp.

On a more personal front, I find Lisp to be simple, elegant, and expressive. I use Common Lisp (SBCL) for personal use. Working with Lisp induces a sense of wonder: how simple concepts can be composed elegantly to build complex functions and complex software. It's the same kind of sense of wonder one feels when one learns how the simple concepts of Euclid's postulates can be used to prove complex concepts in Geometry or how the Newton's laws of motion can be used to derive intricate and complex concepts in classical physics.

I sometimes wonder why Lisp has not been more popular in the technology industry. Is it the lack of sufficient marketing? Is it the lack of an extensive library ecosystem? I hope Quicklisp will address the concern about library ecosystem for Common Lisp.

I encourage everyone to learn Lisp and, if feasible, write a rudimentary interpreter or compiler for Lisp s-expressions. It's one of those things that can broaden's one horizon in the field of computing.
Are they bundled with the app when it is purchased via the App Store? If not, I think that would be a good idea.

As for the app itself - it looks very good. Well done!
Dedicated lanes and roads help, but light rail is significantly faster than buses & more reliable. It is a huge reason why we're investing in building Light Rail out to the outer reaches of Seattle.

With Light Rail, you are essentially buying people part of their lives back in the form of a shorter commute. That is quite important, as time spent driving in traffic is pretty well wasted.
> if the information being exchanged did not exist in electronic form immediately before the transmission

So you need to print them out before faxing? PDF->Fax wouldn't work with that definition.
I must admit, I didn't really get a weird Japan vibe from the piece; the opening isn't holding the service up to any kind of ridicule. We all know that loneliness is chronic problem, and it felt as if Japan had found an unusual approach to coping with it.