skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might take the credit for the safe return of the crew despite the calamity.
I would regard anything other than tiny amounts of boilerplate to be a code smell in most languages.

Code generation has so many downsides and Python is so dynamic I can't think what you're doing that couldn't be done better without code generation.
The capsule didn't crash - it landed safely.
Given the issues we can attribute (at least in part) to overpopulation, why would an at-or-above replacement rate be intrinsically more stable?
Can't on HN :/
Ok this is a lot to go through so let me take it step by step.

In regards to whether or not it works in the US, or other countries that is something i didnt calculate and quite frankly don't really care about. My goal when checking the data was simply to see if it was both feasible and beneficial in my own country (portugal), so I didn't bother to check the data for other countries.

That being said the primary reason why it is so readily and clearly a better system than the existent is that there is a very large discrepancy between the high income and low and medium income in terms of how many cash benefits they get. For reference, in Portugal around 46% of all cash benefits expenses go to the 20% of the population with the highest income, the next quintile (the 20% poorest) receives only 18%. This, if I recall correctly, is not the case in the US, there the distribution is not so eschewed and so the social benefits to simply changing the distribution is not nearly as convincing.

Now in regards to special cases that you mentioned, then indeed, there will definitely be some amount of people who will be harmed by the change, however we do have universal healthcare and it is quite good, so those people will always be a small minority. There is definitely something to research there, and we should definitely quantify just how many people will be affected, however we cannot justify harming 80% of the population just because we might harm a handful of outliers, that is in my view socially irresponsible.

As for the motivation issue you mentioned, the fact of the matter is that the existing system already has those same issues, the only difference is a matter of intensity, which can be measured and the tax rates and expenditures adjusted accordingly.

In regards to the matters of inflation, I don't see how any meaningful inflation can occur, for the simple fact that all my calculations assumed the exact same amount of spending as it currently exists. Yes, some specific parts of the economy (particularly in low cost housing/food) might see some inflation, due to the fact that people now have a roof over their head/food to eat, but the amount of homeless in portugal as is, is quite low, and there is no famine, so I cannot imagine that there will be significant changes in total consumption.

As for motivation, it seems to me that not having a welfare cliff would go a long way to reducing unemployment (around 8% today, and around 16% at around the time I researched )
I think you forgot a very important point: no uphill climbs :P
I like Lisp (I used to love it, but I'm more in the static typing camp nowadays;Typed Racket is good though) but Common Lisp honestly is an abomination. I can't really think of a situation in which CL is a good choice for a new good base.

And calling CL "modern" is... ironic at best.
It doesn't say 10M miles by how many cars though? Could they start trialing discounted Taxi Ride on a massive scale? How many more miles of testing do we need before this can be rolled out commercially?
I use Gatsby and then teach clients how to write markdown. Then they edit markdown content in gitlab, once they save (commit), the CI/CD regenerates the website and deploys to S3/Cloudfront.

There are other solutions, such as using wordpress or contentful to provide content and then regenerate the website when something changes. I think the creator of Gatsby is creating something like that as a business.
Well, sure, "if a company figures our a way to make massive cost savings while their competition does not" - but Uniqlo isn't that unique; nothing that they have done here is something that's fundamentally impossible for their competition to implement as well, it's just a question of appropriate investment. Yes, there's no reason for them to lower the prices right now, but that will result in mid-term (3-5 years) price decreases in the industry.
To some extent yes, but then again, social media is public billboard meets address book. There's nothing in there that fundamentally shouldn't be automated, it's just the sum of those parts that enable a new dimension in social interaction.

Also: we don't need software for most things in life. But we like software, as it usually makes things better.
Freelancing and consulting. It's fun, pays decently well and is fully remote.

Left Google SRE because of how mentally draining it was, how draconian the IP clauses were (everything you create belongs to Google!), and how generally I didn't see a future for myself there.
After watching a few videos of people trying surströmming, I figured they might feature it in the museum, and sure enough.

It's interesting to me that foods like that, that have an incredibly pungent/aggressive smell or presence are just naturally enjoyed by others.

I guess my brain still wants to believe that when something is that "bad" that everyone else will experience the same thing, though that's clearly not true.
First off, I haven't studied Maryanne Wolf's neuroscientific research on "deep reading" and its claimed benefits. But, as a person who has read most of the major thick books like Moby Dick, War & Peace, Les Miserables, Middlemarch, Proust, and reading cover-to-cover the old computer books like the 3-ring binders of C Language[1], my lifetime reading experience could offer counterpoint to why "deep reading" seems to be a lost activity:

Most of the text out there is just not good quality that deserves or rewards deep reading.

My pet theory is that the rampant skimming or "shallow reading" is basically the brain performing a hidden Bayesian probability that any random text put in front of us isn't worth the effort of deep reading.[2] This is why many of us go to HN comments first instead of reading the actual article. The Bayesian priors told us that the "tldr" in the comments got to the point where the article all-too-often had a self-indulgent author that meandered all over the place and wasted our time. Therefore, "shallow reading" isn't bad for us... it's our way of optimizing against "information overload".

Even college professors who are used to heavy reading workloads skim new work. I'd argue this is another manifestation of Bayesian priors.

To back to my C Language example. I didn't really learn C by reading those binders cover to cover. (Deep reading.) I really learned it when I did shallow reading across fragmented sources like USENET comp.lang.c forum and playing around with toy programs. So maybe deep reading isn't the answer but the attention restriction from not being distracted with Twitter and Instagram notifications. In other words, maybe we're conflating benefits "uninterrupted study" with "deep reading".

[1] https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33794

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Devils Ivy.

Leave it in water for years, or plant it and forget to water it for weeks.

It can grow quite long, so cut it, stick the cut-end back in the water and it will root and keep going.
For anyone looking into getting a fuller picture, I'd recommend reading Churchill's Secret War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill%27s_Secret_War). Where this differs from some of the other works's on Churchill's life is that it tracks the accounts of those affected by the Bengal famine of 1943 (how it is related to Churchill is covered in the book) written in native languages—which are, by far, inaccessible to English authors.
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Which is more likely?

That lie detectors can be fooled, or that time travel is possible?

8973? Sounds like it might be from a 1973 story with 7000 years addded, this seems a bit mundane an extrapolation for 7000 years in the future anyway. If it can be comprehended, or put into words it'll be a huge let down.
Next year will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
Oh god, that's exactly what I have. There's nothing we can do short of disabling defender? Are there AVs that are as secure and don't slow explorer down as much?
It hasn't flown any missions, but Crew Dragon has had its launch pad abort tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcHD9AmkxA0
Please... We can do RUDs in space too!
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Lol, the Almighty showed up for an unannounced test of their blessing-fu :)

Jesus is watching, folks. Look busy!
I was going to use nuclear war as a counterexample, but I see that he is somehow using it as a point in his favor. I find that very weird. We haven’t done jack to fix that problem, it just hasn’t happened yet.
My comment was directed at the incorrect statements that sound like facts that the author made.

I am not saying that people are born knowing how to use Hugo. Hugo is powerful. If you want to tweak it (the theme), change how your site looks and all, you would need to understand how Hugo works, learn templating,etc.

If you are happy with one of the existing templates, you don't need most of that.

Nothing comes for free. You either learn or live with what an existing theme has. I think, this applies, to anything in general.
Can you please keep programming language flamewars off HN? This comment is a classic flamewar-starter, and we're hoping for higher-quality discussion here.
There's a reason that formal/natural science has some conventional standards. Theories need to be (at least theoretically) falsifiable, or they fall outside of Popper's "scientific theory" definition. Studies need to follow conventions, like double blindness whenever there's a slight chance a researcher could influence results, even unknowingly. Replicability, transparency...

Without these standards, science breaks down. Biases slip in. Authority slips in. "Fact" loses its position as the ultimate determinant of scientific truth.

In the deep waters of theoretical physics, the "problem" is that the scientific method gets to be a little abstract. A theory is falsifiable, in principle, but not in practice.

Economics is not a science in the strict, Popperian sense. This essay demonstrates why. Without Popperian standards, you get finger pointing and unresolvable claims of intellectual dishonesty.

This doesn't mean that science is perfect, but it is distinct from nonscientific (including social "science" fields). A history book written in 2068 will, based on no new information, give a totally different account of historical cause and effect to the ones we write today. Darwin's or Newton's differ only inasmuch as new information has become available since hey were written.

This isn't a bash on economics (or history, etc.). Most things are not science.

What truly caused the fall of the Roman Empire. 18th & 19th century imperial historians thought it was debauchery, echoing their zeitgeist about carnal desires and moral rot. Marx thought it was historical materialism. 20th century historians focused more on cultural influx & migrations. Later 20th century historians liked more postmodernist "one damned thing after another" explanations.

The model(s) for linking monetary policy to inflation rates are not science. There is no agreed upon method for one model displacing another one. Of course everyone is accusing eachother of bullshitting.
Apple even issued an iOS update once to address incompatibility issues with 3rd party replacement displays...
The site looks amazing
I'm not a big government advocate, generally speaking, but enacting this at a federal level, would be akin to a modern day postal service. Social media communication without the bells and whistles--or the obsession with engagement. I'd be all for it.
Honestly, I don't care. I've disabled Windows updates for the time being since I no longer trust their update QA. I can deal with a non-functioning system. I can't deal with files being deleted outright that don't belong to the system in any way.
gold is multi-threaded.
I actually just installed that before you mentioned it, and disabled its sound in the volume mixer. Finally something I can live with in terms of terminal.
I'm not sure I ever liked the Mac hardware. I thought I did. TBH the old white plastic MacBooks running 10.4 was my last good experience. After that I bought a top end 2011 15" rMBP with 16Gb of RAM and 1TiB SSD.

What do I use now?

A second hand i5 T440, because it's more productive.
SpaceX's crewed Dragon is the escape system. It's built into the capsule, and has been successfully tested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_FXVjf46T8

The BFR, to my knowledge, lacks one. Not sure if Musk has commented on that; I'd imagine his likely argument is that airliners don't either.
The bottom line is flexibility and speed. With Gatsby you get both. Only looking at it as a .txt > .html convertor is very limiting. I generate 1,500 webpages every day from custom datasources with Gatsby. Using React components gives me DRY code. This gives me very great flexibility during development and great SEO and speed in production.
On a large scale, there's no meaningful difference between augmenting or replacing a job.

If an industry augments a function employing 100000 people so that every person can do twice as much, then that has the exact same effect as fully replacing a function that employed 50000 people; in both cases they need 50000 people less and they should do something else.
I don't think that's particularly much news. I would expect any space agency to ground every single part of a rocket until they are 100% ruled out as source of a failure.
As someone new to Lisp. The following thing has always fascinated me. I've read some older posts on comp.lang.lisp and people insist on buying a 'high performant' Lisp. I think what they mean is Allegro CL or Franz Lisp.

But why is it 'high performant' compared to other implementations? Like say CMU CL(now SBCL).

For example, in this case why would one use Clozure CL instead of SBCL?
It’s not just the language being statically typed, it’s also about the tooling around the language. Modern IDEs around mature static languages are s powerful.
If you turn it off it still runs like ass. I have spent hours on this one even down to fsutil tuning and I can't get more than about a 10% improvement.

This is because the small files are stored on the MFT which is global read/write locked.
Running my own bootstrapped SaaS startup, Canny (https://canny.io). I've always wanted to do a startup.

Last year I wrote a blog post about the biggest lessons learned during the transition. Seems pretty relevant. https://hackernoon.com/software-engineer-to-saas-founder-c16...

Also left SF to be a digital nomad. SF is so expensive and if you aren't fundraising you don't need to be there. There's so much of the world to see, and it's easy to be productive anywhere there's internet.
The musicians I've talked to find the current system really inconvenient and spend a lot more time arguing with the payment collection organizations then they would like to.
It’s interesting seeing lisp try and make a comeback, I wonder if it’ll work.

As one of the few programmers who has worked in CL commercially in this century, my general analysis is that the language has way too much rope. The code base I worked on wasn’t too clever by half, it was too clever by leaps and bounds. I’d genuinely never start a multi engineer project in Lisp ever.
Even in rocketry, you just need to keep even more distance to the top and bottom of any ratings on any part than in normal engineering and put in a few redundancies in case it does fail.
No, they're all horrible.
The issue is that "avoid left turns if possible" adds extra mileage and extra traffic on those streets that are used for a set of right turns; plus it's a SHOULD, not a MUST [RFC2119] - sometimes the right-turn detour would be just too long. UPS has a slight advantage here as it has a set of points to visit, not necessarily in a given order - more routing options, as compared to an A-to-B route.
Yes! Or the Xerox Sigma 5/7, but that had fewer lights—just one row. Or even the IBM 1800.
I disagree severely with large swaths of this article. The biggest problem is here:

>Of course, the actual serialization logic is allowed to do something smarter than pushing linked-lists across the network---after all, implementations and semantics don't need to align one-to-one.

I like that I can read a pb dump in hex and have it map quite closely to the protocol definition, rather than being viewed through heaping piles of abstractions. This is only going to make it more confusing and more work to use, with the only gain being to make some functional programmer feel squishy about their beautiful type system.

I largely agree with the "The Lie of Backwards- and Forwards-Compatibility" section. You can feed /dev/urandom into nearly any protobuf definition and it'll happily give you nonsense back, no errors. I understand why this is the case, and I'm not sure it should change, but it's bitten me several times.
If you'd like to take a crack at a title that is neither misleading nor linkbait, in accordance with the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), we'd be happy to change it again.

It's hard for us to guess perfectly every time, but an imperfect guess is usually better than leaving a misleading or baity title up.
Yeah, I thought the whole point of OT was that it allowed any client to do resolution (because all operations transform other operations in a way to make them all resolve the same way no matter their order) Which is what made it seem like such overkill for Google Docs where there is a central authoritative server, so a much simpler architecture could have done the job...
Thanks for tip - will try this
How about 'delete the folder if empty'? Why on earth didn't they think to do that?
Having had a... scenic, shall we say, academic tenure, I can say that programming is not really that hard compared to some other topics. Second year biochem tends to kill chemists. My inability to grasp differential equations in my mechanics class (physics) pissed me off so much that I accidentally got a math degree instead of a CS degree (had to go back for a year to convert it). I could go on, but in reality there are far harder courses than anything I took in CS. I don't think anything has change so much even though a considerable amount of time has passed.

As more evidence, look at the huge number of people with degrees in unmarketable skills doing boot camps and actually becoming productive professional programmers. It's not that hard -- maybe a bit harder than learning a human language (but not nearly so time consuming).

But I will say that in my time the biggest destroyer of talented people in CS: Empire. I had to forbid myself from playing that damn thing. Ruin your life, it would! I wonder if there is any kind of similar geeky crack these days... (though I think that even today if undergrads got their hands on Empire they would be doomed...)
Ok, we'll give that a try.
The hole in [the orbital module of] the docked Soyuz is on the part that is jettisoned before re-entry.

"The orbital module is a spherical portion of the Soyuz that allows more gear to go up with the spacecraft. Unlike the lower crew capsule, the orbital module does not survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere."[0]

[0]https://www.space.com/41738-soyuz-spacecraft-air-leak-hole-o...
Although that didn't happen this time - the escape rocket had already been jettisoned before the failure occurred.
Now I can run a web server on Lambda by using only ~5 functions per hour! All hail the serverless king!
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"But it's not just hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, cannabis or mescaline that conjure up these geometric structures."

The article seems to be interesting, but this start turned me off a bit, as it is wrong. Cannabis is not hallucinogenic. When you get hallucinations from cannabis, then you might have a problem called psychosis...
Even something you create in the weekend belongs to google when you are in contract with them ?
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Can the FCC really block California's net neutrality law?
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At worst Linux updates might screw up your system and render it non-bootable. I'm not aware of any bugs in the past 20ish years where your home folder was deleted.
> There is already much discussion about the current state of Russian industry and its ability to maintain the standards of yesteryear. Whatever the outcome of the inquiry, this event will only heighten those concerns and will underline to the US in particular the need to bring online new rocket systems. These vehicles, produced by the Boeing and SpaceX companies, are set to make their debut next year.

Is it just me, or is this unnecessarily hostile writing? This is literally rocket science, and the escape mechanisms seem to have worked perfectly. And at least the Russians do have (had) a working way to get stuff to iss, so I don't think these (uncited!) accusations are called for
That was one of the most interesting applications of Google maps that I know of.
Thanks for the overview. This is exactly the level of analysis I was looking for!

>The Mach kernel (used by macOS and others)

Where/how does this typically manifest itself? Why isn't macOS slow/sluggish?
I agree. I don't understand why they are attacking CRDTs at all.
Thinking singularity is geek rapture isn't really original thinking, it's just regurgitation of a cliché. Now dead blog by Steven Kaas had a nice article, listing reasons why this comparison is not valid.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110718031848/http://www.acceler...

I won't quote the long list of arguments, just a tangential remark:

"It’s also interesting to think about what would happen if we applied “Rapture of the Nerds” reasoning more widely. Can we ignore nuclear warfare because it’s the Armageddon of the Nerds? Can we ignore climate change because it’s the Tribulation of the Nerds? Can we ignore modern medicine because it’s the Jesus healing miracle of the Nerds? It’s been very common throughout history for technology to give us capabilities that were once dreamt of only in wishful religious ideologies: consider flight or artificial limbs. Why couldn’t it happen for increased intelligence and all the many things that would flow from it?"
P2P... Torrent?
I guess to downvoters, I'll just http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/
Yes. At least according to their contract in Ireland (and other locations, from what I've asked).
That's only true if you take a pretty arcane definition of 1 and 2, BTW. In modern axiomatizations of mathematics, as well as Peano's 19th-century axiomatization of arithmetic, the definitions of 1 and 2 are simpler, and the proofs that 1+1=2 take a couple lines.
Which is also why I'm not sure that picking CS1 was a good choice for study.

Surely failing CS1 is highly correlated with dropping out of a CS degree completely - or rather, it would be interesting to see if indeed failing CS1 was anticorrelated with failing other first-year CS courses.
I feel so much compassion for the developers of Roslyn, that were dictated to "re-implement the bugs from the proprietary version in the open source version".
> $5/year/user

I think facebook has each user valued at about $200USD/year. A 2016 article from the Guardian puts it at $60/year... so I'm not sure which number to believe.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11661387/heres-how-much-you-are-wo...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/how-much-...