skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experience, and being able to see directly the different behavior of the search engine. I watched as it happened. Google used to be optimized for producing the minimum number of results for your query, biasing towards specificity. This worked great for tech savvy folks who knew how to craft searches with a high degree of specificity. Then they switched to biasing towards a higher number of search results, biasing towards correcting your search to match some other popular search. It's so bad now that google will just completely drop words from your search as terms in order to present the results it "thinks" you want, and then you have to go out of your way to force it to actually care about those search terms (and this isn't because the more specific / restrictive search has no results, it just has results that google doesn't "like" as much).

You can craft a google search with greater specificity but it's very difficult to obtain the sort of search behavior that google used to have. Now google treats your search terms as sort of a grab bag, it mutates them into a cloud of synonyms and related words, then it picks a subset of the grab bag that it decides is valuable and gives you results that are tuned by about a zillion arcane heuristics. This works great for giving you "magically" accurate answers for the most common search queries. It works terribly for giving you highly specific answers to highly specific queries. The way google used to work was by providing results that matched all of your search terms, and being smart enough to include different variations of each word but not vaguely related words. That sometimes made it hard to find the right thing if you didn't get the right words but now we're in a state where you can't find the right thing even if you do have all the right words.
I think Stalin is paraphrasing Hegel, there.
Cheat poker – magic dice
The electronic induction part perceives the number of dice by receiving the vibration of the box.
I and my wife discuss programming matters in front of our kids.
And my kids listen to the discussions and want to be part of it.

Then I start teaching the basics, they are a bit more willing to hear.

Here the incentive for them is to be part of the club where interesting things are happening.

We laugh at coding jokes which kids don't appear to understand which leaves them confused.

So, it seems they are aware they lack some understanding because of which they are unable to understand us.

The same idea has worked for math, playing musical instruments like keyboard/ukelele, physical exercises like skipping ropes or air pushups.

If I simply give them a computer or ukelele, they won't be interested as they don't know how to hold a ukulele or have no one to tell them how to hold it right and how to fuse a chord progression with the strumming pattern. These things are not obvious by just watching or hits and trials on a guitar/ukelele.
Maybe he did. Unless he's careful in picking his VPN provider they probably have some level of cooperation with the FBI.
Without the Euro, the greek central bank could have increased inflation and downvalued the Drachma, so the government could spend, spend, spend. This was the Modus Operandi before the Euro.

I don't say, that this is a responsible way of managing a countrys finances, but if the alternative is increasing infant mortality and extreme unemployment for almost a decade, I can't see whats so bad about that.
Many locks and keys? And a gun? I bet there's an unsolved crime behind that one.
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Been there ;-)
They probably have dozens of times.
I've been blocked by a related account for years, the only altercation I ever had with them was when their founder was drunk one night (their admission) and went nuts at me for not linking the conference enough in my newsletter :-D Social stuff is hard, running events is hard, and people get stressed - it is what it is.
If high levels of salt is the worst thing you can say about frozen meals then they're pretty damn decent for the convenience they offer!
Where do you land when searching for "Italy" or "China"? I wouldn't call this "lack of consistency".
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It kinda looks like it's almost a 1 to 1 clone of burnermail.io lol
FYI Lisp (CL) is still used and being adopted in some fields:

- http://lisp-lang.org/success/ (pgloader was rewritten from python)

- https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies

Besides what's call Lisp in the Tiobe index(https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) is ranked 27, before D, Clojure, Lua, Erlang, Rust, Julia…

And I find Lisp programs great to maintain: the language is stable, the ecosystem too. Python programs on the contrary are a chore to maintain, even after only 2 years.
20-30 submissions, in 4 years? Maybe he was blocked as a spam protection measure?
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Yes, there's a youtube channel: "French Guy Cooking". It is in English, and in it a french guy with a dives into various aspects of cooking, equipment and technique as only a geek can (he obviously has a technical background).

https://www.youtube.com/frenchguycooking

I like it because he shows taste and sensitivity to the culinary arts, he's hilarious, but actually goes in depth on the topics.
Nice platform for coding. Thanks.
One item from early 1500s looks amazingly modern.

Amazingly Mondrian even.

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondst/NZD1.00092CER059...
In Clojure macros are not overused IMO.Even though they are fully supported the community encourages you to only use it when it's absolutely necessary.
Have you tried dev.to
I wouldn't say any language, but yes,

replace it with Haskell, Ocaml, probably Erlang, and it would probably work:

Why is language X still not popular after Y years?

Because quality and good practice are expensive.
"You don't have to wonder."

Actually, in the case of CLOS all kinds of magical things can be happening in what looks like a simple function call.

This can be wonderful or terrible depending on your perspective.
The fact that you equate wanting to be alone in nature with mental illness highlights how fucked up we have become as a society.
Why not, instead of quantizing the market, just have a 1 second (or whatever) sliding window where trades are locked prior to resolution. In other words, you can put an order in whenever, but it resolves at least one second in and can't be cancelled for two seconds (unless the trader idiotically puts a cancel order in without any extra information)
Why are you only looking into ides?
Any editor might do a solid job. When working with clojure, parinfer[0] was all I really needed.

[0] https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
There's not escape, every nook and cranny is getting more political these days.

Not sure why, I blame total ideologies that prescribe the personal being political.
> Furthermore, they allegedly already had his ip, so why bother with a stingray? They could simply tell his cell carrier to provide them with all his location data

Remember that getting subscriber data/metadata from ISPs requires a warrant, and that a single tower location could cover a 6-12 sq. km. area (plenty of space to hide in)
You understand the timeline, but the virtue-signalling mob on Twitter probably doesn't.
No, just to announce that they are blocking based on criteria the audience agrees with.
japanese platform? amazing project.
Don't google it, go to the definition of the function at point (M-. in Slime), or ask the Lisp where this stuff comes from (symbol-package and all).

> a terrible experience for beginers.

Start with your own stuff ;)
Ask HN: How to fund the correct open-source organizations?
It's the time of the year where I do my 1% donations to open-source. I guess I should donate to the software of my stack: Debian, Postgres, Nginx, Ansible, Dropwizard...

How do you find the "right" organizations to fund?

- I'm worried about donating to the "wrong" people of a project. The typical example would be the difference between uBlock and uBlock Origin (they're not open-source but it's an example). Are there any similar schisms in open-source projects, where the programmers have basically split away from the people who maintain the ".org" website?

- Should I donate to country-level organizations (example: Debian France, who only organize Debian conferences in France) or to the american organization?

- How to avoid another OpenSSL fiasco, by donating to the right people? Should I just give it all to the FSF, and they take care of trickling the money? Is there an org in charge of spreading the money to the right people?

Thank you, I hope you've all met those interrogations about donating.
- new antibacterial breakthrough

- superconductor breakthrough

- graphene manufacturing breakthrough
A dumb programmer who writes C is like a monkey with a grenade, it's irresponsible.
> Missing targets for producing a car isn’t.

Why should we trust you on that fact? Do you have all the documents required to prove that all the previous car models of all manufacturers in the world were built and sell on time? In my experience (not about car manufacturing), several projects didn't meet the deadlines, and still succeed at the end.
The ironies and weirdnesses in Chinese economics are so common as to be banal
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>It apparently catches some at least, I am told.

Statistically speaking it should. Do you know if it's proportionally better than just blocking 1 in 10 would-be attendees at random?
Based on what I see out there I've come to learn that DevOps means "sysadmins with containers".
That will work, but the best way to add crunch and color to crust is to steam it: https://blog.kingarthurflour.com/2017/02/28/steam-in-bread-b...

You crank up your oven to very high (for most ovens that is ALL THE WAY), let it stabilize temperature for 40-60 minutes with an empty pan in the rack underneath where the bread goes.

When the bread goes in, pour a cup of water into the pan. This will create steam in the early stages of cooking and promote good crust properties.
When does matter a bit, there was a probability that other manufacturers might swipe the market under Musk feet
You've increased prices for SOME goods, but you've massively massively reduced prices for all others.

Urban sprawl is extremely expensive, and the high costs on infrastructure effects the poor the most.

If housing and infrastructure were cheaper, because we've built more stuff in cities, then the poor beneift the most due to the lower housing costs (which makes up most of their expenses).
How do I get an HR generalist interview?
> Now wihtout an import path you are on a fun hunt for its possible definition with grep.

In Slime, use M-. and go to the definition of the thing at point.

"without an import path" ? In CL at least we can very well do the equivalent of "from foo import bar".
I think this is what 'sonder' is supposed to mean, but the purpose of that word is pretty much wholly to appear in Buzzfeed lists.
I am curious if we are ever headed there again. Unity, Unreal, GameMaker and all the others are super amazing in that they let almost anyone make a game. Unfortunately they also allow cheap clones and shoveware to the point there are apparently 20000-40000 new games shipped per month, mostly on iOS and Android but even Steam is at or around 1000 a month.

Not that there is anything to be done about it it's just when the barrier was higher it forced at least a small increase in "average" quality
How optical illusions work and what they reveal
Small cars, too: http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/707-amsterdam-smart-car-canals
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First food, then clothes, money, keys and finally drugs.
Yah, on further consideration that is pretty huge.

My numbers are off however, my figure for biomass production is only the weight of the carbon. I can't seem to find numbers for total production.

Especially since the majority of the weight of a plant is in the water - which has no carbon.
Megaman > Mondrian

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondst/NZD1.00620MTL039...
LispWorks offers several version of their free IDE with some limitations (f.x. limited heap size), most of which are irrelevant if you just want to try/learn Common Lisp.

I have limited personal experience with it, but it seems good and I have read good things about it, written by free users.

* http://www.lispworks.com/products/lispworks.html#personal
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That comic made me lightheaded.
Waymo's cars are connected to Waymo's servers with, I guess, gigabit ethernet (after they go back to base for the night), Tesla's cars are connected by mobile data, they'd have to pay billions to cell phone networks to get as much data.
But presumably the new occupants compared their existing old travel method, and deemed the new one better. If the old method had some "social benefits", it must mean that the old method's social benefit came at a cost in benefit to the occupants. Otherwise, they would not have chosen the new method!
> Taiwan is living proof that Chinese culture and democracy mix perfectly well

On the contrary, Taiwan is the proof that Chinese culture and democracy don't mix well. In fact that is why CNP lost in the first place and retreated to the island. China will always need a strong federal government to lead, or it would just break into smaller counties like EU.
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Yes you can use challenging vocabulary in a picture book
What are you saying, you want it to crash into them for you? That's a major downside?
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At least they make it clear, but that is quite a lot to consider https://2018.jsconf.eu/code-of-conduct/
I remember having a silver star which was looking back was a terrible console in general.
The platitude lacks detail, but you're still giving truthful feedback. Frankly, that's not bad. I can't tell you it's actually worthwhile for you to do anything more, but thank you for trying.

I graduated in EE and really wanted to go into software. The manufacturing and construction jobs I had worked in over the summers had convinced me that I did not want to be drawing wiring diagrams all day.

I failed the interviews for the first few software development jobs I applied to. After one I thought had gone well, I emailed the hiring manager to ask for feedback. He told me that my technicals were ok for a new grad, but that I fell short on the social side. That was valuable feedback. I had been very nervous and awkward. It gave me the confidence that I actually had the talent to pass an interview with a little more practice. I sent that guy a thank you note, and a few months later I found my dream job in software.

Maybe I would have passed the later interview anyways. Probably. But if not, my life would be completely different today. Just after I got the offer letter for the software job, one of those construction companies asked me to come in for an interview...

Thank you for trying. It doesn't always pay off, but it can make a difference. Giving that sort of feedback is all risk and no reward, so I really appreciate that you gave it a shot.
Thanks, didn't realize that, in my naiveté I thought Lattice actully helped :(
The thought experiment in the GP was what if they didn't
Alright, this is a personal observation of mine:

1. I go to a store where workers are paid bare minimum, they give me odd looks and make me feel as if I stole their bread or smth.

2. I go to premium stores, where I pay more but they treat me better.

So, I go to premium stores even though I am aware I am losing more money, because in Maslow hierarchy of needs - I am at the top where I want to be treated better not save more money.

Cost of negative interaction is much much greater for me.
I randomly have flashbacks of negative experiences but I forget all positive or neutral experiences.

Based on Exchange theory of Price, #2 price is justified.

Now, if you remove the workers in option #2, the interaction goes from negative to neutral and I'll prefer #1.
You might just have figured out how to use technology to your advantage.

I have a friend who can't stay away from his phone. I hate meeting up with him and then having to share his attention with his other acquaintances that I don't know, and can't even see. We sometimes play ping-pong, and even that often gets interrupted by phone checks.
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Doesn't need to be a database, a simple spreadsheet or text file would do as well.

And you would be surprised to know how frequent those are (not necessarily about Twitter but in general about customers/employees/visitors in shops etc.)
Florida-based Exactis exposed hundreds of millions of Americans' data
> "Isn't it amazing that we can make a material that is simply too good?"

Um. Is it? Whatever happened to: Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Also, good is subjective. What would be more accurate is: make a material that currently does not breakdown naturally. We know this. But we keep making it instead of reusing what we already have.

Amazing? Or amazingly short-sighted?
The key word is "fresh", also termed "spillage". The potatoes you buy have to be there when you walk into the shop, fresh enough that you don't walk out again or complain. Shops throw away a lot of vegetables, even fairly robust ones like potatoes, and of course the spillage percentage is added to the price you pay. The fries are much more flexible time-wise.
There is something in the dough of frozen pizzas that leaves a really bad aftertaste - I've never encountered a counter-example. I still enjoy pre-fabricated pizza from time to time (~once a year) but my girlfriend wouldn't touch one with a pole.

Whatever they put in the dough, it's definitely not the same as what they use in good pizzarias.
You have to do that anyway: either from the port to the store, or from the field to the factory to the store.

Unless your point is that the shipping is cheap in absolute terms, in which case 'yes' :) Although I don't think it will add much. Say pizzas are shipped 500 km, on average (for the North Island - most of them will stay in Auckland, and I imagine those going to Wellington are shipped there directly). Either way, transport like that will cost you, say Eur 1/NZD 1.75/USD 1.15 per kilometer? (IIRC from the time I worked for a transport company). But you can fit, say, 50k of them in a truck. That's 1-2 cents depending on which currency you look at, and that's using lowball estimates, and not using bulk shipping discounts.

It's amazing and completely counter-intuitive how cheap shipping is. Which is also why I so dislike the 'food miles' concept. Yes, it's 3k km to drive lettuce from Spain to Northern Europe. But you can fit so many of them in a truck, that the per-item cost is tiny, and quite often offsets the extra costs you'd have to make to grow that same lettuce up north. And yes that's even when calculating in the environmental costs (depending of course on the crop and the time of year; my point: just having fewer 'food miles' doesn't necessarily make it better for the environment).
When I worked at Océ we had a stair climber that would carry huge printers and copiers up stairs, it was amazing to see.
IANAL But as I understand it if they have any internal records/messages/emails etc about why they blocked a user on twitter then that would be classed as personally identifiable information and would have to be revealed to the user on demand.

Of course if they just spontaneously clicked 'block user' whilst browsing twitter because they just didn't like something he wrote then the above would be moot.
I cook from fresh every day. Now granted I'm not the fastest cook - but it can take anything from about 20mins to an 1h 30mins to prepare dinner. While I'm cooking I'm cleaning and doing other tasks. Left overs carry over to lunch or another evening meal.

If I were to use a frozen meal, I'd have to defrost, and then cook, and likely would want something alongside it - like veg or salad. Unless Chef Mike (Microwave) is employed. I find it hard to see this being that much quicker.

I've had one pre-prepared bought in meal this year. Most convenience foods like this have a strange processed taste -
that isn't just salt. This is coming from someone whose sense of taste has been shot totally to pieces.
I always had real tools as a child, and wasn't particularly interested in Lego. I think there aren't that many transferable skills between Lego and making things more generally. Frankly, I don't even think there are that many transferable skills between different mediums, or even between processes in the same medium.

Forging steel with a hammer and anvil, for example, teaches you a lot about fire management, temper, and so on - but teaches you absolutely nothing about accurate machining of steel parts. The attitude isn't even the same. If you go into a wood workshop after six months of working with metal, you're going to break things, destroy finishes, and waste work.

There are some general principles that apply to a lot of mediums, but I think they're the exception, not the rule. For instance, sticking stuff together generally relies on the surfaces being very clean - and that's true if you're using glue or welding. On the whole, however, I think the reason why distinct processes, finishes and materials exist is because they offer different possibilities.
It appears [0] that the deposit is "up to" $49 Singaporean Dollars or about $35 US Dollars

[0]: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/obike-working...
Thanks for that perspective, I had not considered the angle that the EDA industry is scared of itself because of patents.

Once more, the problem can be traced to the root evil that is patents, sold to the world as essential for innovation, but which end up having the exact opposite effect.
Ask HN: Why Docker in Addition to Ansible onto VMs?
(In this discussion, I'm going to say "Ansible" a lot, but what I really mean by that is "your favourite deployment and configuration tool". I just use Ansible as an example of the broader category.)

To begin with, I'll clarify what I think is the sort of scenario where this question becomes relevant. If I have to run a bunch of services, some continuously, and others as cron jobs, I imagine my options are to either

a) Deploy them onto separate virtual machines using Ansible, or

b) Create Docker images of them, which I then deploy onto a machine, again using Ansible.

I can't imagine a scenario where it would not be useful to know Ansible. This is where I feel the primary cost of Docker is incurred: it is an additional layer of abstraction that has to be learned, taught to new admins, troubleshot, and kept in sync. Troubleshooting any Unix system including a VM is the same, but a Docker container has to be troubleshot differently.

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Due to the submission character count limit, I have submitted the most common arguments I have heard in a comment. Please read that first.

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In summary, this is my picture of the situation:

- Docker cannot replace regular configuration management tools like Ansible. Docker, being an additional layer of abstraction, comes at a maintenance cost.

- Performance is not enough of a reason to offset the maintenance cost.

- File system management is not enough of a reason to offset the maintenance cost.

- Upgrade handling is not enough of a reason to offset the maintenance cost.

I get the sense that it's a wash, and the deciding factor is whether you are more experienced with Docker administration or Unix administration.

But there are very experienced Unix sysadmins who have switched to Docker and never looked back. I just haven't heard a satisfying explanation as to why.

It'd make my day if any of you guys could do that. Thanks!