skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 Years After Tragic Quake, China Calls for ‘Thanksgiving’
Was it the younger who's circumcised or the other way around?
Definitely a good investment of resources.

AWS offers the convenience of managed hardware and services on, for which it is charging its premium. As companies grow, they can think about investing in rented servers and managing the software on top of it themselves.

Beyond a scale, owning and managing the servers may also make sense for many.
Types are supported since the 80ies, with (the) and optional declarations. Almost nobody uses them. Well, CL says: types are always carried around in every value, so we do have types, and we are always type-safe. Which is a proper point.

Then SBCL has superior internal type support in its python compiler, leading to many optimizations. It creates specialized copies of typed methods, and has a nice optimizer framework to deal with that.

Felleisen (Typed Racket) seems to hate types, he summarizes it with types make racket slower, not faster. But he is still developing the only seriously typed scheme effort. Forgot about Stalin, but if I remember correctly it was similar to the CMUCL/python type optimizer.

In my dynamic language I've implemented gradual typing with great success (cperl): more precise, producing better specialized code, faster, detecting more errors at compile-time and better documentation, so I'm sceptical why Felleisen has so many problems. But I implemented it with performance in mind (premature optimization and such), not completeness.
Typed php seems also to go well, also the various JavaScript variants. Just scheme, python and ruby not so.
Definitely more visible than in London. Been living in London for few years and spent few days in SF last year - I have never seen so many homeless people. It also feels like people are more evenly distributed on the curve in LND. Here you encounter people of every level while in SF it seems like lower-middle class is pretty rare.

I've been there only for a few days in only a few neighbourhoods so keep this in mind.
I've tried both. I liked Asana a lot in the early days - it was simple and removed the friction of logging tasks. I especially liked that many tasks could be entered in the same way as an outline, just using enter to drop to the next line and tab/shift-tab to nest tasks. All the task properties I needed were visible at once and I could quickly tab through the task details and log what I needed.
Eventually they added more features for teams and the features I liked became more complicated to use, so I dropped it.

I tried taskwarrior as well, thinking that being in the command line would reduce the friction for entering tasks as I spend so much time there already. However, the friction is higher for viewing and reorganizing tasks so I would fill up a todo list and then not use it.
It does work for me.

Load https://www.w3schools.com/?utm_source=facebook in a new tab.

Highlight "https://www.w3schools.com" in the URL in the address bar.

Copy.

Paste in to Notepad and get "https://www.w3schools.com/?utm_source=facebook".

However, it's any GET vars that seem to be copied. Doing the same thing on https://www.w3schools.com/?abcdef=facebook has the same effect. It only seems to happen on W3Schools too. I suspect it's the site trying to be do something rather than anything nefarious by Chrome.
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> ever since crypto DCs have a very strict limit on power consumption

Has it changed much? I haven't done real hardware in a while, but I remember the rack power to be a very limited resource years ago. (I.e. you could easily pack more hardware in the rack than you'd be allowed to power)
Serious question, could there be any way to instead capture said methane and use it for fuel? I feel like if the farms could make a decent buck off capturing it there’d be more incentive than say paying for seaweed.
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It's yet another strange manifestation of "cyberwarfare". Since there's no international agreements restricting it we're only going to see more. Controlling what another country's citizens watch (and how much they pay for it!) is a lot of power.

(See also Facebook's sudden decision to ban foreign political ads in the Irish referendum)
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For those who want to use Lisp on the JVM, there is ABCL:

https://abcl.org

ABCL was originally used to write and extend an editor called J - but then morphed into a full implementation of Common Lisp.

One can also develop with SBCL - since it has a great compiler - and then move the code to ABCL.
Obsession over hobby makes it not a hobby anymore. Been there, done that.
To me it's because lisp offer is too conceptual in a way. Lisp AST like faux-syntax, freedom of idioms, macros... to most it's a problem more than a feature. I believe a huge amount of people prefer the comfort and "magic" of strong grammatical separation. They like considering a language like a set of tools to learn rather than a set of concepts to craft whatever is possible. It also leverage social structures more. You're the coder, not the language designer, not the compiler writer etc etc People like that sort of distribution of work, even though it means you're dependant on these groups which can slow you down.

For complex problems, without clear solution, Lisp is still used (from what I've read) because the people on these tasks are actually looking to find the right concepts and needs a metamaterial rather than a fixed set of bricks.
That's when you have to make some hard decisions about what you will, and what you'll never get to. At some point you should just start deleting tasks.

The important stuff floats to the top and gets done. The rest doesn't.
Thanks for your answer.

Currently, in Spain, a lot of left wing people have an idealistic view of the war that I find dangerous.

Also, there is still too many people downplaying Franco's brutality.

I fear that this condemns us to make the same errors again.
A second satellite could be put in the same orbit around the sun as the Earth, but on the other side of the sun. That would give us stereo vision for the parallax measurements.

But it's cheaper to have just 1 satellite (which is also easier to communicate with because near Earth), and then compare images 6 months apart to get the same data.
> Culturally, it is much less "gay" and "hippie" nowadays, and almost entirely "tech," at least in my own experiences.

It's interesting how many tech people dislike the company of their own kind.
What "ISV certified" means depends quite a bit on what is required.

For a lot of the workloads a sub 1000 PC is enough (I'm in the AEC software industry and am quite familiar what we are talking about).

Take into account that most software in the domain we are discussing is decades old. Some things would work just fine on the lowliest PC you can buy from the cheapest vendor. And yes, sometimes even the most beefiest machine is not enough.
Yes, but it seems to need a surgical insertion into one of the cows stomachs so is probably dangerous / expensive.

https://phys.org/news/2008-07-cow-backpacks-methane-gas.html
N.B. ‘Malays’ is an ethnic group (the supposedly-native ”people of the land” (bumiputra) Muslim majority); nationality of Malaysia is fairly mixed including Malays, ethnic Chinese, ethnic Indians, and even orang asli (”original people”). The correct term for this aggregate is Malaysians.
Actually, we did it on the other side (on a business side) a year ago, you can watch the demo here https://dasha.ai/en/
Agree - bandwidth is the biggest factor by far.

This applies to AWS and GCP
No, optional really isn't needed in crystal. You can just add `| Nil` to any type wherever you use it. We ever have a short cut in the type syntax of the language `?` to add null to a type union. So in practice at the type layer all you're doing is replacing Maybe Type with Type?. But now you have a strictly more powerful construct which behaves like options in some ways (you can call try on any union with nil because all types including nil implement the try method) but supports flow typing for null checking, removing all of the extra dereferencing syntax for option types.
That has been done with option types in functional languages since at least the 80s. It's not hard.
The hormone speculation seems to come from the article itself, rather than the authors of the paper. In fact, you could be forgiven for reading the article and not finding anything of interest - no causal link, no mention of controlling for weight (already known to have an effect and very likely correlated with fast food consumption).

However, the paper says:

"All models are adjusted for maternal BMI, maternal age, socioeconomic index, recruitment site, ethnicity, polycystic ovary syndrome, previous miscarriage, smoking status, alcohol intake, multivitamin use prior to conception, frequency of sexual intercourse, paternal BMI, paternal age."

Having controlled for BMI & alcohol at least makes it somewhat interesting, despite the need for patient recall.
Sustainable? :D
Sadly, I fear legislators won't do that until there's an economic advantage for their supporters. So they need some magnates to be convinced, and buy up the production before they go ahead.

Why would legislators make regulations that just save the planet but don't make them rich? /s
in a similar spirit, i wrote "sanest", sane nested objects, tailored specifically for json fornats: https://sanest.readthedocs.io/

it does not have the exact same feature set though. my focus was mostly on both reading and modifying nested structures in a type safe way.
Use Vue and you can be happy. Use angular 4/5 and you can at-least be sane. Use React and then pull out your hair, lost in a sea of badly-matching libraries, versions and continuously outdated best-practices.

React is a nice engine. A modern web-app is a car. Personally, I prefer leaving to the framework designers the job of giving me a car. Yes, you have to like the car they give you, but at-least it will be standardised and well-tested.
When att makes it free to use their video service and not free to use everything else, that hurts unestablished players.

Net neutrality also helps users. Do I really need to explain how?
Sorry to be completely ignorant here, but what is it with these sites that have absolutely zero styling?

15 years ago I would've put it down to lack of understanding how to write CSS etc. But today it's almost impossible to make a website that doesn't have at least _some_ styling (when using site builders like Squarespace, Wix, etc).

Edit: Turns out this site is from 1994 (see http://www.pbm.com/). How are you guys finding these ancient sites? :P
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34 luxury bottles to make your liquor cabinet a lot more fancy
Isn't that a neutral statement by the OP? It seems objectively true, at least from my own limited experiences visiting SF twenty+ years ago and then again a few years past.
Dog Shot in Head and Left to Die Deserves Justice
I have a folder with 30 or so polygon patterns from https://trianglify.io/ that rotate every half an hour on both Windows and the Mac.

This is a nice complement to it, especially since I can run this on my Mac and share the generated wallpapers via OneDrive with Windows :)
Which is a sensible thing to do if the design parameters for transport that is limited to an urban region are significantly different from that of the typical car.
This is really impressive and all, but what's wrong with saying upfront this is a robot, let it speak it's robotic accent, and let the human know it's speaking to a robot.
Assuming this tech is just to bridge current times when most businesses aren't fully automated, and the end goal is to replace BOTH ends of the conversation with robots, in that case the conversation protocol doesn't have to be English, or even voice.
from his wikipedia page:

- Technology should create calm.

It's as inspiringly true, as inherently rare.

Calm IMO is most often a byproduct of long learning process and craft. This brings know how. In these days of impatient ever shifting grounds, you only get stress.
> Also, most credit unions either use federal (national) credit unions and large banks for services. We bought our cash from JP Morgan, sold our mortgages to US Bank and kept reserves with a federal CU. Without these services, expenses would have been higher or services would have been reduced.

Sure, but this happens at big banks as well. My company's bank is part of the Santander Group, which literally has trillions of assets, but they use Wells Fargo for many services. Every bank uses other banks for certain services at this point.
On the desktop where you need to deal with WLAN interfaces going up and down, maybe a monstrosity like systemd has its place, but even there my opinion is systemd just isn't worth fragmenting and polarizing the whole Unix ecosystem with systemd's total lack of mental discipline and attitude of wrapping each and everything under the sun including binary logging, mandatory systemd-only APIs for loggin in, cron replacement, etc.

On the server-side where Linux has its mainstay, using systemd is even more pointless IMHO since services and network interfaces don't come and go. Loosing portability for saving a couple lines of shell code for starting/stopping services is IMHO a trade-off that just doesn't make sense from an engineering PoV. All the more so since systemd doesn't shield you from the intricacies of dealing with demon programs; if something is going south on your server, have fun with systemd binary logs to analyze what has happened.

Now RedHat (who are shouldering a large part of Linux development anyway) sure aren't stupid; therefore I have to conclude that they're playing the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish game here to subvert Linux into SystemD-OS.

Devuan has become a very important key project to prevent that from happening to the Debian code base. Btw congrats to the Devuan project! I wasn't quite sure they'd be able to deliver a couple years ago when they started; now I think Devuan (along with Gentoo, Slackware, Alpine) is going to save Linux' ass as a "real" F/OSS community effort going forward, no less. My hope is Arch Linux with its great community and documentation gets a systemd-less fork as well.
Why are people here so pro-net neutrality? I don't have NN in Europe and I'm happy: because of it, I enjoy zero-rated services at a fair price.
> we let the language win that was “there”, not the one we really needed.

Different explanation of history: Something "wins" because it is precisely what is needed.
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>> But then again I think objectively, all things being equal, everyone prefers a new house

I live in the UK and absolutely disagree - I'd much much rather buy an early 20th century house than a brand new build, with its cardboard-thin walls and elevation falling off after few years. I can bet a 1930s house will keep standing for another 100 years, while I know several people who bought new houses 5-10 years and they all need major repairs(in addition to being stupidly small - brand new 4 bed house is usually so small that none of the "rooms" fit more than a double bed).
Can you drink Aloe vera? Strawberry flavour?
From my observation as a Malaysian Malay, I do not think that this change of government will stop the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. This Arabicization of Malaysia was started by Mr. Anwar Ibrahim who was imprisoned by Mr. Mahathir Mohamad and now became good friends and partners. Mr. Anwar is the de facto leader of the coalition that won the election.
The main driver behind the initial fork isn't even a sysadmin, but an art student who initiated Devuan as part of an art project and his PhD thesis: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/11101

As a fun fact the thesis is released under a Creative Commons license, but states "no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without the author's prior consent". Forbidding quotations and building further work on it is also an interesting approach to the idea of science.
Gambia's Yahya Jammeh: 'I can cure Aids, and I will' (2007)
I lived there for 3 years and left a year ago. I lived in Nob Hill, Mission, Noe, and Castro.

When I was first there, I felt a strong disgust towards tech. People protesting shuttles, hateful graffiti, news articles about it. Tech workers were moving in troves and driving up rent and people getting displaced. I felt like part of the problem.

Market Street is a mix of insanely wealthy and insanely poor people. Other cities around California send their homeless people to SF, so there are thousands of them and SF can't support them all. It's not uncommon to see shouting, needles, and human feces. Every time I walked down that street I felt awful I couldn't do something to help.

Meanwhile, you step inside a tech office, and you'll see luxurious decor, free lunch, Macbook Pros, and many people making top 1% income for their age. The contrast is staggering.

People I've met in tech vary from the most passionate about work I've ever met, to just there to make a great living and enjoy the nature/weather. Nothing wrong with either lifestyle. San Francisco is a beautiful little hilly city with plenty to do nearby.

It did feel like a hard place to have non-liberal values, but I think people just mean well and are passionate about improvement.

Everything is expensive. Coffee is $4-6 plus tax and tip. Groceries are double where I'm from (Seattle suburbs). Rent is crazy. Office space is crazy.

Hope that helps!
All this to "close the gap to profitability", which, after the migration, they still will not have done, they'll still be in the red, after more than a decade.

It makes at least some bizarre level of sense that a social company like Twitter, with no clear customer other than "maybe advertisers" to not turn a profit for some time, but for an accounting software company, whose product is paid, to burn cash for over a decade, it just doesn't seem right. It seems like a scam to bilk investors.

Let's raise a glass to the inevitable bankruptcy, in which the founders and VCs don't suffer because the IPO already happened. Here's to you, Rod Drury, Peter Thiel, and Chris Liddell (now working for the Trump administration). Great job, guys. If you end up in jail, I'll send postcards.
gay and hippie are cultures, tech is just a job
If you fancy giving Lisp a try, look into Portacle [0]. I've not used this exactly but I did install all the components myself over time and they play together nicely.

[0]: https://portacle.github.io/
I may be wrong about Erector/Meccano, but it's my understanding that Lego has a bunch of advanced components (that can be easily interfaced with regular ones) that those two don't. The obvious one here is the Mindstorms, but even when I was growing up I enjoyed the air hydraulic system and the electric powertrain.

Meanwhile, the metal is interesting if you need the strength, but otherwise, what's the advantage?
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this is great! can you also override the screensaver in osx?
cows can not digest the cellulose ingredient in grass. essentially they foster anaerobic bacteria in their stomach which digest the cellulose. the cows live off the bacteria and their byproducts.

there are several different microbiobial paths from cellulose to methane with stages including acetic acid, acetone and hydrogen. depending on the conditions in the cow some of these paths are prefered or not.

I do not know whether not producing methane is bad for the cow in the long run. I guess it is not, given that the farmer mentioned in the aeticel has been feeding them the algae for a longer period of time.
I don't think it's disliking tech people so much as disliking a monoculture.
The solution to the tech talent crisis?
What insights do you gain by experimenting with different implementations of Common Lisp? Can you share some of those insights or things you learnt by experimenting with different implementations of Common Lisp?
My only concern is that the documentation renders poorly on mobile. So I couldn't read the right half of the page.
regarding your othe question: I'm pretty sure Bromoform can be produced large scale in classical chemical plants at low cost. question is whether that, applied as a fodder additive, has the same effect.
From 2017.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998395
Zero-rating is a terrible thing that helps stifle the free market and consolidate monopolies. It is also of questionable legality.
> I'm sure that there are some places in the world where the Mayor's statement is true.

In Europe this is predominantly true (maybe not the UK outside London). There's still massive traffic jam problems but buses certainly during rush hour are full and special lanes are provided for them.
Hippie is a culture. You're right about tech tho.
Correlation is not cause.
Do you think that the FCC's regulation of Cable TV content counts as "censorship"?
Scientists stuffed a crocodile into an MRI machine to see if it likes Bach
Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1804) derived from RHEL 7.5
The fact that those members have guns might also have something to do with it. 'Do this or else we will sick our gun carrying members on you' even if they do nothing at all is a more powerful signal than 'Do this or a bunch of people will show up to protest'.
This article made me wonder if the criticism of the Qatar World Cup - the working conditions of the labourers, the weather, the lack of football tradition, the pay-for-play - if that is all planted by Saudi Arabia and her Western allies trying to discredit and isolate Qatar.

I've read the stories about migrant labour and construction deaths. They sound terrible but people died in South Africa too. The climate will be significantly cooler than in Orlando. Japan wasn't a footballing power before it hosted the tournament. And literally everyone who wants to host it has to make it financially worthwhile for FIFA. So why the Qatar backlash?
The Cellular Internet of Things – Low Power Wide Area Networks – Embedded
I went on holiday there for one week, an as a person from Western Europe, the manifestation of wealth inequality was abhorrent sometimes. So many homeless people that are not taken care of, generally dirty, expensive public transit that not really good on top of it, obsession with tech and just generally a bit too stiff.

Mission district was fun, though.
> But second to that, I'm not sure why you think nginx_enable='YES' is fundamentally less opaque than an nginx.service file. Both are parsed by another application.

That's true of both plain-text configuration files and Windows Registry keys ;-).
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Hi Vlad Chernyshov, CTO of Dasha.AI here. Just wanted to show you Dasha.AI, an AI for Accomplishing Real-World Business Tasks Over the Phone. We built it with the team of 3 in 6 months. It's like Google Duplex, but for Businesses. Now you can automate virtually any process in your business starting $0.1 per conversation. Currently we support English and Russian. Anyone interested in getting in touch, drop me a line at vlad@dasha.ai.

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P.S. Don't be afraid of giants. We have smart people, but they are not smarter than you.