skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work at a company that's been using Lisp since the 80s, and we have an old Lisp machine serving as a coffee table/conversation piece in our entry area :)
“My code is sort of similar to a dead body”
Dear Mozilla, I love you, but stop working on these side projects. Your work in these non-browser projects is excellent, but pointless.

It may be that I don't understand Mozilla, but I believe they should focus on Firefox, Thunderbird and MDN. Even Rust is sort of a weird CS project that you don't technically need, but fair enough, if makes Firefox development easier, go for it.

Mozilla get most of their money from search engine companies, so may they should start focusing on trimming down to the point where they could survive without that big Google check and drop some of the side projects.

And why is it that there's no "Support Us By Donating" button on www.mozilla.org? I feel there should be.
It doesn't have to be the same. See for example this current legal dispute over the trademark FUCT:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/14/supr...

Double entendre, subtext send similar are a large part of marketing. It's often used in the vein of "sex sells," but can have other uses.

I got the information from a piece about translation fails in international branding campaigns. It wouldn't surprise me if the article has inaccuracies. It's hard enough for someone to be fluent enough in two languages and knowledgeable enough about two cultures to effectively fact check such a piece and the piece covered multiple incidences involving various languages and cultures, not just Spanish-English.

IIRC, here are a few other examples from the article:

Coca cola apparently originally was written in Chinese such that it meant "bite the frog." Sales improved after they modified it such that it meant "happiness in the mouth."

The Spanish word for "embarrassed" doesn't get used to mean embarrassed. It gets used to mean pregnant. Some campaign for some trivial thing like toothpaste or breathe mints had a slogan about use their product "and never be embarrassed again" which weirdly got translated to "and never get pregnant again."

Some toothpaste that bragged about it's whitening ability bombed when they tried to market it in a culture where people dyed their teeth some dark color.
In human computer interaction they often talk about the "gulf of execution" - when the desired end state is known but it's unclear how to get there.

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

I've found that using checklists helps tremendously when working on medium to large projects (things that take more than a weekend to complete).

For example, if I want to learn a new technology, maybe I'll get a book on python, add the list of chapters in my projects tracking document, and strike them off one by one.

That sense of steady progress helps tremendously.
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I have no mouth and I must scream
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_...

Is it this?
I posted my perspective/opinion as a former engineer on Inbox there anyone is interested in details on sausage making.
The checklist seems to be here: https://www.who.int/patientsafety/topics/safe-surgery/checkl...

As a software engineer, I'd hope this was done in software, where it could be trivially filled in by multiple people, checked across the organisation, not go missing or get drinks spilled on, etc.

Knowing the NHS south of the border, I assume it's not.
No, you could be a popular science author.

The problem is that few journalists are that, and the majority of media are not just full of uninformed journalists, but also pushers of various interests (political party affiliations, government lobbying, private interests, industry lobbies, the newspaper's owner, advertisers, etc).
An aspirational job is a recipe for supply problems.

Whether it's fighter piloting, game development, teaching, acting, athletics, or music, you'll find people who love the idea of the work and are willing (for a time) to be exploited and mistreated for the "opportunity".

Employment, at its most basic level, is a business transaction: Employees sell their time and skills, employers offer financial compensation in exchange. This exchange is complicated by expectations of status, morality, patriotism, fulfillment, health care, education, high risk/reward opportunities, societal obligations, and so on into the sales pitch. It's also complicated when the actual job involves fewer fun flight hours and more paper-pushing, distant deployments, bureaucracy, and boot-licking (all revealed only after time in the job). problems are going to arise. Specifically, financial compensation can be reduced, working conditions made worse, and responsibilities increased, without immediate feedback from the starry-eyed recruits.

But eventually, someone taking a critical look at their employment will say "This isn't as glamorous as I expected. It actually kind of sucks." A while later, starry-eyed recruits will hear about that and stop thinking that the job is Top Gun and think it's more like Office Space. And someday, way down the road, management will wonder why there's a shortage of people willing to work in the conditions they created for the pay they're offering.
Could you say more about how noted professor marketability would work in this case, in your field?

My reasons for asking... I've heard mathematics academia has its own version of ageism. (In dotcoms, at least, it's easy to go from being a star who everyone wants to hire, to most people not caring.) Plus I wonder how it would be perceived: a history of seeming to want to do a startup rather than be a professor. And a university that wanted to be the new home of a prestige research&eduction open source software project would have to see whether the prior university's involvement would complicate things.
But parts of those nerves are there; you can't really shave them off, they end inside the brain.

Think of it as taking a microprocessor in a circuit and disconnecting every one of its pins except those providing power. How would that microprocessor behave? It's various I/O pins aren't gone, their state and response just became somewhat random.
My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a day
Ok, where are you planning to go, and why? What will be your major?
Ask HN: Is That a Phenomenon at All?
on a 2 kilometer long promenade i meet the only 4 people - 2 couples which come from opposite directions - just when i want to overtake the couple in front of me, otherwise the promenade remains empty.

or if i go by bike a 4 kilometer long street, the probability that two cars from different directions pass each other exactly in one of the 3 tight spots seems excessively high while the chance that i do not meet any other cars during this ride is also very high.

i pay attention to it for about 3.5 years since it happens to me as good as daily, too often in my opinion to be able to explain it statistically (and also too often to explain it with selective perception).

is there a name for it, how could that be explained?
Wolfram Language lacks many open specifications that a usual high-level programming language should expose to their users, such as stdin stream, concurrency, memory model and so on. To some extent, their toolchain and design pattern are behind the state of the art, while the leaders are confident about the design, cf. https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op.... Hoping they are pushing this great software forward to another 30 years.
Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2S starts at $8,999, ships in June
I have no background in quantum anything at all, just cs & some undergrad math, and I found this article and the one preceding it extremely accessible.
Keybase doesn't ask for consent before adding Mastodon instance as a “partner”
SpaceX has released dozens from a single launcher. They have get released in a staggered fashion and use onboard thrusters to modify their orbits a bit after release.
My naive guess is that, although very jarring at first, most people would actually get used to it in not too long of a time. Humans adapt easily. Also, if they can achieve that feat, they could probably also trick the brain into feeling like it has robotic or virtual body parts.

Maybe people with locked-in syndrome could provide some reports of what it's like. It's not the exact same, but it may be similar.
> trying to debate anything

First thing you need to do for a productive debate is to make sure you're talking about the same thing.

The differences in male and female suicide rates (and methods) is not a product of the social media age; it goes back at least decades.

"wanting attention" does not define narcissism, and a cry for help in the form of a suicide attempt is not a demand to be the center of attention. Yes, it can be, and suicide among people with narcissistic personality disorder is a problem too. But there are also a lot of people who feel isolated, ignored, lost who look for any way to reach out. Dismissing those as "just wanting attention" serves no one.
When you go to the hospital, you just need to wear a Darth Vader mask and rasp "pray I don't alter it any further."
> so that multiple threads accessing a missing key simultaneously[2] would only lead to a single load with all other readers waiting for the loading thread to complete

For anyone using Rails, Rails internal cache does this on expiration, but might not on initial load.
I've been using packing crates, which helps.

I have a packing crate for socks, one for underwear, one for causalwear and pants.

Then I just need to think how many nights I'll be gone to pick how much goes into each.

(Also reduces space in my carry on so I have room for conference schwag on the return leg)
Since he brought up he may have been in the wrong place being in the math department, did he ever actually try to switch to the CS department?
It'd actually be fantastic. If I've donated my brain to anything like the modern research apparatus, I can be relatively sure of one of two possibilities: Either my brain was chosen as a test, in which case the project is on the news literally worldwide and the ethics have had the crap argued out of them and I can be sure that any limitations of the environment are due to technological shortcomings and I get to participate in fixing it, or I'm part of a follow-up trial or large-scale roll-out, in which case they'll have fixed up the rest of the issues. In the first case I get to be a grad student again, albeit with a bit of a disability. In the second case, I'm catching a rez from a reasonably reliable medical procedure and the major issues have already been worked out. In both cases I'm no longer dead, and these scenarios are nowhere near having enough downsides to outweigh that.
I get: 3.7.0 (default, Mar 21 2019, 17:54:42) [Clang 6.0.1 ]
Not that I disagree, but the majority of health care expenses are not time-critical emergencies. I saw a statistic somewhere where it's around 15%?
I'm not sure I understand. The reason you pay more for higher ranks is because you want to incentivize people to work to be promoted to those ranks, right? If you have enough generals but not enough pilots, it ought to flip.
I love the experiment. To quote a great song:

...Some things will never change

That's just the way it is

Ah, but don't you believe them...
A community-supported, open-source continuation of Zend Framework
These numbers are super misleading. 72% were continuously enrolled, but 16% switched to a different employer plan! We don't know how many of those were the same employer or if the spouse just had access a better deal that year or what. Either way, 88% were covered by their employer plan. 12% is entirely different from 28%. We all have to do open enrollment, but that's entirely different from losing coverage and finding something new!

I'm totally on board with Medicare-for-All but we don't need smoke and mirrors and misleading statistics.
Nerve endings receive pain. The brain "feels it".

So it can easily be made to feel pain -- just pass in the same signals the nerves would have.
No according to one theory the modern mono-theist version of Judaism was copied from the Greeks such as Plato. Before that Judaism was polytheist.

The point is that all of these things were there together sharing their ideas with each other. Each influencing the other. There is no one source. There are many different gradients of thought and knowledge. Stretching all the way from Europe to the Indian sub-continent.
Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system
They are all great career prospects. There aren't enough heads in the field to meet the demand. I don't agree with the specializations you have listed. People move around all the time. I'm currently Red Team and got here by doing appsec, netpen and vuln research.

As for the most prestigious, there is no such thing. Red Team and Blue Team operations are both vital to any organization. The Red Team verifies attacks are caught, and Blue Team catches incidents to minimize damage asap. Prestigious probably depends on the company and which one they respect more.

As for most fun, I really enjoy breaking things and being malicious. It's why I do well in the field. I'd say you have to discover what you enjoy for yourself. You don't want to get pigeonholed into just doing code reviews your whole life or reading through log files. In order to get through this level you have to show you can do more than be a checklist jockey.

Pay is pretty much the same for all of these at the larger organizations.
Just reply that you rate him 3/7.
Sounds like a Lovecraft horror piece which is actually something of a trope at this point:

http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brain_in_a_box
In Blindsight by Peter Watts, there are a group of revived soldiers that serve as mercenaries. Upon dying, they are 'resurrected' and immediately given a choice to go back to being dead -or- pay off the resurrection fee by serving as a zombie soldier for 8-10 years. If they survive their service, they are free to continue living in whatever mangled state their body currently is. They unaware/unconscious while serving, so they won't have any memory of the horrors that they commit or are acted upon them.

It would be strange to return to your life after dying 10 years ago, but I'd probably take the deal.
If you're in the NYC area I'd like to see that; for that matter, I'd like to see any company that's been using Lisp since the 80's...clearly their engineers have good taste.
..why? i see comments with ':-)' all the time. are the people here so pretentious that they're fundamentally opposed to using an ideogram?

better hope there aren't any closeted road-signage-designers lurking on HN then
That logic seems like a bit of a stretch to me.

Following that logic, the best way to fight a fire is to get a lot of people in the building to breathe in all the oxygen and turn it into carbon dioxide ;-)
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> Consciousness may be the byproduct of a living body sending signals to a living brain.

Might be, but unlikely. Both our medical and legal (executions) experience shows that most parts of the body can be removed or paralyzed without impacting consciousness. It really seems like the obvious model - that the brain alone is the center of consciousness - is the correct one.
What if the cheaper place is cheaper cause it's not as capable? How am I supposed to know? In what other scenario are we similarly encouraged to act on price alone? Price transparency is meaningless with quality transparency.
When I was young, my dad started a small business around the same time my mom stopped being a stay at home mom and finished her education at the local community college to pursue a nursing career. I learned later one of the main motivations for her career was that it allowed my parents to have a good healthcare plan for the family under her employer.
wow. amazing. so much came back to me reading that. was a long time ago. thanks!. But ye, before this book I was well up for cryo. Since, I've decided death is probably for me.
Still CUDA only? Didn't see an answer to that in a few minutes of clicking around their site.
I don't think consumers are expecting more efficiency from 5G; therefore no paradox when actual consumption exceeds expectations.

Insert any VHS vs BetaMax or AC vs DC historical lesson here. The best tech does not always win.

If carriers, smartphone makers, and chipset manufacturers all agree on 5G, then 5G will "win".
What I find amazing is who will become the third most populous? Looks like Indonesia is fast catching up on the US, but longer term predictions are showing Nigeria moving to the third spot by 2050.
I agree, and I'm intrigued. What do you do now that you're not in the 'rat race'?
> It'd actually be fantastic [...] Either my brain was chosen as a test, [...] or I'm part of a follow-up trial or large-scale roll-out

Or your enemies took power, and when they were going through the vats for payback they picked yours (along with many others). If you think you have no enemies, or that you know them all personally, you are better than me.
Can you elaborate? Is this field-dependent? This is completely against my (very, very limited) experience:

I got my PhD ~20 years ago and saw a few tenured professors (math and physics) leave academia. While I have no first hand experience I did hear through a grapevine that some explored options for coming back, but could not. This is a sensitive topic with little data and so my info is certainly suspect.
After 3 years of silence, a new jQuery prototype pollution vulnerability emerges
Alas, we're in Austin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc). I just checked and the exact machine is a Symbolics 3630.
How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach
I use Instagram much less than I used to because of mainly three things:

1) The feed is no longer reverse-chronological.

2) I see way too many ads in my feed.

3) Feed clutter: I don't want to see suggested hashtags or follows in the feed. I don't need the feed to randomly remind me about a few people's Stories. I just want the photo posts, and nothing else.

I expect all of those things were driven by the FB side of the house. If so, for me, FB definitely has ruined IG. I no longer consider it to have the "minimal interface/feature set" you rightly cite as being so important.

I do appreciate that IG isn't as susceptible to inflammatory outrage posts like FB is (one of the reasons why I'm effectively off FB with the exception of event invites), but it's just not enough.
I think it depends on your state's insurance market as well as the priorities of your employer. If your state has a plethora of plans available, your employer is tempted to shop around more often. In that case, it depends on the priorities of your employer, weighing the cost savings versus the cost (financial, employee morale, time) were they to switch to a cheaper plan.

I've worked for employers of varied sizes and profitability (self-employed, small nonprofit, very large health system [including its own insurance plans], midsize for-profit), and I haven't noticed a consistent pattern that would differentiate them in terms of health plan stability. In all cases, the goal is to minimize cost while providing an acceptable level of coverage.

Of course, job hopping and employer-provided coverage are a painful combination. My family had to reach our deductible twice last year, which wasn't fun (the increased salary and other benefits of the new job made it worth it).

I'd love to see health coverage detached from employment. If traditional Medicare-for-all isn't feasible, then let's go with Medicare-Advantage-for-all instead.
I don't know that this is the case. I was just speculating in response to the claim upstream that Gawande "chose to overlook the studies about how transient the benefit of checklists is." I too would like to see the citations. If there was a study showing this regression, I would be interested to see if it controlled for this sort of factor.

But I agree with you wholeheartedly. I don't want my mind cluttered with stuff that can be handled by simple script.
Is Dentistry a Science?
How would you know if I didn't change my decision? Why is being dead the default choice?

The best course of action is to rely on what was previously requested.
Does it matter if it's a Bernie aligned group? In CA-25, Our revolution endorsed one candidate, Justice Democrats another candidate, and a third Democratic candidate actually won yet another historically Republican district. They were helped (but not endorsed) by also progressive, but not as closely aligned to Bernie, Indivisible, by loose Bernie inspired independents, etc. I think it's a mistake to only look at strict boundaries of support by candidate name. I would consider CA-25s win with Katie Hill another progressive win in an contentious district.
Because this might have been one of the terms of the deal.
I'll be sure to let the ambulance driver know after a car accident they should shop around :\ Maybe an Ayn Rand medicalert bracelet would help. Allergy: Socialism.
Interesting that the referenced Let's Encrypt post from 2018 (https://letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/trusted-by-all-major-root...) said

"Some will not, and we’ll need to wait for the vast majority of those to cycle out of the Web ecosystem. We expect this will take at least five more years, so we plan to use a cross signature until then."

So half a year ago they expected to continue cross-signing for 5+ years. What changed?
How does it work, exactly? Can you just attach a lead to a blob of silicone and begin consuming the energy as soon as snow exposure begins?
Why I Stopped Using SASS
5G isn't just the radio network. It's a rearchitecture of the core network as well.

For example you can have a 5G core over LTE.
I would add Nazi Germany to that little list. Their declaration of war on the United States in December of 1941 was flatly suicidal (already fighting Russia where they had lost the initiative, and already in a two front European war due to the continued presence of England) But declare war they did anyhow and not only was the Third Reich dismantled, it was flat out devastated and incinerated with several million deaths. Germany suffered the second highest death toll of any country in the European theater of war, and all this was allowed to suicidally happen despite every single one of Hitler's generals and most of the top Nazi party bosses completely knowing that their leader's decision in late 1941 was guaranteed to destroy them. They just went along with it though.

Churchill rather typically stated it most succinctly: When presented in late 1941 with the report of Hitlers declaration of War on the U.S he said (paraphrasing a bit from memory on the literature) "So then we do win this war after all.."

As for Japan, SOME of the top people in the government and military knew they were committing slow suicide with their attack (Yamamoto for example, thought it was complete idiocy to fight the U.S) but there were enough fanatical believers to push through their idea that if they could just get the upper hand on the U.S in a preemptive naval/air war in 1942, they might secure peace for their Asian conquests.
Excellent (and terrifying) read.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_2020_Commission_Report_o...
It might be hard to find... unless you take a gander up north, Canadian public health care is a recent thing and the transition was flow and began with regional efforts. This[1] is a nice little rough timeline of things that happened. And, to be honest, it's not done yet, Canada lacks national pharma coverage (most places having provincial coverage of a sort) and entirely lacks dental & vision coverage, the later is a bit arguable but poor dental care has been strongly linked to heart disease.

[1] https://www.healthcoalition.ca/tools-and-resources/history-o...