skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never seen an average Joe taking interest in Lisp, let alone learning it to the point of making a living with it.

Average Joe and Susi have been for 3+ decades nicely programming lots of extensions to AutoCAD and its various clones in Lisp.

Generally I agree that Lisp programming is a bit more challenging due to the slight mathematical nature (lambda, ...), code as data and meta-programming.

I don't think that one needs to be a 10x programmer to use Lisp - many of those 10x programmers are not programming in Lisp, since the 10x programmer gets hired because he/she might be able to cope with enterprise Java architectures.

Since Lisp is a programmer amplifier, you might think that these Lisp users are 10x programmers, when in fact they are not.

But there are domains where people are using Lisp, who are not focused on programming. For example there are various Lisp-based music apps + literature which are used by composers. Example: https://opusmodus.com
I hate tech companies that turn into law firms. Many companies (Oracle, Qualcomm, etc.) have chosen this path and I avoid all of them like the plague if I can. I'm hoping we as a society can ensure this is a ruinous path for said companies, but it seems like my two aforementioned examples are still going strong in terms of their market stranglehold/extortion/rent-seeking practices.
If it was true, the entirety of hi-fi industry would not exist. I myself built a number of amplifiers and, after a certain threshold, roughly .02% THD (total harmonic distortion) at 20khz, there is a very little correlation between the THD (what is usually measured)numbers and perceived quality of the sound. Which means, while it is true that is everything could be measured, no one measures the right thing (perhaps some weird subtle phase shifts or some almost immeasurable frequency response deficiencies)
Well there is some sense to it: with the extreme weather we have to look forward to thanks to climate change, it'll make a lot of sense to burrow underground and live there. Underground colonies would be mostly immune to hurricanes, for instance, and probably a lot easier to keep warm when polar vortexes result in -50C temperatures outside in the winter, and easier to keep cool when it's 60C+ in the summer.
I'm only getting the Apache Test page.
Thanks. As someone who is very much into Jupyter, this hits home! I don't know anything about chemistry, but the demo looks cool :)
U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
FDA Approves Sketamine for Depression
Chinese software dev firms.
I don't think this advice is aimed at your typical Spotify user (i.e. the majority of people).

Spotify is fine for casual listening, but if you're picky about quality, you're going to diy it, and if you're diying, 24/192 is pointless.
We run all of those and Oracle is the one we just thankfully retired. It is also very telling that people are moving from Teradata and Oracle to Sailfish.
Interesting and can actually come handy at work! Thanks
> I'm giving nVidia the benefit of the doubt and assuming they have legitimate reasons for not wanting to open source all their code.

They don't, because there is nouveau already and Nvidia are being rather nasty in preventing it from fully working.

See: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...

> Like with Windows APIs, which still have a lot of compatibility with applications compiled 20 years ago.

Try using Windows drivers from older Windows kernels with newer Windows. They won't work. So it's not anywhere close to 20 years.
One question I wonder that I don't quite know how to answer- perhaps the important part is how does tourism compare to the other hobbies people might engage in to fill their time. It's probably worse than intramural sports, but how does it compare to automobile racing or what have you. Or, how does modern tourism compare to tourism of ages past- is ten thousand people taking a photograph better or worse than a couple British guys shooting a lion?

You could also speculate about much harder to prove thesis. For example, if travel & "global citizenship" helps avoid a great war, that's quite a lot of damage & destruction averted.
The price of housing is only one factor. You can probably buy a nice, cheap house and open some office in the arse end of nowhere. And then you can spend your day driving around to get basic shopping done.

Some cities are certainly more affordable than others, but in my experience they are also much less desirable.
If I disagree with it, but it's a reasonable position expressed reasonably, sure. If it's trolling or a personal attack or even just being nasty, leave it downvoted.
Waymo isn't disclosing price. Part of their reason for taking this initiative is to find a market that justifies scaled production of their devices, as a means of driving the costs down. Everyone in the Lidar bubble hopes to someday have Lidar that is both cheap and good, and such a product is likely years away, for Waymo or anyone else.

This announcement reads like a 'Plan B' for Waymo's lidar team. Waymo's talk of buying 20k Jaguar Ipaces and 60k Chrysler Pacificas for robotaxi deployment is indefinitely on hold, and if that was playing out the way they wanted it to, then Waymo's lidar production team would have more important things to do than fishing around for a secondary Lidar market to sell their wares to.
Buffett is a numbers guy: he likes to see the numbers coming in and numbers going out. He follows the insurance market closely because insurance is about probabilities: numbers. Technology is more about standards, integration, trade-off balancing, and dealing with change; things that are hard to put numbers on.

His firm got burned by IBM, so he's extra jittery dealing with "big tech" now. IBM created this program to better track and maximize revenue by cranking up revenue incentives for middle managers. It looked good on paper: fine-tune the reporting of and increase incentives. But their customers began to feel squeezed and milked. You can often gain short-term revenue by skimping on customer service, and eventually customers revolted, damaging IBM's cred.
It's things like the visitor pattern that led me to implement Clasp - a Common Lisp that interoperates with C++ and uses llvm as the backend (github.com/clasp-developers/clasp.git).
Common Lisp has generic functions and multiple dispatch - so it doesn't need the wretched visitor pattern.
Try writing a compiler using the visitor pattern - I dare you. :-)
I’d argue that desktop applications are worse. Most Desktop operating systems out of the box don’t require the user’s consent in order to use peripheral devices and sensors, whereas at least mobile operating systems will ask the user first.

I can download a random desktop application from the internet onto my Windows machine and, without notifying me, gaining root, or getting my permission, it can access my connected camera and microphone, access my personal documents anywhere in the file system my user has access to, access the network, list all the other network connections I currently have open, activate my printer, read my address book, and list all the software I have on my computer. And if I don’t affirmatively deny it by setting up an outbound firewall, that desktop software can send that information anywhere it likes.

Mobile has not solved all these consent problems but is farther along.
>Improperly repaired and modified cars are a detriment to the safety of others on the road

Mechanical failure is a fart in a hurricane compared to human factors (distraction, alcohol, run of the mill stupidity) when it comes to dangerous things on the road. Regulating mechanical condition is exponentially less effective once you start caring about more than the most basic things (e.g. heavy trucks with bald tires). That's why a handful of states have created then scrapped vehicle inspection programs. I get that it bothers people but mechanical failure is a tiny edge case compared to everything else. Why bother, there's other better things to spend our resources regulating if road safety is the goal. If mechanical condition mattered more than trivially this would be reflected in insurance rated between states with/without regulation covering this (inspection programs).

In my experience shitboxes with mufflers falling off and rust holes are more likely to damage community image than anything else.
Because the vast majority of new housing projects in cities are luxury housing designed to further enrich property owners and would be unaffordable to most people in need anyway. If you're poor and starving and all I'm offering is $90 filet mignon, I'm not really helping you.
Naming is not (that) hard. What's usually hard is ignoring the ego that tells us to leave a mark or that we know better than others; i.e. putting your self before the whole.
The humorous visual of someone preferring to sit down on a strawberry is the only redeeming value of that analogy.
He's been super interested in the future of "the cloud" for some time now[1].

He is also a voracious reader. Most likely after he purchased his shares he continued reading and thinking about the state of things and where they are headed. He read something that made him question his investment thesis and re-think things that he was previously confident in.

Most people, if they continue reading or thinking at all, will just look for things that confirm their previous decision. It's a good lesson to look for things that disprove what you think you know.

[1] I think he likes the cloud because as opposed to most tech, there are tangible assets involved and significant capital outlays. Combined with the nature of platform lock-in, this keeps out newcomers.
Show HN: Create Chart Images from a URL
With the Google Image Charts API shutting down [1], I set out to build a replacement service that allows developers to create PNG images by encoding chart data and other options in a single URL.

Some might prefer an interactive Javascript charting library, but this is not possible in the case of email, SMS, Slack, and so on. This image generation solution is simpler and does not require external dependencies.

This project is open source and is pretty easy to run if you do not want to rely on the QuickChart.io web service: https://github.com/typpo/quickchart

I welcome your thoughts and feedback.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-chart-api/rZt...
Have you read his shareholder letters? To be fair, Buffett doesn't understand anything cloud or computer related.
Bonzibuddy!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (2018)
Their diversity quotas are presumably expressed relatively, not absolutely. In other words, they don't say "we need 10000 'diverse' engineers", they say "we want our engineering organization to be 60% 'diverse'" (I'm obviously making up numbers here). Ergo, the shortage in question isn't an absolute number of 'diverse' engineers, it's a shortage of proportions in the pipeline. And they can't do too much to stray from the proportion because they're constrained on one hand by hiring laws (there is only so much you can do to avoid hiring white/asian guys without overtly violating the law) and on the other hand by a fiscal need to hire more engineers at a sane price point.

Note that 'diverse' is quoted here because the whole corporate diversity enterprise is utterly superficial or it wouldn't categorize individuals as 'diverse' or 'not diverse' and it wouldn't choose the most superficial criteria (race, gender, etc as opposed to viewpoint, perspective, or cultural diversity) to make those assessments.
You got me there. Somehow I doubt Elon Musk would be moving into the rabbit hole next to mine, however.
Playing a set of high-frequency pure sine waves is the failure point for MP3, AAC, Vorbis, and Opus. Dial-up noises are close to this, which you can try encoding/decoding. And this is no surprise, since the point of the V.90/92 protocols is to cram as much information as possible into analog frequencies, and the point of psychoacoustic lossy codecs is to remove the least efficient frequency information of our log-frequency scaled ears.

But this is kind of a pedagogical example. Not the point of who you're responding to.
My favorite music these days is left-field and lo-fi hip hop. High-fidelity is pretty irrelevant. Music is produced, mixed, and mastered at home.

e.g. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/earl-sweatshirt-some-ra...
Should we count old lead-acid carts? There hasn't been a century of ecar culture; there is a very small current population with any expertise.

Let's not be pedantic - the ICE culture is millions strong, and generations old.
I, too, keep water by the bedside and drink some before falling asleep. However, the older I get, the less I drink, so I don't wake up every couple hours to pee. The moral of this story: don't get old.
This article is kind of trash. It basically starts off by saying you can write off anything that happened after 2016 because Trump winning made twitter go into a downspiral of sadness, when in reality that downtrend seemed to have started in mid 2015 (right around when election coverage started really ramping up, interestingly enough).

Then after going through the effort of showing graphs and numbers to make the rankings seem legit, the author describes how the scoring is done, and it seems incredibly skewed by the addition of arbitrary events that each add a point to the score. So basically, if the author wants a day to get a higher score, they can just look into it more to find more events so that its score goes up. If an event happened that day that contributed to happiness, the hedonometer score already reflects that, it makes no sense to double dip by giving the score extra points since that days happiness may have had multiple small contributions rather than just one big one.

I don't even really agree with how the hedonometer score was integrated. I think to really see how "happy" an individual day is, it would be better to subtract that day's happiness from the baseline/average happiness of that month rather than the raw score. This gives small happy days in a happy period an advantage over big happy days in a less happy period. I guess if you're just trying to say that day is happy without trying to tie any event to it, the raw data is fine, but I think that's much less interesting. There is probably some fancier math that could be done to weight the scores on a curve that would be more fair than just subtracting from their baseline if you really wanted to get into it.

In the end they come to the conclusion that same-sex marriage being legalized is the happiest day on the internet, but if you look at the first graph, it really barely looks like an out of the ordinary day, you wouldn't notice it if it wasn't being pointed out. This really makes it feel like the author came into this article wanting that to be number one and made everything else fit around that.
> That doesn't preclude people from responsibly modifying cars or building their own planes or whatever.

That's the point.
Not immediately obvious from the text indeed, but I'm certain they mean (the joy that is) XMLSEC and JWS here. Not sure about JWS but XMLSEC certainly has similarities to the format described here: you define exactly what parts are included in the signature.
RTFA... in fact just read the fucking subtitle. You don't need an account for Facebooks ad network to track you on all these apps.
I try to avoid calling them "Western" values to disentangle things which are empirical from things which are less so.

For instance, "Western" medicine is undeniably better than "traditional X" medicine. Because what people actually mean by "Western" medicine is modern medicine leaving behind all the historical western folk remedies that didn't work and keeping the folk remedies that worked. A lot of modern medicine comes from countries which would not be considered Western. You can of course split hairs in this discussion as well.

Censorship? Protectionism? These are less obvious concerns. That someone does not see the tragedy in holding a wife accountable for the democratic leanings and agitations of the husband and seeks to punish the husband by imposing punishments on the wife is so obviously unjust to me. The possibility that maybe society can be better when punishments are imposed in this way (the empirical question that would justify it under a utilitarian analysis) is just unconvincing to me (because I doubt it is true, I devalue utilitarian justice over individual justice and I don't even think the husband committed a crime). I could be wrong, though.
Using aluminum to overcome capacity challenges in submarine cable systems
And the costs of flying and accommodation have actually gone down in real terms.
Show HN: Stack Overflow for Student Essays
Updated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement: New Revenue Share
> Now, we are making these sensors available to companies outside of self-driving — beginning with robotics, security, agricultural technology, and more — so they can achieve their own technological breakthroughs.

It will likely come with licensing and non-compete agreements.
I'm sorry to be that guy, but if you properly read even just the submission title you'd know it's not about people that are still using Facebook but people that are using other apps like Yelp. That might include you.
Bingo! Exactly, Nyquist theory. But no one can make a truly good, brickwall filter at this frequency. It is much easier to make a lot less steep frequency response, whilch would start at 22 khz and would slowly go down all the way to 96 kHz.
By the way, how would it damage the ears if it was thoroughly filtered?
Until C++2z rolls out with match support, you can roll your own. Nikolai Wuttke gave a lecture at MeetingCpp 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CELWr9roNno) that presents code that lets you do this:

// Client visitor code
match(
thingy,
[](const PurpleThingy& ) {std::cout << "purple thingy\n";},
[](const LittleThingy& ) {std::cout << "little thingy\n";},
[](const auto& ) {std::cout << "any other type\n";}
);

Working example:
https://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/dfed39bc7fcdfb01
Is it? It's not a great software but doesn't appear overly buggy or unmaintained compared to other office products. Office products and browser compatability are always an issue.
Yeah? Why should I care about tracking? Why is what you click on so secret and guarded and why should I care. Sites have been tracking forever. I was 8 and putting counters on my geocities sites

Is the problem just Facebook and Google? The retail clothes store I used to work for tracked everything. Where's the outrage?
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At Bend, we’re always looking for new ways to make HSAs better with smart, intuitive solutions that leverage the latest technologies. If you thrive on big thinking, value a collaborative work environment and consider technology a partner, consider becoming part of our team.

Duties of the Marketing Director:

• Development and implementation of the Brand & Product Marketing strategies

• Working closely with the Product & Sales teams

• Manage social media presence and direct programs to improve social media reputation, brand recognition and lead generation

• Develop digital and traditional marketing campaigns across multiple platforms

• Develop, execute, and manage SEM & SEO strategies

Requirements of the role:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Marketing

• Proven track record of success in marketing roles

• Confident, driven and dynamic leader

• Strong Digital Marketing Experience in B2B

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to spot original branding opportunities

• 3-5 Years experience

++ Company Site: https://bendhsa.com

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Why is the OS still hostile when using an AOSP based ROM?
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I refuse to pay streaming subs, I buy second hand CDs for pennies and rip to flac. I'll always own my content and play it whenever/wherever I want at the best quality.
I think this is the same concept as how people will gravitate in a city to have the worst possible commute they can bear because most people value having a nice home and a nice job over a nice commute. In a similar way services will inevitably be crammed with ads until it starts to negatively affect profits, because people value the content and publishers value money more than either value an ad-free experience.

To stretch the analogy, ad blockers are people who drive in the HOV lane without paying. It isn't so bad that you do it, but if everyone did it the system would break. I personally block ads out of principle because I believe we can transition to a micropayment model and blocking ads forces the issue.

That being said, can anything really ever save us from ads? From my logic in the first paragraph, Patreon et al will eventually be as ad-infested as anything else. Maybe the fundamental answer is to consume less content.
Temporarily embarrassed millionaire American here. I can't make universal health care and UBI happen. The next best thing is to acquire wealth so I can some day avoid the drudgery of working life. Maybe.
On-chain governance, OCaml-based decentralized platform
Tezos (XTZ) is a multi-purpose platform that supports dApps and smart contracts. It aims to combine a self-correcting protocol and on-chain governance to manage network modifications. Tezos is powered by XTZ, which is created through 'baking'. Bakers put up deposits and are rewarded for signing and publishing blocks. Witnesses then validate the blocks. Dishonest bakers lose their XTZ deposits. Tezos uses delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) and supports Turing complete smart contracts. Tezos is implemented in the OCaml programming language, which is said to offer 'functional, imperative, and object-oriented styles'.
Are you suggesting that things like healing crystals work, because the market for them exists?
Bit ironic for a country who's head of state is still a monarch.